Excited for Nintendo to hopefully clarify that there are Actually Three Timelines, for some reason.
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Metroid Dread is finally real
Excited for Nintendo to hopefully clarify that there are Actually Three Timelines, for some reason.
Ludendorkk
(he/him)
Are people actually watching the game footage instead of making snap judgements? The movement options look absolutely incredible, taking what was good about Samus Returns and addressing issues people had with them. Sliding and no momentum loss from countering in addition to free aiming make this look like it'll be one of the best controlling 2D action games ever, speedruns are going to be amazing.
Not sure how I feel about the high contrast desaturated color look, but it is certainly bold.
Not sure how I feel about the high contrast desaturated color look, but it is certainly bold.
The coloring on the second one is only so-so (the pink and red kind of clash), but the rest of them are great and the overall design is phenomenal.You heard me!
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Phantoon
I cuss you bad
Metroid enemy fistbump...!
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Aesthetically and atmospherically this is doing little for me. The organic and industrial environments alike so far shown are restrained to a largely monochrome palette with interactables as the only highlights, and evoke the environmental feeling of genre dreck like Shadow Complex or the 2014 Strider in unflattering ways. More fundamentally, widescreen format Metroid has never felt particularly good to me, and especially here the view is zoomed far out for legibility. Part of the reason Metroid II is my lasting favourite in the series is because the inherent claustrophobia suggested by series thematics is built so effectively by the scale of Samus on screen and the reduced view radius of her bearings; you're not able to form coherent ideas about the spaces around her most of the time. Any Metroid can be framed as horror-adjacent, but Dread is emphasizing the aspect more in premise and resulting mechanics than usual, and for that purpose, absolute clarity and twitch action reactions seem at odds with the stated goal, or extrapolating it into directions I'm not interested in.
Twist ending: Samus was fighting for France all along.
I agree. I referred to this as Metroid Complex in e3 thread. Samus Returns was an OK game that completely missed the point. It was set up for success in a lot of ways by both providing a update to M2 as well as following the absolute bummer of Other M. It failed on both counts.
Samus Returns was pretty fun, but had some really weird stuff in it like a bunch of backtracking literally RIGHT at the end of the game if you wanted 100%, just seemed odd to me. But the boss battles were cool. I'm looking forward to this, I hope it stays pretty wide open instead of being so gated like Returns and Fusion.
Other M was pretty fun to play (the Metroid-y bits), it's the rest of the package that was so repellent.
madhair60
Video games
They could make a worse map, somehow. I mean, they made Mirror of Fate, I know they have it in 'em.
Speaking as the only person who thought Mirror of Fate was fine, and that Samus Returns was exponentially better, I feel confident that this here will be A Fun Video Game
I don't hate either game you mentioned, and like Other M as well.
My Metroid wants, what with them so far and few between, are very high though
I 100% forgot about this, thanks.
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
I can agree the drill boss and Ridley both felt a little too drawn out. Weird they handled the Metroids well and stumbled on the original bosses a little. I feel like AM2R had the opposite problem.
