What do you want to see from the next 2D Metroid?

What do you want to see from the next 2D Metroid?

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A Switch logo on the box.

Samus visits a Chozo colony at the start for a new power suit as a way to not be in the fusion suit and reset her power. During which time the corrupt feds following her get shot down by a Chozo defense network and Samus gets blamed setting up a game of her being on the run.

>THE BOUNTY HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTER'S BOUNTY
>THIS WINTER ONLY ON NINTENDO SWITCH

I want to see the melee counter reworked. I think it's fine in returns, but I also think a lot of peoples complaints regarding it are totally valid.

Having to wait for an enemy to charge to counter can get tedious, I will admit that. That's why they should change it so you can use the melee attack whenever you want on an enemy, but have it do way way less damage. Functionally though, keep it the same. If it's a boss, Samus can enter that quick little cinematic view and attack easier, but also make it so she is more vulnerable in this state. You still need to jump out of the way or dodge in this view, instead of just pumping the boss full of missles like in Returns

As for smaller enemies, like I said, don't make it so damn powerful. Maybe make it stun them and point Samus' retical toward the enemy so you can quickly load them with some shots, without turning them into one hit kills.

It just needs a mechanical rebalance.

It's disappointing to know that SR is probably going to be the only metroid game for a VERY long time where you actually are actively hunting Metroids. It's such a fun concept and fits so well with the franchise

They could always just replace Metroids with another creature. X Parasites would be a good compromise if they bullshit a way to bring them back.

True. I don't think they were ever confirmed to be extinct at the end of Fusion. Only implied.

They better not. X-parasites are too Op to make a returning threat.

Man , few things can date an image so specifically than a fake 3ds logo.

Samus is led to a new Chozo planet in Metroid 5 by the animals in her ship. Samus still isn't on good terms with the GF. Little does she know that the GF had already found the planet and gained interest in this planet because it was the first Chozo planet with active technology. The GF built a facility on the planet not knowing what was hidden. The GF has an unfortunate run-in with the ancient Chozo who wipe out their presence on the planet. Before being taken out, the GF does send a massive distress call out, warning about what happened which Samus received. Samus now had to face ancient Chozo Warriors hellbent on creating a forced peace in the galaxy. Not only does Samus have to save the galaxy from enslavement but she also learnt of how X-Parasites are created as she witnesses the creation of X through corrupted Aeon, can Samus stop the threats of the ancient Chozo and X, can she clear her name because of these horrible events?

Aeon could be a way to bring them back.

If we're fighting ancient Chozo in the next game, I can see Metroids playing a big part.

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Post Fusion game already been teased

fpbp

And I want it to be gorgeous please.

Fully embrace body horror and take the dark themes to a whole new level for the franchise.

Samus passes out in her ship and crash lands on a new planet that, unlike most Metroid games, has never had Chozo occupants and therefore doesn't have any traditional power suit upgrades.

Samus begins her adventure to fix her ship and slowly begins mutating into a Metroid thanks to the Metroid DNA received in Fusion rejecting her Chozo DNA.

At first the game will paint this as a positive thing. As her fusion suit slowly starts to resemble that of a Metroid, new abilities are unlocked. Use the ship parts to progress the game naturally and determine when her next mutation (power up) is going to occur.

Over time though, without drawing any attention to it, the player will begin to notice that the Metroid mutation might not be as good for Samus as initially assumed. After the first ~1/3rd of the game, Samus will start to move a bit slower, and might not be able to jump quite as high. It becomes noticable that Samus is ill and soon entire abilities stop being avalible. The game stops being "casually find the ship parts to get home" and turns into desperately trying to get off of the planet and find medical attention asap.

Of course, simply taking away abilities doesn't really make for fun gameplay, so Samus' new abilities keep unlocking to replace the ones she is losing and keep the flow of the game steady. She might not be able to use morph ball bombs any more, but now she can, for example, cover the walls and ground in an explosive gel. Basically mix up the Metroid formula by juggling the powers you have yet to lose, and the new ones you have gained, instead of simply getting more and more powerful as the game goes on.

Really try to drive home the dark setting and themes. Have no dialog aside from Adam talking to Samus in an opening cutscene, and malfunctioning jibberish that you can hear from him every time you walk passed your crashed ship.

Yeah it's almost like you fucking killed tham all or something.

>Samus begins her adventure to fix her ship and slowly begins mutating into a Metroid thanks to the Metroid DNA received in Fusion rejecting her Chozo DNA.

Sakamoto already said the Sa-X restored her old DNA.

