Moot_Geeza wrote:Legit complaints, I was sucked in by that point though.
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I've always been a bit Metroid-adjacent. I've loved the GBA games, fallen in and out with the Prime ones (1,3,2 btw) and whilst I like Super Metroid it hasn't cemented itself as a stone wall classic. Samuel Returns was fine, and the original is just inscrutable to me.
Metroid Dread has something that other games in the series lack, and that I adore in some of my GOATS, Hotline Miami and Super Hexagon - that flow state. This is Samus at her (intended) prime, absolutely rolling through worlds. What starts as a sweet slide becomes a whole toolkit of insane abilities that essentially make you a single person genocide enabler on the planet.
Every boss has been fantastic, and although my clear time of 9:09 is not earth shattering, the way in which I know every pattern in my head now (especially the last 2) means I need to see how fast I can go now. I'll definitely go back to this in the new year, post traditional Pokemon Xmas gaming, and having now googled the sequence breaking item sequence, I need to try it.
Some stuff didn't quite hit - the shine spark is fiddly as fuck, and there is a bit of too much backtracking mid game that doesn't provide too much change, but overall I need to swap 1 and 2 because this is my goty .
Bollockoff wrote:Halo 3: ODST or how many games in the Master Chief Collection can I finish while queuing for FF14
So it feels thematically they wanted to try something different here; you're not a Spartan and half the game is trudging through an a slightly open-ended city scape in engagements you can mostly ignore and run past. But they didn't seem to have the courage to reflect that in the gameplay because you're still basically fucking Master Chief and what they've done to try and obfuscate the fact you still have a shield makes CoD's regenerating flesh soldiers seem grounded. On top of you can still flip Warthogs no problem and go toe to toe smack trading with Brutes.
I guess this game was in the period where Nathan Fillion was in Things as Nathan Fillion. He has a fucking awful love-can-rebloom-after-a-dumping-on-a battlefield romance subplot with a superior officer.
Pretty bad.
regmcfly wrote:From the 52 games threadMetroid Dread has something that other games in the series lack, and that I adore in some of my GOATS, Hotline Miami and Super Hexagon - that flow state.
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