Nice write-up! I, too, have not played any Metroid games. I did purchase both the OG Metroid and Super Metroid through Virtual Console but the gameplay just never hooked me. The maneuvering through the numerous vertical 'hallways' was never, ever, fun for me so this might be one Nintendo franchise I'll just never get into. I'll still try though.
Man, this was a great time. What a way to live a life of no regrets.
Ok, real talk (or as Dan would say, "For shoot."), I did not enjoy this game and, frankly, the time to beat is a bold faced lie. There's no way it only takes 1 hour to beat. It feels like an eternity to go from one area to another or, in my case, not knowing what triggers a new event. I walked alllllll the way to Granny and Grandpa Pig's place, after I'd already been there a couple times already, in the hopes of finding something new on the other side but there was nothing. Instead of giving any kind of merciful mode of fast travel you are made to walk ever so slowly back past the chicken coop, past the literal pile of shit and Grandpa Pig's garden, past their house, past Mummy Pig and the random kite laying on the ground, past the mud puddle and FINALLY back at Peppa's house. But now what? Do I take the bikes and go right to the hot air balloon or the forest? I'd already done those and I don't want to repeat any activities cuz it takes forever to do them again. So, I'm afraid I am stuck in a baby game because I'm too afraid to click on Daddy Pig's car for a second time for fear of having to repeat the Windy Castle segment all over again.
Not to mention the dialogue. I have watched a little bit of the TV show with my child and I don't think I've heard TV Peppa talk with the same weird inflection that Game Peppa uses when she ends some sentences. I dunno, maybe that's how she actually talked on the show and I just didn't notice it but it sure seems weird when she talks like this.
As I played this on Game Pass and was not aware of the price until @bigsocrates mentioned it earlier but $40 is way too much for this.
I promise that next time I'll nominate/vote for a "big kid" game and not be influenced by my 1 year old's recent enjoyment of children's programming on Netflix.
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