Metroid Prime Retrospective - What Went So Right?

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Metroid Prime is a first-person action-adventure video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. It was released in North America on November 17, 2002, and in Japan and Europe the following year. Metroid Prime is the fifth main installment in the Metroid series, and the first Metroid game to use 3D computer graphics. Because exploration takes precedence over combat, Nintendo classifies the game as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter. On the same day as its North American release, Nintendo also released the Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion, marking the return of the Metroid series after an eight-year hiatus following Super Metroid (1994).
Metroid Prime is the first of the three-part Prime storyline, which takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus. Like previous games in the series, Metroid Prime has a science fiction setting in which players control the bounty hunter Samus Aran. The story follows Samus as she battles the Space Pirates and their biological experiments on the planet Tallon IV. The game was a collaboration between Retro's staff in Austin, Texas, and Japanese Nintendo employees, including producer Shigeru Miyamoto, who suggested the project after visiting Retro's headquarters in 2000.
The game garnered critical praise and commercial success, selling more than a million units in North America alone. It won a number of Game of the Year awards, and it is considered by many critics and gamers to be one of the greatest video games ever made, remaining one of the highest-rated games on Metacritic. In 2009, an enhanced version was released for the Wii as a standalone game in Japan, and as part of the Metroid Prime Trilogy compilation internationally.

[@Mariofan226]

You know, I think Metroid Prime did the whole "learn about the story through your environment" thing long before Dark Souls did. And also yes, I too will never tire of that Phendrana drifts track. Never ever.

[@meditalisoo7]

Yeah. Dark Souls is also heavily influenced by Metroidvania game design philosophy which is a good thing. More games should do this.

[@sLasHeRxXx07]

And better. Soulsborne wasn't so engaging lore wise. Metroid made you wanna know more about its world, flora, fauna and enemies

[@acedias12]

@@sLasHeRxXx07 That's debatable from person to person. An opinion, not a fact.

[@sLasHeRxXx07]

@@acedias12 didn't say it was a fact. I just like MP better though FromSoft would make a good third party developer for Metroid 5

[@Alianger]

System Shock

[@Jonnygunboy]

Ah yes, early 2000's snowy levels. Theres nothing quite like them.

[@elijahking7309]

Plus late 90s. Goldeneye, MGS

[@ZapWires]

Allied assault schmerzen forest, Sonic adventure ice cap, Melee icicle mountain, Perfect dark crash site, Nightfires first real level, they're all so good.

[@Stunlokked]

snow levels always had the best music

[@Baja383]

The beginning level in Timesplitters 2. Money.

[@elijahking7309]

Ok @@Stunlokked

[@andrewortiz1703]

8:49 I remember there being a data log you can access from inside a space pirate base that describes how multiple space pirates were horrifically mutilated while testing out the morph ball on themselves.

[@user-cz9rq5cp4i]

I remember reading that one as well.

[@leegsy]

I loved scouring the areas looking for those! To this day I have only played the first Prime. I should get myself a cheap Wii and play the trilogy. I have a GC and MP but I really want to try out the new controls on the Wii.

[@user-cz9rq5cp4i]

@@leegsyYou could use a emulator to play it. The PC I use is a budget build from several years ago and if I optimize it, then it will run 60fps. I would recommend a GameCube controller adapter for PC, I got one off of Amazon for 15$.

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

@@user-cz9rq5cp4i You can get the Trilogy and use a USB Wii sensor bar on the PC as well, but then again, you can change the controls ingame and in Dolphin's settings to be more like a PC game.

[@Screwy]

I think that was Prime 2, but I could be thinking about the "feeding Metroids pet treats" and "vapor for brains" logs

[@samy29987]

Seeing and hearing people still speak highly of Metroid Prime warms my heart. I will never forget that moment when arriving at Tallon IV after the escape sequece of the frigate for the first time, I started to notice a distinct sound in the background that filled my curiosity bar...... It was a remixed tune of Brinstar from the NES Metroid..... A tidal wave of nostalgia hit me so hard as I recognised the tune immediately. I stood there for a few minutes in awe appreciating the tune while taking in the atmosphere and grasping how amazing it was to look up to the sky while watching rain drops fall onto Samus' visor. It was bliss. One of my most cherised gaming memories.

[@MarkoSkid121]

The soundtrack was so immersing and the world's were beautifully made. Such an all time classic trilogy

[@trickswithjp]

Hard to believe it's a Gamecube game from 2002. They need to release the trilogy on Switch asap

[@rayminishi689]

Try the wii one.

[@LN.2233]

@@نونيم-ي4ح nah, metroid sells nowhere near as much as zelda or mario. All three franchises are as old as each other yet there are single mario or zelda games that have outsold the entire metroid franchise

[@VenomSnakeMGS]

There is a rumor that they've had a port finished for the trilogy for months. They are just holding off on it until we get closer to MP4 release so they can use it as part of marketing.

