This game actually shocks me how well it holds up 20 years later. It truly was ahead of it's time in 2002.

@netweed09

Жыл бұрын

Yep, it's called a Classic.

@gilbert6181

Жыл бұрын

did you just say 2002? Damn I feel old...

@Xiatter

Жыл бұрын

I'm still a little disappointed by certain games not doing things Prime does. Like steam effects on the visor, and the reflection of Samus' eyes.

@tonicipirani7659

Жыл бұрын

Sonic Adventure DX holds up better.

@philatio1744

Жыл бұрын

@@tonicipirani7659 i love sonic adventure dx, but hell no. It isn't even the best version of that game

This is the game that introduced me to the Metroid series, and it makes me so happy to see that gamers today will get to experience Retro Studios' masterpiece in all of its glory.

@DanielMazahreh

Жыл бұрын

Same with me. Prime was my very first & was happy to experience that in the same way as Ocarina was my first Zelda. Really magical.

@zZiL341yRj736

Жыл бұрын

Maybe if you get lucky they'll do 2 & 3 and you can pay $120 for 3 old ass games.

@DanielZeal

Жыл бұрын

@@zZiL341yRj736 ok

@vintageoriginallegit

Жыл бұрын

@@zZiL341yRj736 it’s a full on remake done gloriously for only 40$ you forgot skyward sword hd was 60$?

@sergioraulwilo

Жыл бұрын

@@zZiL341yRj736 I would buy it, these games are better than a lot of "new" games, the chance to play that on the Switch is enough for me, those sexy graphics are a very welcome extra.

guess you could call that a.. remasterpiece

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

man...

@TheBarderBard

Жыл бұрын

You, take my like and get out. 👉

@ivan.guitaraaa1903

2 ай бұрын

Hopefully we can say the same about paper mario for switch have you got a chance to try it?

The transition between first person and morph ball is great indeed. During the development of the original version, Miyamoto insisted that if the team couldn't get that transition right the game just wouldn't work.

I cant believe Metroid Prime is 21 years old. I purchased this on my gamecube November 18, 2002 and found it to be an absolute masterpiece and one of the greatest games ever made. Having completed it dozens of times, I can say with certainty that it's one of a handful of games I consider flawless.

@chrisbg99

Жыл бұрын

I had just turned 20 when the game came out. I am 40 now. Is shocking how time just keeps on slipping into the future. Damn you Steve Miller Band.

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

21?! Sheesh, I think I was like 10 when I tried it out.

@GracelessTarnished

Жыл бұрын

@@retrorebound8887 I hear ya. I was 18.

@sergeleon1163

Жыл бұрын

wow 21 years already, where did the time go. It feels like it was only a few years ago and nice to see some more people here from my generation, as I was 23 myself when I played this on a GameCube from a buddy back in the day.

@theinfantmetroid

Жыл бұрын

Prime came out one day before I was born, which is funny because it's also the game that got me into the franchise 9 years later. Gotta be fate or smn

It’s nice to see it get a remaster. I remember having it as a kid but I was too scared to play it in its entirety. Now that I’m that older I can finally play it again to the end

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

I get that. Darth Sion scared the life out of me in KOTOR 2 as a kid, but eventually I pushed through!

@updaterequired1173

Жыл бұрын

For me it was super Metroid... As a kid playing that game just the starting screen itself scared me 🤣 playing in the dark was something else.

@seanashleybrown

Жыл бұрын

100% me to. I loved the game but couldn’t get past the first level as that and the title screen scared the hell out of me haha

@PerhapsGuy

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching my brother play through the game on GameCube when I was very little, and being obsessed with reading the guidebook. I was too scared to play it myself because of the death scene, but eventually I pushed forward and beat the game myself. One of the most memorable games I've ever played. I can't wait to play Remastered after I'm done with FE Engage!

Just wanted to say for the exploration part, a lot of those pathways end up being dead ends if you don’t have the correct upgrades so you kind of always end up circling back to where you need to go anyway, and if it really is taking a long time for you to find out where to go eventually an update will come to Samus informing her of where she needs to go next, it’s not like a trail you follow but it does indicate where you’re trying to get to and usually from there it’s kind of obvious what path you should take

@twilighttiger2368

Жыл бұрын

Personally, I would leave the hint system off unless you're really REALLY lost. Part of the charm of Metroid Prime is exploring the areas at your own pace, cause even if you do hit a temporary dead end, it stills fills you with a sense of curiosity about what's beyond that point once you DO get the upgrade to progress there, but the hint system kind of detracts from that sense of organic exploration and discovery.

