@2501 Completely agree with your assessment of Prime 4…I would love Nintendo to make a clean break with the Metroid “canon” and reinvent it as something that evokes the space desolation simulators that were the first three games (please reference my post in the From Software thread for my humble wishes).
As for Samus Returns…yeah I was excited in theory, but that excitement waned fast enough that I never even actually played it (lol). I have a lot of nostalgia for the GB original–I don't think that this means it was impossible to do right by remaking it, but I sure as heck did not like what they did with the soundtrack.
edit: sorry, I just realized that I am linking the From thread in a reply to your comment about Souls related lambasting…please do not misinterpret this as a veiled threat!