Thats why its called samus returns, she probably takes some time off. Shes in her 20s during the first few games, by the time metroid 2 happens shes probably 30 something
@@xXDexter3000Xxright, but you also aren't providing any evidence by which you're basing your original "criticism" off of. You simply state that his "cutesy persona" is fake with nothing substantial to back it up. No you aren't preventing anyone from enjoying it, but you're attempting to create a hostile environment for no real reason. So i have to assume you're just being a troll 🙂
@@xXDexter3000Xx what were you expecting from a puppet? honestly, he seems relatively real for a puppet and not that cutesy compared to lots of vtubers.
Sylux has been set up as the main villain of prime 4 since 2007 with the cliffhanger ending of prime 3 and was set up even more with the cliffhanger ending of federation force and only now is he actually going to get to do his evil plan. Only took him 18 years
It took Sylux 18 years to enact his plan...and 18 years for Snorlax to stand up. Hrmm... Sylux...Snorlax... strangely similar names. Both taking 18 years to _get going._ Coincidence???
spoiler 4 ends on another cliffhanger where Samus managed to thwart a local part of the scheme Sylux put in motion putting an exploitable vulnerability in the evil plan that Samus will need to thwart in 5.
I could see a bait and switch (lol) where he's a lot more complex and maybe becomes an antihero; maybe the galactic federation are revealed to be doing some messed up things & Sylux shows that with some sort of time travel portal device
I didn't much care for Sylux. I thought it was kinda weird how, out of all the hunters in the series, he gets picked to be Samus's big rival. Like, why him over Trace or Weavel or just making a brand new character specifically for the next game? Then I heard that guitar riff and everything changed. Now I think Sylux is a cool guy.
@@_jamescube AKSjaskjasashajs i guess you're memeing about sylux and it was a good one, but in case u're not, his story is revolving around the fact that he hates the galactic federation. That's why him and not the other hunters.
Y'know people used to joke about how "insert Nintendo vaporware/game that wont happen here" would release before Silksong, and now almost every piece of Nintendo vaporware is coming/came out before Silksong. Maybe that says something deep, but i just find it really funny
Kingdom Hearts 3 came out (and 4 with a reveal), Shenmue 3 came out, FF7 Remake is 2/3rds out sort of, every single Mario RPG rose from their graves in a single year, Zelda is a Zelda game, MVC 2, fuck I'm just listing the Direct at this point, all of that happened and Silksong still doesn't exist yet.
I was so happy to see the scanning in the video. One of my favorite parts of Metroid since I’m a data and lore nerd. And unlike Zelda, Nintendo actually tries to have continuity with Metroid lore 😂
The Switch isn't underpowered. You just need to know what you're doing...and have the time... Can you imagine the Pokemon game we could have if GameFreak spent 5 years tweaking/refining/optimizing?
@@justrvnnthey were explicit that everything at this showcase was a switch 1 game. It’s a let down because i’d love for this to be a launch title but, as is, this will only run at 720p docked
@@OurHeroXeroI mean it is underpowered but that’s not an excuse for pokemon, they are underutilizing the underpowered system which is such a low bar already.
@Eddy002 yeah, even if they don't nearly have a similar rate of fantastic game release as rare had back in its heyday, they really give each individual project a lot of time in the oven
One of the cooler details is that Prime 4 seems to take place after Super. According to press releases at the time of Super’s launch, that game takes place in Cosmos Year 20X7, putting Prime 4 two years after its events. This would explain why Sylux only has Mochtroids by his side rather than genuine Metroids, seeing as they’re effectively extinct by that point.
I wouldn’t say we know for a fact that the X in 20X9 and 20X7 are the same number(the dates of Prime 4 and Super). They could be, but they very well could not be
Zero Mission is set in 20X5 as per Samus Return’s opening so if the cosmic calendar works more like AD than BC that lines up, I really hope that’s the case.
It wouldn't necessarily explain that, because Federation Force was 20X6 and that's when Sylux stole the metroid egg. He has a real metroid with him, and has had presumably 3 years to either get more and breed them, or learn how to properly clone them
@@xXDexter3000Xx We never got an excuse for Samus losing the gunship from Prime 3. Her ship in Prime 2 is very similar to the Metroid 2 ship, so unless i have forgotten a scan log it's possible that Samus just has 2 ships. Meaning that there isn't any specific reason why the Prime 3 ship means this is before Metroid 2
I’d like to point out scanning actually does a LOT, and isn’t just a feel thing. It’s the way the story is told subtly, and is one of the most organic ways of storytelling in AAA games. The more you’re interested, the more you can scan. It delivers the narrative in snippets that you yourself have to piece together instead of in a linear story.
I think the fact that Sylux seems to be weaponizing the Metroids fits perfectly in with the lore. The Federation ordering Samus to exterminate the Metroids in Metroid 2 might be a direct response to Sylux's actions in Prime 4. Which would then add a layer of depth to the fact that the Federation then attempts to clone Metroids for military purposes in Fusion and Other M. Like, Samus is just like "isn't this what I was trying to prevent!?" And the Federation's just like "it's ok when we do it."
Well Mother Brain already had full control of the Metroids leading to them being the universal threat they were. So we don't need Sylux to justify that. He can still be the straw that broke the camel's back though.
@PBJA89 we can still have more Prime games. 4 existing at all means we dont even need the literal Metroid Prime (AKA Dark Samus) to be around to justify the title. As long as it's in First Person view it will be a Prime game. So we will assuredly get more eventually. They may even make Sylux the enemy of a whole trilogy!
The HUD having the Missile Launcher on the beam weapon cross is interesting. If it's intentional; we might be swapping launchers instead of beams. Perhaps the beams themselves will stack like Prime 3.
My guess is that you will get 4 different alternate upgrades that aren't strictly beams. So the beams will likely stack, but I also think so will missiles (assuming there are ice missiles for instance). The icon for missiles is there the whole time, but samus can alternate between beams and missiles in the footage without seemingly switching between them with the D-pad. Also it wouldn't make sense to swap between normal missiles and ice or Super Missiles, as the regular missiles would feel useless in comparison, and you could just have those work the same way as before. So I bet the Grapple Beam will get extended use (like with Prime 3's grapple abilities) and be another slot. Maybe ship based attacks will be there too (also assuming this game will be similar to Prime 3). Basically any upgrade that would use the missile button (so not a visor, as there would be no reason to swap off missiles to a visor which wouldn't require the missile button to use).
@@yourehereforthatarentyounoooooo, L take. Swapping beams for different situations and enemy types is far more engaging than just shooting everything with the same weapon
13:13 I find this scene hilarious. The two pirates by the door have no idea how to open it since it’s a missile door. Then as Samus rolls into the next room you see the door explode. Can almost hear a space pirate be like, “I found the missiles!”. I love that scene.
Sylux: Ohh, Samus, it's so great to see you again! Samus: Yeah, haven't seen you since the Alimbic system! SY: What's it been, 17, 18 years? ....YOU MUST *_DIE._*
Hrmmm.. Remember that Wii-u 2.5D Metroid game with the story/cutscenes/etc? (most have forgotten it existed).. Game played ok.. but the story kinda ruined it!
This and Prime Remastered represent peak Nintendo Switch visuals. It's like Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 or Halo 2 for the original Xbox. Just amazing. Speaking of Halo, I think a pretty good visual comparison for this might be Halo 5. It's pretty awesome to see a Switch game looking this good.
@@thepikminbrawler1746The last time I played Halo 5 was when I finished the campaign several years ago, so it's possible that I'm misremembering something.
@@MagicalChartI actually think they’re done with the game and that they’re using the last half of 24 to polish the ever loving fuck out of it. Which I’m of course in favor of!
This is why I come here, this is the type of content we are ALL here for. An in depth analysis, frame by frame breakdown with all the lore and hidden details is invaluable in this economy of starved Metroid content consumers. “They have the space pirates, who like to hurt Samus” “It’s shooty, it’s kaboom-boom” 😂
In Prime 1 its already established that the Space pirates are scared sh*tless of Samus. They repeatadly call her the "Hunter" and question how she managed to kill all their generals, kill Mother Brain and destroy an entire facility all by herself. 15:28 So imagine them dropping in and expecting somewhat of a routine raid, and the first thing they see is Samus.
