Metroid Prime Remastered Is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT Than You Might Think
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2023
- Metroid Prime Remastered feels like so much more than a simple remaster.
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I feel like Nintendo has to do remasters on prime 2 and 3, they have SO MUCH riding on prime 4 at this point
Absolutely
Hopefully they pull off Prime 3, that game used the Wii's motion controls quite a bit.
@Skolbiblioteket (Campus Kronhus) probably meaning just how much time and presumably money they've put into it. After all they completely scrapped the production at one point and restarted, and that was a few years back now.
Sko, my dude, Development costs money. and the longer development takes, the more expensive it becomes.
@Steveo1131 I love prime 1 but prime 3 is really awesome to me. 2/echos is okay but I found it more repetitive.
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Arlo has single handedly managed to convince me to purchase every Metroid game and play each one in order
Edit:Yes I know I made a spelling mistake :[
just play prime remastered for now
Maybe play the nes and original gameboy ones after you play their remakes lol
You need two handles if you want to get a grip.
Yeah, the first game is horrifically difficult and frustrating. I'd hiiiighly reccomend the remake. BUT the series is absolutely... fantastic. Legendary.
Skip Other M.
I think whats also interesting to me is that maybe the Devs for Prime 4 maybe wanted to revisit the original game to get ideas for what made this game tick for people. Working on a Remastered version of the original game was probably a smart choice for them.
You know what, this is a very valid point. This is not a series to triffle with, and you don't want to mess it up. These games are legendary for a reason.
When I saw that the remaster was done by Retro themselves, that is IMMEDIATELY where my mind went as well.
This is also the reason i think we will see Prime 4 before the 2 & 3 remasters.
Two and three were divisive among the playerbase and i think they will want to ride the universal love of one into the release of 4 rather than let 2/3 kill the momentum
No inflation is
I think they may have understood it after approaching this because the touches and changes to scans and logs shows they at least paid attention to the details of worldbuilding
So exciting to see if they added anything.
I haven’t had this strong of an emotional response to a video game announcement since I was a kid. Even the reveal for Tears of the Kingdom just had me smiling and thinking “Aw, nice,” but this shadow drop had me GIDDY
For real though, this hit at my weakest point in life, much needed.
Me screaming in my house (wife was gone thankfully lol) and then crying during the trailer because it was so pretty :,)
@@williamrodabaugh4315 stay strong, friend.
@@williamrodabaugh4315you’ll get through get tough and never stop
dude same i thought at almost 31 i had lost the ability to feel like that about games and stuff and let me tell you, no i had not haha
Shadowdrops are by far the most exciting releases imho. Not only do they demonstrate an outstanding amount of confidence in the product to bypass the whole marketing hype and compel the company to actually get it right, but they can also save a lot of the money said hype burns. I hate marketing and all the made up crap it comes littered with with a passion, and the fact they didn't do that here makes that much sweeter.
they did not have faith to commit anything to marketing budget
@@PraiseChika they didn’t need to. Metroid Prime is arguably one of the best game ever made. It would’ve sold on name alone.
@@Wernershnitzl would've and will!
@@nebula8893 also the fact that it looks wonderful and is being offered at the $40 value price is unheard of for a Nintendo property.
What other marketing does Nintendo need? They got the Direct, and they got the News thing on the Switch. They can easily let everyone knows who owns a switch, hey this is out. I don't even see traditional marketing in ages. So I'm not even sure how a company would pay to be seen. Maybe TH-cam, and Amazon
I think the fact that it is $40 is a really important point. They put a ton of work in, the game looks great and runs buttery smooth, and it truly was a nice surprise when I went to the shop and saw it would only cost $40. And they didn’t even advertise it, lots of folks left the direct assuming it would be full price.
You think rebuilding a game from scratch is not a lot of work? Go ahead and try it, there's plenty of free game engines out there to use.
@@Atlessa It's probably not actually scratch but many of the visual assets were probably completely remade.
I would buy it if I didn't get the trilogy in the wiiu for 20 dollars
@@Atlessa I mean, it´s a remaster, not made from scratch
A lot of things are made from scratch, but the game still has the same (or similar) code, design, AI and other stuff
Still pretty cool, but I´d say it´s kinda overpriced considering other remasters in other consoles, but as a Nintendo Remaster, pretty good they didn´t just do the same than with Skyward Sword
Almost any other big company would have remastered all three games in one for the price of 60. 40 for one game might seem good from Nintendo's standard of ripping people off but in the grand scheme of this this still ain't cheap.
I feel like shadowdropping also has another effect, it increases the hype for future nintendo directs since now we know that shadowdrops are a possibility, particularly since that also includes potential shadowdrops for prime 2 and 3.
It never happened to me. The moment I saw the reveal, I went to download it and start playing. Been awake untill 4 in the morning. This is made with such dedication, I feel like I am playing a current genaration fps, and at the same time I am again a 21 years old nerd. So glad new generations get the chanche to play such a genuine GAME.
i grew up on the n64 and gamecube and ill tell you metroid is the best series they left behind im so glab theyre doing it right by bringing it back to youre generation and forward on this way this version is so amazing they did it justice
I’m excited to play it too. I was only a toddler when the original came out so I missed out on the entire trilogy growing up.
I'm glad I get to enjoy this modern classic as well. I never had a chance to play the Metroid Prime series (was just took young, I think I was about to be 1 when Prime 1 came out 😭) so this will be an experience. The work done on this remaster is beyond words for a Switch game 🤯🤯
Ps4?
I don't understand this. The graphics are updated but how does it feel current gen? Corpses even fade away out of existence after a few seconds which is painfully gamecube era. The fov is still criminally low as well. I know it's just a remaster but people hyped it up like it was more than that
I posed this to a friend a few hours ago, Retro likely made the remaster purely to test the waters for Prime 4 aswell as re-learning what made Metroid Prime so great, considering that is now mostly entirely new developers.
