Metroid Prime 2: The Ideal Sequel 

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Let me get this straight: Metroid Prime 2 was made with a strict deadline in mind, was a direct sequel to a highly-acclaimed series intro to 3D, was substantially more difficult than its predecessor, was darker than its predecessor, ditched a more organic & irregular interconnected layout for a few outer areas in a ring around a central hub area, and utilized brand new villains that have the goal of omnicide while the predecessor used established villains that had the goal of conquest? Metroid Prime 2 was _Metroid Prime: Majora's Mask._

Always excited for a new video from this channel. Love your analysis.

That intro gave me chills ngl

hearing that intro sound instantly gave me chills.. feels good to be back.

lol i watched his metroid prime review a few hours ago now he makes this

*the only thing that has ever scared me in a metroid game is the model for zero suit samus in prime 2*

Just throwing this out to get called a scrub..... fuck bomb jumping, long live the spring ball!

i played prime 2s begining when i was 7 and i cried when the soldiers came back to life

Awesome review for a game that a lot of people don't talk about that much.

6:28 - "Not every game must be vibrant or exotic..." Case in point, Shadow of the Colossus. People make light of the color palette in franchises like CoD and GoW, but even they pale (ironically) in comparison to Shadow of the Colossus. It has the color variety of a mudpuddle.

Metroid Prime 2 is the ideal sequel? I think you meant to say Metroid Prime pinball.

I read an interview recently with Android Jones, the lead concept artist for the Metroid Prime series. Apparently, Retro Studios got a huge bonus from Nintendo for the commercial succes of MP 1, but then somebody leaked the fact that the studio's producers gave themselves a much bigger cut than people like the artists, which soured the culture at the studio. In the interview, Android Jones suggests that the darker colors of MP 2 might have been a reflection of Retro's culture and Jones' mental state about things at the time. Which is fascinating.

I actually went into prime 2 knowing people's opinion on it. It turned out to be my favorite of the trilogy. The Sanctuary Fortress is my favorite Metroid location, and the bosses are so unique and fun. I did like the harsher gameplay because it made Samus feel cooler for beating it.

Echoes is like the "Majora's Mask" of this series in so many ways. While Prime basically gave us "3D Super Metroid" the way Ocarina gave us "3D A Link to the Past", Echoes and Majora's Mask gave us this darker aesthetic with new mechanics and felt familiar, yet unfamiliar. They are both games that many of us initially thought we didn't like as much, but over time have grown to be many fans favorites in their respective series.

Metroid prime 2 echos is one of my favorite games ever. On key thing I noticed as a kid that I feel like this video missed is just the simple animations with samus. In Metroid prime, when she saves it’s always this heroic stance she takes after that makes you feel like a young adventurer that’s enjoying her time on a new planet. In prime 2 echos, she always looks stressed out out of save and “gathers herself”. It really adds to the immersion to the atmosphere of echos that makes it all fee scary and stressful. My one complaint is that I feel like they should have switched the animation to make her feel more confident after the light suit or so.

Thank you so much for using torvus bog music for so long. My favorite song from the game by far

Awesome video. MP2 is my favorite metroid game and it's great to hear someone articulate why it's great so well.

Metroid Prime 2 was definitely underrated.

My favorite game in the trilogy. It wasn't always. There was a period of time where Prime was my favorite, then Corruption, but I eventually recognized the nuances of Echoes with repeat playthroughs. Really, to me, it boils down to the modular level design. People tend to treat Super Metroid like a be all end all in terms of how these games should be designed, without regard to how well that translates to 3D. The backtracking in Prime 1 just gets worse and worse with every playthrough for me, and I came to appreciate how straightforward Echoes was by comparison without sacrificing a sense of exploration. I've got to wholeheartedly recommend the Wii version, though. The final bosses really benefit from lock-on, free aim, especially Dark Samus 3's Phazon pellets. That, and widescreen is a definite plus. The sequence breaks are fun to pull off once, but in the time it takes to actually make them work, it's just faster to play the game the normal way (unless you're a crafty speedrunner who can pull off these glitches effortlessly). Compare that to wall jumping up for an early wave beam in Super and even shinesparking your way to an early Super Missile and Screw Attack in Zero Mission (which are challenging but far more doable tricks that do notably decrease clear time), and to me the "glitch" sequence breaking in Prime and Echoes is just far too cumbersome to be worth it. Can you tell me that trying to bomb jump glitch over the gate in Tallon Overworld is faster than taking the long way around through the Sunken Frigate (which by the way, has power ups and scans that are required for 100%)? If there's no advantage to doing the sequence break, then it just becomes a cool thing you do once so you can say you've done it, not a valuable speedrunning trick. I can't see that as outweighing the numerous benefits of the Wii version. But I suppose, like you said, we may have to agree to disagree.

