...is stating an opinion and explaining how you came to this opinion something foreign to you?

The difference to me is that a proper MetroidVania allows for and rewards exploration and gives players options to go off the beaten path.

I just realized it wasn’t supposed to be read that way, lordy what an awful name.

I also believe there’s a clear distinction with Zelda.

Have you ever played a Zelda dungeon? Backtracking for days, finding keys that open up doors you saw previously, using the dungeon items to bypass obstacles that you passed along the way, the works.

Seriously, the incorporation of dungeon items to expand the overworld rather than opening it up through story events is what makes Link’s Awakening and the Oracles duo my favorite in the series, and that’s straight Metroidvania formula.

Ghiami describes it as far more metroidvania in its approach

Not remotely the same as plagiarizing writing. This art style is Link’s Awakening’s, but does it use any of the same actual assets? Does it use the same code? Does it have the same map, the same puzzles, the same plot, the same game mechanics, anything beyond the visual similarity?

And what I’m saying is that while you’re right, it’s easier to point out that ARs are only useful for killing a ton of people quickly, whereas you can find uses for handguns and hunting rifles beyond that. If it were up to me gun laws would be stricter than “no assault weapons” but I also think that if you’re someone…

So you’re just gonna pretend you didn’t say something idiotic and move on to a generic anti-gun talking point as if I’m a gun nut?

If that’s how it’d go down it would’ve gone down by now. We’ll see an end of the electoral college before we see the end of all gun rights.

Cool, good luck actually implementing something that sweeping in the US.

Imagine quoting a passage that doesn’t include the word “hunts” but does include the term “self-defense” and thinking “this idiot thinks people hunt with handguns!”

I’d put handguns and hunting rifles in the same category as cars, in that they can be used for murder but have other purposes (self-defense, sport, etc.) and should require mandatory training. Weapons that are specifically built to kill as many people in your radius as possible? What the fuck.

That DLC reshapes the understanding of Control overall, is my point. See Goodratt’s reply to me, which I agree with; if the DLC was just an Alan Wake standalone then it’d remain a fun side story, but it has sweeping implications for the base game.

I’m not at all saying size doesn’t matter, I’m just saying that being suave (which is the matter at hand) does imply a certain amount of ability rather than a certain amount of size.

You don’t sound very rufus.

The size of the fish doesn’t directly correlate to the motion in the ocean.

his infinitely more suave brother Luigi

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