I'm fairly certain Prime 2 & 3 are at least in pre-production since going from 1 to 4 is weird, and the team can understand how the series evolved to figure out what to do next.
My thoughts exactly.
When new teams get ahold of an older IP this is typically what happens
I was thinking the exact same thing.. they had been out of the game making the prime series for awhile and then remastering this was just to brush up on their skills for prime 4, I have zero doubt prime 4 will get a 90+ on metacritic cause retro don’t miss
Yeah I think its the same as wind waker HD that they used this to test out Metroid Prime in HD before working on prime 4 and the others will either not happen or not be as polsihed because they're not in house this time.
I started playing this today and I can't get enough of it. I have no problem at all calling this the new definitive version of _Metroid Prime._ Everything from the lighting and particle effects to the rain on Samus' visor look absolutely gorgeous, and the gameplay and controls are really good for the most part. If _Metroid Prime 4_ has this kind of effort put into it, then the wait will have been worth it.
I feel confident in saying this will reassure them Prime 4 will succeed.
Yeah, outside of FOV, Primehack has been dethroned
And to think, Prime 4 will have modern design conventions in mind. They stayed very faithful with Prime 1 Remastered, leaving all the little minor janky things with it. Prime 4 most likely look a little better than the Remaster, and play better.
Does it have an option to use the wii style motion controls? I'm downloading right now cant wait xD
@@RubenRyb66 it does, 4 control schemes
Something that hasn't been mentioned is that the physical edition is *also* $40, and wasn't hit with a $10 physical tax, which does sweeten the deal even more
Wait you have physical tax? in my coubtry physical copies are usually cheaper than the digital ones ^^'
@@losttoothbrush they're talking about the Nintendo Switch tax specifically, where most (3rd party) devs past the cost of the cartridges to the consumer (which is scummy)
I think an interesting thing to consider is the potential onboarding for people- Give a newcomer THREE whole games in a genre they may not be familiar with, first person action adventure, it might deter more people than it brings in because of being overwhelmed. Just the first game as it's own thing is a much easier pill to swallow, I think.
I didn't touch the originals until they released the trilogy all together, so that was by far the more palatable pill for me.
Oh come on, we're not babies. Offer all options, 1,2,3 & trilogy
@@worstusername22 that'd be called moneygrabbing
@@ilexdiapasonUh how?
One thing that I love that not many people bring up is that they have SO many control options in the game. You can have classic GameCube, Wii style, or an entirely new modernized control setup that has a gyro option
Is there support for Dual Stick with Gyro though? I'm personally perfectly willing to play the game with the Tank Controls + Gyro combo, but I really doubt they'll actually use that in Prime 4.
(The entirety of Prime 1 was designed for no looking up and down and more or less no sideways walking, I don't think Prime 3 or 4 would work well with these controls.)
Imagine if they added flick stick haha
@@milddiffuse yes, make your control scheme duel stick, then go down to camera and select “gyro and stick”
Perfect controls honestly and you can fine tune sensitivity
No option for inverted controls though. Lock on definitely helps, but it's been a struggle. I know it doesn't effect everyone, but for me that's the one thing keeping this from being a 10/10 remake.
@@squidrecluse2336 You need to set axis inversion in the in game options. It's not on the title screen options for some reason.
The only names on the Copyright page are Nintendo and Retro. Either a small internal studio handled the job, or Retro did it themselves. If so, I'd say that points to them building a Prime engine for Switch, which should really simplify work on 4.
Especially since the full HD 60 FPS remaster is CLEAN.
Retro did it it's confirmed
Several other support studios were involved too. It’s been confirmed
I was under the impression that this was essentially the exact same game as the original, engine and all, just ported to the hardware libraries of the switch and recompiled for the new hardware, and also of course with the assets upgraded.
I made it
@@landrypierce9942 if that's the case it's still a departure from how Nintendo has done rereleases before. Super Mario 3D All-Stars was literally running emulators.
There was a lot of labor of love changes to it.
There's actually a unique cinematic for getting the grapple beam. The grapple beam used the "Chozo Artifact Spin" when you picked it up in the GC and PAL versions.
That cutscene for grapple was added in the Prime Trilogy port for the Wii
@@ExtremeAce GC PAL and GC Japanese versions were first to add that cutscene. Wii versions are based on GC PAL.
@@FallenAngel34 Huh I thought the PAL versions didn't have that, interesting
@@ExtremeAce same but then again I haven’t played trilogy in actual years
The other great thing is that this remaster was done by RETRO!
Meaning that we finally have a sign of life at the studio!
And a sign of what standards we can see for a metroid prime game in 202X
I'm interested in how they do Metroid prime 2 The only mainline Metroid with multiplayer. Most likely Retro won't include the multiplayer but if they do I would like them to take advantage of the opportunity to fix it.
If they do number 2 I would request 2 or 3 things.
1. Update it so that 6 or 8 players can fight, thus giving Nintendo a multiplayer shooter avenue and allowing basic modes like team death match and etc.
2. Make it able to host online and 2 players can play online via split screen when docked.
3. Add 3 or 4 character options or weapon loadouts. Even bringing some Prime 1 weapons in solely for multiplayer would help a lot. A selection of approximately 10 or so simple skins would go a long way.
You know, after playing Metroid dread and super Metroid twice, I think I am legitimately a Metroid fan now, might pick this up. I hear good things about it and wasn't alive to experience it in its prime.
It’s such a good game, and the aesthetic is wonderful.
"I wasn't alive to experience it in it's prime"
Oh jesus what's this? My skin is turning to dust....
19th all-time highest rated game on metacritic.
This is the game that got me into Metroid back then.
Metroid series is so underrated by gamers and even by nintendo. The games are just so good and not many people play them and it's a shame
I wouldn't at all be surprised if Nintendo was using this to test the waters, and see peoples reactions to the better graphics. Seeing as the reception has been overwhelmingly positive, they very well may be happy to remaster the other two.