As someone who played and finished Metroid Prime back in 2002 multiple times, Prime Remastered is nothing short of astounding, my personal favorite game of all time, if not one of the best games ever made.

@olsonbryce777

Жыл бұрын

Did u like Prime 2?

Dude so crazy to think about your channel not being around when Dread came out. You came up pretty quick! Also my fav detail in any game is how you can see Samus’ reflection in her visor when a flashing light hits close. Whether it’s a missile or a charge shot hitting something close to you. Never gets old!

@yaleseagull8662

Жыл бұрын

his channel was definitely here when dread came out

@Piizzachuu

Жыл бұрын

@@yaleseagull8662 he said it wasn’t 🤷🏻‍♂️

@SnazzyPuke

Жыл бұрын

@@yaleseagull8662 he has a main channel that he has had since 2011 but this one is new

@InnerRise

Жыл бұрын

​@@Piizzachuu that threw me for a loop too. Im new to him. But I was sure I've been seeing thumbnails of his face for a long time.

I remember the countless hours playing this on my Gamecube, its truly a masterpiece.

metroid dread was excellent but the ost of prime 1 is just so much superior, also i remember vividly like getting to phendrana and then realising i didnt have an item that was needed, going back to the half pipe structure and realising there was something to do here to get the space boots really meant using your brain. Being a kid even with the hints it took me days or weeks to figure things out. I agree with everything you said basically great take.

@luke_of_astora

Жыл бұрын

The OST for prime honestly hasn't been topped yet

So happy you played Prime 1 to completion for the first time! This was my first Metroid game as a kid and it's great so many people are experiencing 3D Metroid for the first time. :) I teared up a little bit seeing it #1 on the Nintendo eShop lol...I hope they do the same for Echoes and Corruption.

This game truly is a masterpiece. It was my first Metroid experience and my first first-person game. I played it back when I was eleven or twelve. I struggled so hard acclimating to the first-person view back then. I pushed through and learned though. I played this game countless times as a kid. I played it so much that I started to memorize the game and where the items were. I eventually beat it for the sixth time and got enough completion percentage to get the special ending where Samus takes off her helmet. Up to this point, I had no clue what kind of character I was. I was just some nameless guy in a spacesuit. When I finally realized I had been playing as a woman the entire time, I remember audibly yelling "I am a GIRL!? THAT'S AWESOME!" From that point, the game became a cherished memory and personal journey of mine and fundamentally made me who I am as a gamer. I consistently gravitate towards badass female heroines in games and Samus is the GOAT to me. When the Trilogy released on Wii in 2009, I made it a point to play through the series once a year for fun and to try best my own speedrunning record. As of today, my fastest 100% speedrun for Prime is 4 hours and 37 minutes. I eventually stopped doing the annual speedruns in 2017. Life got in the way and I had to focus on other things. Then at Christmas time of 2017, I got a PS4, so my console focus shifted from Switch to PS4. I eventually shelved my Wii and never touched it again. Fast forward to 2020. I got a PS5 and focused on that a ton. My Switch was gathering dust. I was holding out hope that one day the Trilogy would come to Switch so I could play it again. Lo and behold, it has arrived! I never thought a Switch game could look as good as this one does. It is practically a remake. While it isn't the complete trilogy, I am so glad that I can play this masterpiece again and that so many others can experience it for the first time. Here's to hoping Retro Studios releases remasters/remakes of Prime 2 and 3 for the Switch. I can imagine they will to prepare everyone for Prime 4. Seeing what they did with Prime's remaster/remake, I know Prime 4 is in the best hands.

Favourite game of all time. Bought the GameCube for my 14th b-day and this game was bundled with it. Had no idea how amazing it would be when I booted it up for the first time, and now, playing it remastered is like discovering it all over again. Great review!

Metroid Dread was my first Metroid game and I fell in love with the franchise and then played all the 2D games and finally got to play Prime and I love it!

What's funny is the remaster is how I remember the original looking back in the day. I believe I was 13 back then.

I'd give anything to have Prime 2 remastered too!!!