While I hope that its the opposite, I will say the ambiguity is very interesting. All we truly know is Sylux uses stolen Federation technology to form his suit, so it could be anyone or anything in there, and I would love for that to be fleshed out
Since they botched Galfed as villains, I'd 100% be down for that. Give his story a similarity to that of Samus' except it put him against Galfed instead of being in favor of Galfed and put against the Space Pirates.
Knowing the ol halo team, and the fact we've got a couple of them working in retro now, I swear if one of these pirates burst out of a pod screaming "WORT WORT WORT" or something similar, I'm gonna die.
I know this ship design was already used previously, but I just want to say how much I love that the middle part is shaped like her helmet. It's so unnecessarily extra. It's such a dumb idea, to build a ship that looks like your face. I love it so much. Imagine Samus telling the ship dealer, completely earnestly, that her space ship needs to look like her helmet so that space pirates will know to be afraid of it.
I like that Samus does that front flip into action with no external purpose other than cause she knows it looks cool. In universe, you know the only reason she had to do it is to hype herself up for the start of a new mission, and I love the idea that, at some point in her training, she just decided that, whatever the situation, that was how she was gonna get herself into gear at the start of a mission, like she's her own hype woman, her own cheerleader, making herself feel awesome and confident
The dust and rocks kicking up after Samus jumps from her ship is such an amazing level of detail, it's clearly not just a particle effect they really animated a bunch of dust and rocks flying up after her impact. I think it's even crazier that the blasts from her arm canon have lighting that affects the environment around the blast as it's moving, you can see the wall flash yellow when she starts shooting the dudes. And the sparks that fly out as she's moving around as a morph ball is such a cool bit of detail. You can even see the smoke trail from her missiles if you look hard enough. The Nintendo polish is really shining in this game
What's crazy is that all those details were in the old Gamecube games as well! They even had a heat haze effect on the barrel of the armcannon if you shot really rapidly for a bit!
It absolutely is switch footage and according to digital foundry it's running at 900p 60 frames per second with very believable cutbacks. It's pretty noticeable when you see that the metal pipe that rolls down the hill doesn't have a shadow at all
Headcanon: Samus "jumproll + 3point landing" is so important because its timing is the time required for the armor to adjust to the gravity of the new planet and engage protocols to compensate for minimal exaustion, hence the consistant gameplay from game to game. xD
Despite the fact that I was NEVER a Prime 4 doubter, there is one thing I'm not sold on: the name. In my eyes, the naming convention for the Metroid Prime series thus far was: Metroid Prime [n]: (one word subtitle referring to the game's main theme's or villain.) Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Echoes refers to the dichotomy between Light and Dark Aether, as well as the fact that you're fighting an echo of yourself throughout this game. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Corruption refers to Samus (and the other Hunters) being corrupted; and Dark Samus being the source of that corruption. If you think about it, this kinda goes as far back as the first title. Metroid Prime is the final boss after all, before becoming Dark Samus. What I'm left wondering is what the word "Beyond" has to do with this game's themes and/or Sylux. I suppose the answer is that we just have to wait and see, but I'll go out on a limb and theorize; in the final shot, we see Samus coming into a new area through what reminds me of the portal traveling to and from the Fire & Ice temples of Bryyo. Perhaps Metroid Prime 4 will take place, once again, across different planets, or even different galaxies?
Apparently in an interview from awhile ago, the devs said they wanted to do a time travel based story, so maybe that's what "Beyond" refers to but who knows if they're actually doing that or not
I suspect you're right. I also think that "Beyond" may be a bit meta, with it being confirmed a long time ago that phazon is out of the picture as a storytelling/plot device. The prime series was always focused on that as a finalized trilogy, but now we're moving beyond that. I also wonder if we're going to be seeing conflicts beyond the federation and the space pirates, as Sylux a part of either and presumably has a reason for his hatred of the federation which the games have shown to be extremely shady and questionable already.
It's supposed to be something with time travelling, look at the logo, it's a black hole. Samus goes beyond time, beyond to other far places in the universe?
This is actually the first I have heard of anyone else mentioning the mochtroids! I am glad it was noticed because when I saw them I just stood up and was like "WAIT THOSE ARE MOCHTROIDS WHAT?!"
The way the D-pad menu at the bottom shows missiles makes me think that instead of having multiple other beams, you collect various special weapons. Like maybe instead of ice beam being something you can fire endlessly, it would be its own pickup, and its power to delete any freezable enemies is balanced by limited ammo.
@@ClassicPopble But what purpose would there be to multiple launchers? If there were ice missile for example, they would likely be defacto better than the normal missiles, so why switch between them, they would be better off stacked like in Prime 3. Same for Super Missiles, which would best be used like in previous games. Perhaps the beams could be swapped, but why put them with the missiles, they use separate buttons, and we can see in the footage alternating between beams and missiles without having to hit the D-pad to swap between them. So I think it will have to be new abilities that use the same button as the missile button (so Y or X I'm guessing). Maybe the Grapple beam for one (assuming it has more utility like in 3) but I can't think of anything else.
I will say that the way the bands around the logo curve around that center bit basically exactly how they would in a black hole. The top and bottom bands are the top and bottom of the matter disc from behind the black hole, the light curving around the event horizon. I'm guessing that there's something significant about entering a black hole in this game, so it's probably going to be actually insane.
16:00 I love how the federation soldiers are helping Samus in gameplay combat. That was one of my favorite parts of the Halo Infinite campaign, the marines helping Master Chief with lasers and rocket launchers and stuff, you could save them and give the weapons to fight with. They would help you raid enemy outposts or ride in vehicles with you as you drove around the open world. Would love if Prime 4 has similar active NPCs that are actually helpful in gameplay
I'm even more thoroughly convinced now of my pet theory: Prime Remastered was a way for them to monetize the creation of the Prime 4 engine. The colors, shaders, and reflections in this trailer are dead ringers for what they did in Prime Remastered. It also helps explain A) Why we've heard nothing about 2 and 3 remasters, and B) Why Prime Remastered was a $40 shadow-drop. Nintendo doesn't do that. They charge $60-70 for the most basic remaster because they know they can get away with it. The best explanation for the low price point and little fanfare of the game is because they never intended to get the majority of their profit from the remaster. Retro just needed a proof-of-concept for the engine to show Nintendo that it could handle Prime 4 on switch.
My theory has been that remastering the original also served to teach the development team how to Metroid Prime. Yeah it's Retro the same studio, but they brought on a lot of new people, and I'm not sure how many staff who were there during development of the original are still there. Working on a remaster would have been a golden opportunity to really understand what makes Metroid Prime work and how it's unique from the 2D entries in the series.
I'd like to add that prime 1 is probably the most 'metroid' of the prime games, with two and three very much heading off in a different and maybe not as well received and remembered direction. I would myself honestly prefer 4 to be closer to 1 when it comes to the gameplay.
This whole script had my giggling. "Galactic Federation Research Facility" absolutely sounds like either there's already trouble or troubles en route, lol.
I think the deal with space pirates is that they answer to power. Any sufficiently strong person can roll in, give a big enough show of force, and take control. Mother Brain did it, Dark Samus did it.
This is true as established in the manga. Pirates have a hive structure and are attracted to power. It’s a bit odd though that they don’t drop everything to serve Samus when she’s whooped them and their leaders several times over.
Also since its seemingly a new species of pirate each game, maybe these are the pirates of this quandrant of space. After Mother Brain was destroyed in ZM the entirety of the Space pirates fractured without a central leader, leading to smaller factions willing to take any leader like Sylux. The ones in Prime 3 look completely different, but that game takes place near their homeworld so it makes sense its primarily that species of pirate you encounter (I'm under the belief its not the single and only homeworld of the entirety of the Space Pirates, as pirates would potentially have many homeworlds, especially as we know the pirates are a coalition of species).
@@EMLtheViewer I mean, I feel they only serve people who actually WANT to lead them. Samus is their enemy and tries to kill them, but if she were to TRY to take control of a bunch of Pirates, she might be successful as long as they don't hold too much of a grudge. The ones still loyal to Ridley might not be so willing to help, though.
Having been born in 2007, when Metroid Prime 3 released, I will most likely be an adult by the time Prime 4 releases, meaning the game has taken an entire childhood to happen
9:40 I like the lock on, because this is more futuristic. It just feels wrong to be that advance, but your gun is like from the 20th century. The military research have some early version of lock on guns already in real life.
