User blog comment:Freezeblade7997/My opinion on the Metroid Fandom as of now.../@comment-1150829-20170427190150

I'll admit many Metroid fans are volatile, about Federation Force and other series matters, but there are also those whose criticism of it is legitimate. Is it as horrible as Superman 64, Big Rigs or Ass Hunter? (don't google that for your sanity) No, but it does feel like a slap in the face to many. It came out during a second series drought, as a poor looking and playing spinoff, and around the same time Nintendo shuts down the kind of Metroid game the fans have wanted for many years. No new 2D Metroid for 13 years, no new Prime for 10 years this August, and no new Metroid at all for 7 years this August. One can argue that AM2R was illegal and a threat to Nintendo's IP, but it still feels as if it's a fuck you to the series and its fans, as if Nintendo's telling us how to play their games like EA or Activision. You cited Metroid Prime Pinball as an example of a hated spinoff. That game came out during the period when there were steady and frequent Metroid releases. Zero Mission and Echoes were released the year before, Hunters was coming out that same year, and MP3 was at least one or two years away. It also wasn't pretending to be a mainline Metroid title, rather a pinball adaptation of Prime. As I said, Federation Force was released not alongside a new Metroid game, and nearly 6 years after the release of Other M. The timing was poor. I agree, the petition was pointless. But, a lot of the criticism is understandable. It's only a mediocre game. I haven't tried the co-op aspect of it; maybe it's better when played that way, but in my view the only good thing to come from the game is that its ending gives hope for Metroid Prime 4 (and that might be asking too much from Nintendo).