Metroid Prime Remastered Is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT Than You Might Think 

I feel like Nintendo has to do remasters on prime 2 and 3, they have SO MUCH riding on prime 4 at this point

Arlo has single handedly managed to convince me to purchase every Metroid game and play each one in order Edit:Yes I know I made a spelling mistake :[

I think whats also interesting to me is that maybe the Devs for Prime 4 maybe wanted to revisit the original game to get ideas for what made this game tick for people. Working on a Remastered version of the original game was probably a smart choice for them.

I haven’t had this strong of an emotional response to a video game announcement since I was a kid. Even the reveal for Tears of the Kingdom just had me smiling and thinking “Aw, nice,” but this shadow drop had me GIDDY

I think the fact that it is $40 is a really important point. They put a ton of work in, the game looks great and runs buttery smooth, and it truly was a nice surprise when I went to the shop and saw it would only cost $40. And they didn’t even advertise it, lots of folks left the direct assuming it would be full price.

Shadowdrops are by far the most exciting releases imho. Not only do they demonstrate an outstanding amount of confidence in the product to bypass the whole marketing hype and compel the company to actually get it right, but they can also save a lot of the money said hype burns. I hate marketing and all the made up crap it comes littered with with a passion, and the fact they didn't do that here makes that much sweeter.

I feel like shadowdropping also has another effect, it increases the hype for future nintendo directs since now we know that shadowdrops are a possibility, particularly since that also includes potential shadowdrops for prime 2 and 3.

I think an interesting thing to consider is the potential onboarding for people- Give a newcomer THREE whole games in a genre they may not be familiar with, first person action adventure, it might deter more people than it brings in because of being overwhelmed. Just the first game as it's own thing is a much easier pill to swallow, I think.

I started playing this today and I can't get enough of it. I have no problem at all calling this the new definitive version of _Metroid Prime._ Everything from the lighting and particle effects to the rain on Samus' visor look absolutely gorgeous, and the gameplay and controls are really good for the most part. If _Metroid Prime 4_ has this kind of effort put into it, then the wait will have been worth it.

I posed this to a friend a few hours ago, Retro likely made the remaster purely to test the waters for Prime 4 aswell as re-learning what made Metroid Prime so great, considering that is now mostly entirely new developers.

It never happened to me. The moment I saw the reveal, I went to download it and start playing. Been awake untill 4 in the morning. This is made with such dedication, I feel like I am playing a current genaration fps, and at the same time I am again a 21 years old nerd. So glad new generations get the chanche to play such a genuine GAME.

Something that hasn't been mentioned is that the physical edition is *also* $40, and wasn't hit with a $10 physical tax, which does sweeten the deal even more

One thing that I love that not many people bring up is that they have SO many control options in the game. You can have classic GameCube, Wii style, or an entirely new modernized control setup that has a gyro option

You know, after playing Metroid dread and super Metroid twice, I think I am legitimately a Metroid fan now, might pick this up. I hear good things about it and wasn't alive to experience it in its prime.

I *highly* suspect that the Prime remake started out as a tech demo for Prime 4's engine. Retro probably still had the original assets and source code for Prime, and the key developers for the remaster were people hired around the time of the announcement that Prime 4 had started over development with Retro in early 2019. It makes sense that as part of engine tests, they rebuilt Prime and were testing to get the game feel right for Prime 4. With help from Iron Galaxy, it makes sense that it got expanded into a full-on remake and got released the way it was.

The other great thing is that this remaster was done by RETRO! Meaning that we finally have a sign of life at the studio!

The only names on the Copyright page are Nintendo and Retro. Either a small internal studio handled the job, or Retro did it themselves. If so, I'd say that points to them building a Prime engine for Switch, which should really simplify work on 4. Especially since the full HD 60 FPS remaster is CLEAN.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if Nintendo was using this to test the waters, and see peoples reactions to the better graphics. Seeing as the reception has been overwhelmingly positive, they very well may be happy to remaster the other two.

This deserves to do well. I hope they do the rest of the Metroid prime series. I'd love a 2D Metroid collection as well.

I would love to see 2 & 3 get remastered like this too. But I actually think the more likely scenario is that 2&3 get released together as more of an upscaled port.