If I’m not mistaken, prime 4 is being developed in the original prime engine. Which I may remind everyone is 23 years old, designed back when developers actually gave a damn about preserving system resources. I 100% believe what I’m seeing here in terms of graphical fidelity.
I can't imagine samus hanging out. She seems more like she'd stand motionlessly staring at the mechanics through an open window, simultaneously scaring the shit out of them, and making sure they do a good job
For as painful as the wait was, I’m so grateful Nintendo never copied the trend of ‘cinematic cgi trailers’ - right away, from the very beginning, it’s like ‘here’s Metroid Prime 4. And here’s gameplay’ Also shoutout to Arlo’s wanton destruction impulses towards the fragility of life
The Metroid (or Mocktroids) probably imprinted upon seeing Sylux since they saw him first when they hatched (at least one did in that Federation Force scene). In Metroid II or Samus Returns, we see a metroid imprint upon Samus.
24:42 Arlo if you haven't played Jedi: Fallen Order yet, I think the Kashyyyk environment would be right up your alley. In fact the whole game takes a few cues from the Metroid Prime series, which is awesome
I'm 99.99% certain the trailer is the prologue/intro-mission where you start with all of your abilities, then after losing them at a crucial point, the planet is where you start _without_ your abilities.
One tiny detail that some people might not have noticed is that small rocks and debris seem to be bouncing and reacting to other objects using some kind of global physics system. You can see little pebbles bounce away from Samus when she lands, and later on when the enemy capsule crashes into the room, a rock gets stuck between the floor and one of the panels and seems to vibrate in response. At first this might be seen as a teeny tiny bug, which it technically is and I hope those can get ironed out, but it also means that this game might have a global physics system that affects everything in the environment, even very small objects. Anything that isn't nailed to the ground might be affected, so the big question is, how many things won't be nailed to the ground? Metroid with destructible environments and realistic physics would be so freaking cool.
Only one thing was going through my head as you were going into detail about all the killing of the pirates... What in the WORLD are you on about!? This was a hilarious frame by frame.
Both Mother Brain and Dark Samus did though. Mother Brain was able to control them and they were a galaxy wide threat, and Dark Samus in Prime 3 terrorized at least a solar system with them.
@@GBDupreeyeah, mother brain only failed to control the Metroid that bonded to Samus, and even then the Metroid only rebelled when mother brain tried to kill Samus
hmmm... I want you to hold that thought. Ever since we learned that the G-Feds had access to a metroid in the secret ending of Fed Force, I've had a theory that Sylux's weapon (which is stolen G-Fed tech) was possibly a result of experimenting with metroids. It has the ability to drain energy from a target to give to the user, not entirely unlike a metroid's energy draining abilities. It's an odd thought I've had for a while.
@@ekwensu8797you must want him to hate his life.....dread is amazing and requires the least amount of wikihelp to save you from being lost. I personally think of the 2ds it's the best Metroid
Dread is really challenging though, so be prepared for that. As for the other 2D metroids, if you have the Online Expansion then I can't recommend Zero Mission enough! It's my favorite and is a real short and easy game, but teaches you everything you need to know about Metroid gameplay and is the first game chronologically (So Prime Remastered takes place right after). The game is easy because there are secret ways to skip upgrades entirely and beat the game under 15% items, so its balanced around that being possible. Because of this its a great game to replay as there are so many ways to beat it, its not actually linear despite appearing like it at first (which the linearity helps for a first time player). Story wise, Prime 4 uses story elements from a DS and 3DS game which neither was super popular (I've never gotten to play them), so the game will likely do a lot to teach you what is going on because even most fans may not know who this main villain is. So you don't really need to play any other games to know what's going on (but it definitely helps if you play at least Zero Mission of Prime remastered).
@@GBDupreespoilers for zero mission IMO the zero suit section is rather difficult, the mother brain fight while not incredibly difficult, was more frustrating to me than any part of dread (I kept pinballing from projectile to projectile to water physics lava), and if you're trying to get 100% items some of the shine spark puzzles/platforming were incredibly difficult IMO. I still loved it, and I definitely would still recommend it, but I don't think it's substantially easier than Super (unless I'm forgetting some really difficult part of super, I should really replay super sometime and go for 100% items instead of saving past the point of no return without realizing it)
13:55 they did "Control the cinematic view" stuff earlier, in Metroid prime 2: echoes, where you find see groups of space pirates entering a portal to Dark Aether, before you then are able to enter the room fully and proceed through yourself. M3 may have had a lot more "Hard Brakes CINEMA" but they've been doing this stuff for YEARS
So, that scene where Samus is on the morph ball track. In the background you can see GF scientists moving a device away from the space pirates. Zoomed in, it resembles the metallic shape on the new game logo. I'm going to guess that the Galactic federation has perfected wormhole tech since the events of corruption, and the space pirates want it. Maybe sylux wants to slap it into their mochtroids, so they can bloop around anywhere at will
Me, after beating Prime 3: Yay, I never have to deal with metroid that can phase through walls ever again! Beyond Mochtroid, teleports behind me: _Nothing personnel, kid._
Yep, one of the things that always bothered me. I could understand overlooking it in Prime 2, but even 3 got it wrong! I always preferred the older visor shapes though.
A little bit, but they looked different in that game because of Phazon right? These ones also have multiple fangs but only 1 brain cluster that I can see. They are very different for sure but I like that, as the Prime games have always had weak Metroids and I prefer the games making them to be lesser or cloned versions to justify that.
@PBJA89 i was thinking about that, I think they're phazon metroids with the phazon removed. They were originally Tallon metroids so now that the phazon was sucked out of them, they're not as strong and generally more fucked up. Does this make sense? Sorry, I just woke up
4:13 Initial surveyance. Jump off top allows for distant seeing. Also: Landing gives solid data on the material of the groud, specifically the resiliecy of it. Will she need to worry about it dropping from just under her?
7:43 you should have used the uncompressed version that is out there, I'd link it but I think it would get auto deleted here on youtube. But its out there, and it looks a lot nicer.
They need to remake Hunters for the Switch 2. It was such a good game just with a bad control system. They also should make Hunters a series where Multiplayer is the main focus.
Back when Metroid Prime 3 was teased, I essentially spent all my time researching, discussing on Forums, watching everything I can to get as much of it as possible. Cant wait to do it again 🎉
I'm still holding out hope that Trace shows up in this one. also the "metroids" shown are almost defintitly mocktroids due to them having only 1 nucleus rather than the tree of traditional metroids. personaly a bit lost as to where this places on the timeline as it seems to be closer to the modern entries.
@@diccchocolate416 I'd say it's obvious that it's before Metroid 4. She's got the normal suit, after all. I do think it's a bit of guesswork whether its before or after 2 & 3, but I agree with you that it's probably after Metroid 3. The question then becomes is it before or after Other M?
I just remembered something - wasn't Sylux killed by Gorea at the end of Hunters? If Prime 4 truly takes place after those events - couldn't it be that it's Gorea in another form? That would be so wild, omg
This is a perfect example of why I hate when people say the switch is very underpowered or has bad graphics. This trailer, Metroid Dread, Mario Odyessey, Zelda BotW and TotK, all some of the best looking games I've ever seen/played
I mean, yeah, it's not the strongest thing, there are hurdles to jump through, but even third parties can really pump out some great stuff too. Remember the DOOM ports and how not crap they were?
honestly IMO Nintendo has the right idea with graphics, a game doesn't need hyper detail/realism to look great and the art styles of most Nintendo games age very well. Some of the best looking games I can think of across generations were from when that era's graphic design matured and developers learned to make the absolute most of what the system could deliver and the switch is very much pushing out games wonderfully mastering what its capable of. The resources of more powerful systems are better utilized where it improves the experience the most and unless we are talking a remake that usually isn't top tier graphics. and frankly imo alot of games pushing for the 'best graphics' early to midway each gen end up looking...... bland/cookie-cutter ish lacking much of the stylization that help define series. I feel like Nintendo goes the other direction with their graphics they have a stylization they are going for and determine the level of graphics they can use to express that style. The thousand year door remake is an amazing example of this in a side by side with the gamecube release, in broad strokes almost nothing changed because Nintendo was going for the same stylization of the same game. However in the details almost everything was changed, things that were flat or had 'painted depth' now have layers and folds, almost everything has abit more then it did back then but it does it by making it more like itself like instead of replacing the old version, the new version was closer to the ideal style both were aiming at and the switch just needs less of a step down from that to exist.
