Comments on: The Anatomy of Metroid Fusion | 8 | Heat of the moment http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/04/05/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-8-heat-of-the-moment/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 By: Whitestreak http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/04/05/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-8-heat-of-the-moment/#comment-3166 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 22:24:00 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=12272#comment-3166 I agree that Adam didn’t grate when I first played MF. Sadly, it was a Russian pirate cartridge which stopped functioning after I’d finished the game. Reading this series really makes me want to play it again, and I’m seriously considering buying a Wii-U now…

]]> By: lurker http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/04/05/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-8-heat-of-the-moment/#comment-3165 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:22:56 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=12272#comment-3165 The first time I played Metroid Fusion I actually liked all the mission briefings. Looking back at them now I can see how they’re really just tutorials, but back then I was very much into the story. Through Adam you can really see the X-infestation growing out of hand in a way that would have been hard to do with just gameplay. There’s also a real sense of the SA-X stalking you (altough you only actually encounter it 3 or 4 times) that almost turns MF in a sort of horrorgame. For me it’s closer to the Alien-movie than any of the other games.

I remember this particular example of the frozen parasites feeling very tense back in the day. Adam warns you of a dangerous new enemy that you should avoid at all costs, and moments later you’re being chased by 5 or 6 of those blue globs. It freaked me out way more than if they would have just appeared without any explanation.

]]> By: J. Parish http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/04/05/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-8-heat-of-the-moment/#comment-3164 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 23:43:24 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=12272#comment-3164 Yeah. This and Nightmare were the worst. On the plus side, button-mashing combat is much more tolerable on Wii U’s Game Pad!

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