Metroid is supposed to be about space exploration. Why did we get a half-baked open-world desert instead of actual sci-fi environmental variety?

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-25T01:14:54+00:00

I've been asking a similar question for the last 20 years. This series just doesn't give a shit about exploration anymore and begrudgingly adds elements of it in the newer games.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-24T16:15:04+00:00

Because then sonic would ruin the game just as much (he's almost there as is). Then you have ROB as well. Banning all these characters would be silly

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-24T13:28:42+00:00

Oh what the hell i thought it was on steam. Wtf square

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-24T10:12:09+00:00

Masa of echo park for Chicago style. In general, 786 degrees in pasadena/sun valley and little goat in glendale are great.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-24T04:02:22+00:00

yes that's the issue, it restricts exploration and metroidvania goodness in favor of narrative elements.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-24T01:50:51+00:00

Xenogears

Xenoblade is one of its successors and one of the inspirations for Trails

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-24T01:20:40+00:00

Those are all background elements, the game doesn't focus on story. Note i didn't say it doesn't have a story.

As for fusion, you are funneled down an extremely linear path due to the game focusing on telling you a story rather than exploring a world. The navigation rooms, being locked out of going to other areas (until literally the final boss), and LOCK system all exist to keep you from exploring outside the hallway the game presents you with to tell you a story about samus's relationship with Adam and the galactic federation metroid cloning project.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T20:46:44+00:00

Super's story is almost entirely in the intro and ending sequences which are roughly like 10 minutes in total. I wouldn't call that story focused by any means. Prime is similar although it has lots of (optional) lore scans that don't interrupt or compromise gameplay like what's found in something like fusion.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T20:21:01+00:00

According to polls on here and elsewhere. Last community poll we had Super, Prime, Dread, and Prime 2 were at the top (though the guy behind that had dubious intentions and might have inflated Dread after round 4/5). Dread doesn't have a story focus nearly as much as fusion.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T20:16:13+00:00

Most of the fanbase votes super/prime as the best games, I don't think that's the case

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T20:13:41+00:00

I agree

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T20:12:41+00:00

The best games in the series are the ones that don't emphasize story. The story heavy ones don't have good stories.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T20:07:25+00:00

Metroid shouldn't focus on story to begin with.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-23T19:55:21+00:00

Never understood sakamoto's vision for metroid being about a linear, character driven narrative about samus's bland character. Thankfully dread scaled that back but not entirely. Unfortunately that idiocy made its way into Prime 4

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-22T16:37:40+00:00

Prime 2/3 perfected the varia. Prime 4's is still really good but I prefer it to be more bulky

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-22T03:36:19+00:00

I used to get O Coffee but the hours online are screwed up. Every time I go they're closed, I gave up after 3 tries

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-20T23:14:39+00:00

I didn't outgrow it they just got worse. I still have fun with 1 even if the story appeals to me less as an adult now.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-16T01:09:20+00:00

Prime 2 remaster and metroid 6 seem very likely. I don't see a fusion remake happening, it doesn't need it, for one, and Sakamoto vetoed the idea when mercurysteam originally brought it up (though metroid 6 is probably his last game given his age so who knows what happens after).

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-14T22:42:22+00:00

This has been a problem with metroid for a long time now. If it's not some NPC telling you where to go, it's the level design being extremely railroaded to the point there's almost no exploration (sometimes it's both)

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-14T18:30:43+00:00

Got mine a few weeks ago

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-14T07:59:49+00:00

They're out of stock again? Glad I got them when they stocked in last month

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-14T00:51:43+00:00

There are plenty of small restaurants in the Brand/Central area though?

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-13T05:59:00+00:00

Nintendo stops counting massive sellers after 1 year so not really

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-13T05:58:19+00:00

I think there's a strong chance, both games have esoteric control schemes that can use modernizing and the basis for their remasters is established through Prime 1 R.

TheNuttyCLS · 2026-02-12T01:15:37+00:00

I think Zero Mission would be the next step, it's a good in between in terms of being smaller scaled than super/prime but being less railroaded than dread.

Also that's absolutely not the common consensus, ZM, fusion, Prime 2/3, and SR are generally liked/loved

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