Metroidvania Works #12: The all-singing, all-Falcom episode (Patreon)

This chapter of Metroidvania Works goes a bit out of chronological order to bundle together four games by Nihon Falcom, who did a lot of heavy lifting for the action-RPG genre in the mid ’80s. We'll see a couple of these games down the road on NES Works (and another of them elsewhere), so I didn't go into exhaustive detail on any of them. But these are pretty interesting and diverse takes on the genre—and Faxanadu is arguably the most refined and polished metroidvania we've yet seen.

Given next episode's topic, I'm probably not going to put it together until October. You know, to continue the Castlevania/Halloween thing I've got going.