Which other NES or SNES games take place on one continuous map that you backtrack with new abilities to find a way to progress?
Edit: that you wouldn't consider a metroidvania, I mean.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rygar -- genre: metroidvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faxanadu -- wiki categories include metroidvania. style: "like castlevania".
The thing you're also missing is that a {castle,metroid}vania is a 2D side-scroller, so Zelda, Metal Gear, and friends are not.
This kind of "umm actually" stuff is boring.
Spanish wikipedia, while English wikipedia says something else. Did you hunt with Google until you found some lone source citing it as "Metroidvania" just to try get a point across?
> This kind of "umm actually" stuff is boring.
Yet you dug deep into it.
Or maybe he's just Spanish
My point is that you create a lot of noise when your "corrections" aren't actually correct. It's basically nerd sniping to be wrong on the internet, especially about games.
Yes, I'm contributing to the noise. But I'm correct, so it's okay according to unwritten HN guidelines.