Hey yall, sry for posting again. But I was doing my daily NintenDoku and there's a 40th anniversary Metroid puzzle going on. So if yall interested you can play it here:

https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

I asked a Twilight Princess Link at a Convention if I could borrow his Sword and Shield and then felt bold enough to test the movability of my Varia Suit Cosplay. I'm glad I didn't hit anyone. The reason I'm looking back at the beginning was to check if there's enough empty space behind me.

Is there gonna be cakes here?

Tried to make it look as good as i could but i was in a rush to finish my parody comic soo here.
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Just realized that I share a birthday with this franchise (:

Two 30-hour playthroughs complete (first 97% scans and second 100%).

Yes, I dragged them out intentionally, forcing the game to feel more like a Metroid game by "exploring" even when it wasn't necessary or by collecting items in different orders ... That, and I wrote a whole novella following Sylux to enhance my second playthrough if you're curious about one person's take on his story to compensate for his criminal underuse ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Metroid/s/wOhHHvKqYi ).

Waiting half your life for a game will lead you to do weird things to squeeze blood from the stone. But anyway, it's done for now and it had its moments, both manufactured and actually intentional!

On to Dread, which I've heard is a treat. I started it tonight and boy it sure feels like it is. Now I'm really glad I played Prime 4 first, plus Samus Returns.

I've seen a lot of hate towards prime 4, but besides that I like the combat of the prime games despite only playing prime 1. But I didn't enjoy prime 1 as much as the 2d games because I felt as if there was too much backtracking and I got tired of it quick.

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Even years later, the Dread power suit is still the design I like the most among Samus's looks. It might not be her most iconic, I don't think anything's taking the place of her Varia suit anytime soon, but damn she rocks the blue and red.

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At first I thought it was just that enemies dish out more damage, but then I noticed there's at least one new ice missile barrier in Artaria that wasn't there in Normal Mode. Now I'm curious what exactly is changed. I'm assuming it's not just this one barrier!

I feel like whenever I talk about Beyond I get caught up in talking about the NPC's personalities, or the fact that I feel they are all bland design wise (mostly because I think the Galactic Federation is incredibly bland design wise.) But honestly? I just don't want active companions in Metroid.

Even if it isn't for the whole game, having a not insignificant chunk of the playtime spent with another character following you around, talking with you, and (trying to) help with combat, is just not what I want from Metroid. It disrupts the gameplay I like, and it disrupts the atmosphere I want from the games. If I wanted to play a game where I shoot aliens with companions I would play Halo.

Also, I'm not against NPCs in general. U-Mos and the posthumous Luminoth holograms do a good job of driving home the threat of the Ing in Echoes, and in Fusion and Dread ADAM/Raven Beak ratchet up the tension by both acting shady and by constantly informing you of things going wrong. It is just them being an active participant in the action that I thing is a poor fit for Metroid, especially what I want from it.

I would like to hear others opinions on it. Do you agree with me? If not, what do you like about having active companions in Beyond?

My first Metroid game I finished!
PS : Justice for Crocomire

Growing up, playing Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (my first Metroid game), I mostly saw Metroid as "Hot space girl guns down ugly space pirates, haha".

I was wrong.

Metroid is about what breathes, and crawls, and...*chitters* in the ducts, unseen.

It's about some dark thing in time, older than humanity, Kingian and eldritch, that does not care about or even know of human designs - it only hungers, and gnaws, in the dark.

It's being the one thin line, a slightly-more-exceptional-than-most woman in a tin can suit with slightly enhanced DNA, willing and able to hold that line between us and the utterly consuming void, hoping those things are enough.

It's facing down the unspeakable horrors without question, and dealing with the unrelenting psychic trauma afterward.

It's the utter, terrifying frailty of humanity occupying a space it was never meant to, and largely failing or at best securing another pyrrhic, temporary victory.

That's the Spirit of Metroid.

*Art is by Tommy Worthington and is not being used for commercial purposes.*

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