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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Most certainly not worth its price.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I wouldn't even pay 10$ for hollow knight.
      It's an absolute slog.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >he STILL has this image on tap
      My God man let them out of your headspace

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hollow Knight is one of the most dull games I've ever played
      It's one of those "It gets good after 20 hours!" games but for the most part you're walking around smacking defenseless beetles with a butter knife

      Pros:
      -excellent combat, best 2D metroid has ever been. Parries are still too big of a factor but flash shift makes fights way more fun
      -great movement, aside from the lack of same side walljumping (RIP) samus controls wonderfully
      -good boss design
      -paced well, little to no filler
      -story held back from sakamoto's moronation from the previous metroid games...until the last 20 minutes
      -fun to find sequence breaks

      cons:
      -environments don't stand out, the schizophrenic design of jumping through cold, hot, emmi, and normal zones means no area stands out, there are also two chozo "ruin" areas. It doesn't help that constant teleporters/trams/elevators are thrown into the mix
      -railroading, even with sequence breaks in place, it's limited in what you can do because the game has "checks" to make sure you hit certain story beats how it wants you do
      -EMMI are a shitty concept, stealth and chase was cute with SA-X when it was a few 15 second encounters but it's obnoxious here by the time you get to the third EMMI, it doesn't help that it's hard to "dread" these things when you just respawn almost at the same place you died
      -poor OST, I don't think I need to explain this one
      -lack of good new upgrades, the only good one is flash shift. Cloak was largely used for a mechanic that shouldn't have been in the game, spin boost and cross bombs are the definition of filler abilities, spider crawl and storm missiles are slight variations of existing upgrades from the past
      -uninspired regular enemy designs

      7/10, good game could be better

      EMMIs also needed kill animations that didn't end in 1 second

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I thought HK was better after my first playthrough of dread, but dread is just so much fricking faster and the movement is more satisfying

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Reminder that the times are self submitted, and the dread one most likely uses the in game clock, which doesn't count deaths.
      "Hollow" knight is also an apt name, because it's 7 hours of content stretched across 27 hours of game.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        does hollow knight include deaths? Speedrunners are smart enough to use real time for most games, but I also wish more games had an in-game timer

        *Movement feels great and fluid although I'm undecided about whether it's appropriate for Metroid because I prefer tanky Samus rather than agile nimble zero suit-feeling movement but undeniably just in general without concern for appropriateness the movement is fantastic.
        *General combat, enemy variety, enemy placement is much improved from previous Metroid games, rooms actually feel substantial and you can see the thought put into enemy placement in some areas.
        *That flash shift powerup is really neat.
        *Boss combat and boss fights are really good, final boss is amazing.
        *General presentation of the game is impressive, it looks really nice, lighting is good (entering the map rooms with no lights on is one of my favourite moments in the game), backgrounds are detailed and lend a lot of character to some areas like Ghavoran.
        *EMMIs are a genuinely fun gimmick that shit me up, somehow it produces scary close encounters a lot more reliably than pursuers in Resident Evil and feels like a better realisation of the concept. The AI sometimes makes me laugh also.

        *Level design is too guided for my tastes. It's always propelling you forward along a predetermined path and although that path isn't technically "linear" in the sense that it bounces you all around the game world, the way it artifically closes off previously visited areas and always puts the path ahead literally right in front of you removes some sense of exploration and discovery.
        *I'm not a huge fan of this annoying game design trend of cutscenes or pseudo-cutscenes being triggered every few minutes just by walking into a room although that's more of a gripe with modern games in general than just this and the cutscenes that are in this game are high quality.
        *Music is mostly forgettable although Cataris has no business being so good. The best tracks in the game are the ambient ones like the eerie music that plays in the very first level, they should have made the entire soundtrack ambient.

