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0 pointsdeciduously1y ago0 comments

Why should it be satire? There's certainly more than a passing resemblance in the gameplay loop and general UI sensibilities between the two.

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anthonypasq1y ago

The idea that Balatro gave Slay the Spire press would be like saying that the release of Halo 1 really gave Doom a lot of press.

Slay the Spire invented the entire genre.

water-your-self1y ago

Slay the spire was not the first ever deck building rogue like. It was maybe the first one that hit the recent zeitgeist and it was one of the first to be widely streamed on twitch.

entropicdrifter1y ago

Doom was not the first ever first person shooter, but nobody called the genre "Wolfenstein clones" after Doom came out. Dark Souls wasn't the first punishing action RPG with limited save/load functionality, but nobody calls them "King's Field-likes"

There's something to be said for genre-codifying releases, even if they didn't straight up invent the genre.

Black Sabbath wasn't the first ever Metal band.

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