Rise from your grave and punch skulls in indie metroidvania After Death
Imagine a game where you're playing as Juste Belmont's skeleton and you've got After Death
, by Diamond Feit
Montezuma's Revenge, a milestone on the road to 2018's metroidvania moment
One for the Without Whom files.
, by Jeremy Parish
Episode 166 ventures into the depths of making a metroidvania
Chasm's creator talks classic inspirations and modernizing old-school game design.
, by Jeremy Parish
Episode 146 delves into the sisterhood of Metroid Fusion
Meet the creators of two very different games that took up the Metroid mantle.
, by Jeremy Parish
Symphony of the Night and the near-death of Metroidvania games
Episode 137 of the podcast returns to the Metroidvania well... only to find it dried up in the '90s.
, by Jeremy Parish
Mailbag call: Symphony of the Night and the brief death of metroidvania
Why did exploratory platformers vanish in the '90s? We'd love to field your theories.
, by Jeremy Parish
Episode 124 takes metroidvania beyond the bounds of the NES
Mostly to Master System... with a 16-bit sidetrack.
, by Jeremy Parish
With The Mummy: Demastered, WayForward hews a little too closely to 8-bit roots
An intriguing game bogged down by design conventions we've abandoned for a reason.
, by Jeremy Parish
Atlus' so-called fake Jack Bros. side-scroller is real, free, and on PC
A left-of-field gift for Shin Megami Tensei's 25th anniversary, free to download until December 24.
, by GSK
Mystik Belle: The Retronauts review
A neglected breed of Metroidvania rises from the grave.
, by Kishi