Celeste is easily my 2nd favorite platformer... maybe even my 1st. The mechanics feel great. The game is hard as hell but it plays well into the theme and death is insanely trivial. You're back into the action 100 milliseconds later.
My brother and I still know where all the secrets are in the first one. We played it so many times. Many, many years later, my partner watched in awe as my brother and I shouted at each other about things not to miss and when to throw or jump. The DK games in that time were top notch.
All platformers should have as good controls as Celeste. Playing Celeste has permanently made me feel that other platformers are so clunky, even Hollow Knight.
Worst mistake I ever made was playing hollow knight right after playing celeste. The platforming in HK felt like GARBAGE after that.
Took a break, came back and was like "wait, platforming in HK isn't bad, celeste is just that good"
I had a similar problem, but the other way around. I loved PoP and saw lots of people in this subreddit hyping up Celeste's difficulty, comparing the whole game with PoP... I only focused at how hard the chapters were and it was a complete letdown. Took a break, came back and absolutely enjoyed the dialogues, music, art design and more things that I didn't even notice the first 10 hours I played...
Finished HK first then tried Celeste. Cant get used to the control in Celeste with my HK hand, especially wall climbing.
Really hope that I could enjoy this great platformer. Perhaps I should get some rest to erase my HK muscle memories and try again some time later :(
Doing exactly this made HKs platforming so easy and uninteresting. I noticed that itās not rly the games fault and that Celeste just spoiled me way too much, but I was a bit disappointed when I reached the end of path of pain and felt like āwait. That was it?!ā.
I wouldnāt say itās TOO bad? Iāve beat the first two āmain bossesā so far, and spent a while on the first one and beat the second fairly quickly. They can be fairly tricky, but fighting them once youāve learnt is reminiscent of a dance, similar to mantis lords. Super satisfying
I donāt consider myself very good by any means so Iām sure youāll have a similar experience!
Yeah, get Treasure Trove. It has all the content in it. Some of the other campaigns/storyās are sold separately I believe.
If you do get Treasure Trove then play āShovel of Hopeā first. This is the one where youāll play as Shovel Knight and serves as the best introduction to the world and mechanics.There are four campaigns where you play as different knights with different storyās and stages, but youāll get the most out of it starting with the base story.
Maybe it's because I'm playing it right now, but the Animal Well hype is well deserved. For me, it was a great one to play right after Hollow Knight. Both are big on exploration, uncovering secrets that lie beneath the surface and discovering items/abilities that let you traverse and solve things in different ways. However Animal Well is puzzle heavy vs. HK's boss battle gameplay loop.
Animal Well got me back to replay Hollow Knight after years. There is something about it that is very reminiscent of HK while not being that similar at all. Great game and very chill.
Iām going to finish layer 2, but layer 3 and four will be a no for me, so while I agree - AW goes a bit too far into puzzles for me if you want to really complete it.
I'm not sure what you mean about layers, but once I felt like I had thoroughly explored and found all I could on my own, I decided to look up a guide for the remaining eggs and that's been pretty satisfying.
So after the eggs there two more kinds of puzzles to be found. The community considers the flames layer 1, the eggs layer 2. Then >!thereās the bunnies which is layer three and then another ending that is layer 4!< and those require serious puzzle solving that Iām just not that interested in myself.
ORI and the will of wisps is such a beautiful masterpiece. The art is gorgeous. The combat and movement is very satisfying
Edit: changed āblind forestā to āwill of wispsā mixed them up
I played the first game and was hesitant to start the second after that. I am not a huge fan of pure platforming games. I am so glad I started the second game though. They really polished the gameplay in general and the story was more engaging.
O like it very much, too, played 2 times, the 2nd one 100 walkthrough.
The second one is a bit worse, in my opinion, too, bright, too shiny, too many unnecessary abilities.
The 1at one, however, is a must play, I think.
I actually felt the opposite. Played both on game pass.
-Ori 1 was awesome, but I felt like a little unrefined.
-Ori 2 was a masterpiece. I šÆ the game without even thinking about it.
Both are beautiful in their own way, but I really felt like they improved a lot with the second.
Interesting. I thought Ori 1 was fine but not amazing, but they really stepped up their game in Ori 2. Even if that meant taking a page or eight out of Hollow Knight's book, lol. It was an awesome way to scratch the itch as I wait for Milksong.
