My God ! Blood: Refreshed Supply on Switch in 2026 is like me playing on Doom on my intel pentium in 1993

Ah, Metacritic, poor credibility...

I think at that size a 1440p 120hz display would be a much better fit for Switch 2.

Edit: 650!? And you need another pricey accessory? Dead on arrival, really.

Getting:

• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
• Octopath Traveler 0 (Switch 2)
• Red Dead Redemption: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (free upgrade for-the-win!)
• Milano's Odd Job Collection (PS1 Japan exclusive curio)

I’m 6 hours in and almost all new ideas they came up with feel like a miss. I’m not surprised it ranks substantially lower than the original trilogy.

The thing I want fixed: every time I start a two player session with my daughter, the second player control always defaults to auto-steering. It’s tiresome turning it off, every single time. Please fix, Mario

I’ve only played 1-2 hours yet. Just left Myles. I actually enjoyed having him around. But yeah, the game is a bit lame in the writing and directing department. Nintendo isn’t Naughty dog or Guerilla games for sure. The overall production values are a bit lower than many games that have come in the last 10 years. But I enjoy the game for what it is. Samus bad assyness, all the cool lore, new creatures, beautiful surroundings and music and hopefully later on some fun exploration. I would never have wanted to miss this game even if some reviewer says they don’t mike some aspects of it. I just wanna see for myself whats on offer.

@Edwicket Hunters is an extremely good title, and amazing for a DS title. It is one of the most technically accomplished DS games. Of course the OG controls now aren't great, but I mean for the time Hunters was amazing

I haven't played them all, but Metroid Dread was one of my favourite games of the whole Switch generation. The weekend after I bought it, ai came down with COVID so unusually (for me) I was able to blast through a good chunk of it in one sitting.

I think SkillUp had the most insightful review on Beyond whether you agree with the conclusion or not. Beyond would probably have been considered on-par with previous MP games had it come out 15 years ago. It didn't though and in the decades since the first agme the design for Metroidvanias has evolved significantly. Hence I think one's ranking strongly depends on where you are coming from:

If you come from the OG MP games or Remastered, you probably want more-of-the-same in a fresh coat of paint. Beyond does that, albeit with some making-it-worse additions.

If you come from modern Metroidvanias or even Dread though it probably feels stale at best and backwards at worst.

I wish Retro had settled on what they wanted to do with it. The troubled development clearly shows. I'm super burned out on anything "open-world", but even I can see that a proper BotW'esque MP game could have been seminal. That is not the path they went with though. Then they should have stuck with their guns and give us MP Remastered 2.0. That they also did not abide by.

Not surprising. I bet people are doing their holiday shopping right about now as well and Mario is just more popular than Kirby. I'm a bit saddened by the sales numbers for Age of Imprisonment. I'm currently at 57% completion of TotK, so by the time I finally 100% it, it'll probably be on a big sale. Which is sadly what happens fast with Warriors type games, but a blessing to my wallet.

@Qwiff I watched Abdallah's stream and the core gameplay is just shooting, rolling and scanning.

For me personally, it's way too monotone for me and I like a bit more variety in gameplay. I would get bored very quickly with a game as this, so I won't be picking it up.

Yeah, that's all great, but the omissions make the list useless to everyone. I'd rather stick with the NintendoLife lists curated by the users.

So far, I'm still in linear status.
Enjoying it some, but clearly not designed for twin stick gameplay.

Dread below Zero Mission is a sin.

@wizzgamer I'm honestly surprised there are people expecting a portable PS5 at under $500

Finally an opportunity to shout "RASCZAKS ROUGHNECKS!" while gaming.

The terrible writing alone warrants such a bad rank. Nintendo hired quacks and the game is a lame duck.

Having played it for 4 hours yesterday evening, I find myself agreeing with the 60-80 range reviews that I've read. They all mention the linearity, the fact that the biomes are separate and the desert area acting mostly as padding. I.e. the "Prime" parts are very good, but the new elements bring it down. I think that's a fair assessment. There's still much to enjoy here.

