Morbi

granted I am also that freak who would have combed the desert smashing all the crystals even if it didn't unlock extra concept art

Like, I need to properly test this when I do my eventual hard mode run but I feel like just the boulders by themselves might actually fill most of the mandatory requirement, I remember my bar jumping an insane amount after I broke a couple of them

The mandatory green crystal collecting really is the most baffling part of the Metroid Prime 4's game design but I wonder if a lot of people are unintentionally making it way more tedious for themselves by trying to grind them out before getting the endgame ability to break those huge boulders

dude some of the stuff people make in Dreams is absolutely buckwild, it's such a shame that game's creation tools aren't available in a more universally accessible format

the fact that the Vi-O-La suit is SO horny on Samus makes me sad we never get to see any of the Lamorn wearing one or riding any of the motorcycles that were apparently their most important cultural touchstone

[More Metroid] anyway I like these fucky alien heatsuits

you can really tell that designing the game with actually precise and good-feeling motion controls in mind gave them the confidence to get a little more funky with it

meanwhile fighting Sylux in this makes him feel more like the Vergil to Samus (mechanically) than Dark Samus ever did lmao
that dude just kept busting out moves that made me go "OHHHHHHH"

I feel like I can't really emphasize enough the way playing this game right after replaying Prime 1 and 3 had me going "oh so this is what it's like for one of these games to have Good Boss Fights"
Prime 1's combat in particular has a Clunkiness to it that I feel like people don't really talk about

really funny how many people were going "they made it like Zelda" as a criticism, as if the game design of Metroid and Zelda haven't been aggressively swapping spit back and forth from the very beginning

thinking about Armstrong excitedly soyjak pointing and going "OMG LOOK SHE'S DOING MORPH BALL" while I solve my little environmental puzzle, as if I wouldn't also do that if I met Samus irl

I mean, it's Metroid lmao
The writing is Fine. It's not amazing, but I liked the Gal(Fed) Pals well enough, despite their unnecessary radio pings and tendency to floor tank when they were around

controversially putting it above Metroid Prime 1 on my personal tier list, solely because I just replayed it a week ago and missed the fucking Ice Shriekbat scan AGAIN

Final Verdict on Metroid Prime 4: really good, it's got some pretty goofy flaws but I think it's probably the best looking and playing Prime has ever been otherwise, by like, a crazy margin
At the very least, the most fun and interesting boss fights they've ever done

dude how am I supposed to go back to Samus not having a cool bike

We need to trick the ultra wealthy into doing duels by pistol as fashionable sport again

I'm still obsessed with the idea of old depressed Luke Skywalker being like, this mysterious drifter heartthrob to all those weird little frog aliens for a couple of months before they all realized how much of a downer he was

anyway holy shit this game is pretty and this soundtrack is pretty

he is very scared but he still shoots at the aliens alongside you and goes "w-wow! I got one!!" when he gets a hit, he's trying his best

A few hours into Metroid and I'm just feeling like "Mackenzie they could never have gotten me to hate you"
He is simply a silly little guy

[letting you have random Poppy factoids every other month as I remember them] be grateful, beasts

Like, there's a version of Episode 9 that actually explores how the concept of giving an actively xenophobic and increasingly desperate empire the idea to strap hyperspace engines to random asteroids is existentially terrifying that would have fucked

also, saying it again, it's really funny how people looked at The Coolest Thing That's Ever Happened In A Star Wars Movie and went "um this breaks canon >:( if this works, why didn't anyone do it before >:(" like I dunno man, this is a franchise where guys made 2 dozen impractical planet-sized guns

The Last Jedi feels like a middle movie that fell out of an alternate universe from a more interesting sequel trilogy that had actual movies with themes and ideological concepts instead of being the genre I like to call Star Wars Soup

I'm still obsessed with the idea of old depressed Luke Skywalker being like, this mysterious drifter heartthrob to all those weird little frog aliens for a couple of months before they all realized how much of a downer he was

Monday living in the fae realm

I think we need to bring back the Ken McElroy special

it's always so frustrating to hear about old-timey politics where an autocrat could just be told to stop being such a cunt by like one guy in a public arena and it would immediately and permanently devastate his reputation and cause him to die in disgrace

me trying to explain to people that it's kind of weird to hold 14-year-old Steven Universe personally accountable for the decision of whether his relatives should be sentenced to death

I always think it's really funny how much of early IDW Sonic was dedicated to Sonic explaining "guys I'm a teenager who likes to run fast, I'm not going to EXECUTE people for their crimes"