It's a shame the ammo system is so misunderstood just because it's different than the other games, I think it's brilliant because it was made with Echoes' Light and Dark world mechanics in mind, changing your weapons to find your enemies' weaknesses makes combat more engaging while avoiding to make Samus OP, and the game is actually very generous with ammo as almost every room is filled with containers, combat in Echoes is one of the reasons it's my favorite Metroid game.

Torvus Bog and Sanctuary Fortress are some of the most enjoyable levels I've played on games.

Zelda and Metroid started out as basically the same thing, but evolved in different directions as the franchises progressed. Zelda became more linear via story, while Metroid became more linear via item progression. In a way Metroid games are like a bunch of really big dungeons fused together with a bigger emphasis on exploration instead of puzzle solving.

I always liked Echoes over the other prime games but rarely find a person who agrees with me. The boss fights have always been my personal highlight of the game, not only because they are better than in Prime 1, but also because there are so much more of them. About half your power-ups are granted by unique Guardian Ing and you also have the Dark Samus Fights to boot. I remember playing the game on Hard Mode as a kid and there were several bosses that blocked my progress for a while and took multiple tries to defeat. I loved the challenge, especially because every boss felt distinct. Meanwhile, Prime 1 used Arenas with a regular enemy as a mini-boss which is only challenging because you do not have that one specific powerup that sits behind it. And once you get that power-up, this previously dangerous enemy suddenly shows up everywhere.

Videos from both Mark Brown AND King K in the same day? Sweet! Love me some good old fashioned game analysis.

3:25 "If Retro want you excited, you'll be excited" **shows Samus saving her game at a save station** 3:52 "If Retro want you cautious, you'll be cautious" **shows Samus blazing through an area ignoring all enemies as she takes damage** 4:21 "And if Retro want you unsettled, that's what you'll be" **shows Samus solving a Morph Ball puzzle with no enemies** Seriously, who edited this video?

"It takes the scale of the backtracking in prime and condenses it into each of the areas." Brilliantly phrased (while I still actually enjoyed prime's backtracking, opening the entire map over time, rather than opening up individual areas all at once) this is what makes prime 2 so good as a sequel, improving, what many others consider to be, the flawed structure and pacing of prime 1. Great video, also love how you touched on the far better boss design in 2.

Really glad to see you enjoy the game a lot, especially since Prime 2 kinda feels like the least popular game out of the trilogy even though it does so many things right.

People hate on MP2 and I don't get it. Is goooood.

Currently giving this one a try AGAIN. I've tried to finish this about 3 times and it hasn't worked out, but this time... Damnit I'll get it this time. Personally I don't mind backtracking myself because the "a hah!" Moment of remembering an area I went past where I can use a thing is like, really neat

A few instances I like the most about Prime 2. Sitting in Chykka's room with the Echo Visor pulsing across the walls while the dreary Dark Aether themes play. It's relaxing, in a morbid way. Especially with the Light Suit equipped, you just roam around feeling invulnerable. Like sitting in a car during a storm.

Samus closing the eye of the dead GFed Trooper at the beginning of Prime 2 without saying a single word... was 100x a better character moment than ANY cut-scene from Other M's melodramatic story...

My favorite game out of the trilogy. I actually liked the ammo system, 🅱ecause it keeps you from 🅱eing too overpowerd right from the 🅱eginning.