A game where Sylux works with unknown forces to frame Samus for a crime she didnt commit.
Then shes captured, stripped of her weapons and upgrades, and sent into a GF prison station with other dangerous prisoners and Samus' former bounties.
Soon after her imprisonment, Space Pirates attack the station and bring forth an experimental plague that infects everyone there except Samus whos previous contact with X Parasites and Metroids and Phazon have made her build up an immense resistance to infection, and the Space Pirates, (at least at first).
She has to find answers and escape.

End the game with a final playable cutscene. Samus at this point is a gory cronenberg mix between Metroid and human. She desperately crawls toward her ship at a snail's pace.

She is a few feet away when suddenly lights shine down from the sky on her. A Galactic Federation ambulance lands and two federation troopers step out.
>"Samus Aran, you are hereby under arrest for the destruction of the BSL Federation Station and leaking top secret government information"
They drag her onto the ship and it takes off, leaving behind the still wrecked gunship and unfunctional Adam.

>MISSION COMPLETE
>CLEAR TIME:

Shit you guys are worse than other: M Sakamoto.

Meh. Doesn't really matter. It's still what I want to see from the next Metroid. I think it's a more interesting concept than wherever else they could go past fusion.

Either way it's clearly not what the end of Returns is teasing. Im fine admitting it's not what we are probably going to get.

Other M actually wasn't as bad as was meme'd

NO NO NO NO NO

DO NOT LET THIS BECOME THE POPULAR OPINION
OTHER M NEEDS TO BE GASSED.

LORE RUINING, CHARACTER ASSASSINATING, ANTI-FUN GARBAGE

Of course not.
It was much worse.

>Other M is a bad game meme
Ok, we get haha

And of course the station she was put into was a very deliberate decision by the GF. The station and the planet it orbits harbours a dark secret.
Samus gets her core upgrades back easily. Too easily.
It seems that many forces are at work.

more amiibos, maybe lock the ability to use missiles until a specific one is scanned in

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Don't exaggerate

That pic but on Switch. Also make it 3rd peraon instead of 2D.

You can melee non charging enemies

Yea but it doesn't do anything. It just pushes them around a little without the benefits of doing it when they charge

The pushback's stun can be enough to beam them to death.

Dread.

This is pretty good but mainly because I also want to see them shake up the formula. Literally any new upgrade would satisfy me.

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW CHOZO OVERLORDS

I was disappointed there wasn't a single new powerup in SR aside from the dpad stuff

Holy shit a straight up horror game with like a dread meter or something and fear tactics would be an AMAZING entry into Metroid.

Fuck now I want this.

Not being made by Retro.
Being on Switch
Being a Fusion sequel
Being true 2D

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Who should make it then? Straight up EAD or NextLevelGames, MercurySteam, Team Ninja?

Retro never made a 2d Metroid. I don't see why they would start now.

Exact same team that made Samus Returns

Nothing. I want this series dead because Nintendo wiped its ass on it. It's going to keep cannibalizing itself until the inevitable Super remake if it doesn't stop now.

They made 2D Donkey Kong games. Pretty sure the skills would be transferable.

Actually that's not a bad point. They clearly have skills with the Metroidvania formula as seen in Prime 1 and 2, too.

Maybe they would be a smart choice for V afterall

They killed the series for years and years with Prime. I never want them touching the franchise again.

I want MercurySteam to work on Metroid 5.

Metroid games came out consistently until Other M

Funny how everyone wanted the opposite before SR released.

This is a completely valid and justifyable opinion now.

I like the idea of losing powers and swapping them for new ones, but the rest is retarded.

A game where the only thing Samus does is have sex with black men.

Real life

>not THE BOUNTY HUNTER BECOMES THE BOUNTY HUNTED

not being 2.5D but instead fully 2D again.

Gameplay can be pretty much the same. I just want a compelling story to it. For all of its problems, at least Other M tried.

I was fine with them even before Samus Returns.

So yet another retro style metroidvania game?

The problem with other M was that they took it waaaay too far.

As far as I'm concerned Fusion hits the story sweetspot perfectly. Just enough plot for the player to be invested without it bogging down the game.

I hope we get Fusion's level of storytelling for Metroid 5.

A 3DS logo on the box. I have literally 0 interest in Shitch at the moment.

I'd rather we get the Prime/Samus returns level of storytelling

I like this guy's concept for handling story. Actual game synopsis aside, the perfect plot structure for Metroid games is

>Opening cutscene
>Context clues throughout the game that progress the plot without any dialog
>Ending cutscene
Especially if you sprinkle lore in there like SR. You really can't go wrong with this setup.

high-cut bikini samus

/thread. If Metroid 5 is still on the 3DS with outdated graphics on a 6 year-old console, I'll be livid.

