Bladeforce said:
Whats up with people saying this game is no good?? Have people lost the ability to find places when lost or the skill to complete bosses without an action to tell you how to? WELCOME TO 80's GAMEPLAY AND LONG MAY IT LAST!
Agree. some people's criticisms are valid, I have some of my own, but overall the game is pretty great IMO. I even like the way the control scheme works, overall. The simplicity of it being just the wiimote, but with the depth it has, is pretty genius actually - a simple oldschool 2d Metroid would be more than welcome still, at this point; it wasn't broken, so why fix it? I think that's how a lot of people are feeling and I sympathise and relate, but still as an experiment I think this really paid off and has created an enormously fun game. And I'm glad it isn't easy, doesn't hold your hand, I was worried it would (although with Team Ninja involved perhaps shouldn't have been.) And to me it does feel like a Metroid game both in tone/atmosphere and aesthetics, even if it feels a bit too linear and segmented...as someone said it feels a bit like Metroid Fusion updated/in 3d, although I really didn't like fusion haha so I'd say this is much better. And it's very actiony, shootemup...There're a LOT of sort of mini-boss fights, sometimes it almost feels like a Metroid boss rush mode or something, I think that adds to the feeling of linearity, as does the fact that you can move in 3 dimensions but the environments by and large are not open as we usually expect them to be when you can move like that, makes it feel constrictive. Although it does lend the game a good sense of forward momentum that keeps you wanting to keep going just a bit further at every save point
actually you know what it reminds me off? I can't believe nobody has said this, but it feels like Metroid by way of Bayonetta. Which may diminish the Metroid feeling in some ways or to some extent, but still makes for a helluva game IMO
but yes, next Metroid probably does need to be a 2d sidescroller with oldschool controls, and sprites (in HD, maybe), even if it's just released on wiiware...otherwise I may be amongst the naysayers THEN..but for now, this is good