mZuzek said:
Vodacixi said:
I think once you reach every teleporter, you can travel between them regardless of their colour. I think Mercury Steam went backwards on this one. Samus Returns allowed you to travel between any teleporters you found from the beginning. That encouraged backtracking in order to get new expansions after you got new abilities because you could go back to any area almost instantly. Unfortunately, Dread restricts which teleporters work between them until pretty much the end of the game. Which is... annoying. Specially when their previous game did it better. I know Dread partially adresses this by making you visit every area multiple times in a somewhat organic and guided way, unlike Samus Returns where once you reached a new area you were pretty much done with the previous one (in terms of advancing the main plot). If you are in Ferenia and the game suddenly wants you to go to Artaria for an upgrade, it will guide you to a near teleporter, an elevator or some kind of transportation method. So you can use this oportunities to go hunt some items while on the way to the next upgrade, making the lack of interconnected teleporters not much of an issue. But still, it's a little annoyance that doesn't really have a reason to exist. |
Personally I'm glad they went this route. Fast travel is convenient for getting 100% items, which really you should only be doing at the very end of the game when you have all the abilities - other than that I really don't like it. It just takes away from the idea of having to learn the map design and understand the world, which is a core element of Metroid games. The less fast travel they have, the better as far as I'm concerned, and Dread does it well by always giving you teleporters in/to convenient locations so that progression never becomes too obtuse or involves too much backtracking. |
I would say there are different kind of players. Some definetely wait until the end to go for all the items. But some others (myself included) like to backtrack from time to time when they get certain abilities that will allow us to get those items we couldn't get before.
But to each their own I guess xD
BTW, I'm so dumb
Spoiler!
For the entire game I thought ADAM was... well, ADAM. I thought Raven Beak only impersonated him at the end of the game. Just that one time. But now I'm replaying the game on hard... and the way ADAM talks... "You wouldn't be a worthy adversary for RB...". "You are helpless, accept it". And he didn't called her lady a single time after Samus went down the elevator. How could I be so blind? xD
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