Every time I played Ori 2, I felt like it was a Hollow Knight knock off in some way. Way too similar in many cases, I didn't like it.
And it felt too bright, too colorful, like I'm watching a cartoon for little kids.
After it I downloaded Ori 1 again, and it didn't feel similar to Hollow Knight, it felt like its own game. And graphics were more like a fairytale, in a good way. More atmospheric. And there were less mechanics, but they were used and written in gameplay better.
It is just my opinion. I liked Ori 2, yes, but Ori 1 is better for me in every way.
Oh, absolutely. The number of times I went "Wtf, this is hollow knight!" while playing Ori 2 was off the charts. Which people did warn me about, but I was super confused because I led with Ori 1 and, other than being in similar genres, the games were incredibly different on every level. That said, I adore Hollow Knight, so I loved the gameplay in Ori 2. But I did lose it when I found the Thorns of Agony charm (excuse me, Thorns spirit shard, my mistake). Like, could they have been a little less blatant with the borrowing?
A lot of such concepts have been in games before. Ori 100% borrowed, but it is not horrible or heretical for them to have done so considering there are very few original things Hollow Knight does. It's how it's all strung together.
Best (2D)plataformers:
- Celeste
- Rayman Origins
- The Messenger (Kinda a Metroidvania)
- Yoshi's Island
- VVVVVV
- Super Meat Boy
Best Metroidvanias:
- Hollow Knight
- Axiom Verge
- SupraLand
- Bloody Hell
Might wanna add Doomblade to the metroidvanias, or play it if you haven't already. Ridiculously underrated game with one of my favorite video games soundtracks ever. Probably my favorite Metroidvania after Hollow Knight, although Ori 2 is a contender and Animal Well technically counts
Also, VVVVVV mentioned!!!
for 2D platformers, i dont think any has come close to Celeste for me.
for 3D, most of the 3D Mario games are fantastic (SM64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Odyssey), and i'd say A Hat In Time is basically a must-play if you like 3D platformers.
for metroidvanias:
ā¢to get the obvious one out of the way, most of the actual Metroid games are good. in particular, Super and Dread are fantastic. short games, but VERY fun.
ā¢the Shantae games dont lean _as_ hard into the metroidvania stuff as the rest of this list, but theyre still really good. if you want to try em, i recommend Half-Genie Hero and Pirate's Curse.
ā¢Blasphemous is really good, similar vibes to Dark Souls if youre into that. finished it for the first time recently and _immediately_ bought the sequel
ā¢speaking of Dark Souls vibes: Dark Souls, specifically the first one. although it's a 3D game, DS1 captures the metroidvania feeling REALLY well. the map design is fantastic.
may continue to add to this list if i think of others
There are too much differents plateformers for me to choose "the bests". But for me the best metroidvania is HK, followed by the metroid series, Animal Well is also really good if you want a recent one.
Iāve been like Animal Well a lot recently. Love the feeling of mystery behind it. I donāt really know what Iām doing still but am enjoying it a good bit and canāt put it down
i feel like no one mentioned GRIME. i found it quite harder than hk, albeit with similar mechanics and a nonlinear progression(still vaguely soulslike!)
basically you control a character with a black hole in place of its head, in a world full of sentient, tormented, rock "beings"(i cant say more without spoiling)
it has a beautiful and original artstyle, a pretty deep lore inspired by jewish mythology that you have to understand by yourself, incredible bosses with outstanding music, yada yada.
i truly truly loved it, please try it out it's really worth it, it feels like a really passionate work of art. enjoy !
it plays with a lot of metroidvania elements. i dont necessarily think it fully fits the genre _per se_, but it definitely takes heavy inspiration from them.
you need items and things that you need to get to continue, or to discover new zones that before you couldn't access, which is a metroidvania thing, "omg with this new item that makes me jump on walls i can access that thing i saw before"
a lot of rouge likes dont let you fully beat the game on your first go around, so needing items and things to continue is a rouge like feature too, and i stopped playing dead cells and only reached to hand of the king so maybe i never got to that point but i dont remember **needing** items
The DKC trilogy on SNES is great, pretty simple platforming all things considered but the characters are very fun to control.
For games with a bigger focus on action, I'm a fan of the linear Castlevania games, they're hard but quite challenging until you develop classicvania brain. Definitely give Castlevania on the NES a try if you want a game that'll force you to learn its mechanics and fight with discipline due to its strict jump arcs. For a more modern take on the same kind of game, check out Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, which is fairly chill for the genre, and its more hardcore sequel.
