• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    On the flipside, I’m a huge metroidvania fan and Hollow Knight is clearly one of the best to ever do it in my opinion. It also totally transformed the landscape of metroidvanias, with subsequent games imitating it left and right.

    The fact that silksong has remained more or less the #1 wishlisted game on steam since it was announced speaks to the broader cultural impact of the game. Hollow knight really elevated metroidvanias as a genre

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      1 month ago

      Hollow Knight is clearly one of the best to ever do it in my opinion. It also totally transformed the landscape of metroidvanias, with subsequent games imitating it left and right.

      Can you expand on this? I feel like there’s some interesting perspective in there.

      And I will probably play Silksong eventually, too but I’m just trying to understand why people think it stands above the rest.