Like they did with Pokémon arceus
Exactly, I'm seeing it as a "proof of market". They wanted to know if a surprise like this would sell (before investing money and dev time into remastering the other two), and boy howdy is it selling.
I legit think they're going to release remasters of 2 and 3 through this year, leading up to 4 releasing either holiday 2023 (unlikely) or early 2024.
The shadow drop was surprising, it also means they’ve been working on it in secret this entire time.
And hey, if they can release this before anyone ever even knew they were working on it, then maybe prime 2 and 3 won’t be too far behind. Could be working on all 3 and releasing them one by one or something like that.
A leaked leaked this quite a while ago and said it was finished. That was last year. So it wasn’t really secret.
@@Silverthunder100 Jeff grubb of giant bomb was calling it for over a year. He even had to cut his hair because he bet they would announce it before the end of 2022 and they didnt
This deserves to do well. I hope they do the rest of the Metroid prime series. I'd love a 2D Metroid collection as well.
Zero mission / fusion on the switch would go crazy
@@tonito_el_tigre fusion is confirmed but they definitely should do zero mission
@@tonito_el_tigre ye big time, port them all over, NINTENDO TAKE MY MONEY!!!
@@pedrol5004 I'd love them on cartridge though! Do a collectors edition with an artbook or something.
@@pedrol5004 I recommend Mighty Switch Force Collection, It's very similar to Metroid Zero mission gameplay.
There better be a remaster for Prime 2 and 3.
2's easy enough. I've heard 3 is the problem as it was designed with Wii control scheme in mind making it significantly more of a to do when porting.
@@nikdual Shouldn't be as difficult as Nintendo reworking Skyward Sword for Switch. If they have the source code for Metroid Prime 3, they could easily modify the controls if they want.
I hope so, im skeptical cuz this is the same company that hasnt ported Galaxy 2 to switch for some reason but itd just feel so wrong to have only the first Prime
Okay, but 1 and 2 had added motion controls on the metroid prime trilogy
I really hope so because 2 is my all time favorite game and 3 is really epic and cinematic. Would love to see them get the same amount of love as 1 did
My personal theory for why they shadow dropped this... Since there's a lot of different control schemes, as the trailer put it, they're using the remaster as both a release of their remaster, and as a test to see what sort of control scheme/set up will work best for when they finally give an update on metroid prime 4.
They were probably always gonna go for the dual stick control scheme with a potential motion control option
The control schemes in the game are the new dual stick option, the one stick option from the original GameCube release, the pointer option from the Wii release, and a hybrid of the one stick and pointer styles
I 100% bet they'll be looking at feedback to the dual stick scheme to tweak it before 4's release.
thought the same!
I really really REALLY hope they improve the gyro controls. I love stick+gyro, but it just feels… wrong. Probably because Splatoon has spoiled me with the best implementation of gyro ever. I think they just need to add a recenter button and it’d be much more usable.
@@peco595 you can also turn on gyro for camera movement so that it runs like a modern fps on switch. Aim and camera move with gyro + dual stick should be standard imo
I *highly* suspect that the Prime remake started out as a tech demo for Prime 4's engine. Retro probably still had the original assets and source code for Prime, and the key developers for the remaster were people hired around the time of the announcement that Prime 4 had started over development with Retro in early 2019. It makes sense that as part of engine tests, they rebuilt Prime and were testing to get the game feel right for Prime 4. With help from Iron Galaxy, it makes sense that it got expanded into a full-on remake and got released the way it was.
Is it a remake or a remaster.
@@devinwatkins8953From the looks of it I would say it is farther down the remake route than a remaster. In most remasters the models do not change at all. The just upscale textures.
@@jacobbutts6109 is a remaster but a really good done one that feels like a brand new, I have just finished the game today, it was fantastic, the only thing that put me off was to find out the artifacts, in my case I was lucky to find out five of them during the playthrough
I would love to see 2 & 3 get remastered like this too. But I actually think the more likely scenario is that 2&3 get released together as more of an upscaled port.
I saw a comparison video and it’s absolutely AMAZING how much better this looks.
I didnt even need to watch a comparison video. I play through metroid prime constantly and I notice every. Single. Improvement with almost painful clarity
Waiting for the physical release because I’m a collector
But the fact that it’s only like 2 weeks away is amazing
Same here! The wait may be hard but it’s not too bad for only 2 weeks
Up in Canada here, I'm not even sure when the physical game is launching. No sellers to pre-order from and no info on a release date.
@@Andre-vr1ul it may be at the same time as the Europe release? Which is march 3 I think
2 Weeks is better than 2yrs. I don't plan to buy into the FOMO for a digital license. It's gonna be mine until I die.
I got the digital but I’m getting the physical too.
This is my favorite series in gaming. I’ll happily double dip to play immediately and also have the physical copy
I just recently got a Switch Oled for myself aftery years of wanting one. I used to watch Arlo's videos just to hear about the various Switch games, so while I was listening to this I instincually thought: "Man, I wish I could play this game right now." And then it dawned on me: "Wait! I CAN lol"
I hadn't played any Metroid other that super before today. I was very tempted when it said available later today. Then, when I saw it was $40 instead of $60, that became an urge.
I am happy to say I've played Metroid Prime more than I should have on a weeknight. It's a spectacular game, I fell in love halfway through the tutorial. And the purchase was assuredly inspired at least a bit by you and your videos.
After looking at the trailer, I can understand why they're releasing the games separately. This looks like such an excellent remaster that it's teetering on the edge of Dead Space-style remake territory. A ton of work must have gone into it. Well worth $40 in my opinion, especially with the updated controls.
It's too bad dead space can be played on PC or consoles that are orders of magnitude faster so the work can shine.
@@joeykeilholz925 Yuzu:(switch emulator) am I a joke to you?
