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>Be Eurojank dev in shithole country
>Shithole country changes govt subsidies like the wind direction
>Lose subsidies
>Forced to shut down after overhiring due to said subsidies

>>738732308
Did they even market that? I saw a youtube video on it a couple of months ago but that was it.

>>738732308
Damn, Gabe is literally buying a yacht every other week and he still does this? How do people support this guy?

>>738732308
It would be fantastic news if you removed the "Mercury" from the name.

>>738732308
Was Blades of Fire that game where you played as John RPG, and instead of a waifu sidekick, you had some femboy?

>>738732656
a little brat

>>738732656
He's your son
It's a wholesome family story

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>>738732563

I've literally never heard of that game

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>>738732308
>MercurySteam
i only remember them making raiders of the broken planet

>MercurySteam
¿Quiénes?

>make a good metroid game
>the next metroid game is so bad it somehow kills you despite not being involved with it

>>738733665
This game seemed like the biggest money laundering scheme ever
Massive production value live service game that only a couple dozen people cared about that kept getting updates and even a big re-release where they totally changed the name

>>738732483
I only found out about it by checking piracy sites. Played maybe an hour and I don't want to play an action game that requires you to manage menu shit as much as that game's blacksmithing system.

>>738733957
Los pendejos qué hicieron Castlevania Lords of Shadow y más reciente Metroid Dread

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was excellent.

OP forgot to mention that Blades of Fire was an EGS exclusive.

I sure hope nobody from the dread team was fired

>>738736409
Lords of Shadow was an okay game with amazing art direction

>>738732308
About time. I was surprised they lasted this long with that retard in charge. Nintendo should buy them. They are talented with a good leader.

>>738732308
They don't even call it a "layoff" or even a "restructuring" anymore, they're calling it a "workforce adjustment process"

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>kill Castlevania but at least half of that is Kojima retardation anyway
>bring Metroid back from the brink
>don't petition Nintendo to becoming a Metroid gun for hire
>make random bullshit and have to lay off devs
>Next Level Games somehow survives Federation Force but lives in the Mario mines
>Retro fucks around for over a decade with no output, gets their mystery game cancelled, and then makes a 7/10 Metroid Prime

They could have been the steward for a whole new era of Metroid. But then again it's not like there's any shortage of metroidvania-experienced devs that would kill for a chance to develop an entry in THE Metroid series.

>>738732308
But the game isn't even out on steam yet, how did it flop?

>Epic only on PC

Oh, you fucking retards. Supergiant figured out the trick. Sell your EARLY ACCESS for Epic and then the 1.0 release on steam and GOG. That's the trick, you retarded spaniards.

>>738732308
>Make Metroid game 20 years after fusion
>It fucking sucked
Good riddance

Name a more cursed series than Metroid. Hard mode: No Senran Kagura

>>738739540
All of the unpopular Nintendo series and their fans who resent the popular and successful games
Kirby air riders flopping was hilarious. Kirby fags haven't had a good game since Crystal shards.

>>738738763
kys fag
>>738739540
you too

>>738733957
los tios que hicieron El Castillo de la Villania: El Señor de la Oscuridad y Las Trepidantes Aventuras de Samuela Aranda 5: Terror En El Planeta De Las Gelatinas Comecarne del Espacio Exterior

>>738732308
Deserved for the westoid pandering muscletroon censorship they inflicted unto Samus in Dread, but if I'm honest they should have just been closed down for good.

>>738739695
>Kirby air riders flopping
I doubt 1.8 million counts as a flop by any reasonable metric, shitposter-kun.

>>738732308
>[email protected]
I guess that [email protected] wouldn't sound modern enough.

>>738732308
I don't know who Mercury Steam is but more devs losing their jobs is always good news.

Blades of Fire is actually good tho
I pirated it, may buy on steam on some discount

>>738732308
>gets 2nd chance after fucking up 2nd Castlevania game and cuts a deal with Nintendo
>fucks up again

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Damn I even liked Metroid Dread. It had some great boss fights which most metroidvania style games suck at.

>>738736409
A pity the soundtrack sucked ass.

>>738732308
should have entered the nintendo mines

>>738742102
that's creative death. look at what happened to camelot. what a fucking depressing and soulless husk they became.

