How Metroidvania changed my life

4 months ago, I have never played any Metroidvania in my life. What started as my son asked me to buy Hollow Knight for him has profoundly changed my life.

I started to look into the genre and decided to play Ori the Blind Forest and Prince of Persia the Lost crown. Each day, I spent 30 minutes on each game to make little progress to the save point. Each day, I am looking forward to go home after work to play those games. It has completely bring more joys than I could remember for playing games. The last game I played was Call of Duty a few years ago. I never knew 2D side scroller can be so good. Thanks to the genre, my life is happy again.