Lmao do you kids even know the difference between a remaster and a remake
@@coltonowens2742 also Ryujinx and Primehack
It's not even close to the effort and quality of the Dead Space. Dead Space added so much high quality content, voice acting, etc. It was built from the ground up and built better than the original.
Playing it for the first time and I’m adoring it. Getting Halo CE vibes from it and I have been wanting to feel that feeling again for a good while.
Just wait until Prime 3. Way more Halo influence and not in a bad way.
Halo released about a year before Prime so likely some influence but not to the extent it isn't It's own
I like how the story is told through scanning things. I play so slow because I like scanning everything
@Clap oh yeah the first mission in Prime 3 is pretty much Cairo Station
@@scaredscorpion Prime actually started development a decent time before Halo. I really don't think any inspiration made it, especially since the devs would've been too busy crunching in the final months before release to pay attention to any new games releasing around them
I had never played Metroid before Until they shadow dropped this. I bought it on impulse because of how much Arlo talks about the series, and now I’m about four hours in. and it is so…. so good. I’m now officially hyped for prime 4
I never played the original because I just thought I wouldn't like it, but I bought this as soon as it dropped because I've been wanting to try since dread. Wow. I have not put it down since. It's so incredible!
One tiny detail I noticed while playing, in the first save station in Chozo Ruins, you can hear the solid echo whenever you make a noise like jump or shoot. Very small detail but still awesome.
Also in the room right outside there you can't see your reflection in the mirror anymore 😭
Edit: okay there were echoes like that in all the smaller rooms and halls that should have had echoes. On top of that you can hear her heavy metal footsteps when the floor is metal, I LOVE what they did to the sound in this game!
What????? That reflection was one of the most awe-inspiring graphical things in the game!!!! I was like "holy crap, look at my reflection!!! Next-gen!!!!"
@@ulisesmorones5222 I know, I couldn't wait to get to that room but I was shattered when all I saw was a little light in the background xD
Tbh, didn't know there was a mirror in prime 1
One of my two pet peeves with the remaster the other being not able to melt miscellaneous ice sheets in Phendrana with the Plasma Beam
I have noticed some things here and there seem to have been removed, however everything else considered this is a beautiful remaster. The rainy atmosphere of tallon 4's overworld is perfect now. I spent a good several minutes just sitting and drinking it in lol
I was shocked to see it at $40 on the E-Shop. This is one of the best decisions out of Nintendo in years.
which makes it seem like they're doing the entire trilogy back-to-back. so it's "only" $120 instead of almost $200, which would just cause another outrage.
@@meisterwu8922 Hopefully a bundle too?
@@morgana7733 it's a REALLY good game tho, just saying
@@GodhandPlusOne this is a real remaster unlike many other companies wasnt halo 1 remaster $40 too? and that was a real remaster too
@@GodhandPlusOne Not a real remaster? This is just about the best a remaster can get before crossing the line into a full-on remake.
I'll happily buy the next two at the same price. I'm dying to see Corruption's grand vistas with remastered graphics, and echoes is my favorite of the three.
Just for one of those tiny marks of quality I noticed:
I played with twinstick controls, but due to muscle memory from Trilogy I tried ball jumping with gyro. And Samus jumped. That felt so amazing, made me feel a big piece of the love that went into the development. Also crazy how they figured to have standing jump and ball jump on different face buttons! Who does that, and why does it make so much sense!? Once I got Boost Ball it just clicked, this is the obvious control scheme for Morph Ball. I wonder how many hours of design meetings went into just that...
And of course keeping even glitches in, like the fast missiles exploit. They didn't have to do that, but quick kills on Baby Sheegoths sure are still a thing I can do thanks to it! Though I think it's actually a little bit slower than before, they may have tweaked it! I didn't try early boots skip, but at least the side hop version doesn't work anymore since you don't dodge with scan visor. I believe there was another way which took advantage of the ship high jump, but eh I'll leave that to the speedrunners.
I feel a fun part of the reveal in retrospect was "Drop Imminent" ot feels like a subtle clue to it's shadow drop
I truly believe Prime 2 and 3 are in the works of being remastered as well. It's clear the first Prime was being held off for who knows how many months or years? They may have done that to reduce the waiting gaps between remasters. I believe that is Nintendo's plan prior to Prime 4 reveal.
Thank you Arlo for making more people play my favorite game series of all time
I'm personally waiting for the physical edition but I can't wait! I played every 2D metroid before dread and now I'm starting the 3D games for the first time!!
When they released it on the Wii U I actually got it for $10 because if you bought it the first week it was 50% off. I'll never forget that, it is one of the best deals of my life. I even felt kinda bad paying so little for such an amazing trilogy.
Yes! I remember that too all the way back in 2015. Feels like so long ago that’s the first time I ever played Prime.
same, i saw it was half off on the first week they released it on the eshop and i was like "there's no way im gonna pass up a deal like that" and bought that shit so fast lmao
"I even felt kinda bad paying so little for such an amazing trilogy"
hahahahaha, what a fanboy....
@@jesusbarrera6916 Nah boy though I love Metroid, Zelda, Xenoblade, Mario and whatnot I don't fanboy about anything, I just simply understand the thousands of hours of hardwork and sleepless time the devs put into a game and as a dev myself I understand them, and to sell it for so little despite all the money that they had probably done even by then, underselling something doesn't really help appreciate the quality of the product. 👍🏻
@@24masks so you appreciate the literaly plastic strap that come with yout garbage that you throw away because " thousands of hours of hardwork and sleepless time"
you don't, you are just fanboying because guess what? it's just a product like in any other industry
Shadow dropping high quality games seems like it could become a trend for gaming and I’m all for it! I dub thee “The Rush Effect”
God Hi-Fi Rush is so good. Crazy they dropped Game of the Year so early.
I'm all for this. I'm tired of seeing games in a perpetual state of development with no release date in sight. Develop the damn thing and release it, especially if it's from a franchise.
