Metroid Prime Is Still A Masterpiece
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Here's hoping prime 4 lives up to the amazing standard prime set and does better.
still hoping
Metroid Prime along with RE4 and RE1 remake are the best gamecube games
Hey I just beat this game for the first time two days ago and I loved it! The atmosphere, beautiful art direction, the fluid and fun combat, the thoughtful puzzles, the epic soundtrack and boss fights...I can go on and on. It can be frustrating, but the world is so engrossing that I could not pull myself away from it. I just needed to get that much closer to the end and finally completing this adventure! Now on to Metroid Prime 2!!
Cool. As an huge Metroid fan, all 3 Prime games are fantastic & I love every single one of them.
The art direction, the sense of isolation, the perfect pacing and tight gameplay... Metroid Prime blew me away back in the day too. Looking forward to what is coming up next for the franchise.
"Perfect pacing" the pacing is faaaar from perfect specially when you have to get the damn chozo artifacts. It slows the game down to a crawl...
the game is all about exploring.
the combat is secondary to the fine art of geometric examinations.
the fact that every single unit of unique Intellectual property was thought of carefully and crafted with artistic creativity and inspired outlook on science fiction biochemistry that is detailed every step of the way.
AND YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO READ.
the best part is that its entirely cosmetic.
the real action is what draws us in and defines the commerce of this wonderful masterpiece but the implementation of complete OCD levels of identity is what puts it and its sequels over the top.
All 3 Prime games are great.
The gameplay and soundtracks of the game are soooo good and nostalgic. One of my favorite games for sure.
It's surpsiring that even after 17 years later this game not only still looks really good, it's still has that replayability value that never feels boring, an amazing soundtrack and the scanning mechanic that makes researching enemies fun but barely any game recaptured the magic and wonder of this game. Still my favourite game of all time
The amount of scanning in the game was just a little OVERBOARD!!! Just slightly. Still awesome game.
Oh and the gamecube did launch the objectively best game ever made in the history of mankind Resident Evil 4. Ive repeatedly beaten it probably 20-30 times. Its just so gd fkcn fun!
But Metroid Prime is right up there tied for second place along with a few other games.
100% agree. My favourite Metroid. And the first Metroid game I played. I completely understand your point about giving up so many times. Story time below:
I remember the first time I fought the Omega Pirate. He felt like a brick wall. My family didn't have internet at the time, and non of my other friends had a game cube. I was completely stuck. I got so mad with that boss after throwing myself against it too many times, that I literally went and sold the game to a second hand store. It was a year or two later while playing Metriod Prime 2, that a similar thing occurred fighting the Spider Guardian. Instead of also selling MP2, I just stopping playing it for a little while. I got to thinking about the fact that I never beat Omega Pirate either and went back to the shop I'd sold it to originally and picked up a copy of Prime 1 again. I luckily never deleted my save data, so I could pick up the game right where I left it. And with a renewed sense of determination I beat the boss, and then went on the beat the game. And then came back to MP2 and beat that game too! And let me tell ya, the sense of back-to-back accomplishment and pride of doing that is something that no other game has made me feel since.
Metroid Prime 3 was a massively disappointing, to me. I never got on well with motion controls and the story felt... misplaced. I'm extremely nervous about the announcement of MP4.
Aiming with the wiimote is more natrual than the GC controls
Prime 3 was OK but too linear
Dang, this game looks even more excellent than I thought it would be. The only 3D metroid I have played is Prime Hunters on the DS, and this looks even more polished and awesome. Will have to play it.
And like that, I think its time to pop my cube out and start me another playthrough
Easily the least controverisal digi video in existence
@Lain More people watched this than the other one, and that channel is usually for people who want to hear Tom talk about video games, and tolerate Digi doing so.
I wholeheartedly agree. The two Gamecube prime games are my top two games of all time.
Prime 1 is my personal favorite Prime game & one of my favorite games of all time. But Prime 2 is still an damn good follow up.
Metroid Prime is an awesome game. It's my favourite video game of all time. The soundtrack is amazing. The gameplay so good, it's definitely worth playing over and over. It is indeed a masterpiece.
