Woo Amiibo support, because that will definitely help the game's popularity!

That's what stings the most; they know this isn't what their consumers want, but they're covering their ears yelling "lalalalala the customer is always wrong" and aggressively ignoring the pleas of their fanbase. It's a pattern with Nintendo this generation, but this is perhaps the worst example; gutting a beloved franchise and refusing to accept any criticism.

I really hope this is a massive flop.

You are right, there's definitely that, also the reason they didn't show it at E3, I suspect.

But what I meant was more along the lines of, they didn't make changes based on initial criticism, they just kept doing what they were doing instead of taking feedback into account.

I'm just hoping that this game and Starfox flopping don't somehow convince Nintendo that nobody wants these old franchises, or even worse, that it'd convince their investors and Kimishima that Nintendo's dedicated hardware/software business needs to be dissolved...

I hope so too, but I don't think there's much immediate risk of the latter in the light of the success of other recent titles.

Yeah, that makes sense. In regards to Metroid, I'm thinking about making my own fan project at this point because Nintendo's not gonna fulfill my needs any time soon (unless FF somehow ends up being a good Metroid game lol).

Honestly, if I didn't know better, I'd think FF was a misguided fan-made indie knockoff. You'd have to try pretty hard to make yours worse. ;)

Lol I don't think I could mess up that much when it comes to a Super Metroid type of game, unless I make an incredibly boring map.

There's one fan project I'm looking forward to a lot (and it's a bit of an inspiration), it's called Super Metroid Fusion and it's essentially a port of Metroid Fusion to the SNES with additional features like multiple SA-Xs. I'm not that good with ROM hacking so I think I'll go with writing a Windows game lol.

True, its most fundamental flaws do run very deeply, perhaps too much so to be fixed without effectively scrapping the project and starting over, but they at least could have changed the Chibi characters and changed the name to "Blast Bots: Federation Force" or something.

Yeah, let's add amiibo, that'll get people to like this game! Sigh, atleast at the end of they day this is just a spin-off, not a mainline entry, so not too big a deal. Can't say the same for certain other franchises though.