Song: IP Twist Award for best implementation of an old franchise
Viewed: 64 - Published at: 5 years ago
Artist: 2021 Vidya Gaem Awards
Year: 2022Viewed: 64 - Published at: 5 years ago
[The winner of this award was Metroid Dread]
The weirdest thing about Dread winning this isn't the twist itself, so much as the untwist. You gotta consider that the last things before this were Other M, Federation Force, and a Wii U minigame. Samus Returns was overshadowed by AM2R (So much that we crowned AM2R the best fangame of all times), and despite a mostly solid setup, reception for Samus Returns was still a bit mixed due to new aspects being a bit awkwardly handled.
Dread rectifies prеtty much all of that. Instead of trying to force the gamе to adhere to minimal controls, Dread spreads your abilities across pretty much every button and stick as efficiently and naturally as possible. It also knows that you have them, so both bosses and the world itself won't let you just spam missiles and bomb jumps to call it a day. We mentioned during voting that it added new things and improved some old ones, but until you play it yourself, you won't grasp the bullshit Dread will make you do just to get an extra 2 fucking missiles. When it comes to enemies, it is surprising that the only real returnees are Kraid and the X parasites. The E.M.M.I. are also surprisingly more clever than SA-X, despite serving a similar purpose.
Look, there's really not a whole lot I can go over here. The IP twist was... going back to the format they went back to in Samus Returns. Tune in next year, when Metroid Prime 4 wins IP Twist by actually existing and being released.
The weirdest thing about Dread winning this isn't the twist itself, so much as the untwist. You gotta consider that the last things before this were Other M, Federation Force, and a Wii U minigame. Samus Returns was overshadowed by AM2R (So much that we crowned AM2R the best fangame of all times), and despite a mostly solid setup, reception for Samus Returns was still a bit mixed due to new aspects being a bit awkwardly handled.
Dread rectifies prеtty much all of that. Instead of trying to force the gamе to adhere to minimal controls, Dread spreads your abilities across pretty much every button and stick as efficiently and naturally as possible. It also knows that you have them, so both bosses and the world itself won't let you just spam missiles and bomb jumps to call it a day. We mentioned during voting that it added new things and improved some old ones, but until you play it yourself, you won't grasp the bullshit Dread will make you do just to get an extra 2 fucking missiles. When it comes to enemies, it is surprising that the only real returnees are Kraid and the X parasites. The E.M.M.I. are also surprisingly more clever than SA-X, despite serving a similar purpose.
Look, there's really not a whole lot I can go over here. The IP twist was... going back to the format they went back to in Samus Returns. Tune in next year, when Metroid Prime 4 wins IP Twist by actually existing and being released.
( 2021 Vidya Gaem Awards )
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