Metroid Month continues this week with an episode all about the genre that Metroid helped give birth to–Metroidvanias! First brought to popularity by the genre’s namesake games of Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Metroidvania games place a heavy emphasis on exploration and tight gameplay, with areas on the map typically gated off until the player unlocks a certain ability to allow passage. As such, back-tracking is a common theme in these games and the best Metroidvanias use that to great effect. The genre has also seen a great resurgence in the Indie space, thanks in part to games like Ori and the Blind Forest and Hollow Knight.

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