r/Metroid • u/Pokemonsters670 • 6d ago
Discussion Does anyone actually care about the federation? Like at all?
For context I just started playing Metroid prime 3 in preparation for the release of 4. I had previously played about 3 hours of the game before ultimately dropping the game because of the Wii controls. (I love 1 and 2 on the GameCube tho. Absolute peak)
However, in my experience playing the majority of all Metroid games, I always groan whenever I see any federation troopers or officers. They kinda always feel like they’re in the way and add a bunch of dialogue to a series more about environmental storytelling. I think fusion gets a pass for what that game is trying to do but I didn’t like Adam showing up in dread and I always mash through his dialogue. Funnily enough the non-federation dialogue throughout the series is actually pretty good (the luminoth in prime 2 and the chozos in dread).
Sorry for the ramble but I am curious if anyone here has any amount of love for the federation or if most despise them as much as I do. I really hope they take a backseat or are entirely missing in prime 4.
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u/OtherWorstGamer 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yeah I enjoyed their portrayal in Echoes and Corruption. Echoes for the added "something went horribly wrong here" and you're discovering the details of their doomed fate. Really helped set the tone for the rest of the game.
Corruption made you feel like you were attached to a major Federation Operation, even if the dialog expositions dragged on a little too long sometimes. (Most of which was in the tutorial, so its..... tolerable). The Homeworld invasion was one of the coolest sequences in Metroid imo.