Metroidvania Works #06: Montezuma's Revenge (Patreon)

Metroidvania Chronicles returns, finally! But now with a different name and stuff. Along with a slightly different format that includes a "footnotes" section about games that don't quiiite make the cut of my entirely arbitrary and opaque rubric for putting together this series. 

After the deluge of metroidvania releases over the past month or so, I have a LOT of ground to cover with this series. I don't know how frequently it will be recurring (maybe monthly?), but I promise not not to let it languish for [checks] uhhhhh two and a half years again.

I hope the Metroidvania Works logo isn't too abstract. "Metroidvania" is a much more complicated concept to sum up in a single icon than, say, the NES or Game Boy. I fussed around with stuff like winged boots and a vampire metroid before just going with a small chunk of the Symphony of the Night map, which has become a fairly standard shared element within modern takes on the format. Yay?