Isn't that the best and the worst? Nintendo plays such great hold music. It suddenly becomes okay to be on hold. (And, well, every time I've had a problem with Nintendo, they've been an absolute GEM. So that's another plus for their Customer Service department.)
Wait do they really play soundtracks of their games? And even Metroid Prime!? God damn, that makes me want to have some sort of small problem and call them lol
Has it really been that long? I remember that when my brother first bought it (I was five at the time) all the monsters scared the shit out of me, and I'd just sit in a save room, reading everything in the scan log. Until one day, about 4 years ago he made me a bet: beat his highest percentage, which was 90% in a week and a half, for a pretty reward of 50 dollars. I did so, and the game grew on me. Now when I'm feeling sad or really angry, I go back and burn some Pirates with the Plasma beam
Most GameCube titles have aged very well. The only title in my GC library that has aged a lot is Eternal Darkness, but graphics were never the focus. Metroid Prime is still IMO one of the best first-person games EVER. Echoes and 3 hit different cords and get some elements better, but the overall *feel* of 1 is something else. Kinda the same thing happens in most video game series. Sequels enhance and refine the gameplay or story, but the first usually has the best feel to it, regardless of age. I feel it with Metroid Prime, the 3D Zelda games, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and so many other franchises.
Kevin Penkin, the composer who made amazing music for several video games and the anime "Made in Abyss" said in an interview that this song was what made him interested in video game music. The wikipedia page states, in a 2012 interview, he referred to the theme's electronic synths and acoustic instruments as "absolute bliss". Truly shows how brilliant the ost of this game is.
Whats crazy is that metroid prime’s best tracks are NOT remixes off SNES. It is so, so hard to create a brand new track that is fresh, not derivative, but still ‘metroid’, and they did it here.
@@vitamindealer7915 Well Kenji Yamamoto is the composer of this game since Super Metroid (along with Minako Hamano), so it's not that surprising knowing that he makes incredible music while setting the "Metroid" style. What is impressive to me is how he managed to evolve the musical style from 16-bit SNES sounds to this and setting an overall musical style to this trilogy. It's a shame they both didn't come back for Dread though :( At least I hope they come back for Prime 4 or else, it won't definitely be the same.
The music in this game reflects the feeling of the levels themselves. Phendrana is cold and desolate, Magmoor is industrial and mechanical. Chozo is mysterious and evocative, Phazon is scary and violent ..........best videogame music ever.
Metroid Prime holds a special place in my heart for the Metroid games. In addition to being a beautifully detailed FPS on the GameCube, it tells three very different but equally tragic stories. On the one hand it tells of the heart breaking decline of the Chozo civilization on Talon IV, which was once home to a thriving population that lived in harmony with nature before the asteroid that contained both Phazon and Metroid Prime fell. The second story it tells is of the hellish takeover of the planet by the Space Pirates as they try to fulfill their lust for ultimate power in the universe. The last story that it tells is that of Samus Aran herself in her quest to not only exact revenge on Ridley and the Space Pirates for taking her entire family from her (both human and Chozo) but her story of growth from being a hatching into being the ultimate warrior of the Chozo race. The Chozo hieroglyphics that you encounter throughout the game tell of the deep history that exists in the Metroid franchise as a whole, explaining the faith the Chozo had in Samus, watching her grow up from a child to an adult and bestowing the gift of her Power Suit upon her. A lot of people take the game at face value and view it simply as another blind run and gun adventure for Samus to participate in, but it's so much more than that and I wish more people could see it. Phendrana Drifts is a snow-themed area in the game where the Chozo once lived before the dramatic climate change brought on by the Phazon asteroid's impact. By the time Samus arrives they're little more than cold ruins with some Chozo tech lying in wait for the right person to find it (notably the Booster Ball and Wave Beam power-ups. You can argue the point on the Spider Ball and Thermal Visor power-ups but I feel those are Space Pirate tech) Phendrana also possibly the most beautifully-written song in the game, which is Phendrana's main area theme.
+QueenReign I played this game when I was a kid and did not that Ridley and Space Pirates took her family away. Guess I skipped that part but I agree it's amazing.
+QueenReign Everything you said i agree i grew up playing metroid something bout this game enlightens me and makes me feel happy i wish more could understand how special metroid itself truly is i will always love metroid for what it is never any need for change keep it original like metroid prime for gamecube metroid prime 2 echoes for gamecube and metroid prime 3 corruption for the wii best one is metroid prime for gamecube because everything in it is so beautiful and gorgeous with relaxing peaceful calm music playing throught the game especially phendrana's main theme song metroid will always be one of my most favorited games
I love how this song sounds like "winter" without sounding like Christmas music. Even the sleigh bells evoke more of an image of a dogsled team trekking through the frozen tundra than Santa Claus.
it's desolate feeling but it also plays with these weird scales and modes that give it a distinctly metroid flavor so that the instruments dont even feel remotely christmasy. i always felt like the phendrana theme was somehow a variation on the original metroid 8-bit theme, an elaboration of it.
This fucking game has something that I have never seen in any other game. I can't even put my finger on it, but it was a mix of the hardcore gameplay, the beautiful graphics, the incredible detail, and the brilliant music
I think it's that the game has "soul." No, not the Jive Turkey kind. The game's aesthetic is all about selling the fact that you've landed on an alien world that you're exploring, while hunting down Space Pirate vermin.
@@TheAsvarduilProject What this game and super metroid have in common is that they both did a phenomenal job at building the "atmosphere" of the game. You truly feel immersed in the alien world. It's beautiful.
Metroid Prime is one of the greatest games ever made. And what’s crazy is that Nintendo handed the responsibility to some game developer in Texas who had no experience of making a Metroid game before. And yet they absolutely killed it.
