""Metroidvania: The First Decade is the culmination of a project I began more than 20 years ago, back when this style of game had largely vanished and the general public had more or less forgotten about them," Parrish said in a press release."
""As a game reviewer, I eagerly signed up for the handful of metroidvania games that came down the pipeline--which, fittingly, were mostly just handheld Metroid and Castlevania sequels and remakes. Once I'd consumed those releases, I began looking back into the past to trace the origins of those games and how exploratory platform action games had evolved over time.""
""Parrish added that the book does more than just list the games created in the style of Metroid and Castlevania, as he broke down the "themes and objectives of the metroidvania format" to explore what these titles truly are.""
""The 212-page clothbound hardcover book features high-quality paper, a foreword written by Metroid Prime series producer Kensuke Tanabe, and introductions to its four sections by developers from Retro Studios.""
Metroidvania: The First Decade began as a project more than 20 years ago when the genre had largely vanished and public memory faded. The work traces the origins and evolution of metroidvania games, beginning with mostly handheld Metroid and Castlevania sequels and remakes. The book analyzes recurring themes and objectives of the metroidvania format to clarify what defines these titles and how exploratory platform action games developed over time. Separately, an official Metroid Prime Trilogy retrospective from Piggyback Books offers a 212-page clothbound hardcover with a foreword by Kensuke Tanabe and introductions by Retro Studios developers, documenting the trilogy’s development as it becomes a quadrilogy.
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