Best 3D game I've ever played. When you're in the depths of Torvus Bog you feel like your ship is almost too far away to be comfortable.

Why do people call exploring in one area and going through Dark and Light Aether 'backtracking'? It's just like exploring around in Norfair or Maridia in Super Metroid but that isn't called backtracking. The only backtracking in Prime 2 is for Seeker Launcher and Power Bomb which makes you actually leave the area you're currently in. That is called backtracking.

Prime 2 imo is a logical and confident sequel. I too think that the rehashes of Super are Prime 1s weakest aspect though it kinda makes sense when you realize at the time it's been 7 years since the last game and Fusion was already a risk by just changing Samus' iconic suit design. I seriously believe that Prime1 in its earliest concept was supposed to be a 3D remake of Super. Too many parallels even at the final boss (Hyper Beam/Phazon Beam fucks up a giant brain monster). Or they just wanted to play it safe. Prime2 though totally stands on its own just by finally introducing us to a new advanced alien species, new enemies, new beam types and new suits. They may be not the most original ideas but it's just so nice to see something fresh after 4 games of "Chozo lore" and i love that Prime3 expands on that universe even further. The only real "retreat" here is Dark Samus because of the SA-X in Fusion but DS to me is more like a "rival character" compared to "Resident Evil Nemesis-Samus" so that's alright as well. MP2 is my favourite one from the supersolid Trilogy.

123 views............reviewing Metroid Prime 2..... Is this a sign?

I really enjoy your videos. They're very insightful. You look at them logically, and give constructive criticism without hating on the game. This really interested me, because I too also liked Echoes more than the original Prime, it's my favorite in the trilogy I would say. (The following is my opinion of course) It improved on many things of the original game, but that wasn't all. They made it completely fresh - it had many similar mechanics, but the gameplay was still different. The environments and creatures were distinct from the original. Overall it was just a great new experience. But anyways, it improved many things. I agree that the backtracking was less egregious because of the map design and also by making some of the variety of areas be a matter of travelling to a parallel world. The boss fights were VASTLY improved - more creative, harder, less repetitive, more variety (e.g. the Spider-Ball Guardian being fought by puzzles). There were still some, like the Alpha Blogg though that I didn't care for. I thought it had a huge health bar for being so uninspired, basically a bigger version of normal bloggs. I only remember perhaps one memorable fight in the first game, and several in Prime 2. The music was perhaps even better for my personal taste, but they both were phenomenal in that regard. I actually really enjoyed the Lore in this game. I think I enjoyed Prime 3's most, and I enjoyed that of Prime 1, but I found reading about the Luminoth struggle very interesting. They were a very compelling race, as were the Ing, and I don't know why exactly. Dark Samus was also a strange thing that made the story interesting without shoving dialogue or too too many cutscenes at you. It left a sense of mystery and was an interesting aspect to the other conflict with Dark Aether. Echoes is wonderfully atmospheric, especially with the Dark World dynamic. I thought the first game was atmospheric, but this went to another level. The Sanctuary Fortress was just incredibly stunning to me for some reason, especially with my expectations after the comparatively un-technological areas. I actually found the Sky Temple Keys no worse than the Artifacts because of the more easily traversable world and that there are less to find. It took much less time than the Artifact part for me, but yeah, it was rather bothersome.

I honestly didn't care much for Echoes, but this video did make me appreciate the game more. While I might not necessarily find it as fun Prime 1 or Corruption, I'm glad that I can now see and understand the improvements that were made from the first game and even how it stands as a game on its own. Thanks for the great video and I certainly look forward to the next one. Keep it up (:

I only recently finally finished Metroid Prime 1 and 2, and am currently playing 3. And I will say this: I had my *_problems_* with Metroid Prime 1... but 2? This is what a 9+/10 3D Metroid game looks like. End of story - *_this..._* is what a masterful 3D Metroid game... *_looks like._* God, I love this game.

Echoes is one of my favourites, really enjoyed the game and the puzzles. Also the story telling is very good.

Love your vids and love MP2. Echoes is often considered the black sheep of the series, it's darker and takes more risks than the original and is less polished than the third but imho has always been the best in the series inspite of its flaws.

