Metroid Samus Reutnrs on the 3ds is...
...good.
like, I love it? I keep playing it? but holy fuck it can be unfair sometimes.
@Nine it's pretty cool but dang it loses all of the original's atmosphere in favor of making Samus feel cooler
@noiob I think more it's trying to recapture the feel of the OG Metroid and Metroid 2 on the original gameboy, (since it's a remake of the second), in that there's no dialogue and basically fuck all story but what's in the manual, so any characterisation is what the players give her. Dread clearly took a lot of lessons from Returns tho in controls and gameplay, but... god it's so much harder to control that game.
@Nine it's a remake of Metroid 2, is it not?
@noiob I mean, other than the amazing graphics for an OG gameboy, plus how well it controls, plus the evolution of the metroids being a fucking cool thing that works surprisingly well... other than that it's still just very like Metroid 1, including no in game map, so you gotta stumble about.
@Nine not that it's a bad game, I played a bit and it felt good. The counter is a great addition to Samus's moveset. I just also played some M2 on the Switch lately and while it's very simplistic (by necessity), it just feels so much like you're slowly descending into a hostile environment
@noiob Hmmm,, yeah that IS true. I think much of that is because of the lo-fi graphics of the original, and the stark black and greens colour palatte, which is used amazingly well.
Returns is very much more colourful and detailed, so maybe it does lose a little bit of that "this environment itself wants to kill you", and feels more like how Super Metroid did, but, other than that, I'd say it's still pretty great. Definitely fun.
@noiob Still can't decide if I prefer Returns or AM2R more tho. (I said AM2G before by accident, I meant R, not G lol)
@Nine yeah I should play it sometimes tbh. Having a blast with the Prime remaster rn, what a game
@noiob I'm prolly gonna get that at some point myself too. I never used to like a lot of first party ninty games back when. Like, I completely slept on Metroid, and Zelda, and all that.
I started getting into them when I got a GBASP and saw Metroid Zero Mission, a remake of the original Metroid, and decided "eh fuck it I'll give it a shot".
...was p. much hooked immediately. Went on to Fusion, absolutely adored it even more, then Super, and then AM2R since I had no 3ds for Returns.
@noiob I mean, I do now, of course lol
@Nine Dread was the first Metroid game I seriously played, we had a GBA and later a Wii as kids but mostly played cheap licensed games b/c we had no idea what was good
@noiob Having played the OG Metroid 2 not that long ago, AND the fan remake AM2G which I thiankfully snagged the final build of before ninty ran screaming at them with a chainsaw made of lawyers and money to get them to shut it down, I can say that... Metroid 2 doesn't... really have much in the way of uniqueness lmao.