This Is My Blogg

I reached my limit with the other social experiment website.

This was a hard day.

I've already put my thoughts out there about Metroid Dread, but I wanted to share just a bit more about my experience with it. The game itself still doesn't even feel real to me, this being due to the fact that it came out when it did. If you know what I'm talking about, then I shouldn't have to say more. What does one do when one of their favorite games comes out at the worst of times? In my case, it took me almost a month to even turn the game on, not directly from outside causes, but also that I was saving the moment I'd play the game WOULD be a good time to play it, which is hard to achieve right now. I've done my fair share of escaping into the games I play, but this time we have faced all over the globe has made it even harder for me to accomplish that. Currently I've only gotten a single 100% playthrough of the game, and boy do I feel the call to play the game 100 times over, but not before I get the chance to share this thing I love with others. It's a nice feeling getting to play Metroid with friends, since that is initially how I got into the series, but it has found a spot in my mind that I MUST share it in order to enjoy it. I can't say that about anything else right now to be honest, which speaks volumes about my praise for Metroid Dread's gameplay. It's a strange feeling being a person enveloped in being alone and letting the game take you to another place, and then being compelled to only do the opposite and let others to take part instead to reach a new appreciation for it. Despite owning physical copies of this game, it still feels like it's just my imagination when I see it. Most every new game or game system instills this feeling, and often I drift off to sleep, expecting said game to not be there the next morning. Usually that next day I reach acceptance of owning it, but Metroid Dread might take me yet another 3 months to understand that it's really here.

Guess it's time I finally sit and elaborate what I think of Metroid Dread. In a sentence, I can't review it because I like it too much. It's not in me to tell people what's right and what's wrong with it, but I can say with certainty that it is most certainly yet another great Metroid game. I'm sure glad it is, since I've spent two thirds of my life waiting for it. I'm taking my time to dive in and play it again with the attention it deserves, because it is a finely made experience that the player shouldn't rush through, which is just what I wanted out of it. The thing about all this is I cannot forget how long it took to get this game in my hands, to hear the main menu's foreboding six note tune, and to see the end of a storyline that started 35 years ago. I can only compare that kind of wait so only so many things made in entertainment, but this one I hold with the most importance. Waiting this long... LIVING this long, to get Metroid Dread can only tell me that reaching the end of such an absence proves how patient I can be. The more I ruminate on it though, I believe more and more that I don't want to wait like this again. My feelings about this are still not concrete, but I don't feel like buying anymore Nintendo hardware. 4 years ago there was confirmation that Metroid Prime 4 was in the works, but the hard fact is that we're STILL waiting. At this point I am satisfied with where Metroid is, since Fusion was the first game in the series I played all the way through, and that title finally got its well deserved follow-up. As for my backstory with this whole wait: although it got me upset that Prime 4 restarted development almost 3 years ago, I went out and bought a Nintendo Switch that day in hopes that we'd get the game someday. It turns out I've done this sort of purchase twice already for the hopes of getting Metroid Dread: the first being with the DSi. It was my impression that Metroid Dread was soon coming out in 2009, and I bought that model not just as the system I would play that game on, but also the last Nintendo system I would purchase for the foreseeable future. The #1 game I've wanted for the last 18 years is Dread, and my feelings now are very much like they were then: "if I get that game, I don't need any more games than the ones I've got". Imagine my disappointment when 5 years go by, not only another handheld is released but also another console, and Metroid Dread didn't come out. In 2014 I broke my vow and bought the 3DS XL for the upcoming Smash 3DS game. That handheld too came and went without Metroid 5 (June 13th 2017 was a very exciting day though). Looking back at it all, I made an effort to not miss the games that looked good for those systems, but ultimately they became filler to me for the game I truly yearned for. And so I sit here, wondering if I even want to get more Metroid games to be created at all. I think I've made up my mind that I don't want Prime 4 despite its reported development. This series has just got its miraculous comeback that other series fans like for Megaman Legends are dying for. If Metroid Dread honestly made new Metroid fans I'm happy, and those new fans will want new games just like I did. In my case now, I'm content in my own mind if Lady's missions come to an end.

Don't have a lot of time to say in detail, but Neo: The World Ends With You was worth waiting more than 13 years for. Now here's hoping that's a good omen for Metroid Dead and I'll be a happy camper.

https://youtu.be/V_XnbTayTH4?list=LL Game's looking REAL good. Now can we get more preorders for that Special Edition please? I don't want it going down as the "Scalper Edition".