I’m new to Metroid with dread being my first game. This feels like dread but in fps! Awesome game

@mikem8851

Жыл бұрын

Definitely play Super Metroid next 👌

@esmooth919

4 ай бұрын

Fun fact: when Retro Studios developed Metroid Prime, they used Super Metroid as a template

The psysical edition of Metroid Prime Remastered is currently sold out in Amazon US, Amazon Spain and Amazon Mexico.

Like i said on Happy Console Gamer's First Thoughts video, this is a masterclass on how to do a remaster and it's great to see Retro Studios come back and with the game that defined the studio :)

@johndodo2062

Жыл бұрын

I always end up finding myself wondering what it could look like if Nintendo wasn't 2 generations behind all the time. Prime with dead space level detail would kill everything else on the market

@olsonbryce777

Жыл бұрын

@@johndodo2062 I honestly think this looks better than the new dead space. Art direction and lighting is just so pleasing. Dead space is just constantly grim and gritty

@zZiL341yRj736

Жыл бұрын

More like half ass effort and then charged $40 for an old ass game. Maybe if you get lucky they'll do 2&3 and you can give them $120 for an old trilogy.

@James-gj8rn

Жыл бұрын

@@zZiL341yRj736 This is half assed? i don't think so

@TonyJenn

Жыл бұрын

@@johndodo2062 even if Nintendo was on level with Sony and Microsoft, folks will still bitch about graphics and what could've been.

How do you have enough time to play and review all those games. And you review the games with detail and passion. Love your channel.

When Prime 4 lands, I'm gonna do the same thing I did back in 02'. Bought a system just for one game, Metroid Prime.

Played this when I was 8 and got hard stuck after getting the morphball 😂 now I'm collecting the rest of the chozo artifacts

I remember getting this game as a birthday present in 3rd grade. I had wanted some Mario basketball game instead, so I wasn't thrilled but I gave it a chance. This game's lore was way too complex for little me to understand at the time, but I absolutely loved the sci-fi action and I have replayed it many many times over the years. I remember being blown away by the ending when the cool space guy's identity was revealed to be a girl! When Prime 2 Echoes came out I NEEDED to have it as well. Highly recommend the Prime trilogy. Echoes went on to be my favorite of the trio, but I still have a great fondness and respect for the first and third. You ABSOLUTELY need to play the trilogy in its entirety.

I think the way the game respects my intelligence by letting me get lost without telling me what to do or where to go next most of the time is a big factor in why it's so good.

You should post this on your main channel. The algorithm usually doesn’t push this channel to the feed so I feel like people miss these videos often.

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

That's untrue. Most of the viewership of this channel is generated from non-subscribers and it overall performs better than MrMattyPlays in the long term. Just go peep the performance of any Nintendo videos on that channel. It's night/day because the audience and reach is different.

@TAgarwal447

Жыл бұрын

@@retrorebound8887 fair enough, thanks for explaining. Fantastic review btw. One of my favorite games of all time.

@bagofish8511

Жыл бұрын

@@TAgarwal447in real time I just watched you comment this

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

@@TAgarwal447 No problem. I understand how it looks given the subscriber counts. Happy to hear you enjoyed the video! :)

@drowningin

Жыл бұрын

This isn't the main channel? Had no idea

One of the greatest series ever made. The music is unbelievable. Very welcome surprise for me. I only just got a new switch around a month ago. I played all the originals as they were released in the early '00s. Everything about the prime series was way ahead of its time. Downloaded Remastered last night & its amazing.

Completely agree. The remaster is phenomenal ! 👌

Great review. I love that there is no spoken dialogue and long conversations in Metroid Prime. It adds a sense of desolation to the environment and enables the player to focus more on game strategies.

Can I just say Retro Rebound has really become the retro gaming channel I've always wanted. Not just focusing on retro games themselves, but also all the Remasters, Remakes and Spiritual Sequels for some of these games. Perfect blend of new and old

One of my favorite Christmas presents of all time.

I played Prime when I was 13 and when it first came out. It’s been my favorite game(series) ever since and hasn’t changed.

The remaster maintains the nostalgia goggles, and it's an altogether awe inspiring experience!

I've never been a fan of Metroid but I loved Journey to the savage planet which was heavily inspired by this game so I decided to pick it up. I can see the inspiration everywhere lol.

