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Metroid Dread was a triumph - do you think there’s any chance that Nintendo and MercurySteam port Samus Returns to the Switch?
- Thread starter ghostcrew
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It'd be cool, but honestly wouldn't be all that tempting for me. From everything I've seen, Samus Returns comes across like a bad combination of Metroid II proper and Metroid Dread. It takes a game that was ~5 hours long and somehow drags it out into a ~13 hour experience, removes the atmosphere that was like half the reason the game was compelling in the first place, and supplants a meaningful, impactful ending with a pandering and redundant one. And all the cool things it added in return are just things Dread ended up doing much better, anyway.
It feels like a game that needed to happen for better things to eventually come, and I wouldn't mind an even better version popping up on Switch one day, but conceptually it lent itself better to MercuryStream getting some experience with the franchise than to a great Metroid game.
It feels like a game that needed to happen for better things to eventually come, and I wouldn't mind an even better version popping up on Switch one day, but conceptually it lent itself better to MercuryStream getting some experience with the franchise than to a great Metroid game.
Nintendo should remaster/post a ton of their 3DS games. I'm still waiting for Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and A Link Between Worlds.
So many great games stuck on a fucking handheld.
So many great games stuck on a fucking handheld.
I agree with anyone saying that it would feel too much like a step backward. I'm sure its a decent game but this series (2D specifically) is inherently dated and I think it'd be good to focus on developing fun new ways to keep this formula fun and relevant. I think a big part of Dread's appeal was playing a 2D Metroid that felt modern, which is evident by all the "Samus has never controlled so well" remarks. I really enjoyed Metroid Dread and like what the developers did, but it'd be cool to see them take on something slightly more ambitious. Maybe going for a full-on Metroidvania for Metroid 6.
I'd prefer a new game, to be honest.
After Metroid Dread, I wonder whether Nintendo is evaluating the purchase of MercurySteam...
After Metroid Dread, I wonder whether Nintendo is evaluating the purchase of MercurySteam...
I liked Metroid II upon release but I expected much more from it given that it came out over four years after the NES game, and the genre had advanced since then.
I'm willing to cut it slack, simply based on the fact that it released relatively early in the Game Boy's life (1991), and few--if any--titles of that size and scope had been released on that platform back then. In a technical sense, it represents a great leap forward from launch games like Super Mario Land. It obviously wasn't as impressive as Kirby's Dream Land, Super Mario Land 2, and Link's Awakening, but those came out in 1992/1993.
Seems like a no brainer to me. Capitalize on the goodwill from Metroid Dread and give the people what they want. Would give devs something to do while creative works on concepting out the next game.
The time for that has probably passed unless they can retrofit Samus Returns with some of Dread's improvements. Should've ported SR to Switch in like 2018 tbh.
I wonder if they can reuse stuff they made for Dread to make porting it easier.
I'd love to see it, though hopefully it'd be done as part of a package. Get Zero Mission and Fusion on there too and pop on the first three games and you've got yourself a Metroid Saga. I can't imagine getting the three portable games would be too difficult, and the rest are on NSO already.
I'd love to see it, though hopefully it'd be done as part of a package. Get Zero Mission and Fusion on there too and pop on the first three games and you've got yourself a Metroid Saga. I can't imagine getting the three portable games would be too difficult, and the rest are on NSO already.
