For those confused by why Samus looks like this in the remaster, it's because Metroid Prime originally came out before Zero Mission and Zero Suit Samus was a thing, so the devs of Prime at the time had to come up with their own interpretation of what Samus' face looked like behind the helmet, before Nintendo updated Samus to her current and most well-known design from Zero Mission and Smash Bros. Brawl and onward. So instead of changing Samus' appearance to fit her modern look, Retro decided to stay faithful to their original interpretation of Samus' look from OG Prime and glowed-up her original Prime 1 design for the remaster.
It’s a smart change too! I’m still pretty early in the remaster (been playing this game religiously since release though) but I’ve noticed a few new animations with the armor that suits it’s hyper advanced nature. This really was the perfect time for a remaster, the technology has finally caught up to show what Samus is truly capable of.
It's too bad, IMO. I always really liked the tangibility of her helmet being physically pulled off. When it's magic'd away, it doesn't feel as real. It even takes away some of the soul of the scene.
Much respect to how they kept her face similar to how she looked in the original Prime rather than try to make her look like she did in 2 or 3. That’s true respect to the source material.
...kinda torn now which samus i like better. my brain likes this one. she seems humble and like real. like someone you would see in real life... lower body regions prefer the zero suite tho. 😆😁
@@whaleping Umm, do you know that this game takes place after the original Metroid (and by extension it's remake, Metroid: Zero Mission), and way before Metroid II: Return of Samus (and by extensión its remake, Metroid: Samus Return), right? in fact the entire Prime "sub-series" takes place before Metroid II, so Samus is, at best, in her mid 20s or early 30s supposedly.
It's absolutely incredible that they kept with the original Metroid Prime 1 design. Fucking loved that design anyway, it suits Samus so much better than the pornstar barbie doll look they gave her later.
Fr, really wish they would've built upon that Nightmare from Soul Caliber look, still love Dark Samus's Echoes and Corruption designs but they could've gone even harder!!
I miss her holding the helmet, it was very somber and ominous, but that face is scarily realistic; can't believe this game is running flawless on OG Switch hardware.
For real. Its like black magic how its running at a smooth frame rate with all these HD textures and effects. There's gotta be a corner cut somewhere. But I haven't seen a single one
@@studhouser6969 I think the point was that it was originally made on the GameCube, so of course the same game running on the more powerful Switch hardware is going to be fine
I've just checked it out and I think I prefer old Samus' face idk 😅 Overall I'm more of the Smash style which I think that comes from Prime 2 and 3, but for the prime series I think this style fits better.
Which is interesting because this supposedly happens shortly after Zero Mission, the first game in the timeline. The more cartoon-ish style of other games makes her look younger i guess
That's because this model is accurately based off the OG Prime one which was the first detailed rendering of her in a game (there was a prequel comic for the Super Nintendo one, which she sorta resembles) and I'm pretty sure Retro wanted this game to be the sequel to Super Metroid before Nintendo decided it'd be best as a prequel. So, I'm sure it was meant for her to look older for that reason, as she was actually older. But now they keep her younger looking in general in all games (including the Prime sequels), perhaps the Chozo DNA keeps her youthful.
@TheDerpyDolphin Metroid prime takes place immediately after zero mission. I scan everything and I just played the original. In the frigate orphan there is a pirate data where they say that the zebes colony just fell and they just escaped her.
@@loritaylor1602 real fact: I've never played Metroid Prime before and I've played 2D games and I'm really interested in curious to try out this version
This is what I always thought she should look like, just a normal lady. Still very pretty, but still looks like someone you could easily just bump into at the grocery store.
A ponytail really does make more sense for Samus than the other m hair. She's a combat veteran, always in the thick of the action in some of the most dangerous places in the galaxy. I don't think she'd look like she just came out of a Salon
Umm, she does wear it in a ponytail in Other M. I know it's the cool thing to do to bash Other M, but we don't need to make things up that aren't true to do it. 😂
She had a ponytail in Other M as well though? She has a ponytail in every game now, in fact. If you mean how its pulled back super tightly, well I'm sure the helmet keeps the hair from getting in the way anyways.
yeah, its nice to see what it originally looked like again. Even though she looks older here when she should be younger, it fits very well with a post-Fusion era design. I wouldn't mind if this is more like what she looks like in Dread for example.
I admit, the lack of hair bangs is throwing me off when it comes to Samus’s face. XD But then again, this is just because it’s remastering the look of the original game. Should they do remaster 2 and 3, I’m guessing that they’ll update her look to be more like her appearance in them (I hope).
Honestly as long as they underp her face in MP2 I'm happy- and since she looks non derped in MP3 they can just use that as a basis. They're both based on her Zero Mission look so I imagine most of us won't mind if MP2 Samus's face doesn't look like she has a peanut allergy and just ate a reeses cup.
