I genuinely consider both mods to be more faithful the the vanilla experience than some the actual features added in more recent updates.

The line I personally draw between Metroidvania and Zelda like is the ability to sequence break without glitches and a focus on platforming as the core of movement.

I’m going to have to go with either the Create mod or Apotheosis, both for Minecraft. Both of them feel like they could just be part of the vanilla game, and at this point it feels wrong and weird for me to play the game without them installed.

Copyright protects already executed ideas, stripping that protection down to less than a decade would be completely unhelpful.