>>738732308
No 45 degree snap aiming
Shit music
Shit story
Press button to parry
Most linear game in the series
Weapons are just glorified keys
Damage values make no sense
Never powerful despite how much progress you make
Less bosses than metroid fusion
Rip off metroid fusion with EMMI
EMMI areas take up too much space
EMMI encounters are all the same
No skill in dodging EMMI because it relies on RNG and not skill
Padded out with robot chozo's
Splitting up energy upgrades in 4 for no reason
Have to press multiple buttons in order to do what took only one button press in previous games
Everyone says raven beak is """"hard"""" but he is easier than rabi ribi, hollow knight, and SOTN bosses
We'll never get a good metroid game again

>>738737335
the euphemism treadmill is working overtime

>>738732308
That game isn't even out yet.

metroid dread was a good ass game.

>>738732656
>>738732964
Wow, what a complete failure to read the market. They could have at least made the development costs back with all the faggots on twitter and bluesky doing marketing (but never daring to buy or play the thing), all they had to do was advertise. The spaniard hacks really can't get anything right.

>>738742771
Pretty weak Metroidvania carried by the last boss fight. It's never really fair to compare Metroid to actual Metroidvania games I guess when Metroid has become linear action garbage.

>>738742771
It was ass.
Megaman games have more bite to it.

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>>738732308
I remember before this released, the only thing anyone said about this game was:
>"wtf it's out? i didn't see anything about it anywhere"

>>738732308
>Make your game Epic exclusive
>It flops
KWAB

>>738742926
nah it was good all the way through. i played it twice and i never do that. it feels amazing to just run around in that game.
>>738743076
this thread is my first time hearing about it lol

Since we're already talking i might as well ask but how do you fuck up controls in a metroid game?
Yeah i know they managed to fuck up controls in mario sunshine but that was like 20 years ago and they fixed things in later mario games.

damn it’s genuinely over for Metroid now

>>738743378
metroid 1 2 and super all have retarded controls

>>738743313
It's good because...
YOU RUN FAST!!!

>>738743502
my autistic nigga, by run around i meant the movement in general. i'm not talking about literally only running. i personally value fun movement in my platformer games.

>>738743475
I played all of them and metroid 1 and 2 had shit controlled that required an olympic event in order to properly aim and shoot. That was never a problem in super metroid. Space jump was always ass though and even 40 years into the series space jump never got fixed.

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>>738732308
Serves them right for spending all their time playing with Legos instead of making a good game

>>738744189
The fuck am i looking at?

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>>738744229
Some "spoilers" that were "leaked" as "storyboards" made with lego. They kind of landed the part about Samus commanding a crew or having a land vehicle, so I wonder if someone took the one above as having actual meaning

>>738745027
Samus lacks the charisma required to lead a team.
They should just make a new character, a much younger male with the same chozo dna except he uses a sword and is actually cute and also a character. That way, they can address both the lack of metroid characters while also addressing the people who criticize the series by comparing it with hollow knight and other metroidvanias by having a character with different gameplay.
In short, giving X a zero.

>>738745341
>They should just make a new character
Stopped rerading there

>>738732454
But enough about California.

>>738745472
I say in the next prime game we give samus a sword and then have her explore an empty green world where there are enemies that can kill her in one hit which would force her to do several chozo trials in order to get more powerful.

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>focus marketing on the PS5
>make it an Epic game store exclusive
no wonder it failed

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>>738732308
>make your game timed epic exclusive
>nobody buys it
wow who could have seen this coming

>>738732308
>Blades of Fire
never heard of it. how was it?

>>738745957
Looks like boring westoid trash

>>738745957
I tried the demo and it's actually pretty fun and unique with the whole weapon smithing gimmick. Didn't buy it because fuck epic.

>>738745945
It was also on the PS5 and Xbox

>>738746093
This can't be true, ponies told me they buy aaaaaall the games day one $80 with tip and everything.

>>738745957
I've only heard about it after it flopped on EGS
Couldn't buy it because timmy doesn't believe in linux gaming.

>>738746337
I think it serves them right

>>738745879
did they? I almost exclusively use PS5 and never fucking heard of it, I regularly skim through what's coming out on the eshop and never gave it a second glance,
the name is generic I can't tell if I ever actually even saw it on there or not.
never even clicked on it and watched a trailer
never saw any sort of splash screen or notif telling me about the game.
This is the first I'm hearing it was Mercury Steam, hell I love Dread I probably would've at least deliberated on it rather than fully ignoring.

>>738732308
What is it with third parties having an incredible rise while being tardwrangled by Nintendo, and then immediatly fucking it up by flying solo with a shitty game. That's like the third studio that has done that.

>>738747680
>factor 5
>silicon knights
>mercury steam
are these the ones you're referring to?

