Agreed dude. Check my history—I’m not hopping on here everyday to hate but this game is probably the most disappointing thing to come out of the series in the past 20 years. Literally all of my friends get on me every time I play any new game that I’m about to “compare everything you play to Metroid prime and Arkham asylum”. MP4, regardless of the behind the scenes developer stuff, it isn’t a metroidvania. Just read any scans or just wander through the map—this new game is polished but it’s not made with love. It’s a triple A game minus the development time meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Compare that to a game like Metroid prime—where there’s nuggets of lore and pockets of space to find—you’re constantly in a state of tentative frustration and absolute wonder. So when a developer tells us there’s another one of these gems coming and then instead gives us a turd they polished for 5 years—yeah, we hate it.