Digital Foundry takes a closer look at Breath of the Wild

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Nuvendil said:

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Hunters I will actually defend; it's no masterpiece but it at least looked and felt like Metroid. 

The thing with Metroid is its hallmarks are the polar opposite of modern Nintendo; it's dark, it's creepy, it has high end graphics, it's everything that current gen Nintendo typically shuns. At this point it's just so far outside of all that they represent that its just foreign to them.

I'll gI've you the look but not the feel.  Hunters was a shooter in a Metroid skin, simple as that.  And imo had absolutely horrid controls but that's the hardware'store fault.

And I think that second paragraph is a pretty big exageration.  Nintendo just published another Fatal Frame, a franchise that should have died based on sales ages ago.  Xenoblade Chronicles X is both graphically very accomplished and a serious, often grim game.  The new Zelda may be colorful but it's tone is looking quite melancholic and as this thread has discussed is also technically well accomplished.  And of course Nintendo picked up Bayonetta 2 and worked with Ubi to have ZombiU at launch.  Just saying, great graphics have been pretty common with Nintendo this gen and they clearly have no qualms with serious tones.

Nintendo have shown they're happy to publish darker games, but outside of the Xenoblade games they haven't made one since... well, since Metroid Prime 3. Nine years ago.