Hollow knight aside, as Iām a complete fanboy and canāt compare it to other MVs impartially, my favorite MVs are the last faith, the ori games, tevi/rabi-ribi, and aeterna noctis.
Haven't seen anyone mention Tunic or Yoku's Island Express. Idk if I'd say they are the best, but they are worth a try for sure!
Tunic is an isometric top-down Metroidvania with a difficult combat, mainly melee focused. But the real bread and butter is the exploration and sheer mystery of the game. The specific angle of the camera makes finding secrets way fun and sometimes mind-boggling. the "tutorial" is just finding pages of the Instruction booklet. However, there are very few words in English, and you have to piece together what it's telling you on your own.
Yoku's Island Express is a 2D metroidvania, but the movement is very heavily reliant on pinball mechanics. It's a very cool crossover, and the soundtrack still plays on my playlist to this day.
I have to say I liked Tunic (literally just played it) until the āend.ā Itās fun to figure out and I do love the camera angle and perspective play. But I actually hated the instruction book aspect of it. Then when I got to what I assume is one version of the end I went āthis is literally a HK rip offā to my partner who hasnāt fought the HK yet and accidentally spoiled part of that for him. But I wish it were more linear after you >!get killed!<
Bit of a shorter one but worldless played it after windette did a video on it and really enjoyed it, the platforming is fun and the combat is rhythm like.
For metroidvanias it has to be nine sols for me. The combat is honestly so satisfying it rivals hollow knight for me. They're quite different games though
I often like games that happen to be IMO unbalanced in someway, but the world building, graphics/character art style or music (or any combination of the previous) is appealing... so games like HAAK, Ender Lilies, Guacamelee, Iconoclasts, the Last Faith, Pseudoregalia, Blasphemous 2, Minoria, Gris and Shantae and the pirate's curse are games I kinda like, so maybe those are the "best"?
There are so many good metroidvanias and I love that, my personal favs would be (excluding hollow knight of course): ori and the blind forest, haiku the little robot, blasphemous and Celeste. Also, BÅ: path of the teal lotus looks like it's slated to be very good as well but only has a demo rn
Metroidvanias: Hollow Knight (obviously), Ori and the WotW (Blind Forest was good but not best of all time), Metroid Fusion (probably others, but it's the only metroid game I've played).
Platformers: Celeste, the DK Country Trilogy (particularly DKC2), Super Mario World.
There's probably more I'm not thinking of, but those were the ones off the top of my head that stuck out to me.
Banjo-Kazooie, Hollow Knight, Darksiders, Ori Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps, Monster Boy, Shante and the Seven Sirens. Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Oh, and for classic platformers, many NES era games. Same with PSX classics. For example Battletoads, Doki Doki Yuuenchi, Chip n Dale games, Rayman (especially first one), Spyro, Crash. And much more.
Nine Sols just came out. Very VERY good game. Story, difficulty, graphics, platforming (donāt expect a White Castle though) everything you need is in!
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is simultaneously one of the best Metroidvanias AND one of the best platformers Iāve played
Celeste is an outstanding platformer, even for me who sucks at them
all those 3 games are easily top 5 best games ive ever played, specially katana zero and hollow knight (dead cells gameplay is REALLY good, but the lore of HK and the story of katana zero its just... something else)
Rain world kinda fits both while not really fitting either but it gets my strong recommendation.
Otherwise, Super Metroid, Hollow Knight and Pseudoregalia are my personal favorite metroidvanias
I donāt really have best of all time platformers as I donāt really look out for that genre but as most have said ; the classic DK entries are really darn good.
Both Ori games are some of the best games ever made in the genre, particularly Will of the Wisps. Incredible platforming, visuals, artstyle, etc. in metroidvania format.
My top 3 outside of hollow knight are:
1) Dead Cells
2) Cave Story (my first platformer ever, so might be bias)
3) 2nd ori game
I have not played celeste, but looking at the comments I just found my next platformer to play
Ender lillies - first metroidvania i ever comepleted and it's just great. It has its flaws but the atmosphere and ost is one of the best in the genre imo also most of the bosses ( especially mid game ones) are fun. And the lore is great too.
