But is it at the same time a GOOD and a METROID game ? because to me it isn't. Excluding the visuals since it was somewhere near beta what I saw is: a package with 2 game modes in it and the name Metroid on the top: the first mode isn't confirmed to be playable online and,even if it was, it doesn't feature voicechat so you must get together with other 3 people to play it decently, it's not like Splatoon where everone makes it's own thing, here players have to team up to take into cages big monsters... The other mode suffers of the same problems,while there are only 3 players in one team voice chat is key to play in games such as Rocket League or Blast Ball

I understand the idea behind this, but to Nintendo this is a Metroid game. It might be that because Samus isn't on the game, they are not even expecting it to be a huge success, but it still has the Metroid name on it. I also understand people not getting the game, I mean, I won't be getting it, but that's because I don't find the core concept of Federation Force that appealing to begin with. I have no problem with people not buying the game. It's their decision to make. I just find the logic behind some of these decision somewhat odd.

So you need to teach Nintendo not to make fun games?

It probably will.  Every game I can think of that Kensuke Tanabe has produced has been at least decent.  The art direction though...I thought it was a Wonderful 101 spin-off when it was first introduced.

Hell, maybe they should just rework it into a Wonderful 101 spin-off.

What you want to say by not buying the game: 'Give me a proper, full-on, console Metroid!!!!!!!'

What Nintendo probably thinks you're saying by not buying the game: 'I'm not interested in Metroid.'

I'm not advocating buying a game that is not up to standart, or just not fun, but if you're refusing to buy a perfectly fine game out of some misguided sense of boycott, you'll probably end up sending the wrong message.

I mean at this point there's a chance nobody ever buys it. Federation Force has probably been cancelled and the assets repurposed into a slightly different game with a slightly different title.

This game won't sell anyway so you could probably buy your copy and still get your wish lol

I hate to say it, but maybe Metroid needs to stay in cryofreeze.

Nintendo has no idea what to do with it. First the catastrophe that was Other M, then a portable Chibi spinoff where you play as the grunts. It's been nearly a decade now since the last Metroid game that wasn't a travesty.

The problem is that the very nature of franchise itself (a dark sci-fi adventure inspired by the movie Alien) is totally foreign to modern Nintendo, which only seems to know how to make light hearted cotton candy. The Nintendo of today just doesn't have the balls to make the gritty mature reboot that the franchise is screaming out for.

He likes to see the world burning. :P

looks like shit imho, and I'm a hardcore Nintendo fan and apologist