This depresses me, Nintendo has fallen (even farther)

[Alianger]

@jesusarnold:
Well, I guess I need to explain some things. Nintendo was getting much more popular where I lived (they already had a big fan base in Sweden since the NES days) after games like Star Fox and Donkey Kong Country were released, and since I got the console so late I had about 4 years of gaming to catch up on.
The different feel of snes games in general, the sample based sound chip and the quality of the exlusive titles I mentioned earlier made it seem like a different "scene" was made accesible to me. I didn't even know about some of the more impressive late era MD titles until much later, because the 32-bit era was just around the corner..

Of course I did play Sonic 3 and thought it looked great, but I didn't like the changes in the gameplay at all. I guess that's when I first started to lose interest in the MD.

As for Metroid equivalents.. This is a bit far fetched gameplay-wise but when I played the Ecco games, they put me in a similar mood as when playing Metroid. The feeling of isolation combined with dark, brooding music makes for a similar experience.

The Monster World games are much closer in other aspects though, as is Flashback.

[jesus.arnold]

Oh yeah and talking about Turrican, I gave the Mega Drive version a proper play through a few days ago and god is it a terrible port, I remember thinking it was bad but seriously

I'm taking this back (already? yes already!) the games not actually that bad my emulator was screwing it up, the real things actually not as fast and glitchy. LOL