Is Your Platformer Better than Super Metroid?

With a spate of platformers competing for your dollar, many of which stick to established formulas, one has to ask if these games make any meaningful improvements over the great games of over twenty years ago. While there's still room for great Metroidvania games and Mario-style games, making them should be left to those who believe they can surpass the gold standards of the past and set one of their own.

This article contends that it’s better, and easier, to try new things in the platforming space than try to make a game superior to the platformers of the past using the same formula.