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Re: Who Created The Term "Metroidvania"? Gaming Historian Critical Kate Tries To Find Out

Sawboss

The sticking point for me with the term wasn't that Metroid popularized the game genre first, it was that Castlevannia had already established itself as a series of level-based action platformers beloved by many well before SotN, so I always thought adding the "-vannia" at the end of the term seemed odd and sort of ignores Castlevannia's origins. At least Metroid was from it's inception, a Metroidvannia. Although, I do concede "Symph-troid" doesn't sound as good.