Absolutely Super Metroid. It’s a near-perfect game even 20+ years later, and (like Link to the Past for Zelda) is the moment that the series really coalesced into a recognizable set of mechanics.

I really hate Kinja. You would never see people talking like this at the old Gameological site.

Still strongly suspect it was about licensing issues with the NES Classic. They severely underestimated demand, and might have been stuck with time/unit limitations they could not easily get around (it includes big name franchises like Final Fantasy and Mega Man, Square in particular make good money selling the FF…

The main reason I bought my Switch in May was to secure one ahead of the holiday hassle. I’m glad to hear the SNES will be around more, and that the NES will be back, too, something Nintendo knew all along but likely didn’t want to say in the last few months for Reasons. I am supposed to ensure an SNES underneath a…

Yeah, weird how a company with its value tied almost entirely to its intellectual property rightfully protects it.

Getting away from the discussion of Another Metroid 2 Remake, I’d like to talk about the game’s relative quiet. Anthony discussed this last year in regards to the wordier opening of Metroid Prime, and while I stand by PaganPoet, Jakeoti, Merlin, and DL with our disagreement on how it affected the game, I also can’t…

Good call on it looking like Captain Toad - that’s definitely its closest visual predecessor, surprisingly. I didn’t get the game expecting to soak in the environments, but I too have found them like charming little Mushroom Kingdom dioramas. It’s definitely indicative of Ubisoft’s hand, rather than Nintendo’s, that…

I’m right there with you on terrible aiming skills! Shooters have never been my bag. Fortunately, I’m very good at platformers! So I use Ninja Squid and my own reflexes to get up-close-and-behind opponents and pop out of the ink at short enough range that aiming doesn’t even come into it!

This weekend, like Matt Gerardi, I may well be playing Nier: Automata. I bought it and Trails of Cold Steel with some birthday cash and am planning to return one of them. It felt like the time for an interesting JRPG, as the beginning of Autumn often does, and these are about as different as they could be while…

Well, come Saturday the Household Flam will finally be back down to its normal three inhabitants. Just me, Summer, Morty, Beth, Jerry, Sleepy Gary, Photography Raptor, Cousin Nicky... wait, that’s more than three....

I’m having serious deja vu here, now that I’m playing Splatoon while reading about people playing Destiny and thinking “man, Destiny players always sound like they’re describing a chore even when they clearly love the game!” To each their own, although I’m firmly remaining in the “do not get it” column: it sounds like…

My return to No Man’s Sky has stuck. I’ve actually engaged with base building for the first time, and I’m following the new story whenever I get the hankering for a more structured experience. The Atlas quest is a little bugged now, so it’s taking me twice as long as it should because I have to jump through a few…

Final Fantasy IV was probably the first time I came across an unwinnable battle. And I think FFIV did a pretty good job of introducing the trope. The first time it happens is when Rydia summons Titan. As soon as Titan attacks, the battle screen fades away and it goes right into a cut-scene. There’s no “fake game…

Salutations~!