I remember enjoying this game when I was young, but I definitely had to use a guide I am planning to get the physical game but its hard to wait, and not just buy both.

Great video! Retro Studios were testing the waters doing this excellent remaster for Prime 4. It was their chance to feel and jump back to this amazing game and inspire themselves on what the original Team did back in 2002. I remember back then when I had the GC and bought this wonderful game on day one!

My first playthrough on the switch I made it to the spot where you face Rhundas. A good few hours if exploration and breathing in the atmosphere of my childhood. Gonna try to go 100%

I'm surprised no one has made the joke "It's a Remasterpiece!"

Metroid Prime Remake reminds us that leaving the development of MP4 to Retro Studios is the right choice, even if they take their time to release the game. I mean this is a 21 years old game and is gold and better that some stuff released recently

Just bought this yesterday I skipped over the gamecube back in the day I had the ps2 and my friends had ps2 or xbox and with this being my first metriod prime game im in love 😍 being a huge mass effect fan I feel right at home in the metriod universe

15:57 "The most badass heroin in this game" Me - haha, bro! You said Heroin. Haha! Ha! Haha!

You definitely deserve more subs, you could easily hit the 1M mark with this quality

15:10 it's not weird since it is one of the decisive aspects that determined if the game was coming out. I can't remember who but it was one of the big names in Nintendo basically told Retro Studios that if they didn't nail that transition from the morphball into first person they were going to drop the project

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

Wow, if true, that's intense!

@ErimlRGG

Жыл бұрын

@@retrorebound8887 Looked it up. It was the man himself, Miyamoto. "But Miyamoto’s first directive was ‘if we don’t make the transition between the ball and first-person seamless, then we can’t do this game.'" "It took us a few months to get that correct," added Pacini. "And that was pretty scary, as it was one of the first milestones we had to reach, and thanks to our engineers ,we managed to create something that when Miyamoto saw it he said, ‘okay’ on the project. "

@Giorgio879

Жыл бұрын

@@retrorebound8887 The channel @KIWITALKZ has some very interesting interviews with some developers of the Prime trilogy, and plenty of them detail the design challenges for the game's magnificent camera system and the work done by the late Mark Haigh-Hutchinson. Worth the time for anyone that wants to know more about those games.

the OST for this game lives in my head. constantly. and the fortress theme from prime 2... *chefs kiss*

Sixth year old me is happy this remake was done well and with passion to recreate the experience we all had back in the early 2000’s.

I remember getting this game 2 days before release date mainly because the employee didn't really care about release dates. And the moment I popped the disc inside the GameCube, it stayed in there for months. I was hooked. Haven't played this game in years becuz my dumbass gave my GameCube to my girlfriend's son for his birthday long ago. There have been plenty of times I wanted to do so many play throughs on this game. Thank the lord that Retro and nintendo brought this back.

So happy you finally played it! I have to admit the Wii version of this with motions controls was also good. In fact it's the only Wii game I played that felt like it used them properly. I still prefer the GC version though. Can't wait for the physical version of the remake to come out. I also loved Prime 2. It's basically just more of Prime but that's not a bad thing.

This was the first metroid game i ever own. Remember getting it at gamestop for 8 bucks in their replacement box and cover art.

I’m very new to the Metroid series, I’ve always been keenly aware of it, but never known the proper moment to jump in until the Switch’s Metroid revival. I played Super Metroid in the lead up to Dread and absolutely loved both games. Now I’ve just beaten Prime remastered and am moving on to Fusion on NSO. I’ve loved all of them so far and am praying that they add Zero Mission to NSO, and I’m considering getting the Metroid 2 remake on 3DS to complete the Metroid pentalogy.

New school gamers are gonna get so lost in this game 😂

@johndodo2062

Жыл бұрын

Even though thru will get the hint of where to go just not how to get there. New people will definitely give up

When I was a kid my dad got me a GameCube and this game because super smash bros was sold out. At first I was kinda upset but ended up being one of my favorite childhood games along with MGS1

When the game says a Concussive blast is required it simply means use your missiles. You don’t technically “need” the charge beam save for super missiles to break certain objects made of cordite. Sure makes the game a lot easier though! Also, the hint system will tell you were to go next if you wander for too long. It’s pretty generous so it doesn’t take much time for it to pop. It would pop for me sometimes when I was in the room right before the hint room.

