John Rairdin NWR
@jtsknight92.bsky.social
Director of NintendoWorldReport.com
Volunteer Video Editor for GameHistory.org
Star Fox historian of some sort.
Can read various Hyrulean languages pretty well.
Open to writing and video production work.
https://www.rairdincreative.com/john-rairdin
Volunteer Video Editor for GameHistory.org
Star Fox historian of some sort.
Can read various Hyrulean languages pretty well.
Open to writing and video production work.
https://www.rairdincreative.com/john-rairdin
Pinned
Every year on the other site I would make a pinned post asking people to send me their Star Fox-like indie projects. Over the years I've played and gotten involved with some fantastic games and back quite a few kickstarters. Happy to give feedback, edit trailers, or just say good job! Send me stuff!
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John nails it here. Sure it’s fine to have some concerns when previewing something like this, but it’s evident that after Prime 3 that this subseries was gonna dip its toes out of the usual confines of what defines Metroid. Plus, Prime 3 rocks.
Imagine writing a preview for Metroid Prime but only based on the intro. It would be a linear game that's constantly telling you what to do.
Press can only cover what they're shown but context remains key. @jtsknight92.bsky.social takes a look at the reactions to Prime 4. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Press can only cover what they're shown but context remains key. @jtsknight92.bsky.social takes a look at the reactions to Prime 4. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Why I'm Not Worried About the NPCs in Metroid Prime 4
YouTube video by Nintendo World Report TV
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
John nails it here. Sure it’s fine to have some concerns when previewing something like this, but it’s evident that after Prime 3 that this subseries was gonna dip its toes out of the usual confines of what defines Metroid. Plus, Prime 3 rocks.
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Retro Studios' Metroid Prime 2: Echoes was released 21 years ago today on GameCube.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Retro Studios' Metroid Prime 2: Echoes was released 21 years ago today on GameCube.
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Imagine writing a preview for Metroid Prime but only based on the intro. It would be a linear game that's constantly telling you what to do.
Press can only cover what they're shown but context remains key. @jtsknight92.bsky.social takes a look at the reactions to Prime 4. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Press can only cover what they're shown but context remains key. @jtsknight92.bsky.social takes a look at the reactions to Prime 4. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Why I'm Not Worried About the NPCs in Metroid Prime 4
YouTube video by Nintendo World Report TV
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Imagine writing a preview for Metroid Prime but only based on the intro. It would be a linear game that's constantly telling you what to do.
Press can only cover what they're shown but context remains key. @jtsknight92.bsky.social takes a look at the reactions to Prime 4. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Press can only cover what they're shown but context remains key. @jtsknight92.bsky.social takes a look at the reactions to Prime 4. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Got some thoughts out on how the Metroid Prime 4 previews have been framed. Wanted to give some context and perspective as a viewer, as press, and as a Prime fan. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
Why I'm Not Worried About the NPCs in Metroid Prime 4
YouTube video by Nintendo World Report TV
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Got some thoughts out on how the Metroid Prime 4 previews have been framed. Wanted to give some context and perspective as a viewer, as press, and as a Prime fan. youtu.be/33aUDA9KnMQ
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All I'm saying is that if Nintendo had given Metroid Prime 3 to reviewers under the exact same circumstances as this Prime 4 situation, they would've had the same thing to say about that game.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
All I'm saying is that if Nintendo had given Metroid Prime 3 to reviewers under the exact same circumstances as this Prime 4 situation, they would've had the same thing to say about that game.
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Sometimes I think EGM did fatal damage to Metroid by declaring Super Metroid Best Game of All Time in 2003. It calcified its status as the ideal all other Metroid games are judged. Deviations from the formula are a sin.
IGN's Beyond preview talks about it having crossed "a sacred line".
IGN's Beyond preview talks about it having crossed "a sacred line".
I fully agree the franchise should die if no one at Nintendo really cares to make a new one, but I can't say that's the case here and that Beyond has nothing to offer.
I let go of being a Metroid purist some years after Hunters. The franchise can't just be a string of remixed Super Metroids.
I let go of being a Metroid purist some years after Hunters. The franchise can't just be a string of remixed Super Metroids.
