![]() ![]() ![]() If I'm being honest, the one thing I love above else that Metroid has given us is Ridley in Super Smash Bros. A Metroidvania game needs to provoke players to want to explore, in my opinion, and this is something that a Metroid game has never once instilled in me. Outside of the main path suit upgrades that you need in order to beat Super Metroid, the ones tucked away in the game's nooks and crannies felt so bland and meaningless, especially after a certain point - I don't really need 200+ missiles, but okay. "Every Metroid game that I have played has always felt drastically underwhelming to me compared to other titles in its own genre." More missile capacity and health? That's cool I guess. Every upgrade in the game felt so underwhelming. When I first played through Super Metroid a few years back, this was my biggest issue with the title. All in all, I just don't think they're great Metroidvania games-ironic, I know-because the rewards they give the player for exploring the world never feel worthwhile. The act of playing Metroid games though I think is where I get lost. Combined with each game's soundtrack, which I have increasingly been turned on to more and more over the last six months, and I really enjoy the overall vibe of each game. This hybrid of ancient and futuristic looking designs all throughout the many locations seen in the Metroid series is great. I think what's always stood out to me most about Metroid is the aesthetic of the worlds that it offers. If we're comparing the two titans that essentially created the "Metroidvania" genre with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid, then I easily fall on the side of SOTN being vastly superior - and I don't think it's really close at all. Why does everyone love this series so much? What is it that I'm not "getting" about Metroid? Is this the most that a JPEG image of a game title has ever excited so many people at once?Įvery Metroid game that I have played has always felt drastically underwhelming to me compared to other titles in its own genre. So when Metroid Prime 4 was revealed at E3 2017 and the entire Los Angeles Convention Center felt like it was going to cave in on itself due to the screaming and yelling from everyone in the building, I was left confused. ![]() Even our own reviewer of the game agreed with me on that final point (bless you, Lou Contaldi). I've played Super Metroid to completion, I've toyed around with all three Prime entries, and I even played the most recent "proper" game in Metroid: Samus Returns, which I found to be overwhelmingly mediocre. The only problem is that I don't think any of the Metroid games are very good.įor the life of me, I've never been able to understand the overwhelming hype for Metroid that so many have. And yes, the idea of a cool sci-fi bounty hunter game where you're fighting dragons, pirates, and weird jellyfish-looking things sounds rad as can be. Yes, Samus has become a gaming icon over the years. Yes, it's one of Nintendo's most popular first-party franchises. ![]()
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