Forum Overview :: Article Submissions :: I also didnt like the original Metroid :(

[quote name="FABIO"][quote name="FoK"]The first Zelda was ROCK AS FUCK. Mostly because of the music, though. I think that was the first game wherein I sort of scooted in my seat because something was chomping at my ass in a game. (Those traps, I think). Every early NES game was Nintendo Power-required. Metroid sure was, and even Punch-Out! was, unless you were smart/lucky enough to figure out Bald Bull's weakness. [/quote] Metroid bored the hell out of me. I guess you could say it was the first free form game with huge explorable levels....if you didnt count Zelda, but all that really ment to me was that I got lost easy, had to bomb everything in sight, and get set back for hours after missing a jump and landing in god knows where. I can forgive this though since the supremely excellent Super Metroid corrected all these shortcomings. Now, can anyone with a gamecube tell me what the shit is the appeal of this Metroid Prime thing? Every time I watch someone playing it it looks boring as hell. Someone walking around an empty base practically devoid of enemies (when 2 or 3 do pop up they're always killed in a couple seconds via autotargetting) and seems to consist of nothing but 1st person jumping puzzles and "trigger the door to open then race there before it closes" segments. [quote]The 2nd Zelda was okay, I thought it was awesome that you could walk up to a town and then enter it the way you did, turning from the up-top perspective to the side-scrolling. But, as you mentioned, the RPG leveling was WEAK AS HELL. How much longer to I have to kill these little red fuckers before I can go to bed?[/quote] I think the people who say it was shit were just pissed that it wasn't another Zelda game, if it had been released with any other name it probably would have been remembered as a good platform adventure. I thought those fights with the knights were the closest thing the NES ever got to actual swordfighting. I preferred this to the supper happy fun cutesy bomb+arrow+whatever of other Zelda games. Sadly, each new Zelda game seems to up the cuteness, downplay the sword fighting (lock-on targetting! yay!), and devote more time to gambling mini-games. More adventuring and swordfighting, less fishing mini-games thank you (can I get a decent short review of Dark Cloud 2 from anyone? People say it's great, but from the descriptions I'm getting it sounds like nothing but mini-games). Shadow Link was also the best last boss ever (apparently there was some gimmick where you could easily defeat him, thankfully I never stumbled on it). For what it's worth, I also thought Mario 2 to be the best out of the NES and SNES eras[/quote]