>>738747680
They ate the thousands of comments online saying they would be better on their own and that they don’t need [insert big Nintendo IP] to carry them

>>738737335
That cracked me up. What's next? "Labor reassesment endeavor?" "Human resource evaluation?"

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>>738732308
Literally who?

>>738747680
It's the Nintendo bonus in action and it's not like there weren't tons of complaints about Samus Returns.

>>738745957
I enjoyed the demo but its not a game I would buy at full price. The main gimmick is that you forge all of the weapons you use which is kind of interesting but I feel like the system is a bit basic for something that is supposed to be the main draw of the game. The combat is pretty simple but fun and I like that the levels seem to have more of a condensed focus on exploration.

>>738745945
What the hell; Their marketing guys SUCK. This is literally the first I'm hearing that it's about to hit Steam!

>>738736676
>I sure hope nobody from the dread team was fired
No no.
Let them make their own new studio and sell to Nintendo.
Getting a Europe focused dev team would be great for Nintendo.

>>738739695
2million is hardly a flop.
stay mad li'l niggy snoy.

>>738740863
>''westoid''''''
hello antiwhite glownigger-kun.
you really should stop being antiwhite.

>>738749607
Ironic considering these "europeans" spat in the face of feminine beauty to appeal to literal faggots who want females to look like men, dumb shitposter.
Again, the most ideal outcome is their shitty studio closing down forever, but I'll be satiated with some of these freaks getting fired for now.

>>738747778
Add Platinum to the list.
So 4.

>>738747680
arrogance mostly.

I played a shit ton of SpaceLords back in the PS4 days. Still think the game is pretty good.

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>>738748832
It's also getting a major update at the same time

>>738749775
The fuck are you even talking about?
Samus looks great in Returns and Dread.
What issue do you have with her exactly?
She even looks good in Prime4.
Try harder antiwhite shitlord.

>>738747680
Nintendo is very good at tardwrangling when they need to.

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>>738745341
>>738745585
We may be getting close to the gamebook Samus

>>738750372
In Returns, yeah, but Dread followed the muscletranny brainrot that secondaries projected unto Samus, and that gigaretard secondaries like Fagurai cemented into public consciousness with Smash Ultimate.
It's disgraceful and ugly and Samus has no business looking like a roidmonkey.
Prime 4 looks bad with those nasolabial folds, too, which is if course what happens when you get a modern western studio to handle a formerly Japanese IP.

>>738739540
yokai watch?

>>738751050
>Dread followed the muscletranny brainrot
what the fuck are you talking about?

>>738739695
Kirby Air Riders' sales were about on par with what Kirby usually sells outside of Dream Land 1, Star Allies and Forgotten Land.

>>738751231
He has no fucking clue.
It's an antiwhlite glownigger that shits up every nintendo thread.
Just leave him to his impotent anger

>>738751231
Figures, faggots can't even actually look at the models. Muscular and smaller tits than in SR, just like the homo brainrot Fagurai imposed on her in SU
>>738751408
Ironic coming from a faggot that defends every shitty decision nintendo makes to the death, even when they're actually engaging in the shit you profess to hate with the destruction of beauty, engaging in gender tranny mental illness in character creators, etc.
Absolutely pathetic faggot beholden to his beloved corporate master.

>>738751387
on a 20 million playerbase
that's 10% of all switch 2 owners buying kirby air riders

>>738732308
While most of their games are trash, Dread was pretty kino. I was hoping they’d still have one more left in them. I guess Metroid dies with Prime 4, unless Nintendo themselves do another one. It’s not looking good, though.

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>>738751231
>He thinks this is some tranny design
Dudes a clown

>>738751642
Supposedly the people who leaked Star Fox getting a new game said MercurySteam is already working on Metroid 6. We'll see though

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>>738751662
The in-game model for Dread is muscletranny garbage that lopped off a couple tit sizes, yes. Relying on 2D artwork from various artists employed over the years is meaningless and not the "gotcha" you think it is, just makes you look cherry-picking-autistic as fuck, actually.

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>>738751662
BOOBA

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>>738751505
Yuh?
That's pretty damn good for a niche vehicle wreckage kart racer anon.

>>738751486
>antiwhite schizobabble bitch screeching
Take your meds zippy. I call out Nintendo plenty.
I'm the foremost advocate of anons directly contacting NCL to alert the main branch of NoA's and NoE's antiwhite and antijapanese faggotry.
Like in Tomodachi, but that's on NoA.
Meanwhile sony shits out unironic cuck propaganda and you slurp it up, defend it, and call it a foremost reason to by the barrierstation.
Stay mad antiwhite smeg eater.