@@AlriikRidesAgain actually i thought Doom Eternal looks pretty good on switch, not sure about any of the other games though but I can't imagine they'd look any worse than their original graphics
@@Irish_Enderman Dude, I wasn't being facetious, id Software did some sort of magic getting DOOM to run as good as it does on Switch. And like, MiO and Mario Luigi look scrumptious visually. We get some eye candy for Switch's last ride.
Nice! Its my favorite, and for good reason! though it may seem a bit easy at first, that is because there are secret ways to skip a bunch of upgrades and go for a low 15% run, so the game is actually balanced for that. Because of this its a great idea to beat the game first with exploring as much as you can so that you can find all the secrets, then play again but by going out of order (its possible to beat Ridley before ever even going to Kraid for instance) and hopefully getting a fast enough time for a special ending picture, and then trying to do a Low% run as well. There are 7 ending pictures, 1 for beating it on easy or normal and hard slowly (so easy can be skipped entirely), 2 separate pics for normal and hard under 2 hours, 2 for normal and hard 100% under 2 hours, and 2 for normal and hard under 15%. Hard under 15% is so difficult as you have to plan the exact loadout that works for you and I've nearly beaten the game twice on that only to get stopped at the final boss both times because I wasn't good with my loadout! Normal is much more forgiving in comparison (though I still recommend the Screw Attack for the final boss).
I’m so happy with this trailer, it’s giving me everything I want out of Metroid. After all games wanting to innovate a little too much in my opinion, it’s really nice to see Metroid just hitting all the boxes of what they know we love in higher fidelity! Though I hope they bring back phazon, I loved the mysterious mutations etc. Also appreciate them including the erdtree at the end
I said it before but I hope this becomes a spiritual successor to Metroid Prime Hunters. Would love to see the other hunters again. Maybe an online multiplayer mode like Hunters?
@@ELTABULLO I need to make this very clear to you. I am not talking about the three hunters from the 2007 Wii game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption who are named Rundas, Ghor, and Gandrayda. These characters are the ones who are killed by Samus, then absorbed by Dark Samus. I am talking about the six hunters from the 2006 DS game Metroid Prime Hunters who are named Spire, Noxus, Kanden, Weavel, Trace, and Sylux. These characters were involved in the Alimbic Cluster incident. Before we move forward in any capacity, I need to make sure that you know that these are two completely separate groups of characters.
Scanning is such an integral part of prime if you really slow down and scan everything. Scanning all the dead bodies in the opening hours of Prime 2 give so much lore and backstory, that it adds this really unsettling vibe that some horrible massacre just happened. Compliments the overall spookiness so well!
The Macguffin being rolled away by GF scientists(? engineers?) almost looks like the Beyond logo? It looks like a top or a gyroscope, or something with accretion disks...
I am genuinely blown away by how this game looks. Not just the graphical fidelity, but the fact it looks as good as it does *and* runs at 60 FPS on Switch's aging, underclocked hardware is mind-boggling. Retro Studios deserves praise for the technical achievement alone, nevermind the fact the game will undoubtedly be amazing in terms of gameplay and exploration. Metroid is one of the few Nintendo IPs I actually go out of my way to play, so Prime 4 looks exciting beyond words to me.
Kind of crazy that so much stuff happened between Metroid 1 and Metroid 2 lmao. Samus is like a war hero by the time she gets to Metroid 2.
Makes sense why they trusted her with wiping out the Metroids by the time 2 rolls around. (If it's canon that is, I know it's vague-ish)
By prime 3, even! One of the federation marines is excited to meet her on the Olympus, so she's practically a celebrity.
@@meatmobileEven by the start of 2, you have scan logs at the GF camp where they think Samus is a legend and not actually real
Thats why its called samus returns, she probably takes some time off. Shes in her 20s during the first few games, by the time metroid 2 happens shes probably 30 something
@@CH-mw6sp Metroid 1 is 20X5 and Super Metroid is 20X7. Metroid 2 takes place right before Super Metroid, so there are only 2 years in between
“I can't stop me” is actually such a good statement.
Arlo: "I don't really have anything interesting to add to the discussion."
Also Arlo: "When I play, I'm gonna shoot him."
This is why I watch Arlo.
u watch arlo for his insufferable fake cutesy persona?
@@xXDexter3000Xx No need for that, friend. Everyone's different. It's okay to let people enjoy things.
@@Jack-Barton i am not preventing anybody from enjoying it by pointing out that i hate it
@@xXDexter3000Xxright, but you also aren't providing any evidence by which you're basing your original "criticism" off of. You simply state that his "cutesy persona" is fake with nothing substantial to back it up.
No you aren't preventing anyone from enjoying it, but you're attempting to create a hostile environment for no real reason. So i have to assume you're just being a troll 🙂
@@xXDexter3000Xx what were you expecting from a puppet? honestly, he seems relatively real for a puppet and not that cutesy compared to lots of vtubers.
Sylux has been set up as the main villain of prime 4 since 2007 with the cliffhanger ending of prime 3 and was set up even more with the cliffhanger ending of federation force and only now is he actually going to get to do his evil plan. Only took him 18 years
It took Sylux 18 years to enact his plan...and 18 years for Snorlax to stand up.
Hrmm... Sylux...Snorlax... strangely similar names. Both taking 18 years to _get going._ Coincidence???
@@OurHeroXeronew game theory episode
spoiler 4 ends on another cliffhanger where Samus managed to thwart a local part of the scheme Sylux put in motion putting an exploitable vulnerability in the evil plan that Samus will need to thwart in 5.
I could see a bait and switch (lol) where he's a lot more complex and maybe becomes an antihero; maybe the galactic federation are revealed to be doing some messed up things
& Sylux shows that with some sort of time travel portal device
That's enough time to have and raise a whole kid
"At first I thought, 'I'm not gonna,' but then I thought, 'I'm gonna.' And I can't stop me."
-Arlo
That guitar riff when Sylux appears is SO GOOD i love Prime music
It sounds a bit inspired by Rundas’ boss theme.
@@clap2973naw Metroid prime hunters ost.
I want the OST immediately in my hands right now thank you please
I didn't much care for Sylux. I thought it was kinda weird how, out of all the hunters in the series, he gets picked to be Samus's big rival. Like, why him over Trace or Weavel or just making a brand new character specifically for the next game? Then I heard that guitar riff and everything changed. Now I think Sylux is a cool guy.
@@_jamescube AKSjaskjasashajs i guess you're memeing about sylux and it was a good one, but in case u're not, his story is revolving around the fact that he hates the galactic federation. That's why him and not the other hunters.
Y'know people used to joke about how "insert Nintendo vaporware/game that wont happen here" would release before Silksong, and now almost every piece of Nintendo vaporware is coming/came out before Silksong. Maybe that says something deep, but i just find it really funny
Kingdom Hearts 3 came out (and 4 with a reveal), Shenmue 3 came out, FF7 Remake is 2/3rds out sort of, every single Mario RPG rose from their graves in a single year, Zelda is a Zelda game, MVC 2, fuck I'm just listing the Direct at this point, all of that happened and Silksong still doesn't exist yet.
If kid Icarus gets something it’s so jover for silk song
@@UltimaKeyMaster Oh, and GTA6
Can't forget that we're getting GTA FUCKING SIX before silksong
@@UltimaKeyMaster there was also Metroid Dread
The Switch actually had 3 “vaporware” games, Shin Megami Tensei V, Bayonetta 3 and MP4.
I’m still processing the fact that we saw Metroid Prime 4 yesterday…like not any sort of second teaser like actual gameplay and a release window
mio pfp, based
The amount of Arlo calling bad guys "rude" gives me life.
This game looks amazing
arlo constantly LARPing as a quirky bob’s burgers character sucks so hard.
@@xXDexter3000Xx rude
@@xXDexter3000Xxrude
@@xXDexter3000Xx rude
I'm glad Samus was there to help make those rude people not alive anymore.
HUNTERS PLAYERS UNITE!! THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!!!! DOZENS!!!
Trace main here representing the funny fella.
We need a remake with multiplayer support so bad now.
If we yell loud enough we can probably get the whole gang back together!!
IM HERE
Right here. Absolutely top tier game
Scanning items to learn the lore is more diegetic and interesting than learning about the world through item descriptions on a menu screen.