I need to play the Prime series. I have owned Prime 1 since 2003 or 04 but never put much time into because I was a kid. After watching this video it makes me want to try the Prime series.

So when you're about to go to bed with your partner, do you go "KingK is feeling kinkay" I'm sorry, that's all I can think of when you say your name.

Oh yeah. This game that just happens to be one of my favorites, but also one that everyone disregarded because it didn't have 2 thousand colors in every tile of each area and had a darker tone to it. What, me? Salty? Pffff, nah.

“Prime 2 is the darkest Metroid game I’ve played.” Literally and figuratively...

Prime 2 was the first Metroid game I ever played, and it's my favorite.

I’d beaten Prime 1 and 3 over ten years ago as a kid, but I just finished this game a couple days ago on Trilogy WiiU, and it is now one of my favorite games of all time. Everything about it, the puzzles, the world design, the exploration, the progression, the pacing, the bosses, the difficulty curve, the music, it’s all so much better than Prime 1, and I already loved that game. I’m still riding the high from the experience, it’s just so good. If the Sky Temple Key hunt was for a useful *optional* upgrade and the Logbook hints were better, I think this would be a near-perfect game, if it isn’t already. I will absolutely replay this game in the future, maybe on the GameCube.

I think I have the opposite problem with Dark Aether than most people do - For me, the Dark Suit was a bit too effective at damage reduction, killing a lot of the oppressive, claustrophobic, atmosphere of hopping from light portal to light portal.

just a note on the sky temple keys. for me personally, they were a great way to actually see the light suit in action. it gave me a reason to explore all areas again with my newly gained suit and it was fun to feel completely overpowered, compared to the last time i visited those areas. so at least the first time i played through the game they were actually a welcome addition. i see however, that replaying the game, and not being able to get those keys even though you know they are right in front of you, can be frustrating. that being said, awesome video for one of my most beloved games! keep em coming!

I absolutely loved the duality aspect and dark edge of Echos. The scale and creativity in the bosses were astounding.

Another thing to note is if Samus failed not only would an entire race go extinct but the Ing would spread. I believe the moth dude(I can't remember his name) outright says that if the Ing were to take Aether then they would soon spread and become a threat to the rest of the galaxy including the Federation.

This review is gold, dude. Big ups. I was nearly 12 years old when this game was released. I was 1000% soaked up by this game. The soundtrack, level design, enemies, boss battles are so good, that I still consider this game as one of the best games i ever played and probably will ever have played. That feeling of isolation, desperation and all the exploring made this game so special. I do get some of the critique points (like backtracking), but tbh i didn't mind that too much back in the day. I loved this game so much 15 years ago that, because of your video, i bought the metroid prime trilogy and put my old Wii out of my cupboard again. Thx for making me relive these good memories again ✌️

One of the rare games that the difficulty is based on trail and error. Some parts were very unforgiving, but once you figured out how to beat certain bosses. They went down with ease. Loved this sequel so much.

I am glad to finally see a RU-vid video who reviews Metroid Prime 2 in a fair way. You look at every single detail that the game offers but also mention the TRUE defaults that it possess. :)

Echoes is an incredible game. The first two Prime games are god-tier in my mind.

Metroid Prime 2 is my favourite Prime game, and my favourite Metroid game period. Thank you for covering this!

BRB gonna buy a VR headset to play this on Dolphin

Metroid Prime 2 is a fantastic game, though funnily enough I found it _more_ tedious than Prime 1, and not less. In regards to the bosses, I never found Prime 1's to have terribly egregious health bars whereas I found almost every boss in Prime 2 had way too much health (looking at you, Grapple Guardian). I also found backtracking in Prime 1 a lot more fun because, at least to me, it didn't feel like backtracking. I think that's probably because the world felt more interconnected in Prime 1 while Prime 2's felt very sectioned off and isolated until you needed to backtrack somewhere and the game says "Alright I won't make you walk all the way back." Because the game is so clearly divided into different areas, going from one to another actually _feels_ like backtracking instead of just looking around. Also (and you addressed this) the end-game item collection here is so much worse than Prime 1's. I loved how straight-forward Prime's was and it was a great reason to go back to all the areas I'd been and pick up any collectables I couldn't get earlier. In Prime 2, though, they added a few steps to the process that just made it feel like busy-work. Still better than Prime 3's though. It also kinda bothers me that Samus has no qualms about destroying an entire dimension and sides with the Luminoth so quickly. As a side note, how the hell did I not know that the spring ball was in any Prime game?

