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The term has been around for over a decade. It also speaks to a very specific sort of action, platform,, explorer, adventure game.
Lety's put it this way. The original Konami NES TMNT game, would fit all those tags. But no one would call it a MetroidVania.
Every Sonic game would also fit those tags, but no one would call it a MetroidVania.
Conker's Bad Fur Day would fit those tags. But no one would call that a MetroidVania.
Lazy or not... thats what gamers came up with. and its a valuable descriptor that conveys meaningful information. I mean even in the amount of characters used to represent the tag. Until the genre itself fractures enough to warrant new descriptors, its not gonna change, any time soon.
Actually yes it is. As evidence that the Game's name is copyrighted. COpyright and Trademark work on surprisingly specific levels.
There is nothing in copyright law that disallows the use of a copyrighted name as a descriptor for something else. Because it is, surprisingly not being used as a proper Noun,, but rather as an adjective.
Yeah. Though to be fair Games Like Blaster master for the NES kinda defined the whole thing waaay earlier. Seriously. Go play that game. It basically has all the elements Though I suppose MetroidMaster doesn't carry the same ring. But even in the CastleVania series. you could say CastleVania 2: Simon's Quest was the first to really dabble in those design principles. It even Had RPG elements.
The fact that the word Metroid, and the word Metroidvania are two very different words kinda ensures that.
And until either of those generes diversifies enough to make the descriptors meaningless it will continue. Remember back when just about every FPS was a Doom-Clone, Then they had Build-CLones, but the genre became so diverse that those terms became litarally meaningless when it comes to to defing or describing..
One example of this that made me laugh was when Brazil recently suffered snow for the first time in forever.. Now, as you probably already know, people in Brazil obviously know what snow is, but they didn't know how to build a snowman, so the results were .... amusing.
And what did their press name these poor efforts? Chernobyl Olafs.
Why not simply call it Metroid then? Why did Castlevania even had to be brought into the mix is beyond me, because you would not call the first Metroid, metroidvania either.
I wonder what they will do, if they bring the first Metroid on Steam, and than I am curious, if they would still tag that as metroidvania.
Metroid-Like, or Metroid CLone was a thing for a period of time. But the range of games it applied to was very limited and thus the term never quite saw high usage. Generally a lot of those games just fell under the ever nebulous Action-Adventure game.. Or just plain Adventure.
Then cam Symphony of the Night. It had all he back tracking, exploration and propgressive traversal abilities of a Metroid, but with a stronger focus on Action-Combat.
This created a astyle of game that mixed rthe strengths of both The action platformer and the action adventure. while mitigating the weaknesses.
Metroid was great at giving you a vast area to explore but the combat was always lacking, as was the pacing. Castlevania games had solid platforming and reflex testing action buut, tended to be mostly linear. (Though Castlevania 2 and 3 kinda shifted that formula up).
Granted I still contest that Blaster Master was the first True Metroidvania, which by all rights should make the term Blaster-Like but again, more people played any of the metroid games, and any of the Castlevania games than plaid the two Blaster Master games combined.
You can said Blaster Master and there's an eve chance people won't have a frame of reference for it. But you say Castlevania and most people know exactly what you're talking about (those medusa heads are pretty ingrained in people's memories). The same holds true for Metroid.
And yeah it probably would be tagged as Metroidvania because remember Tags are created and applied by....?
Blaster Master :-) Heck I remember reading this back when I was a kid
https://www.amazon.com/Blaster-Master-Worlds-Power-Nine/dp/059043778X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=blaster+master+book&qid=1608212749&sr=8-1
In short, people are lazy. So people WILL shortcut. And shortcuts WILL involve rules not being followed.
If you want to see a prime example of the mess of language, go and look no further than British place names. Mostly anglo-saxon, frank, and viking in origin, but they still have weird pronunciations that make bugger all sense.
Case in point - the next village on from where I live - Cowbit. How would you pronounce that?
Kub - bit.
Or how about a village a few on from me, Quadring?
Kway - dring.
So don't get hung up on language and wondering why a rule applies in one place but not in another.
Plenty of people have ideas on what the tag means. In fact it's rather easy to guess what the game will feature when it says Metroidvania.
Because most of those titles will share a lot of similar gameplay features.
Castlevania was brought into the mix because it shared a lot of similar stuff with Metroid or rather Super Metroid. It was with the Castlevania Symphony of the nights which kicked it off. You can look at that game and on Super Metroid.
Then compare it to other titles that have been given the same tag.
Tags are user generated so it's pretty likely people would tag it as Metroidvania because it'd show up in the tag then.
was when the Term Walking Dead, symbolizing all Zombie Movies, Games, & such, & such,
had been claimed as a Copywrite Title for the TV Show The Walking Dead...
They capitalized, & Marketed a Product based on Copywriting an Entire Genre...
To make things worst? They weren't even the ones who started it all,
George A. Romero did, & it should really be his Copywrite, but either way.
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It's like things like that should really just be a Term, or Genre,
& be left at that. People should not be able to Copywrite things like this.
Two, you can't copyright just words, you can however own a title such as "The Walking Dead" - you cannot copyright a Genre, that is like trying to copyright a word like "platformer" which is a descriptor and genre. Owning the title to a series is usually a Series Trademark as short words or phrases generally can't be subject to a copyright.
To be related to the OPs question, such thing can be used as a tag, since it's a descriptor of what it is similar to
Please try to stay more on the topic and less of your usual shot in the dark so to say.
I found it dumb for someone to copy-right "Avatar" and let alone be successfully but google proved me wrong.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/james-cameron-wins-avatar-idea-642448
For a start, obviously COPYRIGHT. It does NOT and CANNOT cover terms or language.
So your argument is null immediately.
Furthermore, terms are language and as I pointed out earlier it's usually bugger all to do with who originated the thing in question.
You think Hoover invented the vacuum cleaner? Nope, and yet "hoovering the carpet" is still a de facto phrase.
You think Nintendo invented the video game or sony for that matter? Nope, and yet people will still say "oh, they're upstairs playing nintendo".
You're confusing two things that shouldn't be confused - language has NOTHING to do with copyright.
Furthermore, NOBODY has created those terms. You seem to claiming that the creators of the Walking Dead and so on are behind that example, and that's complete nonsense.
It just doesn't work like that at all.