The original Metroid was the game that got me into gaming in the first place. The main difference I felt between it and Super Mario Bros. (which I got bored by fairly quickly at the time) was very much the comparative freedom to explore that Metroid offered. That wasn't the only thing though, and it's not my favorite entry in the franchise. Super Metroid and the original Metroid Prime are my all-time faves, in that order. Metroid...well at least Metroid games preceding 2010 anyway...is my favorite Nintendo franchise by a lot. It's been their one ongoing "mature" franchise and their only female-centric one. It's the one that is not typical Nintendo. I've never been that much into typical Nintendo, honestly. To that end, the absolute last thing I want the next Metroid game (...there ARE going to be more Metroid games, right Nintendo? Like before I die??...) to be is just another typical Nintendo type game.
I want the next Metroid game to be a Metroid game. Not a Legend of Zelda game. Not an Animal Crossing game. Not a cheery, happy-go-lucky, pointless, weightless game with cutified character designs (seriously, have we so quickly forgotten Federation Force?!), a Metroid game. One that actually retains the franchise's core identity. Not too many of those have been made of late, and none have in the AAA landscape in like...I'd say not since Metroid Prime 3 in 2007. I don't care if it sells. I want Metroid to go back to being Metroid again. I loathe the commercial attitude of the OP!!
I want the next Metroid game to be dark, desolate, substantive, driven by exploration more than action-combat, I want to star Samus Aran, and I don't want it to feature the Zero Suit or Samus's frilly new runway armor by Calvin Klein from Other M either or some "fatherly" commander telling me when it's okay to defend myself. No towns. No MMOness. No kawaii-fication. No selling out. Real Metroid. Sorry.
