In our Metroid Prime Remastered review content, we return to the Metroid universe with one of the best games in the series.
Metroid Prime Remastered review In our article, we will take a look at the production that is a guest on our Nintendo Switch consoles in a completely surprise way. We ask “What happened to the new Metroid game?” While thinking, Metroid Prime Remastered was announced during Nintendo Direct and it was said that you can buy it now. An unexpected but wonderful surprise.
Metroid Prime Remastered review / Nintendo Switch
Metroid Prime, which debuted for the Nintendo Gamecube in 2002, was loved by both Metroid fans and other players, and was remembered as a game that was played fondly even after all these years. What does Metroid Prime Remastered offer us, what changes and innovations does it have, is it good enough to make you buy it again if you’ve played it before? Let’s examine it together.
Bounty Hunter Samus at Work
Receiving a distress signal from a space station, Samus Aran answers the call and finds himself in a research center under attack by space pirates. When pirates attack here, they also cause some species to escape. The real surprise is when we see that Ridley, the main antagonist of the series, is still alive and has escaped. We manage to escape before the station destroys itself, but in the process our suit is damaged. The adventure of Samus, who followed Ripley to the planet Tallon IV, begins here.
The story part of the game progresses in a way that we are not used to. There is no one talking to us or no artificial intelligence, our target is clear and to complete it we repair our damaged armor again. We learn what happened to the planet Tallon IV from the surrounding notes. If you don’t read them, I guarantee you won’t have the slightest idea what’s going on. Samus doesn’t even talk to himself. If you ask if this is a bad thing, we all know how badly written dialogues damage games. We’ve seen it in the more recent Atomic Heart example as well.
Rocket Openers
We’re playing Metroid Prime Remastered from a first-person perspective, but we can’t think of it as an FPS game. It is quite similar to the other games of the Metroid series, you can explore the environment and improve your equipment, and you can enter the points you could not reach before with new equipment. I mean it’s a Metroidvania type game, but the sentence seems ridiculous when we say it like that, we’re already playing Metroid. Only our perspective is different.
Once we land on the planet, we are free to go and explore in any direction we want, the game does not provide us with any directives. We often get the information that “this door cannot be opened yet” in the places we go and come back. We are in a 3D world and sometimes it is necessary to look a little further down or up to find the right path.
On the one hand, we are dealing with the enemies we come across, and on the other hand, we are trying to restore our armor. Initially we only have a helmet with attack mode and scanning enabled. The scan mode gives us information about the surrounding landmarks. When we scan enemies, it allows us to learn their weak points. Then comes the thermal and X-Ray views, we get into situations where we need to use each one.
Our weapon can do normal attack at the beginning, but with the improvements, it gains additional features such as rockets, charged attack, different beams. Also, Samus can roll himself into a ball and roll through difficult places and drop bombs on the ground. These improvements are both useful in combat and unlocking parts that we normally can’t reach. It’s also fun to get into a ball and roll on platforms like you’re playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Every improvement we find in the game gives us access to more regions.
Don’t let the first person point of view make you nervous, the gameplay is very comfortable, and the game offers multiple options for aiming and hitting the target. You can move and attack easily with dual analog support, you can also use automatic aiming if you want, which works very well. There is also support for aiming with motion detection added in the Wii version, but it was not for me, I did not use it much.
There is a lot of backtracking in the game, so you will constantly return to the places you passed before and use your new equipment there. The map of the area shows you which item will be available at which door, but you don’t have a guide other than that. That’s why sometimes you can start wandering around not knowing what to do. Fortunately, each of the sections is so different and separable from each other that you don’t say, “Have I been here before?”
The game has a gameplay time of about 12 hours. If you are not used to the genre and have trouble figuring out what to do, it will take longer. Even though I played the Wii version of the game for a short time, I left it because I was lost. Thanks to the Switch version, I had the chance to play it completely for the first time, and I finished it in 14 hours by looking around and reading the articles.
Image and Performance
The biggest improvement in Metroid Prime Remastered has been the visuals. Metroid Prime didn’t look bad, even now I think it has graphics that are not too distracting. In fact, when I first saw Remastered, I thought “is it necessary” but I was wrong, the graphics look great. Almost all the skins have been improved, the lighting effects have been strengthened and the environmental details look great. Moreover, the game runs at 60 FPS in both dock and handheld mode! And in handheld mode, the graphics don’t look like mud!
We play most of the game from a first-person viewpoint, and the rare times we see Samus from the outside are either in an elevator or in a ball. Metroid Prime Remastered has managed to give that “me behind the helmet” feeling very well. It is raining, we see the drops, dust – mud is accumulating and so on. The detail I like most is that we see Samus’ face reflected in the glass during the explosions near us. It’s such a small but beautiful detail that I can’t explain it.
The sound and music in the game are fine, I can say that the sounds have become cleaner compared to the Wii version, but I did not hear any serious changes. Since I’ve never played the Gamecube version (I still don’t have a Gamecube console yet), I can’t comment on that. The music of the game is very good. They renewed some old music and added new songs. I am quite satisfied. There is a new section in the main menu, so we can listen to the music in the game and examine the models.
Conclusion
Metroid Prime Remastered was a great surprise for Nintendo Switch users. Metroid Prime is already a timeless classic, and Remastered is a great game to develop this classic in the best possible way and present it to the next generation of gamers. It’s great that they’re innovating in so many areas that will attract new players and offering options that also consider old players. Visually it’s done better than some of the newer games, the sound – the music is already amazing.
There is one more point I would like to praise Metroid Prime Remastered for. Nintendo surprised us and this game Nintendo Store It was on sale for over $40. I was both happy and surprised that they offered a classic game, as well as such a well-developed version, for $40. I hope they continue this pricing policy.
If you have a Nintendo Switch, there are some games that I definitely want to try, Metroid Prime Remastered easily enters that list. Darn to the beginning of Metroid Prime 2 and 3 games!