If we stretch the term metroidvania into the appropriate absurdity in the same way the word roguelike is used, then Digimon World 4 is a metroidvania. technically you can do the dungeons in each world in any order, but the notion of nonlinearity is a lie because actually you just need to gather an increasingly absurd amount of keys, but TECHNICALLY it has non-linear elements (key-getting dungeons) but also linearly gated elements (key-using dungeons, worlds)
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