Elden Ring lol.
Be quiet, you will attract the mob.
I was so happy to see the scanning in the video. One of my favorite parts of Metroid since I’m a data and lore nerd. And unlike Zelda, Nintendo actually tries to have continuity with Metroid lore 😂
Yeah in my opinion that's true but some people like the souls way of lore delivery and who am I to deny them their enjoyment
I don't think Elden Ring world has enough technology for scanner vision to be widely avaiable :p
8:10 Remember this is the same game system running Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, flagship games from the largest multimedia IP the world has ever seen.
The Switch isn't underpowered. You just need to know what you're doing...and have the time...
Can you imagine the Pokemon game we could have if GameFreak spent 5 years tweaking/refining/optimizing?
Insanity
it could also be a switch two launch title
@@justrvnnthey were explicit that everything at this showcase was a switch 1 game. It’s a let down because i’d love for this to be a launch title but, as is, this will only run at 720p docked
@@OurHeroXeroI mean it is underpowered but that’s not an excuse for pokemon, they are underutilizing the underpowered system which is such a low bar already.
Whether it's DK or Samus... RETRO DOESN'T MISS!
Retro is the new Rare. Every game is great
@PBJA89 100% agree with all that.
@Eddy002 yeah, even if they don't nearly have a similar rate of fantastic game release as rare had back in its heyday, they really give each individual project a lot of time in the oven
One of the cooler details is that Prime 4 seems to take place after Super. According to press releases at the time of Super’s launch, that game takes place in Cosmos Year 20X7, putting Prime 4 two years after its events.
This would explain why Sylux only has Mochtroids by his side rather than genuine Metroids, seeing as they’re effectively extinct by that point.
I wouldn’t say we know for a fact that the X in 20X9 and 20X7 are the same number(the dates of Prime 4 and Super). They could be, but they very well could not be
Zero Mission is set in 20X5 as per Samus Return’s opening so if the cosmic calendar works more like AD than BC that lines up, I really hope that’s the case.
It wouldn't necessarily explain that, because Federation Force was 20X6 and that's when Sylux stole the metroid egg. He has a real metroid with him, and has had presumably 3 years to either get more and breed them, or learn how to properly clone them
this definitely takes place before metroid 2, samus has the same armor and gunship from prime 3
@@xXDexter3000Xx We never got an excuse for Samus losing the gunship from Prime 3. Her ship in Prime 2 is very similar to the Metroid 2 ship, so unless i have forgotten a scan log it's possible that Samus just has 2 ships.
Meaning that there isn't any specific reason why the Prime 3 ship means this is before Metroid 2
I’d like to point out scanning actually does a LOT, and isn’t just a feel thing. It’s the way the story is told subtly, and is one of the most organic ways of storytelling in AAA games. The more you’re interested, the more you can scan. It delivers the narrative in snippets that you yourself have to piece together instead of in a linear story.
I think the fact that Sylux seems to be weaponizing the Metroids fits perfectly in with the lore. The Federation ordering Samus to exterminate the Metroids in Metroid 2 might be a direct response to Sylux's actions in Prime 4.
Which would then add a layer of depth to the fact that the Federation then attempts to clone Metroids for military purposes in Fusion and Other M.
Like, Samus is just like "isn't this what I was trying to prevent!?"
And the Federation's just like "it's ok when we do it."
Well Mother Brain already had full control of the Metroids leading to them being the universal threat they were. So we don't need Sylux to justify that. He can still be the straw that broke the camel's back though.
@PBJA89 we can still have more Prime games. 4 existing at all means we dont even need the literal Metroid Prime (AKA Dark Samus) to be around to justify the title. As long as it's in First Person view it will be a Prime game. So we will assuredly get more eventually. They may even make Sylux the enemy of a whole trilogy!
Obligatory shower thought of how I think that Sylux's weapon is an experimental G-Fed weapon based on metroid powers.
Man, arlos on an upload STREAK
And it’s great
I think this is the most he's ever had to talk about at one time lol
@@StoneyRPGI mean there’s been other exciting directs but he’s never had TopicArlo to talk on them so much
Mario and Luigi Brothership video next? 😁
TopicArlo is a godsent
The HUD having the Missile Launcher on the beam weapon cross is interesting.
If it's intentional; we might be swapping launchers instead of beams.
Perhaps the beams themselves will stack like Prime 3.
I'm thinking the scan visor is getting it's own dedicated button, since the missile launcher is now where the scan visor was
please god let the beams stack i hate swapping beams
@@yourehereforthatarentyou Eh, It's fine as long as they're not for opening doors, the beam swap is analogous to FPS games switching weapons
My guess is that you will get 4 different alternate upgrades that aren't strictly beams. So the beams will likely stack, but I also think so will missiles (assuming there are ice missiles for instance). The icon for missiles is there the whole time, but samus can alternate between beams and missiles in the footage without seemingly switching between them with the D-pad. Also it wouldn't make sense to swap between normal missiles and ice or Super Missiles, as the regular missiles would feel useless in comparison, and you could just have those work the same way as before. So I bet the Grapple Beam will get extended use (like with Prime 3's grapple abilities) and be another slot. Maybe ship based attacks will be there too (also assuming this game will be similar to Prime 3). Basically any upgrade that would use the missile button (so not a visor, as there would be no reason to swap off missiles to a visor which wouldn't require the missile button to use).
@@yourehereforthatarentyounoooooo, L take. Swapping beams for different situations and enemy types is far more engaging than just shooting everything with the same weapon
13:13 I find this scene hilarious. The two pirates by the door have no idea how to open it since it’s a missile door. Then as Samus rolls into the next room you see the door explode. Can almost hear a space pirate be like, “I found the missiles!”. I love that scene.
Sylux: Ohh, Samus, it's so great to see you again!
Samus: Yeah, haven't seen you since the Alimbic system!
SY: What's it been, 17, 18 years? ....YOU MUST *_DIE._*
My biggest hope for this game is that there is story. It doesn't need to be much but i do want it to have at least as much as Dread did.
Hrmmm.. Remember that Wii-u 2.5D Metroid game with the story/cutscenes/etc? (most have forgotten it existed).. Game played ok.. but the story kinda ruined it!
OTHER M! (I had to look it up as I'd forgotten it! It was so bad!)
The prime games have story. You might have to hunt for it but it’s there.
@@billybollockhead5628Firstly it was originally on the regular Wii, and secondly it never happened and we don’t talk about it shhhhhhhhhh 🤫
Yeah, I think Dread/Prime 2 is about the amount of story I want to see in my Metroid games.
For now I just like to think Sylux made it clear that if the Space Pirates didn't work for him he'd just obliterate them all lol.
Sylux is on his "I'll defeat you with the power of friendship *and this gun I found* " streak.
This and Prime Remastered represent peak Nintendo Switch visuals. It's like Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 or Halo 2 for the original Xbox. Just amazing. Speaking of Halo, I think a pretty good visual comparison for this might be Halo 5. It's pretty awesome to see a Switch game looking this good.
They have a ton of time to polish it. It will most likely look even better next year
Woah slow down there. Prime 4 looks great but uh… have you seen Halo 5 recently?
@@thepikminbrawler1746The last time I played Halo 5 was when I finished the campaign several years ago, so it's possible that I'm misremembering something.
Luigi's Mansion 3 also looks really good.
@@MagicalChartI actually think they’re done with the game and that they’re using the last half of 24 to polish the ever loving fuck out of it. Which I’m of course in favor of!
This is why I come here, this is the type of content we are ALL here for. An in depth analysis, frame by frame breakdown with all the lore and hidden details is invaluable in this economy of starved Metroid content consumers.
“They have the space pirates, who like to hurt Samus”
“It’s shooty, it’s kaboom-boom”
😂
When Samus drops from the bottom of the ship she’s ready to investigate. When she flips off the top, she’s ready to mess up some Space Pirates
In Prime 1 its already established that the Space pirates are scared sh*tless of Samus. They repeatadly call her the "Hunter" and question how she managed to kill all their generals, kill Mother Brain and destroy an entire facility all by herself.
15:28 So imagine them dropping in and expecting somewhat of a routine raid, and the first thing they see is Samus.
Honestly if I were a space pirate I'd just lay on my front with my arms behind my head
Like, they were ready to give up on life entirely in Prime 2 when things got out of hand and they found out there were two of them.
