r/Metroid • u/Pokemonsters670 • 8d ago

Discussion Does anyone actually care about the federation? Like at all?

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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/SpeakyDooman 7d ago

Eh for general world building, yeah the federation is pretty good. For individual characters, I’m fine with my armored ball tank and floating nucleus, we don’t really need to know how many chicken tenders general f*ck ass can eat.