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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 01:05:39 JST mhoye

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   • nev

   @nev A solid example, and yeah the "same creator" caveat is an interesting one. "Soulsborne" gives the sense that one creative team has largely defined the genre, but "Metroidvania" suggests that these two creators have bracketed the genre, and subsequent contributions to the space lie on the continuum they've defined.

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     nev (nev@bananachips.club)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 01:05:40 JST nev

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     @mhoye "Soulsborne" (Dark Souls & Bloodborne) may be closest, although that's for a single creator's work and I've heard "soulslike" used to refer to the genre in general.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 01:05:41 JST mhoye

     Idly thinking about game genre naming, are there any other kinds of game categories that have been clearly delineated by two different games, other than “metroidvanias”?

     As a word, it is such a great portmanteau but also such a strange outlier.

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     nev (nev@bananachips.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 01:03:16 JST nev

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @mhoye i thought the clash at demonhead was a band but it turns out it's only a band in scott pilgrim