[@Jonnygunboy]

I got impatient and bought a wii u (they can play all original wii games) I don't regret it in the slightest. Using the wiimote plus and nunchuck feels unique and helps break up manoughtony if you game a lot.

[@FrozenDozer]

I replayed the entire trilogy recently and damn, I soaked those games up even though I've played through all of them multiple times as a kid. They are just timeless classics and I don't think there will ever be a point where the games will just be ugly and unenjoyable.

[@12superaslan]

The amount of thought that went into the lore and scannable items is amazing. Detailed images of enemies and their anatomy and the writing that went into their scans was so cool to me. Made it seem so believable. The dev team must have had researched so much actual biological and physiological things for inspiration. I forgot what it's called but the codex where all your scans are saved for future reference is simply gold. That, plus all the great little details made this game so enjoyable and never feel stale or boring. PS, another cool detail: when you rapid fire the power beam for more than about 5 seconds and then stop, you see haze come off the tip of the blaster from the heat of firing so many shots in rapid succession. Brilliant.

[@jacobmonks3722]

@Soy based Diet Stop saying this everywhere. Nobody thinks you're funny.

[@Enclavefakesoldier]

They did the same thing for Prime 2 as well where you end up fighting extradimensional horrors and whatnot. This game really does immersion well that I could play for hours and not even realize it.

[@jacobmonks3722]

@@vcdonovan5943 Nothing in the chronology suggests Link can't be female. I guess at this point they only do it for tradition's sake, because there really isn't another good reason.

[@jacobmonks3722]

@@vcdonovan5943 And Metroid Prime was made by Retro Studios. Not Rare.

[@filthyshoggoth]

@@vcdonovan5943 Rare didn't make Prime, and Nintendo didn't make Other M. Shit troll.

[@xaxos9273]

There needs to be more first person shooters like Metroid Prime.

[@gilgamesh310]

*There needs to be more Metroidvania like Metroid Prime.

[@catzor4795]

Prey (2017).

[@CaptainAhabGetsHisRevenge]

@@catzor4795 ew

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

One of the big things that I can agree with Miyamoto was that he did not like MP being called a first person shooter game. He instead wanted it to be called a first person adventure game (with shooter elements) and I think that's one of the key things to have for a very successful first person Metroid game.

[@alwingarside2828]

I've played a lot of Metroid Prime 1 & 2 and I must say Destiny scratched that itch a little for me, in a weird kind of way. (Mostly the atmosphere and enemies. The meta gameplay is very different.)

[@Bangkokian1967]

Definitely one of the greatest games of all time. Even the first person platforming sections are really enjoyable

[@RokushoTheRavager]

Soy based Diet, I sincerely hope that for your sake this is satire buddy, otherwise god help you.

[@conorburke1999]

@Soy Boy Weeb Actually, this game’s American

[@ix8750]

What the fuck is going on here ?

[@Geeler]

@@ix8750 This is the second video I've found based off Metroid Prime where the replies to a comment is just insanity

[@paultomlin8278]

Wow ok white this white that. Jesus grow up it's a video game from 2002. It's like the game is older than you.

[@paulvenn4447]

I remember picking it up on launch day and thinking to myself that this was the Halo-esque awesome FPS for the Gamecube.

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

From what I've heard and read, a lot of Metroid fans did not think like you and thought very differently. A lot of the fanbase was worried that it would turn into another FPS and trying to cash in on the Halo craze so much so that the first showing of the MP trailer was booed massively. When the game came out everyone was so surprised that the game is so excellent that for a lot of reviewers, it was their favorite game of the year and probably of all time. It surprised me to read all of this since I love the game so much, and reading that people were fearful and nervous of MP being a bad FPS puzzled me as well.

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

@Christopher Simon I've only read about this since I had dial-up Internet (didn't know of gaming forums and of E3/etc.) and no cable/satellite TV in the early 2000s. When MP got revealed at E3 2001, there was a serious amount of booing of it (I can understand why when seeing the first trailer) and it was designed as a 3rd person shooter ala Other M. A serious amount of people in forums thought Ninty was cashing in on the craze of Halo 1, Quake, Doom, etc. and ruining Metroid by making it a FPS (though it's more accurate to say first person adventure with shooting).

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

When it got released, everyone was extremely surprised at how amazing of a game it is and didn't take any big trendy FPS elements of the time. People took back the bad stuff they said about Metroid Prime and replaced it holy praise when they got to play it. Gggman showed it really impressively (for any and all games) ranks in in the Top 15 Best Rated Metacritic Games by Metascore and Userscore of All Time.

[@yarghhargh9345]

There's a CE mod that makes it look like Prime and it's fucking sick

[@youngkappakhan]

@@revolverswitch metroid dread is gonna be amazing and i couldn't be more excited. a little worried about halo infinite but cautiously optimistic though. the thing is mercurysteam has shown themselves to be competent with their handling of past games when given the right direction, and understands the material of the franchise they're making really well, and 343 can't exactly say the same

[@kingpiniv]

"With one of the coolest protagonists of all time." Now that Dread is out, she is THE coolest of all time

[@filipinowhiteboy]

Anything to remove the memory of Other M.

