I've had a friend always telling me how Hollow Knight is the best possible Metroidvania out there when it's the only one he's ever played. Funnily enough, he disregards the genre defining franchises (Metroid and Castlevania) as "probably much worse" without having even seen gameplay of it, which is pretty annoying. I've played some of Metroid and Castlevania to know a bit about the genre and I've at least seen Hollow Knight gameplays and all I see is a Metroidvania knock-off with pattern-heavy bosses and the difficulty cranked up to Soulslike trial and error style. I can see how that's sort of "unique" but I don't see how that makes it a prime Metroidvania experience, would you agree with him on it being the best possible Metroidvania there is lol? Am I missing something? He also uses this fallacy of it being super popular so you know it's super good, but the thing that stuck with me the most is how he glorified the fucking double jump as such a special and unique mechanic, some bullshit about how it was programmed magnificently and how it had an excellent feel to it, when it's literally something almost every action game has. Makes you wonder if he's glorifying many more subtle aspects of the game. How do you call this behaviour? Do you have any more examples of this phenomena?