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But if you consider Shadow of the Beast to be a platformer, then you have to start calling thing like Double Dragon a platformer for the same reason and that's basically ludicrous. |
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Agreed it can be a rabbit hole, similar to "but is it a RPG". Personally I just apply the platformer moniker to games where platform navigation and precision jumping is the main gameplay focus. The other games get "with platforming elements" treatment.
So Superfrog and James Pond are platformers, but SotB, Wolfchild, Turrican, Rodland count either as action-adventures, shooters, or puzzlers (bubblebobblers, ok) with platforming elements. |
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Defining genres can be tough, think about music, where R'n'B completely changed meaning, Old Town Road got onto the Country charts initially, AC/DC were described as heavy metal in their heyday but nobody sees them as such now, and nowadays you can add a rap to almost anything and not consider it a rap song.
As for games, ladders were a key element of platformers in their early days, so Rod-Land probably does count (though does the fact that it's you who's making some of the ladders disqualify it?). Amiga Action defined Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder as Arcade Adventure, whereas nobody would question whether they're RPGs today. Games which combine genre elements can be tough to define too - some bits of Turrican are very platformy, others aren't, same goes for Wolfchild. In SOTB I'm struggling to think of any really platformy bits, its the least 'platform' of the games dreadnaught mentions IMHO. |
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It's not tough if you don't purposely make it difficult with all kinds of arbitrary rules
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How about Toki?
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