When I was a teen I watched my cousin play Metroid Prime but I missed it on it. I grew up with the original on NES and SM on SNES. I ordered the physical, I'm super stoked to finally play this classic!

I remember playing this when I was 12. I printed out the entire walkthrough because every time someone would call the house I would get knocked off the internet and lose my spot. Good times

@guadalupesepulveda8078

Жыл бұрын

Ahhh yes ,the days of gamefaqs

@N.i.E.M.O

Жыл бұрын

It's hard to believe that there are people alive today who are now legal adults who weren't even born when dial-up was a thing. Or before the internet even existed at all. Or even cell phones. Or Metroid Prime 1 and 2. Starting to feel old....

@legrandliseurtri7495

Жыл бұрын

@@N.i.E.M.O Like me. Born in 2003.

One of my games I got with my Gamecube back in the day and loved every second of it. Can't wait to play it again on the Switch when the physical version comes out. Trying not to double dip on a digital copy and start playing it already.

Wow, you have insanely high views for a channel your size, congratulations, you deserve it!

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It's all because of the support of folks like you. I truly love making videos for this channel so, so much!

@phant0mdummy

Жыл бұрын

This isn't his first channel, or his largest. He's been gaming the algorithm for years, plus carried subs from his other channel over here. So nothing shocking.

@lucashen9686

Жыл бұрын

@@phant0mdummy didn't know that, there is nothing in his channels section. What are his other channels?

@thecameraman8648

Жыл бұрын

@@lucashen9686He’s most known as Mrmattyplays

@lucashen9686

Жыл бұрын

@@thecameraman8648 thanks. why did he make an extra channel just for retro gaming?

I played Metroid Prime on GameCube back in the day and had a lot of trouble getting into it. I was bored by the exploration (something that would definitely not be the case for me now); so, when I ran into a snag where I couldn't figure out how to progress, I just gave up on it (and eventually gave the sequels a pass). Many years later, I bought Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii U and tried to get into the first game again. Nope. Wasn't feeling the controls. Metroid Prime Remastered will be my third attempt to get into Metroid Prime, and hopefully it'll be the charm. I've got the physical edition pre-ordered.

MP2 is the peak of the series IMO

Playing this game makes you realize why Metroid Dread's music got so criticized, even if Dread's music is not the worst in the world. But when Metroid fans are used to getting all the toppings on top of the pizza, while Dread is just the bread and a little bit of cheese, it certainly felt like a little let down in that department.

I wouldn’t say this game is a masterpiece but a REMASTERpiece 😉

It really doesn’t need autoaim because the gyro was implemented the right way. I’m using dual stick + gyro aim settings. Such a great remaster.

You brought up a good point that I’m struggling with. I’m not sure if I should go out and buy Prime 2 and 3 on older hardware or wait for a remaster. I love the shadow drop concept but it makes these decisions so much harder! Great video

Having never played a mainline Metroid Prime game before and being such a fan of Dark Souls, its honestly jarring how similar this game is to DS1. The Talon Overworld is Firelink Shrine. The Magmoor Caverns are Blighttown. I can't wait to play 2 and 3 and eventually 4.

The bosses got the biggest glow ups and that makes them even more awesome.

I grew up on this game and its awesome to see how well its held up

7:18 $40 was a steal for me! The minute I saw that it shadow dropped, I had to snatch that shit right up! Oddly enough, I still haven't picked up a physical copy

Dead Space Remaster & Hogwarts Legacy... then Boom Nintendo release Metroid Prime Remasterd!! Blows them both out the water. Love it!

I was 14 when this came out and I remember I just didn’t really enjoy it for some reason. I think it was the puzzles/ maps that were too hard for me at the time. But now, omg I love the Metroid series. Wanna give this one another shot.

GOAT soundtrack, and the second game is even better

@johndodo2062

Жыл бұрын

It's much better than the second ost wise

I’m glad Nintendo remastered MP the trilogy on will goes for an insane price right now

It’s crazy to think it came out 8 yrs after super Metroid on the snes It was 2016 8 yrs ago!my mind would have melted to see that graphic jump in that short span of time

Oh man just that opening track

Metroid Prime Echoes was awesome, but also demanded a great deal more patience and endurance. A much more meaty world to adventure, though a much more monochrome colour palet and ghastly barren locations. It adds an extra dimension to travel through, which seriously amps up the path finding on the map screen. Prime Corruption is the most action packed, probably the best ending, but the 'world' has been strictly segmented, which breaks up the play from the traditional 'one giant maze' into sections that you'll be jumping between painfully so when you've lost ur way. Cue watching a lotta (pretty) load screens.

