why is this labeled metroidvania?

[sixstarrs]

this is an action roguelite. NOT a metroidvania.

[Morgue]

Its both

[Phirestar]

Tags are chosen by the community, not the developers.

And Dead Cells was initially advertised as a roguevania, which I'm sure you can figure out the meaning of. There are some light metroidvania elements, but yeah, I agree that it's not a true metroidvania; the change to "roguelite, metroidvania-inspired" was a good idea.

[thebiomage]

I hate it when the game gets called metroidvania. It's a metroidvania for maybe the first couple of hours, before you have all the traversal related runes. After that, it's not. It could be argued what is considered "beating the game", but if we assume its beating 5BC mode, then those couple of hours amount to probably less than 5% of your entire playtime.

[bobhome2]

The devs called this a roguevania or something before it was released. Personally, I don't see it as much of a metroidvania, but that's just me.

You DO unlock abilities as you go, but unlike metroidvanias, you can't just go back to earlier levels. You need to die first - which kind of invalidates the idea to me.

Still, the game's very fun. So I don't really care about what clumsy marketing terms were used at first. It's all good to me.

[up2zero]

We would have to agree on the definitions of roguelite and metroidvania to truly resolve this.
Regardless, the game is freekin' awesome.

[bobhome2]

Originally posted by up2zero:

We would have to agree on the definitions of roguelite and metroidvania to truly resolve this.
Regardless, the game is freekin' awesome.

Yeah, we'll never get a "real" definition, sadly. Haha.

[FlintX]

Here is a good one: Deadcellvania

Ok guys, you can go back playing now.

[Awakened Gamer]

Originally posted by FlintX:

Here is a good one: Deadcellvania

Ok guys, you can go back playing now.

Lol, honestly the game does not feel like a metroidvania at all, I know it has some elements of some so I will say metroidvania light. Really if you want a metroidvania I do not think it works well with roguelite being the main feature, metroidvanias should feel more relaxing and a more fluid experience.

[FlintX]

Originally posted by Dragonbound:

Originally posted by FlintX:

Here is a good one: Deadcellvania

Ok guys, you can go back playing now.

Lol, honestly the game does not feel like a metroidvania at all, I know it has some elements of some so I will say metroidvania light. Really if you want a metroidvania I do not think it works well with roguelite being the main feature, metroidvanias should feel more relaxing and a more fluid experience.

Of course not, it is Deadcellvania for a reason.