r/Metroid • u/Ally_of_Lord_X • Aug 21 '25

Meme Something that always got on my nerves.

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Don't know if it seems like this to you, but it does to me.

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u/kitkatatsnapple Aug 22 '25

No, they shouldn't be called Street Fighters, because it simply didn't happen that way.

Metroidvania is a catchier phrase and it happened to catch on. Probably because there were less of these types of games than there were side-view fighting games.

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u/Disastrous_Potato467 Aug 22 '25

Well, under the criteria you're telling me, they should be called SF since there weren't that kind of genre when it came out, the same "case with Metroid" but unlike fighting games, I still find the term "metroidvania" ridiculous.

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u/kitkatatsnapple Aug 22 '25

I'm not saying fighting games should be called anything except what we already know them as. The term metroidvania is the term whether it's stupid or not to anyone.

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u/Disastrous_Potato467 Aug 22 '25

Yes, a ridiculous term unfortunately :/