[@GFMarine]

One of the best of all time without a doubt, the atmosphere and music give such a deep impression of exploring this decrepit, crumbling, lost civilization that genuinely scared me back in the day, I still remember getting both metroid fusion and prime for Christmas and being scared of the chozo ghosts in prime and shutting off my gameboy when SA-X came into the room, good times.

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

God, the SA-X and going into the Phazon Mines dude. Scared the shit out of me as a kid, especially with the music really adding to the atmosphere as well.

[@GFMarine]

@@LOUDcarBOMB Phazon mines for me, wasnt that it was scary, its more that it made me extremely anxious.

[@GFMarine]

@Soy based Diet Uhh....what?

[@Commanderhurtz1]

@Soy based Diet Dang it Dave, how many times are you going to forget to eat your Avacado toast?

[@giornogiostar3214]

@Soy based Diet Ayylmao this made me laugh more than it should.

[@MatthewCampbell765]

With The Morph Ball, I'm pretty sure if you look at the animation closely, her body turns into some kind of energy when the ball is formed. Though, there is a space pirate log documenting their attempt to copy the Morph Ball and it results in the test subject being turned into a tangled, dead mess.

[@22freedom33]

Metroid Prime review with 1000+ views and no down votes, perfect balanced as all things should be

[@WaveOfDestiny]

@Soy based Diet you ain't trolling anyone, don't spam

[@GearOfDarkness]

Another thing I loved about this game is how well suited to the Gamecube-Controller it was. It just felt so right.

[@shawklan27]

Preach it's surprisingly easy to get used to

[@nightshades7620]

To me, Half-Life, Doom, Halo and Metroid Prime are the top best first person shooters of all time, they're the most classic.

[@hansblankenburg7814]

Yep each of those adds and reïnvents the FPS genre in innovative and important ways.

[@rgbarrios0331]

Dad - Doomguy Mom - Samus Son - Master Chief

[@sykomaniax187]

there's a scan in the game which tells about the enemy pirates trying to also use a suit that can morphball and getting crushed in the process.

[@jeremymedley9416]

Lmao

[@anthonymendez5768]

I Have very fond memories of this game when I was a kid. I remember vividly getting stuck near the end of the game and couldn't figure out what to do and eventually my older brother's friend came over one day and beat the game for me. I remember being so shocked when Samus removed her helmet at the end of the game and finding out she was a girl.

[@HeisenBird]

This game is without question the best transition from 2D to 3D ever made. Even better than Ocarina. A true masterpiece that neither of its sequels could surpass. Great video.

[@booski1865]

It really is a miracle of gaming

[@jjc4924]

I agree. Unlike most of series jump into 3D like Mario 64 & Zelda: Ocarina of Time, this game still holds up tremendously well.

[@booski1865]

@@jjc4924 to be fair, I think those two hold up pretty well for their time too. But a bit more rough around the edges than Prime.

[@jjc4924]

Booski. I guess. But still. But now, Zelda: Breath of the Wild & Super Mario Odyssey are now aging way better than what Mario 64 & Ocarina of Time use to be since there the spiritual successors.

[@booski1865]

@UC13U0rYa4JtgfnsH35xo7dA kinda disagree on Odyssey. It's a great game at its heart but it has a ton of filler and all the content is spread out so much I never felt compelled to get all the moons whereas anytime I playthrough Mario 64 I always get all the stars. For BoTW , I think it's just preference. I love that and OoT for different reasons. Ocarina is more focused and has better storytelling, but BoTW exploration and gameplay are way more fun. But I'm hoping the next Metroid can make a leap like they did with BoTW to where it feels super fresh but still like the same series at its roots.

[@lilwyvern4]

8:49 Neither do the space pirates. They tried to recreate it and many a spine was shattered in Prime 2.

[@Robinjhoe1]

I listen to the soundtrack still to this day. Plus i love the detail in the Prime games. Everything has data files and information. Even if it is only a single line but its still awesome. Also now after watching the video i want to play it for the 150th time. Guess ill have to boot up dolphin again.

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

R

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Tip: never search for "Metroid Prime randomizer" or you'll never get out of it

[@Varlwyll]

Same. I have a gamecube still and I have the soundtrack saved to a flash drive and plugged into my car.

[@samy29987]

List of tracks of Metroid Prime that I personally go back and listen to from time to time: 1- Phendrana Drifts (obviously) 2- Both Tallon Overworld themes 1 and 2 3- Underwater Frigate 4- Artifact Temple 5- Ice chapel 6- The intro, menu and credits theme.

[@bauxiticaxis1048]

Glad to see that people other than myself still enjoy this masterpiece in 2019

[@Merlin_Price]

I've never been more satisfied with a game than Metroid Prime. I just sat there for half an hour afterward gobsmacked by how engaging it was. Absolute masterpiece. This, Super Mario Galaxy and RE 4 made the WII into one of my most loved game consoles.

