Guacamelee!

And as you bring up a lot, and I think it makes sense to bring up a lot, like, the Hollow Knight series has sold more than all of Castlevania combined already in, you know, the years that Hollow Knight has existed as a, as an entity.

Um, and you have things like Ori, and you have things even on the Vita, like Guacamelee, and you have things like Shadow Complex, and there are all of these great...

Like, Cave Story, obviously, is a great example as well.

All these great Metroidvanias that have, I think, expanded on or put their own stamp on the genre in the years since in both the indie and the AAA and everything in between space.

And I think the biggest part of this game that's different, and I've seen a lot of people kind of complain, and you can either be for it or against it, and I totally understand the argument, is that this Castlevania is very different, again, from the people who make it, the people who make, like, Dead Cells and stuff like that, is that this Castlevania is a mix of that Metroidvania, but it's not just a Metroidvania.

Now it's incorporating stuff like Guacamelee or, like, Hollow Knight.

So, like...

some people even compare it to like souls aspect where like when you're fighting a boss it's all about learning that movement pattern and everything like that and trying to like slide around and do whatever it is you're gonna do to kind of try to like get away from them and I can understand if you don't like it.

But like the movement becomes like a big part of it too, especially with like a lot of these later boss fights.

Whereas like if you play Symphony of the Night or some of the other ones, you can kind of really just tank the attacks or you're jumping around, but it's not kind of the same level.

I think that's why, I think you understand what I mean, especially I've been playing it now, that comparing like Symphony of the Night, you couldn't compare Symphony of the Night to Guacamelee where it's like this and somebody's played Guacamelee.

I'm sure you get it.

Or, but there's a, a, I wanna be pushed a little bit, but I don't want it to be impossible.

Like the first Guacamelee-

Yeah

... was great.

...

I'm traver- What, what do you SOBs know about Guacamelee?

Hm.

Yeah.

I, I lo- I love me some Guacamelee.

I, I've played Guacamelee, and I liked it a lot.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I love when these types of games experiment with camera distance, which...

I think Guacamelee did the best, like when you would go across those huge chasms and the camera would zoom out or zoom in in certain areas.

I love when 2D games change the camera distance to the player.

And I think the art design is simple but effective.

Yeah, you can go play...

I was going to bring up Guacamelee.

Guacamelee is pretty easy.

And then it does have these like super challenging combat and platform sections that are almost 100% optional and almost exclusively at the end.

So like we're not in danger of running out of games to play or videos to watch.

... or, or Symphony of the Night.

Or, uh, Guacamelee.

Yeah, that's up there.

I, I do think-

[laughs]

...

Lost Crown is better than, better than Guacamelee, but it's, it's up there for me, top five, for sure.

Bit of...

Bloodstained? The one that had the really Mexican-themed...

Oh, Guacamelee.

Guacamelee.

I loved Guacamelee.

Loved it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.