Metroid Prime Remastered Review: Gaming Forever Changed 

best remaster ever?.., almost => hard mode should have been accessible from the start.. ... and now fear MP4 will end up being too easy ... this is what happens, when too many complain about Dread being too hard ... and if we don't complain about MP Remaster being too easy on normal mode, MP4 might just be too easy too (MP Remaster normal mode = is what easy mode would have been for the OG NGC MP version)

It was a great feeling for sure.

I only got a switch maybe 3-4 months ago I got an OLED I was super disappointed to find out there was no metroid prime.. Sure enough a remastered dropped and it's just awesome exactly what I wanted

So was I. I've always Saud that if Nintendo did a Prime remater it was day one for me. Actually, day two is when I downloaded it. They did one hell of a remater.

I was a bit overwhelmed playing it live for the first time here myself, a very happy time for Metroid fans.

@@SuperMetalDave64 metroid fans have been well fed lately, with all 2d metroid games coming to or already on nso!

Nintendo doing the right path, adding Metroid Fusion, Zero Mission on NSO and hopefully MP2&3. Aiming new players that never played those gems and for sure one of the best IP from Nintendo.

​@@maark_85 If only Nintendo would swallow their pride and take a page from Sega's book by allowing the masterpiece that is AM2R to be ported to the Switch.

​@@Squiddon64 minus AM2R. :-(

metroids were also created to deal with the x parasite. when samus exterminated them in samus returns it put the galaxy at risk. the chozo created the metroids to deal with the x parasite. metroid fusion was pretty scary getting chased by the sa-x parasite

@@eriknewton4656 Man, SA-X was some scary shit. Whenever it spotted me I'd have a heart attack while trying to escape it. Even when it didn't spot me and I was trying to sneak around it, I was still sweating bullets. Some good stuff in Fusion. They kind of tried to replicate that with the robots in Dread, but SA-X was just on another level.

Yeah I've beat the game 100% multiple times, this was just showing the area for comparison purposes. If you want to see me beat the game watch my Live 100% complete playthrough here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uD7vwap2AMY.html

IF they remaster the other 2

They wont, theyll upscale them.

Echoes is too huge and complicated, and corruption a weak entry. I doubt the metroid series warrants a remaster on the Level of the First.

Wow, that's quite the list.

In Europe 03.03 grrrr

Thank you very much for the support.

Thank you sir.

Thanks for the support :)

Thank you :)

they’ll do that to “prevent eye strain” then add an ugly ass filter over the thermal visor that made me have to put the game down from motion sickness

@@yourehereforthatarentyou I hadn't even thought about that... jeez, that really sucks. I don't get why that's there either, because while I didn't get motion sick, it still makes the environment harder to see than it was in the original.

I think Prime 2 and 3 are right around the corner, I imagine they'll be dropped with no warning in a very similar way to Prime 1, and it won't be much longer until we see Prime 4. This might all be part of a marketing plan for Prime 4 as well. The lead in. It's exciting :)

Thank you for the compliment btw on the review.

Thank you

It's amazing. This game's atmosphere is just....there are no words. It's one of the things that makes this game imo a step above everything else.

Yeah you kinda like it ;)

@@SuperMetalDave64 😄

Prime 4 is another story....that one is my most anticipated game of all time.

Thank you for the support :)

What you said in #1 is not true, as in, not all shadows are created in the way you are saying for "pre-baked" solutions. I probably should have said "appear to be hand drawn" but overall yes, some do appear hand drawn, which would save on using memory for actual shadows. Developers actually use that technique a lot, like in the game Journey on PS3, the developer said he hand drew the shadows himself: twitter.com/matt_nava/status/1503152810078052355?lang=en and it was one of the most visually beautiful games on the PS3. Also, sometimes the best solution is to "do it yourself" meaning that you (as a dev) need to artificially create a shadow to make it look the best in a given scenario. For #2, for the faked reflections, if they were "screen space" reflections they definitely are not truly "reflecting" is what I was trying to say. They were duplicating the same exact image, not mirrored and simply doubled on the ice, that is not a reflection, that is simply doubling the same image twice. It might look like a reflection at first glance sure, but when you look closely you can tell it's not really a reflection, it's fake. It might be hard to understand what I mean, but the point is, those aren't actually reflections, since a real screen space reflection would actually mirror the object and you'd see the opposite image of it just like how a reflection is supposed to look, in this game, it doesn't do that and copies 1 to 1 the same object without any mirrored effect.

Thanks for your thorough answers Dave! 1. Thanks for the link. I indeed haven't heard about the technique to hand draw shadows before and to me it sounds like unnecessary work. Maybe Journey did it to achieve a certain look. Prebaking shouldn't take more resources then hand drawing though since in both cases the shadows will just be part of the texture. 2. Thanks for clarifying. Now I understand better what you meant. You are right that it doesn't actually mirrors the morphball or the arm cannon and it also doesn't mirror the environment. But whatever technique they are using: I'm not sure why they would just mirror the image for the reflection. That shouldn't be expensive at all.

Timeless classic.

Indeed, but I wish it had been kept in the 3rd person.

Hopefully Prime 2 is right around the corner in a few months? We'll have to wait and see.

it's a trilogy addition

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

@robertkenny1201 Prime 2 maybe, but I don't think they'll remake/remaster Prime 3. Just an updated Switch port that looks better than it did on the Wii.

@@adamsultana8380 Well to be fair Prime 3 has aged pretty well in terms of graphics.