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Message: [QUOTE="Graw, post: 125251, member: 90249"] All the metroid games that came after Super Metroid, except Prime 1. I was so fucking excited when Fusion was announced. I didn't even care about Metroid Prime. Prime seemed like it was just going to be some kind of generic space shooter but Fusion was the next real metroid game. Man was I ever wrong. They managed to take just about everything I loved about Super Metroid and completely remove it. Zero Mission was marginally better but still basically the same kind of hand holdy, telling you where to go shit and every game in the series has just been worse since. I also couldn't stand Haiku despite generally enjoying Metroidvanias. Like everything about that game just pissed me off. The colour scheme was disgusting. The game itself felt like they tried to just directly rip off Hollow Knight and Metroid but didn't really understand what actually made those games good. Same with Timespinners. It felt like a shoddy Castlevania rip off with a bunch of woke talking points crammed in just for the sake of it. I normally don't even really care about that kind of stuff but Timespinners felt like it only existed just for the sake of that. Like it didn't really improve on or change enough of the Castlevania formula to justify it as being anything other than a vehicle for politics. I also wasn't a huge fan of Death's Gambit Afterlife. I feel like the horizontal map design was a bit of a misstep. It was tedious getting around. I also really didn't like the Will system. Being punished for dying too much in a soulslike game is some nes level bullshit I don't have time for any more. I also don't like roguelike metroidvanias as a genre. I've tried a bunch of them I just can't get into them. I like roguelikes and I like metroidvanias but I just don't think the genres go well together. The roguelike aspects always feel too shallow and the randomization just doesn't work with a genre known for carefully crafted interconnected maps. [/QUOTE]

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