I've been following this project on youtube for a while enjoying the little videos I've seen of it, but I didn't know about "Animetroid: Karid-X Dating Simulator." That's really funny lmao but yea, it's looking really good and I hope to check it out one day!!
last night I beat Metroid Dread and like, I think the only thing I don't like about the game is how they have quite a few items that seem to be only obtainable by using the shine spark, which sucks because trying to get the shine spark to go off in the right direction, especially when you have space jump, is really tricky with the analog stick. I wish you were able to run around with the dpad, because it's a weird decision to just have the dpad only have dpad-right mapped to an aeion ability and that's it lmao, however I've been thinking about it and there's not really a solution to it. You start the speed booster by pressing in on the analog stick, so you wouldn't be able to do that with the dpad because all the other buttons are assigned to something else, so yea I kinda get why they went with the way they went. There's no good solution to it given all the other abilities in the game and their mappings
The only other thing is like, it's not really immediately obvious how you're supposed to defeat raven beak. his "counter" prompts are super quick and you can't even see them often given all the other effects going on, so you can just end up sitting there firing missiles at him thinking you're doing damage, but you're actually not doing anything at all. It should have been more obviously conveyed that "hey, your attacks aren't working, try something else." That being said, they did demonstrate that you can damage him when his armor is down, but that's shown at like, the beginning of the game, and I don't think most players will remember that. It seems like they had it in mind too that players might forget, since every time you get the Omega Cannon you have to practice what you're gonna do to the EMMI on the door that lets you out of that room
Anyways, neither one of these things really ruins the experience, because the game is overall very fantastic
Oh yea like, it was weird seeing this because it's like, it looks exactly like what you'd want out of a 4th Metroid Prime game and the more I think about it the more excited about it I get. It's looking really, really good