#2d metroid

[wafflehousefuckup]

I’ve been sleeping on 2d Metroid for too long I loved zero mission and fusion but I will say if I wasn’t playing on emulator I’d probably get pissed off with all the dying I did

[zmyaro]

I have been thinking about my 2D #Metroid “machete order” again, and right now I am thinking:

AM2R → Super → Zero Mission → Fusion → Dread → Samus Returns

[bfoxanimation]

[magusscrap]

Samus Fusion Suit

[ciccerone]

[kirbyddd]

between Dread continuing from a game on GBA (and really every game prior to that too) and Prime 4 continuing from 2 games on GameCube and Original DS, Metroid has the longest narrative endurance of any multi-creator series I've ever seen. Threads left in stasis decades ago when the series was shelved picked right back up once development resumes—an entire generation of developers later—like nothing ever happened

[sinnohborn-trainer-evan]

Which games featured in this month's Nintendo Direct are you most excited for?

I'm personally interested in these five!

[aiecchi]

[artbytimfeeney]

Predator - Collectors

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[maburito]

This is so badass I love it

[s3znl-gr3znl]

thinking about what a metroid game made by fromsoft would be like and trying not to explode

[kaasiand]

It's kinda weird how, compared to Metroid Dread, Metroid Fusion was so much more blatant in

its prioritisation of linear story progression over exploration

its linear presentation (literally naming the areas sector 1–6), though it still does the classic "linear game pretending to be nonlinear" thing by taking you through them in a different, but still fixed, order

the way it literally directly tells you your every next step constantly

yet when playing the games, it felt to me that somehow, despite all of this, Fusion felt a lot less frustrating in its linearity to me than Dread. In Fusion it was immediately clear that I would just be sticking to a single sector for each part of the game and those sectors themselves would still be mostly freely explorable in a way that felt more similar to Metroid II, but in Dread there was just no telling AT ALL when the path behind me would be blocked off and it also felt wayyyyy less justified than in Fusion, especially with just how often Dread would be doing this.

With Fusion's extremely tense atmosphere being present throughout the entire game and so much of the story taking place and developing during the game itself, I was totally understanding of its structure and restrictions. Dread on the other hand just kinda made me feel nothing, except

frustration at the lack of exploration with every single door locking behind me constantly for no good reason. Even some obstacles don't *go away* but instead switch from blocking the path forward, to blocking the path back: the thermal doors, the lifts that go down if you stick to their spider magnet walls, the big boxes that you had to move with the charge beam (or grapple beam idk? or both?) it just gets soooo annoying

frustration at how you need to use 3 buttons simultaneously to perform one single god damned action

frustration at how abilities felt extremely underused in the level design—you rarely grapple your way across the ceiling to cross a pit like in Super (which is the kind of level design that allows for sequence breaks in completely natural ways that encourage player experimentation), no, you just open the grapple beam door lock with your grapple beam door key. Literally every single ability in dread relies on this WAY TOO MUCH in painfully obvious ways, including literally every single power beam upgrade

frustration at how missile tanks feel worthless because getting only 2 is just not worth my time (yet the total number of missiles is similar to the other games... a sign of the game being too long/padded compared to the old games)

frustration at how energy tanks feel worthless because every boss does 100+ damage per hit; you're just not allowed to be tanky and the game is forcing you to play in only one specific way. The full energy tanks are just straight up given to you at way too hard-to-miss points—it's not a reward for exploration, it's forcibly scaling up Samus's health so it can scale up the next bosses' damage accordingly and absolutely nothing ends up feeling different. And to make things worse, the energy tanks that you DO get to find on your own don't actually DO anything because they're fucking energy PARTS. They just deliberately made exploration as unrewarding as it possibly could've been

frustration at how almost every area looks the goddamn same and has no music to stand out with either

I must say Dread's final boss was actually really reasonable though, it was really generous with the heals/restocks provided in between & low damage numbers making it so that my collected energy tanks FINALLY felt like they were actually making a difference. I will hate that one arbitrarily locked door in the escape sequence though

[skeletalheartattack]

What if i went back in time and smashed your gamecube. What would your childhood game collection look like then?

[duckapus]

Nintendo Direct Thoughts

NEW MARIO & LUIGI GAME AND IT LOOKS FUCKING GORGEOUS!!! Love how well they've not just maintained but enhanced that signature artstyle. Also the idea of the Bros getting straight-up isekaied like that amuses me.

IT ALREADY HAS A RELEASE DATE HELL YEAH

Fantasian and Memories in Orbit both look pretty cool. Might check them out.

DK Rerelease...well, at least it's something. And since they're including the 3DS levels it's technically a definitive edition so that's nice.

Loved that cheeky little bit at the end of the Dragon Quest III remake trailer "lol you really thought we'd skip the first two with a tagline like "the legacy begins?" anyway here's 1 and 2." Also it looks beautiful. Never been that interested in Dragon Quest but I might give it a shot.

I look at Funko Pops and feel nothing

the fuck is a "denpa men?" looks cute though

Phantom Brave the Lost Hero looks pretty cool. I'm not usually that good at tactics games but that's never stopped me before (the question is whether I'd have to check out the rest of the series to know what's going on...)

New Super Mario Party! With full-sized boards! And a mall! And racecars! And NINJI! We never get anything with Ninji!

E...Echos...of Wisdom. Zelda can has...game? Zelda can has game! ZELDA CAN HAS GAME! ZELDA CAN HAS GAME!!!!!!!

Oh I can just imagine the crazy game breaks people are gonna pull off with that echo mechanic. I'm glad they made it partly a puzzle game, really fits with what most Zeldas are like.

Also I really like how Ganon looks in this artstyle.

A win for lawyer fans the world over

PRIME 4 IS REEEEEAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!! And it looks so good.

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Bulletin+: Nintendo Direct 6/18/24

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