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  • The timing of AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) was unfortunate. Nintendo pretty much ignored the Metroid franchise, but they had done a remake of the first Metroid game “recently”.

    AM2R came out right around the time Nintendo was announcing their own Metroid 2 remake, and a solid one at that. (That same developer would next make Metroid Dread, which is excellent.)

    Regardless Nintendo was going to takedown AM2R eventually, but they were particularly aggressive because they were also remaking Metroid 2.

    But both games are excellent. You should play AM2R.




  • I mean this movie is a crossover movie. That being said I’m confident they’ll explain who everyone is and what’s going on during the film.

    Look at Infinity War. Hulk returns to Earth and everyone is surprised he is back. Do you need to have seen Age of Ultron or Thor Ragnarok? No. Hulk was gone, now he’s back. The Avengers broke up. Did you need to see Civil War? No. The film shows bad blood between Cap and Tony.

    Plus look at a film like Shang-Chi, apart from a little connective post credits it’s stand alone. Sure Wong and Abomination show up, but you don’t need to know anything about them other than what happens in the movie.

    But if you really want stand alone, look at animation. DC puts out at least a film a year, either completely standalone or “technically” in the same universe but it never comes up.







  • Basically they’ve written the design document for the next game, which is why they can reveal the engine because that’s been decided on. It doesn’t mean they know the story yet, but they likely have a good general idea, because that would inform the design document.

    For example if the game needed jetpacks, but that wasn’t an existing engine feature, then they have a plan for jetpacks. And if you NEED jetpacks, you probably know roughly where they’re going to be used, so you have some gameplay/story ideas mapped out.

    But also a design plan and a finished product are very different things. You might plan for one thing, but create something very different.

    So the game is probably still 4-5 years away.


  • Brilliant. The movie just flew by, you could have added an hour in there and I wouldn’t have noticed.

    That being said, you can’t end every scene by having Odysseus and crew running to the boat.

    I think John Leguizamo was my favorite character & performance. I only really knew the lead cast so his appearance was also a surprise. I wasn’t really locked in to the film until he dropped a dog off a cliff.

    Samantha Morton was a surprise. I don’t think I’ve seen her in a blockbuster since Minority Report. Her Circe was disgusting and will haunt me for years to come.

    Story of course is epic.




  • You will like Supergirl and be entertained. But it also is a mid film.

    Honestly the bummer of Supergirl is that you can see a better film is almost there. It has the bones of a great film, but it just doesn’t quite have the meat.

    People like to dunk on Gunn for calling the script amazing, and then see the film and wonder what he’s thinking, and I get it. But cut the wrong scenes from the script or film them wrong and yeah, you get a film that just doesn’t quite work.

    Don’t get me wrong I have issues with the story, but you could probably convince me otherwise if you tell a slightly different story.