Or worse, making Samus using a outfit.Holy shit so you're telling me they literally pitched "Breath of the Wild but Metroid this time" to Nintendo? Sounds like a 1:1 clone of BOTW even. Can you imagine Samus fetch-questing someone's lunch
"Samus, there you are! I've been needing you to go to the Griever camp and look for my lost contact with your Scan Visor, but make sure you put on this Griever pelt to blend in. We don't want to start another incident...and can you hurry? My HUD is starting to give me a migraine and I go on duty in 10 minutes, so try to be back quickly."
I honestly don't really like the idea of bringing back Ridley another fucking time.
I don't really hate the idea of samus changing outfits, considering her armor having upgrades across all games where it changes shape and colour, it could be fine if you need to find and swap to different outfits, maybe even have a story/gameplay driven implementation for changing outfit, rather than purely aestethic.
I agree that Ridley needs to stay dead. For me, he at least makes sense to show up in Samus Returns and I appreciate how it finally sets the story of Super up - for example, the Space Pirates probably wouldn't have known Samus had a metroid larva because I don't think they were in Metroid 2 at all. The remake makes Ridley very aware that Samus has the last metroid (since it gave him lil face kisses) so he would have known to follow her to Ceres.
I want to pretend that wasn't Ridley but simply another alien from the same species, Samus identifying it as Ridley because she's racist or something like that.
Well, the x virus can replicate organisms.
Other M was a fever dream Samus had while they polished her armor, nothing more
This is always my reaction to when my buddy explains how watching Ridley explode into a cloud of dust didn't actually kill him:
Damn, that's yet another thing I miss from Super Metroid. It's easy to take that as something important to the games, but when most of the games don't offer it, that argument loses its weight, just like the ice beam.
I've seen the idea floated that she was actually a clone, which would also work, not that Nintendo will ever do something that cool.
That's what I don't get. They also say a lot of it feels like Prime, but they don't really explain how it does. Is it just because you can scan literally everything? The scans weren't even interesting and there was too much. I know Nerral also criticized the amount of scans, but seemed find with how linear it all was. Most critical reviews say the federation troops aren't that bad, but the issue is that they're there at all. I've made comments on other sites saying I didn't have fun, but was accused of playing wrong.
I think they are probably referring to the controls and how moving around and fighting in Prime 4 is almost exactly how it was in the original trilogy. It's very ironic to me that people list that as a positive since I always thought that was one of the weaker elements of the Prime games. Nerrel himself brought up in his video that games like Titan Fall prove you can make fast vertical movement feel good even with a controller, not doing anything to improve the combat or movement from the previous titles is a huge wasted opportunity imo.
Nerrel has been pussified for awhile now. He can't go one video without being a whiny feminist or getting overly defensive about people disagreeing with his opinions. In the case of the Metroid series, he last bitched about how people don't buy the games enough because he's too stupid to realize it's a niche series and one that's disappointed its fans for nearly two decades now.
You can condense everyone's review on this tbh.
He got buck broken after the backlash to his Hollow Knight and TOTK reviews
The scans weren't even fun as flavor text. I remember scanning different dead space pirates in Prime 1/2 and reading all the different ways they appear to have died, sometimes it would hint to an enemy you have to face so the world felt more alive. "I don't wanna end up cooked by radiation like space pirate 32A back there!" Another thing is previously, Scan Visor could activate things like elevators and computer consoles. Now you scan an elevator/console and it just says "Activate to use" and you have to actually go touch it. What's the point of scanning "new" things when they say the same thing as every other previously scanned object?
"Man, remember when the chef served us Shit and Cum Soup? That sucked! Really makes this Only Cum Soup they are serving today taste way better."
It's important to remember that even though they updated the control scheme for Prime 3 and backported it for Prime Trilogy, the Prime games were designed to be used with a Gamecube control scheme - holding a shoulder button to lock on to enemies, automatically aiming at them while strafing and firing and jumping, no ability to move and free aim at the same time. The boss logic is tuned for this, the puzzles are tuned for this, the entire pace of the game is tuned for this. Crazy to think that a "modern" Prime with mouse mode FPS controls and freedom of movement is still held back by this 20 year old design choice.
This is the sad thing, they could have done so much more with Samus, even if she never speaks. The amount of times an NPC would be like "Samus, can we count on you" where she doesn't even nod to the person asking her a question is insane. Samus is now officially a non-verbal autistic aro-ace tranny, I guess.
It immediately stuck out to me how its the exact same in Halo 4 with all the animations for pushing buttons, given the 343 people who came over
Even IGN wouldn't whine that much just to give a game a 7/10.