Omg ... Dungeons of Dusk looks amazing and brings me right back to one of my favourite NDS games of all time: Orcs & Elves!

@Lucami We need a collection of Doom RPG, Wolfenstein RPG, Orcs & Elves I + II so badly, would be perfect for Switch as well!

I returned my copy of Beyond to Amazon (unopened), due to the reviews, but also that I have a big backlog. Zero Mission and Samus Returns are my favourites btw.

Great news! I was waiting for a Switch 2 fix, to give the multiplayer DLC a try

But seriously, where are the legendarily high-quality Nintendo games these days? Looking at the numbers, it seems like the quality is dropping while the prices keep going up.

Lol some stiff competition down at the bottom

@Scrubelicious It's apparently also got pacing issues and questionable writing (or more so, acting)

Still seems solid, but go in with caution

Well - it’s 1 point better than Other M, which I liked! So I’m good

There’s no way Hunters is better than Prime 4!

@SuntannedDuck2 No absolutely, it’s good that they are distinct games for different tastes. I’m just very much a Zelda person, old-school Zelda to be precise - I like the handcrafted odd worlds more than the “procedural” open worlds of BOTW and TOTK.
Back to Metroid, I’ll go into it open minded, if there’s NPC’s and story sequences that’s something I like, cause shooting into the screen for hours is not my favourite thing. Or scanning artifacts.

@LikelySatan "straight up lies" is a bit harsh. He immediately clarified what he meant by that in that "it feels like you are fighting the same two enemies over and over again" because there are literally 2 types of enemy that pose any sort of a threat and their variations feel very similar, and then there are fodder creatures that hardly qualify as combat.

I ought to pick this game up again. And the Zelda one too. Ben a while since I played them.

What's with all the misinformation in the comments!?

From the top:

If you buy the Switch 2 Edition (red box, red cartridge), it contains the Switch 2 Edition on the cartridge. You can also put it in a Switch 1 to play the Switch 1 version. I'm pretty sure it is a Switch 2 cartridge, as it has the additional pins on the back.

If you buy the Switch 1 version (clear box, grey cartridge) and put it in a Switch 2, the day one patch adds a menu entry telling you there is a paid update to the Switch 2 Edition.

There was a Metroid Pinball? Haha. I know Nintendo like to occasionally dip into a pinball game, with Kirby and Pokemon being notable examples, but I would never have thought about Metroid as a candiate for one.

@Edwicket Couldn’t agree more. So far this game seems criminally underrated, even if the aggregate is still a solid score. And I’m playing on OG Switch!
Hunters was so visually horrible I couldn’t even play past the first half hour. Moving from MP1 was just too rough. Can’t believe this game is scoring lower.

I think this list is also a good reason why you shouldn't take it seriously.

Having a pretty great time so far! I need at least two runs before I start to compare it to the other prime games but the first two hours have been fantastic.

Just for fun, here's my ranking for the mainline games:

Super
Dread
Zero Mission
Fusion
Samus Returns
2
1
Other M

I love them all, though (except for Other M).

@JohntheRaptor the exploration and secrets of discovery are one of a kind in Metroid Prime 1.

@LikelySatan oh? How amusing.

Really not an FPS fan so I'll leave those out of it but of the ones I have really dug into I'd personally rank them best to worst...

Fusion
Super
Dread
Samus Returns
Zero Mission
Other M
2
1

@KoopaTheGamer Different time. It was a technical showpiece for the DS and just having Prime gameplay on a handheld was amazing for 2006. Plus an online FPS for a handheld was a novelty (and it did it very well). I imagine most of the reviews at the time amounted to “the single player is OK but it’s the online you should really buy it for.”

Nowadays taken for what it is, yeah it definitely shouldn’t score so highly but I loved it at the time and can see why it was reviewed favorably.

@flighty he straight up lies in his review, though. And I am a subscriber. "Only two enemy types." Huh?

@Elektrogeist1287 there exists a sequel.