After nothing came of the games 20th anniversary in November 2022, I figured it was time to give up hope, and I played the game for the first time ever last month. I held out hope that the Prime Trilogy would get ported to Nintendo Switch so I could play those. After Metroid Dread was announced, I blasted through the 2D entries and adored them. The cream-of-the-crop however is using the dual stick controls with gyro aiming, which is hidden away in the camera options for whatever reason. But now you can play the game with modern FPS controls.įor you sickos who like the original controls, you have the option to use them, as well as a control scheme emulating the pointer controls in the Nintendo Wii port of the game, in addition to a hybrid control scheme with GameCube controls and gyro aiming. Metroid Prime came out in an era where FPS games on consoles were still being figured out, so turn and forward movement were mapped to the left stick, with strafing stuck to the lock-on. New to the remaster is the introduction of dual stick controls, which – as someone who recently played the original game – is a godsend. You don’t have to worry about precision aiming thanks to the generous lock-on feature, and most boss fights feel more like puzzles than a straight FPS duel. While the game is played in first-person, it feels far more like an adventure game than a standard FPS. Retro Studios manages to make Metroid’s jump to 3D one of the most elegant transitions I've ever seen, and it's up there with Super Mario 64. The gameplay of Metroid Prime is the main event, however.
It rivals some of the best-looking games on the system, like Capcom’s Monster Hunter Rise, all while running at a silky smooth 60 fps. Graphically, Metroid Prime Remastered is one of the best looking games on the Nintendo Switch you really wouldn’t be able to tell you're playing a 20-year-old Nintendo GameCube game. I never felt like it was stated clearly that collecting the artifacts was the ultimate goal, so the end of my playtime culminated in a bit of a fetch quest (which was far less daunting than it seemed, to be fair). The only downsides to Prime's interpretation of it is the 12 artifacts that you need to collect to face the final boss. It’s the classic Metroid layout and one so satisfying it spawned its own genre: metroidvania. Along the way you’ll explore seven distinct areas, each gorgeously rendered in this remaster. You now have to explore the planet in search of new and old abilities to find, and use, to defeat the space pirate leader. Samus loses all of her powers and evacuates to Tallon 4’s surface. Suddenly, the space pirate leader, Ridley, attacks the station, destroying it. And it's only amplified by the updated graphics. Retro Studios has recreated it flawlessly from the original 2D Metroid trilogy over to 3D. Right from the moment you land on that space station – even in the original GameCube release – the atmosphere is unmatched. galactic bounty hunter Samus Aran answers a distress signal, this time from a space station outside of orbit of the planet Tallon 4, former home of the Chozo race, who raised Samus. Metroid Prime starts the way most Metroid games do. Plus, unlike The Last of Us Part 1’s extortionate price point of £69.99 / $69.99 / AU124.95, Metroid Prime Remastered is only £34.99 / $39.99 / Au$59.95, so you get a far better game for half the price! Super Metroid Metroid Prime Remastered is more in line with 2022’s The Last of Us Part 1, which saw the original game running in the background, but with completely reworked graphics and new models. Now, the term ‘remastered’ typically brings to mind lazy ports that simply up-res the graphics, and call it a day. Metroid Prime Remastered for the Nintendo Switch comes courtesy of Retro Studios – the original developer of the game – and a group of support studios. Thankfully, this couldn’t be further from the truth. It was as if it was just dropped out as a quick, easy port to get it out of the way. It was a surprise launch during a Nintendo Direct with very little fanfare it was just another headline in the middle of the show. Metroid Prime Remastered came out of nowhere.
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