Replacing Metroidvania
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A playful dissection of the popular genre term and how video games can move on to better, more descriptive phrases.
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So not only does he want to replace a perfectly cromulent word that everyone uses and whose meaning most people agree on…

… his suggested replacement is “Unlocking World”. Yes, I sure do love that Unlocking World genre…

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