@forest-spirit

i wouldnt mind mgs cutscenes, itd be a nice change of pace for the series

I don't see much difference between having someone 'authorize' a weapon and finding it after a boss battle (plus, nothing so far indicates that some abilities won't be found in the traditional way). I am also particularly exited about the third person perspective-- I feel this change was necessary due to the 2D and first person perspectives have both been played out a lot in this franchise (5 2D games and 3 first person games).

The 2D and 3D seems interesting, but a didn't like Super Paper Mario and it had a 2D/3D mechanic as well (though, I did enjoy the perspective change to first person in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes). While this is its own game, reports already indicate potential problems about the fact that you can not move while in 3D (but again, I had no problems with this in MGS:TTS).

Other than that, I am not particularly liking all the talk about how 'cinematic' this game is. Hopefully, the majority of the cut scenes are at the beginning or the end (and I can skip them if I want to), because I feel that such things will kill the 'Metroid feel'.

I could be wrong, but unfortunately these previews aren't doing much to alleviate my concerns for this game.

Values are almost always added at the expense of others. 3D for Mario meant the gameplay focus had to change towards things other than platforming, Ocarina style Zelda had added values but at the expense of the action of the 2D games. This will add cut scenes and character development for those who care, but for those who don't cut scenes are either grating, or skipping them ruins the flow of the game, and that's before you even take developer focus into it.

No, get out, nobody who actually enjoys this series or to whom this series is being marketed wants that

Why would you want that Pyramid Head

Why

You're not actually pointing out any core Metroid values that are hurt by the inclusion of somewhat lengthy introductory cutscenes (of which Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion also had, for the time).

After Fusion though, they're all spin offs so how do you decide what the 'main' Metroid will be? Personal choice?

@khuutra

why not you know?

basically the other games had minimal story, so itd be nice to learn more. team ninja usually is fun that way anyway

play to their strengths etc. you can always skip cutscenes anyway

Team Ninja isn't great at MGS-style cutscenes, they're just great at short cutscenes that have a ton of explosions

There's a difference, and it's this: the former shouldn't come within a thousand yards of Metroid, and the latter is actually kind of par for the course for the series

I agree with this. After reading what some people here talking about in this thread it made me go reread Igns thinking I was just tired when I read it. It is going to be a different game than we have seen, but all the elements of Metroid are suppose be there  just a bit different and a lot of story.  I am not into the Huge story scenes but w/e I can live with that its still Metriod. Day 1 buy here. Plan on preordering when I pick up Fragile Dreams.

Maybe its easy mode

We'll see in the next month. You know what, its sounding much more like Disaster DOC, where intense shooting scenes are juxtaposed with slower plot and exploration. I guess we should assume Nintendo authorized these changes, maybe due to the tedious nature of predicatable weapon/health hunting.