Making a Metroidvania is an enormous design challenge. How do you let a player loose in an interconnected world, without them becoming lost or frustrated?
In this series, I’ll be looking at key Metroid titles, and games inspired by the franchise, to see how this type of world is structured. In this episode, I’m looking at the SNES all-time classic, Super Metroid.
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