Games developers really seem to be struggling to take advantage of the increased power of Sony and Microsoft’s consoles and Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom has shown that there are way more important things than graphics anyway. There’s nothing exclusive to PlayStation or Xbox that I would deem to be a must have, but Mario and Zelda certainly are. With all of Nintendo’s games and the power to run a wide selection of third party ones as well, I can’t see why I would need anything else. I think that if it is as powerful as a PlayStation 4 it could well be the perfect system. Really interesting feature about the Switch 2 at the weekend.
Although if they’ve only just got devkits doesn’t that mean the game is years away and so by that logic so too is Metroid Prime 4… I do seem to remember that Nintendo release Metroid Fusion around the same time as Metroid Prime though, so it makes perfect sense that they’d want both 2D and 3D entries around at roughly the same time. I’m not actually sure how a sequel would take advantage of better graphics, because the presentation was pretty much perfect already but I’m definitely all for it. I guess a sequel was pretty obvious but it had literally never occurred to me until reading the story about the dev probably getting Switch 2 devkits. I’d never thought until now how Nintendo would be thinking of following up Metroid Dread’s surprise success. I think if you end up changing absolutely everything about a game, to the point where the only point of similarity is that it’s got chocobo in it, you probably should just call it something else. If this leads to Final Fantasy 17 being something that goes back to basics, with a fantasy/sci-fi setting, then that will probably be the most welcome legacy of 16.
There’s nothing in how it plays (I tried the demo) that feels like Final Fantasy and while the graphics and design has an echo of the franchise as a whole it’s very subdued. I know in theory that Final Fantasy can be anything it wants to be, but I really do think it has too little connection with the rest of the series.
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