Time to hear someone who loves Metroid as much as I do talk about one of the most insane gameplay reveals ever
i'm so glad i didnt let depression win a decade ago. i came close. i'm beyond excited. life is amazing sometimes. metroid prime 4 boys, we did it.
I’m hoping Sylux is a Human it’s about time Metroid had a proper and interesting Human main Villain
While I hope that its the opposite, I will say the ambiguity is very interesting. All we truly know is Sylux uses stolen Federation technology to form his suit, so it could be anyone or anything in there, and I would love for that to be fleshed out
Since they botched Galfed as villains, I'd 100% be down for that. Give his story a similarity to that of Samus' except it put him against Galfed instead of being in favor of Galfed and put against the Space Pirates.
@@calvinbrinenestoris2357 I don't know what a Galfeld is
@@JohnGuyJohn he's a fat orange cat who loves lasagna but hates mondays. I think samus met him in metroid prime hunters.
@@JohnGuyJohn Short for Galactic Federation.
Knowing the ol halo team, and the fact we've got a couple of them working in retro now, I swear if one of these pirates burst out of a pod screaming "WORT WORT WORT" or something similar, I'm gonna die.
I KNEW the trailer gave off Halo vibes!
I love this fact.
What I'm hoping for next is that we get a Metroid themed RTS similar to Halo Wars at some point.
@@shigerufan1 Honestly love this idea. You have multiple factions to choose from too :D
@@SarajevoKyoto To be fair, Halo Combat Evolved and Metroid Prime were constantly being compared to each other back then.
Arlo misses what looks like an energy tank at 14:52 in the top right corner.
I know this ship design was already used previously, but I just want to say how much I love that the middle part is shaped like her helmet. It's so unnecessarily extra. It's such a dumb idea, to build a ship that looks like your face. I love it so much. Imagine Samus telling the ship dealer, completely earnestly, that her space ship needs to look like her helmet so that space pirates will know to be afraid of it.
You know arlo is hyped when he uploads multiple videos a day
18:05 Sylux: Very rude, very mean
Retro Studios are magicians. I have no doubt in my mind they made this beautiful game run perfectly on the Switch.
I like that Samus does that front flip into action with no external purpose other than cause she knows it looks cool. In universe, you know the only reason she had to do it is to hype herself up for the start of a new mission, and I love the idea that, at some point in her training, she just decided that, whatever the situation, that was how she was gonna get herself into gear at the start of a mission, like she's her own hype woman, her own cheerleader, making herself feel awesome and confident
The dust and rocks kicking up after Samus jumps from her ship is such an amazing level of detail, it's clearly not just a particle effect they really animated a bunch of dust and rocks flying up after her impact. I think it's even crazier that the blasts from her arm canon have lighting that affects the environment around the blast as it's moving, you can see the wall flash yellow when she starts shooting the dudes. And the sparks that fly out as she's moving around as a morph ball is such a cool bit of detail. You can even see the smoke trail from her missiles if you look hard enough. The Nintendo polish is really shining in this game
What's crazy is that all those details were in the old Gamecube games as well! They even had a heat haze effect on the barrel of the armcannon if you shot really rapidly for a bit!
maybe at 20:48, sylex, or however his name is spelled, is scanning you. Hence why his visor lights up like that!
It absolutely is switch footage and according to digital foundry it's running at 900p 60 frames per second with very believable cutbacks. It's pretty noticeable when you see that the metal pipe that rolls down the hill doesn't have a shadow at all
Headcanon: Samus "jumproll + 3point landing" is so important because its timing is the time required for the armor to adjust to the gravity of the new planet and engage protocols to compensate for minimal exaustion, hence the consistant gameplay from game to game. xD
Despite the fact that I was NEVER a Prime 4 doubter, there is one thing I'm not sold on: the name.
In my eyes, the naming convention for the Metroid Prime series thus far was: Metroid Prime [n]: (one word subtitle referring to the game's main theme's or villain.)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Echoes refers to the dichotomy between Light and Dark Aether, as well as the fact that you're fighting an echo of yourself throughout this game.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Corruption refers to Samus (and the other Hunters) being corrupted; and Dark Samus being the source of that corruption.
If you think about it, this kinda goes as far back as the first title. Metroid Prime is the final boss after all, before becoming Dark Samus. What I'm left wondering is what the word "Beyond" has to do with this game's themes and/or Sylux.
I suppose the answer is that we just have to wait and see, but I'll go out on a limb and theorize; in the final shot, we see Samus coming into a new area through what reminds me of the portal traveling to and from the Fire & Ice temples of Bryyo. Perhaps Metroid Prime 4 will take place, once again, across different planets, or even different galaxies?
Apparently in an interview from awhile ago, the devs said they wanted to do a time travel based story, so maybe that's what "Beyond" refers to but who knows if they're actually doing that or not
I suspect you're right. I also think that "Beyond" may be a bit meta, with it being confirmed a long time ago that phazon is out of the picture as a storytelling/plot device. The prime series was always focused on that as a finalized trilogy, but now we're moving beyond that. I also wonder if we're going to be seeing conflicts beyond the federation and the space pirates, as Sylux a part of either and presumably has a reason for his hatred of the federation which the games have shown to be extremely shady and questionable already.
perhaps sylux is experimenting on mochtroids to create a more powerful creature “beyond” the might of metroids
@@Irish_EndermanImagine if it takes place on EARTH thousands of years in the past. That would be crazy.
It's supposed to be something with time travelling, look at the logo, it's a black hole. Samus goes beyond time, beyond to other far places in the universe?
This is actually the first I have heard of anyone else mentioning the mochtroids! I am glad it was noticed because when I saw them I just stood up and was like "WAIT THOSE ARE MOCHTROIDS WHAT?!"
The way the D-pad menu at the bottom shows missiles makes me think that instead of having multiple other beams, you collect various special weapons. Like maybe instead of ice beam being something you can fire endlessly, it would be its own pickup, and its power to delete any freezable enemies is balanced by limited ammo.
Or maybe there's different lauchers and beams on D-Pad with a button to toggle between perhaps
@@ClassicPopble But what purpose would there be to multiple launchers? If there were ice missile for example, they would likely be defacto better than the normal missiles, so why switch between them, they would be better off stacked like in Prime 3. Same for Super Missiles, which would best be used like in previous games. Perhaps the beams could be swapped, but why put them with the missiles, they use separate buttons, and we can see in the footage alternating between beams and missiles without having to hit the D-pad to swap between them. So I think it will have to be new abilities that use the same button as the missile button (so Y or X I'm guessing). Maybe the Grapple beam for one (assuming it has more utility like in 3) but I can't think of anything else.
I will say that the way the bands around the logo curve around that center bit basically exactly how they would in a black hole. The top and bottom bands are the top and bottom of the matter disc from behind the black hole, the light curving around the event horizon. I'm guessing that there's something significant about entering a black hole in this game, so it's probably going to be actually insane.
16:00 I love how the federation soldiers are helping Samus in gameplay combat. That was one of my favorite parts of the Halo Infinite campaign, the marines helping Master Chief with lasers and rocket launchers and stuff, you could save them and give the weapons to fight with. They would help you raid enemy outposts or ride in vehicles with you as you drove around the open world. Would love if Prime 4 has similar active NPCs that are actually helpful in gameplay
@PBJA89 it's underbaked but it's just for fun
I'm even more thoroughly convinced now of my pet theory: Prime Remastered was a way for them to monetize the creation of the Prime 4 engine. The colors, shaders, and reflections in this trailer are dead ringers for what they did in Prime Remastered. It also helps explain A) Why we've heard nothing about 2 and 3 remasters, and B) Why Prime Remastered was a $40 shadow-drop. Nintendo doesn't do that. They charge $60-70 for the most basic remaster because they know they can get away with it. The best explanation for the low price point and little fanfare of the game is because they never intended to get the majority of their profit from the remaster. Retro just needed a proof-of-concept for the engine to show Nintendo that it could handle Prime 4 on switch.
Brilliant. Sounds like if not completely right, partially right.
My theory has been that remastering the original also served to teach the development team how to Metroid Prime.
Yeah it's Retro the same studio, but they brought on a lot of new people, and I'm not sure how many staff who were there during development of the original are still there.
Working on a remaster would have been a golden opportunity to really understand what makes Metroid Prime work and how it's unique from the 2D entries in the series.