[@mer_meh]

Best video game of all time is Big Rigs: Over the Road

[@zachsteiner]

Duh. Everyone knows that.

[@alexknight1991]

mer meh Your comment is winner!

[@JSN117]

Big Rigs. Over the road, under the road! Who knows?! BIG MOTHAFUCKIIIIIN RIIIIGS!

[@Comkill117]

Well that’s just not fair, how could anything compete with Big Rigs?

[@idolguns]

DRIVIN' AROUND IN FUCKIN' TRUCKS!!!

[@griffin09]

Arguably my favorite game of all time. Thank you for reviewing it!

[@Dubbag]

My mother was deployed to Kuwait in 2003 and it was a very rough time. But I had Metroid Prime! That, a good friend and great father really helped. I will forever have memories of that moment of my life with this included in it.

[@WingMaster562]

This is a different flavor from the usual content from GGGman, but a surprise received well. . Also, I agree with your tastes in women~ ;)

[@adamofblastworks1517]

That lone period is really annoying me for some reason.

[@WingMaster562]

@@adamofblastworks1517 Lone period? Timestamp?

[@adamofblastworks1517]

@@WingMaster562 in your original comment there is a lone period above the last line.

[@WingMaster562]

I see and I do that a lot. Force of habit due to having to some old forums removing the whitespace lines and just making it a single block.

[@Jesse12489]

You know how you deal with the Fission Metroids? Power Bomb. It kills them instantly and they do not split into two. I've been playing this game since it first came out and I know this game like the back of my hand.

[@JS-yc8wj]

Thank you for covering the very first game that I ever got to explore on my own having a GameCube console to myself, I remember watching my older brother play Everything and I was just there for the ride watching and experiencing button Metroid Prime was the very first game that I got for myself and for me to explore enter experience everything firsthand this brings back so many memories thank you

[@maxwillson]

I re-played this game a few months back and beat the game in two nights. I forgot how addicting this game is. Once you start, it's hard to put down.

[@MrNuclearturtle]

Gamecube was a graphics beast back in the day, first party games on there looked so good, good enough to pay $100+ for a fucking component cable to properly appreciate it

[@huge_balls]

I'm getting a digital AV out adapter for the Gamecube today lol I'm so excited

[@dannysummers4591]

I still remember getting this game for Christmas back in 02, hearing that familiar save room jingle as Samus leaped out of her ship in the opening shot gave me chills like no other.

[@SwahnProductions]

I'd like you to review the Conduit games (Nintendo exclusive FPS games). Also, I'd love to see you review Remnant From The Ashes and Generation Zero.

[@jarlnicholl1478]

Remnant probably isn't his cup of tea.

[@ArniesTech]

The music, the terrains, the mood. What a game ❤️🙏

[@GameplayandTalk]

17 years later and I still haven't played much of this game despite owning it for a long time. I think this review is going to change that.

[@ShadesMan]

12:36 - well, you learn something new every day!

[@Broke_Guy_78]

I need Prime Trilogy for Nintendo Switch before Prime 4 releases.....

[@rolan5948]

Doubt it’ll come with motion controls so that still makes the wii version superior just like how re4 on the switch removed motion controls from the wii version making it automatically inferior because of it

[@andy23r]

We need a switch revision 1st before we get metroid prime 4

[@snappertrx]

Metroid on the NES was the game that made me WANT to game. Just seeing it in the Nintendo commercials, something about it drew me to it, and when my uncle finally bought an NES, Metroid was one of the games he bought with it. I was obsessed. Back in the day I played it so much that for years and years I could complete a run in under 2.5 hours and get the "best ending". I think I actually pre-ordered Super Metroid, meaning I went to the game store in the mall and plunked down 50-60$ or whatever months in advance for them to hold a copy for me when it released. I love Metroid, and the Prime series was...well, I love it now, but back then it was difficult to accept the difference between the seemingly perfect side scroller/adventure and a FPS. Nintendo/Retro did a fantastic job, though, and your video has made me start scouring eBay for some copies of the trilogy so I can fire up the ol' emulator and give them a go. Thanks!

[@stevemc6010]

You're going to have a cute anime thumbnail for Doom Eternal, right?

[@Circ00mspice]

Would it make any difference if it were a cute picture of Goblin Slayer instead?

[@tama7026]

I bet Samus is Doomguy waifu

[@9-11wasthecoolestthingever9]

I remember back in middle school I fell deeply in love with the prime series, it’s so unique and addicting. Thanks gman this video brings back so many happy memories

[@admech590]

"Phenandra drifts" *title says its phendrana drifts* Okay then (yes I am that kind of petty bastard)

[@Canada407]

Same!

[@gaming-oyvinator]

phenendra.. gotta love them dialects :-p

[@jackofallglass165]

thats not dialect. he just cant read lol.

[@oKirin-]

Yeah, it bugs me, too, but we'll live.

