As someone who doesn't drive, functional public transportation and biking are super big ones. I hate living in the suburbs and not being to go anywhere cuz of it. Biking feels great when it doesn't feel unsafe

I mean if I had a teacher tell my entire class to come to a hospital on our day off without giving any reason, I'd probably be like "Nah, I think I'll just stay at home and play SMT Nocturne or something."

Playing single player or co-op? MUCH better game with a friend

I expect indie games to become a lot more popular as hardware becomes more expensive. I suspect many AAA devs (and a few indie ones) will be out of touch tho. The ones using AI helped cause the problem in the first place and probably won't care to make less resource intensive games.

Oh my gosh she looks amazing! 💙

"I miss my dad..."
*proceeds to meet Raven Beak*
"I MEANT MY OTHER DAD"

Honestly there was never a whole lot of info on him for you to find. Fans just liked him cuz he had a cool design. This game was supposed to give us some real lore and character, but you've seen how that turned out...

Sylux is from Prime Hunters, not Other M, and like you said Federation Force. I played Hunters and was just as clueless as most people about him in Prime 4. His "explanation" is in the gallery if you beat the game with 100% scans and 100% items, and it's pretty disappointing imo.

I remember it took me dozens of attempts to learn his patterns, but when I did learn it I was clearing his fight flawlessly.

I haven't played those, but from what I know they should be harder than Dread. The biggest struggle will probably be aiming with the joystick (at least it was for me) and there's an upgrade relatively early on that should solve most aim related issues. If you do give it another go I hope you like it

Dread's early areas are definitely difficult. The whole game is a step up in difficulty compared to others in the series. I grew up with Zero Mission, Fusion, and the Prime games and I was struggling with nearly every boss fight my first playthrough of Dread.

Playing Tales of Xillia Remaster and as a working adult I love that the game lets me turn on exp/money/item multipliers. Way more tired after work, way less free time, and the game acknowledges that some people can't invest as much time in completing a full jrpg.

Huh. I never realized how Pokemon mainline Metroid is, in the sense that each new game introduces one or two new abilities then kinda abandons them going forward. Spider ball didn't come back, X-ray scope didn't come back (pulse radar isn't the same) and diffusion missiles didn't come back.

Right? When I got a friend into it for the first time I changed my character to look like Io and told him to bring Io along for the attendant fight. He got a lil confused with 3 lookalikes running around 😁

Ah, I see. This is what it took for me to see what everyone sees in her 😍

This might be the prettiest Zelda I've ever seen 😍

omg I can't unsee it now 😭

Not sure, I played on Switch 1. Mobility was the biggest issue with some enemies like the teleporting bot. Aim issues I generally resolved with the control beam since it slowed things down and I could maneuver around to hit weak points. The lava boss could not handle that strat

It was in one of the shrines behind a pillar. One cluster filled like 10% it was nuts

Lol yeah Nora is the best ❤️

Gosh, saaaame. I got to the mines and was like "so we're at the halfway point, right? Surely there's more I can get out of those other areas!" 😭

Good luck. Hard mode can be a lil punishing. Some enemies take out multiple e-tanks in one hit 💀

That sucks, it's so pretty

It definitely gets better. Personally, I view the entirety of the first dungeon in these games as the tutorial, so really you're just getting started.

I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM! I thought surely beating it would drop at least one, but no... 😭

Agreed. As much as I hate navigating the cathedral, it clearly had more work put into it than the rest of the areas. Definitely wanna see more enemy variety this time around.

Open world is antithetical to the core design of Metroid games. Whatever comments they saw about wanting an open world Metroid did NOT come from Metroid fans. Interconnected areas with shortcuts opened by new upgrades are what make the exploring fun. That is impossible to have in an open world.

Honestly that really annoyed me. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind learning a little more about Tokabi, but I was so disappointed we didn't get anything more with the others.

I can see that. I feel like the player spends so little time with them that it comes off more disappointing than sad tho. I'd have liked to return to previous areas with different combinations of companions to get to know them better. I like some of them, but I didn't feel properly invested in them.

Gosh, I almost forget Metroids are even technically in the game. Even if the green energy isn't phazon it'd have been cool to fight some legit Metroids affected by it. A new Metroid Prime that steals the Lamorn crystal at the end and becomes a new Dark Samus with psychic powers would've been wild