As a six year old, this was the sound of relief. As a child, the darkness, creatures, atmosphere and theme song of Magmoor caverns scared the shit out of me. When I finally got out of the elevator to Phendranas Drifts, I took a deep breath and just wandered around. Did anyone one else do this?.
Adam Jonsäll I played it being 7 years old, I remember that I had to muster courage for about 2 weeks just to jump off the cliff in the underwater area of Phendrana that was full of tentacles lol.
Thommo Hawk Ocarina of time is good but far from the best. I preferred Majora's Mask and if you want my opinion on the best game of all time?: Xenoblade Chronicles.
Came back after the remaster, I'm right at the cusp of hearing this, stepping into phendrana and seeing ridleys shadow whilst Im absolutely lost in this magnificent OST.
+Dylan Overstreet I agree with Inuyasha72 sometimes it was scary, for example in the space pirate place in phendrana drifts where it's all dark & you're energy is low.
+Inuyasha72 Metroid Fusion & Mother 3 scared the shit out of me as a 17 year old. Haven't played Prime in forever but I always get really tense and scared trying to play it. Not to mention that I'm terrible at FPS games. I love the 2D Metroid games, but when the 3rd dimension added, I am suddenly unable to take it lol.
It was at this point in the game where I finally realized what made this game so incredible - everything in this game is designed to give this ambience of loneliness, of isolation. You feel like you actually are on an empty planet, completely alone, and that feeling is what makes this game - and this series - so special.
DraculaXHunter101 Can't agree more. Only god knows why, but looks like a lot of people working for Retro Studios at that time did understand the "Metroid" feeling from the 2D games and even evolved it when transporting it to 3D.
GaaraSama1983 Retro is probably the only video game studio who turned a 2D game in 3D flawlessly. Metroid Prime is still amazing. Outshining even most modern day FPS titles and Adventure games in this generation. Metroid Prime 2 and 3 lived up to this amazing game but nothing compares to the first Metroid Prime. Along with Super Metroid, Prime is still the best game in the series.
@@GaaraSama1983 You know, Retro actually spent hours looking at online Metroid forums, and playing all of the Metroid games up to that point. They really knew what they were doing.
I've played this game and listened to the OSTs so much that I have the music perfectly memorized. So my brain is pretty much a playlist of Metroid Prime music.
I feel like the only person who thinks that the Crystallites (the little bug-like enemies with icicles on their heads) are cute. They kinda look like they're wearing party hats. :D
Ah, the feeling of discovery at Phendrana Drifts. The music, the mood, the mystique surroundings and the huge areas to explore = Magic. Probably the best winter world/area made in any game to this day.
One of my favorite games period, what I loved about this game was just wandering around scanning stuff, listening to this beautiful music. The graphics, even on the GameCube imo they still hold up to anything out today. I can't say enough great things about this game!
almightybooda Man, fuck sheegoths. Especially the big ones. They're some of the few videogame monsters that make me just turn on my heel and nope the fuck out of an area as quickly as possible.
Man this song, gives me tears every single time i watch this... So many memories. Im sad that it is over now.. I want everyone to just listen to this song, but you can never truly experience it if you didnt play it as a kid. Thanks for uploading this.. It means alot. TTTT
I really enjoy the original metroid games but there's just something about the primes that I LOVE. It's just so immersive and the music like this just...makes it perfect. I can't even recall how many times I've played through the prime trilogy. Here's hoping we get more like them.
i wish that could happen. but this was the best single player in its time. kids today probably wouldnt know how good it was unless they've played the trilogy. when did this come out like 2003, 2004? this was one of the only single player games my brother ever played. im glad i got the chance to relive my memories of this game. despite how much the trilogy was.
Christopher Kariotis i know right metroid prime was good when i played it at like 6 or 7 but scared me in the water levels, but it seems nowadays all the games are rushed and could have a lot more potential then they already do. It's the publishers rushing the developers ruining these great games the C.o.D series is one it was good at the beginning when it was based on real war, but once they started making up crap like world war three and an artificial intelligence terrorist attack(seriously treyarch you could have been more creative) they could have at least changed the name of the series if they were making it semi modern semi futuristic warfare. im getting off topic what I'm trying to say is the publishers only want money they build all this hype and release these buggy games that aren't even fully made to the developers liking, and developers don't care about what the community thinks ,which is good because everyone bitches about something, they make a game that they themselves would like to play. All I'm saying is i agree and stop and think is that new game worth it or is it actually just crap.(the last thing is fact while most of the rest is my opinion.)
Never have I seen such a positive TH-cam comment page. I'm glad so many others share the same thoughts. The impact of the Metroid Prime, and that moment of entering Phendrana Drifts is very unique. Metroid Prime remains my favourite video game of all time. After playing games for over 20 years and now working in the gaming industry... it's still remains the unrivaled in my honest opinion. Every time I look at the box art on the back of the title, the first image you see is Phendrana Drifts and immediately, the melody feels present. Open, pale blue skies. Gentle flakes gliding through the air. Ice cold water flowing between the snow covered rocks... and those wild creatures that look like a hybrid between a turtle and a dinosaur. With a shell made of thick, transparent ice. Love it.
agreed on everything you said, they don’t make games like they used too, its sad to see that happen, I’m currently right now playing thru the game and the whole game is just phenomenal , this game is def my favorite, and i like the music soundtrack ! Thats a bonus
@@quackpoppa I'm not sure why there are so many grammatical errors in my comment, including "The Metroid Prime" lol but I'm glad others agree with the overall opinion :)
I didn't played the original prime but I did played prime remastered back in February and I immediately recognize it in the prime 4 trailer when it played at the last part
This song holds so much memory for me, on top of being an incredible atmosphere of the cold. Metroid will always be one of the most iconic games for its ability to emmerse someone so fully into an environment. What Id give if my brother and I could play games togethet again...