Metroid Prime, damn I feel old.
I remember my first playthrough of this game. Me and a good friend of mine got this game on the same day. And we would spend countless nights playing our respective copy of this game in the evening at the same time while using our phones as substitution for Skype etc. Giving hints to each other when we found something. Good times...
While I never died to an enemy in this game (not even on my first playthrough), I would say that the challenge factor of the game is still right on the money. Not too hard for newcomers but it gives you enough to do even if you were experienced with FPS and Metroid beforehand. Mix of combat, exploration and puzzle solving was executed really well. The artdesign is honestly still beautiful to this day and the soundtrack as well as the sounddesign are downright timeless. Also I really love how the structure of the whole world was handled. At first I thought that each backtrack would be agonising...but each track can be done pretty fast thanks to clever shortcuts / use of the elevators with the Magmoor Caverns. Overall a great game that I still love to play to this day.
Metroid Prime 2 on the other hand... let's just say I am looking forward to what you'll have to say about this one. While I did enjoy some things it brought to the table, I never finished it (stopped one part before from the finale) and I think that will never change. [spoilers: traversing / having to backtrack in the world of Metroid Prime 2 is soooooo bad. No good connection between many areas thanks to the light and dark world design as well as these stupid mechanic worms / blockades...].
Just curiosity, what it is about Prime 2 that you don't like?
Hell Yeah Digi. I love your work, so glad to find out you're covering video games too. Keep up the amazing content.
wtf this is my favorite channel now
Aw man I love Metroid Prime. Thank you for bringing it back to show again. It’s very difficult, mysterious and have you to use your mind.
I’m not even an FPS person, but Metroid Prime is my favorite game series - so I was pleasantly surprised to see you talk about it.
When I heard that the musicians, Rob Brown and Sean Booth of Autechre, were thanked in the credits, I knew it would be worth playing.
It's unclear if they were directly involved or if their music was used as inspiration, but whatever the case, the Metroid Prime music was amazing.
Just recently bought a new game cube and both prime games. I beat the original prime back when it came out, but still need to just sit down and actually get into it again after all these years. Metroid and Zelda are still my favorite game franchises of all time
Metroid Prime Trilogy for Switch PLZZZZZZZZZZ
Metroid prime collection, including hunters
@@lucaspereirahmj hell yeaaa
I played the gamecube one when i was kid, but i loved the WII one way more, the aiming just feels so right for the game.
I try to speedrun Metroid Prime 2. To put it brief, the Gamecube version is superior for movement around the first two Prime games. It feels better transversing the environment with the LR Config and some movement options are absolutely broken. The Wii version, however, trades the movement for precise controls and handling where it suddenly makes the actual weapons broken, like with using the Wavebeam or a Super Missile from an area an enemy can't see you using the lock-on. You can also do stuff like aim where multiple enemies will be hit at one time. The Wii version makes you feel much more powerful. In the end, both control schemes make you feel pretty much the same way.
I use Gamecube for speedrunning though. The Wii version of Metroid Prime 1 has a small, but growing community and if I had a Wii De Abosu copy of Metroid Prime I will definitely speedrun it.
Metroid Prime was the first FPS game that I could tolerate. I don't like the format in general, but I love puzzles, and Metroid Prime is a puzzle game that wears the face of an FPS.
The Metroid Prime series isn't exactly an first person shooter. More of an, first person action/adventure kind of an game with puzzles adding up.
But yeah. I agree on what you said.
Great work. I've just recieved a Carby HDMI adapter and a Wavebird. I'm going to replay this Gem first. It's been so long.
Absolutely. Still in my top 3 favorite games of all time. Looks beautiful to this day. Prime was the first game I ever owned and my opinion of it only improves over time.
I've never played it, but my brother loved it and I remember this being one of my favorites to watch him play when we were kids. I'm glad you covered the flora/fauna lore cuz that's always one of my favorite parts in a game. I'd make my brother scan everything so I could read them all. Now I'm an aspiring botanist lol
Probably my favorite game of all time
Probably mine too.
