Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The Lost Vikings as a Metroidvania would be ridiculous.
3 characters have to spit up & collect things so they can come back together and use their combined efforts to progress…
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yeah, I didn’t consider that. The game would probably have to design the map in a way that keeps all the characters relatively nearby, or introduce a mechanic for them to converge more seamlessly, like maybe having save rooms that teleport all of them together or something.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Trine is the modern day Lost Vikings. You just switch characters on the fly.
Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m just picturing big chambers like Super Metroid, and the characters moving around testing things to see what happens, then putting it together. (Maybe a zoom out button, or the map screen being relatively detailed.) So it could be very similar to the original, just “more”. You’d just need a few sets of puzzles in every chamber, for when they backtrack and revisit areas. Mind you I’m not saying it’s easy to design good levels and puzzles, especially in such a large scale, just that it’s easy for me to imagine it being fun.