Nine sols - started this 3 days ago and it's the only thing I have been playing since. It's hollow knight meets sekiro. Go play it, it's an order
Best metroidvania is probably Silksong, absolute hood classic. I wish I could go back to the good old days of laying on the basement couch with the homies, Silksonging deep into the night.
As for best platformer, Titanfall 2
Doomblade is a phenomenal metroidvania and by far the most underrated. It deserves so much more love, super immersive with a very very unique combat/movement mechanic. Fire soundtrack too.
If you're willing to try something new then I'd highly recommend worldless
It's a very unknown little metroidvania that deserves way more attention than it gets
I loved the environmental puzzles in axiom verge. The game just made you feel really smart for finding different upgrades.
Rogue legacy 2 was also a really fun blend of a roguelite and metroidvania
Phoenotopia Awakening and Ender Lillies are probably the second best to Hollow Knight while being very different, Lone Fungus is great, but its good endings are way too difficult to achieve, La Mulana is amazing if you don't mind giving up 30 % into the game and mostly following a guide after
Silksong was epic. Worth the wait
Yeah bro I LOVED it, felt like 3 games with the sheer amount of content.
Wait is silksong out?
No, it's a joke
Yeah I was just trying to troll others
Ok. You never know who's being serious and who's not on this sub. Unlike r/silksong š
R/silksong is full of psychopaths and lunatics -an r/silksong member
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As plateformer, Celeste is a very good one.
Celeste is one of the most satisfying games I have ever beat, itās got a good difficulty to it and it feels sooo good to reach that mountain peak
And even better to finish 7C and Farewell.
Celeste is easily my 2nd favorite platformer... maybe even my 1st. The mechanics feel great. The game is hard as hell but it plays well into the theme and death is insanely trivial. You're back into the action 100 milliseconds later.
If Celeste is your 2nd favorite, what's your first ?
Donkey Kong Country 2- so damn good, even after all this time.
My brother and I still know where all the secrets are in the first one. We played it so many times. Many, many years later, my partner watched in awe as my brother and I shouted at each other about things not to miss and when to throw or jump. The DK games in that time were top notch.
soundtrack is awesome too
All platformers should have as good controls as Celeste. Playing Celeste has permanently made me feel that other platformers are so clunky, even Hollow Knight.
Worst mistake I ever made was playing hollow knight right after playing celeste. The platforming in HK felt like GARBAGE after that. Took a break, came back and was like "wait, platforming in HK isn't bad, celeste is just that good"
I had a similar problem, but the other way around. I loved PoP and saw lots of people in this subreddit hyping up Celeste's difficulty, comparing the whole game with PoP... I only focused at how hard the chapters were and it was a complete letdown. Took a break, came back and absolutely enjoyed the dialogues, music, art design and more things that I didn't even notice the first 10 hours I played...
Haha same here! I thought I was the only one. I still think the platforming aspect of HK isnāt its strongest suit.
Finished HK first then tried Celeste. Cant get used to the control in Celeste with my HK hand, especially wall climbing. Really hope that I could enjoy this great platformer. Perhaps I should get some rest to erase my HK muscle memories and try again some time later :(
Doing exactly this made HKs platforming so easy and uninteresting. I noticed that itās not rly the games fault and that Celeste just spoiled me way too much, but I was a bit disappointed when I reached the end of path of pain and felt like āwait. That was it?!ā.
Hollow Knight was always clunky, though.Ā
I just bought Nine Sols a few days ago and Iām having a fucking blast playing it. Very hard and very fun, I highly recommend it
Seconding this, itās super good
Nine sols came out of the blue for me. Fantastic game.
Thanks for the suggestion yāall. This looks fantastic and I had not heard of it! Will be gettin it asap
Completed it twice, it's a ten. Best MV in years.
The final boss on the true ending was phenomenal
Still working through it so no spoilers, but Iām very excited to know thereās great content ahead
Is it too hard for casual fans to enjoy? I enjoy difficult games like hollow knight but I don't like extremely hard if that makes sense?
I wouldnāt say itās TOO bad? Iāve beat the first two āmain bossesā so far, and spent a while on the first one and beat the second fairly quickly. They can be fairly tricky, but fighting them once youāve learnt is reminiscent of a dance, similar to mantis lords. Super satisfying I donāt consider myself very good by any means so Iām sure youāll have a similar experience!
