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These reviewers seem like they have never played a first person game before or are getting completely filtered by actually being required to aim in a Metroid Prime game. Never forget that most professional game reviewers play every game on Easy or even lower difficulties. This is why games that are more movie than game get rated so high, and games that are pure, visceral, enthralling gaming experiences like this get rated so low. Using pointer fusion with maxed motion control sensitivity, 0 dead zone, maxed camera sensitivity, 120fps mode. As someone who has been playing FPS games on PC for over 20 years, this is by far the closest ANY console game has ever come to offering the same degree of control mouse and keyboard on high framerate displays offers for fps players on PC. This is unprecedented innovation in control, the only thing I can compare it to is Prime Trilogy on Wii, but this still feels tighter and more precise. Graphics are absolutely magnificent and SHOULD NOT be possible on a handheld device in 2025. This game feels like it came from the future. 4k offers more detail, but I feel 120fps mode is detailed enough and the smoothness and fluidity is worth the trade off. The music. God. Just dont get me started on the music. I started crying at the title screen. As did many other grown ass men. And the NPCs everyone seems triggered by? Honestly? Myles seems kinda funny. A nice bumbling sidekick to contrast Samus' effortless stoic badassery. Overall this is a game simply not meant for the Nintendo audience that mainly prefers very cutesy artstyles and less demanding, less atmospheric games. And yet, Metroid will always be a Nintendo franchise. PC players are comparing it to Half-Life 2, calling it the most marvelous first person adventure in years. PlayStation and Xbox fans are impotently begging for the game to get ported. And by the end of Switch 2 life cycle, this game will never sell 10 million copies. It is indeed, a new Metroid Prime game. And god damn, is it ever good. Once again, game journalists have broadcast their incompetence to the world. And this game's legacy will stand the test of time.

A lot of the critical reviews for this game appear to be from people who have probably never read the JoJo manga before and are simply judging it on the basis of being a complete outsider to the series. To me this seems unfair to what this game was meant to be; first and foremost, this game was designed to be fanservice for fans of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. So far only Parts 1-3 have been animated, and the other 5 story arcs most likely won't be animated for a few years. However, this game brings the entire manga to life. If there's one thing you can truly say about this game, it's that it is incredibly loyal to the manga that it's based on. While there is a heavier focus on characters from Parts 2-5, no story arc in the manga has been left in the dust. You can play as several of your favourite characters in the series, and if you can't fight as them, at the very least you're likely to find them appear in the background of a stage, as a stage hazard, as one of the many characters guiding your around the game's menus, as one of the characters giving you support items and battery charge in the campaign or appearing in some other way. In Japan at least, the game's release was such an affair that the game itself had it's own training with JoJo characters all over it running for a few weeks. The game itself has great graphics, some have complained in the past about the Japanese version being only 30fps, but the game itself looks so fluid now that I think the fps has become better. only during certain animations or stages does the fps seem to drop slightly. The game at it's core is a pretty solid fighter. It's not about to redefine the genre or give Street Fighter and Guilty Gear a run for their money, but overall I could imagine people playing this game at tournaments. With that said, at the very top levels of play, certain characters do have an edge over others (Jolyne and Johnny come to mind) and some characters just aren't going to fare that well against others (Valentine). However, most players don't play at this level, and the game is designed so that even newer players stand a chance against experience players who use combos and understand the mechanics of the game well. As for mechanics specific to this game, there are stylish moves which are similar to parrying in 3rd Strike (block at the exact time someone attacks you), Stand Rush (using a stand attack, and then being able to rush down the other player with your character as your stand attacks; can be used for certain combos), puttstun cancelling (similar to roman cancel in guilty gear) and also taunt cancelling to do certain combos. One thing about this game is that it stays incredibly loyal to the manga in terms of poses the characters make, outfits that can be unlocked, dialogue the characters have among one another. Also the abilities themselves, even the ones that seem broken at first, are in the game and made to be somewhat balanced overall. For example, you can become Ultimate Kars, Use C-Moon and Made In Heaven as Enrico, you can get Gold Experience Requiem as Giorno, you can stop time and reenact the final battle of Jotaro vs DIO in Jotaro vs DIO matches, you can upgrade Tusk up to Act 4 and use him essentially exactly as Johnny does (complete with "Chummiiii!" sounds), you can use all of Mista's Sex Pistols to have bullets flying all around the screen, you can make Joseph taunt by telling people what they're going to say next. As I've said previously, this game is at its core, a work of fanservice for fans of the JoJo manga. In this sense, it's a great work. Some have complained about renamings in the localizations, but at the end of the day these renames are mostly in subtitles only. You will always hear Avdol call Polnareff "Polnareff" even if the subtitles say "Eiffel". You can always turn subs off, but honestly if you've read the manga and know all the characters, you are always going to hear Jolyne crying out "Stone Free!" or Giorno saying "Gold Experience Requiem!" among others. Overall, I would say if you are a fan of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, you're just depriving yourself if you don't buy this game. If you're a fan of the fighting genre, try the game out as a demo or at a friend's house and see if you think it would be fun for you. I would almost give this game a perfect 10, but the lack of character balance at top tiers, the sloppy launch by Bandai-Namco USA and the occasionally laggy netcode all detract from the experience. If the netcode and character balance was improved by patching from Namco/CC2, I'd give this game a perfect 10 as being one of the best new fighters and one of the best products ever produced in the JoJo franchise.