I'd like to add that prime 1 is probably the most 'metroid' of the prime games, with two and three very much heading off in a different and maybe not as well received and remembered direction. I would myself honestly prefer 4 to be closer to 1 when it comes to the gameplay.
This whole script had my giggling. "Galactic Federation Research Facility" absolutely sounds like either there's already trouble or troubles en route, lol.
The title image does look like the estimations of the way rotating black holes look.
I think the deal with space pirates is that they answer to power. Any sufficiently strong person can roll in, give a big enough show of force, and take control. Mother Brain did it, Dark Samus did it.
In Dark Samus' case she literally mind controlled them with phazom, but otherwise yeah.
This is true as established in the manga. Pirates have a hive structure and are attracted to power. It’s a bit odd though that they don’t drop everything to serve Samus when she’s whooped them and their leaders several times over.
@@EMLtheViewer They still have their own agenda, make money
Also since its seemingly a new species of pirate each game, maybe these are the pirates of this quandrant of space. After Mother Brain was destroyed in ZM the entirety of the Space pirates fractured without a central leader, leading to smaller factions willing to take any leader like Sylux. The ones in Prime 3 look completely different, but that game takes place near their homeworld so it makes sense its primarily that species of pirate you encounter (I'm under the belief its not the single and only homeworld of the entirety of the Space Pirates, as pirates would potentially have many homeworlds, especially as we know the pirates are a coalition of species).
@@EMLtheViewer I mean, I feel they only serve people who actually WANT to lead them. Samus is their enemy and tries to kill them, but if she were to TRY to take control of a bunch of Pirates, she might be successful as long as they don't hold too much of a grudge. The ones still loyal to Ridley might not be so willing to help, though.
Having been born in 2007, when Metroid Prime 3 released, I will most likely be an adult by the time Prime 4 releases, meaning the game has taken an entire childhood to happen
9:40 I like the lock on, because this is more futuristic. It just feels wrong to be that advance, but your gun is like from the 20th century. The military research have some early version of lock on guns already in real life.
If I’m not mistaken, prime 4 is being developed in the original prime engine. Which I may remind everyone is 23 years old, designed back when developers actually gave a damn about preserving system resources. I 100% believe what I’m seeing here in terms of graphical fidelity.
The gunship is different, it has more guns and some red paint on it. Which leads me to one conclusion, Samus had her ship worked on by an Ork.
Didn't you know Arlo? The Varia suit is powered by dynamo, so Samus has to spin to power up her suit before each mission.
3:13 Now I am just imagining Samus hanging out at a space station somewhere while a space mechanic works on her ship.
I can't imagine samus hanging out.
She seems more like she'd stand motionlessly staring at the mechanics through an open window, simultaneously scaring the shit out of them, and making sure they do a good job
@@Vrikrar exactly what I meant
For as painful as the wait was, I’m so grateful Nintendo never copied the trend of ‘cinematic cgi trailers’ - right away, from the very beginning, it’s like ‘here’s Metroid Prime 4. And here’s gameplay’
Also shoutout to Arlo’s wanton destruction impulses towards the fragility of life
Alro is in his ELEMENT!
This is gonna be the best 2 or 3 years since the launch of the switch!
i love alro
The Metroid (or Mocktroids) probably imprinted upon seeing Sylux since they saw him first when they hatched (at least one did in that Federation Force scene). In Metroid II or Samus Returns, we see a metroid imprint upon Samus.
I LOVE the tone of this analysis. So funny!
24:42 Arlo if you haven't played Jedi: Fallen Order yet, I think the Kashyyyk environment would be right up your alley. In fact the whole game takes a few cues from the Metroid Prime series, which is awesome
He’s not a Star Wars fan he has mentioned
Something about Samus's helmet is gonna take some getting used to for me, but everything else looks _gorgeous._ Can't wait for it to come out!
Arlo is just having so much fun and I am happy for him and the Metroid community.
9:43 typically sci-fi will color code the lasers so you can tell the teams apart
I'm 99.99% certain the trailer is the prologue/intro-mission where you start with all of your abilities, then after losing them at a crucial point, the planet is where you start _without_ your abilities.
Anybody else feel like a kid again? So amped for prime 4!
The green dots in the left upper corner are allies. That’s where the blue-ish beams come from 0:44
One tiny detail that some people might not have noticed is that small rocks and debris seem to be bouncing and reacting to other objects using some kind of global physics system. You can see little pebbles bounce away from Samus when she lands, and later on when the enemy capsule crashes into the room, a rock gets stuck between the floor and one of the panels and seems to vibrate in response. At first this might be seen as a teeny tiny bug, which it technically is and I hope those can get ironed out, but it also means that this game might have a global physics system that affects everything in the environment, even very small objects. Anything that isn't nailed to the ground might be affected, so the big question is, how many things won't be nailed to the ground? Metroid with destructible environments and realistic physics would be so freaking cool.
Only one thing was going through my head as you were going into detail about all the killing of the pirates...
What in the WORLD are you on about!?
This was a hilarious frame by frame.
DUDE KEEP UPLOADING THSI IS MAKING MY DAY!!
If you didnt know, those ships in the air are the exact ships from the battle at phaaze in prime 3. They are in fact space pirates
I think this marks the first time we see someone finally, sucessesfully weaponize metroids
Both Mother Brain and Dark Samus did though. Mother Brain was able to control them and they were a galaxy wide threat, and Dark Samus in Prime 3 terrorized at least a solar system with them.
@@GBDupreeyeah, mother brain only failed to control the Metroid that bonded to Samus, and even then the Metroid only rebelled when mother brain tried to kill Samus
hmmm... I want you to hold that thought. Ever since we learned that the G-Feds had access to a metroid in the secret ending of Fed Force, I've had a theory that Sylux's weapon (which is stolen G-Fed tech) was possibly a result of experimenting with metroids. It has the ability to drain energy from a target to give to the user, not entirely unlike a metroid's energy draining abilities. It's an odd thought I've had for a while.
This is a perfect video. Just wanted to hear u gush over this like all of us are
that direct made me get metroid prime XD thats gonna be my first ever metroid game to beat hehe
You’re gonna love it-enjoy! Take your time, scan and soak in the environments.
Play zero mission, super, fusion, and dread too
@@ekwensu8797you must want him to hate his life.....dread is amazing and requires the least amount of wikihelp to save you from being lost. I personally think of the 2ds it's the best Metroid
Dread is really challenging though, so be prepared for that.
As for the other 2D metroids, if you have the Online Expansion then I can't recommend Zero Mission enough! It's my favorite and is a real short and easy game, but teaches you everything you need to know about Metroid gameplay and is the first game chronologically (So Prime Remastered takes place right after).
The game is easy because there are secret ways to skip upgrades entirely and beat the game under 15% items, so its balanced around that being possible. Because of this its a great game to replay as there are so many ways to beat it, its not actually linear despite appearing like it at first (which the linearity helps for a first time player).
Story wise, Prime 4 uses story elements from a DS and 3DS game which neither was super popular (I've never gotten to play them), so the game will likely do a lot to teach you what is going on because even most fans may not know who this main villain is. So you don't really need to play any other games to know what's going on (but it definitely helps if you play at least Zero Mission of Prime remastered).
@@GBDupreespoilers for zero mission
IMO the zero suit section is rather difficult, the mother brain fight while not incredibly difficult, was more frustrating to me than any part of dread (I kept pinballing from projectile to projectile to water physics lava), and if you're trying to get 100% items some of the shine spark puzzles/platforming were incredibly difficult IMO. I still loved it, and I definitely would still recommend it, but I don't think it's substantially easier than Super (unless I'm forgetting some really difficult part of super, I should really replay super sometime and go for 100% items instead of saving past the point of no return without realizing it)
I’ve been waiting for this
Arlo being obsessed with the Prime 4 trailer like I’m obsessed with the Ace Attorney Investigations Collections trailer lol
love to see that runtime on this lmao lemme get some popcorn
13:55 they did "Control the cinematic view" stuff earlier, in Metroid prime 2: echoes, where you find see groups of space pirates entering a portal to Dark Aether, before you then are able to enter the room fully and proceed through yourself.
M3 may have had a lot more "Hard Brakes CINEMA" but they've been doing this stuff for YEARS
So, that scene where Samus is on the morph ball track. In the background you can see GF scientists moving a device away from the space pirates. Zoomed in, it resembles the metallic shape on the new game logo. I'm going to guess that the Galactic federation has perfected wormhole tech since the events of corruption, and the space pirates want it.
