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>>4101859
>I don't feel the urge to deselect all the other powerups
Well, you'd be surprised about how milleage you can get out of that. As an example, in my recent playthrough of Zero Mission, I couldn't get a powerup because I needed to step on a frozen turtle, but wasn't able to, cause the screw attack blew it up. I couldn't normal jump to the turtle either, it just wasn't enough momentum. I didn't have the space jump still (you get it later in ZM) so I should have gotten it and come back, right? Well, instead of that, what I did was jump in screw attack mode, position Samus above the turtle and shoot. Since you can't shoot while you swirl, Samus entered her normal jump position, and landed on the turtle without killing it.

Phew. Imagine how much easier would have that been had I been able to switch off the Screw Attack. I bet there's more stuff where it would have made a difference, after all it was just a feature in Super, so I assume there's nothing wrong with it as a thing, and probably some kind of limitation prevented the developers of ZM from implementing it again.

>otherwise it would not be a remake but just a regular installment of the series.
Well it does have new bosses that go way beyond fucking Kraid and Ridley in the original Metroid, I'll tell you that, so it's hard for me to not be dissappointed there's not more of that. Don't get me wrong, there's quite a bit of new stuff, but as a Metroid I don't think there's too much about ZM to make it stand out. It's not hard and tense and atmosphere rich like Fusion, and it's not as "alive" as Prime and Super. It's just a remake, you are right, and honestly, I wish it was a regular installment of the series. I like new stuff. While other people seemed to like this stuff, Metroid Queen, Nightmare and Phantoon shoehorned into Other M made me groan hard, I found their inclusion quite desperate. Maybe that's me being thisty for new content in Metroid, and why I like Fusion being different so much.(1/2)