So “game literacy” can be used in two ways as well: literate enough in basic game conventions to successfully play the game at hand or literate enough in a whole host of other somewhat related things in order to be said to understand the game at hand.

All that said, this game uses the phrase for a nicely evocative title, but when it comes down to it doesn’t seem to be more about game literacy than a whole host of other, similar games. But, then again, it’s always a hazy thing to say a game (or a book or a movie or whatever) is “about” something or other, so it’s not like I’m complaining.

But it might be more fair to call this a game about Metroid-like literacy (though even then — in comparison to other Metroid-likes — only because it’s stripped down and repeats the basic structure in small, comprehensible bites).