Prime 1 and Prime 2 holds so much significance in my childhood. Prime 3 didn’t really hit well. But the first 2 games in the sub series of games were the best.

Echoes is the best of the trilogy

Very refreshing to see a retrospective review of my favourite GameCube and (dare I say) Metroid game. I love the light and dark world mechanics and how that ties to the varied enemies of each alignment aswell as mixing it up with the ammo system to balance your firepower. Soundtrack is even more hardcore ambience and the dark suit is one of my favourite suit designs. Loved fighting to save the Luminoth too :)

Prime will always be my favorite because it was my first Metroid game and it left a big impression on me. But Prime 2 is better in a lot of ways and it deserves so much more credit than it gets.

I think I'm the only one who thinks Prime 2 is easier than Prime, and Prime 3. Still my favorite though. And I have to say, I was nodding my head in agreement pretty much the entire video. It's nice to see someone who shares my opinion nearly one hundred percent from time to time.

Good video, if I didn't already like prime 2 this might have made me reconsider. When the gamecube was a current system I always considered the original prime to be near perfect; not needing a sequel and the light and dark stuff sounding more gimmicky than anything. I grabbed it only a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised. I'm not sure that I would put it above the first prime, but it definitely deserves praise

I found Samus to be far better looking in Prime 1 (without helmet). Not a fan of this anime style bitch they made of her from the second part on. Can't wait on your commentary for Prime 3, since this is again so much different in tone from the previous ones.

Quadraxis is my favorite boss fight in video games. Period. I love how you have to use just about everything you have to fight it. You really feel like you are giving it your all by throwing everything you have in your arsenal. It almost feels desperate. I mean you're fighting a robot and you're about the size of it's foot. That can't be easy and this game made it feel just as hard for you as it is for Samus. I also like how the fight is foreshadowed by having you see bits and pieces of another unfinished Quadraxis in Sanctuary Fortress. You get to see left overs of what seems to be the Luminoth constructing one. You even get use to use parts of it to platform. Just an all round amazing boss.

I remember back in the original GameCube release, there was a bug where you could get the missile launcher before triggering a cutscene, and then get a second one in the same crate after that cutscene, giving you an extra 5 missiles and allowing you to get 101% item completion.

I'm honestly hoping this game gets the same remastered treatment that Prime 1 did

Man I love the start of this game. It’s so creepy in the best way. Reading how the soldiers died in the calculated medical language was so great for mood setting.

I really disagree that the spider guardian was a good boss.. It was a boss that relied on you being good at two things you honestly don't do very often. Boosting up half pipes, and bomb jumping. It's a decent boss now, but as a kid it really just made me angry. It was the worst boss in the entire game and I'd spend actual days stuck on it... I agree with the rest though, Metroid Prime 2 is probably my favorite game of all time and it's yet to be replaced after all these years.

Thank you for this video! I watched my brother play prime 2 as a little kid (he used to kick me out and say i wasnt old enough to watch lol) but when i was 10 I bought a gamecube and got prime 1, and then finally my brother gave me his copy of 2 to play and I got to experience for myself and was blown away! i love you attention to the soundtrack, I think its the best of the metriod series and one of my favorites of all time, fusion was my first metriod game on the gameboy advance and I love the darker tone they both share, both are ones i would consider more horror ascetic, which I feel compliments metriod very well. This one is by far my favorite metriod game and I feel is the most underrated of the whole franchise

I really loved this game and find it to be the best in the franchise, yes even better than Super Metroid. Really a shame that we never got anything similar ever since and even the new Prime will be something else entirely. You cannot reproduce the atmosphere Prime 2 had with a handheld game.