They shadow dropped it because Prime 4 is canned, this is to hush the fans since they still got “something”
@@Tidushii 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡< this is you
@Caelum Attano are you serious or are you a troll?
I'm not really a fan of Metroid/Metroidvanias, but when I saw this at the Direct I immediately recognised the sheer beauty of the world, and the shock of it releasing the same day was awesome even as someone who is not connected to the series outside of this channel. Tempted to pick it up on looks alone tbh...
It won't feel like a typical metroidvania, trust me. If you can stomach the most basic elements of the genre (such as some backtracking) you'll be fine
Simply put… if you like FPS’s, pick it up. You won’t regret it.
Get it, I played this as a teenager, really great memories, picked it up myself, and been playing the past 6 hours, and it has withstood the passage of time. The soundtrack pulls you in, those haunting melodies, and heavy beats.
@Ivan Flores Disagree. It's drastically different from most FPS experiences. Maybe any other to be honest. The atmosphere and loneliness present in the game create a mood unlike any other of its contemporaries, which is one of the reasons I love the game so much. The feeling of exploring a beautiful but hostile alien planet is amazing. Returnal gets it right as well, even if that's a lot more frenetic at its core gameplay loop. I'd actually compare it more to Shadow Of The Colossus as far as game feel. Exploring forgotten architecture in a once thriving land, while occasionally fighting enemies or a giant boss. Regardless, I'm hyped to hell and back that we now have Prime on Switch, and it's such a damn good version.
@@twincherries6698 "The most basic elements of the genre" well... yeah. The most basic elements of the genre that Metroid started
I had to get it asap. It was actually my first Metroid game and I absolutely love it. Even though I got the digital copy I'm also getting the physical copy too. It is absolutely gorgeous and I love it.
I really like to think of this remaster by just the look of it as a glimpse into what we can expect from Metroid Prime 4
Hopefully late 2024/2025 is when we see it
the fact they implemented wii-like pointer controls gives me hope for prime 2 and 3
Try out duel stick with gyro + stick camera movement. Runs like a goddamn dream. Way better than point controls.
@@hullstar242That is what I use as well, love using the stick to whip the camera around and the gyro to pinpoint
For those that have never played Pinkman before I have to say that for some reason I kept getting nostalgia as if I was playing Metroid prime it actually feels a lot like that. Crashland on an alien world and have to figure out how to survive while exploring the world and collecting power-ups.
So, to start off, my experience with the Metroid franchise has been fairly minimal. I always thought Samus looked cool, and whenever I had the chance to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at a party with friends, I definitely gravitated towards her (in her regular outfit of course) a lot of the time, mixing it up occasionally with BotW Link. Then when I had my own Switch, and I had the online service, I played a little bit of Super Metroid, but ultimately didn’t get very far into it. I anticipated the release of Metroid: Dread with much interest, and later used some of my MyNintendo points to get the really nice Metroid: Dread posters (because, again, I just think Samus looks real cool). I’d heard the rumblings about a potential remaster of Metroid Prime for quite a while, and perhaps I considered looking into getting it when it released, but ultimately I didn’t dwell too much on it. And now we arrive at the Direct yesterday. And the game looks gorgeous. And it looks like something I could really get into. And then, it’s shadow-dropped. At $40. And suddenly I just had to have it. Now. So, I made a deal with my friend; I had $35 worth of LEGO VIP points lying around that I could use for sets, and my friend, being very much into LEGO (as I am), agreed to trade $35 worth of Nintendo eShop money that he’d buy for me, for that $35 LEGO money. And so, transaction complete, I went ahead and bought Metroid Prime, for the low low price of $7.79. And I’ve been having a blast playing it. I feel like I’m among the exact demographic you talk about in this video, that has little to no experience with Metroid, but when this opportunity came up, it inspired me to just go for it, and now I’ll be hotly anticipating the (hopefully) future Metroid Prime remasters, and Metroid Prime 4. So yeah, I guess I’m a little bit of a Metroid fan now :)
This shows Nintendo has the capability to remaster GameCube titles and bring them back better than before. I think this could make for an interesting video discussing what other GameCube titles would be deserving of a remaster or brought back. The main one that comes to mind for me would be Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door with the graphic engine of Origami King. Add some additional content as additional end game and it could be truly amazing.
Well, yes, of course they have that capability to remaster games. The issue is that they only have so many teams for develop but so many new games to work on (as well as a ton of games people want remastered). There is only so much they can do at a given time (and these take time), and most development will go toward new games.
I wish they did this for Luigi's Mansion and Mario Sunshine..... it irritates me that they remaster games like this which personally I'm not interested in, while Luigi's Mansion gets a 3DS remake that looks and plays worse than the original and Sunshine.... fukin Sunshine.... out of ALL of Nintendo's games that would benefit greatly from having a modern lighting engine akin to Wind Waker HD... it's SUNSHINE!!! The game that literally takes place on beaches through almost the entire game!!
But nah just a lazy port that changes nothing.
Totally. They already released an upscaled version of Super Mario Sunshine in the 3D All Stars, they could at least up the resolution and textures for a lot of games and it would be enough. Rogue Leader, please!
I've got my fingers crossed they do Prime 2 and 3. Prime 2 is one of my all time favorite games. I go back to the trilogy at least once a year.
I can't even imagine how scary and awesome remastering the Ing and of course, Dark Samus would look like.
It needs to happen. Prime 2 is one of the most underrated nintendo titles. Mainly because it didn't sell at the time. So many more people need to play it now
In Europe, it released without being playable in 50Hz which wasn't supported on a lot of TVs in the region back then.
It also felt like Nintendo didn't really appreciate how special the first game was and didn't market MP2 as well.
I'm going to be waiting for the physical copy of the game (if for no other reasons I don't have the storage for the digital one right now) but I'm excited to play this. Dread has made me a new fan of the metroid series, and I can't wait to see what I've been missing with the prime games.
