Getting Lost in Axiom Verge | Making Metroidvanias

This is such a beautiful game! I actually only got stuck a single time, gave it a ton of thought, and found a way out. Didn't have to use the internet a single time.

Honestly my least favorite part of these games is getting lost. I've shelved some totally because I had no clue and wasted hours trying to find the ONE spot on the map that progress can be made. The worst part of Axiom Verge is that the map is split up into sections for NO reason at all. Salt and Sanctuary doesn't have a map or directions but I got through it just fine. Backtracking with new powers is only fun when you remember where those powers will work… but not even knowing what the powers will be kind of makes marking it a moot point.
EDIT: Further problems: the grapple controls are really hit or miss, the music needs sound leveling, the "each enemy might require a certain weapon" mechanic which is just guesswork, enemies that hit you right on the other side of a door instantly… the list goes on. It's an okay game and the story kept me going, but enemies that fly through the environment, completely useless weapons and HORRIBLE weapon changing on a controller, gimmick bosses (some aren't even real bosses), unavoidable enemies (pinweel bastards), and IMO worst of all is not being able to aim and move (accurately). The stick mechanic blows – the right thumbstick exists now so don't use it for weapon selection, that's just stupid.

What is the Greek or Egyptian looking game he shows at the beginning? I’d love to play MetroidVania set in that kind of world?

Just realized that star wars the Fallen Order is actually a metroidvania pretending to be a soulslike uncharted mash up

Broo! My friends dad worked on axiom verge! To see it reviewed is awsome!

I actually prefer a waypoint telling me which direction I should go in for my next objective. It lets me know which way i should go last.

I mean, really, if you can go left or right and the game tells you you need to go right, you obviously go left first.

If I'll try making a game by myself one day, it will definitifely be a metroidvania too^^

But not one to publish, just something to play around

4:57 No it aint, my first playthrough i wasn't really thinking about the why, i was just like "ME WANT UP CLIFF" and i kept trying it until eventually, i made it with what i assume was a pixel perfect jump

It's super turican! 😍

Such a good game.

Being told where to go is lazy game development, IMO.

Well those progress markers made me hate the GBA Metroid games, I was so upset that I felt robbed of what I loved about Metroid in the first place… so much so that I Never went very far in them