I recently beat This game, what a nice coincidence, good review, kinda felt like a game maker's toolkit video.

15 years later and the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes intro is still my favorite in all video games.

I haven't played Prime 1, but I picked up Prime 2 the first chance I got. Definitely my favorite Metroid Game.

Prime 2 is such a weird game and sticks out against all other Metroids. First time I played on GameCube I got stuck on torvus bog then came back and started fresh several years later. Game was insanely hard but it wasn’t until I beat the game and it said “hard mode” that I realized I had accidentally chosen hard mode from the start lol. But yeah if prime 1 is the star that everyone loves then prime 2 is the quiet edgy brother that is hard to get along with but is ultimately much cooler and deeper to those who understand and respect it.

There's one key difference you didn't mention between Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes! In Metroid Prime, the health, Missile and Power Bomb drops you get by defeating an enemy is always at some fixed random percent. But in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, the drop rates _actually change depending on what you need the most at that time_! So if you're low on health, the game will give you more health pick ups, and a larger portion of these health pick ups will be of the 50 or 100 variety; if you're low on Missiles, the game will hand you them in spades; if you're low on Power Bombs, the game will hand you those like there's no tomorrow; and, finally, if you're low on a certain type of Ammo, you'll literally drown in that type of Ammo. If the game used the same drop tables as Metroid Prime, grinding for pick ups would be super tedious, but it isn't because Metroid Prime 2: Echoes just _knows what you want_. It's glorious.

Enjoyable analysis. This is my #1 Metroid, and possibly my #1 3D game

Prime 2 has possibly my favorite opening screen to a video game ever. It's just the perfect way the title comes up with the music. I mean, I love the rest of the game too but it's probably the only game that I let the full intro play out on when I replay it instead of just mashing through it.

Lowkey, if we don't get a remaster, like an actual remaster like prime 1, then this whole endeavor is a waste of time

Great Video, Prime 2 is probably my favorite or second favorite Metroid game the other contender being zero mission. I agree with most of the things that you say in your video. The one thing I find weird is that I don't mind the sky temple keys as much as the artifacts, maybe it's because of the fast travel or collecting missile expansions and e-tanks I missed, but I get why they can be annoying.

You used morph ball bombs against quadraxis' feet? I used bootsy ball and it did wonders!

I was about 10-11 when I first played Echoes and something I'll always remember are the nightmares I had after trying to play it. Ings crawling up the side of my dads house, stabbing me while sleeping through the window - dragging me out and throwing me across the street. Purple and black skies. It was terrifying, but I loved every second of it

my man best metroid in the series imo

Bro why do you sound like you're trying to seduce me in the first 20 seconds? There's no way you actually talk that slow. I mean it is kinda working tho...

Morning coffee, nicotine, and a new KingK vid. Today is gonna be a good one

With Prime, I think the areas you explore might be more distant from each other than they appear. You often have to take these weird elevator things to get from one place to another, and I suspect that's because you're actually travelling pretty far.

While you alluded to it, something I vastly prefer about Prime 2 in comparison to Prime 1 is that the world itself as much more interesting, both in terms of the logs and the visuals. I honestly never got why everyone said Prime 1 had great atmosphere. A lot of the locations felt rather stock, especially Magmoor Cavers which felt more like generic fire world #154 than anything else. The other environments were better, but they didn't quite do enough to shake off the whole plant world/ruins world/ice world/industrial world feel to it. The worlds in Prime 2 felt much more 'lived in' by comparison, and while you could also say the places there are desert world/swamp world/cyberpunk world, they went further to differentiate themselves from the stock location bases than Prime 1 did. The logs (and dialogue cut scenes for that matter) also helped establish the world much better in Prime 2. In Prime 1, by the time I reached Phenderas Drifts, I suddenly asked myself 'Wait, why am I even here again? What's Samus even trying to accomplish?' The log entries are also less interesting. The space pirates weren't interesting as antagonists with no substantial end goal that I felt compelled to stop (We're making super soldiers because...well, reasons), and the chozo ones fall into the 2mysterious4you trap. The luminoth logs however gave insight into their lives and their struggle, and since we can see the bodies and the survivors, it really adds weight to them. TLDR: Prime 2's more interesting world made me really want to explore the world, as opposed to 'well, might as well see what's over here' in Prime 1.