You're in for a massive treat 👌
I bought MPR on shadow announcement/ shadow drop hype and I might not have done it otherwise. Between this and Hi-Fi Rush, I really hope it continues to be an industry trend.
For real Its so exciting!
I've been a bit of a gaming rut since beating Outer Wilds. It was very hard for me to find a game that compared. Metroid Prime is getting me out of that gaming rut. What a fantastic game.
Outer Wilds was your bar? isn't that game like 7/10 at best?
You're probably thinking of Outer Worlds (the Obsidian RPG). They're talking about Outer Wilds (the Mobius Digital space exploration/puzzle game). Similar names have confused a good few.
@@BBWahoo ahh shit yeah i was thinking of Outer Worlds 🤣🤣🤣 my bad my iq is a negative chief
Yeah, I was rather disappointed by Outer Worlds. It was shallow and the combat was meh. Fortunately I had game pass, beat it once, done.
@@scottevensen2615he’s talking about Outer Wilds, but Outer Worlds. Outer Wilds is incredible.
I cannot go back to the original after this. It's TOO good. The art, the lighting, the SFX, the incredible controls. It's finally borrowed from Halo, and now the circle is complete.
Well, there’s still the way your weapon beams light up the environment around you in the original. In this remaster, those obvious sources of light don’t illuminate anything, making some areas in the game darker than they should be. So there’s maybe a reason to go back to the original.
I picked up Prime Remaster last night. They did so much good work, and the price they are selling for is such a good deal. I never had a GameCube or Wii so I never had the opportunity to play it back in the day. Simply, as a modern game, it is a must-buy
The text “Countdown to re-entry…” and “Drop imminent” at the beginning of the trailer maybe hints at a plan to put out remasters of 2 and 3 before 4 comes out. It’s the countdown to reentry with Prime 4, and the drop was imminent - right after the Direct.
the remaster looks just how i was expecting MP4 to look like, it's very good and a sign of things to come
If this is what can happen for Metroid Prime, it makes it much easier to imagine a F-Zero GX Remaster
This really makes me hopefull for a prime 2 and 3 remastered I wonder if they’ll release one until we get to 4 as a tease
I LOVED THE PRIMES when they originally came out! They were the first metroids I played and I can’t wait for the fourth
I bruised my thigh during the Direct from punching it in excitement!
I jumped out of my chair when I saw AVAILABLE NOW!
I see Arlo, I click
I see Pikmin, I click Arlo
Sames. We must be friends or something 🤯
Relatable
@@GenesisJay fans*
Cringe.
I finished the original a few weeks ago, so all of the things they showed were fresh in my mind, and it looks really good
I took a day to wait for tech reviews before jumping in, and that took some willpower. By yesterday, I was convinced they did the job right, and I jumped in, no further hesitation. Love it. They did a fantastic job. The control options, graphics overhaul and performance are a dream come true.
Considering that it looks like most, if not all, of the assets have been rebuilt for Metroid Prime Remastered it makes total sense that they have only released the first game. The amount of time and money required would have been huge, even before taking into account porting the game to the Switch and add all the new rendering tech, assuming they didn't just rebuild it completely. The budget was probably pretty high, which makes the reduced price a little surprising. My wild theorizing based on the credits showing that it was developed by a team at Retro Studios with support from Iron Galaxy and some others is that this is a test drive for Metroid Prime 4's engine.
Sure, but we don’t know how long they’ve actually been working on them. For all we know, this could’ve been the grand scheme since they had Prime 4 on the horizon. You’re still probably not wrong but I’ll remain hopeful regardless.
remasters are insanely easy to make unless you go out of your way to re animate actors and actually change gameplay....
I can’t wait for the inevitable Digital Foundry breakdown of this beautiful thing. John Linneman probably hasn’t slept since before the direct.
I did not know this was released until I saw a youtube video for it. I thought it was a fan remaster, but realized it wasn't and immediately went to the Nintendo store. The controls have been updated to use 2 sticks and I couldn't be happier. It looks great
First thing about it i noticed was the rain on the cannon moving in different directions depending on if i was looking up or down.
Can confirm the shadowdrop is what got me to impulse buy this. I would have otherwise considered waiting for a Trilogy Bundle, but I've been looking forward to trying the Prime series since beating all the 2d games.
What do you think so far?
Oh man, the Prime games are fantastic. Have fun!
How do you like it so far?
Get hyped my friend, Prime one and 2 are some of the best in the series, it nails everything!!! Prime 3 is worth a play as well but a few of the levels/worlds drive me nuts, plus the final boss of 3 is underwhelming
I've already beaten the game and it was EXACTLY Like how I remembered it!! You can definitely see how much love they put in to this remaster. Now we just have to hope that Metroid Prime 2 and 3 will get the same treatment. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play this game once more
How long were your play throughs
Well, I would hope it’s not exactly like you remember. Surely the graphics are better ;)
So you beat metroid prime in 7 hours? Did you bother to stop and take things in at all? I don’t understand how people cut such short times on playthroughs. I always take my time and discover everything I can
@@guitarguy42394 I understand what you mean, and yes. I Did take some time to REALLY appreciate how hard they worked on this remaster. What I was most excited about was the Chozo ruins and the Phendrana Drifts. I don't want to go deep into details without spoiling the game for Switch owners who have yet to play the game, But I will tell you this, both of them are breathtaking. And the bosses, where do I begin? I noticed that some of them got reworked and made them more.....how should I put this....? Monstrous? Like I said, you have to play the game for yourself to see what I'm talking about.
@@serpentmaster1323 They are. I just didn't want to risk going into deep detail without the Nintendo Ninjas watching every nook and cranny of these comments. This game was just released after all
All I hope is that one day we get Prime 2 remastered. Prime 2 is by far my favorite of the trilogy and criminally underrated
Brings back my childhood. This game still looks great, and plays great, no issues with it not measuring up to the passage of time. REALLY want 2 and 3 now, since I never finished the trilogy, just the first game.