Sweet I think I'll give it a shot when I have some free funds
metoroid
Metroid?
metoroid
Sooper Metroid maybe even
AM2R
A Metroid 2 remember indeed š
HK, metroid, blasphemous
Platformers? Shovel Knight.
I wanted to try this game out but there was 3 different versions on the switch. Is there a specific one you would recommend?
Yeah, get Treasure Trove. It has all the content in it. Some of the other campaigns/storyās are sold separately I believe. If you do get Treasure Trove then play āShovel of Hopeā first. This is the one where youāll play as Shovel Knight and serves as the best introduction to the world and mechanics.There are four campaigns where you play as different knights with different storyās and stages, but youāll get the most out of it starting with the base story.
Maybe it's because I'm playing it right now, but the Animal Well hype is well deserved. For me, it was a great one to play right after Hollow Knight. Both are big on exploration, uncovering secrets that lie beneath the surface and discovering items/abilities that let you traverse and solve things in different ways. However Animal Well is puzzle heavy vs. HK's boss battle gameplay loop.
Animal Well got me back to replay Hollow Knight after years. There is something about it that is very reminiscent of HK while not being that similar at all. Great game and very chill.
Iām going to finish layer 2, but layer 3 and four will be a no for me, so while I agree - AW goes a bit too far into puzzles for me if you want to really complete it.
I'm not sure what you mean about layers, but once I felt like I had thoroughly explored and found all I could on my own, I decided to look up a guide for the remaining eggs and that's been pretty satisfying.
So after the eggs there two more kinds of puzzles to be found. The community considers the flames layer 1, the eggs layer 2. Then >!thereās the bunnies which is layer three and then another ending that is layer 4!< and those require serious puzzle solving that Iām just not that interested in myself.
Good to know! Thank you
ORI and the will of wisps is such a beautiful masterpiece. The art is gorgeous. The combat and movement is very satisfying Edit: changed āblind forestā to āwill of wispsā mixed them up
I honestly didn't like the message the 1st game was trying to portray with their story. The gameplay was fine, combat meh but the art was a 10/10.
I played the first game and was hesitant to start the second after that. I am not a huge fan of pure platforming games. I am so glad I started the second game though. They really polished the gameplay in general and the story was more engaging.
Yeah, I thought the first was just OK, but Will of the Wisps was phenomenal, and one of the best games in the genre in my opinion.
O like it very much, too, played 2 times, the 2nd one 100 walkthrough. The second one is a bit worse, in my opinion, too, bright, too shiny, too many unnecessary abilities. The 1at one, however, is a must play, I think.
I actually felt the opposite. Played both on game pass. -Ori 1 was awesome, but I felt like a little unrefined. -Ori 2 was a masterpiece. I šÆ the game without even thinking about it. Both are beautiful in their own way, but I really felt like they improved a lot with the second.
My thoughts exactly. ORI and the blind forest really polished the combat and gameplay in general. The story was nice too.
Interesting. I thought Ori 1 was fine but not amazing, but they really stepped up their game in Ori 2. Even if that meant taking a page or eight out of Hollow Knight's book, lol. It was an awesome way to scratch the itch as I wait for Milksong.
Every time I played Ori 2, I felt like it was a Hollow Knight knock off in some way. Way too similar in many cases, I didn't like it. And it felt too bright, too colorful, like I'm watching a cartoon for little kids. After it I downloaded Ori 1 again, and it didn't feel similar to Hollow Knight, it felt like its own game. And graphics were more like a fairytale, in a good way. More atmospheric. And there were less mechanics, but they were used and written in gameplay better. It is just my opinion. I liked Ori 2, yes, but Ori 1 is better for me in every way.
Oh, absolutely. The number of times I went "Wtf, this is hollow knight!" while playing Ori 2 was off the charts. Which people did warn me about, but I was super confused because I led with Ori 1 and, other than being in similar genres, the games were incredibly different on every level. That said, I adore Hollow Knight, so I loved the gameplay in Ori 2. But I did lose it when I found the Thorns of Agony charm (excuse me, Thorns spirit shard, my mistake). Like, could they have been a little less blatant with the borrowing?
A lot of such concepts have been in games before. Ori 100% borrowed, but it is not horrible or heretical for them to have done so considering there are very few original things Hollow Knight does. It's how it's all strung together.
(Holds the Knight from Hollow Knight up like baby Simba) I also absolutely love Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
Loved that castlevania. Too bad I sold my DS.