Reading the comments, people seem pretty divided on this one. It's either their favorite game in the trilogy (me) or the only one they didn't want to finish.

"if retro want you cautious, you'll be cautious" *falls in dark water for ow my health damage*

This really is an ideal sequel(for the most part) with a lot of Prime 1’s problems fixed (or debugged I should say which hurt the sequence breaking). I really like Quadraxis as well because it fixed the big health like with Thardus from Prime 1. I have to say my fav boss was Chykka as it really felt like a Metroid game(outside of prime) with the Ing horror vibez. The dark world for exploring, fighting stronger enemy variants and the key collecting at the end(even) was something quite delicious. The much more origins soundtrack (compared to the majority of SM remixes in MP1) was just phenomenal. The design of Torvus Bogg having the underground with the big boss(which I need to see remade the most in HD graphics) was structured so ingenious like the Water Temple from OOT. The Aether r kinda cute & remind me of my brown cat making faces when they look up at the sky😂. Excellent Sexy, rich narrative review as usual 👑 K. I like watching ur retrospects like a podcast 🎧😄

Prime 2 is The empire strikes back to Star Wars.

Hot take alert: The times it makes you backtrack to a previous region... *_didn't_* bother me. It did in Prime 1 - but not here. Allow me to explain why. It only happens two or three times in the entire game. Each time it's after getting an upgrade explicitly associated with very visual set pieces that stick in the mind. Each time it's after having obtained numerous other upgrades (allowing you to make the revisit very worthwhile if you _want_ to). And each time the spot where you need to go to is very near the elevator you arrived in - and leads into new, fresh content you haven't seen yet, before giving you a new elevator right back to where you were. So yeah - you say it's a "blemish"... I say, no. I argue this is how you do cross-region backtracking *_right_* - only rarely, associated with visually distinct set pieces, timed to allow you to make the revisit worthwhile, leading into an unexplored area, and connecting smoothly back to the current progression region. Similar opinion on the key hunt: I... _didn't_ mind it at all. And I _hated_ Prime 1's, mind you! Prime 2's world is _so much_ faster to traverse, _so much_ easier to mentally keep track of due to its great structure, the hints given are _good and sufficient,_ and there's just _fewer keys_ to get. All of that compounded with how some of these were behind enjoyable puzzles and had me find a few more goodies on the way - yeah, didn't take long, didn't bother me. Prime 2 just... _fixes_ Prime 1 in all the right ways for me. God, I adore this game.

im trying to FINALLY to finish MP2 but its so monotonous with the dark worlds poisonous air and having to stand in light bubbles for 35 seconds every 10 feet just to stay alive

I've been a fan of the Metroid series for most of my life, and Prime 2 is by far my favorite. I still haven't played Dread (mostly financial reasons but also because I've got a ton of other games I'm playing.) The recent Prime remaster was incredible imo and I can't wait to see if they give Prime 2 the same treatment. The fact that it mostly seems to work off of the Trilogy version of the game is kinda sad since it cuts out a ton of cool sequence breaks.

Awwwe baby you have to go back to get power ups...Metroid Staple. Don't play metroid if you don't want to back track......Awwwe you had to solve a puzzle....you have no idea what a good game brings is about. It doesn't give you all the answers figure it out for yourself and get better.....jeeese you kids haves no idea what a real game is about.

very refreshing to see someone actually like this game, most people usually think prime 2 is the worst of the trilogy...I admittedly still think it is the worst of the three games, but I like your arguments, great job as always.

i have loved the metroid series for a long time now. and i still remember playing zero mission and fusion at night on the advanced sp. or metroid prime on the wii cuz the wii is sick. but i never knew there was a second part of metroid prime on thr GAMECUBE?!. i thought the next part was on the wii and i never thought that that could go well. prolly gonna play metroid prime tonight and then play 2

My fav of the prime trilogy and my second favorite Metroid, just behind Metroid Zero Mission.