{"id":923,"date":"2003-02-14T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2003\/02\/brinstone-you-say\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:10:48","slug":"brinstone-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2003\/02\/brinstone-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Brinstone, you say?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my GameCube came today, with its complementary copy of Metroid Prime.<\/p>\n

My comments so far:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Whoa. Damn.<\/li>\n
  2. … I need a memory card.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Is it just me, or do Nintendo really pack their stuff well? Opening each of my GBA and my Gamecube for the first time (in their respective moments), I got a rush of nostalgia. When was the last new device I opened which seemed so lovingly, sturdily boxed? I can’t remember. My Genesis?<\/p>\n

    Opening this thing, I got the distinct impression that I was unveiling to myself something uncommonly important. Something which would stick with me and last for years. <\/p>\n

    Not a feeling one gets much from electronic devices these days.<\/p>\n

    Particularly not Sony devices. <\/p>\n

    Odd, that. <\/p>\n

    Wow, that remixed music sounds good. <\/p>\n

    Why does it make me giggle, the first time I hear Samus’s theme in any new Metroid game?<\/p>\n

    Or the item power-up theme, for that matter?<\/p>\n

    Wow, there’s a lot of text in this game. I wonder who thought up all of this background info. Does it say in the credits? I don’t want to walk downstairs for my game case. I’ll look later. Was it someone from Retro? Would NCL have given them such free license? The game does a better join tying together and explaining the Metroid universe in the first half hour than the other four do, put together.<\/p>\n

    Intelligent Systems,<\/i> my hindquarters!<\/p>\n

    Yes. <\/p>\n

    You just don’t know, I tell you.<\/p>\n

    I think this is an example of how the third dimension can be used to add more than just spatial depth to a game. It’s a similar phenomenon to what I saw in Sonic Adventure,<\/i> only… much more so. Much more seamless.<\/p>\n

    To mention:<\/p>\n

    This game doesn’t seem to come from anywhere. It doesn’t feel Western. It doesn’t feel distinctly Japanese. It… feels like the love child of Metroid and Myst. Only more so.<\/p>\n

    Oh god. Oh god. The nose. Must do something. <\/p>\n

    Juice me up!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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