There better be a remaster for Prime 2 and 3.

My personal theory for why they shadow dropped this... Since there's a lot of different control schemes, as the trailer put it, they're using the remaster as both a release of their remaster, and as a test to see what sort of control scheme/set up will work best for when they finally give an update on metroid prime 4.

There was a lot of labor of love changes to it. There's actually a unique cinematic for getting the grapple beam. The grapple beam used the "Chozo Artifact Spin" when you picked it up in the GC and PAL versions.

I just recently got a Switch Oled for myself aftery years of wanting one. I used to watch Arlo's videos just to hear about the various Switch games, so while I was listening to this I instincually thought: "Man, I wish I could play this game right now." And then it dawned on me: "Wait! I CAN lol"

Waiting for the physical release because I’m a collector But the fact that it’s only like 2 weeks away is amazing

After looking at the trailer, I can understand why they're releasing the games separately. This looks like such an excellent remaster that it's teetering on the edge of Dead Space-style remake territory. A ton of work must have gone into it. Well worth $40 in my opinion, especially with the updated controls.

The shadow drop was surprising, it also means they’ve been working on it in secret this entire time.

I'll happily buy the next two at the same price. I'm dying to see Corruption's grand vistas with remastered graphics, and echoes is my favorite of the three.

Playing it for the first time and I’m adoring it. Getting Halo CE vibes from it and I have been wanting to feel that feeling again for a good while.

I was shocked to see it at $40 on the E-Shop. This is one of the best decisions out of Nintendo in years.

I had never played Metroid before Until they shadow dropped this. I bought it on impulse because of how much Arlo talks about the series, and now I’m about four hours in. and it is so…. so good. I’m now officially hyped for prime 4

I never played the original because I just thought I wouldn't like it, but I bought this as soon as it dropped because I've been wanting to try since dread. Wow. I have not put it down since. It's so incredible!

I saw a comparison video and it’s absolutely AMAZING how much better this looks.

When they released it on the Wii U I actually got it for $10 because if you bought it the first week it was 50% off. I'll never forget that, it is one of the best deals of my life. I even felt kinda bad paying so little for such an amazing trilogy.

Thank you Arlo for making more people play my favorite game series of all time

I'm not really a fan of Metroid/Metroidvanias, but when I saw this at the Direct I immediately recognised the sheer beauty of the world, and the shock of it releasing the same day was awesome even as someone who is not connected to the series outside of this channel. Tempted to pick it up on looks alone tbh...

I truly believe Prime 2 and 3 are in the works of being remastered as well. It's clear the first Prime was being held off for who knows how many months or years? They may have done that to reduce the waiting gaps between remasters. I believe that is Nintendo's plan prior to Prime 4 reveal.

I feel a fun part of the reveal in retrospect was "Drop Imminent" ot feels like a subtle clue to it's shadow drop

So, to start off, my experience with the Metroid franchise has been fairly minimal. I always thought Samus looked cool, and whenever I had the chance to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at a party with friends, I definitely gravitated towards her (in her regular outfit of course) a lot of the time, mixing it up occasionally with BotW Link. Then when I had my own Switch, and I had the online service, I played a little bit of Super Metroid, but ultimately didn’t get very far into it. I anticipated the release of Metroid: Dread with much interest, and later used some of my MyNintendo points to get the really nice Metroid: Dread posters (because, again, I just think Samus looks real cool). I’d heard the rumblings about a potential remaster of Metroid Prime for quite a while, and perhaps I considered looking into getting it when it released, but ultimately I didn’t dwell too much on it. And now we arrive at the Direct yesterday. And the game looks gorgeous. And it looks like something I could really get into. And then, it’s shadow-dropped. At $40. And suddenly I just had to have it. Now. So, I made a deal with my friend; I had $35 worth of LEGO VIP points lying around that I could use for sets, and my friend, being very much into LEGO (as I am), agreed to trade $35 worth of Nintendo eShop money that he’d buy for me, for that $35 LEGO money. And so, transaction complete, I went ahead and bought Metroid Prime, for the low low price of $7.79. And I’ve been having a blast playing it. I feel like I’m among the exact demographic you talk about in this video, that has little to no experience with Metroid, but when this opportunity came up, it inspired me to just go for it, and now I’ll be hotly anticipating the (hopefully) future Metroid Prime remasters, and Metroid Prime 4. So yeah, I guess I’m a little bit of a Metroid fan now :)

I bought MPR on shadow announcement/ shadow drop hype and I might not have done it otherwise. Between this and Hi-Fi Rush, I really hope it continues to be an industry trend.

