Vodacixi on 22 October 2025
Metroid Fusion (at the time) comes to mind. It's very linear, you are always told where to go, it has a lot of dialogue. All of these are very much at odds with the more open, isolated and free nature of Metroid and Super.
And yet, it's still an amazing game and probably my favourite 2D Metroid game ever. None of these aspects that supposedly are out of place in a Metroid game hold it down. It's quite the opposite: those are its biggest strenghts. Metroid Fusion is great BECAUSE it's linear and guided.