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Sometimes I think EGM did fatal damage to Metroid by declaring Super Metroid Best Game of All Time in 2003. It calcified its status as the ideal all other Metroid games are judged. Deviations from the formula are a sin.
IGN's Beyond preview talks about it having crossed "a sacred line".
IGN's Beyond preview talks about it having crossed "a sacred line".
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There sure were a bunch of Federation Troopers in the new Metroid Prime 4 trailer. Let's travel back to the first time those fellas made an appearance in the Prime series (it didn't go well for them) youtu.be/pHv4c21mw9U?...
Vintage Review: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
YouTube video by Nintendo World Report TV
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There sure were a bunch of Federation Troopers in the new Metroid Prime 4 trailer. Let's travel back to the first time those fellas made an appearance in the Prime series (it didn't go well for them) youtu.be/pHv4c21mw9U?...
I'm also really glad we're keeping the prime 2 & 3 style fed trooper armor. Loved this design so much I shamelessly ripped it off for a student 3D animation project when I was like 15 (this screenshot is the most you'll ever see of that :P)
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm also really glad we're keeping the prime 2 & 3 style fed trooper armor. Loved this design so much I shamelessly ripped it off for a student 3D animation project when I was like 15 (this screenshot is the most you'll ever see of that :P)
The vibe I'm getting from the Metroid Prime 4 previews is that the game has a tutorial with lots of dialogue and involves more characters than Prime 1. Fair complaint, but also in line with where the Prime series was when we last left it so kinda what I was expecting.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The vibe I'm getting from the Metroid Prime 4 previews is that the game has a tutorial with lots of dialogue and involves more characters than Prime 1. Fair complaint, but also in line with where the Prime series was when we last left it so kinda what I was expecting.
I had wondered if Metroid Prime 4 would go with the realism of the OG Metroid Prime or the more stylized characters of 2 and 3. Guess this answers that!
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I had wondered if Metroid Prime 4 would go with the realism of the OG Metroid Prime or the more stylized characters of 2 and 3. Guess this answers that!
Playstation saw Xbox putting their games on other platforms and having success and decided that must be the solution. Completely forgetting that you do still have to release the games on your own platform as well.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Playstation saw Xbox putting their games on other platforms and having success and decided that must be the solution. Completely forgetting that you do still have to release the games on your own platform as well.
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It’s the final day to back the #NESBOOK, with the Kickstarter ending at 9pm tonight. Love the #NES? Love reading? Love coffee table books?Then you’ll love this.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It’s the final day to back the #NESBOOK, with the Kickstarter ending at 9pm tonight. Love the #NES? Love reading? Love coffee table books?Then you’ll love this.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
There is a reason Shinesparkers is the best Metroid fan-site shinesparkers.net/metroid-prim...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has entered the Milk-Radius
Visit the post for more.
shinesparkers.net
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There is a reason Shinesparkers is the best Metroid fan-site shinesparkers.net/metroid-prim...
So obviously the news sucks but the emotional journey @pearlmania500.bsky.social is going on in the thumbnails cracks me up. A tragedy in two acts.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So obviously the news sucks but the emotional journey @pearlmania500.bsky.social is going on in the thumbnails cracks me up. A tragedy in two acts.
The absolute audacity to not even change the name
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The absolute audacity to not even change the name
If Reggie had that much sway over sales, why didn't he save the Wii U? Kind of a dick move Reggie. That thing needed your magic powers.
Reggie Fils-Aimé says if he was still at Nintendo, he'd be doing everything to try to make sure Switch outsells the DS in terms of lifetime sales.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/i-like-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/i-like-...
‘I like to win’: Reggie Fils-Aimé says if he was still at Nintendo, he’d try to make sure Switch outsells the DS | VGC
“Their opportunity to reach that milestone is essentially here”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If Reggie had that much sway over sales, why didn't he save the Wii U? Kind of a dick move Reggie. That thing needed your magic powers.
Really looking forward to testing this thing. Let's see if it actually ships this time.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Really looking forward to testing this thing. Let's see if it actually ships this time.