        >Cataris has no business being so good
        And ferenia has no business being so terrible :/

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Hollow knight times are most likely from steam activity, which counts when a game is on the main menu before you even start

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Call it "tendie cope" if you must but I have never viewed this image as a point in Hollow Knight's favor. A big part of Metroid's appeal is the games are short and highly replayable and based on the couple hours of it I did play and didn't really enjoy, this only gives me the impression that Hollow Knight is a bloated slog that I was right to drop.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I really tried to like hollow knight, but it's exactly that, a bloated slog.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        armor > Zero Suit

        What AI was used to make these images?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The first one is just a really quick sketch that I think was posted within an hour or less of the Metroid Dread reveal trailer. Online artists were FAST to draw the new power suit that day.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah that was me. In hindsight I am embarrassed of how bad I botched the design. Anyway dread Samus is sexy.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The first one is just a really quick sketch that I think was posted within an hour or less of the Metroid Dread reveal trailer. Online artists were FAST to draw the new power suit that day.

          the second one isn't AI either
          https://twitter.com/JiskeyJasket/status/1438578441151029257

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        hollow knight is great, but not for the same reasons metroid games are.
        i don't know why people compare them so often.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >hollow knight is great, but not for the same reasons metroid games are.
          the best metroid games have a strong focus on exploration and a lack of railroading (super, prime, prime 2) like HK with the worst ones being moronic hallways simulators

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Same, I got to the cliffside and I dropped that shit, I despise how the path forward increasingly becomes more and more obscure because the maps are not streamlined and upgrades are purposefully put all the way on the other side of the fricking map so you spend 20 minutes walking back (And another 40 lost) and then repeat the same a dozen times, that's not gameplay, it's just filler.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >20 minutes walking back

          why lie when there is literally fast travel literally everywhere on the map

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Hollow Knight has contextual fast travel.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      but hollow knight is boring

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you get BTFO every time you post this image, not sure why you keep trying. I guess the free (You)s are too good

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You’re right, you troons sure showed me this time.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >genderless snowflake protagonist and a gay couple
          is far more worthy of being called a troon game than
          >badass female protagonist and male antagonist

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Samus
            >badass
            LMAO
            Also
            >female protagonist
            Into the trash it goes. There has never been a good game with a female protagonist.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >my test gets sucked right out of my body if i go near any game with women in it oh god someone help me

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Sounds like you're just a homosexual. Stop sucking so many wieners, queerbo.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think he even likes Hollow Knight, if anything he hates it and LARPs as an obsessed fan in Metroid threads to make them look like morons so more people will turn against them and the game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      frick off hollow Black person
      every thread
      every time

      you are worth nothing

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >paying for indyshit
      You know you can just download that shit for free right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'd rather pay $60 for Metroid, Hollow Knight is so poorly designed always having you run from one end of the map to the other every time you get an upgrade, it's so stupid how little streamlining there is in that game, they just padded out the playtime with mindless walking.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Everytime I think of replaying HK I think of it's obnoxious fanbase and I just go find something else to play instead. You people are no better than undertroons.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nowhere in that image it is implied Hollow Knight is a good game.
        Only that it’s more cost-beneficial than Metroid Dread, which is objectively correct.

        Raven Beak for Smash Bros 6.

        He’s not even a spirit, LMAO. They went with generic Chozo Soldiers over him.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Only that it’s more cost-beneficial than Metroid Dread, which is objectively correct.
          That's not really an argument on a game's quality. I could buy an Assassin's Creed game on sale for very cheap and get like 100 hours of "content" out of it, but I wouldn't enjoy it very much. Meanwhile I played through almost all of Dread in one day but I was having a blast the whole time, and I've beaten it 4 times total. I'd say Dread was more than worth the $60.

          That said, I also enjoyed Hollow Knight a lot and have played it twice. I just don't understand the need to pit them against each other as if the world isn't big enough for 2 metroidvanias with very different takes on the genre.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You get what you pay for

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It p good

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't played anything Nintendo has made since Donkey Kong Country Returns

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good, a bit short and sometimes annoyingly cuts off backtracking, best movement and boss battles in the series, poor replayability and heavy reliance on a gimmick.
    Good, but flawed, a good step in the right direction and offers some hope for Metroid going forwards.
    Kind of leaves you wanting more, but there isn't more.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There is no point to backtracking in this until you have all the upgrades, the game is designed so you can run straight through the main story in a fairly intuitive manner, just wait until you get the power bomb, then go back for everything.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Fusion and ZM did the same dumb shit

