| mikrolik said: I certainly don't regret owning a Wii U; I got some very good games for it, and I surf the web through my TV with it all the time. If I had to do it all over again, knowing things would occur as they did, I'd honestly still get one. |
I think I'd still get one too, but I would've waited until later in its life before buying it, instead of getting one in 2013 like I did.
Jaicee said:
I don't see how Other M could've done without Samus. The whole story was about how the final events of Super Metroid lead her to abandon her badass bounty hunting ways and learn to follow orders instead...a conservative theme that is precisely the whole problem with the game, as it elminates both of the franchise's traditional appeals: the sense of freedom that it offers (Metroid was one of the first action-adventure franchises to offer semi-open-world design) and the feminist appeal of a strong and independent female lead in an action role (I believer the original Metroid was only the second action-adventure in history, and first to make to the Western world, to offer one, the vanguardism of which is responsible for cementing her iconic status in the gaming). Federation Force can be considered in many ways simply a logical extension of that same problematic trajectory, with its story revolving around the Galactic Federation's quest to become autonomous and not need bounty hunters anymore. That premise makes it easy to just get rid of the most iconic female hero in games altogether. The bottom line is that the thematic direction Nintendo is taking the Metroid franchise needs to change if the franchise is to ever revisit the things that made it awesome in the first place. That's my view. |
Nintendo really seems to have no idea what to do with Metroid any more. The last two games run contrary to pretty much everything that mad it such a revered series to begin with. I'm honestly not sure I even want them to make a Metroid for Switch, as I feel they simply can't be trusted not to further desecrate the franchise.
