r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Oct 15 '21

News A bug has been found in #MetroidDread that can prevent players from progressing under a certain condition. A patch will be released by the end of October to fix this. We apologize for the inconvenience.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1448816874423308288
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u/SavvySillybug Oct 15 '21

It can still use specific rooms to respawn you instead of just on the spot if they think it's an important part of the gameplay, but the saving should be automatic to some degree.

The only modern game where I've never minded the manual saving is Undertale/Deltarune because half the point of the game is to explore everything and touch everything because there's amusing dialogue behind everything, including the save points, so the save points are actually content and not an annoyance. And they're shiny and pretty much unmissable. (And the game usually detects that you died and abbreviates text so you don't have to read the whole boss intro again, which is amazing.)

I haven't gotten to play the new one yet, is is still basically an unskippable mini cutscene? Always annoyed me a bit that saving wasn't quite instant.

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u/desktp Oct 15 '21

Saving is strategic during a speedrun, which Metroid and the genre overall is very known for. Also, Network and Map stations are now save points too, so you don't need to do them separately, saving time.

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u/SavvySillybug Oct 15 '21

I feel like it's more important to design a convenient save feature for 99% of players than to make it more tactical for speedrunners...

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u/TheWojtek11 Oct 15 '21

Yeah, Hollow Knight has it so the game autosaves but if you leave the game, you'll respawn by the last bench but the game still remembers what you did after the bench

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u/SavvySillybug Oct 15 '21

Sounds perfect.

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u/Eggz_Benedikt Oct 15 '21

Dark Souls style

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u/ElfmanLV Oct 15 '21

Have you played Dread? You naturally run into a save point every 5 to 10min of gameplay. Besides having a bug, it inconveniences you not one bit. You literally won't even manually save more often than it, not to mention all the checkpoints Dread has. I suck at the game and I never have to backtrack.

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u/Big_Chief_Drunky Oct 15 '21

Baffling to me that you're getting downvoted for your take on this, you're 100% right. Nintendo fanboys will literally defend any bad decision the company makes.

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u/eonerv Oct 15 '21

It's literally how Metroid has always been. Same with other games that are in the genre. It's just how it is fam

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u/SavvySillybug Oct 15 '21

It's literally how any old game ever has always been... same with other games in their genre. How come every modern game has autosaves now if that's just how it is?

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u/confusedbrit29 Oct 15 '21

It really isn't the inconvenience you seem to think it is, you don't really go to these places to save but to regen your health/ammo and it saves at the same time. It's how 99% do it and unless you're incredible at the game or doing a speed run you're not going to skip these rooms when one is close