[@astaldo]

Fenn-Drah-Nah

[@mrbigglezworth42]

"You get as much out of the campaign as you put into it" So if I put in some Vegemite, would I get an Australian Samus?

[@JM-dq7xn]

holy shieet, if a game not being "traditional" fps can get a guy who likes complaining about fps games to speak so highly of it, it really has to be a masterpiece

[@ghostlynatsu3660]

Never expected you to review Metroid Prime! This is genuinely great.

[@oogieboogiedoogie1]

I'm glad you appreciate the final scavenger hunt. People think it slowed the pace down, and maybe that's true, but what did I collect all these upgrades for if not to take a victory lap around the planet?

[@urbanoman7689]

I played all 3 games nearly back to back in early 2014 when I was barely in my teens and on a massive wii modding spree. 14 year old me was extremely impressed by the entire trilogy. I'm now 21 and this video definitely gave me nostalgia. I should replay them, see if the charm held up. Prime 1 definitely looks as good as I remember.

[@Lord_Deimos]

Fun story: never was much of a nintendo guy so i went and rented a gamecube just to play Metroid Prime and the then new Resident Evil remake.

[@chaoschampion3993]

Metriod Prime wat a game! I remember going in to the Crash Frigate and the music starts to play and god was it amazing.

[@MoonMinHo]

I’m really hoping that the upcoming Metroid Prime 4 would follow up its predecessors’ gaming legacy.

[@mariodelrio2387]

3:23 pooh that transition of the item collect theme from SM to MP is soooooo damn cool

[@CollegeBallYouknow]

Funny. I was just about to ask if you could review the Metroid Prime series and then this popped up.

[@heatherking7736]

He said yes

[@swanky2202]

I always loved the art direction in this game, the atmosphere. Everything just feels "right". It's also super impressive how they were able to shove all the different gameplay elements into the game while still have a coherent and simple control scheme on the GC controller.

[@Jesse12489]

I spotted a error. 3:44 Prime 3 never was released on the Gamecube

[@MichaelRichards983]

Jesse12489 I have it on the GameCube

[@Jesse12489]

@@MichaelRichards983 Prime 3 never released on the Gamecube. Metroid Prime 3 came out in 2007 the last game to come out on the Nintendo GameCube was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and if you're going to count officially Nintendo that would be Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.

[@alapazam]

@@MichaelRichards983 you literally dont

[@MichaelRichards983]

@@alapazam Just popped it in....you two really don't know much about video games.

[@alapazam]

@@MichaelRichards983 huh, well i stand corrected. I neglected to look at google for more than a second

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

Fun fact about the "Phenandra" Drifts music: A lot of the notes used for percussion are the sounds of large ice sheets cracking. I took an Alaskan cruise in 2018, we went through an ice fjord, and I got to actually hear these sounds live, echoing across the distance. It was marvelous. EDIT: One thing about those late-game Fission Metroids that are color coded: THEY'RE ALL WEAK TO POWER BOMBS, NO DISCRIMINATION, ANNIHILATION FOR ALL!!

[@Registole]

Nice vid man, really Metroid Prime is a great game that's still great now. Really interesting and entertaining, Prime and Prime 2 are my favorites. Review prime 2 next!

[@jjc4924]

Prime 1 is still my personal favorite of the Prime Trilogy. My favorite Metroid game. Period. Looking forward to Prime 2, though. Another great game. In fact, all 3 Prime games are great.

[@DN-yv3gq]

The reflection of her eyes in the visor was a nice touch

[@hammerheadcycle3097]

There was nothing that felt better than playing this game with the Gamecube controller on the original system. The way you locked onto enemies and rapidly pushed the fire button felt so perfect.

[@dasantihero2827]

I loved this game as a kid and in the 18 years I've lived, never finished it. Hell, I remember not even knowing what a Metroid was when I just saw it lying down with other games we had for our GameCube when I was a kid. I called it a T rated basketball game based off the disc alone, and I remember just playing that opening section over and over again. There's just something wonderful about getting off of the ship and getting to fight the Parasite Queen at the center of some space frigate that I feel many games don't get right.

[@adistantimage3928]

Never been a better time than rn for those Prime 2 & 3 retrospectives Sonny Jim

[@PenneyBack]

The best way to play this is to emulate the GC version. There are some neat things missing in the wii version like Samus' cannon frosting over when charging the ice beam, etc... That said, it's more of a pain in the ass to set up if you want widescreen. Looking forward to your echoes review, that's the best in the series!

[@vectorprime4387]

Fun Fact: In the original Japanese version of Metroid the "Varia Suit" was called the "Barrier Suit." When the original game was being localized into English, the translator incorrectly interpreted the Japanese characters "Ba-ri-a" as "Va-ri-a" hence the name change. Since the name Varia sounded cool though, the name has pretty much stuck ever since.

[@Ckoz2829]

When you play Metroid Prime 2, play it on Hyper Mode.