The only downside is having to wait for the physical copy knowing I *COULD* be playing it right now! 😭
The struggle is real!
Dude. Same.
We need a support group. But I want a box with Samus on it. I am committed.
Yeah pre ordered on Amazon and can't wait. Now just need a good deal on a Switch 😁
I bought it already eShop, and plan to get it later physically
@@PStewart28 MP is what convinced you to get a Switch? I took a different approach, but I seriously respect that. :)
Picking this up day one!
Never played a Metroid game before! This is my introduction to the series
This was my first too, back on the GameCube. Be patient with yourself! These games love to backtrack and can feel very obtuse, but they're really fun.
The backtracking can be bothersome for some people but the level design and environments are so good it never bugged me too much (aside from some Phendrana trips).
@@GrizbyK72 it's not too bad if you have a little bit of patience, I'm playing it again for my 5th time around and it takes like 5 mins to back track, people do often over exaggerate it.
If you can play the three Metroid games, dread is the game to start.
Welcome to an amazing adventure.
Thank you for putting out so many videos I love your discussion topics
I was feeling down these recent weeks but Metroid showed up and brought back some light for me
It’s nice to be able to play this again. Especially since I was too scared to as a kid lol
Phendrana's Pirate Lab still spooks me to this day
I genuinely think Dread changed Nintendo's tune on Metroid. It sounded like it blew their expectations out of the water, financially.
I pre-ordered the physical version. Looking forward to finally playing this gem!
Apparently Dread was really successfum compared to other Metroid. I think this proved to them that ",Yes people WANT to buy this ".
Yeah, especially considering how the game before that, Samus Returns sold barely 500k units, Dread selling 6 times that must have made them realize that Metroid has a lot of untapped potential. It just needs the right marketing and hopefully it gets out of being just a niche to one of Nintendo's major franchises.
So glad we have two different game studio that really understand Metroid.
Fun fact, the day this got announced (9th of February 2023 in Japan due to the time difference) was actually the 19th anniversary of Metroid Zero mission!! Maybe there’s some connection there but it’s just a fun thing I noticed!
I agree with this assessment - Ninty’s going to release MP2 and MP3 as scheduled shadow drops over the next year…but we’re not going to see MP4 on the current console…these releases are designed to prepare anticipation for the next console. MP4 is the PERFECT game to introduce their next beefed up system, and MP1-3 are the bait and switch to oil us up and then ease into it.
The amount of effort that went in to this is highly impressive, I'm playing the game right now and there's so much attention to detail that it feels like a new game. The HD rumble is the best I've played so far in the console, the sound had been improved, assets/occlusion/AA/particle effects/etc make the game look better than do many games out there (which is a testament to how good the game was originally as well) and it always runs silky smooth at 60 fps. You can select many controller options... GameCube style (and you can even use your GC controller), twin stick controls, mixed style, Wii style... It is highly impressive and keys be honest, we're not used to Nintendo putting so much effort like this. I hope s while new generation gets hyped for this series, yes, the remaster is THAT good. Bonus points as well in the fact that there's literally no other hand Luke Metroid Prime out there, there haven't been any spiritual successors unlike the 2D games that have been arguably out-Metroid'.
If you've never played Metroid Prime, please give yourself a chance. Of you've played this game before, I promise the Remaster is exceeding expectations, feels like a full blown remake often.
Have you played Dark Souls 1? That game is an awesome 3D metroidvania.
The game runs really good too. I don't know if the framerate is 60 fps, but if feels like it is and it's very consistent too.
It is
There's a few channels that have done frame rate tests on it, and im happy to say it's completely locked in at 60fps while docked and in handheld mode. Even the biggest combat sections had no dips. Clearly a lot of effort went into this!
It is really impressive
Retro really breaking the laws of physics with this shit
I genuinely can't WAIT for the Corruption Remaster. That game was dope on the Wii to me so to see it with THIS level of a remaster.... SIGN... ME... UP!
The theory that it was done for a long time makes a lot of sense especially since the switch in the menu UI is the old model not the OLED although that could just mean that it was in development for a long time but for me I lean toward the former
My introduction to this series and Metroidvanias in general was Dread. Such a phenomenal game. Then I went back and played the other four(the remakes of one and 2) and really enjoyed those. I am officially a fan of the series and genre and can't wait to give this game a go!
This remaster is incredible and looks amazing. Also got Metroid 2 on switch online same day which is nice.
I’m actually genuinely excited. I never played the prime series, so I’m interested to see what it’s about!
The way this Remaster ended up being, should be the standard for every Remaster.
Now for Metroid, I'll be happy if this is how they'll hype up Prime 4. With Prime 2, 3 and hopefully Hunters (Hunters to build up on the lore of the other Hunters, especially Sylux who will be the possible main antagonist of Prime 4).
I'm just happy to see Metroid be noticed and be a mainstay with it having its own portal on Nintendo's site.
MP2:Echoes is one of my favorite games of all time but never played the 1st. I'm so excited to pick up the physical on the 22nd. I feel like I'm waiting for Christmas all over again lol
You’re in luck because Prime 1 is a far better game than 2
@@otachi_r2x458 Highly subjective. Prime 2 has better bosses and the backtracking is less obtuse and placed at the right moments, not spammed like in prime 1.
Yeah I prefer 2 as well. That said, I'd much prefer 1 get this treatment than 2. I'd be perfectly fine if 2 just got a basic upres. But you certainly won't find me complaining if it gets this level of love too, lol.
I wasn’t too into shooting games when Prime 1 and 2 came out, but my first metroid game was Prime Hunters, and I LOVED it. Then I got 3 and loved that too. I’ve been meaning to find 1 and 2 somewhere, and now it appears would be a great time to get this one, and hope for at least 2 to be remastered as well
Would be fun to get Prime Hunters has a small dlc
@@flow185 I recommend Mighty Switch Force Academy, It has multiplayer similar to Prime Hunters.
