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For the menu in Prime 3, the "parasite" in the background looks remarkably similar to the Leviathan Infant you encounter on Phazze right before the final boss encounter. Could be wrong, but it's really cool nonetheless.

psp 1000 here since some years. what i love about the system is also its potential for modding and emulation... i also upgraded mine with an ips display and 32 gb card. one flaw though is the poor battery management/playtime compared to the ds fe.

PN03 Once you get in the 'cleaner' areas, that game looks a full generation ahead. Whoever made it must have sold their soul or something.

I AGREE that the menu is important. In fact, I believe it’s so important that you shouldn’t hide the thought behind a click bait title.

How exactly did they change the Boost Guardian fight for the Trilogy? Is it just reduced damage and health, or do they change the behavior? It's been forever since I played on GameCube, but veteran difficulty on the trilogy certainly "felt" about the same as my memories of playing on GameCube.

Incidentally, I was playing Prime 2 and fought the Alpha Blogg earlier today. It felt like it was just random whether it opens it's mouth when it charges you or not, and waiting for a boss that controls it's own weakness to "cooperate" is frustrating. Combine that with the check point issue, and you've got my least favorite boss in a game otherwise full of awesome bosses.

I just don't want to see an overreliance on melee attacks and turning Samus into another Ninja again. It's fine to an extent but I think for as great as Dread was, it relied too much on it, and playing it more like a traditional Metroid game was offputting to me.

I had a psp go and traded it in years ago, always regretted it, finally managed to track down a decently priced one, its so beautiful and that screen size to body ratio is incredible. Also supports Bluetooth headphones as well. The satisfying snap of sliding it shut to sleep, reminded me of the joy of Gameboy advance SP as well. If anyone like anbernic or retroid make an emulation handheld in that form factor i will throw money it it

I think the menu will have a reverse time motif, space pirates skulls returning to life, trees returning to seedlings. I think you’ll also probably not fight DARK Samus, until maybe you do 🤭

Alpha blog is so much worse than boost guardian. I’ve done plenty of randomizers where I’d have a whole range of equipment but I would never avoid boost guardian. But even with full gear I hated alpha blog-either he should be slower (so more of an attack window for you) or the arena should be larger.

Finally someone else who understands. Sometimes I just pull up my saved clip of the Prime 2 opening just to enjoy it again-I started prime 2 very shortly after finishing prime 1 and that menu made me feel like Retro was happy that I enjoyed their first game and wanted to make something worthy for me to enjoy next. Prime 1 and 2 especially have immaculate menu themes, and Prime 3 is a different vibe but still does its job.

There's alot riding on this game considering the state the Metroid franchise was in before Dread just barely saved the franchise.

Another key important element the prime series has is its music which sets the tone and mood when exploring the planet you're on. Metroid prime 4 beyond needs to also have good music to listen to when you're exploring the planet.

100%. Prime and Prime 2's Title and Main Menu sequences were pure cinema and a huge reason why the games were so memorable and impactful. Prime was just 👌 perfection, and Prime 2 offered a more adventerous, 'high octane' feel that felt very reminiscent of the Theme of Samus Aran: Space Warrior from Super Metroid, implying "You're going to be fighting much more difficult enemies in this one". Honestly, I liked Samus Returns' Main Menu at least. Showing Samus in her ship and adding things to reflect your progression showed they put a lot of thought into it and wanted to highlight the power of the 3DS.

what a neat concept for a video! Didn’t expect this. Hope you’re right but we’ll see. Some series on switch have def lost some visual identity (look at Pikmin 4’s UI vs Pikmin 3), but I have faith in Retro! Fingers crossed for a real special game

What if they somehow change the formula a bit? What if they experiment with the main menu and when you hit start it takes you directly to gameplay instead of a menu screen. Would we as fans be into that? I wonder lol. Now there's plenty of games that even introduce the title screen _after_ the game begins. I would love a traditional title screen, but I wouldn't be opposed to them branching out a bit in this regard. They have to nail it though, just like you said. Grea video btw!

Please dont say 1-2 hour endgame fetch quest.

Correct. The Whole game, menu and all will be important.. ❤

Great video, though i'll add that the cross media bar was first used with the PSX in Japan, not the PSP

Well there's a difference between the 2D Metroid Games and the 3D Metroid Games in terms of both atmosphere and design, the 2D Games give me and many others the sense of fear and loneliness they make you feel like you're playing a Game set in the Alien Franchise you especially feel this in Super Metroid, the 3D Games on the other hand don't really give you that feeling of fear and loneliness instead it feels more of an Action and Adventure type of Game something similar to Star Wars or Halo and I think Prime 3 definitely shows that the most.

Prime 2's menu screen reminded me of the menu screen of Star Wars Republic Commando they have that same atmosphere and tone.

Well I mean Metroid Dread had an awesome main menu screen I don't see why Prime 4 can't.

So question for you. I remember as a kid I would let the prime 1 menu play out to watch the gameplay footage. The clip with the plasma beam killing a space pirate with like three shots, that was cool asf to me and an exciting glimpse of what was to come. Do you think prime 4 should do something similar with the menu, or would that be too much of a spoiler for you?

Ah yes more Wants videos. I waited 3 months for more videos like these since the trailer dropped Hard

In Starfox Adventures you could move seamlessly from one area to another. This wasn't possible in the N64 Zeldas, or even in Twilight Princess. In Windwaker the overworld was connected but the dungeons were separate, whereas in Starfox Adventures you could just go into the dungeons without any interruptions.

