A Communal History of Metroidvania Video Games retraces the genre’s steps back to the 1970s, from there uncovering fifty years of discoveries and dead-ends. Through incisive retrospectives and personal essays, twenty writers lend their unique expertise to this shared story, mapping both its critical

Below the Root mentioned. Haven’t thought about that since I was a kid playing it on my Grandfather’s Amiga in the early 90s…