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Looks like the internet hasn't recovered from the existence of a 20 minute NPC interaction, will be waiting for Prime 4 outside of here.

Hopefully it comes with a tutorial to help people being less miserable.

Nice! Any one in particular picked your interest?

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The negativity on social media and forums has reached Federation Force levels of bad, it's quite astonishing.

That's the interesting part, on social media it's a shitfest over the mechanic guy, just scroll a bit in bsky with a Metroid tag and it's all doom, but if you look at the comment section of the overview trailer it's all in good faith banter.

I wonder if they are planning to just... ignore all the explosions going around their PR of this game or will attempt to save face sometime in the coming days. MCU guy is probably 2% of the game's total playtime but it seems people have (understandably) gotten pretty apprehensive of the whole game.

He also has a bunch of voicelines over coms, he is quite "early game Nintendo tutorial character" coded. I don't need the guy explained to me, I understand how insignificant he is in the grand scheme. Most people don't sadly.

Yeah, anyone that has played Prime 3 (the game that comes before this one) should be aware of the direction the series is going. But the guy is definitely more in your face with his quips, so it's going to be interesting how he and the other soldiers turn out.

I think that my only question on this is, if this genuinely blindsided anyone at Retro or Nintendo. With games like Gollum or Forspoken, and even internal stuff like Other M and Federation Force, it shouldn't be a surprise.

It's exactly the same as Prime 3, Samus doesn't talk to anyone talking to her. People should not be surprised by any of this.
Retro's Metroids go for the worldbuilding, not Samus' inner thoughts.

I won't judge anyone for not vibing with any of this, because I also consider Prime 1 one of the best games ever because it does not try to be anything else than Metroid in an FPS/A frame. But I do yearn for more than just the first game with a gimmick. Prime is the experimental side of Metroid.

That is the funny thing to me, when they started showing things that are more out there, the more interested I became. The bike is the most versatile power up Retro Studios has ever made, I don't need to play to know this. The NPCs also struggling to survive make the world more real.

Metroid exists to diversify Nintendo's portfolio so it doesn't appeal to the exact same people that buy Mario and Pokemon. Launching is all the game has to do to fulfill Nintendo's expectations. If it doesn't do hotly, they'll course correct the next one (like the Mercury Steam troids after Other M)

It never was going to be, none of Prime's offshoots are like it, and Corruption already showed a lot of new stuff Retro and Tanabe couldn't achieve on Wii (like NPCs quests).
MCU guy is a 20 minute tutorial given human form, and that's more or less all there is to the guy in a 20 or more hour game.

Well, it is insight from 2005ish, a couple of years before Other M began development, so it tracks.

The Nintendo reps at the event told to these journalists he wouldn't tag along after his one segment. Totilio even reported he will set up camp in a safe area and become a static NPC (til the final push.)

Sometimes you get the impression Nintendo is intentionally trying to kill the game, because nobody would choose that one vertical slice of the game to try to sell it to journalists.

The overview trailer is amazing, and it should've been streamed live as a Direct days before the previews.
I will say, I like Prime 3 the least, so not necessarily the best defense for Prime 4, although it should've been apparent since day 1 they were going in that direction.

Dude tags along for only a section of the first biome, but boy that was not the one to show to journalists.

An NPC that shows up for a grand total of 15 minutes made the worst possible first impression.

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Should've led the previews with the yuri Nintendo. Always lead with the yuri.

This is mostly the idea Tanabe has for the Prime series, the sidescrollers are about her, and her alone, Prime is for the galaxy as a whole. Federation Force happened because he wanted to expand the worldbuilding of the Federation, so it's not terribly surprising we are seeing this.

It is exactly that.

He is not going to be a "sidekick", he is part of the forest area questline, and then he becomes a static NPC elsewhere. Not exactly a good first impression though, that's for sure.

It's such a dumb self inflicted wound. Puts the weird dude in the first section of the game, then don't tell the journos that he is not going to be a constant companion. It's bewildering Retro chose this as the tutorial and Nintendo for using it as the only piece the media got to experience.

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I'm honestly not too furiously bothered by anything they've shown in this last year and a half, but I find it VERY frustrating how the marketing team crashes into a pole, only to pick themselves up, and crash into another one that is right next to it like a Sideshow Bob gag. It's incredible.

These images are ABSOLUTE CINEMA.