Metroid Prime is also one of my all-time favorite games for largely similar reasons. I've beaten it on every difficulty, something I've to date never done for any other game. I've been tempted to speedrun it, but I can't resist the compulsion to get 100% completion and kill everything between me and the door even though I fully acknowledge and praise the fact I don't have to.
Only thing that bugged me about Prime was the monster spawns. When you backtrack 2-3 rooms all the monsters reset including mini bosses. It'd help immersion and prevent cheap tactics if they switched around the spawn points or put some rng in them, since backtracking's core to metroidvania
I A M G A M E S
he is no content machine anymore
That was a phenomenal video review! I've done a lot of reverse engineering of the Metroid Prime soundtrack on my channel and I have to say that Kenji Yamamoto's work is second to none. He has the talent of creating both engaging themes that stick with you, as well as ambient tracks really help sell the atmosphere. Every track elicits an emotional response that matches perfectly with the action or locale in-game.
I remember playing this back in the day and positioning myself as a ball in levels that were gorgeous and just getting up and watching the screen thinking wow.
The only Prime game I played was Hunters on the DS.
I am buying a Gamecube and Prime 1 and 2, eventually 3 on the Wii after I complete 1 and 2.
I've wanted to play them since a kid but I never had a nintendo console, only handhelds.
I'm excited - to say the least ^^
Or get the Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii.
@@jjc4924 I want the originals :)
Ok. Suit yourselve. But the Prime Trilogy does help you save money instead of buying every single original pack ones.
I wish I had known about tbe other channel sooner. Great video Digi. My only recommendation would be to turn up the gamma. It seemed like everything in your footage was too dark to see, but that may be a personal problem.
he's been plugging it EVERYWHERE so I'm actually amazed you've managed to avoid it for the past half year.
I really like the art direction in Echoes and Corruption, Skytowwn and Sanctuary Fortress are absolutely amazing, but I thought the art design for the first one was lacking in most areas.
Gotta disagree. Prime 1's art direction still holds up tremendously well & the game still looks beautiful.
Definitely my favorite Metroid game, and did anyone else have the gripe of some doors just simply taking forever to actually open after shooting them?
Going to be honest, I gave up in Phazon Mines. I never got past the the last wave of Ice Pirates when you're climbing up those tiers. Returned the game to the friend that I borrowed it from and moved onto a different game. I am sure my save file is still stuck there.
If Zelda didn't exist Metroid Prime would be my favorite game ever. I absolutely love exploring every nook and cranny of Tallon IV, even after 6 or 7 replays I always seem to find something new in this world that STILL looks gorgeous after 17 years. I often wonder why people place such an emphasis on gigantic overworlds filled with copy-paste scenery that you'll forget about as soon as you leave the area, when tightly-knit and heavily-backtracked worlds like Tallon IV and Lordran are so much more memorable.
Gamecube games i remember playing and loving.
Metroid Prime
Resident Evil 1 remake
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil 4
Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes
Legend of Zelda Wind Waker
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
Pikmin
I tried playing RE2 and RE3 for my first time on gamecube but both games always crashed in the first few minutes of gameplay for some reason. Oh well i still have them for collector sake.
And that's pretty much it. Most other time i was playing my PS2 and Xbox.
I hope when Nintendo forced the Prime team to restart the entire Prime 4 project to "go back to form" they meant going back to the first Prime. Echoes and Corruption just arent the same, way too linear and defeats the very purpose of what makes a Metroid game a Meroid game.
My biggest two gripes with Prime 1 are the lighting (often found myself having to use beams as a flashlight) and scan visor (having to look for that stupid square) both of which the second fixed.
I am a person who likes Echoes more. It seems linear until you figure out you can go to Sanctuary after you get the Light/Dark beams or just go to another temple before you beat one due to scanning quirks. You can (without any speedrunning tricks) get Seeker Missiles and Super Missiles before the 1st major boss. (Edit: Early Gravity Boost is an (easy) speedrun trick.)
Prime 3 is pretty damn fun and has interesting puzzles, even though it doesn't classify as a Metroid game.