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Not really, Fusion and Zero Mission just told you were to go, Samus Returns and Dread streamline the very map design so it nudges you into the correct path but it's still easy to derail off of it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't want to spent hours dicking around, I only wanted those 1 or two missile upgrades I totally saw along the way earlier.
        What I didn't want was getting wienerblocked by some weird red fire-fungus out of nowhere.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah not only that but the upgrades aren't worth getting, there are no hidden abilities, and you pick up like 4/5ths of all energy tanks just along the normal route of the game. Missile +2s aren't really motivating. In Super Metroid you always felt like you might find an energy tank or some ability you hadn't found yet since you wouldn't have them all before exploring.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Debating whether to get a Switch and play it or emulate.
    I definitely want to try it though, love the other Metroids.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Emulate it. It's not worth the asking price let alone a Switch on top of it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Emulate it. Great game, but not worth a console.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fun game with better cutscenes than other m.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I was willing to spend money on an expansion pack, but nintendo never made one.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Am I a moron for not finding the Dairon sequence break myself? Somehow I never thought to shoot that block

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    One of the best games of the past decade

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    fun enough considering how long it was stuck in dev hell. Overabundance of cutscenes & parry is too strong.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The first Metroid game I played, loved it
    GOTY 2021

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    An unexpected gem. It good for gaming than an AA reboot of a classic is well recieved by fans and non fans. Good for the genre, good for the industry.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Holy frick I can't spell

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pros:
    -excellent combat, best 2D metroid has ever been. Parries are still too big of a factor but flash shift makes fights way more fun
    -great movement, aside from the lack of same side walljumping (RIP) samus controls wonderfully
    -good boss design
    -paced well, little to no filler
    -story held back from sakamoto's moronation from the previous metroid games...until the last 20 minutes
    -fun to find sequence breaks

    cons:
    -environments don't stand out, the schizophrenic design of jumping through cold, hot, emmi, and normal zones means no area stands out, there are also two chozo "ruin" areas. It doesn't help that constant teleporters/trams/elevators are thrown into the mix
    -railroading, even with sequence breaks in place, it's limited in what you can do because the game has "checks" to make sure you hit certain story beats how it wants you do
    -EMMI are a shitty concept, stealth and chase was cute with SA-X when it was a few 15 second encounters but it's obnoxious here by the time you get to the third EMMI, it doesn't help that it's hard to "dread" these things when you just respawn almost at the same place you died
    -poor OST, I don't think I need to explain this one
    -lack of good new upgrades, the only good one is flash shift. Cloak was largely used for a mechanic that shouldn't have been in the game, spin boost and cross bombs are the definition of filler abilities, spider crawl and storm missiles are slight variations of existing upgrades from the past
    -uninspired regular enemy designs

    7/10, good game could be better

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      that's a well thought out high effort post and all, but you put prime 2 above prime 1 so i'm going to have to disregard it entirely.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dread ost is honestly underrated. It's definitely not at the same heights as the other games in the series, but everyone acts like having an 8/10 ost instead of a 9.5-10/10 ost suddenly means it's dogshit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        8/10 soundtrack is super metroid level, dread is nowhere near that

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >super metroid ost
          >8/10
          Your post is a b8/10

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I wouldn't say any metroid game has a 10/10 soundtrack, prime 1 and 2 i'd give a 9/10 to with super and prime 3 being below them. Dread's soundtrack is just bad

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Super Metroid at the time had one of the best soundtracks in gaming even compared to most soundtracks on PC (at least with Ad Lib, some games had MT-32 support and they could sound better, but that was expensive). Technically it was a marvel for how good music in games could be at the time. As for the content itself, I say it's some of the best of its platform
              Solid 9.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                not even close, FF6 released in the same year

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I would only move samus returns down to low tier, its kinda bad

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Swap Samus Returns with Fusion and we're good

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >filtered by fusion

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you can't get filtered by a hallway simulator

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What the frick is that tier list?