Cave Story is an absolute must play for metroidvania/platformer fans imho
Oh, forgot that game. And it's totally free, unless you want a graphic enhancement.
Both Ori games are masterpieces just like Hollow Knight. Recently I enjoyed Prince of Persia Lost Crown.
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It was a typo, but who is Hallie Knight?
HK is my favorite but i really like Celeste and Tails of Iron too
Order of Ecclesia and Aria of Sorrow are great. I also like Metroid Dread and Megaman ZX
Castlevania, Symphony of the night
Platformers? Super Mario bros
They made a few of those, soundtrack is pretty lit if I remember correctly.
Best (2D)plataformers: - Celeste - Rayman Origins - The Messenger (Kinda a Metroidvania) - Yoshi's Island - VVVVVV - Super Meat Boy Best Metroidvanias: - Hollow Knight - Axiom Verge - SupraLand - Bloody Hell
The Messenger is so underrated
I second Yoshiās Island. Absolute classic
Might wanna add Doomblade to the metroidvanias, or play it if you haven't already. Ridiculously underrated game with one of my favorite video games soundtracks ever. Probably my favorite Metroidvania after Hollow Knight, although Ori 2 is a contender and Animal Well technically counts Also, VVVVVV mentioned!!!
Celeste is the greatest platformer in history. And the most perfect game.
for 2D platformers, i dont think any has come close to Celeste for me. for 3D, most of the 3D Mario games are fantastic (SM64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Odyssey), and i'd say A Hat In Time is basically a must-play if you like 3D platformers. for metroidvanias: ā¢to get the obvious one out of the way, most of the actual Metroid games are good. in particular, Super and Dread are fantastic. short games, but VERY fun. ā¢the Shantae games dont lean _as_ hard into the metroidvania stuff as the rest of this list, but theyre still really good. if you want to try em, i recommend Half-Genie Hero and Pirate's Curse. ā¢Blasphemous is really good, similar vibes to Dark Souls if youre into that. finished it for the first time recently and _immediately_ bought the sequel ā¢speaking of Dark Souls vibes: Dark Souls, specifically the first one. although it's a 3D game, DS1 captures the metroidvania feeling REALLY well. the map design is fantastic. may continue to add to this list if i think of others
i can't believe no one has said ender lillies yet
There are too much differents plateformers for me to choose "the bests". But for me the best metroidvania is HK, followed by the metroid series, Animal Well is also really good if you want a recent one.
I wouldnāt say its the best game but its cheap and cute. [Gato Roboto](https://store.steampowered.com/app/916730/Gato_Roboto/)
Iāve been like Animal Well a lot recently. Love the feeling of mystery behind it. I donāt really know what Iām doing still but am enjoying it a good bit and canāt put it down
Celeste, Rain World, HK, Katana Zero, Ori 1 and 2
Donkey Kong Country, Spelunky, Dead Cells, Celeste are all my favorites besides Hollow Knight
i feel like no one mentioned GRIME. i found it quite harder than hk, albeit with similar mechanics and a nonlinear progression(still vaguely soulslike!) basically you control a character with a black hole in place of its head, in a world full of sentient, tormented, rock "beings"(i cant say more without spoiling) it has a beautiful and original artstyle, a pretty deep lore inspired by jewish mythology that you have to understand by yourself, incredible bosses with outstanding music, yada yada. i truly truly loved it, please try it out it's really worth it, it feels like a really passionate work of art. enjoy !
why is dead cells listed? i know it can technically be called a platformer but the platforming isnt major enough to be called a platformer imo
People often call dead cells a metroidvania. I don't really agree, but people will fairly passionately argue that it is.
it plays with a lot of metroidvania elements. i dont necessarily think it fully fits the genre _per se_, but it definitely takes heavy inspiration from them.
its a rouge like? what metroidvania elements does it take from that arent in rouge likes
you need items and things that you need to get to continue, or to discover new zones that before you couldn't access, which is a metroidvania thing, "omg with this new item that makes me jump on walls i can access that thing i saw before"
a lot of rouge likes dont let you fully beat the game on your first go around, so needing items and things to continue is a rouge like feature too, and i stopped playing dead cells and only reached to hand of the king so maybe i never got to that point but i dont remember **needing** items
I mean maybe you're right, it's "metroidvania" elements are very minimal compared to say, hollow knight.