[@alexluvzfire3567]

This game is top shelf quality. Yes!!!! to everything you said about the presentation; I remember being in awe with how the water effects on the helmet HUD dripped down and always loved seeing Samus's face reflecting on the visor after beaming a few enemies in a dark area. It was amazing how a purple lunch box was able to give such a great, smooth experience. I do feel that this game should be experienced at least once with the GameCube controller, i do have the Wii trilogy and though the motion controls do make shooting and aiming better, but the way you select different beam types didn't translate well with the Wii-mote.

[@skuarf]

Funny thing, I recommended this game for years to a grumpy friend who worships Sony and classic PS1/Ps2 era. Just finished it: turns out he thought the game was "overhyped trash" on every level with a terrible control scheme, repettive gameplay and boring enviroments and music and way too easy all around. He also claims the graphics were overhyped for years with 1 or 2 decent effects at best. Well, he just finished MP 2 Echoes too this past week and claims it is miles better with a much more compelling world layout and gameplay (also he is raving about the soundtrack). He is starting MP 3 Corruption this week, I should brace myself for the shitstorm of "nintendoWiibabygame" complaints. It is beyond me, really.

[@Metalcorn999]

I actually agree with your friend. For the year this game appeared, there were so much better games in the fps genre that do better, it's just a good 3d adaptation of the metroid saga.

[@RokushoTheRavager]

Me personally I love all the Metroid Prime games, it’s one of my favorite trilogies, but to me each Prime just got better and better. I have my gripes with each one and I absolutely HATE the fact you can’t switch beams in MP3 because they combined them all, but nevertheless not a single game is bad and they each improve in their own unique way. Metroid Prime 2: Echos seems to definitely be the most controversial one among fans and I absolutely get why with the whole light & dark world aspect, which yes can absolutely be annoying, but I can’t help but appreciate the concept and I still stand by the fact that I think it’s brilliant level and environmental design. It definitely took inspiration from the Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past, of that I have no doubt in mind because just when you defeat Aghahim the big bad guy and thought the game was over, the game is like nah sike bitch you’re only halfway done as you now enter The Dark world, which is a much darker more twisted version of the world of Hyrule you thought you knew. This in turn allows you to re-explore some of the same locations you’ve already been to that look ENTIRELY different and allow you to discover new areas, new dungeons, and new hidden secrets. MP2 took this same concept but instead allow you to willingly travel back and forth between the light and dark world as much as you please, provided you have the necessary upgrades to survive such a inhospitable environment, and have you put together a complex puzzle of how in the hell you’re supposed to traverse these areas and where you have to be in a certain light or dark section to unlock or access a room. Can it be tedious and annoying, absolutely, but it’s fun, it’s engaging, and it keeps you thinking. Your brain never stops churning, thinking, “how in the fuck do I get over there, where in the unholy hell do I go, Jesus Christ how do I kill this bastard”. MP2 not only immersed me into its world, but it also made me give a shit, it kept me thinking when I came across a difficult puzzle, and it kept me on my toes, all of which I can absolutely appreciate. That said Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is my favorite. I could explain why but I doubt anyone cares to read it. All I’ll say is that with MP3 I’ve never felt so completely immersed in a video game. When I’m playing MP3 with motion controls by pulling levers, flipping switches, touching key cards, or ripping off enemy shields, I legitimately feel like I’m there and it’s fucking awesome.

[@giornogiostar3214]

Ah, classic entitled sony pony.

[@giornogiostar3214]

@@Metalcorn999 Fps? I don't know maybe, but this is a FPS Adventure.

[@Innerste]

I've been playing Prime 1 since I was a kid, and I actually agree with your friend that Prime 2 is the better game. I used to be a Metroid Prime 1 fanboy until around last year when I gave Prime 2 a fair shot after finding a Gamecube copy. The world in Prime 2 might not be as colorful as Prime 1, but it's so much more interconnected and better designed for backtracking. Even during my first playthrough of Prime 1, I never liked that when I got to Phendrana Drifts and needed the Space Jump that I had to backtrack through the Magmoor Caverns to the start of the game, just to go all the way back to Phendrana Drifts through the Magmoor Caverns. In Prime 2 though, I can almost guarentee that you can find a direct elevator to the area you need to go to from the current area you're in. It may not be as organic for the world to be designed like this, but it makes for much better pacing that doesn't make me want to put the game down and come back to it later.

[@TheTeeWorldsfreak]

My favorite gaming KZbinr reviews my favorite game. *Now I can die a happy man*

[@e2rqey]

4:52 It's the "Fen-Dra-Na" Drifts. Just so you know. Great video as usual

[@patronizingtone9961]

Finally sat down and beat this game. it easily holds up after all this time.

[@seabass22]

I remember getting this game on Christmas Eve and playing it all the time.

[@SinbadNaiver]

I REALLY hope to GOD that Metroid prime 4 will run on Unreal Engine 4, i saw a fanmade version of Metroid prime 1 on Unreal engine 4, and it would fit so freakin well to the game. BAR NONE.

