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Metroid Prime Remastered Review
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Metroid Prime Remastered honors a lauded classic and brings it up to code, fixing outdated controls and adding a slick coat of polygons and textures that make this masterpiece of a shooter shine once more.
Samuel Claiborn
Summary
Metroid Prime: Remastered is a twin-stick, visually upgraded port of the Retro Studios-developed first-person action adventure, originally released for GameCube in 2002.
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This was my first metroidvania. I cannot describe how much I loved and hated this game. Absolutely infuriating, but I couldn't put it down. The backtracking got a little ridiculous, but was still rewarding. The puzzles were a lot of fun, but the combat got annoying at times. I hated clearing a room and then having to backtrack through it a few minutes later and have to defeat the same enemies again. I think at the end of the day, this genre probably just isn't for me. But I'm glad I played it. Enjoyed it during the moments it wasn't annoying the crap out of me. I can see why others would call it a masterpiece. But I would never play it again in a million years. That was awful. And incredible. Sorry, I'm feeling a lot of things right now.
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Probably the best graphics for a Switch game; incredible soundtrack; intricate map layout set up for exploration; innovative and immersive combat/interaction design; runs silky smooth consistently; balances out enemy variance/challenge as Samus gains strength/abilities; quite a bit of back tracking due to a lack of fast travel and fairly limited options in reaching specific biomes/areas across the world (fortunately Samus feels great to control).
Metroid Prime does the impossible by taking the MetroidVania format and perfectly converting it into first person to create an experience most unique. Stellar gameplay and exploration combined with cool enemies and environments create a video game that will easily be on your best games of all time list when it's over.
Just as good as when I first played it over 20 years ago! Except this time the graphics are smoothed out just a bit more for modern TVs which is great
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In an age of waypoints, live services, online multiplayer, Metroid Prime has aged incredibly well as a solid atmospheric single player adventure introducing many players to what can be described as the Pinnacle of the Metroid series while maintaining the series staples of exploration & atmosphere with grand scale bosses, only this time in a 3D first-person perspective which was a first for the series, many of the time were critical & concerned about the transition however it's proved to be one of the best games of it's generation & seeing it brought to modern consoles really shows its timeless quality, compared to many of the industry's traits today as theres been more & more protagonists with verbal diarrhoea, the feeling of isolation & immersion has never been greater in Metroid Prime, due to the fact that there is no spoke dialogue other than the introduction & Outro narrative, which can also be turned off completely.
To say this is a simple remaster feels like an understatement as graphical fidelity has been greatly improved, boasting a full 1080p at 60FPS, especially considering the switch is now 7 years old & the original metro prime was released in 2003.
All the previous gameplay elements & remain intact although some visuals have been slightly adjusted such as the reflective beam fire, particle effects some weather effects. I did find that the thermal visor which you pick up about three quarters of the way through the game,actually looked a lot worse ' even blurry. The control schemes are pretty robust solid but as it doesn't feature button mapping it can feel a little bit of a faff when using the super missiles having the A button to fire and pressing the R button to activate the super missile combo,. with the fact of this is now also has the option free twin stick she said it does get awkward. However these are just minor complaints in what is it otherwise and incredibly robust remake.
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One of the surprise releases of 2023, this was the first time I played the first Metroid Prime, and I'm happy to say that it's one of my favorite gaming experiences I had this year!
The sense of being alone on this planet figuring out what exactly is going on was fun from beginning to end. It's also one of the prettiest games out there on the Switch, and runs super smooth! The music and ambience fits perfectly for the colorful areas that you traverse on this lonely planet.
The isolated feeling you get from this game might make it, for me, one of the most immersive games I have ever played. So many little details can be seen if you take the time to look, and makes everything feel so real. And it doesn't feel like you're going through menus, since its all integrated on Samus' visor in some way.
It is very difficult as well. If you are not prepared for what is coming, you will get your *** kicked in one way or another. But it's very rewarding to figure out patterns and how to kill the bosses here. If i had any kind of complaint it would be the backtracking, it could be a little cumbersome if you didn't pay enough attention to certain clues that the game lays out for you, but that is only a small gripe to have.
This a game that I'll remember and I will come back to this from time to time.
This is the Metroid Prime you know and love. The control options are good: gyro, 2-stick, and classic options all make an appearance. The game is drop dead gorgeous and runs silky smooth on the Switch. The timeless soundtrack still bops after 20 years. It's still one of the most immersive video game experiences ever made.
On the flip side, this is, well, the Metroid Prime you know and love. Prime becomes very tedious in the last half, as it slingshots you back and forth across the world map over and over in search of the next trinket. The rooms rarely change, and enemies always respawn after walking through two or three doors. This makes for a very sluggish and repetitive slog through the game world, especially after you've already seen everything but still have to do one final lap for a handful of alien relic macguffins. Keeping track of which power-ups you've collected is your own personal responsibility, as the game gives you no tools to mark on its map or check off a list. Better bust out that pen and paper!
Still, the lore and setting are compelling enough that even walking down the same overgrown hallway for the nth time is enjoyable if you stop to smell the roses. There are tons of nodes to scan that unlock optional story insights; alien flora and fauna fill out all corners of every room; the new lighting and texture work give the world of Talon IV new spark. In Samus' power armor, you feel like you're truly spelunking on a planet light years from our own.
Overall, it's worth a play. It's my opinion that Prime 2 did everything better than Prime, so I'm hoping Nintendo follows up this classic remaster with another.
Many say there isn’t such a thing as a perfect game, but Metroid Prime Remastered might just be the only one. Everything from performance, to sound, to art, and level design are fantastic. This game hasn’t aged a day.
I bought the remastered version for Switch since I never played the original to see what all the hubbub was about. Turns out to be a great game! Solid controls (not as tight as Dread though). The music is great, very clever environmental puzzles and challenging to solve in a fun way. My only complaint is no auto save or suspend save feature. That quality of life feature would have been nice but overall an excellent game!
I may be wrong but, as a long fan of the Metroid 2d series this game seemed so slow to me: the movements, the fighting, everything. And the mechanic of having to change your weapon every other second annoyed me a lot
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Metroid Prime Remastered honors a lauded classic and brings it up to code, fixing outdated controls and adding a slick coat of polygons and textures that make this masterpiece of a shooter shine once more.
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