This was a definite shock to the system. I got 100% of the items and went to the ending. I was really curious how she'd look and I'd been conditioned to expect the style that started in Zero Mission. When the helmet came off this time, she looked... older than I remember. It left me very quiet... introspective... I remembered playing the game originally when it came out twenty years ago. I expected a face that, honestly, is closer to a model. This revealed an older warrior with a grim gaze... and it just made me quietly reflect on my own life's journey. I played the og release when I was in grade school... now i have a home of my own, a life of my own... and it was all hard won through many trials and tribulations. As someone who's seen many takes on Samus; this one hits different.
@@josh6453 His comment disappeared, but it looked like he was saying the Mole was the Other M design's doing? But technically that isn't true, as an old interview for Super Metroid had Samus' character designer mention she had a mole, its likely that Zero Mission didn't have one because of the pixelated nature of the GBA (and all the previous games as well) would have made it look bad or something.
Well, Other M just has the Zero suit and the blonde hair in common. In Zero Mission, Fusion, Prime 2/3, Samus Returns and Dread she's a lot better - especially her face. The difference is that Other M has the worst inacurate proportions. It took Samus Returns before they finally nailed down her athletic curves. Still, Prime 1's face will always have a special place in everyone's heart.
Good. I always thought her face was the ugliest part of the original (sounds like a bash against her character design but no her head render looked rushed in the OG game.) Glad it's fixed.
I wish there was a way to combine her Pre-Zero Mission and Post-Zero Mission looks together so that we don't get that jarring shift when Prime 2 inevitably comes out. Her look in the Prime Hunters ending would be a good compromise. She looks more stylized but while still keeping a lot of the western features in her face that the original Prime had.
Game's short and there are people who have been getting all these collectables over maybe hundreds of playthroughs for 20 years; they can probably beat the game 100% with their eyes closed, lol
Glad they kept the more “realistic” style and didn’t change to the more cartoonish one other Metroid games have. Not saying the main art style is bad, far from it. It just makes Prime 1 look more badass 😎
While I like her design in the other games, that style doesn't fit the Prime art style well, so it looked real bad in Prime 2 and 3. So I wouldn't mind if the remasters of those fix it and made it more like this one.
That's who she looks like! I couldn't put my finger on it. I remember the original prime ending kind of looked like Kim Basinger. I really hope they keep this style in mind.
The original 2 and 3 use models closer to Zero Mission and later Other M and Dread, where Prime 1 was always more realistic. They will probably update the Prime 2/3 one and use it for those remasters
They’ll probably go back to the models used for those two games, just remastered. Especially since this look would stand out like a sore them considering the art style used for 3 in particular.
This is being accurate to the original Prime look, which was likely intended to be her when she is older as Prime was meant to be a sequel to Super originally iirc. Plus, she never had a detailed face in any other game at the time, though there was a Super Nintendo comic that she sort of looks like an older version of. That's why after this, and the release of Fusion and Zero Mission, Prime 2 uses a younger model to fit more to how she should look at this point in her life. Its actually kind of strange that they refused to change it to update it to a more canon look, and instead kept it accurate to the original design. I wouldn't mind if they changed it, but I admire the level of accuracy to the original game.
@@CDRW24 From what I remember, they didn't know a whole lot about Fusion at the time, at least not till later in development. Plus the game started development on the N64 I believe (though probably not for long, I just remember seeing some really old pics of an early version, but there weren't a lot of pics of it). But it makes sense that the game was designed as a sequel to Super, that's the basis for Meta-Ridley (as it'd make more sense that he was nearly dead after that game, rather than nearly dead then robotized right before being in perfect health again in time for Super), plus I remember some other details in scans and developer interviews that made it seem like it, though I can't remember exactly what they were. After hearing about Fusion they probably thought that Prime could still fit in-between Super and Fusion, so both could still be sequels. However, I remember hearing that they as well as Nintendo even considered making it a separate canon entirely, as they were worried about messing up the timeline for Fusion, but then Sakamoto and Tanabe told them it was fine to make it a single canon and not have it as a separate series, and that was when it was decided to be a prequel between Metroid 1 and 2. However I don't remember if that decision was made during development or after.
Metroid Prime Samus model is my favorite; following a Super Metroid artwork, which is a 1.90m and athletic kind of bulky woman and actually quite "realistic" proportions. From Prime 3 you got to see her model quite changed with those longer legs and slim waist, more like a anime girl and Other M is the absolute anime girl. I'm not saying I hate it, I love that fking sexy slim blondie, but my greatest Samus is this one and I love this HD model
I definitely agree with you, Samus should be built like an absolute TANK who would punch a hole through you. If she can't bench press me she isn't Samus
It does make sense as a game following Super, as she would be older. However, this game was eventually decided to take place before Metroid 2: Samus Returns, so she would actually still be young, which is why the sequels made the change to reflect the GBA designs. I'd say it's ironic though that Fusion's design looks the youngest, while Zero Mission looks like this more mature design but sexier. Like it should be swapped. Also, while Samus should be muscular, she shouldn't be too bulky, as she needs to be athletic and flexible enough to fit in the morph ball.