[@Maurilustrador]

2004 was a golden year for videogames!! Metroid Prime, Half Life 2, Far Cry, Wow: WoTLK (best expansion IMO), GTA: San Andreas, etc. Just look on google the games that were released that year.

[@BMW-sd6nn]

"Perfectly balanced as all things should be." You sir are a god, best way to end this video ever, and why you're still my favorite reviewer after years of subbing.

[@xansaibot3134]

Any explanation why we didn’t get trilogy on Switch yet?

[@caikelm5766]

They'll probably release it around the time they finally show something of Metroid Prime 4 to promote it

[@halowillneverbegoodagain1868]

Cuz Reggie smoked alot of crack and destroyed all the copies.

[@davidthorne5715]

The item discovery music is like asmr, I feel calm hearing that

[@agustintrivino9365]

The hud alone shows how much they cared that thing looks GOOD

[@MacuahuitlGaming]

I always tought you werent a fan of any nintendo games, so I wasnt expecting this, even if its a game in first person. Glad to see it here finally.

[@lllXanderlll]

The thing that pisses me off about Metroid Prime is the fact that I cannot for the life of me get 100% scan data. I somehow always miss ome os two enemies and one or two data logs.. one of these days im gonna get that 100% completion. I have to, after all Metroid Prime is one of my favorite games of all time and it dsserves to be 100%'d

[@filthyshoggoth]

IIRC two can be missed permanently, one being on the station that blows up, or your ship. Not sure, been a few years.

[@lllXanderlll]

@@filthyshoggoth Yeah that would make sense

[@liquidgeorge]

Great review. When comparing Metroid Prime to Super Metroid I would have liked you to have covered the difficulty and genius of transitioning things such as the Morph Ball and Grappling Hook into 3D.

[@prfesrfrink]

Excellent review! My favorite track, along with snow stage track, is the underwater track in the derelict space pirate ship.

[@Enemy_slain]

16:42 what is The title for that game?

[@loserbrett]

Timesplitters: Future Perfect

[@Enemy_slain]

@@loserbrett thanks

[@Picnicl]

Metroid Prime is so great because its space settting - and even its FPSness - are merely incidental. It's less scifi, more Banjo Kazooie, itself a superb Alice in Wonderland 'curiouser and curiouser' type game. Turning into the morph ball and back is essentially like Alice choosing Eat Me or Drink Me, being played to the music of the gods. The level design and music are SO great. It's like I'm playing Tomb Raider if God was the lead designer. To make a not massively scifi fan fall in love with your game means that it must tap in to more earthly concerns- and it does. Fire, earth, sand, ice , snow, and water all feel like NOSTALGIC physical comforts or immersions, in both reality and previous games (not least Mario games), rather than other worldly just for the sake of being other worldly. It's something I don't think any other Metroid game has understood or gone for. It's not ambient alienness that made it genius - it's the grandeur and small moments of being a human in a real life world that doesn't know how, why, or what to explore in the hidden, forgotten, the past, the dying or dead. It's ghostly archeology on your own at a party that already mostly ended. It is that tragedy of others, of the passage of time itself, and of yourself, that is a magic triangle that the greatest philosophers would - or should - find spellbindingly unsolveable.

[@teneesh3376]

Most people never talk about how backtracking works in this game. It's very much one path. Usually when you go to get a power up, you go through one path. Then to get another power up, you have to go back through the same path, then find a new path. That can get very tedious. People might say it is part of the genre. I would say that other games do this better by adding new shortcuts. When you get the powerup, a new shortcut appears. Letting you quickly go from area to area. Super metroid does this and metroid prime 3 sort of does this. But metroid prime 3 wants to be a limear shooter and it shows. With the shortcuts being one way and not two way

[@hansblankenburg7814]

The game came out in 2001 man. Back then every adventure game had tedious backtracking. Really hope they bring back the speed booster in Prime 4, running and flying around in 1st person... would also make the backtracking more fun if you can just skate through the map at lightning speed.

[@jjc4924]

At the very least in Prime 1, the areas in Tallon 4 are more open ended. There are multiple paths that can lead yiu to an shortcut that you don't have to travel back in an normal & longer distance. For example. After getting the Plasma Beam in Magmoor Cavern, u think you would travel back to Tallon Overworld & through Phazon Mines in an normal route that you came back from. But in an room in part of Magmoor Cavern where you climb up to get the Plasma Beam, you head to the other path where before heading to an elevator takes you to the back of Phendrana Drift where after u beaten Thardus, there's another breach of path that takes you to the other side of Phazon Mines that leads an shortcut. But the path to it is block. So u have to use an Power Bomb to get across there. It makes traveling alot faster. Granted, you have an option to do whatever you want to go & don't forget that u also have to collect Chozo Artifact to reach to the Impact Crater. In which luckily there optional to get them as long as you get an upgrade that requires you to get the artifacts during your lourney. After getting the Plasma Beam, I always get the rest of the Chozo Artifacts first before heading back to the Phazon Mines & there's only one artifact that I hadn't gotten that requires to upgrade Samus's suit to get it. Which I need an Phazon Suit, which luckily isn't that far away & it's only 3 or 4 rooms back after getting it from Omega Pirate. And after getting the final artifact, I head straight to Impact Crater.