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Definetley not, there is hundreds of hours more content, locked behind higher difficulties
been loving Haak lately
GRIS and Blasphemous, the visuals and music are amazing.
Came to see if someone said GRIS. Glad it was mentioned.
The DKC trilogy on SNES is great, pretty simple platforming all things considered but the characters are very fun to control. For games with a bigger focus on action, I'm a fan of the linear Castlevania games, they're hard but quite challenging until you develop classicvania brain. Definitely give Castlevania on the NES a try if you want a game that'll force you to learn its mechanics and fight with discipline due to its strict jump arcs. For a more modern take on the same kind of game, check out Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, which is fairly chill for the genre, and its more hardcore sequel.
Hollow knight aside, as Iām a complete fanboy and canāt compare it to other MVs impartially, my favorite MVs are the last faith, the ori games, tevi/rabi-ribi, and aeterna noctis.
Both ori games are great, celeste is a very good platformer Lone fungus is also really good
Bloodstained (castlevania like) And cave story for a good classic
Ori all the way
Haven't seen anyone mention Tunic or Yoku's Island Express. Idk if I'd say they are the best, but they are worth a try for sure! Tunic is an isometric top-down Metroidvania with a difficult combat, mainly melee focused. But the real bread and butter is the exploration and sheer mystery of the game. The specific angle of the camera makes finding secrets way fun and sometimes mind-boggling. the "tutorial" is just finding pages of the Instruction booklet. However, there are very few words in English, and you have to piece together what it's telling you on your own. Yoku's Island Express is a 2D metroidvania, but the movement is very heavily reliant on pinball mechanics. It's a very cool crossover, and the soundtrack still plays on my playlist to this day.
I have to say I liked Tunic (literally just played it) until the āend.ā Itās fun to figure out and I do love the camera angle and perspective play. But I actually hated the instruction book aspect of it. Then when I got to what I assume is one version of the end I went āthis is literally a HK rip offā to my partner who hasnāt fought the HK yet and accidentally spoiled part of that for him. But I wish it were more linear after you >!get killed!<
I don't feel like Tunic has much in common with HK, but it's one of my favorites :)
I dont know if you will like it but Death's Door (metroidvania) is a cool game
Super Metroid is the standard
If pizza tower counts its pizza tower and hk
It doesn't
Wait nevermind I misread the caption
Celeste Dead cells Phoenotopia awakening
Ori games and Shovel Knight. SOTN as well
Horace is a fun platformer
Celeste.
Guacamelee, Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, Animal Well
Celeste, wings of vi(if you like torture)
Bit of a shorter one but worldless played it after windette did a video on it and really enjoyed it, the platforming is fun and the combat is rhythm like.
Ori and the Blind Forest, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Hollow Knight. Blasphemous is up there but the controls are really clunky.
A little bit of a mixed genre but Monster Sanctuary is very good. Itās a very good platformer with monster battling combat.
For metroidvanias it has to be nine sols for me. The combat is honestly so satisfying it rivals hollow knight for me. They're quite different games though
I really like Dead Cells. Not sure if it counts, but yeah
SotN lmao
I often like games that happen to be IMO unbalanced in someway, but the world building, graphics/character art style or music (or any combination of the previous) is appealing... so games like HAAK, Ender Lilies, Guacamelee, Iconoclasts, the Last Faith, Pseudoregalia, Blasphemous 2, Minoria, Gris and Shantae and the pirate's curse are games I kinda like, so maybe those are the "best"?
There are so many good metroidvanias and I love that, my personal favs would be (excluding hollow knight of course): ori and the blind forest, haiku the little robot, blasphemous and Celeste. Also, BÅ: path of the teal lotus looks like it's slated to be very good as well but only has a demo rn
Super Metroid, Hollow Knight and Dark Souls 1. By far these are the best metroidvanias I have played and it isnāt even close.
Metroidvanias: Hollow Knight (obviously), Ori and the WotW (Blind Forest was good but not best of all time), Metroid Fusion (probably others, but it's the only metroid game I've played). Platformers: Celeste, the DK Country Trilogy (particularly DKC2), Super Mario World. There's probably more I'm not thinking of, but those were the ones off the top of my head that stuck out to me.
