CUTE i love this palette too :>

honestly if they had written an endearing little twink instead of a cliche right out of monty python i think we'd be having a different conversation

was tough to decide between Mon and Four Eyes tbh

those shell guys sure are a pain in the ass. they all have that glowing crystal on their bellies, though... there's no way that could actually be some kind of weak point, right? that'd be too easy

looks like there's a charging station nearby. hey, your suit's beeping. maybe it's time to recharge? look, i know you're tough, but it miiiiiiiiiiiight be nice to top off your energy soon. just saying. that suit's in bad shape, we should find you a charging station soon. you know, that suit's not go

it's absolutely the worst kind of dialogue, like for all the complaints about Navi or Fi at least none of them fucking snarked at everything like the worst kind of teenager

ugh, finally free!! i never wanna see fish again in my life... unless they're served with some soy sauce and wasabi

this door's not gonna open without a key. yea, looks like we need the red one... maybe there's some clues around here? why don't you put that fancy scanner of yours to good use?

uh, is it just me, or is ridley even bigger than last time? well, uh, i'm gonna go stand over here... good luck!!

yea, it's like they're absolutely & utterly terrified of leaving the player on their own..?

there are so many ways to contextualize samus and give the series more personality / identity in subtle ways if they wanted, but this just feels like "the player will get bored if there's no talking"

oh, look, another new laser beam for your cannon thing. what's this one? fire? ice? some kind of weird space goo?

ugh, more space pirates. aren't you guys getting tired of losing?

there's a lot of reason to really recoil at the design, but imo there's something particularly off about a character saying "So... win?" in such a distinctly modern fashion, like it's stripping away the loosely far futuristic setting and instead cementing Metroid specifically in 2028

yea, that's probably the way to do it... i def lost a lot of my momentum on it once act 3 really kicked in so maybe just taking lots of breaks is the way to go

yea, absolutely!! cheesing is fun, if nothing else it's nice to have a fallback. but yea, it feels like the ratio has tipped heavily towards big fights/gauntlets and the magic is wearing off a bit

yea... i'm really biting my tongue trying not to be reductive, but so far a lot of the bosses have been repeats, and the exploration has been "earlier enemies but they all have a big sawblade aoe"

i'm starting to learn that the 60 hour mark is when my brain gets tired of a game even if i've otherwise really enjoyed it