i genuinely feel this more than i should
i love hanging out and talking to folks about dumb shit but that conversation is extremely difficult to actually get started

it's probably just because it benefits video games to have snappy level names, and a two-word naming scheme just works for that

if the metroidvania i was working on at one point didn't have an area called lost impact i would have never come to this realization

VOLT FORGE
ACT 2

alucard walks through a door and regal text appears on the screen with a warped fade-in:

"CHAOS ANGEL"

It is frankly like the producers and writers got so traumatized by the response to Other M that they're too scared to write anything good or impactful. Prime 4 crashes back into the status quo so hard that it literally could have just not happened if another followup ever gets made.

It's like Samus (and friends~!) get sent Somewhere™ to experience the horrors and then when they try to come back Sylux Is Also There.

the ending was disappointing
it felt... empty
prime 4 has two plots right? the past plot of the lamorn that you discover over the course of the game--that was great!

the present plot has... nothing really going on