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I loved the original on the DS, had lots of interesting ideas.

I'll get the sequel when I have time, and when the price is right.

Too much to play ... And I didn't even bother with Metroid

Will be purchasing my digital copy once I have a free hour this weekend .... Can't wait 😀

Sounds exactly how I remembered GTA from back then 🙂

@Beetoe thanks. I wouldn't say 15hrs is short ... I know RPGs go longer, but this is different.

I enjoyed the demo, but wasn't really sold on what made it unique. How long is the game?

Two things I don't like - too short and too easy ... Put those together, and it's a pass until it comes on sale.

Well, I'm clearly in the minority here.

I played the demo last night, to close to completion ... And my interest in the game has significantly dropped.

1/ is there music? I even went to the settings to look for an option, but I didn't hear any in-game music.

2/ flashbacks of Metroid returns. The game is way too easy. The normal corridor enemies have no personality or challenge, unlike even the original enemies from Metroid 1. The rooms are to small.

3/ is this Metroid, or contra? Samus moves so fast, can aim anywhere, it no longer feels like Metroid - an exploration game. Run and gun?

4/ there is no dread with the Emmi, just frustration. Mistime and it's game over. Sigh.

5/ even more emphasis on the "counter" attack, including the run + counter.

6/ I can only presume the demo has a cut down intro compared to the original game. It's confusing and messy. Past or present ... Did I miss something from a previous game?

7/ The "omega" beam controls were awful, unless I missed something.

Same old comments - maybe I'm just too old school, and too connected to the old games. Metroid is not about bosses, it's about exploration. It needs a certain amount of challenge when exploring. I don't like the direction this is moving in.

Off my wish list for now. Bring on SMTV ... And Silksong.

Game length is the biggest thing holding me back from a purchase. Be glad to try the demo.

I'm waiting for a sale. 25% off I'll consider, half price I'll buy. Given I spent well over 100hrs on hollow Knight, it's hard to justify this for 10-20hrs. My kids are unlikely to play it, no multiplayer or other modes.

Got plenty to play ... Shin Megami 5 coming soon.

The writing/story and the gameplay can't be beat. It's my favourite GameCube title, beating Metroid prime. I want a sequel, and a remaster.

Where is the Metroid Dread "Cloud edition", running at 4K? Nintendo can charge double for it

@BulbasaurusRex I can't answer your question / post properly, not without going through Samus returns again.

My vague memories of that was a complete focus away from environment level design, with most of the focus on combat. It lacked all the brilliance of Super Metroid, where power ups could be used in creative ways to traverse the world.

I'll comment again after I have played dread, but that's going to be a while.

I think I'm just too old school these days - if I don't get lost endlessly and die continuously, I'm not happy

Sounds like more of what I hated in Samus returns. Not sold at all, and will not be buying this at still price.

I'll give it some time for the reviews to settle down, and will monitor. In the meantime, if I run out of games ... Will play Super Metroid again.

Cloud? For real??
Sigh.

Still waiting for Blood... This looks like fun though.

I'm tempted, and I'll be more tempted if GoldenEye makes an appearance.

That said, I now realise apart from playing Splatoon online - I barely use NSO. Got so many new, good games to play ... Don't need N64 games, most of which I have played already.

Let's see what the cost is. It's another revenue stream for Nintendo.

Release date this year for silksong is all I want.

Makes sense to me. There is so little difference between the models, why would Nintendo keep both going? Will clear out old stock.

Still predict next model next year, with Splatoon 3 for launch.

I'm a few seasons behind, which pretty much aligns with when Jodie starts. This thread peaks my interest enough to want to catch up...

GTA for the Teletubbies generation.

My boys wouldn't play this, looks way too kiddie. Not sure what age group this is targeting, but the gfx look great. High end PC

Two comments:

1/ This means nothing on PlayStation or other sold more than 2,200 units during the week...