@steve833333

Жыл бұрын

Prime 1 is very good because it borrows heavily from Super Metroid in terms of level design.

Great review, Matty! I played Metroid Prime as a kid and still own my copy. Unfortunately, I never got very far because I couldn't figure out where to go. I'm going to get Metroid Prime: Remastered and beat it! After all these years!

The only visual downgrade (other than the removal of water ripples, which was also curiously cut from the Wii Trilogy version) is the lack of dynamic lighting. And unfortunately it really does detract from the immersion that the original game had. In the original, every shot from your arm cannon would dynamically cast light onto the environment. The Wave Beam in particular would light up the entire room with bright sparks of purple and red. Space Pirate grenades and missiles would also result in a similar effect. The lack of these dynamic lighting effects in the remaster is a damn shame. For as good as the recreated environments and models look, during gameplay, they feel a bit sterile compared to the original for this very reason. Of course, Prime 1's dynamic lighting wasn't anything particularly groundbreaking from a tech perspective. It was simple vertex lighting, which had been used as early as PS1/N64 software. It certainly wasn't 'Doom 3' levels of lighting complexity here, and none of the original Prime games featured any sort of dynamic shadows of any sort (in fact, outside of pre-baked shadows for the environment, enemy and NPCs had literal circle shadows). Still, Prime 1 used its lighting to great effect in really drawing the player into the world. Being able to use your arm cannon as a torch to light your way through the powered-down Space Pirate lab in Phendrana is simply not possible to do in the remaster. Interestingly, Prime 2 and 3 also progressively downgraded the intensity of dynamic lighting compared to the first game - so maybe it was an artistic choice. Although I imagine the choice to remove the effect had to do with the more complex geometry in Prime 2 making it more difficult to render dynamic lighting whilst maintaining a fluid framerate. Same for Prime 3, which, although being on the (barely) more powerful Wii, featured much higher polygon counts and impressively high-resolution textures (even better than the ones used in Prime remaster in many instances), and probably most importantly, extensive use of bloom lighting, which would probably have looked unnatural if mixed with Prime 1-esque dynamic lights. I noticed that Prime Remaster also uses a lot of bloom. It actually does remind me of Prime 3's art-style in many ways. Not a bad thing - but I defenitely miss those dynamic lights (if you couldn't tell). I do however hope that Prime 4 looks a lot better (if it ever actually comes out).

@TheLoneDrow916

Жыл бұрын

Interesting brother, thanks for sharing

@steve833333

Жыл бұрын

The game does have dynamic lighting just not from Samus arm cannon...I wonder why they cut that? It's using the same GC engine with a texture makeover...could be for performance or maybe was an oversight?

The most shocking thing about this was that they didn’t charge $60 for it

@N.i.E.M.O

Жыл бұрын

Especially considering they DID charge $60 for Skyward Sword HD, which was just an up-res'd port of the Wii version (which itself only cost $50 when it originally released a decade prior).

@Pumba424

Жыл бұрын

@@N.i.E.M.O exactly

I remember getting the Wii trilogy for like $40 back in the day after beating and really liking Other M. I also got stuck/lost in the beginning of the game and never touched the game again. I still got it sitting on the shelf

@RaggyRoo456

Жыл бұрын

@-Retro_Rebound no thanks. I don’t feel like getting scammed today

Metroid is one of few Nintendo IPs that doesn't hold your hand all the way through the game which I appreciate

I’d love to see an entire collection so far video

Hey Matty, I'm so glad that you played this for the first time and enjoyed it! Metroid Prime is one of my all time favorite games. I'd also recommend playing Metroid Prime 2, even on the gamecube it ran at 60fps and played very well! There's rumors of a Metroid Prime 2 Remaster, but I think it's worth checking out the original if you're interested.

I never beat Metroid Prime on GameCube so having it on the Switch is awesome. Like you said I wish you could place a marker on the map as I remember getting lost when exploring rooms and such.

