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curl-6 on 21 January 2016
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Xxain said:
curl-6 said:

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.

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

One of the most fundamental hallmarks of Metroid is it's atmosphere. An atmosphere of isolation, dread, foreboding. A dark tone, as seen in the original, Super Metroid, and the Prime trilogy, is condusive to this. Cheesy anime melodrama and Chibi soccer is not.