Was it last week when the threads about the Switch 2 doing worse during the holiday season were all over everything? Lol
Both statements can be true. It can sell much better than original switch, while selling worse than itself in previous month.
Nice to see Metroid Prime 4 in the top 10! Hopefully it did well enough to consider a sequel.
Yeah, lot of the old guard are getting to (and past) retirement age. But that doesn’t mean Nintendo will stop making these games. They’re just going to train new people. If the game sells, they’ll want to make another one eventually.
I’ve heard mixed things about Prime 4. That it’s just not nearly as good as the previous ones.
I assume you played it and liked it if you want a sequel?
As someone who loves the three other games, even 3 that was a bit more divisive… 4 is rough. Part of it is decent, but it’s riddled with bad choices.
One of the worst crimes for a Metroid game, they just felt like polluting the plot with a bunch of quirky allies pestering you all the time. You literally can’t explore on your own for ten seconds before one of them calls you on the radio and point at wherever the plot wants you to go next. With forced unskippable zoom in on the map destination. Previous Prime games only had subtle, impersonal hints from your suit, and you could disable them. No such thing in 4.
Bonus, those characters are all so annoying. Especially the one you have to go back to just to activate half of the game’s new abiities.
And then, the huge, “open” central area. It’s a desert, both in appearance and features. It only exists because you need a place to go through with the motorcycle. And the motorcycle almost only exists to go through that place. I just couldn’t see the point.
The enemy variety is very poor (though to be honest some environments look pretty cool at least).
It’s half a good game, with some cool moments, and the rest is either boring or cringeworthy.
There are moments where it feels great, like what you think Metroid Prime should feel like, but largely it’s a pretty mediocre game, sadly.
It functionally feels good - the gameplay is solid. And it looks great. But it’s soulless, and the story they try to put in there is pretty weak. Really unfortunate.
It has some issues, but I enjoyed it. I think a new game would be done from scratch by Retro, whereas in this case they inherited a half baked thing from Namco and had to build on top of that. Thay would probably make it a much better game. If they take in the feedback from 4 on top of that, it’d be amazing.