There’s something so lonely and desolate yet comfortable about Phandrana Drifts. Probably nostalgia, regardless this song is still outstanding. One of my favorite video game songs, especially that opening.
Especially since there are two morphology scans that if you don’t scan them up to a certain point in the game you won’t be able to get the chance ever again.
It's so weird, I can go years without hearing a single song off this OST but I can recall it almost perfectly in my head. This game really had an impact on me growing up. I absolutely love this track in particular.
so it was 2023, a whole 20 years after I fell in love with this OST and track in general and I only just realized there was a vocal sub track as part of it and its blown my mind, Like how did I not hear it all these years??????
I've played this game a few months ago on my gamecube. The first time I heard this music I've stopped playing just to listen to the song, it is really beautif. It is peaceful yet a bit sad and you feel lonely while listening
i own a 12 year old copy of this game. ive had it since it came out and it is my favorite video game of all time. this game did for metroid what ocarina of time did for the legend of zelda. i could play this game tomorrow and end up beating it in about 8 hours. i will never get the same feeling from a game that this one gave me. this is up there with games like ocarina of time, gta san andreas, halo, and super mario world as one of the best games of all time. it has to be. you cant find a bad review of this game from a notable publication.
***** of course i have played super metroid, but i think prime did more for the franchise than super metroid did. it took the metroid franchise, known for the 2d sidescrolling adventure genre, and brought it to the 3rd dimension, a whole new playing field, and did it well. for me, super metroid made a ton of improvements to the original game and enhanced what was so good about it, but metroid prime was a total reinvention of the franchise, starting from scratch and building from the ground up but keeping all of the hallmarks and traditions that identify it as a metroid game, and despite what a lot of old school metroid fans will tell you (i understand you are not one of those people), metroid prime maintains the feel and atmosphere of a true metroid game. the people who will try to tell you otherwise are just nostalgic for the 2d graphic style and didnt accept the change. that being said, i love super metroid. i think its awesome and its a masterwork of a game. that is clear, but i think it comes in at a close second for the greatest of the metroid series.
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***** Can´t agree with you more. Metroid prime is a fine game but here i see something lacking, something that a 2d game had and this one lost it for improved visuals, i think you understand me.
This song gives me the most Metroid Prime vibes and feelings out of all of them, it just has the perfect mix of electronic and mysteriousness, and really captures that feeling when your playing the game.
Man I can't wait to do a full chronological playthrough of the whole Metroid series including Prime 4 and Dread in a few years. It's gonna be AWESOME!!!
tbh it doesn't really fit a fight to the death, it's more like travelling through a beautiful snowy landscape i'm not saying it sucks, but let's be real, it's really an "environmental background" song
I live in Iowa, and we're currently having a "bad" blizzard (bad in quotes because I actually enjoy this weather), the snow is up to my knees. All I could think about was role playing in Phendrana Drifts as a kid, which led me here. Such an underrated game, or series in general.
I got this game for Christmas 2002 and never passed like 5-8% until I started replaying 2 weeks ago. I beat it today. The music for this area got me instantly
Me when first experiencing this game: After I went through Magmoor caverns, the hot and crowded place, I took the elevator to phendrana drifts, as I walked through the icy hallway, I was filled with mystery, then, when I opened the door, I WAS STRUCK WITH AWE, at how beautiful and huge the area was, and that music! OOOOHH its a thing of beauty, the music just takes it for me, Phendrana drifts is easily my favorite area in the game.
This is the greatest song to play while actually out exploring in the snow whether by vehicle or on foot, especially alone. It gives you such a powerful sense of wonder and mystery yet still just a touch of tension and uneasiness at what lies beyond the next corner.
Phenderana has ingratiated itself as _THE_ snow theme for me. It doesn’t feel right if I don’t have this song somewhere while I’m going up and down the slopes on my snowboard
Whenever it snows i always try to play this. Makes me feel like i am in the game itself. Especially with the Winter Storm in the east coast right now ;)
Incredible themes. Halo 1, 2 & 3 had very good ambience and theme songs as well. I don't think there are any games today outside of a few upcoming next gen titles that had this level of production mastery. Graphics and effects aren't everything. I can't remember the last time I was emersed in a game like I was with Prime and Echoes.
The Metroid Prime games have some of the most amazing mood-setting, location-appropriate music like this and the Torvus Bog from MP2. Freaking love this trilogy.
This game had the best OST ever. Retro did Samus right. It was incredible in every way. We need 4. Man do we need Metroid Prime 4. IMO it's the only thing that could stand to the likes of the Halo's of the world. I heard some the crew over at 343 took heavy influence from Metroid prime when it came to coming up with the Prometheans. Man this music, and the first time you enter Phendrana Drifts, that cutescene.....that's when I knew. One of the best games I've ever played. Top ten. Top ten.
I highly doubt that there will ever be a MP4. Main reason is that the vast majority of the team that worked on it left retro studios years ago, the important people went on to create armature studio.
Earthium We can only hope, man. Yeah, retro's team is disbanded but that doesn't limit other companies to make it a project. It would make money, and they know it. So why not just make it already? lol logic.
This is my favorite Metroid song ever, and I can't believe I keep forgetting it's name... but whenever I hear it on TH-cam I get obsessed all over again.
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This song played while I was on hold with Nintendo Customer Service. Was disappointed when they picked up
Isn't that the best and the worst? Nintendo plays such great hold music. It suddenly becomes okay to be on hold. (And, well, every time I've had a problem with Nintendo, they've been an absolute GEM. So that's another plus for their Customer Service department.)
