New Metroid Prime Not Popular, "Reaction has been negative. There's no sugar coating it”

Nintendo's newly announced Metroid Prime: hasn't received quite the reception that Nintendo has hoped, and they're paying attention to that criticism as well. 70,531, and counting, thumbs down on YouTube are pretty meaning.

The blending of genres in Metroid Prime: Federation Force isn't seen equally positive by fans.

Nintendo promises it'll be awesome once you actually play it, however. In an interview with Mashable, Reggie Fils-Amie was very frank about the management that they're taking for the future. They want to transform themselves, essentially, and become a household name again, innovating in brilliant ways similar they have in the by.

"We're taking our corking IP and transforming them and making them new again — making them fresh and appealing for the fan who feels they know the franchise. But we're giving them new things to enjoy,"

- Reggie Fils Amie

That also means that they're going to be taking some chances that might not seem heady on the surface. That is until you actually experience their creation. That'south not to say that the direction they want to take with re-imagining their games is going to be for everyone. Like many reboots, it can drive abroad the native role player base.

Metroid Prime number: Federation Forcefulness is maybe one of the all-time examples of the negative reactions that tin be garnered from too much change. Metroid Prime has a tradition to uphold, of fantastically fun puzzles combined with very prissy FPS elements. And information technology'due south unmarried-role player, as all Metroid games take been. The new Metroid Prime focuses instead on cooperative play, completely void of a long-established single-player campaign.

"This is an instance where fans who aren't able to get their hands on the game may exist at a bit of a competitive disadvantage. Anybody who has played what we are showing regarding Metroid Prime number, they've run into really pleased. My ask is that fans trust united states."

- Reggie Fils Amie

So, then, Nintendo is interested in bringing new ideas to sometime franchises. Reviving them in ways nosotros might not necessarily expect. Progress and innovation sometimes have controversy surrounding them at first, garnering negative reactions from fans that but don't want modify. This doesn't mean that the direction they chose is bad, per-se, but it doesn't hateful it's good either. As he said, though, onlylooking at the game gives us no real insight into how fun it might actually be.

Change tin be good sometimes, and even though Metroid Prime: Federation Force might not represent the change nosotros're looking for initially, information technology's potentially the start of something great for Nintendo.