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >2d
    >full price
    >in 2021
    Tendies should kill themselves, holy shit. 3d games became the industry standard DECADES ago.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    great

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Very good.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    *Movement feels great and fluid although I'm undecided about whether it's appropriate for Metroid because I prefer tanky Samus rather than agile nimble zero suit-feeling movement but undeniably just in general without concern for appropriateness the movement is fantastic.
    *General combat, enemy variety, enemy placement is much improved from previous Metroid games, rooms actually feel substantial and you can see the thought put into enemy placement in some areas.
    *That flash shift powerup is really neat.
    *Boss combat and boss fights are really good, final boss is amazing.
    *General presentation of the game is impressive, it looks really nice, lighting is good (entering the map rooms with no lights on is one of my favourite moments in the game), backgrounds are detailed and lend a lot of character to some areas like Ghavoran.
    *EMMIs are a genuinely fun gimmick that shit me up, somehow it produces scary close encounters a lot more reliably than pursuers in Resident Evil and feels like a better realisation of the concept. The AI sometimes makes me laugh also.

    *Level design is too guided for my tastes. It's always propelling you forward along a predetermined path and although that path isn't technically "linear" in the sense that it bounces you all around the game world, the way it artifically closes off previously visited areas and always puts the path ahead literally right in front of you removes some sense of exploration and discovery.
    *I'm not a huge fan of this annoying game design trend of cutscenes or pseudo-cutscenes being triggered every few minutes just by walking into a room although that's more of a gripe with modern games in general than just this and the cutscenes that are in this game are high quality.
    *Music is mostly forgettable although Cataris has no business being so good. The best tracks in the game are the ambient ones like the eerie music that plays in the very first level, they should have made the entire soundtrack ambient.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >*Movement feels great and fluid although I'm undecided about whether it's appropriate for Metroid because I prefer tanky Samus

      I know exactly what you mean. would you want a remake of super in Dread's engine and controls? It would make the gameplay less skillful but would probably still be fun as frick.

      Metroid 1 and 2 both got remakes, it could happen.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ehh I don't see why not, I always have the "remake doesn't remove original" mindset so even if it's shit, it's not like the original just disappears. I would be interested to see what they did with it and how they handled stuff like the same side wall jumping. Although honestly right now I just want to see more brand new games and less remakes in general.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >fixed basically everything wrong with samus returns
    >Best movement in the series
    >some of the best bosses
    >final boss in particular is the undisputed best boss of the series entirely
    >game is downright beautiful, environments are rich with minor interactions, especially on a first visit
    >btfos other m in every way
    >fantastic sequence breaking
    >shakes up the formula in a few interesting ways at times
    >packed with replayability
    >boss rush mode

    >ost is below average for the series
    >emmis are fun the first couple times, but are overused
    >some minibosses get overused as well
    >a little too railroady at times

    Overall, greater than the sum of its parts, and one of the best games on the switch. A must buy for anyone with an oled switch especially.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >shakes up the formula in a few interesting ways at times
      how? It's the most rehashed metroid game

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I know this is probably a bait post, but I really enjoyed the fact that the morph ball, a power up you generally either start with, or are given in the opening moments of a game, is given as late as it is. Made me forgive some of the early railroading for how much the map opens up as soon as you get it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          why would it be bait? Dread introduced almost nothing new, the only other game you can argue that had less new additions is Zero Mission and that's a remake, SR innovated more than dread

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >let's take all of sr's half baked ideas and make them actually good
            >somehow this is a bad thing

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              your original post was about "shaking up the formula" not "refining SR's mechanics"

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >take power up that's either always in your starting inventory or given to you within moments of the game beginning
                >put it a quarter of the way through the game this time
                I get that it doesn't sound like much on paper, but it unironically has a bigger impact on the game than scan pulse, lightning armor, and phase drift had on sr, combined

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                not really, especially not when slide compensates for it