Miyamoto's quest to assemble all his favorite Marvel superheroes continues.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Miyamoto's quest to assemble all his favorite Marvel superheroes continues.
Your regular reminder that the game awards suck
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Your regular reminder that the game awards suck
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Pokemon Pokopia's got a release date, and an interesting release format choice.
Pokemon Pokopia Launching March 5, Coming On Game Key Card - News
www.nintendoworldreport.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pokemon Pokopia's got a release date, and an interesting release format choice.
I just want to talk to whoever at Rare felt that it should be General Scales in Dino rather than Wodohuc Scales. Is General his first name?
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I just want to talk to whoever at Rare felt that it should be General Scales in Dino rather than Wodohuc Scales. Is General his first name?
good reminder that Sylux was never a throwaway character. They seeded this plot line in Hunters and have stuck to it.
"There’s still more I want to build around the story of Sylux and Samus. There’s something going on between them. I want to make a game that touches upon it." Kensuke Tanabe 2015
"There’s still more I want to build around the story of Sylux and Samus. There’s something going on between them. I want to make a game that touches upon it." Kensuke Tanabe 2015
Back in August 2020, we interviewed Richard Vorodi, the Single Player and Story Designer for #Metroid Prime Hunters. Here's what he had to say about Sylux.
The full interview can be found here: shinesparkers.net/interviews/r...
#OperationMetroidPrime4
The full interview can be found here: shinesparkers.net/interviews/r...
#OperationMetroidPrime4
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
good reminder that Sylux was never a throwaway character. They seeded this plot line in Hunters and have stuck to it.
"There’s still more I want to build around the story of Sylux and Samus. There’s something going on between them. I want to make a game that touches upon it." Kensuke Tanabe 2015
"There’s still more I want to build around the story of Sylux and Samus. There’s something going on between them. I want to make a game that touches upon it." Kensuke Tanabe 2015
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Here's my Nintendo digest for the week, featuring links to @konayma6.bsky.social, @jtsknight92.bsky.social, @cutiejea.bsky.social, @jackgyarwood.bsky.social, @jparish.bsky.social and others.
🌸 Issue 457 of Hanafuda Report is out now: hanafuda.report/issues/457/
Switch 2 hits 10 million - Hanafuda Report
hanafuda.report
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Here's my Nintendo digest for the week, featuring links to @konayma6.bsky.social, @jtsknight92.bsky.social, @cutiejea.bsky.social, @jackgyarwood.bsky.social, @jparish.bsky.social and others.
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Based on what we know, Metroid Prime 4 feels more like a follow up to the Hunters storyline than the mainline Prime trilogy. So I decide to replay Metroid Prime Hunters for the first time since it came out.
youtu.be/Bed6ETd_d6Y
youtu.be/Bed6ETd_d6Y
I Replayed Metroid Prime Hunters in 2025 - And it is Fantastic
YouTube video by Nintendo World Report TV
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Based on what we know, Metroid Prime 4 feels more like a follow up to the Hunters storyline than the mainline Prime trilogy. So I decide to replay Metroid Prime Hunters for the first time since it came out.
youtu.be/Bed6ETd_d6Y
youtu.be/Bed6ETd_d6Y
I don't often get super into turn based games, so hear me when I say that Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is an amazing tactics game. Grab it while it's available!
It's on Switch but I don't think the DLC is so GOG is your best bet if you want everything.
It's on Switch but I don't think the DLC is so GOG is your best bet if you want everything.
Sorry to SpacedockPost on Sojourn, but just want to signal boost this unfortunate situation.
The game and DLCs are heavily discounted on GOG so grab em if you've ever wanted to.
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock was my first gig with a major sci-fi IP and a fond memory for me. Very sad outcome.
-Dan
The game and DLCs are heavily discounted on GOG so grab em if you've ever wanted to.
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock was my first gig with a major sci-fi IP and a fond memory for me. Very sad outcome.
-Dan
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I don't often get super into turn based games, so hear me when I say that Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is an amazing tactics game. Grab it while it's available!
It's on Switch but I don't think the DLC is so GOG is your best bet if you want everything.
It's on Switch but I don't think the DLC is so GOG is your best bet if you want everything.