curl-6 said:
Xxain said:
curl-6 said:
I hate to say it, but maybe Metroid needs to stay in cryofreeze.
Nintendo has no idea what to do with it. First the catastrophe that was Other M, then a portable Chibi spinoff where you play as the grunts. It's been nearly a decade now since the last Metroid game that wasn't a travesty.
The problem is that the very nature of franchise itself (a dark sci-fi adventure inspired by the movie Alien) is totally foreign to modern Nintendo, which only seems to know how to make light hearted cotton candy. The Nintendo of today just doesn't have the balls to make the gritty mature reboot that the franchise is screaming out for.
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Does anybody want a "gritty mature reboot" *eyeroll* so western, so cliche. We need a sequel to Super Metroid. Not a plot sequel like Fusion, but a sequel that creates new staples for the series going forward. A new element on top of what is there that jumps starts the series, something they can use for the next 3 games.
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Like it or not, today's gaming mainstream is Western.
And Metroid was originally envisioned as a dark sci-fi game with heavy Alien influences. It's the more recent games that have strayed from this original premise with cheesy anime-esque silliness.
Hell, Super Metroid was for its time gritty and mature. It had dead bodies on the title screen for Pete's sake.
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And those corpses are in the top 10 things that anybody cares about when discussing Super Metroid right? Super Metroid came out 1994, 20+ years ago, and unfortunately remains the pinnacle of series. The 2D game design has had NO major innovations, except for side stepping it for Prime. That can not go on. Reviving Metroid on a game design level is more important than reviving/maintaining visual/tone inspirations from 20 years.
I would much rather have cheesy anime Metroid with brand new concepts than them focusing on being Dark n Gritty because .... something
