Topic: Metroid: Samus Returns

I would love to preorder this now while I still have money in my pocket but not having any luck anywhere. I guess it's still too early for that?

Me after playing Am2R earlier this year: "One of the reasons I'm glad this exists is because it updates the other outdated Metroid title, and one I can't see Nintendo themselves going out of their way to remake."

Me now: ...huh.

Well, it will be fun to see which is better-

AM2R is the better Metroid 2 remake. The end.

Though this will probably be better than LoS at least, since it looks like a Metroid game instead of a mediocre version of whatever 3D action game was considered cool at the time.

XD

Looking forward to adding a couple more Metroid games to my collection over the next couple of years.

Hopefully there'll be more than just a couple.

I'd really love to see Metroid Prime Pinball enlarged and updated for 3DS or Switch.

Septermber 15 can't come soon enough. The only aspect that worries me is that this game doesn't seem to have the charm on the enviroments that other entries had, but then again the original return of Samus wasn't good in that regard. The gameplay looks relly fun and in the end, that's all that matters to me.

Edit: Nah, I just saw the treehouse gameplay video and it looks amazing in every way. A bit weird to have that Norfair remix theme though, since this isn't Zebes.

Neither version of that Lower Norfair theme comes close to Nintendo Land's version.

What's weird and interesting to me is swapping beam elements to deal with different enemies, akin to the first two Prime games.

@MarcelRguez 3D is a mechanic that I tend to forget in most games to be honest, but I believe I can see how it can enhance the visuals considerably with this game, considering that they seemed to give prority to make the backgrounds with different levels of deepness. For some reason Shinobi 3 came to my mind when I tried to imagine how could it look with the 3D effect.

@MarcelRguez It was certainly a good way to help encourage different approaches to fights. Although Prime 1 was a bit too on the nose with it at various points (this enemy is yellow, so use the yellow beam to damage it, derp). 2 did it best with ammo management, punishing excessive use of a given tactic, especially with the Annihilator Beam.

Three main elements of beam were mentioned (fire, ice and electric), and the... Gamma, was it? Metroid couldn't be damaged at all until Samus switched to the Ice Beam. I also noticed a purple Spazer/Wide beam.

Metroid II was the first game in the series that I completed. Thanks to Club Nintendo (R.I.P.), I was able to download it on my 3DS a few years ago. Needless to say, I'm stoked for this remake!

As for MercurySteam being involved, while I never played Mirror of Fate itself, I did quite enjoy the demo. I'm definitely giving this one a chance.

I can't believe they actually made this. Guess they saw how much people liked AM2R and wanted to capitalize on it. There's definitely some interesting things about this game, the melee counter and Aeion abilities definitely spice things up. Melee counter especially really takes Other M's combat and tones it down in a way that actually adds to the gameplay.

That being said, there's probably going to be some things AM2R does better. Already the Arachnus fight looks worse than AM2R's.

I'm actually glad to hear MercurySteam is working on this as Mirror of Fate had some of the best 3d I've seen on the system. Can't wait to get my hands on this!

@Spoony_Tech I wasn't, as I didn't care for MoF, but the treehouse footage reassured me. It looks and plays like an updated Metroid game, and has music that was composed by a previous Metroid composer. I think this is going to be great.

@Bolt_Strike This game has undoubtedly been in development for a good while. Long before the AM2R controversy, assuredly. It takes time to create polished commercial products.

Yeah I think it would be a bit silly to think they pasted this together in a few months just because people liked that other project.

I'm sure this game has been at least a few years in development.

It probably began as that original concept from some years ago.

Is this Another Metroid 2 Remake? :v

I feel as though for a lot of players, including myself, this may as well not be a remake as a lot of people never played the original. Pretty sure this will be a day one download for me.

Ya this feels like a brand new game to me. Might as well be.

Those aeion powers seem really OP. I hope they're not abusable.

To be fair, remaking Metroid 2 as it is without going off the lines to make it more interesting would result in a very boring game.

The original game isn't very long or hard, if you just add a map and make things easier to distinguish then you'll make it even easier and shorter.

Hopefully this is Metroid II's "Zero Mission."