MP4 is such a weird game

It feels to me liken this game came out in 2009 or something instead of today. It’s as though all of the advancements of the genre have totally passed it by. It’s even seemingly oblivious to the flaws of past entries; the bland, generic marines and Galactic Federation of MP3 and the terrible, cringy dialogue of chatty NPCs. Did the devs not ever hear of Other M?! The way power ups function as little more than unlock keys, the linearity, the mindless end-game grind as though this is the GameCube era.

What on Earth have the devs been doing in all of these years?