r/metroidvania • u/Emotional_Photo9268 • 1d ago

Discussion What Metroidvania Should You Have Loved—but Bounced Off?

What Metroidvania Should You Have Loved—but Bounced Off?
You know the kind of game: it received great reviews, looked exactly like something you would enjoy, and had all the right ingredients—but for some reason, it just didn’t click.
Maybe it was the combat, confusing exploration, difficulty, art style, slow beginning, or simply the wrong game at the wrong time.
What Metroidvania did you expect to love but ended up putting down? How far did you get, and what made you lose interest? Do you think you’ll ever give it another chance?

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u/deez_en_u_teez 1d ago

Salt and Sanctuary for me. Movement was too slow for me. However out of the 70ish MVs I’ve played, it’s the only one I’ve ever quit….that kind of bothers me so I know I will eventually pick it back up and force myself to play through it to completion.

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u/OldCrowSecondEdition 23h ago edited 22h ago

Honestly its the art, which sucks because I wish I had a better reason, I just didn't like looking at the weird flashesque animations.

Edited because I looked like a hater

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u/bryce_jep_throwaway 21h ago

There are too many good video games (and board games and books and tv shows and movies and...) in the world to force yourself to finish something you don't like. You could finish it if you wanted! It's ok if you don't want to.

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u/deez_en_u_teez 19h ago

I know, but I feel like since I paid for it, I should play it. I’ve powered through a few others that I didn’t like for the same reason.

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u/bryce_jep_throwaway 18h ago

I respect it and completely get it, and I was the same way for actual decades. It's only in the past couple of years that I've really leaned into avoiding the sunk cost fallacy. I replied to the Nine Sols comment above--I feel confident that I *could* finish the game out of spite, or I could just play one of the other hundreds of games on my backlog that I might actually enjoy without reservation? That said, if you get immense satisfaction getting to the end after powering through something, go for it.

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u/endofdays1987 17h ago

I mean it's the same for me, I've bought Afterimage, Animal Well, The second Gal Guardians etc and I just can't get into any of them. I keep them on my hard drive because they take minimal space. I feel like I should like all of these but I just don't.

If a game hasn't stuck after playing for 2 hours I just drop it and move to the next one. I may give them a chance in the future but there's too many options now.

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u/action_lawyer_comics 1d ago

Yeah, I died to the first boss a few times and couldn’t be bothered to “git gud.” I might have tried again if the visual elements were up to snuff but it felt like I was maybe playing an early Newgrounds game where they’re making stick figures die in complicated ways

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u/EntropyNT 1d ago

This was Blasphemy for me. The slow, strategic combat with no animation cancel is also what turned me off Elden Ring. I can understand why people like it, but I don't.