Prime 3 may be linear at first, but when you get the spider ball, its so goddamn satisfying to backtrack everything. Just for that part it is clearly a metroid game.
@@WaveOfDestiny Yeah I know, its that "linear at first" part that just bugs me a bit. I also really like the improvements that Echoes and Corruption added (and if we can even just get a modern remake of the 1st Prime that would be awesome) but at the same time if you rely on tricks that you wont know the first time around or halfway through the game to get non-linearity out of the game, it just isnt the same as a classic Metroid and thats why the first Prime is so special for me its literally an FPS Metroid game.
Personally, I prefer Prime 1 over Prime 2 because of it's balance of level designs with it's balance constructed platforming wise, puzzles & exploration with better environments, aesthetics and atmosphere. Plus I had more fun with Prime 1 than what I had qith Prime 2. But I still enjoy Prime 2 for what it tries to do differently & it pay off pretty well. I'm not one of those people who hate Prime 2. In fact, I love it just as much as Prime 1. It's just I still prefer Prime 1 or any Metroid games over Prime 2. But Prime 2 is still an great game never the less.
Metroid Prime 4, Nintendo pls :'(
I hope we‘ll get something, anything at E3
@@SheepShade They just restarted development less than a year ago so don't expect anything
@@TerrorOfTalos I know but its unlikely that they had to throw all of it away. I hope they could keep enough that Christmas 2020 is a possibility. :-)
@@SheepShade Reusing whatever assets the previous dev team (apparently bandai namco) made helps but retro still has to recreate an entire game with them along with making new ones, I'm really not expecting any gameplay until at least next year
@@TerrorOfTalos Yeah could be. But better to wait a little longer, than having a subpar MP. :-)
Beat it when I was 17 with 89% in 15 hrs +. Just played it this past week at the age of 33 and beat it in 8hrs with 91%. I can't believe how much of this game I remembered. It still holds up to this day. One of the best games ever imo.
For me this one of those games that just gets better the more you think back to it after you've finished it and really have taken some time to contemplate what you've just experienced. Admittedly when I first started playing it I thought it was a decent game, but not nearly as great as others made it out to be. Yet the more i played the more I realized how great this game actually was, the music the atmosphere and the gameplay are all perfectly crafted and well executed. When I finished my playthrough I knew this was a great game and the more I think back on it the more it stands out to me. I think I'll go back and go through a couple more playthroughs.
Yep!
Definitely one of my most favorite games of all time, if not the number one. The visuals blew me away and I specifically remember just admiring the simplistic effect of rain on Samus' visor the moment you start the game and look up at the sky.
Beautiful details in ways I had never seen in any game before, Star Fox adventures was nowhere close the the level of this. Then the music, my lord the music for Metroid Prime 1, 2 and 3 is so amazing that to this day I still listen to many of the songs. I am on pins and needles awaiting the fourth Prime, both afraid and excited, really hoping that I do not over hype it for myself. I truly appreciate that they are being very quiet about details, games give up way too much about themselves before they're even released anymore.
Im glad that you made this since I am much less articulate than you and have been praising this game since I first played it all those years ago
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Indeed it is, Digi
Yes.
Yep
Very good analysis. I love how optional the story is in this game. If you don't want to waste time on the story your second time through, you don't have to. The world is alive enough to make the game immersive.
Also, the wii controls actually work for me. I feel like turning is just as quick as the gamecube version and it's pretty easy to get used to. I might actually prefer wii controls.
Very nice retrospective! I'm on another playthrough of all 3 prime games, myself
Cool. You'll love them.
