A reader is concerned that Nintendo is purposefully simplifying all its Switch 2 games, and going against the formula that made the original console so successful.

I’ve just beaten Metroid Prime 4 and… I didn’t hate it. I didn’t particularly like it either, but it’s not awful. There’s some good stuff in there, especially the graphics and music, and I actually think some of the linear stuff works better than the traditional Metroidvania levels, because at least that’s achieving the goal it set out to.

There’s lots of individual problems with Metroid Prime 4 but the main one is that it’s been simplified and dumbed down from the previous games. Even though they recently remastered the first one and it seemed to be very popular. There’s less equipment and weapons, there’s very little in the

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