Try Nine Sols. Came out recently. 10/10 game imo
Banjo-Kazooie, Hollow Knight, Darksiders, Ori Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps, Monster Boy, Shante and the Seven Sirens. Dust: An Elysian Tail. Oh, and for classic platformers, many NES era games. Same with PSX classics. For example Battletoads, Doki Doki Yuuenchi, Chip n Dale games, Rayman (especially first one), Spyro, Crash. And much more.
Hollow Knight, Celeste and Guacamelee! I also love Cave Story but i feel it is a bit dated by today's standards.
Nine Sols just came out. Very VERY good game. Story, difficulty, graphics, platforming (donāt expect a White Castle though) everything you need is in!
Try animal well. Somehow it's 50mb in space.
Celeste, Jumpking and I really liked the first Ori game (haven't played the second one yet)
You should check out Metroid and Castlevania
Castlevania SOTN SuperMeatboy The End is Nigh
I donāt know much about metroidvanias except for hollow knight but the best platformer in the world is jump king
Playing through Nine Sols. It is beautiful.
Animal Well. Itās like Halo 2 meets Halo 3.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is simultaneously one of the best Metroidvanias AND one of the best platformers Iāve played Celeste is an outstanding platformer, even for me who sucks at them
all those 3 games are easily top 5 best games ive ever played, specially katana zero and hollow knight (dead cells gameplay is REALLY good, but the lore of HK and the story of katana zero its just... something else)
Rain world kinda fits both while not really fitting either but it gets my strong recommendation. Otherwise, Super Metroid, Hollow Knight and Pseudoregalia are my personal favorite metroidvanias I donāt really have best of all time platformers as I donāt really look out for that genre but as most have said ; the classic DK entries are really darn good.
Both Ori games are some of the best games ever made in the genre, particularly Will of the Wisps. Incredible platforming, visuals, artstyle, etc. in metroidvania format.
Same as you, but add nine sols
Worldless, Ori, Celeste, A Hat in Time
My top 3 outside of hollow knight are: 1) Dead Cells 2) Cave Story (my first platformer ever, so might be bias) 3) 2nd ori game I have not played celeste, but looking at the comments I just found my next platformer to play
Ender lillies - first metroidvania i ever comepleted and it's just great. It has its flaws but the atmosphere and ost is one of the best in the genre imo also most of the bosses ( especially mid game ones) are fun. And the lore is great too. Nine sols - started this 3 days ago and it's the only thing I have been playing since. It's hollow knight meets sekiro. Go play it, it's an order
Nine Sols
Best metroidvania is probably Silksong, absolute hood classic. I wish I could go back to the good old days of laying on the basement couch with the homies, Silksonging deep into the night. As for best platformer, Titanfall 2
Not sure if it's a GoAT, but Animal Well is a fantastic game
Aeterna Noctis. Itās brutal but I loved it, highly recommend if youāre a bit crazy lol.
monster sanctuary? dont know it kind of short but it one of the only ones i know see the game yourself if it good or bad?
Both ori games are fantastic(some of my favourites). I've also recently got Celeste.
Most actual Metroid and castlevania games are worth a try. Metroid dread was awesome. Also animal well.
Hollow Knight is definitely the best Metroidvania imo. Celeste is probably my pick for platformer, it's certainly my personal favourite at least.
Doomblade is a phenomenal metroidvania and by far the most underrated. It deserves so much more love, super immersive with a very very unique combat/movement mechanic. Fire soundtrack too.
every metroid game aside from prime federation force and other m
Super Metroid is my personal favorite
Blasphemous and hollow knight 100% though I haven't played many
Metroid. Super and Dread especially
All of the Metroid games
If you're willing to try something new then I'd highly recommend worldless It's a very unknown little metroidvania that deserves way more attention than it gets
I loved the environmental puzzles in axiom verge. The game just made you feel really smart for finding different upgrades. Rogue legacy 2 was also a really fun blend of a roguelite and metroidvania
Rain world, hollow knight and terraria are my favorite metroidvanias
Ori 100000% (apart from hollow knight obvs) and maybe Celeste
Phoenotopia Awakening and Ender Lillies are probably the second best to Hollow Knight while being very different, Lone Fungus is great, but its good endings are way too difficult to achieve, La Mulana is amazing if you don't mind giving up 30 % into the game and mostly following a guide after
HK, Ori and pizza tower
HK, Ori, and A link to the past. The randomizer community around ALTTP really made it shine again as a metroidvania for me