One tiny detail I noticed while playing, in the first save station in Chozo Ruins, you can hear the solid echo whenever you make a noise like jump or shoot. Very small detail but still awesome. Also in the room right outside there you can't see your reflection in the mirror anymore 😭 Edit: okay there were echoes like that in all the smaller rooms and halls that should have had echoes. On top of that you can hear her heavy metal footsteps when the floor is metal, I LOVE what they did to the sound in this game!

I really like to think of this remaster by just the look of it as a glimpse into what we can expect from Metroid Prime 4

I had to get it asap. It was actually my first Metroid game and I absolutely love it. Even though I got the digital copy I'm also getting the physical copy too. It is absolutely gorgeous and I love it.

Just for one of those tiny marks of quality I noticed: I played with twinstick controls, but due to muscle memory from Trilogy I tried ball jumping with gyro. And Samus jumped. That felt so amazing, made me feel a big piece of the love that went into the development. Also crazy how they figured to have standing jump and ball jump on different face buttons! Who does that, and why does it make so much sense!? Once I got Boost Ball it just clicked, this is the obvious control scheme for Morph Ball. I wonder how many hours of design meetings went into just that... And of course keeping even glitches in, like the fast missiles exploit. They didn't have to do that, but quick kills on Baby Sheegoths sure are still a thing I can do thanks to it! Though I think it's actually a little bit slower than before, they may have tweaked it! I didn't try early boots skip, but at least the side hop version doesn't work anymore since you don't dodge with scan visor. I believe there was another way which took advantage of the ship high jump, but eh I'll leave that to the speedrunners.

This shows Nintendo has the capability to remaster GameCube titles and bring them back better than before. I think this could make for an interesting video discussing what other GameCube titles would be deserving of a remaster or brought back. The main one that comes to mind for me would be Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door with the graphic engine of Origami King. Add some additional content as additional end game and it could be truly amazing.

I've got my fingers crossed they do Prime 2 and 3. Prime 2 is one of my all time favorite games. I go back to the trilogy at least once a year.

I'm personally waiting for the physical edition but I can't wait! I played every 2D metroid before dread and now I'm starting the 3D games for the first time!!

I picked up Prime Remaster last night. They did so much good work, and the price they are selling for is such a good deal. I never had a GameCube or Wii so I never had the opportunity to play it back in the day. Simply, as a modern game, it is a must-buy

Shadow dropping high quality games seems like it could become a trend for gaming and I’m all for it! I dub thee “The Rush Effect”

I've been a bit of a gaming rut since beating Outer Wilds. It was very hard for me to find a game that compared. Metroid Prime is getting me out of that gaming rut. What a fantastic game.

I'm going to be waiting for the physical copy of the game (if for no other reasons I don't have the storage for the digital one right now) but I'm excited to play this. Dread has made me a new fan of the metroid series, and I can't wait to see what I've been missing with the prime games.

For those that have never played Pinkman before I have to say that for some reason I kept getting nostalgia as if I was playing Metroid prime it actually feels a lot like that. Crashland on an alien world and have to figure out how to survive while exploring the world and collecting power-ups.

I cannot go back to the original after this. It's TOO good. The art, the lighting, the SFX, the incredible controls. It's finally borrowed from Halo, and now the circle is complete.

the fact they implemented wii-like pointer controls gives me hope for prime 2 and 3

This really makes me hopefull for a prime 2 and 3 remastered I wonder if they’ll release one until we get to 4 as a tease

I took a day to wait for tech reviews before jumping in, and that took some willpower. By yesterday, I was convinced they did the job right, and I jumped in, no further hesitation. Love it. They did a fantastic job. The control options, graphics overhaul and performance are a dream come true.

