I’m really surprised this hasn’t been mentioned in any review. The D-pad has been my biggest concern of the hardware.

And how many children have smartphones? A kid will need to borrow their parents’ phone everytime they want to voicechat with their friends? That sounds really annoying.

I just had a very similar experience in Super Metroid. I decided to replay it a few days ago and about 5 minutes in after getting the morph ball I got stuck. All of the paths led to a dead end and the space pirates weren’t coming to life. I forgot that I could shoot DOWN which would have led me to where I needed to…