Yes yes yes this is what I needed, good job digi
The thing that blows me away the most about Metroid Prime is that, even though Prime is its own masterpiece, Metroid Prime 2 is even better. If you are playing through the series and really love the first game, the second will not let you down
I don't know if I would say Prime 2 is better than Prime 1. Beccause honestly, that depends own your own opinion. But I can say Prime 2 is just as good as the first Prime game. Both games have there share of gameplay on how you prefer. It's kinda like comparing Mega Man X to Mega Man X2. One like this better than the other. While others likes the other one better than others. Now I do like X1 a little bit more than X2 because of an better Upgrade & Item invertory placements with less backtracking than what X2 did. But I still love X2 for what it tries to do & works very well. Same with Prime 1 & Prime 2. I prefer Prime 1 over Prime 2 because of it's balance of level platforming designs, puzzling & exploration with better variety, aesthetics & atmosphere. And I had more fun in Prime 1 than Prime 2. But I still love Prime 2 for what it tries to do & I can really appreciate it. Not to mentioned that I love Prime 1's & Prime 2's soundtrack. There both so good. Whether you think is better than the other or not, they're still amazing games regardless. Same with Prime 3.
I had never heard of complaints or people dropping or finding it annoying, mostly because I've seen so little reviews about it and now this one. Didn't think of it as hard or strongly frustrating when I played this for the first time many many years ago. Beautiful soundtrack beautiful game. Great video Digi, keep it up.
I haven’t played this game, but just looking at it in this video it seems to have aged really well.
It's one of the games that never aged, becouse there is nothing like it.
1:30 backtracking in Metroid games was never infamous
how is something brought up negativity in a game series' reviews across its entire lifespan not infamy?
@@Trixiethegoldenwitch That's my point, I have never heard someone brought it up as something negative. It's a core feature of the game.
The ost is fantastic. You could make a game about filling papers and bring them to floor #56 of a skyscraper and make it rivetting thanks go that music
This is the best review I've ever seen of this game. You nailed literally every point of what makes Metroid Prime so amazing and even compared it to Dark Souls, which is a really good comparison in terms of the tough first playthrough and easy breezy reruns. The music is the best of all games I've played and I always remember almost everything when I return, not because the game is easy to remember by default but because it was just so good its HARD to forget.
I think I remember reading somewhere that one of the original directors of Prime 1 thought it was crap and didn't like it all that much. I think a lot of game designers underestimate peoples desire for pure escapism. For what Metroid Prime lacked in other departments it made up for in atmosphere. Something about being alone in a hostile alien world that attracts me to the series not so much that it has stellar or revolutionary game mechanics.
Funny... I don't remember Metroid Prime being _that_ difficult.
My favorite Metroid still be the Prime 3.
If you want to understand what "immersive" means when talking about video games, Metroid Prime is, in my opinion, the blue print. A game that is waaaay ahead of it's time, even more so than the most groundbreaking of today's games. Quite simply one of the best games ever.
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"With a final complete rate of 69%..."
( ͡° ͜ʖ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ͜ʖ ͡°) We see what you did there.
Got the Steel Case Prime Trilogy at Walmart for 60 bucks back in the day. Fucking best purchase I have ever made in my fucking life. Can't even tell how many times I beat the trilogy. Best soundtrack ever fight me zelda babbies
Man I hope that Prime Trilogy on Switch rumour ends up being true. Never played any Metroid game (well, I played the Prime Hunters demo that came with the DS but other than that nothing) but I've always liked the look of Metroid Prime.
I hope so too. Metroid Prime is my favourite game of all time and it's not even close.
cue humble brag i've 100%ed this game
Same at least the first prime
Yes. Yes yes. This was my favorite game when I was a kid
I didn't even realize this was a main channel video cuz I saw it on I Am Games before and I didn't watch it then cuz I'm not really interested in Metroid. I watch every main channel video when you upload them but I missed this one until now cuz of the channel shenanigans
I haven't even played the game yet and I thought this analysis was top tier! Gj
You're spot on with the sparse save points between difficult sections. For this reason I'm replaying it on an emulator cause I'm a lame POS 😂.
Awesome review mate, subbed.
I still have never played this and I need to change that thanks for the reminder Digi
I rarely found the game to be that hard. I also think your movement through the environments can be rather slow, and the backtracking can be more tedious than in the 2D games. But it’s a small issue. I’d consider this, Dark Souls and REmake to have the best 3D worlds in gaming.
Haven't even played MP but that was pretty damn interesting
I was looking at picking up Metroid Prime for Gamecube.There is a version that comes with a bonus disk of Echoes. Is that bonus disk a demo or is it the full game?
