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In deciding the art style for our #metroidvania, it's important to decide how big the player is relative to the screen. Tight focus on the PC, or zoomed out to highlight the environment? Here's how many PCs tall the screen is for several different Metroidvanias (thread):

Can’t you zoom the camera in and out to create different feels for different areas? I want to say Guacamelee and Shadow Complex did that but can’t remember for sure.

axiom verge does that too in some boss fights!

It’s tricky with pixel art. Hollow Knight can do it most easily (and does it a bunch) but you need to zoom to other 16/9 resolutions, which means you’ll need to know what your “base” is before you think of that

Right, pixel art will look crappy if zoomed to non-integer multiples, but that still gives us the freedom to zoom in and out to integer multiples for certain big rooms or boss fights, or to zoom in for cramped spaces / tight framing