*cries in PS Plus Game Catalog*

Saw a couple streamers show off an hour of gameplay.

looks that they took fan criticism to heart. The night is back, it’s deadlier and darker than ever.

I see the appeal but that appeal doesn’t apply to me.

They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.

I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don’t like souls design creeping into my other genres that don’t need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).

It’s also plays very differently even if both are still Metroidvanias. Axiom is more of traditional Metroidvania while Hollow Knight/Silk Song are modern “Soulsvanias” that include Souls-like mechanics, such as precision combat with a high skill ceiling and corpse runs. I also prefer Axiom over Hollow Knight as well and wish more retro styled games were more popular.

Hollow Knight gained popularity so rapidly and widely explicitly because of it kinda, and I mean no offense by this, riding the coattails of the Souls genre and doing a better job of it than Salt and Sanctuary, which is also a great game, with great art, runs on a potato, and is also in the “Soulsvania” genre yet didn’t receive nearly the same level of recognition.

Hollow Knight just got lucky going viral. That’s just how markets be sometimes.

Shaka literally tells you they will go back to town if you talk to them I think two or three times. That’s just a Soulslike thing ya gotta get in the habit of. Exhaust that dialogue, always.

But Corpse Runs are just a dumb mechanic for a Metroidvania. Those platforming challenges wouldn’t feel so bad if not for them. Losing 200 rosary hurts. That’s a lot of time grinding that back.

https://slrpnk.net/comment/17826233

Called it.

RIP Steam download servers.

Good work, bad choice of pose though.

Idk what you were going for but it really looks like she’s just lifting her leg to show off her butt and nothing else.

Like, that is not a normal pose in any way.

The game has periodic expeditions that have some story to them, and there is the main overarching story plus the “Journey to the Center” bit

But yea, it’s mostly a sandbox where you make cool bases (and now cool space ships) or try to make number go up and grow an intergalactic trading empire.

How has no one mentioned Happy Wheels yet?

Also, Riders Republic is a thing that people slept on.

Why does the game footage look like one of those cheap, mobile “game”, scam ads?

Yes. The addiction isn’t usually the problem itself but rather an unhealthy coping mechanism for some deeper issue that the body/mind is trying to get relief from.

It can become an issue itself, as “addiction”, by definition, is a chemical dependency on an outside substance that ends up replacing natural bodily functions, which is why true addictions come with withdrawal symptoms.