With how innovative and influential many modern games have become, it has become more difficult to pigeonhole certain games into a rigid genre. Souls-like games such as The Surge, or Metroidvania games such as Ori and the Blind Forest, are oftentimes much more than the sum of their parts - yet the classifications they are dealt appear to identify them as purely derivative.
It is perhaps true that fans have grown too accustomed to making quick comparisons between games that exist in a similar
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