I feel like the ultimate damning and missing quality of Carrion that makes it so forgettable and kind of just a vague haze of a metroidvania is the mix of linearity and the fact there's no map to see how complete each area is, making it so you just kind of move forward through it without thinking of extras or exploration or anything that makes a good metroidvania fun. By the time you even notice that you haven't been getting stuff like that, the game's already over, too.

This is basically the quintessential game you have to get on a sale, because even though I bought it for $6, I still feel like it should have had more to it; god knows how disappointed people who paid full price for it feel.