Wait do they really play soundtracks of their games? And even Metroid Prime!? God damn, that makes me want to have some sort of small problem and call them lol
ur all like "god damn it why" when they pick up the phone
For real? That's cool
I only get Mario music when I on hold from Nintendo.
It's amazing how after 14 years, this game has aged brilliantly. The atmosphere and immersion really were knocked out of the park.
Has it really been that long? I remember that when my brother first bought it (I was five at the time) all the monsters scared the shit out of me, and I'd just sit in a save room, reading everything in the scan log. Until one day, about 4 years ago he made me a bet: beat his highest percentage, which was 90% in a week and a half, for a pretty reward of 50 dollars. I did so, and the game grew on me. Now when I'm feeling sad or really angry, I go back and burn some Pirates with the Plasma beam
Most GameCube titles have aged very well. The only title in my GC library that has aged a lot is Eternal Darkness, but graphics were never the focus.
Metroid Prime is still IMO one of the best first-person games EVER. Echoes and 3 hit different cords and get some elements better, but the overall *feel* of 1 is something else. Kinda the same thing happens in most video game series. Sequels enhance and refine the gameplay or story, but the first usually has the best feel to it, regardless of age.
I feel it with Metroid Prime, the 3D Zelda games, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and so many other franchises.
*First person adventure shooter XD
Yeah it's still a lovely game
Dr. Dhoom your loss if you didn't like it
Seeing Ridley’s shadow in mid-flight passing over the snowy ground. Incredible.
damn bro. havent played this game in ten years and your comment just brought me way back. thank you.
bro, i forgot about ridley half way through the game😂
I just recently got to that point in Remastered and was stunned when it happened. I'd forgotten.
I return 1 year later
Kevin Penkin, the composer who made amazing music for several video games and the anime "Made in Abyss" said in an interview that this song was what made him interested in video game music. The wikipedia page states, in a 2012 interview, he referred to the theme's electronic synths and acoustic instruments as "absolute bliss". Truly shows how brilliant the ost of this game is.
yeah thats how i ended up here
Whats crazy is that metroid prime’s best tracks are NOT remixes off SNES. It is so, so hard to create a brand new track that is fresh, not derivative, but still ‘metroid’, and they did it here.
@@vitamindealer7915 and they tracks that they did remix were done incredibly well
@@olsonbryce777 this one, skytown, And the torvus bog are the best new ones
@@vitamindealer7915 Well Kenji Yamamoto is the composer of this game since Super Metroid (along with Minako Hamano), so it's not that surprising knowing that he makes incredible music while setting the "Metroid" style. What is impressive to me is how he managed to evolve the musical style from 16-bit SNES sounds to this and setting an overall musical style to this trilogy. It's a shame they both didn't come back for Dread though :(
At least I hope they come back for Prime 4 or else, it won't definitely be the same.
The music in this game reflects the feeling of the levels themselves. Phendrana is cold and desolate, Magmoor is industrial and mechanical. Chozo is mysterious and evocative, Phazon is scary and violent ..........best videogame music ever.
And Tallon IV is wild and calls for adventure. Sorry I'm 8years late, but I did play the game at 12 in 2002 ;)
Amazing description of each level. For me, one of the best games for Game cube.
@@Feanor026 I got to play it in 2023 thanks to the remaster :)
Metroid Prime holds a special place in my heart for the Metroid games. In addition to being a beautifully detailed FPS on the GameCube, it tells three very different but equally tragic stories. On the one hand it tells of the heart breaking decline of the Chozo civilization on Talon IV, which was once home to a thriving population that lived in harmony with nature before the asteroid that contained both Phazon and Metroid Prime fell. The second story it tells is of the hellish takeover of the planet by the Space Pirates as they try to fulfill their lust for ultimate power in the universe. The last story that it tells is that of Samus Aran herself in her quest to not only exact revenge on Ridley and the Space Pirates for taking her entire family from her (both human and Chozo) but her story of growth from being a hatching into being the ultimate warrior of the Chozo race. The Chozo hieroglyphics that you encounter throughout the game tell of the deep history that exists in the Metroid franchise as a whole, explaining the faith the Chozo had in Samus, watching her grow up from a child to an adult and bestowing the gift of her Power Suit upon her. A lot of people take the game at face value and view it simply as another blind run and gun adventure for Samus to participate in, but it's so much more than that and I wish more people could see it.
Phendrana Drifts is a snow-themed area in the game where the Chozo once lived before the dramatic climate change brought on by the Phazon asteroid's impact. By the time Samus arrives they're little more than cold ruins with some Chozo tech lying in wait for the right person to find it (notably the Booster Ball and Wave Beam power-ups. You can argue the point on the Spider Ball and Thermal Visor power-ups but I feel those are Space Pirate tech) Phendrana also possibly the most beautifully-written song in the game, which is Phendrana's main area theme.
+QueenReign I agree with you on so many lvl's.
+QueenReign Wow.
+QueenReign I played this game when I was a kid and did not that Ridley and Space Pirates took her family away. Guess I skipped that part but I agree it's amazing.
+QueenReign Everything you said i agree i grew up playing metroid something bout this game enlightens me and makes me feel happy i wish more could understand how special metroid itself truly is i will always love metroid for what it is never any need for change keep it original like metroid prime for gamecube metroid prime 2 echoes for gamecube and metroid prime 3 corruption for the wii best one is metroid prime for gamecube because everything in it is so beautiful and gorgeous with relaxing peaceful calm music playing throught the game especially phendrana's main theme song metroid will always be one of my most favorited games
+QueenReign Very well said.
I love how this song sounds like "winter" without sounding like Christmas music. Even the sleigh bells evoke more of an image of a dogsled team trekking through the frozen tundra than Santa Claus.
