Originally Posted by royalan

All of this. Yes.

And I think this is the important distinction. I don't think anybody thinks Tropical Freeze is going to be a bad game. But, from a business and tactical perspective, having Retro work on another Donkey Kong game is about the most ill-thought decision Nintendo could have made. It really makes no sense outside of "Well, the other one was a decent seller...Let's spam it!"

Um

Didn't Retro say they wanted to make this one as a result of a ton of ideas they didn't use in Returns?

Originally Posted by KoopaTheCasual

Yea, I want to see if a 2.5D Metroid would work. I'd be really excited to see that. I don't want another FPS Metroid, sorry.

If they revisit Metroid, I hope they go for something "Vanquish style TPS meets platformer" like what Other M wanted to be [but missed completely]. With a few good concessions, that might lead to a better Metroid experience than even the Prime games were.