https://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/email-question-about-mario-3/So, I was right about Malstrom hating "saving" in games.
Come to think of it, you know one reason why I really like Super Mario Brothers 3? It is the lack of save points. If you need to go anywhere, there is the warp whistle. And it doesn’t take that long to play through the entire game in one sitting....also...
Sometimes things like save points have been bad to gaming. For example, save points can remove the fear of dying. It was fun to totally wipe and have to start over but this time with more skill (and you end up where you were before but with many more lives). This element seems completely lost in platformers today and was lost even when Super Mario World came out.He really wants it old fashioned.
Also, I found a metroid-related article.
https://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/email-zero-punctuation-reviews-other-m/I do not believe the Zero Suit has been helpful for Samus Aran or Metroid in general. When Samus revealed herself at the end of older Metroids, she would just have a bikini on. I prefer her being in her metallic suit in a bikini than this “zero suit”. The only reason why she has the ‘Zero Suit’ is so she can run around with a pistol and act like a ninja ‘ninja’. Samus was likable because she did not have super-Human powers. We figured that Samus outside of her suit would be instant death in the hideous alien environments on Zebes. But in Sakamoto’s bizarro world, Samus is a super ninja and the armor is just a costume which she can turn ‘on’ and ‘off’ at will (depending on whether it is time to show off her butt some more).I think he's confusing
"slightly stronger than the average human" for
"superpowered demigod." Just because she has alien blood in her DNA(He hates everything about the character Samus is given. He rather she remained a featureless avatar) doesn't mean she is a glorified superhuman. At best, she is on the level of Captain America.