So true lol. It sounds cold but in a cool way. Like if nature had natural music playing it'd sound like this ❄🎧🎶🎼🎹🔔
it's desolate feeling but it also plays with these weird scales and modes that give it a distinctly metroid flavor so that the instruments dont even feel remotely christmasy. i always felt like the phendrana theme was somehow a variation on the original metroid 8-bit theme, an elaboration of it.
It's the crystalline sounds and high piano notes. It evokes thoughts of clouds of frost and the geometric perfection of snowflakes.
Something about the sound... it's like it's echoing off a frozen lake.
God this game gave me so many memories. The atmosphere, the music, the lonely feeling, everything was just perfect.
Mystic Melody abso-fucking-lutely
also the reason for not dying...
Yeah, Claymore is perfect too 👌
The end of the Metroid Prime 4 Beyond trailer instantly made me think of this. It's finally happening i'm so happy!
I know why you're here. Hi five!
💅💅
Person of culture
High four surely
@@albond hi prime
Oh danm it has already been three weeks since the announcement
This fucking game has something that I have never seen in any other game. I can't even put my finger on it, but it was a mix of the hardcore gameplay, the beautiful graphics, the incredible detail, and the brilliant music
I think it's that the game has "soul." No, not the Jive Turkey kind. The game's aesthetic is all about selling the fact that you've landed on an alien world that you're exploring, while hunting down Space Pirate vermin.
@@TheAsvarduilProject What this game and super metroid have in common is that they both did a phenomenal job at building the "atmosphere" of the game. You truly feel immersed in the alien world. It's beautiful.
Same lol I can’t get over this game and it’s music and it’s been so long
Metroid Prime is one of the greatest games ever made. And what’s crazy is that Nintendo handed the responsibility to some game developer in Texas who had no experience of making a Metroid game before. And yet they absolutely killed it.
FUCK YEAH!
I'm normally pretty terrible at choosing favorites, but I don't even have to think before calling this game my #1.
how about today?
This song aged like fine wine!!
The game aged like fine wine.
@@saricubra2867 That it did... That it did!
This game was way ahead of its time.
No… it was at the perfect time and in the perfect decade
Did anyone else enjoy shooting down the flying things despite not yet having the x-ray visor?
yeah i even knew the path without the x ray visor but i dont anymore lol
what are you talking about?
Yeah 👍
Some one please!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
S7at Blakk ohhhhhh ok. hell yeah I went through this game so many times my best time is 3:05 100% Always 😎
As a six year old, this was the sound of relief. As a child, the darkness, creatures, atmosphere and theme song of Magmoor caverns scared the shit out of me. When I finally got out of the elevator to Phendranas Drifts, I took a deep breath and just wandered around. Did anyone one else do this?.
Adam Jonsäll I played it being 7 years old, I remember that I had to muster courage for about 2 weeks just to jump off the cliff in the underwater area of Phendrana that was full of tentacles lol.
+Adam Jonsäll it happened to me too bruh ;)
+Braulio López oh god that area i did too. I was expecting some kind of underwater boss
+Adam Jonsäll And then you got to the pirate research lab.
Adam
As the first video game of my entire life (5 years old), definitely yes.
This is one of the best ice-based songs in a video game ever.
That part where the kick drum comes in it just becomes even more perfect.
Really brings the song alive!
2:41 on most amazing part wow!!!!
13 years have passed... but this is still one of the best games in history!
Anthony Penna agreed
metroid prime was the best game of its generation, Nintendo used to always deliver like that.
+Fairy Red No, not anymore.
Fairy Red What is a "Xenoblade Chronicles"
+Alpha Nueva Someone's NOT feeling it.
Metroid Prime is the Ocarina of Time of first person shooters!
Agreed
Nope, because this game isn't overrated.
Mr. Sizzle Neither is Ocarina IMO, maybe in your opinion it is. I feel both Ocarina and MP are two of the best games of all time.
Thommo Hawk Ocarina of time is good but far from the best. I preferred Majora's Mask and if you want my opinion on the best game of all time?: Xenoblade Chronicles.
Mr. Sizzle Never played it but I've heard of the franchise. Majora's Mask I couldn't get into it but it's definitely one I need to go back to.
It's been 18 years and it's still top tier. This game holds up so well.
Came back after the remaster, I'm right at the cusp of hearing this, stepping into phendrana and seeing ridleys shadow whilst Im absolutely lost in this magnificent OST.
After you get the boost ball is an actual nightmare for first timers
Ah, Metroid Prime
The only game that ever scared the shit out of me as a 10 year old kid
+Inuyasha72 You ever play Majora's Mask?
+Dylan Overstreet I agree with Inuyasha72 sometimes it was scary, for example in the space pirate place in phendrana drifts where it's all dark & you're energy is low.
+Johnny Whinter The first level scared the shit out of me so much when I was 5 or 6 years old
+Inuyasha72 hahah when i was 10 it was the original resident evil, silent hill and clocktower that scared me.
+Inuyasha72 Metroid Fusion & Mother 3 scared the shit out of me as a 17 year old.
Haven't played Prime in forever but I always get really tense and scared trying to play it. Not to mention that I'm terrible at FPS games. I love the 2D Metroid games, but when the 3rd dimension added, I am suddenly unable to take it lol.
It was at this point in the game where I finally realized what made this game so incredible - everything in this game is designed to give this ambience of loneliness, of isolation. You feel like you actually are on an empty planet, completely alone, and that feeling is what makes this game - and this series - so special.
Very few games can match the sheer brilliance of Metroid Prime in scope, gameplay, level design, atmosphere and music.