Other than messing up the beam effects and the charge beam in general I agree

$40 is a steal cause the price of the ogs on wii and gamecube plus just think, they made Skyward Sword HD which was just a simple upscale with control changes and they charged $60 same with Mario 3d Allstars(you do get 3 games at least) and twilight Princess HD, this remaster is on par with Crisis Core Reunion and Wind Waker HD which also weren't full price hopefully more follow suit

@retrorebound8887

Жыл бұрын

I think Crisis Core Reunion did far more, but that game admittedly needed to change more. I think the only thing this game could've added is a marker system to aid in some of the navigation/finding objectives, but its openness is part of the charm and it may not be the right call to add that in.

@Cri_Jackal

Жыл бұрын

@@retrorebound8887 The game literally already has a marker system, if you spend too long without making progress the game will automatically point you to the next item you should get, this setting is on by default in both the Gamecube and Wii versions, I don't know if it is on the switch version though.

Excited to pick up my physical copy tomorrow :D

This game was great! Playing through the remake as well! Definitely worth going through the older games. Played Super Metroid and Metroid fusion last year and I was shocked at how well they stood up and I love those games. I didn't grow up with those games and don't have nostalgia and they still hold up extremely well.

I have to admit as a kid playing on the GameCube unable to read and all that it took me 3 years yes seriously to beat this game but man I loved it but uh yeah it was one of the first games I ever beat good times

just picked it up today, never gotten the chance to play back in day and hope the sequels would get remastered for the switch

A little upset that it wasn’t the full trilogy but amazing remaster !

Metroid Dread sort of railroads you, Prime harkens back to the era of Fusion and Super, the key is to make mental notes of things that you can't yet interact with, so when you get the correct item you can go back and continue forward.

I have memories of playing this on Gamecube getting lost for hours at a time.

Everytime you drop it makes my day better! -Ricardo from Alaska

Funny enough I'd recently hooked up my old Gamecube and started playing through this game. Was amazed with how well it holds up. I have some gameplay gripes (like the artifacts), but love the game. Took a bit to get into the swing of things again too as the game doesn't hold back.

wait...this game had one stick movement before? i completely forgot that after all these years xD

Doing digital releases first with the physical later on is the best move. Bugs and patches can be sorted out early, leading to physical versions that are playable right out of the box.

@dynamic_shortage6532

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I think the reason they did this was because they wanted to shadow drop it and if they shipped the games people would have known about it.

@nujevad28

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@@dynamic_shortage6532 Intended or not, the physical release will be better for it.

@dynamic_shortage6532

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@@nujevad28 I wish that were true. But out of the box it won’t be. It takes a long time to print all of those copies and ship them. It may be better if they release an update along side the game, but the update is on your console, not the cartridge. Edit: basically what I’m saying is it’s already too late if they want to make changes to it. Games are shipping as we speak.

@barcster2003

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I actually like the shadowdrop aspect of that while also allowing it to be physical.

Man idc if it has “players choice” - same game, different packaging

The real question is: can we still sequence break in the remaster?

I've played the older metroid games before.. even tried prime once before on the original GC but I never got past the prologue, now fully playing it, it definitely is an amazing game, the OG "2D" games I cannot get into for the life of me, but prime is very different, and in a good way.

It's honestly amazing AND funny at the same time. Cause this game, along with zelda botw, absolutely proves that there is no excuse for scarlett and Violet to be in the awful state it currently is in.

@N.i.E.M.O

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The excuse is that they know Pokémon will outsell Metroid (and even Zelda) by several orders of magnitude whilst taking less time, effort, and money to produce. Game Freak could come out with literal Pokémon Poop and Pokémon Piss versions (which are literally just a box with shlt and piss in them respectively) for $70 each, and they will be the best selling 'games' of all time.

Iirc back when it was new it was called a First Person Action Adventure. Which imho fits its style way more than Shooter.

I never played Metroid until about a year ago I finally buckled down and played through Super Metroid. Sat in a dark room, alone, and just let the music and atmosphere wash over me while exploring Zebes and man oh man what a perfect gaming experience. Now I'm playing through Prime Remastered, and it's absolutely amazing how well they were able to translate 2D style exploration into a 3D space. This game is mind blowing now. I can't imagine playing it in the early 2000's. Truly one of the best games ever made. I've also played Samus Returns and Dread and I have to say Metroid is slowly becoming my second favorite Nintendo franchise (behind Legend of Zelda). This is a 100% must own Switch title.