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You're forgetting this one:

"I also really would discourage putting hidden hole bricks right after the hardest part of the game and rubbing in that the player didn’t know it was there with a ‘LOL!’ sign. I can assure you…I was not LOLing." - Beau, Posted Here

Yoritoshi wrote:

When i saw the sign, for example, i thought: "Oh yeah, Metroid..."

See, now this is cool Yoritoshi because that's exactly what I wanted people to think. Good to see somebody got it.


And what's a thread l like this without mentioning the one that started it all:

On Novemeber 21, 2007 Krinkle said:
I mean, I can see adding a voice track for a really deep and polished game, but this is just 120 lbs of cake frosting slathered onto a tiny turd.
From TigSource here: http://tigsource.com/articles/2007/11/20/hasslevania

What stings about that one is that the highest concentration of people to ever download Hasslevania unfortunately played the worst and most unpolished version of the game (V.1). The above quote however was so good I made a point to add it to the Hasslevania homepage greeting as seen below:

I actually went far and wide to buy a games for windows magazine when I heard it was in there. Not a lot of places where I live carry it but I found a few copies at Borders. It was so awesome to see it in a real magazine like that, I still have it somewhere. I'll probably frame it if I never get famous later haha.

Holy shit...ranking just below Iji is certainly quite the honor. Nice to see H1 getting some recognition.

The only bad part about all of this is that the engine is so much better for Hasslevania 2, a game that I can't even guarantee will ever get finished. If H1 had the same engine (which has a lot less problems) and enemies had these sort of drops and all the other improvements, I know it'd be better than it currently is. By a lot too.

Unfortunately it's not a matter of simply taking all the improvements out of H2 and slapping them into H1. There's way too much that's different and the code wouldn't fit correctly. That's too bad. But yeah, any press is good press I agree.

Yeah there's some ruckus at the bottom in the comments where people said some of those aren't real Metroidvanias. As much as I like Knitt Stories that's not really a Metroidvania either. Sure you can get different things to help you out (umbrella for slowfall for example) but none of those were really needed to advance to any other areas IIRC.

Lyle in Cube Sector though, glad to see that get more love. That game rules.

Awesome to see H1 on a top list like that. I wouldn't really call alot of those games metroivanias though.

Del Duio wrote:

I just hate the other word they sometimes use, "Castleroid". Sounds like something unfortunate that grows on your ass.

I don't mind it. I hate it when people butcher the terms. For instance, some people say Castletroid.