>>738751662
hope mercury steam gets saved by nintendo, their design is on point. maybe make the ass larger

>>738751748
Nintendo would be paying for the Metroid6 production 100%.
So they literally couldn't fire those guys or tank their one investment stream realistically. The real issue is some chink company bought like 45% of their stock post Dread, so MS after Metroid6 is probably dead as fuck.

>>738751995
>some chink company bought like 45% of their stock post Dread
i wonder if they'll sell the stock seeing the poor sales of their current games

>>738751879
I haven't touched a shitny game since the ps3, not your boogeyman.
Your words ring hollow so long as Samus remains muscletrooned out dogshit because of Fagurai's autistic westoid notions implanted by other retarded secondaries about "muh realism"

>>738751642
I especially liked how your weapons never mattered in dread

>>738751761
why not post it to prove your point?

738752160
>You live long enough to see antiwhite snoys call sony 'shitny' because its a barrierstation with no games as per the CEO
OH I AM LAFFING LADS
This is a fantastic week~!

>>738752060
wouldn't be the most shocking.
Nintendo turning them into a 2-d metroid + original IP dev is their best hope honestly.

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>>738752160
here ya go.
to forever haunt you.
TYVM lad.

Metroid 6 cancelled?

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>>738752296
I have before. Fridge body, smaller tits and proven even when the models are lined up in software.
Not as egregious as SU, but still unambiguously leaning into it. Metroid 6 won't have ZSS at the end of the game either, but I just know her 3D model will have her with highly defined abs, wide shoulders and 20 inch biceps so all the "MUSCLEMOMMY DOMMY STEP ON ME UGUUUUUU :3" faggots who never touched a game in the series will eat it up.
>>738752304
>>738752410
Brainrotted corpo cattle.

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>>738736409
I loved this game desu. I thought it was great. The ending was kino and I dont even mean the post credits ending I mean the regular ending. https://youtu.be/oC0H0t5KxSA

>all this Metroid seethe
>sealioning
>uhhhhh [x] is totally shit too...i swear!
Oh. sealiontranny.
Of course.
Yuh you lost mate.
Sony lost.
Find a ditch to die in.

>>738752525
I don't see the difference other than fidelity

>>738752663
Don't worry, I already knew this dismissive faggotry was awaiting me when I would post it.

>Blades of Fire

This is the kind of slop that would barely make money in the PS2/X360 era and would be immediately moved over to the bargain bin.

The audacity of these shmucks to try to market that kind of thing today. They even picked the most generic name possible.

>>738752525
>Brainrotted
funny you say that

>>738752613
Pretty based and Christpilled.
Need more games like this out there.

most likely the devs were from the Blades of Fire team and not the Metroid teeam

>>738752959
Yeah, it really is brainrot, faggot.
>nintendo appeases the lgtv sterilization cult consistently just as shitny has
(You):
>SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY
That is brainrot.
More than one thing can be bad, retard.

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>>738752950
They wanted their own IP, but boy is the gameplay and setting the most generic shit
It really does take me back to 360 era games

>sony lost
Yeah, and it's funny, but Metroid is still being pozzed as we speak and sperging out like this and handwaving any and all valid criticisms doesn't change that. Just makes you look more bitchmade and dogmatic.

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>>738739540
Dead Space
Duke Nukem
Halo

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The Bound By Flame of 2026

>sealiontranny is going to spam the thread with his cope due to being called out as antiwhite
>once again
Oh boy.
Strap-in lads gonna get quite retarded in here.
BTW splatoon, smash, mario maker, etc all ban transvestites.

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>can't address a single point and continues spergbabbling with his boogeyman
I sure hope you're getting paid for this

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I kinda missed these random ass games that came and went with little fanfare

>still can't post this '''tranny''' Samus
>malds and seethes
so sad.

>>738733665
Why can I tell it's some hero shooter garbo at a glance.

>>738741998
A Castlevania game with shit soundtrack? HOW??????
Did Konami not ask one of their composer to do the music but instead Mercury Steam decided they'll take one of their own guy to do it?

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Muscletroon shit IS tranny shit. Natty athletic women don't have ultra defined musculature like the abomination in SU and it's also just inherently masculine, anyway.
Dread's model's fridge body envelops SR's torso when overlayed, and the tits were blatantly lopped off, too, as SR's chest is visible when overlayed, and with outlines on shows she was mastectomied by at least 2 cup sizes.