@@OhNoTheFace Much as I am one for not losing content, the Fusion Suit is so fucking ugly and even downright broken in the original that I can't even complain that it's gone.
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It’s a great game. I played it and never finished as a child. Now I finally finished and seeing the comparisons of the old and this new version is very cool. Did anyone else think that the GameCube/ Wii version looked way more like Kim Basinger than the remastered version?
The new face looks okay, but I wish they looked at the original concept art for Samus' face when doing the remaster, this one looks completely different.
I cosplayed as Samus' in her Metroid Fusion white-colored Chozo training outfit many years ago. It's seen in the Japanese version I believe. Folks didn't know who I was when I walked around the comic convention but at least I carried a Metroid in a capsule akin to Super Metroid, and had her sci-fi pistol. I refused to be in the Zero suit because I just didn't like the look of it, doesn't seem comfortable.
Smash Bros. look is more what Prime 2 and 3 went for. But at the time the original Metroid Prime came out, there wasn't any reference for how she should look so they made her look like this. Then by the time Prime 2 came out they had Zero Mission as a reference for how she should look.
@@GBDupree Smash is taking from her Zero Mission look than it is her Prime 2 and 3 design. In Smash, the Prime series is mostly ignored for Samus' design. There was already concept art from Samus' face in Super Metroid for Retro to use as reference.
@@joelsytairo6338 No, it isn't. The first 3 Smash games are clearly borrowing from Super and Zero in terms of how the Varia Suit looks. The Prime trilogy, particularly 2 and 3, have a different look for the Varia Suit compared to Smash. From Smash 4 onwards they used the Other M model.
@@Dzzy123 To clarify, I meant that if you were expecting a design closer to the Smash one, then the Prime 2 and 3 design would fit, even if they predate them they still resemble them regardless, since they both take inspiration from the same source: Zero Mission. Of course that's just Brawl's version, as smash 4 and ultimate take after Other M's version somewhat. (note I'm not just talking the suit design, but also the face, as that was what the OP was pointing to specifically. And Prime 2/3's face is similar enough to Brawl's face (though the anime style for Prime doesn't translate super well so it looks off)
Do you think we will get Metroid Prime 2 remastered since they did the Dark Samus cutscene at the end? It feels kind of pointless to remaster that cutscene if they're not going to remaster the sequel.
If they can make Zelda Skyward use a button layout as an option over motion controls, then Prine 3 will have no problem being remastered. Still wanting Zelda WW and TP HD on Switch as ports, but that'll never happen.
She looks a lot older than she usually does. And a lot more real life like. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad thing but it does surprise me. At what point in the timeline is this?
yeah, as the other commenter said: when the original Prime came out, the previous game was Super Metroid, and so there really wasn't a good look at her face in any prior games, so they had to make up one for this. And since Retro were originally thinking of this game as a sequel, they probably made her look older. Then it was AFTER this that they made the game a prequel, which is why Prime 2 and 3 use a younger look (and one based off of Zero Mission's Zero Suit since that came out after Prime 1 and before 2). Really, I think this look would work well for a post-Fusion era game (like Dread). And funnily enough Fusion has probably the youngest looking Samus (to the point I'm convinced its ending images are meant to be memories of her past) while Zero Mission has a slightly more mature looking Samus, kind of like this one but slightly younger looking (I like to think that is her Fusion era look, and the whole game is from the perspective of her remembering the events, which works with the way the dialogue is past tense in the beginning cutscene). Anyways, the games were kind of inconsistent until Zero Mission.
I really pictured him a lot different. Like I thought he would have a beard and maybe be bald or something like Master Chief. But he’s got a ponytail. And to be honest, he kind of looks like a girl. Maybe he looked different in the original and the remaster makes him look more feminine.🤷♂️
I don't know if I'm missing something, but to me she doesn't look as old as people say. Look at the average woman in her late 20s to early 30s. This Samus is up there.
Man am I glad they keep that super model look shes had since Zero Mission. Not that it's bad but Samus should've never looked like a super model but more like a grizzled fighter.
She looks great. I like that her expression is calm and not bossy like some people expect these days. It's just like the good old days when everything was okay with the world.
Nice to see Nintendo letting female characters exist as who they are in face as well. If they work hard then let them look stern , sturdy , and even worn out. Hopefully the feedback will be positive about how she looks , and Nintendo will accept it.
I’m all for staying true to the original with remasters but they should definitely keep this look for her in Echoes Remastered and Corruption Remastered
I honestly hope Prime 2 and 3 Samus get this Samus and not the Anime Samus we usually see. This head right here? a lot more realistic and believable. SShe really looks like a tough woman with a goal in mind.
