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A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Soulslop, if you will.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 34 points 3 days ago (11 children)

a Soulslike Metroidvania

Is this the gaming equivalent of increasingly niche music genres?

[–] UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In my experience if a metroidvania game is described as soulslike it means it will have time wasting mechanics like corpse runs, and the spawn points will be placed in awkward locations. Mostly inspired by hollow knight.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

Souls is already kind of like a Metroidvania. Like some areas are much easier with certain things, if not downright required.

[–] Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (14 children)

One of the things that drew me into Dark Souls to begin with was that it had some of that metroidvania feel. A soulslike metroidvania just sounds kind of redundant as a genre.

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