>>234858 (OP)
>Team Ladybug: Breath of fresh air or cancer?
Their sprite art and sound effects are great but the game balance usually has some kind of gamebreaking problem or oversight that could easily be corrected. Touhou Luna Nights has the thousand-dagger throwing attack (that is used in one of this board's banners, strangely enough) where your character is invincible and frozen in place for about three seconds - and you still get graze bonuses for "narrowly dodging" attacks, meaning you can actually gain MP for using the attack when a boss shoots a wave of projectiles at you. Incredibly dumb and I don't know how a glitch like this wasn't caught during testing. Every boss fight after acquiring that power is focused entirely on cheesing the boss with it.
Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth has a similar problem due to the two-color system and a couple of more powerful spells, which again lock you in place and make you invincible.
Honestly, I think Pharaoh Rebirth+ was the game I had the most fun with since it was all original and the character didn't acquire a huge list of super-powerful attacks that invalidated any challenge by the end of the game. I never did figure out how to reach the super secret old man boss.
>Is Hollow Knight actually good or is it just >reddit
It's a good game with beautiful art direction, a great sense of exploration, uplifting music, thoroughly mediocre combat, and some canonically gay characters (two females and two males, if memory serves). You do have the option to kill one of the men before he becomes a fag and to leave the woman mourning her dead girlfriend forever so whether it's cucked or based will depend on how many redpills you've taken on a particular day. The protagonist is also technically nonbinary but that's because he's meant to have no identity whatsoever, which is a plot point.
I pirated it, played it thoroughly in 2017 when it first released, and had a good time. The developers added a lot of stuff via free updates and have generally not been cocksuckers so I don't think buying it would be bad. Silksong looks very promising but it probably won't be released before the heat death of the universe.
The reason why most people may not want to associate with HK is because the fandom has mostly been overtaken by bug fuckers (understandable; Hornet is cute), speedrunners, tumblr users, and trannies - but I repeat myself.
>>234870
>search action
Kill yourself.
>>234873
>the non-gay term
It's allegedly what Japanese indie devs use to describe the genre but I've literally only ever seen it on the Steam page for The Witch and 99 Mushrooms demo. I think it's just a retarded term that some contrarians have tried to push because they're too autistic to understand that "metroidvania" doesn't include literally every Metroid and Castlevania game ever made.