T. Autism

agree with your green quotes, fusion had too much dialogue/plot and fucking about in your com rooms and elevator monologues

No Zero Suit Samus
No Mole on Samus
No Heels on Samus
Higher Ponytail on Samus
Jackie Chan

Antagonistic Chozo warriors clad in power suits.

No Ridley, not even a clone. I wouldn't mind references to Ridley though, and I especially wouldn't mind a set of memories detailing Ridley's origin. Sequel hook optional.

Screw it, if Chozo are now the bad guys we should have Samus team up with the Space Pirates. Final boss has a phase where you play as Ridley.
Just make it mental.

t. nu-Team Ninja

>Retro Studios
why are people so fucking dumb?

If it's done right and they add skippable cutscenes I can see it working. I enjoyed the humanization Samus got in that game. Fusion's main problem was that you couldn't skip it when you replaced the game. Also, the adding giving you the map problems been fixed with Scan Pulse. Plus with Adam now being relegated to the ship now, we don't have to worry about him locking the doors in the game.

>Metroid Dredd

>Ridley is actually resurrected for real, this time by the Chozo
>He's also brainwashed and borderline mindless
>The prologue level has both Samus and a remnant force of desperate Space Pirates investigating rumors of Ridley's return, both initially hostile to each other
>Everyone immediately realizes that something is horribly wrong when Ridley not only attacks Space Pirates too, but don't seem to react to Samus' presence with rage and hatred
>Samus and the Space Pirates reluctantly join forces to find out what the fuck is going on

Killing off Samus, making another protagonist to accomodate story elements, or a combination of both.
Personally, if they choose to wrap up all the plot holes, they shouldn't use Samus's perspective at all to elaborate. A better character would be someone working inside the Federation actively trying to throw a monkey wrench into everything, which would allow for more expository storytelling.
Samus's campaign should be separate and have more environmental storytelling like Super.
Killing off the main character will also piss off waifufags in the best way possible, and that's a plus.

>not getting why he's called the "Cunning God of Death"
Ridley's gonna come back no matter what

Please no. Sakamoto and his team can still make games. And I want to play them in 60fps.

I'd rather have some type of hybrid like other M.

Inti Creates

>and his team
What team? He doesn't have a team anymore. It was dissolved after Zero Mission.
And Samus Returns ended up being fantastic despite everyone fearmongering about Mercury Steam. I honestly wouldn't mind if they developed more Metroid games.

this. everyone of talent left ages ago.

>Inti Creates
They have yet to make a good game.
Then again, the same was true about MercurySteam, and Retro...

A game more like this
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and less "counter and shoot"

I don't understand why

Then he should get another team again. The game was just okay and rather not give them another chance.

you want a half finished game? I don't think that will happen.

I want mercury stream to go work somewhere else and learn more about game design so they aren't stuck making licensed games.

Except for their concept artist. That guy needs to move to japan

He barely has team, Iwata's dumbass disbanded them to make his shitty casual team which is why 2D Metroid went dormant for all these years. After Samus Returns, I want MercurySteam to work with Sakamoto again on Dread.

>Killing off Samus, making another protagonist to accommodate story elements, or a combination of both.
if you want something similar, post-phazon arc Prime is doing an expansion of the Metroid universe beyond "just Samus adventures" starting with Sylux and his dilemma with the Federation and their use on the Metroids

yeah, it's still prequel hell shit but once Metroid 5 is out, the next Prime game could jump into where post-Fusion is heading to.

*a

So we finally get a team that can make a 2D Metroid game and you want them to not work on a game thus putting Metroid 5 on hold, again. No, that ain't happening, it's time for Metroid 5.

I wonder if we will meet the Chozo dude to the right here who fucking killed the entire research team.

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The Chozo Didact

That'd be a damn old or even ancient Chozo who discovered immortality or something to stay alive for so long. Maybe that's why Ridley won't stay dead

I like how he's hiding his right arm under the robe the entire time in this scene, but in the next one where everyone is genocided he's got it fully exposed in the air and you can see he has exact same arm cannon as Samus.

You get a distress signal from a remote planet.
Its the last surviving tribe of the Chozo.
They fucked up againa and made some ungodly abomination to destroy an even ungodlier abomination.
You also have to fight federation troopers n shit.

Cheesy play on words. Drop the Bounty.
>THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED
Classy.

Cliché too but whatever.

I wonder if they have the balls to retcon Other M