>>738753065
It is based. Another based thing is any time you come across a dead body Gabriel will kneel before them and bless them.

>>738753995
Neat detail.

738753843
>REEEEEEEEEEE I NEEEED attention
No.
Lmao
antiwhite bitch.

>>738736409
>>738752613
Nah, it was okay.
The bst thing about Lords of Shadow was the trailer for 2. I have never seen a better trailer and I'm not exaggerating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKsEPoJMuKY
>>738736781
Too generous.

>>738753995
those spanish catholic roots are showing

>ignores/handwaves even after posting cold hard proof as was requested
Not a good look, fagboy drone

>>738753119
>>738753247
>>738753453
jesus, what are these games? i've never heard or seen any of these

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>>738732308
I heard it was supposed to be based off of Blade of Darkness but it looked a bit too RPG for me.

>>738732308
>gallego moment

>>738754425
We need a second Inquisition quite frankly. Oust the faggot pope while at it.

>>738736409
TRUVTH, watch the Castlefags come crawling out of the woodwork to try and deny it

>>738751505
That's a fucking good percentage for a Kirby game.

>>738754894
Is the new pope also a faggot? The last one was a snake in the grass, that's for sure

>>738755369
every pope is a faggot till he calls for a crusade on antiwhiteism in my eyes.
I've yet to be impressed.

>>738750372
>Samus looks great in Returns and Dread.
Those games look awful.

>>738751505
Undeserved.

I really liked the Blades of Fire demo, but it was just janky enough that it seemed like waiting for all the patches was the right move.
Loved the Lords of Shadow games too, a shame it didn't work out for them.

>>738745879
>71 metacritic is good
Who do they think they're fooling?

>>738753453
This game was a ton of fun

>>738732308
what's up with /v/ being contrarian lately? They just take nonsense on the twitter timeline and just do "bad thing actually good" and "good thing actually bad", it's like nonstop attempts at ragebait rather than just posting shit.

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>>738755472
whatever cope you need.

>>738732454
WHY THE FUCK ARE GOVERNMENTS FUNDING FUCKING VIDEO GAMES?
FIX THE REAL PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTY, YOU FUCKS!

>>738747778
>>738750045
Factor 5 had good games before Rogue Squadron (Turrican is classic) and Platinum's best games were done with Sega. So really it's that working with Nintendo dumbs them down somehow.

>>738755942
Funding art and media is the civilized way to gain international recognizion. It's also a miniscule part of a government's budget

>>738755901
>don’t wanna be seen as a twitter troon
>see what the consensus on twitter is about something
>take the opposite position
Couldn’t be any simpler than that

>>738740021
Kek

>>738755908
Now compare that to Super or Fusion. Hot garbage graphics and art direction.

>>738752759
So you know that you are retarded and still make retarded posts?

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>>738756162
>Funding art and media
but they aren;t doing that.
Anything that champions/pushes ugly, immoral societal decay can not be art.
These governments are just funding antiwhite pig swill by and large.

>>738757173
if it helps you cope man.

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>>738750657
This was too accounted by the klockli

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>>738757497
The game that they made that bombed is about a white guy trying to save his kingdom and take revenge against the guy who caused the death of his wife.
By the end of the game the MC revives his wife and learns that the pipsqueak that was accompanying him is his son and they embrace as a family.
You are retarded if you think this is anti societal.
It's just painfully generic and you need to go back to /pol/.

>>738758063
so why was mercurysteam doing this? story boarding with legos makes...loose...sense for a 3d game, but not really for a 2d one.
quite odd

>>738758279
did you miss the 'by and large' part?
Blades of Fire is an exception.
Dustborn was government funded and disguistingly antiwhite.
Then you have that border crossing game from literal obama campaign staff showed off a year or two ago.
Among other projects.
Most government funded games are piles of shit, Blades of Fire not being one is both rare and disappointing it failed, especially in the era of 'family unity' games. Like Bananza, Pragmata, Majogami, Resi evil 9, and....uhh...erm...fuck. The photograph game people shill I can't recall.

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>>738756159
>So really it's that working with Sony dumbs them down somehow.
ftfy

>>738751642
Nintendo didn't build up retro for metroid to work on one game, they aren't short-term brain retarded like that.

>>738758285
It's 2,5D, they have to design the environment beyond the level

>>738757497
The design in that web, looks generic. Would you even be able to tell it was Metroid if Samus wasn't in it? No.

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738759971
try harder.