Comments on: The Indie 10: Best Metroidvanias

By: Weekly Metroidvania: Lyle in Cube Sector | DIYgamer

Weekly Metroidvania: Lyle in Cube Sector | DIYgamer — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:31:10 +0000

[...] Lyle in Cube Sector is probably one of the better Metroidvanias out there (I even included it in my top 10 list). Any fan of the genre will surely get a kick out of it for at least a little while, even if the [...]

By: Swapnil

Swapnil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:18:42 +0000

Woah! Brilliant Compilation, I have played two games listed in here,Aquaria and Rocketbird and they quite entertaining!

By: Specter

Specter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:46:31 +0000

I’m surprised ‘An Untitled Story’ wasn’t put up.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:43:49 +0000

Where’s Eternal Daughter? Or Space Barnacle? Or An Untitled Story? Or Alex’s Adventure? And half of these aren’t even Metroidvanias – Ikachan and Aquaria don’t come close to being platformers (if Aquaria is a Metroidvania, so is Ecco the Dolphin), and Rocketbirds is just Flashback with penguins. As far as Cave Story goes, it’s a great game, but it’s no Metroidvania – the closest that it gets is with the blocks at the beginning (you need to get the Polar Star to shoot them) and with the jetpack later on (you can use it to explore previously unreachable areas, though there’s little incentive to do so besides getting the Spur). Aside from that, there’s almost no element of the exploration and backtracking (and I mean backtracking in order to use a newly-aquired ability in an earlier location, not simply running back and forth through the same linear areas repeatedly) that characterize the genre. If finding new weapons makes a game a Metroidvania, the frickin’ Call of Duty games should be on this list.

By: Del_Duio

Del_Duio — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:30:52 +0000

Vlad, try using something other than WinRar and see if that helps. I haven’t heard of any file issues for Hasslevania in a long while so I’m hoping just regular WinZip or the default Windows dohicky will do the trick.

Thanks for putting Hasslevania on this list guys! I know it has its problems but I tried to make the map as crazy complicated as possible while still giving players a lot of different ways to go about solving the game. It’s a very hard undertaking to be honest creation-wise but a rewarding one.

P.S: The voice overs are supposed to be horrible a’la Symphony of the Night.

By: First February …Interesting « DKxy

First February …Interesting « DKxy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:43:47 +0000

[...] this looks like of one of the best indie releases of 2010. I would gladly pay for this. And here is a list of The Top 10 Indie Metroidvania games, all of which look quite amazing. If there are people on this world who STILL have yet to play [...]

By: CallMeVlad911

CallMeVlad911 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:52:21 +0000

I just downloaded the Hasselvania and tried to extract it. I got a “The archive is either set in an unknown format or is damaged” error when using winrar to extract it. Is this a problem with the file, or should I be using a different program to extract this zipfile?

By: Peter Eykemans

Peter Eykemans — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:51:23 +0000

@Twitchfactor – Shadow Complex is no indie.

@blah – Just wondering what your alternative would be?

Also, I’m turning all of your suggestions (with due credit) into a Reader’s Choice list. Look for it soon!

By: blah

blah — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:47:15 +0000

More unwarranted circle jerking over Cave Story.

By: Ilya Chentsov

Ilya Chentsov — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:22:50 +0000

Aquaria actually has 8 buttons in its song interface.