You’ll find a new character to be frustrated about. And thus the logic continues until there’s nothing left anymore, and the game will suck. Let me counter with my own unpopular opinion: Frustrating characters have a very important place in competitive games.

You make it sound like no realistic alternatives exists, yet there was a little movie about monstrous lizards back in ‘93 that didn’t use a whole lot of CGI.

That’s just silly. While the game is obviously similar, the mechanics make it a very very different game in practice, and a lot of the subtle mechanics are very different as well. Heck, one of the best Sm4sh players, Mew2King, supposedly does not play Marth in Sm4sh, because he’s worried it might screw up how he plays…

It could be a great, fun game, in all the best tradition of loot-hoarding games. The problem is that it carries the Metroid title. We haven’t really gotten a good Metroid game since Prime 3, since Other M was mediocre. Metroid. Metroid is about a tense, serious, solo exploration experience. The title carries a certain…