The last few years have seen the Metroidvania subgenre turn a corner from a niche subset of action platformers owing a debt of gratitude to both the Metroid and Castlevania franchises to a thriving entity within the realm of indie game development. One of the most important games to help usher the genre into its ongoing renaissance was Team Cherry's Hollow Knight, and it in turn has now inspired its own wave of games following in its wake. Squid Shock Studios' B: Path of the Teal Lotus is one of the newer Metroidvania titles that share more than a few elements in common with Hollow Knight, but B's designers also have pulled from a wide variety of genre classics both new and old to create its pastiche.