we're tearing down systems, baby, and once capitalism goes video game genres are next, starting with any that include the word "metroid", closely followed by any that include the words "souls"
i think you can throw out brief summaries too. they're adjacent genre and to 'the elevator pitch'.
if a game has any thematic richness at all, or if it's using whole cloth design instead of being beholden to genre, any two sentence summary is going to be a pretty pale shadow.
A never ending fight. You get rid of one name for it to be replaced by another
First was the age of metroid and vania, passing through the dark rougetimes of the souls of fortnites. Now we enter the age of vampire survivors and balatrolikes
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Pretty sure that’s all of them.
if a game has any thematic richness at all, or if it's using whole cloth design instead of being beholden to genre, any two sentence summary is going to be a pretty pale shadow.
First was the age of metroid and vania, passing through the dark rougetimes of the souls of fortnites. Now we enter the age of vampire survivors and balatrolikes
It's "stop fighting about what counts"
If I say "metroidvania" you get like the gist of it
But If I say "immersive sim" and you wanna say "no it doesn't have the RPG elements" or something, then I can say "stfu nerd"
Like if you described Tokimeki Memorial as "Survival Horror", I would be hooked, I wanna see what that take it