Maybe sylux wants to slap it into their mochtroids, so they can bloop around anywhere at will
Me, after beating Prime 3: Yay, I never have to deal with metroid that can phase through walls ever again!
Beyond Mochtroid, teleports behind me: _Nothing personnel, kid._
My favorite detail - they finally made the view from inside the visor match how it looks from the outside!
Yep, one of the things that always bothered me. I could understand overlooking it in Prime 2, but even 3 got it wrong! I always preferred the older visor shapes though.
Those metroid designs are definitely based on the prime 3 metroids. They look very distinct in prime 3.
A little bit, but they looked different in that game because of Phazon right? These ones also have multiple fangs but only 1 brain cluster that I can see. They are very different for sure but I like that, as the Prime games have always had weak Metroids and I prefer the games making them to be lesser or cloned versions to justify that.
@PBJA89 i was thinking about that, I think they're phazon metroids with the phazon removed. They were originally Tallon metroids so now that the phazon was sucked out of them, they're not as strong and generally more fucked up. Does this make sense? Sorry, I just woke up
4:13 Initial surveyance. Jump off top allows for distant seeing.
Also: Landing gives solid data on the material of the groud, specifically the resiliecy of it. Will she need to worry about it dropping from just under her?
7:43 you should have used the uncompressed version that is out there, I'd link it but I think it would get auto deleted here on youtube. But its out there, and it looks a lot nicer.
Oh yeah the scanning is so important. Learning about the lore and creatures of the planet is so fundamentally important to the Prime experience.
They need to remake Hunters for the Switch 2. It was such a good game just with a bad control system. They also should make Hunters a series where Multiplayer is the main focus.
I’m shocked that you didn’t notice that the brains in the Metroids resemble samus’ helmet.
IM BEYOND HYPED
Arlo I am ever entertained by your personality thank you for this commentary and all the videos lately! Keep it up!
"And I can't stop me" love it
Back when Metroid Prime 3 was teased, I essentially spent all my time researching, discussing on Forums, watching everything I can to get as much of it as possible. Cant wait to do it again 🎉
I'm still holding out hope that Trace shows up in this one. also the "metroids" shown are almost defintitly mocktroids due to them having only 1 nucleus rather than the tree of traditional metroids. personaly a bit lost as to where this places on the timeline as it seems to be closer to the modern entries.
I'd assume between super and fusion
@@diccchocolate416 I'd say it's obvious that it's before Metroid 4. She's got the normal suit, after all. I do think it's a bit of guesswork whether its before or after 2 & 3, but I agree with you that it's probably after Metroid 3. The question then becomes is it before or after Other M?
I just remembered something - wasn't Sylux killed by Gorea at the end of Hunters? If Prime 4 truly takes place after those events - couldn't it be that it's Gorea in another form? That would be so wild, omg
This is a perfect example of why I hate when people say the switch is very underpowered or has bad graphics.
This trailer, Metroid Dread, Mario Odyessey, Zelda BotW and TotK, all some of the best looking games I've ever seen/played
I mean, yeah, it's not the strongest thing, there are hurdles to jump through, but even third parties can really pump out some great stuff too. Remember the DOOM ports and how not crap they were?
honestly IMO Nintendo has the right idea with graphics, a game doesn't need hyper detail/realism to look great and the art styles of most Nintendo games age very well. Some of the best looking games I can think of across generations were from when that era's graphic design matured and developers learned to make the absolute most of what the system could deliver and the switch is very much pushing out games wonderfully mastering what its capable of.
The resources of more powerful systems are better utilized where it improves the experience the most and unless we are talking a remake that usually isn't top tier graphics. and frankly imo alot of games pushing for the 'best graphics' early to midway each gen end up looking...... bland/cookie-cutter ish lacking much of the stylization that help define series.
I feel like Nintendo goes the other direction with their graphics they have a stylization they are going for and determine the level of graphics they can use to express that style. The thousand year door remake is an amazing example of this in a side by side with the gamecube release, in broad strokes almost nothing changed because Nintendo was going for the same stylization of the same game. However in the details almost everything was changed, things that were flat or had 'painted depth' now have layers and folds, almost everything has abit more then it did back then but it does it by making it more like itself like instead of replacing the old version, the new version was closer to the ideal style both were aiming at and the switch just needs less of a step down from that to exist.
@@AlriikRidesAgain actually i thought Doom Eternal looks pretty good on switch, not sure about any of the other games though but I can't imagine they'd look any worse than their original graphics
@@Irish_Enderman Dude, I wasn't being facetious, id Software did some sort of magic getting DOOM to run as good as it does on Switch. And like, MiO and Mario Luigi look scrumptious visually. We get some eye candy for Switch's last ride.
@@AlriikRidesAgain oh I misread your original reply lol, I didn't see the "not"
I'm on like 4 hours of sleep rn sorry
I kinda like that the graphics are kinda simple. The graphical fidelity isn't too exaggerated with sfx or particles.
I'm finally playing Zero Mission all the way through tonight.
Nice! Its my favorite, and for good reason! though it may seem a bit easy at first, that is because there are secret ways to skip a bunch of upgrades and go for a low 15% run, so the game is actually balanced for that. Because of this its a great idea to beat the game first with exploring as much as you can so that you can find all the secrets, then play again but by going out of order (its possible to beat Ridley before ever even going to Kraid for instance) and hopefully getting a fast enough time for a special ending picture, and then trying to do a Low% run as well.
There are 7 ending pictures, 1 for beating it on easy or normal and hard slowly (so easy can be skipped entirely), 2 separate pics for normal and hard under 2 hours, 2 for normal and hard 100% under 2 hours, and 2 for normal and hard under 15%. Hard under 15% is so difficult as you have to plan the exact loadout that works for you and I've nearly beaten the game twice on that only to get stopped at the final boss both times because I wasn't good with my loadout! Normal is much more forgiving in comparison (though I still recommend the Screw Attack for the final boss).
I’m so happy with this trailer, it’s giving me everything I want out of Metroid. After all games wanting to innovate a little too much in my opinion, it’s really nice to see Metroid just hitting all the boxes of what they know we love in higher fidelity! Though I hope they bring back phazon, I loved the mysterious mutations etc. Also appreciate them including the erdtree at the end
I said it before but I hope this becomes a spiritual successor to Metroid Prime Hunters. Would love to see the other hunters again. Maybe an online multiplayer mode like Hunters?
They died in prime 3 brother, wekilled them ourselves, they’re gone gone.
@@ELTABULLO You've... never played Metroid Prime Hunters, have you? He's talking about the hunters from that game.
@@weatherman1504 They only live in the good ending and Samus remembers them fondly at the end anyway because they're dead
@@ELTABULLO I need to make this very clear to you.
I am not talking about the three hunters from the 2007 Wii game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption who are named Rundas, Ghor, and Gandrayda. These characters are the ones who are killed by Samus, then absorbed by Dark Samus.
I am talking about the six hunters from the 2006 DS game Metroid Prime Hunters who are named Spire, Noxus, Kanden, Weavel, Trace, and Sylux. These characters were involved in the Alimbic Cluster incident.
Before we move forward in any capacity, I need to make sure that you know that these are two completely separate groups of characters.
@@weatherman1504 Yeah you're taking about the ones that ONLY escape alive un the GOOD ENDING of HUNTERS ON THE NINTENDO DS
Scanning is such an integral part of prime if you really slow down and scan everything. Scanning all the dead bodies in the opening hours of Prime 2 give so much lore and backstory, that it adds this really unsettling vibe that some horrible massacre just happened. Compliments the overall spookiness so well!
The Macguffin being rolled away by GF scientists(? engineers?) almost looks like the Beyond logo? It looks like a top or a gyroscope, or something with accretion disks...
They specifically never stated "coming to switch" for metroid prime 4, so I am assuming it's a launch title for the new consol.
I am genuinely blown away by how this game looks. Not just the graphical fidelity, but the fact it looks as good as it does *and* runs at 60 FPS on Switch's aging, underclocked hardware is mind-boggling. Retro Studios deserves praise for the technical achievement alone, nevermind the fact the game will undoubtedly be amazing in terms of gameplay and exploration.
Metroid is one of the few Nintendo IPs I actually go out of my way to play, so Prime 4 looks exciting beyond words to me.