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Not that anon but I think it's neat on paper but weak in execution. Neat on paper because it would be a good way to shake up gameplay in theory. Weak in execution because all it really amounts to is 1-2 hours of total linearity depending on what playthrough you're on. Like it doesn't add anything in that sense because what they do otherwise is just give you a linear path. It just delays the good stuff that is typically introduced in your first 15 minutes of playing Super Metroid.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I think EMMIs have to be overused to make that cutscene with the final one more impactful. Feels so great that they go from being a looming presence in the game to getting rekt with Samus "bare" hand.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was more referring to the fact that you'd end up going through every emmi zone 3 or 4 times before you could actually take them down. Also, I get why they immediately had you fight an X infected chozo (so you could notice the difference in the ending of the fight) but I really wish you could actually fight the final emmi as a legit boss after absorbing some of its power.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >sacrificing gameplay for a story element in a metroid game
        no thanks

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          you mean like the end of super metroid

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes it would have been better with an actual boss

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Most people disagree. SM has one of the best ending sequences of all time

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was a pretty fun game honestly but even though I don't regret buying it I thought full price was a bit much

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Im going to hate prime 4 because its going to control like shit compared to dread

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is there gonna be another 2D Metroid? IGN review says this is the "conclusion" of the mainline story, hopefully that doesn't mean they stoo making 2D games when they just started again

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Im sure there will be more.
      Also never trust Japan when they claim something is the conclusion to a story

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's kino

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >You are now a MetroidTM, Samus
      finally, it only took 30 years

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Samus has genetically been a Metroid since Fusion, and on the poetic sense of the word she has been a Metroid from the very start.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, her obtaining the ultimate suit in zero mission was her becoming a "metroid" in terms of the original chozo word meaning "ultimate warrior"

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yes but the Metroid DNA is not fully awakened which is the point of and precedes the line "you are now a MetroidTM, Samus".

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I love how the single line she speaks is in chozo
      based spain

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >End this once and for all
      Yeah she was very pissed in this game. I wonder if QR knew about his metroids being cloned a trillion times while sammy acted as a space janny each time
      Funny how this shit isn't over at all because sammy has a metroid trigger and might be a hair clipping away from yet another metroid crisis.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >samus has a single line
      >it's in a fake bird language
      >it's better than everything from other m combined

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I love how the single line she speaks is in chozo
      based spain

      >samus has a single line
      >it's in a fake bird language
      >it's better than everything from other m combined

      Imagine how much more impactful that line would have been if Other M hadn't ruined the idea of Samus speaking out loud

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Samus spoke aloud in Fusion and it felt in character

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    One of the few new games I actually enjoyed. Kicked me out of depression for a few hours.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Speaking as someone who didn't play Super until 2018 and didn't play Fusion or Zero Mission until earlier this year, Dread is really fricking good, but doesn feel a little too linear.

    Granted I didn't 100% the map but I also felt like there wasn't really anything all that exciting to discover in optional places unlike say the Castlevania games.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    armor > Zero Suit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Samus needs dick in her very badly.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Favorite boss?
    Hard Mode: No Razor Beak

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Z-57. but I couldn't get the shinespark off in an actual playthrough

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      My top 3 is all raven beak
      Honorable mention to kraid just because there's like 5 different ways to absolutely bully the fricker.
      Worst goes to golzuna.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The experiment

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not well versed in Metroid lore, what were those mother brain looking things Samus would get charged up to kill an EMMI from?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      chozo computers

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How do Kraid and Ridley (not applicable to Dread tbf) keep coming back after getting killed?

        And I thought the Chozo were supposed to be extinct?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          did you even play dread

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ridley has only been killed once, and he was never actually brought back from that, though there was a clone of him. Kraid in dread is quite literally a different member of the same species.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Ok, Kraid is a species, not a singular dude, but why was one on the Dread planet?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >ridley
          has regenerative abilities/gets reformed by space pirates

          >kraid
          uhhhh....

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Also has regenerative abilities.
            It's also worth noting that meta-Kraid was supposed to be a thing

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    forgettable as frick.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    would have been a good speedrunning game but the speedrunning community was ruined by moronic troons

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good if you like metroid and seeing samus being a badass without making her over sexual but still sexy enough that anyone with her confidence would radiate like a white dwarf.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    dunning kroger thoughts I have on otherwise solid game:

    aesthetics and music are pretty meh. There's a few instances in the boss themes where the campy trumpets are at their height where it has a brief flash of something but that's about it. looks like a grown up ratchet and clank game.