If this is what can happen for Metroid Prime, it makes it much easier to imagine a F-Zero GX Remaster

the remaster looks just how i was expecting MP4 to look like, it's very good and a sign of things to come

I finished the original a few weeks ago, so all of the things they showed were fresh in my mind, and it looks really good

The text “Countdown to re-entry…” and “Drop imminent” at the beginning of the trailer maybe hints at a plan to put out remasters of 2 and 3 before 4 comes out. It’s the countdown to reentry with Prime 4, and the drop was imminent - right after the Direct.

Considering that it looks like most, if not all, of the assets have been rebuilt for Metroid Prime Remastered it makes total sense that they have only released the first game. The amount of time and money required would have been huge, even before taking into account porting the game to the Switch and add all the new rendering tech, assuming they didn't just rebuild it completely. The budget was probably pretty high, which makes the reduced price a little surprising. My wild theorizing based on the credits showing that it was developed by a team at Retro Studios with support from Iron Galaxy and some others is that this is a test drive for Metroid Prime 4's engine.

I bruised my thigh during the Direct from punching it in excitement!

I LOVED THE PRIMES when they originally came out! They were the first metroids I played and I can’t wait for the fourth

I agree with this assessment - Ninty’s going to release MP2 and MP3 as scheduled shadow drops over the next year…but we’re not going to see MP4 on the current console…these releases are designed to prepare anticipation for the next console. MP4 is the PERFECT game to introduce their next beefed up system, and MP1-3 are the bait and switch to oil us up and then ease into it.

I hadn't played any Metroid other that super before today. I was very tempted when it said available later today. Then, when I saw it was $40 instead of $60, that became an urge. I am happy to say I've played Metroid Prime more than I should have on a weeknight. It's a spectacular game, I fell in love halfway through the tutorial. And the purchase was assuredly inspired at least a bit by you and your videos.

I can’t wait for the inevitable Digital Foundry breakdown of this beautiful thing. John Linneman probably hasn’t slept since before the direct.

Thank you for putting out so many videos I love your discussion topics

I’m actually genuinely excited. I never played the prime series, so I’m interested to see what it’s about!

I see Arlo, I click

Can confirm the shadowdrop is what got me to impulse buy this. I would have otherwise considered waiting for a Trilogy Bundle, but I've been looking forward to trying the Prime series since beating all the 2d games.

As an American, I was surprised to find out that the European and Japanese versions of the game had a narrator added, I'm so use to playing the game in complete and total silence lol

Brings back my childhood. This game still looks great, and plays great, no issues with it not measuring up to the passage of time. REALLY want 2 and 3 now, since I never finished the trilogy, just the first game.

I genuinely think Dread changed Nintendo's tune on Metroid. It sounded like it blew their expectations out of the water, financially. I pre-ordered the physical version. Looking forward to finally playing this gem!

I've already beaten the game and it was EXACTLY Like how I remembered it!! You can definitely see how much love they put in to this remaster. Now we just have to hope that Metroid Prime 2 and 3 will get the same treatment. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play this game once more

12:50 "It feels like they went above and BEYOND". That they did.

Fun fact, the day this got announced (9th of February 2023 in Japan due to the time difference) was actually the 19th anniversary of Metroid Zero mission!! Maybe there’s some connection there but it’s just a fun thing I noticed!

Picking this up day one! Never played a Metroid game before! This is my introduction to the series

The only downside is having to wait for the physical copy knowing I *COULD* be playing it right now! 😭 The struggle is real!

What you said at 8:26 "this might happen for the other two Prime games as well." I really, really, really hope it **does** happen for at least Metroid Prime 2. I want to see that game get the remaster treatment as well for the fact that game is my favorite out of the Prime Trilogy! I love the light world & dark world concept with a Dark Samus. I'm definitely thinking Nintendo's plan is to gradually release each Prime game, spacing it out enough (like you said) so people have time to play each game before Prime 4 comes out. I'm sure its Nintendo being greedy too, because they can release each remaster game at $40 a pop verses a whole trilogy collection for $60. Definitely keeping my fingers crossed for Prime 2 remaster! 🤞🏻 ...what I really hope for one day is a Super Metroid HD remaster 😍 I love that game to death but it gets to me sometimes looking at pixels.

All I hope is that one day we get Prime 2 remastered. Prime 2 is by far my favorite of the trilogy and criminally underrated

It’s nice to be able to play this again. Especially since I was too scared to as a kid lol

The game runs really good too. I don't know if the framerate is 60 fps, but if feels like it is and it's very consistent too.