DraculaXHunter101 Can't agree more. Only god knows why, but looks like a lot of people working for Retro Studios at that time did understand the "Metroid" feeling from the 2D games and even evolved it when transporting it to 3D.
GaaraSama1983 Retro is probably the only video game studio who turned a 2D game in 3D flawlessly. Metroid Prime is still amazing. Outshining even most modern day FPS titles and Adventure games in this generation. Metroid Prime 2 and 3 lived up to this amazing game but nothing compares to the first Metroid Prime. Along with Super Metroid, Prime is still the best game in the series.
Mario 64 was 2d to 3d, and does so well. Especially considering it was one of the forerunners of 3d games.
@@DraculaXHunter101 frankly i prefer Echoest to Prime 1
@@GaaraSama1983 You know, Retro actually spent hours looking at online Metroid forums, and playing all of the Metroid games up to that point. They really knew what they were doing.
I've played this game and listened to the OSTs so much that I have the music perfectly memorized. So my brain is pretty much a playlist of Metroid Prime music.
Of course Jesus would have amazing taste. Who ever doubted Him?
With taste like that, nobody will ever cast the first stone.
***** Right. Because most video game music has to be made with an environment in mind, it fits a lot of things.
TotalVelocity Now he's the "Morbidly obese slave trader"
***** yep
I feel like the only person who thinks that the Crystallites (the little bug-like enemies with icicles on their heads) are cute. They kinda look like they're wearing party hats. :D
Bro I'm fr tearing out after the Nintendo Direct THEY FINALLY DID IT
Whenever it snowed and I had to walk to class in snowstorms back in college, I'd cue this up on my iPod. One of my top favorite tracks from MP1, =)
Dude I just did that yesterday lol
You sound like my grandma. She had to walk 28 miles to school. One way. On bare feet. Snowstorm, all year.
I envy you, I will never know wat snow looks like :(
For me it's route 216 from pokemon dPPt.
Ah, the feeling of discovery at Phendrana Drifts. The music, the mood, the mystique surroundings and the huge areas to explore = Magic.
Probably the best winter world/area made in any game to this day.
One of my favorite games period, what I loved about this game was just wandering around scanning stuff, listening to this beautiful music. The graphics, even on the GameCube imo they still hold up to anything out today. I can't say enough great things about this game!
ayy 1,000,000 views fully deserved. Amazing soundtrack.
I'm listing this while watching the first snowfall this winter. It's beautiful...
R.I.P. snow
i literally feel an icy chill come into the room when i hear this
That moment when you fight a Sheegoth and all your weapons get absorbed by his back
almightybooda And that moment much later when you take vengeance with the plasma beam
mrbibs350 D; That moment when you first see one and drop the controller as it rushes at you.
almightybooda
Man, fuck sheegoths. Especially the big ones. They're some of the few videogame monsters that make me just turn on my heel and nope the fuck out of an area as quickly as possible.
TheArrancar44 Dude the chozo ghosts made me quit this game.... i was terrified of chozo ruins for a period of time
Man this song, gives me tears every single time i watch this... So many memories. Im sad that it is over now.. I want everyone to just listen to this song, but you can never truly experience it if you didnt play it as a kid.
Thanks for uploading this.. It means alot.
TTTT
This music plays in my head when I walk in snowy weather.
Dude, me too! It's snowing today and that's precisely why I'm here. I always hear the piano in my head when it's snowing.
Same here. :D
I love this masterpiece of a game.
Reminds me of the good old days with friends.
Finally can relive the awesome experience all over again with Metroid Prime Remastered.
That piano is so light and subtle but it adds to the atmosphere so much.
Snowing outside right now, listening to this. Incredible.
In my opinion this is the best game ever. Anybody thinks the same?
i do
I do
It ties with Wind Waker and The Last of Us for me.
i do
I don't know if it's THE best, but it's pretty damn close!
I really enjoy the original metroid games but there's just something about the primes that I LOVE. It's just so immersive and the music like this just...makes it perfect. I can't even recall how many times I've played through the prime trilogy. Here's hoping we get more like them.
i wish that could happen. but this was the best single player in its time. kids today probably wouldnt know how good it was unless they've played the trilogy. when did this come out like 2003, 2004? this was one of the only single player games my brother ever played. im glad i got the chance to relive my memories of this game. despite how much the trilogy was.
Christopher Kariotis
i know right metroid prime was good when i played it at like 6 or 7 but scared me in the water levels, but it seems nowadays all the games are rushed and could have a lot more potential then they already do. It's the publishers rushing the developers ruining these great games the C.o.D series is one it was good at the beginning when it was based on real war, but once they started making up crap like world war three and an artificial intelligence terrorist attack(seriously treyarch you could have been more creative) they could have at least changed the name of the series if they were making it semi modern semi futuristic warfare. im getting off topic what I'm trying to say is the publishers only want money they build all this hype and release these buggy games that aren't even fully made to the developers liking, and developers don't care about what the community thinks ,which is good because everyone bitches about something, they make a game that they themselves would like to play. All I'm saying is i agree and stop and think is that new game worth it or is it actually just crap.(the last thing is fact while most of the rest is my opinion.)
Metroid prime ages like the finest wine man.
Best Track if you need to chill.
I see what you did there!
don't you mean "ICY" what you did there?
That's an ice pun.
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Yeah, I find some Horror stories chilling
Some are scary; they make me cryo 'lot of tears.
Never have I seen such a positive TH-cam comment page. I'm glad so many others share the same thoughts. The impact of the Metroid Prime, and that moment of entering Phendrana Drifts is very unique. Metroid Prime remains my favourite video game of all time. After playing games for over 20 years and now working in the gaming industry... it's still remains the unrivaled in my honest opinion.
