Yes, his name is Gossamer.
Also, I'm not sure about anyone else, but I was actually pretty happy, if skeptical, when they announced Metroid Prime would be three-dimensional, first-person-y. I hadn't yet seen a way where a 2d franchise had survived the transition into 3d with its known quality intact, and Prime showed me better (on the other hand, Echoes did a little bit of a backstep in that regard, unfortunately).
I don't think necessarily all gripes about advancement and change are invalid. If one looks at the early Monkey Island games, for example, and compares it to the 3d iteration of the set, the difference becomes clear. Same goes for the King of Fighters games: KoF: MaxImpact was not nearly up to the quality level of its 2d predecessors. There are other examples, of course, but I don't care to list them.
For all that, however, it would be folly to demonize a franchise's new iterations right out the box just because there's something different about it. Because that makes you look like one of the people who bitched about cel shading in Zelda: Wind Waker, and that's not an affiliation any of us wants. Give shit a chance.
Not necessarily bitching towards anyone in this forum, because I can't really recall anyone doing so around here. But still, it had to be said. Sort of. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>
Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=priamnevhausten>PriamNevhausten</A] at: 2/17/05 20:07