Refraction Gaming

With the arrival of Metroid: Samus Returns  for the 3DS handheld console, there has been a debate had on whether it achieves what it needs to be to excellently be a remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus  for the original Game Boy. Of course, to do this without quite understanding the roots of where this game comes from would be relatively simple, but I feel that it would be best to compare this to the source material to understand what was done and whether it translated well or not in coming out to become a remake of this classic Game Boy game. It is worth noting that outside of this game, the only major Metroid title released for quite some time with Nintendo would be Super Metroid , which demonstrated the possibility of a masterpiece for the series and embedded it as one of the flagships for Nintendo, especially among western audiences. It has also been said literally everywhere that this game is considered the "black sheep" of the Metroid series. I find this rather baff...

I find it funny that I intended to write my Sonic Mania review before this, and yet here I am writing a review for a totally unrelated game. At the time of writing this, I wasn't even 100% on Sonic Mania nor had I fought the final boss, yet this game, I had and I didn't want to play it quite as much as Sonic Mania. Irony? Or laziness? For a bit of background before we start, though: I have played all of the Pikmin games prior to this one. While I have not gotten far in Pikmin 3, I have completely finished Pikmin and Pikmin 2. I was rather surprised, then, to hear that the next Pikmin game would not only be on 3DS, but wasn't going to be an RTS. I don't really recall the reasons that were stated as to why this change was being put into effect. Perhaps it had something to do with the fear that it would be a "number managment" game or perhaps they were worried about the movement being constrained to feeling too much like the mouse + keyboard type of gaming th...