5 hours ago
Well, the preview reviews of Metroid 4 are coming along and we're getting word that early in the new game, you rescue a guy who, from that point on, constantly makes Marvel movie style quips about every little thing you encounter. There's a number of fans who are afraid this is going to ruin the mood of the game, and I think I'm one of them. I know Nintendo have more and more loved their little sidekick characters in their main franchises. Breath of the Wild was notable in it's LACK of a sidekick making comments as you went along, for example. Some of them are very annoying, like Fi, and others are actually very compelling and well written, like the fun Pixar character they turned Pauline into in the newest DK.
But I've never seen a Nintendo game with a constantly quipping Marvel character before... and I gotta tell you... it was already getting old in Marvel movies. There's a reason the new Fantastic Four movie's lack of such quipping was such a breath of fresh air. Sincerity and the willingness to just hang on a moment and allow some tension are a good thing now and then, perhaps even as the default. I just... I don't like it. I don't have a holistic view of the game to really say whether or not it "works" in this particular game or anything, but taken by itself? I don't like it.
But I've never seen a Nintendo game with a constantly quipping Marvel character before... and I gotta tell you... it was already getting old in Marvel movies. There's a reason the new Fantastic Four movie's lack of such quipping was such a breath of fresh air. Sincerity and the willingness to just hang on a moment and allow some tension are a good thing now and then, perhaps even as the default. I just... I don't like it. I don't have a holistic view of the game to really say whether or not it "works" in this particular game or anything, but taken by itself? I don't like it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)