Metroid

Complete? "Mission complete"? NO! Mission not complete! The hell was that ending?! Send me back, dammit!

Anyway, now that I've unlocked everything in the gallery, thoughts on the game. I have some mixed feelings admittedly, but first, the good:

• Everything that isn't Sol Valley. When you're in first person, it just feels like Metroid Prime, and I say this having played Prime Remastered, so it's not just my memory stewing in 15 years of nostalgia. The environments, the music, the controls, all of it is on point.
• On the subject of controls, special mention to the fact that pointer controls now have a dedicated recenter command. It's such a minor thing to implement, but the QoL improvement is phenomenal. Seriously, my right joycon has major drift, which made pointer controls absolutely unplayable in Prime Remastered. So being able to reset the pointer at will is a godsend. Sure, I could have used twin stick controls instead like a heathen, but why would I do that?
• The GalFed characters. I wasn't expecting to, but I actually liked their inclusion. Yeah, having other people ruins the whole isolation thing, but Prime 3 already put a hole in that anyway. On normal difficulty, they were actually useful in fights, able to dispatch enemies while I drew aggro. The beefier enemies in hard difficulty made that less viable, but I usually still didn't need to babysit them too much.

But now, the bad:

• Sol Valley. Look, I like open world games, okay? I like BotW, which was an excellent open world adventure (as a Zelda game though, it was garbage), I liked the Mad Max game, I've played most of the mainline AssCreed games through Syndicate. So the fact that they stuck a huge open world hub into the game is not the issue. But the key to a good open world is that it's full of stuff. Items to find, activities to do, people to interact with (whether friendly NPCs or not). Sol Valley... doesn't. It's almost entirely sand dunes and green crystals, which is just boring. And since you have to crisscross the region multiple times over the course of the game, you'll get slapped with that bland sameness over and over, especially since there's no fast travel.

All in all, if I were being completely objective I'd put this at maybe 60/100, but on account of being Metroid I bump that up to 75/100.

Hello! I am currently discovering the Metroid games, started with dread and slowly playing though the games now. Right now I am playing zero mission on retroarch.

Next game will be Metroid two. I have already played samus returns on emulator some time back and don't remember too much, and think AM2R could work nicely for me.

But it's been taken down, right? So where can I play it and what do you think about it?

Why are they waiting so long?

Best case scenario is a Metroid Direct, but it doesn't seem very likely. It's either a September release, and if so it's weird that we don't have a date yet, or something else.

Maybe i'm trippin, but what if MP4 IS the holiday release and the game is so much bigger for Nintendo than anyone expected? In that case it's probable that we will get a full reveal like the one from the Donkey Kong Direct, that completely changed the perception around the game: from "It looks good" to "I must play this".

What do you think?

...and why is it the Zero Mission version of Kraid's Lair? 😎

Seriously, though, what are your favorites and why? I like that particular version of Kraid's Lair because it's so bombastic. The way it sounds, I can easily imagine that an instrumental version would feature both organs and electric guitars, which is an awesome combo.

That is all

I'll go with Dread power suit. I think its slickness and the combination of colors is unmatched. About MP4, I think that we won't have the classic Power-Varia-Gravity upgrades but something that maybe enhances her psychic power?