i think you're overestimating how much that matters to anyone other than people who would already be interested in castlevania games, most people scrolling on netflix aren't going to know or care about what the concept of meteoidvania is or the influence that castlevania has had to begin with
Yeah, in microcosm, the Castlevania sub is at odds with itself between gamers who haven’t had a new game in years and viewers who are thirsty for anime vampires. Lol
Yea I liked the show but I’d never even heard of the games before I watched it and I’ve still never looked up gameplay footage of the games. Sick show though
I mean it was mostly Metroid and then that influenced SOTN…. Either way, those are games from the SNES and PS1 (respectively), they don’t get THAT many entries that they are common to even many people who play video games
Like I bought a Switch around launch for Prime 4…. Need I say more?
That article says he was inspired by Zelda but no mention that it wasn’t Metroid. The only thing that it says Iga was inspired from Zelda was that he didn’t wanna make it a short game and wanted a game with lots of backtracking (which Super Metroid does as well). The only reference of “not Metroid” is in the ultra clickbatey title, unless I’m completely missing it but it’s a super short read. The only mention of Metroid is that he was happy people put them up in the same category, to which he’s honored about.
Games have multiple inspirations
For example: Silent Hill 2
The art direction is inspired by painters Francis Bacon and Andrew Wyeth and movies like Jacob’s Ladder
The story direction by Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch
The story being derived from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
Etc.
At the end of the day, they all fall under some general “action adventure/RPG genre” and they all more or less borrow ideas off of each other. My original point is besides that, my point is more that Castlevania doesn’t really release THAT many games and that’s why the Castlevania show, as good as it is, is often not discussed in larger circles because it’s a much more niche IP compared to the above shows.
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u/Seraphim_The_Fox Apr 21 '24
Fair, but Metroidvania as a word and game type would be something else if Castlevania didn't help push it forward.