    I like the idea of emmis and for what they were I mostly enjoyed them, but the mechanic feels halfbaked and they're all pretty much dealt with in the same mindless way. the most efficient way to navigate the areas when they're active is making a mad dash for an exit, 3/4ths of the time you won't even be threatened by them. When you kill them with a mega charge shot or whatever you just make a dash for the longest flat platform and ready your aim, repeat until successful. The last emmi kind of shows some potential for more than that but that's it.

    more subjective, the combat was good, but I couldn't help but feel it was kind of static in the way you'd lock into place to aim, dodge and repeat. Wish they could have found some sort of option that was more conducive to run n gun besides trying to shoot at full sprint.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Dread suit is so sexy

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      True

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This game gave me Dead Space vibes at times. The flickering light sound effect in the game sounds like in DS1 so much and that underwater boss immediately reminded me of the leviathan. I hope this is deliberate and the devs just loved Dead Space

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Will this track ever be topped?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      already topped by phendrana depths sorry

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I wish the game had just a few more dark areas, the neon glow from the green highlights on Samus's suit looked so good in those places.

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    can you even fail this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yes.
      source: i did

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Me too I don't know I was so turned on by mantisectoid samus I creamed myself

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I loved it but god do I wish the game was fricking longer, it just doesn't feel right paying 60 dollars for a 6 hour game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lol, barely even an hour, and worse, it's fricking TWO DIMENSIONAL

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >barely even an hour
        post your percent

        I loved it but god do I wish the game was fricking longer, it just doesn't feel right paying 60 dollars for a 6 hour game.

        I read in an article that MercurySteam's project managers forced devs/artists to remove basically half of the game. apparently they planned to have twice as many cutscenes and boss fights. We got a 10/10 game but it's really just half a game thanks to moronic managers/project leads. Those are the same homosexuals who put themselves front and center in every MercurySteam picture. The short guy with grey hair. As soon as the game was done they fired a bunch of devs and didn't even include all of them in the credits

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          with how soul crushingly long and consolidated dev cycles are these days I can't be mad at a case of higher ups calling it job done on a halfway decent game and getting it out.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They probably did it to meet their deadline anon
          the mercury steam devs are extremely passionate about metroid so its no surprise theyd have tons of game made that wasnt really usable

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, the devs that weren't included in the credits broke their contract and quit back in 2019. You're regurgitating kotaku talking points because they had a weird hateboner against the game for not having marvel quips.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Replay it Black person, Metroid is built for even casuals to learn how to speedrun. I've sunk 45 hours in and I loved every minute of it.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you sound like an idiot, /misc/ like with that one Bloodborne image

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        you new here?

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not gonna give your irrelevant shitpost a (You) but you do remember that time a literal vaccine saved Samus's life right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It gave her autism, that's why she doesn't talk

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      if im on my death bed, and a horrible evil EVIL virus is killing me, yes give me the magic juice to cure me. X arnt a fricking cold they eat you

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nu uh they meld with your suit and give you magic power

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fusion is so much darker now that we have this tech in real life. Except you just get a heart attack rather than turn into a hybrid monster.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's a CRISPR though. Nintendo just has shit localizers.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Above average game, lackluster Metroid game
    Nothing to write home about, outsourced shit never is and Nintendo doesn't care enough about Metroid to make another one themselves

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    As someone who hasn't played much of any other Metroid games, I thought it was good

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    iz gud, best metroid after super

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's ok, the Prime Trilogy is better.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think Ghavoran has an amazing theme

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Main suit is the sexiest of the series so far.
    I also had fun but the bigger point was having a chub the whole time.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You disappoint me, daughter. Go to your room.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Second best game in the Switch

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Post more raven burb

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Raven Beak for Smash Bros 6.

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was okay, but doesn't come close to AM2R

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's a given. AAA troony shit is always garbage compared to indies and individuals who makes games with soul and passion.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Thoughts on this?
    Game itself was meh. The boss rush is god tier.

