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Game of the Week: exploring the other things that make a Metroidvania great


Our game of the week is Tales of Kenzera, which has helped pin down what a Metroidvania should be about.

That said, I can't get away from Tales of Kenzera, the Afro-futurist Metroidvania that Ed reviewed at the start of the week. It's something Ed wrote in his review that made me realise I had been misreading an entire genre for years. It's more that I had been missing a vital component of what makes these games so special.

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