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DanteAkai Mar 1, 2019 @ 12:40pm
What is Igavania???
Igavania????
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Originally posted by whoami:
sidescrolling platformer > nerdculture + marketing > metroidvania > nerdculture + marketing > igavania
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El Fuerte Mar 1, 2019 @ 1:34pm 
Gothic game made with RPG/backtracking elements similar to Metroid. It's associated with the game developer Koji Igarashi.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCaE_xbPRBw
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Malphas Mar 1, 2019 @ 1:56pm 
What is a man?
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DanteAkai Mar 1, 2019 @ 2:03pm 
Originally posted by lixion:
Gothic game made with RPG/backtracking elements similar to Metroid. It's associated with the game developer Koji Igarashi.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCaE_xbPRBw

Is Metroidvania or Igavania???
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El Fuerte Mar 1, 2019 @ 2:04pm 
Originally posted by DanteAkai:
Originally posted by lixion:
Gothic game made with RPG/backtracking elements similar to Metroid. It's associated with the game developer Koji Igarashi.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCaE_xbPRBw

Is Metroidvania or Igavania???
Both terms are basically semantics. People just tend to use "Igavania" for the games that Koji Igarashi actually works on.

Let's just say that Igavania means a Metroidvania game in which Igarashi is part of the development team.
Last edited by El Fuerte; Mar 6, 2019 @ 12:44pm
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DanteAkai Mar 1, 2019 @ 2:04pm 
Originally posted by Local_Wizard:
What is a man?
a miserable pile of secrets
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AliceEngine Mar 3, 2019 @ 3:27pm 
Metroidvania is the correct term, Igavania is pointless wankery. If everyone was so full of themselves we'd have genres like Shigeru Miyamario, Sakaguchi Fantasy, etc.
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Malphas Mar 4, 2019 @ 6:25am 
Originally posted by AliceEngine:
Metroidvania is the correct term, Igavania is pointless wankery. If everyone was so full of themselves we'd have genres like Shigeru Miyamario, Sakaguchi Fantasy, etc.

I dunno. I highly doubt he came up with the 'igavania' term himself. He seems like a very humble guy.
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S_Jake Mar 8, 2019 @ 11:59am 
Originally posted by Local_Wizard:
Originally posted by AliceEngine:
Metroidvania is the correct term, Igavania is pointless wankery. If everyone was so full of themselves we'd have genres like Shigeru Miyamario, Sakaguchi Fantasy, etc.

I dunno. I highly doubt he came up with the 'igavania' term himself. He seems like a very humble guy.

I suspect it was something dreamt up by a PR/Marketing person: I'd never heard the term before the Bloodstained Kickstarter.
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Grizzled Grizzly Mar 14, 2019 @ 7:45pm 
Originally posted by DanteAkai:
Originally posted by Local_Wizard:
What is a man?
a miserable pile of secrets

But enough talk! Have at you! :cozymhw:
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El Apr 1, 2019 @ 12:24pm 
Originally posted by Sentinel:
Originally posted by DanteAkai:
a miserable pile of secrets

But enough talk! Have at you! :cozymhw:
Ora ora ora!
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whoami Apr 17, 2019 @ 6:40am 
sidescrolling platformer > nerdculture + marketing > metroidvania > nerdculture + marketing > igavania
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DanteAkai Apr 17, 2019 @ 9:31am 
Originally posted by whoami:
sidescrolling platformer > nerdculture + marketing > metroidvania > nerdculture + marketing > igavania
jajaajajaja +10
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Drybonz Apr 21, 2019 @ 9:29pm 
It's Castlevania... they can't use that word because it's owned by Konami now, so they just call it Igavania.
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Regal Bane Jan 27, 2020 @ 9:56am 
https://youtu.be/CZzcRDKjMfw

This is a Metroidvania
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ULTRA Jan 27, 2020 @ 11:40am 
Basically the term "Metroidvania" describes an open-world side scroller in the vein of Metroid or Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. You typically go and upgrade your character to varying degrees. When they say Igavania they are just playing up the fact that it's a Metroidvania designed by the guy responsible for Symphony of the Night.
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