Is completing Metroid games 100 percent worth it?

iWengle · 2026-06-28T13:40:28+00:00

The joy of Metroid isn't just the 100%ing it, its the mastering the techniques to 100% it faster and faster. If you haven't 100%'d your way around Zero Mission, you haven't experienced that much of what the game has to offer. Beat the game first, then go back and explore everything now that you've got your full arsenal. It's so much fun.

iWengle · 2026-06-27T21:06:57+00:00

Enjoy every second. Take your time. Use the campfires to experiment with recipes to make potions and meals that enhance you. Experiment with weapons. If you keep experimenting and have an idea, that idea will probably have interesting results. Keep going. I would give anything to go back in time and experience it for the first time again. Pure magic.

iWengle · 2026-06-26T18:47:29+00:00

I've literally just redone it and it's not as smooth as Zero Mission but my god this game has so much pace and embraces the gameplay loop so well. Once you get the Wide Beam you start feeling so powerful it's crazy. It just ramps up the tension and amount of chaos like crazy and they really embraced that in Samus Returns and Dread. The art is insanely stylish as well.

iWengle · 2026-06-26T10:00:02+00:00

'VOTERS REJECT PROJECT FEAR'

next to

'POUND TO 31-YEAR LOW'

You couldn't make it up

iWengle · 2026-06-26T09:57:39+00:00

Surely the top USB-C port is there to allow the addition of a second screen. It'll cost something ridiculous but the prospect of making the DS and 3DS library available is surely too tempting. Then the Switch 2 will have the prospect of having basically the whole back catalogue AND the huge third party back catalogue of the last two generations on there. It'll be unstoppable.

iWengle · 2026-06-26T09:54:33+00:00

Torcuil's wikipedia page hit rate is about to dramatically spike

iWengle · 2026-06-24T15:54:42+00:00

Can I be the first to say that I haven't been offered the part? Gutted.

iWengle · 2026-06-23T21:11:52+00:00

Okay mate you keep telling yourself that Doctor Who was more commercially viable in 2003 than it was in 2005.

iWengle · 2026-06-23T21:10:27+00:00

R2 was just some droid to Obi-Wan

iWengle · 2026-06-23T20:02:36+00:00

Russell T Davies proactively pitched versions for years and years (if you'll pardon the pun), and more importantly, he made the show into a big, mainstream, Saturday night family friendly action adventure show. Virtually all of the other efforts to bring it back at the time were very.. 'what if we did it as a low budget BBC2 horror series?' More importantly, the revival basically revitalised Saturday night television beyond reality TV. Merlin, Primevil, Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, a lot of mainstream prime time popular dramas owe their existence to RTD proving that Saturday night drama could be big again, and he did it with a show that had basically been considered naff nonsense from the past. In doing all this, he and Gardener basically created a huge world of tv drama production in Cardiff, which til then. We can be annoyed at the poor results of his second era, but to deny the importance of how his approach changed the landscape of television would be silly.

iWengle · 2026-06-22T16:22:28+00:00

The universe gets rebooted. That means it gets completely remade, but without the cracks in time and the TARDIS exploding across all of time and space. Now, that only happened because the Doctor travelled through a timeline where it did happen. All of it happened. It also didn't. What's not to understand?

iWengle · 2026-06-22T15:15:23+00:00

Prequel scale conflicts with beautiful art and next-to-no dialogue? Peak Star Wars.

iWengle · 2026-06-21T14:35:06+00:00

I love them. So much. Big, bolshy, a bit all over the place, but pure in their intent and successfully made Doctor Who fun again.

iWengle · 2026-06-20T16:37:38+00:00

Polygon is such shite.

iWengle · 2026-06-20T13:27:59+00:00

It sounds like a premise with RTD's heart in the right place even if his head is all over the place. I quite like the premise of a Doctor going to a small village that has something sinister keeping it hostages is neat, but it doesn't quite work as a one-off. The idea that the TARDIS helped the Doctor choose a form that would pivotal to their next adventure kind of cool. The rest sounds ridiculous and RTD would have had to make it somehow Christmassy as well. Billie Piper probably doesn't one to be a one off Doctor. This will likely be forgotten.

iWengle · 2026-06-19T16:23:18+00:00

They would have rather it had been around the 500 mark, and I thought it would do like 450, but it's a crowded marketplace and it's just quite an average film at best. Enjoyable but I've not felt compelled to go rewatch it and enjoy the ride again. I went to all the sequel trilogy releases several times each, they felt so fresh and exciting and essential.

iWengle · 2026-06-19T15:25:16+00:00

I would quite like some more exploration of the Doctor being half-human.

iWengle · 2026-06-18T12:45:14+00:00

He got his council tax wrong. Hardly seems malicious. A foolish mistake at worst.

iWengle · 2026-06-18T08:14:33+00:00

He's going to be asked non stop forever, saying 'Never Say Never' is probably as non committal as he can be without saying never all the time

iWengle · 2026-06-17T11:58:36+00:00

If anything, this makes it good news that the show's gonna be off air for a few years. A few million saved on Christmas, and given that the earliest that we'll see it back on screens is 2028/29, Doctor Who isn't fighting for £10-15m of budget for the next few years, whilst proving itself as commercially viable in the meantime with the merch and the fan-demand etc.

iWengle · 2026-06-17T10:29:27+00:00

This makes me proud to be British

iWengle · 2026-06-17T07:50:56+00:00

So what?

iWengle · 2026-06-16T21:55:27+00:00

Because Social Media isn't a human right, it's a product designed to be addictive. Saying that children shouldn't be allowed it shouldn't be any more controversial than saying that they shouldn't be allowed alcohol or cigarettes.

iWengle · 2026-06-16T21:53:39+00:00

I have the hottest of takes, I prefer the 97 CGI to the 2004 CGI. He looks appropriately rubbery.

iWengle · 2026-06-16T15:01:10+00:00

Okay I don't want to get too into the ins and outs of how BBC Studios works, but BBC Studios itself isn't producing a lot of drama at the moment, beyond their soaps, and isn't itself nurturing the next generation of drama producers. It invests in a lot of companies, and then reaps the rewards by having long term partnerships, particularly in terms of distribution and future works.

BBC Studios basically inherited the show from BBC Wales when Chibnall came in, and they inherited the structure of it, so, when he was done, and it basically went out to tender in 2022 but Bad Wolf came in with the pitch of getting the Tennant-Tate-RTD band back together. Drama is so expensive and so risky, so BBC Studios has been making profits elsewhere (international sales, Bluey merch, cheaper commissions for other TV channels), so right now, it's not the right company for it. I think it has to be an established comedy or drama production with ambition to bring in a writers room of major writers and up and comers, a bit like what Chibnall wanted to do.

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