Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs?
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Oooh, another one: Demon's Crest.
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The Lost Vikings as a Metroidvania would be ridiculous.
3 characters have to spit up & collect things so they can come back together and use their combined efforts to progress...
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Yeah, I didn't consider that. The game would probably have to design the map in a way that keeps all the characters relatively nearby, or introduce a mechanic for them to converge more seamlessly, like maybe having save rooms that teleport all of them together or something.
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Earthworm Jim
Please someone do anything with this franchise. I can even tolerate an open world live service game of Earthworm Jim.
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My first thoughts were Final Fantasy because you have all the enemies you need. And they've already branched out into monster catching and Souls-like. So might as well.
My second thought was X-men because the Genesis games were already kinda built for that.
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Isn't the creator/owner problematic?
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Commander Keen metroidvania?
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Dunno, but if that's true, then ideally the rights would be bought and used by people who don't suck, or maybe there could be a spiritual successor.
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Trine is the modern day Lost Vikings. You just switch characters on the fly.
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It is? Fuck
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Yeah, I guess he's really transphobic and every time someone reaches out to talk about Earthworm Jim, he gets really weird and political.
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Resident evil 2d Metroidvania.
The game is already genre adjacent. It would work so well.
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I'm just picturing big chambers like Super Metroid, and the characters moving around testing things to see what happens, then putting it together. (Maybe a zoom out button, or the map screen being relatively detailed.) So it could be very similar to the original, just "more". You'd just need a few sets of puzzles in every chamber, for when they backtrack and revisit areas. Mind you I'm not saying it's easy to design good levels and puzzles, especially in such a large scale, just that it's easy for me to imagine it being fun.
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Duuuude! Megaman would also be AMAZING as a Metroidvania!
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If you're not aware, Megaman Zero series, and Megaman ZX games are pretty much metroidvanias.
There's also the fanmade Megaman X Corrupted which is reimagining the Megaman X games as a metroidvania.
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Great list. Donkey Kong Country is especially appealing for me. Let's throw mario in there too while we're at it. I think that could work well.
I'd like to see a red dead redemption set in the early wild west.
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Tomb Raider would be perfect for a metroidvania. Good suggestion.
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Biohazard might as well be a metroidvania.
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Jesus Christ, is there any bit of nostalgia left that's not tainted by those lunatics?
At least I still Harry Potter.
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Yeah, a Sonic game with gameplay akin to Ori and the Blind Forest would be absolutely top-tier. Ori was largely focused on movement instead of combat, just like the side-scrolling Sonic games typically have been.