Just so everyone knows, you can have both dual stick and gyro. It's buried in the camera section of the controls menu in the game itself as opposed to the controls menu on the title screen. Not sure why they hid it there, but it's there if you want it.
Been having a blast with the remaster so far! Especially happy they added back the charge effects for the beams. I really hope this means we'll get Prime 2 and 3 on this style, im skeptical itll happen but itd just feel so wrong if they only remastered Prime 1
Godspeed Arlo. Your videos are coming out one after the other and you're doing great.
What you said at 8:26 "this might happen for the other two Prime games as well." I really, really, really hope it **does** happen for at least Metroid Prime 2. I want to see that game get the remaster treatment as well for the fact that game is my favorite out of the Prime Trilogy! I love the light world & dark world concept with a Dark Samus. I'm definitely thinking Nintendo's plan is to gradually release each Prime game, spacing it out enough (like you said) so people have time to play each game before Prime 4 comes out. I'm sure its Nintendo being greedy too, because they can release each remaster game at $40 a pop verses a whole trilogy collection for $60. Definitely keeping my fingers crossed for Prime 2 remaster! 🤞🏻 ...what I really hope for one day is a Super Metroid HD remaster 😍 I love that game to death but it gets to me sometimes looking at pixels.
For the effort they put into Prime Remastered, it'd be worth every penny.
I almost couldn't believe it when it suddenly appeared as just the next little headline, and then to see that it had greatly updated visuals, not just HD but new 3D assets and lighting... I was wondering when it would come out, and when they said "today" I almost jumped out of my seat ("Yes! Yes! Yes!"). Then I go to the eShop and "It's only $40!?! Yes!"
I'm actually really glad they went with a one game release instead of the trilogy. I already have the Wii trilogy, but since it has one set of save files for the whole trilogy it never shows the intro menu and music for Prime 1, which is my favorite part of booting it up, the intro music and visuals are part of the game! Now it's back for this version and I'm so happy.
Really did not expect this much out of the remaster. I expected one extra option of updated controls, and just an upscale, but no. They redid models, textures, lighting, even added new sounds while keeping verh true to the art style and atmosphere of the game. Really happy as a metroid fan right now, this was done almost flawlessly and the non $60 price tag was the cherry on top. Really want to see 2 and 3 executed in this style, but I'm really happy this is is what we got and it had real effort put into it
Somewhere out there is a person, group, entity, whatever who convinced Nintendo to recognize what they have in this series. Whoever you are, sincerely, thank you! We finally have consecutive releases to love.
Total speculation on my part. I really think Yoshio Sakamoto had to push bigtime to get Dread made. Had to call in some old favors with longtime Nintendo execs. Samus Returns was supposed to be the safe return to form for Metroid, and it bombed big time financially. I feel like Nintendo probably thought Metroid was just dead at that point. I think Sakamoto had to push to give Mercury Steam another go on a non remake game that wasn't gonna be released on a dead platform.
@@Fjaloeat1 3DS wasn't a dead platform when Samus Returns dropped. The problem with Samus Returns is that it's Metroid 2, and Metroid 2 just isn't good. The original, Samus Returns, AM2R... They're all bad. It's not fun to just repeatedly fight the same 3 bosses for an entire game. Of course it bombed.
@@Fjaloeat1 That theory is as good as any.
@@mjc0961 To be fair, Nintendo has a way of mismanaging IPs at a macro level. I really, REALLY love Metroid. But I have never, and will never, own a handheld system. Yeah, the Switch is a hybrid, but 99% of my usage is in docked mode. I didn't play Zero Mission or Fusion until they released on Virtual Console, and I've never played 2. But look what Nintendo did, and how can you make a series succeed this way:
1 - console
2 - handheld
3 - console
4 - handheld
Zero Mission - handheld... then VC
Prime Trilogy - console
...the dark ages...
5 - hybrid
I respect the people who played all these games, but even if I could afford every piece of hardware, I was never getting a GB or a GBA. So I never had any hope of playing the series as intended. And when they did bring back Samus Returns, it still wasn't for me. (Yes, supporting the 3DS over the Wii U was obviously a no brainer, but what about those of us who bought a Wii U?)
Anyway, I do think it's fair to treat the 2D, Prime, and other titles as three separate categories. But the only one that was properly managed was Prime. Gamecube to Wii, and then everything compiled on Wii. You could always stay caught up with the series on one device. It's like they haven't even realized that all these games could easily fit on one cartridge.
Anyway, even without playing it, I always got the sense that Samus Returns was the worst one. You might be right that its quality tanked it. But I still would have bought it if I could play it on a TV. I don't think I'm alone.
Honestly speaking, I think Nintendo has always recognized it. It's just that the circumstances have been unfortunate. It never came across as if Nintendo wanted to wait 19 years between Metroid 4 and 5. Let's not forget part of the reason Prime has been absent for so long is *because* of Nintendos standards for this series. But I really, really hope this can all build to a special future for this franchise.
This Shadow Drop is of legendary proportions indeed.
I never played the original, but I bought this instantly because I had been wanting to play these for a long time. This game is easily one of my all time favorites: it feels like a mix of classic Zelda (Ocarina of Time) with Darksouls and Halo/FPS. The worldbuilding, sense of exploration, and cohesion between all the parts really drew me in and hooked me. I think it is a masterpiece and the new controls and visuals knocked it out of the park. I've enjoyed this more than any other game I can think of in the past few years.
I agree with all of this! I have never played a single Metroid game and Dread is on my list. But because I've never been part of the series I have not rushed to get it. But after seeing this Direct, I am 100% buying Prime Remastered like, NOW. And maybe this will be the hook that gets me in the series.
If you like, Super Metroid is on SNES Online. It’s lauded as one of the greats in the series.