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sequel to a 3ds game nobody asked for that desperately wants to be Fusion 2 but fails at every attempt.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This. Tryhard shit for tendie manbabies who can't play real games.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anything by mercury steam is trash

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm glad Ganker finally wised up and shits all over this piece of trash whenever some shill makes a thread about it.

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Nintendo's mismanagement kills the Metroid Prime series. Almost kills the entire series.
    >Mercury Steam saves the franchise.

    Whether you love it or hate it, this game saved Metroid. its a solid 8/10

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >saved metroid
      we got a metroid game a couple years before it and another one in development, the series didn't need saving

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        We got federation force and a shitty sluggish metroid on the 3ds that came out at the same time as am2r, and nothing but a fricking title drop for a game we know nothing about and might never actually come out at all anyways.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Metroid prime 4 is vaporware, Samus returns launched months after the switch was a thing, which led to lukewarm sales, federation force was a sales and PR disaster, Other M bombed.

        Metroid absolutely was almost a dead series, Dread saved it.

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It had some good moments but overall a bit of a chore. I loved Ender Lilies in comparison. Hate Hollow Knight.

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was pretty good
    Honestly I wanted a 2d metroid for a while and it was good enough for that

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Very good
    Replaying it again and it feels so fricking good to move in this game
    Unlike Hollow Knight

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think Itorash and the area preceeding it was rushed. I'm not dead set against atmospheric boss only areas but I've always thought Tourian sucked and Itorash was just tourian without the Rinkas.

    >Fusion: Mechanical area of SRX, Ridley, the return trip where you see something weird is happening. Final mission, cool boss fight and that's before you even activate the self destruct
    >Zero Mission: Admittedly the stealth section could have been better but at least the game doesn't just teleport your ass to the final boss when you get the final suit
    >Samus Returns: the baby the baby the baby. Literal pre ship bonus boss because why not?
    >Dread: Emmi dies to cutscene fu, rushed to a 2 room spaceship where Adam dumps most of the plot on you. Cool fight but the planet explodes right afterwards because reasons while apeing Super's rainbow beam the whole time. Apparently all this was because the devs wrote themselves into a corner with Samus having the ability to succ everything to death so they just that the planet exploded 5 minutes later the end.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I have problems with the ending but Itorash being two rooms isn't a big deal to be tbh. And the hyper beam is less aping and more contextual because of course the hyper beam is how Raven Beak was able to contain the X parasites. The planet exploding made no sense whatsoever and was pitifully stupid. Raven Beak letting Samus get the jump on him was the worst part of the game and I want to slap whoever directed that scene.

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    metroid achieved perfection with super metroid and they shouldve stopped the series

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Played it and thought it was 8/10. It's nowhere near as good as Hollow Knight, but I had fun

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    MercurySteam set themselves up for an impossible standard when they called the game Metroid Dread.
    Though the game was really only average for a Metroid game, it's still awesome and was worth the wait.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly it's impressive they managed to make this sort of game when they also worked on that shitty castlevania game for the 3ds. They made a metroid with 3d graphics that's as fast paced as the originals.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I found Samus Returns kinda meh, too. MS improved a lot with each release.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The name Metroid Dread predates the existence of MercurySteam

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's the point, moron.

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not having a PC to emulate, I can get a switch lite with this game bundled in for free (Argos for UKbros). The only other games I care about on switch are SSHD and Tropical Freeze. And MK8D. Worth it?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What kind of moron doesn't have a PC in 2022?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I wouldn't play this on a Lite. The screen would be too small I think.