Every time I look at the box art on the back of the title, the first image you see is Phendrana Drifts and immediately, the melody feels present. Open, pale blue skies. Gentle flakes gliding through the air. Ice cold water flowing between the snow covered rocks... and those wild creatures that look like a hybrid between a turtle and a dinosaur. With a shell made of thick, transparent ice.
Love it.
agreed on everything you said, they don’t make games like they used too, its sad to see that happen, I’m currently right now playing thru the game and the whole game is just phenomenal , this game is def my favorite, and i like the music soundtrack ! Thats a bonus
@@quackpoppa I'm not sure why there are so many grammatical errors in my comment, including "The Metroid Prime" lol but I'm glad others agree with the overall opinion :)
This is beautiful.
Wanna play there, but those creatures ain't friendly.
This brings peace in mind, until those damn creatures won't shut up and keep freezing me with their rotten cold breath_
Sendy Lie I'd cuddle a baby sheegoth if it was actually friendly. They're like two-legged toothy turtles.
It’s that time of year where snow falls and I put this song on while driving. So peaceful and so many great memories always flash back.
gotta listen to it here while the switch is charging
In Breath of the Wild, I went shield surfing down Hebra Mountain with this playing. It was breathtaking.
reddit moment
@@rajkanishu fr but i typed this before keanu reeves was like massive, i dont think he had said that before yet either
If you came here in 2024 and listened to this after the announcement of Metroid Prime 4, Press the Like button❤️😄
I pressed the like button on the vid itself. Hope that’s what you meant.
nah fam i pass
nah they still havent moved away from the Prime series? they cant come with anything new still. Its like what they did with Black Ops 6 🤦
I didn't played the original prime but I did played prime remastered back in February and I immediately recognize it in the prime 4 trailer when it played at the last part
bro is asking like he NEEDS those likes to survive 💀
This song holds so much memory for me, on top of being an incredible atmosphere of the cold. Metroid will always be one of the most iconic games for its ability to emmerse someone so fully into an environment. What Id give if my brother and I could play games togethet again...
There’s something so lonely and desolate yet comfortable about Phandrana Drifts. Probably nostalgia, regardless this song is still outstanding.
One of my favorite video game songs, especially that opening.
Like my brothers always said: "Scan! Scan while you can!"
Haha mine said that too! Gotta fill up those logs
Especially since there are two morphology scans that if you don’t scan them up to a certain point in the game you won’t be able to get the chance ever again.
I really think this is one of the best songs from an OST of all time
Agreed!
Still one of my most loved songs of all time. Right up there with Corridors of Time.
I see you are a man of culture as well
2023 and MP1 has aged well enough that Nintendo saw fit to give it a remaster on the switch.
Life is good.
And now we wait for MP2 and MP3 getting a remaster
It's so weird, I can go years without hearing a single song off this OST but I can recall it almost perfectly in my head. This game really had an impact on me growing up. I absolutely love this track in particular.
Playing this on a emulator at 1080p and 60fps is a joy.
Defently on the top 10 best games ever created
And it just age like fine wine
so it was 2023, a whole 20 years after I fell in love with this OST and track in general and I only just realized there was a vocal sub track as part of it and its blown my mind, Like how did I not hear it all these years??????
Come back Samus, the video game horizon needs you :(
soon my friend
Well, Metroid project "Dread" is finally nearing its completion
She’ll be back tomorrow
@@testsubject157 yup, preordered and I get it tomorrow 😁
I've played this game a few months ago on my gamecube. The first time I heard this music I've stopped playing just to listen to the song, it is really beautif. It is peaceful yet a bit sad and you feel lonely while listening
REJOICE METROID FANS. BACK TO THE SNOW WE GO
I get a wave of nostalgia every time. This track is just so effective at creating majestic sci-fi ice planet vibes
I'M COMING BACK PHENDRANA LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
i own a 12 year old copy of this game. ive had it since it came out and it is my favorite video game of all time. this game did for metroid what ocarina of time did for the legend of zelda. i could play this game tomorrow and end up beating it in about 8 hours. i will never get the same feeling from a game that this one gave me. this is up there with games like ocarina of time, gta san andreas, halo, and super mario world as one of the best games of all time. it has to be. you cant find a bad review of this game from a notable publication.
Apart from /v/
decapitator412 the 4Chan branch? that isnt a notable publication. do they even do reviews on there, or do they just chat/bitch about video games?
decapitator412 Uh, /v/ loved this game.
***** of course i have played super metroid, but i think prime did more for the franchise than super metroid did. it took the metroid franchise, known for the 2d sidescrolling adventure genre, and brought it to the 3rd dimension, a whole new playing field, and did it well. for me, super metroid made a ton of improvements to the original game and enhanced what was so good about it, but metroid prime was a total reinvention of the franchise, starting from scratch and building from the ground up but keeping all of the hallmarks and traditions that identify it as a metroid game, and despite what a lot of old school metroid fans will tell you (i understand you are not one of those people), metroid prime maintains the feel and atmosphere of a true metroid game. the people who will try to tell you otherwise are just nostalgic for the 2d graphic style and didnt accept the change. that being said, i love super metroid. i think its awesome and its a masterwork of a game. that is clear, but i think it comes in at a close second for the greatest of the metroid series.
***** Can´t agree with you more. Metroid prime is a fine game but here i see something lacking, something that a 2d game had and this one lost it for improved visuals, i think you understand me.
I love the synthesizers in this.
It's all synth
@@olsonbryce777 ur all synth
The microkorg xl+ has a preset sound that matches that breathy/ethereal chime tone perfectly.
This song gives me the most Metroid Prime vibes and feelings out of all of them, it just has the perfect mix of electronic and mysteriousness, and really captures that feeling when your playing the game.