And you didn't even mention that it has a physical release a week later! I'm so pumped to have a cartridge of the game, I'm willing to wait for it :D Great video and thoughts, I hope there's more shadow drops down the road!

8:52 well that aged well

My introduction to this series and Metroidvanias in general was Dread. Such a phenomenal game. Then I went back and played the other four(the remakes of one and 2) and really enjoyed those. I am officially a fan of the series and genre and can't wait to give this game a go!

I think Nintendo is trying to build Metroid into one of their flagship franchises. It's always had it's fans, but Dread sold REALLY WELL, so I think they want the series to be placed on the level of Mario or Zelda

I was feeling down these recent weeks but Metroid showed up and brought back some light for me

I did not know this was released until I saw a youtube video for it. I thought it was a fan remaster, but realized it wasn't and immediately went to the Nintendo store. The controls have been updated to use 2 sticks and I couldn't be happier. It looks great

Godspeed Arlo. Your videos are coming out one after the other and you're doing great.

The little duck quack with "*yesterday" just cracked me up. Perfect unintentional comedic timing.

need a compilation of all of Arlo's weird noises at the start of his videos

The way this Remaster ended up being, should be the standard for every Remaster. Now for Metroid, I'll be happy if this is how they'll hype up Prime 4. With Prime 2, 3 and hopefully Hunters (Hunters to build up on the lore of the other Hunters, especially Sylux who will be the possible main antagonist of Prime 4). I'm just happy to see Metroid be noticed and be a mainstay with it having its own portal on Nintendo's site.

Really did not expect this much out of the remaster. I expected one extra option of updated controls, and just an upscale, but no. They redid models, textures, lighting, even added new sounds while keeping verh true to the art style and atmosphere of the game. Really happy as a metroid fan right now, this was done almost flawlessly and the non $60 price tag was the cherry on top. Really want to see 2 and 3 executed in this style, but I'm really happy this is is what we got and it had real effort put into it

I never played the original, but I bought this instantly because I had been wanting to play these for a long time. This game is easily one of my all time favorites: it feels like a mix of classic Zelda (Ocarina of Time) with Darksouls and Halo/FPS. The worldbuilding, sense of exploration, and cohesion between all the parts really drew me in and hooked me. I think it is a masterpiece and the new controls and visuals knocked it out of the park. I've enjoyed this more than any other game I can think of in the past few years.

I genuinely can't WAIT for the Corruption Remaster. That game was dope on the Wii to me so to see it with THIS level of a remaster.... SIGN... ME... UP!

The amount of effort that went in to this is highly impressive, I'm playing the game right now and there's so much attention to detail that it feels like a new game. The HD rumble is the best I've played so far in the console, the sound had been improved, assets/occlusion/AA/particle effects/etc make the game look better than do many games out there (which is a testament to how good the game was originally as well) and it always runs silky smooth at 60 fps. You can select many controller options... GameCube style (and you can even use your GC controller), twin stick controls, mixed style, Wii style... It is highly impressive and keys be honest, we're not used to Nintendo putting so much effort like this. I hope s while new generation gets hyped for this series, yes, the remaster is THAT good. Bonus points as well in the fact that there's literally no other hand Luke Metroid Prime out there, there haven't been any spiritual successors unlike the 2D games that have been arguably out-Metroid'. If you've never played Metroid Prime, please give yourself a chance. Of you've played this game before, I promise the Remaster is exceeding expectations, feels like a full blown remake often.

Been having a blast with the remaster so far! Especially happy they added back the charge effects for the beams. I really hope this means we'll get Prime 2 and 3 on this style, im skeptical itll happen but itd just feel so wrong if they only remastered Prime 1

This remaster is incredible and looks amazing. Also got Metroid 2 on switch online same day which is nice.

Very happy to see this, since I never got to play the original game. Gonna have fun with this when I get round to picking it up.

Playing this game for the first time!!! Wish me luck! I love and hate the creepy atmosphere because I’m scared easily. (I can’t replay aquatic mine or most of knuckles’ stages in SA2 cause of those *stupid* ghosts.) but the creepiness is part of the charm of the game