Yeah I'd say "tight" is appropriate for Metroid Prime's gameplay loop. Even with the hint system activated by default it does not fall back to outright tell the player that X item solves that problem. I feel like the game does respect the player and expects it to understand the world rules and roll with it. Over time my perspective about the Chozo Artifact hunt shifted a little, now I understand it was to add play time to a somewhat short game by today's standards. Prime was not a tried-and-true formula when in development and it shows in some decisions Retro took. I still love it to death, though, both Prime and it's sequel. The Wii version is kinda too different and the game was not meant to be played with a funky pointer...
Cannot wait for the Pikmin review.
For how much the game gets right, it's still let down by the basic gameplay flow where the overreliance on charge shots, odd backtracking routes, and having to tank damage from rooms just for easy traversal sours the experience the more you play.
Any game that has charge shots results in people only using charge shots.
*Chozo artifacts quest intensifies*
dude, please review more metroid games. im begging you
You actually can't get the majority of the chozo artifacts until near the end of the game. Mark brown has a graphic that details it nicely in his video.
Well, I guess I know which game I'm gonna play this week.
fuck it, we’ll do it for the views!!
Metroid Prime is and forever will be in my Top 10. Its an absolute brilliant work of art and the finest Metroid game. Sorry Super Metroid fans, although Prime using that game as an obvious influence, it is superior to it in every way.
Where is all the new Metroid thou? These days it's all about Mario & Zelda.
I'd be down for more Digibro video games reviews.
Trying to get a crt and a gamecube for prime 1 & 2. Gotta say it is not easy. Tips anyone? I am dying to try this game out.
Screw emulation. This game was worth buying a GameCube for back in 2002, and it’s worth it today.
Got a new let’s play up of Metroid prime if anybody is playing for the first time and wants to check it out!
pls rember
Metroid prime hunter
In terms of taking risks to make games different - Metroid Prime Vs. Doom 3, who wins?
Metroid prime difficult? You can barely die in this game even if you don't understand the dodge dash and stuff, minus some bosses. The game gives you health when you're about to die so you can keep going, on purpose. At least you should be able to grab most energy tanks along the way.
Finally some fucking good content on my feed, digibro ur the best, i didnt expect you to play metroid
yeah metroid prime is one of the very few games i never beat i just got stuck and lost because in my opinion the map is shit it was just too vague like i had a destination but didn't know how to get there of course this was before youtube so if i played it now i would just watch a video and figure it out lol
Prime is one of the simplest metroids in terms of knowing where to go. Don't ever try 2d games i guess.
wait how are you playing the gamecube version at 480p but with 16:9 aspect ratio?
I would assume that it's because he emulated it.
@@danielquinlan2457 idk is it because of the way the video is encoded, but the game doesnt look "digital" enough if he recorded the game play from dolphin. Also, the hud doesnt seem to be stretched the way widescreen hack usually works. Maybe I just dont have enough experience with hacking this game to widescreen
There's an inconsistent anamorphic effect that you can see when he's going through that morph ball maze, the middle part of the screen is kept square but the edges are stretched more.
@@AlRoderick so he's probably playing in 4:3 but stretched the video. That's a bit confusing
I played it on the Wii
I kinda hate the Wii versions controls and miss the hell out of my GameCube
YOU'RE STILL A MASTERPIECE, LIL BITCH! BOOOOM
Fair video and that is coming from someone who doesn't like the Prime series, which is a shame since the series is so impressive visually with unique story telling.
You should play the second one if you haven't!
Well for a modern gamer the controls in this game feel janky and it's all because of Halo on the Xbox I mean I got used to the controls really quicky when first playing this game like March 2019 like Idk how I got the hang of it really quicky also I prefer playing this game on the GameCube not saying that the Trilogy is bad I mean I really like the fact that you can aim on the Wii version but the main reason why I got the GC versions of Prime 1 and 2 is because of the Title screens
Gotta be honest, if Metroid Prime 4 has auto targeting, i probably won't play