2/ More and more sales are digital these days. The newer consoles have even more digital sales. So these charts are becoming increasingly irrelevant over time, unless they include digital sales.

All that said, this is pretty amazing ... Given its the first time its ever happened since there have been multiple consoles around.

Just saw that this dropped today. Love the first game to death, almost my favourite metrovania ever, almost up there with Hollow Knight.

I'm buying it just based on how much I loved the first ... And I think it's brave and great that the sequel is actually different.

Instant buy.

This is a replacement unit. They changed the screen, and will phase out the old unit. It will eventually be the same old price.

They might as well market it, which is what they are doing.

Clearly, this isn't years of R&D ... It's a manufacturing optimisation, and additional production capacity through a different screen.

@METROIDDREAD I did finish it, I remember the boss frustrating me in some way. But I got through it.

Again, I wish dread the best - and I'll love it to be a great game, as I love 2D games. But it's a wait and see.

And re: your exploration comment - I totally agree, but there is clever exploration ... And there is mindless exploration. It can be a fine line between the two.

@METROIDDREAD I'm not going to go into the details now. I enjoyed it so little, I had literally wiped my memory of the game - whereas I found other M to be innovative, and quite interesting.

Everything that is unique about Metroid relates to how the upgrades allow interesting combat and world navigation - and following on, provide access to new areas as "puzzles". If they aren't puzzles, or the progression is obvious ... It's not Metroid. It's just a vanilla platformer.

From memory, Samus returns was a boring, unchallenging platformer, with few if any "puzzles". In a lot of ways, Metroid is very similar to Zelda ... Just differently themed. But I'd need to replay it to provide better commentary, and I'm certainly not going to do that now.

I absolutely can't wait for silksong, nor axiom verge 2 ... Dread, I would love this to be an excellent game ... But I'm certainly not going to buy it without reading a lot of reviews.

500 comments. Nice.

The article lost me at "we loved Samus returns". Proof they have no idea at all what makes a good Metroid game, or what makes the series special.

I'll wait for the release and the reviews. Price is secondary to quality.

I was excited about this, until I realised it's the same content as the first games ... Which I played more than enough of, and still own.

I prefer the "no random" rolls gameplay to that of fire emblem ... Which is almost the same, except for hit and critical chances. This is more like chess.

Ahh, that explains it all. I pretty much hated Samus returns, at least this looks a lot better.

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, but I was hoping this was done by the other M team instead.

And comparing this to Hollow Knight? Nintendo should outright buy out Team Cherry, they would do Metroid justice.

Sounds fair to me. Once the stream is up people can pay reaction videos all they like.

It's Nintendo's choice. If it wasn't for their work and their stream, there won't be any reaction videos.

A day or two after the stream, the internet will be filled with reaction videos anyway.

Based on this review / comments I bought the game. Whereas it took a while to warm up, I really enjoyed it in the end ... My save game has over 80hrs clocked up.

It's not that hard - I finished it on my 4th run, but each time you do, the difficulty options increase and it becomes more challenging.

I have had enough after completing " Entropy 1", which is after the "extreme" difficulty.

The combat system is probably the best turn based combat system I have played - if only Pokemon has concepts like this.

There is plenty to unlock, and the gameplay changes a lot based on the party combination ... Some characters are better than others, but they are all good and balanced in their own way.

Great game, definitely worth a go. Would love a sequel with more depth and options.

I really enjoyed citizens of Earth, but it was horribly buggy after a while. The game crashed, and may have even killed my save game. Pity, as I really enjoyed what I played.

This is a good game, I really enjoyed and finished it. Better than Twilight IMO, but not as good as ocarina.

I won't be double dipping, unless my kids are really keen to play this.

It definitely has some BoTW elements, just with smaller linear levels.

Hopefully the controls transfer across well, as it was heaps of fun to hold the sword "Skyward".

I have never played Diablo 2, and always heard it was fantastic... So I'm very interested.