I never realized the dinosaurs were supposed to be Celtic.

That they cut the menus was the reason I never bought the trilogy. I love the menu music. Especially when I listen to the Prime 3 music I get instant goosebumps. It has so much nostalgia.

day of reckoning 2 was the best gamecube game besides metroid prime, visually and performance wise, it was like generation 6.5 when 360 was introducing support to play old discs from xbox, back support or whatever, this was the absolute prime time of gaming, 2004-2008

8:23 Damn, I absolutely adore the minimalist design, heavy use of crimson against black and streamlined navigation of the Dread menus.

Wow. It's weird, I completely agree with everything you (CryWolf) said. It's rare for me to watch a video and just be like "Yep", lol. I actually forgot about Corruption's menu because I always boot up Trilogy. I hope the new menu makes me FEEL things, not just nostalgia, but excitement and curiosity. I'm more worried about how Nintendo releases games these days. I don't want Prime 4's release trailer to happen and then hear "and it's on the Nintendo eShop right now, or you can buy it physically in a month". I want a Nintendo Direct to finish with a new teaser for Prime 4, with the date of a special event Direct stream, telling everyone they will announce the release date in that special event Direct. Then, I want stores like GameStop, BestBuy, Walmart, and all the others to get some kind of free merchandise with the purchase of any Nintendo product that has the event date on it. Maybe a Wizards of the Coast trading card with different Samus suits for Prime games, along with some iconic bosses like Quadraxis, Ridley and Dark Samus. I want two more teasers leading up to the event, where the event will be an hour of developers and play testers gushing about it without giving anything away, before finally announcing the release date will be simultaneous worldwide, digital and physical on the same day one month later.

I hope it's almost as challenging as Metroid Prime 2 with some creepy moments like in Metroid Prime 1 and 2.

To be fair, the Boost Ball Guardian in original GameCube version is absolutely brutal to the point that the fight itself is not fun, even on normal difficulty. It was a truly frustrating experience for me the first time around and Retro Studio was correct in tweaking the difficulty for Wii version of Prime Trilogy. That fight is difficult, yet more fair and fun. As for Alpha Blogg, its pretty easy for me the first time around though I agree about the weird checkpoint situation before the battle. The boss itself can be frustrating at time, especially when it constantly ramming Samus without opening their maw. This happened to me so many freaking times in one of later replays that it drew what should have been a 5-10 minutes battle into about half hour affair. Hopefully that'll be fixed in potential remastered version as well.

I think AM2R was a way better game than Samus Returns

.............. yeh, maybe running on a Steam Deck.

I still haven't beaten the final boss in the metroid prime trilogy on hypermode difficulty.

...a $700 Home Console.....???! No Wonder i haven't bought one in a while

Emulation on dolphin 🐬, you can play them in 4k it's stunningly smooth and beautiful

Dark Mirror is your personal favorite? Mine too! Maybe you can join us online sometime!

Around 13 mins in when you talk about the movies I had flashbacks to being a kid lmao. It’s just like you said that the psp literally did everything including having an internet browser it was wild. So the device that the movie player replaced was a technically portable but larger than a surface pad full setup was a disc movie player that my mom used to set up for us on trips. When we both got PSPs we got UMDs for movies instead so that when we were on road trips we had high quality video with headphones so I didn’t mess up her music. The psp was my favorite console I ever owned, I felt like out of anything I had besides an actual computer it just felt like I never needed a gameboy or DS, I remember I skipped having one entirely until HG//SS dropped and even then it was just HG and phantom hourglass next to a big collection of UMDs in a case like for CDs but miniature.

The browser might not have been a good experience but it was for certain content I def couldn't watch on the family pc lol

Gaming hasnt changed since the Gamecube generation. If anything it only got worse.

Real

All 3 deserve it

Still think prime 1 largely looks better honestly

With the 20th anniversary of Echoes I think it's high time we got Echoes in Remastered form on Switch! 😅

As if a remaster wouldn't sell well.

Love your channel, CryWolf. I'm so glad I discovered it. I have a lot to say on this one haha. I am 1,000% in agreement with you that Prime 2 has the best boss fights. You alluded to the decreased difficulty with subsequent playthroughs, but I want to emphasize that a little more. The learning curve in this game is a lot like Dread. You die a lot, but you keep playing because w/ every attempt, you notice a pattern you can exploit or a way to better prepare. You may still die, but the learning curve is incremental and its addicting to feel that progress towards victory. Dread is a little more addicting b/c the checkpoints facilitate quicker re-attempts. And it's still oppressive due to sheer difficulty and small windows. So with that said, I don't think that adding checkpoints in a Prime 2 remaster would conflict with the oppressive theme. Lastly, what I want from Prime 4's boss fights is, without a doubt, something more akin to Prime 2. Prime 1's bosses were cool but like you said, repetitive. Prime 3's bosses were criminally easy AND repetitive. Maybe that's a video idea for you, after playing thru Prime 4, comparing its boss structure to the former games to see which one it borrowed from the most, or if its actually able to forge its own path.

For a time it was brilliant. But when using it now you sadly realize that most hyped games is just mediocre. Like boring Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII or Resistance: Retribution. And that big screen is very blurry in motion so games with crisp pixelart almost painful to play. At least - on my PSP2000. GOWs is great, btw. And for 50$ tops for used PSP now - it definitely worth it.

I dare anyone to challenge the Boost Guardian, on Hard difficulty (GC version if available), no Dark Suit! It gets infuriating 😅

Wind Waker 😍