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Really good game

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      man gamecube has really nice graphics

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Embarrassing scene.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Raven Beak shouldn't have lost. Like literally should not have jobbed this hard considering he expected Samus to try to suck him.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's an incredibly poorly directed scene. When Samus passes out, Raven Beak just stands there not doing anything. Samus wakes up, is visibly moving her arms and making sounds, and he's still just standing there. It's genuinely awful.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What are you talking about? Raven Beak is shown to be incredibly arrogant and he thinks he's won. It's perfectly in character for him to gloat at that moment and not immediately crush her skull or some shit to secure the victory. He didn't know she was gonna literally turn into a Metroid

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Raven Beak is shown to be incredibly arrogant
            But not foolish. He contained the X, defeated an emmi, bested Samus the first time, his plan to unearth the latent Metroid abilities of Samus was completely right, and then he beat Samus again. I do not see him standing there admiring his defeat of Samus. I see him throwing her into the nearest cell to get his plan going.
            >It's perfectly in character for him to gloat at that moment
            He literally has never gloated in front of our eyes.
            >He didn't know she was gonna literally turn into a Metroid
            He knew she had the energy siphoning ability. Don't defend a dumb scene. Remember the scene in DMC4 when Nero is bashing Dante's face in with his fist? All they had to do was rip off that scene but have Samus turn Metroid, catch RB's first, and then lunge at him. Him standing there while she powers up just doesn't do it for me man. It never will.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I see him throwing her into the nearest cell to get his plan going.
              Throw her into a cell? He's choking her out and trying to fricking kill her dude. He says "You no longer serve any purpose . . . It is because I can now clone an army of the most powerful Metroid of all... Samus Aran" and then tells her to close her eyes and rest. These are not the words you say to someone you plan to keep around. And then when the light goes out in her visor and she closes her eyes, he thinks she's dead.
              >He literally has never gloated in front of our eyes.
              I would consider his last line before Samus goes Metroid to be gloating. It's "Power is everything" which is basically his catchphrase, and he's just calling himself powerful.
              >He knew she had the energy siphoning ability.
              Yes, and we see her trying to use it several times while he denies every attempt. And that's why he holds her at arm's length when choking her, so that her hands can't reach his head. Her powerup happened in like 2 seconds and it caught him off guard while also giving her a tremendous boost of energy. I don't think it's a dumb scene at all, I think it's great.

              • 2 years ago
                sage goes in all fields

                >He's choking her out and trying to fricking kill her dude
                You made it worse lmao. You don't "try" to kill someone when their in your hand. You do it. You don't let them take two seconds to power up. Genuinely didn't read the rest of your post. Don't bother replying.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >You don't "try" to kill someone when their in your hand. You do it.
                God you're moronic. Yes, this is a video game. You have to suspend your disbelief slightly. If this played out as realistically as possible, Raven Beak would have lasered her damn head off as soon as he had her in the choke and she was helpless. Great ending we have there. I could call your proposed ending just as dumb if we're going by your standards. Why would Raven Beak punch Samus? He has a laser cannon and tons of other weapons that would do much more.
                >Genuinely didn't read the rest of your post
                Sure you didn't
                >Don't bother replying.
                Don't tell me what to do gay

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Raven Beak spinoff when

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >extremely linear
    >too many upgrades that don't do shit but act as keys a couple of time
    >useless collectibles, you get powerbombs 5 minutes before the final boss, why would you go back to get max upgrades, makes no sense.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >upgrades that act as keys
      >get to where space jump or screw attack is the first time, where there's a storm missile lock keeping the door closed
      >storm missiles activate all 5 switches in the same 'relative' period, so the door opens
      >don't have the storm missiles at that point, but manage to actually hit all 5 switches in the same 'relative' period so they're all activated at the same time
      >door doesn't open
      I was pissed off that the game didn't reward my precise and accurate gameplay with a shortcut. speed booster should've been automatic too rather than fricking L3 of all buttons to activate, because when the frick would you NOT want speed booster to activate after you have it?

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >mediocre 2d game
    forgotten in a week
    >mediocre 2d game that says nintendo on the cover
    AHHHH AWESOME GAME GOTY MIYAMOTO-SAN IM CUMMING

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But we still have people talking about Hollow Knight to this day, what's your point

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I talk about your bawd mother a lot what's your point?

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    controls are shit, otherwise its ok.

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >metroidgays can't even compete with indies made with a very small budget and need to write walls of text just to convince themselves they are still influential
    not even nintendo's shill army can sell this lame crap
    how the mighty have fallen

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >no raven beak dlc

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