I'm calling this a launch title for the Switch Pro. Whether it only runs on the pro, will need to be seen.

Hopefully the online performance, hacking and related issues are all fixed. That's what I really want.

"Our next contract was to make two horse riding games, Mary King’s Riding Star and Equestriad 2001. We created prototypes for both, but then got the contract for Lego Stunt Rally."

Wow, this brings back memories. Equestriad was the first game I was lead on, back in Tantalus. Riding Star was IR Gurus from memory, and I worked there the following year on the Willowbrook Stables game.

If he wanted to do Gameboy Advance, then he might have used the Catapult system.

Memories...

And is the subscriber number "accounts" or "users"? We have 1 account, but 5 users...

I picked up family membership and don't regret it all. Between SNES and nes games, and playing Tetris 99 ... Easily got my money worth. Now the kids play Splatoon online, get Mario maker courses and play Minecraft. All for about $3aud per month. And I have given free access to a free others ...

As long as the price doesn't start increasing, I'm good with this.

20XX = 2022. 2021 would be 20XY .

Why remove the plus and minus buttons, unless they are replaced with something hidden? This means it won't be for the switch.
They might be making them side-agnostic ... To simplify manufacturing, and allow them to be sold standalone.

I'm interested. How long is the game?

Those sales figures for animal crossing are literally unbelievable. It's going to smash through 6m, and may hit 7m physical by the end of the year.

At this rate, it has a chance of 10m lifetime physical within 2-3 years. Never seen anything like it.

And here I was wondering if new horizons would hit 5m in a timely manner ... With half the year to go, it should be able to hit 6m physical by Xmas. That's 40k sales over 25 weeks, plus any likely Xmas boost.

I would love to buy ring fit, but have been holding off due to the $120+ price tag here in Australia. It's just a piece of plastic guys plus the game...

This is great, but still waiting for BLOOD. The build engine one. With online multiplayer.

If someone can deliver that, oil personally buy all of my mates a switch so we can relive the glory days of 8 player blood multiplayer. Best multiplayer ever.

Mario kart is still Nintendo's biggest game. I can't think of a better Xmas title than Mario kart 9 ... Assuming they can actually come up with a reason to make it different.
Long how has it been since MK8 originally came out? Google says over 6 years now. That's a long time to work on new ideas for a sequel.

This is very simple. Removing a DVD/Blu-ray drive from a console greatly reduces cost, size, power use and complexity.

Removing a small cartridge slot does not. It might save a few dollars. Maybe.

That's about it.

Not a great shock, but the charts will be the Nintendo charts until PS5 releases.

Given the delay around it, there should be plenty of games at launch ... As long as covid hasn't messed up development, and it really should have minimal impact on software development for large titles, in development for years.

Nintendo will not want to launch around the same time as the PS5 ... They want to avoid competition. Maybe a year later. And switch is doing great.

Played many hours of this ... 30 years ago. Great and fun game. The level editor is cool as well.

When was the last time Japan had a physical million seller, starting with "4"?

It will take AC no more than 3 weeks to achieve this, and at this rate I'll be surprised if it doesn't hit 5 million by the end of the year.

Include digital sales, and wait for switch hardware to start flowing again ... And you have some scary numbers.

I played the demo, and frankly couldn't stand out after a while. The story telling was atrocious, and I spent most of my time running around the environment looking for the next "checkpoint" to advance the story. For example on one of the characters are you initially tasked with "find her brother, he is nearby" ... Only to discover you never really find him, just wasting time. The combat didn't inspire me, the equipment was the same old routine, etc. Deleted it after a while, have much better RPGs to play.

Give me C# or close, and I'll seriously consider doing something professional. Still is great for those learning and messing around.

Love to make a LOZ-LTTP style game...

The developer has no rights. It doesn't matter if they did all the work and the publisher doesn't want it - they have no rights.

They can use the work they did to make a new, wholly owned cooking game and publish it - with new IP, new mechanics and new art. Then they own it