anyway, it's getting great reviews, and more importantly, it sounds like it's just what i want from a 2d metroid. the map is the biggest 2d map in the series, there's no dialogue or npcs, and it's supposedly pretty hard.
and there's less of the bullshit i never liked in the older 2d metroids ... the melee counter mechanics look like they speed up traversal through long corridors filled with enemies by quite a lot
I liked AM2R but if this game makes higher level metroids less irritating to fight and makes the final boss less of a slog it's a million times better.
i still haven't played am2r and probably never will at this point. sort of glad i haven't, because i remember ros being a really great metroid game bogged down by the game boy
I love am2r. I think it's as good as the canon games. The more I play it, the more I realize how amazing it is. When you start to get really good at fighting the different kinds of metroids, then you can appreciate them a lot more. Hard mode forces you to do this.
I ordered on amazon.jp. Preorders with a bunch of other stuff so I guess it's either that I preordered too late and I may have to wait for a restock as they got too many preorders, or it's that they intended to ship the other stuff earlier since that was already for sale so they decided to send the game alone via slow mail to save on shipping...
But nothing's been shipped yet. Dunno. Maybe I'll get a surprise mail tomorrow telling me everything's on the way via express mail. In any case, no game for me this weekend.
I know a man who has been playing the game for a couple of days, illegally of course. He's raving about it and making me even more excited! I should have taken a few valium at lunch so I could just sleep until the game comes out, but now it's too late because they will still be in effect at 12AM EST.