Man I can't wait to do a full chronological playthrough of the whole Metroid series including Prime 4 and Dread in a few years. It's gonna be AWESOME!!!
This song not being in Smash is the biggest travesty.
there's an overall lack of ice stages too... (RIP Icies)
Aw man it's not in the new smash? What is this?!
tbh it doesn't really fit a fight to the death, it's more like travelling through a beautiful snowy landscape
i'm not saying it sucks, but let's be real, it's really an "environmental background" song
Yeah, actually you're right. I guess it wouldn't be very appropriate. Nostalgia is getting the best of me again lol
Hans Christian Johnsen Then why is "Environmental Noises" in Smash? lol
Always play this track when the first day snow comes down during winter.
I guess I'm not the only one who does this! Awesome.
Doing that right now.
We back boooyyysss. We finally got a Remake :D
YOU READY FOR THE REMASTERED GUYS?!
I am absolutely loving it. In terms of atmosphere and design, this game is definitely as good as it gets.
As someone who never got the chance to play the original, YES
I’m already playing it. Doesn’t look like a 20 year old game. Even the GCN still looks great.
@@josefranciscojimenezhernan1306 play it without hints ... trust me. Just get lost.
I live in Iowa, and we're currently having a "bad" blizzard (bad in quotes because I actually enjoy this weather), the snow is up to my knees. All I could think about was role playing in Phendrana Drifts as a kid, which led me here. Such an underrated game, or series in general.
I got this game for Christmas 2002 and never passed like 5-8% until I started replaying 2 weeks ago. I beat it today.
The music for this area got me instantly
It's Back on the switch baby!!!!
What really amazes me was the physics of realism this game had, like when Thardus dies the rock that hits Samus’s helmet.
Came here to celebrate the announcement of Metriod Prime 4. Can't wait!
I FINALLY FOUND IT!
and i truly didn't know that this masterpiece was from this.
So far, this is my favorite area in the game. The music in combination with this amtosphere make this level that awesome!
Me when first experiencing this game: After I went through Magmoor caverns, the hot and crowded place, I took the elevator to phendrana drifts, as I walked through the icy hallway, I was filled with mystery, then, when I opened the door, I WAS STRUCK WITH AWE, at how beautiful and huge the area was, and that music! OOOOHH its a thing of beauty, the music just takes it for me, Phendrana drifts is easily my favorite area in the game.
This track stuck with me throughout the years more than any other in Metroid Prime. The atmosphere of the Prime games is 10/10. Just love it.
This is the greatest song to play while actually out exploring in the snow whether by vehicle or on foot, especially alone. It gives you such a powerful sense of wonder and mystery yet still just a touch of tension and uneasiness at what lies beyond the next corner.
this is a good song to listen to when you are sleeping, until a sheegoth attacks.
This music is so calm at first but then I think of those Sheegoths and lose my shit
Phenderana has ingratiated itself as _THE_ snow theme for me. It doesn’t feel right if I don’t have this song somewhere while I’m going up and down the slopes on my snowboard
I may get Prime After all, to Experience something of Glory.
Yeah im defintly am getting Prime Remasted.
Whenever it snows i always try to play this. Makes me feel like i am in the game itself. Especially with the Winter Storm in the east coast right now ;)
Ah, the good old days when Nintendo didn't go casual-as-fuck and still had their touch.
+Covert Commando Dats wat dey sed abut de Wii U
Incredible themes. Halo 1, 2 & 3 had very good ambience and theme songs as well. I don't think there are any games today outside of a few upcoming next gen titles that had this level of production mastery. Graphics and effects aren't everything. I can't remember the last time I was emersed in a game like I was with Prime and Echoes.
Metroid Prime's sound design is so amazing.
One of the best!
To this day, when it's snowing outside, I hear this piano in my head. This song is pretty much part of me now.
The Metroid Prime games have some of the most amazing mood-setting, location-appropriate music like this and the Torvus Bog from MP2. Freaking love this trilogy.
Playing the remake, the second I got to Phendrana i was home.
This Ost is fucking perfect for this world/winter mood. I love it
For sure!
2020 and i still want to hear it😍😭
this is literally the most peaceful music I have ever heard
This just brings pure memories back to the hype when playing when they was released, Man play this theme song at my funeral man! Pure nostalgia 😍
This game had the best OST ever. Retro did Samus right. It was incredible in every way.
We need 4. Man do we need Metroid Prime 4. IMO it's the only thing that could stand to the likes of the Halo's of the world. I heard some the crew over at 343 took heavy influence from Metroid prime when it came to coming up with the Prometheans.
Man this music, and the first time you enter Phendrana Drifts, that cutescene.....that's when I knew. One of the best games I've ever played. Top ten. Top ten.
I highly doubt that there will ever be a MP4. Main reason is that the vast majority of the team that worked on it left retro studios years ago, the important people went on to create armature studio.
Earthium We can only hope, man. Yeah, retro's team is disbanded but that doesn't limit other companies to make it a project. It would make money, and they know it. So why not just make it already? lol logic.
Koba Same reason valve doesn't make HL3, great videogames come from people who make money to make games, not make games to make money.
Deep. Truer words have never been spoken. We can all still hope for the best, at least hope to never have an other m repeat haha
Some of the crew from 343 were former Retro Studios devs.
Ah man... When i was playing this masterpiece, i spended hours just walking in this beautiful area. Metroid prime is my favorite game ever made
Lucky J. Ready to play it again ?
This is my favorite Metroid song ever, and I can't believe I keep forgetting it's name... but whenever I hear it on TH-cam I get obsessed all over again.
why can't Dread's soundtrack be this good?
Because you touch yourself at night
Nothing has compared to this since