Posts made by Miles07

While the stealth mechanic would be great for the Metroid series to develop (Metroid Zero Mission being the last one to do something to the effect in 2D, and then the Morph Ball being the proxy for such gimmicks in the Prime games), I highly doubt Nintendo will be innovative enough to give the fans what they want in these terms. As such, I fear that the most we'd get in terms of stealth-like sequences, would be limited to what we had received in the beginning portion of Metroid Prime 3 Corruption's Pirate Homeworld level: Morph Balling under the floors of the Pirates, sneaking across a room that was just made vacant by all Pirates, and dropping through ventilation shafts. And then being uncovered by cutscene, blowing your cover and turning it back into an assault mission.

As for controls, well...
Nintendo Labo Arm Cannon props, anyone?
But seriously, the motion controls might receive more treatment similar to the New Motion Control upgrade that MP1 and Echoes received. However, I do easily see the Grapple Lasso being brought back, and perhaps with more control, since both Left and Right Joycons have gyroscopic controls that could be utilized.
Also, Amiibo.
Also also, Aeion. Let's just see.

What I'm mostly concerned about is timeline placement. We have yet to have a true bridge between the Prime series and Metroid 2 (now Samus Returns), but MP4 might help provide that. In the prologue to Samus Returns, the Federation council deem it necessary to order the genocide of the Metroid race, sending scientists, then soldiers, to SR388. It's possible that the Federation might be involved in the narrative within MP4, since the council thinks that it's enough for them to send scientists to destroy the Metroids. Perhaps Samus helps train soldiers and/or scientists in how to dispatch of Metroids?
Maybe, if Sylux taking the Metroid from Fed Force is any indication as to the story of MP4, then the progression of the story should lead to that inevitable conclusion: the Metroids are too dangerous to leave alive on SR388, and they must be destroyed. And this elite team of scientists is enough to eliminate them. (Also, soldiers sent later to supplement and rescue those scientists.) And if both of those options fail, there's Samus.

I've been posting stuff, and nobody has commented or looked enough to care. Give a little to get a little, ya know?

@eliasthompson

I think that, with the constraints of an 8x8 area for each sprite kept in mind, these sprites are pretty decent. I like the use of mostly-flat coloration, helping those items to pop out of the pic.
Are the Aeion Ability statue icons going to be replaced and updated, also?

Being inspired by Gamemaker's Toolkit's first season of its mini-series Boss Keys, which is a series that looks into the design philosophies of Zelda dungeons in terms of layout, I decided to do something similarly for the Metroid series. This idea was fueled by things like item randomizer algorithms and 100%-speedruns, because I wanted to find a way to chart out the areas of Metroid in an attempt to facilitate pathing and maybe even help Metroid fangame makers to think about design and gating in their games.

Metroid Fusion was actually a very fun one to do.

@sidiouth I do know that he's played through Echoes for some Boss Keys research, and has noted that he likes how each region is like its own "dungeon". And surprise surprise, his primary complaint was how it was strange that he had to leave a region sometimes to go get an upgrade in some other area before coming back and finishing the dungeon.

Being inspired by Gamemaker's Toolkit's first season of its mini-series Boss Keys, which is a series that looks into the design philosophies of Zelda dungeons in terms of layout, I decided to do something similarly for the Metroid series. This idea was fueled by things like item randomizer algorithms and 100%-speedruns, because I wanted to find a way to chart out the areas of Metroid in an attempt to facilitate pathing and maybe even help Metroid fangame makers to think about design and gating in their games.

After starting with NEStroid, I figured on tackling Super Metroid next. Oh boy.