Latest Metroid game and the first for Switch. Surprised revealed in spring 2021 and released in October the same year it was the first new 2D Metroid game since Metroid Fusion back in 2002 meaning it was almost 20 years between them, and it's also the first game since Fusion that brings the story forward since the games in between have been stories set before Super Metroid... well, I don't know about Federation Force since I haven't played more than the intro stage.
Story is that after Fusion the federation got a message with a video of an X parasite on a different planet. Thought of being extinct since the events in Fusion when Samus dropped a whole space station on SR388. So the federation sends in 7 specialised E.M.M.I robots specialised in extracting biological matter. But as usual they lose contact and Samus Aran has to be sent in to finish the job. Arriving she is attacked by a Chozo named Raven Beak that strands her in the middle of the planet and without her powers. So she has to search the planet to upgrade her weapons, avoid and then destroy the rouge E.M.M.I's and escape.
This games hard. Usually you get to the end game and can demolish any enemy and boss, but here I actually have to learn to fight the damn things. Closer to the Metroid Prime end bosses since those were hard as well. Or at least the first two, never finished 3. Also, the tricks you gotta do to get 100 % items is something I couldn't do on my own so I had to look it up and then train to get it. People have played too much of these games if the thought is "yeah, pretty obvious you gotta stand on this edge, shoot the door, shinespark up those two ramps and then get through the speed booster blocks in morph ball mode for a missile upgrade".
In the end it seems like Raven Beaks plan was forcing Samus to fight which would force the Metroid DNA in her to take over and with that allow him to clone the Metroids and use them as an army to conquer the Universe. Unfortunately for him the X destroyed most of his plans and when Samus finally get good enough there is a real battle to the death. I gotta have been killed around 10 times, but I got him. And then I was able to escape with only 5 seconds to spare before the whole planet blew up. There is different gallery images you can unlock depending on ending time, I got almost 15 hours first time. After beating the game once you get hard mode, and we will see if I ever beat it. I can probably cut down on the time by a wide margin just by not being compelled to paint the whole map since it doesn't actually matter, beyond a small OCD tendencies.
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