[@Icem4n84]

I still own the original Gamecube version and play it from time to time. Great game for the time. Would happily by a remaster.

[@TheInkSpoots]

Prime 3 wasnt released for the gamecube but Okay ;D

[@ColdHardTruthNews]

Metroid Prime and it's sequels are a true testament of making a game endearing and timeless by introducing simple, yet effective gameplay with an eerie, alien atmosphere dripping with suspense and tension not seldom seen in today's games.

[@sebastiancintron29]

Definitely one of my favorite games of all time. Great atmosphere and music. Fun addicting exploration gameplay. And a good non intrusive story. Metroid Prime is one of my favorite games ever made and probably my favorite Metroid game right up there with Super. Metroid Prime 4 has some big shoes to fill and I seriously hope that game delivers.

[@MitsurugiR]

Prime is good, but they're not the best Metroid games, not even close.

[@merces47letifer4]

That's preeeeeetty subjective. Super Metroid is my favorite but Metroid Prime is unbelievably good.

[@GlitchedAI]

yes it is, Super Metroid is a close second though.

[@MitsurugiR]

merces47letifer I’m not denying it that, I absolutely adore Prime, it’s just not nearly as good or a classic as Super Metroid

[@WaveOfDestiny]

I'm the opposite, Super metroid was one of the worst for me, in many aspects apart from music and bosses. It has a slightly different game design and choices that i didn't like overall, like strange linearity, pacing, item hunting and bad control design

[@jebkara529]

I've only just gotten into the metroid series, I never had the chance when I was younger. I'm blown away. What a game...

[@Morgan_Blackhand]

This was my first Metroid and FPS game, it'll always be special to me because of that.

[@Bukkarooo]

>"Phenandra Drifts" >Screen says "Phendrana Drifts" Lol, joking aside, fantastic video. This game is an all-time favorite of mine. Gamecube was the first console I bought with my own money and Metroid Prime was one of the first games I got for it, and was easily one of the best. I have a lot of love for the entire trilogy, but something about this first game keeps it my favorite. I own all three physical and the Trilogy pack on Wii U, maybe it's time for a revisit in Dolphin, though...

[@YonderYoshi]

In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, there are "Kinetic Orb Cannons" which Samus can shoot out from when in morphball form. Additionally, a glowing orb of energy can be seen inside the morphball shell. So, you can deduce that she forward flips so fast that she turns into pure kinetic energy held together by heavy plating of the morphball. Hence why when the Space Pirates tried to recreate the morphball technology, they failed because they did it completely opposite of how it actually works.

[@fsi2210]

This video made me emotional, fk me ded, emotional over a game. Metroid Prime was that amazing.

[@kanetombs1275]

I just finished Metroid prime One using prime hack which allows the mouse and keyboard, I did the playthrough on the maximum difficulty... I had a really good time up until I think the last boss and a half and some of the space pirates became a bit much near the last couple hours. Truly amazing game, that marriage of exploration from Metroid with first person shooter was genius. Holds up amazingly well.

[@NauticalOnion]

Metroid Prime is such a nostalgic thing for me (as it is for alot of us im sure) I got so engrossed by the lore, the flora and fauna, the music. Everything this game does is brilliant. Truly a masterpiece.

[@XradicalD]

I'm actually surprised you went ahead and reviewed this game, seeing as it's not a traditional FPS. And I'm glad to see that MP has stood the test of time nicely. Also that you also pointed out the nature of it: getting games on the 90s - 2000s used to be a harder thing before, so having longer games with plenty of content was often hit or miss but kept you entertained while waiting for your next purchase. MP was also part of this. I remember liking Metroid Prime a lot, but I will go ahead and say that the latter games don't live up to the expectations of Prime 1. I don't think I ever finished 2 due the confusing nature of it and 3 was just too lineal and oversimplified. Or so I remember them.

[@josdeman5754]

This game blew my mind back in the day. Finished a new playthrough last week and it blew my mind again.

[@cliftongardner4367]

I remember playing this game and just being absorbed in it. In fact, I credit it for my newfound love of FPS games in my late teenage and adult years. I also remember my roommate in college coming back once and talking crap about GameCube games looking ugly and I was playing this and he was like "wait - this isn't the XBox 360??"

[@francesboy2]

Metroid prime hunters on the DS was surprising good as well

[@Kafurai]

Little tip about the mutated Metroids, they are indeed immune to all beams except one, but they are all super vulnerable to power bombs! Do not waste time: avoid the fight, and if you get caught, morphball and powerbomb instantly, most of the time it kills all of them in one bomb. Problem solved. ;) In fact most ennemies in this game have a "normal" way to be killed and a "super effective" one. This is just one of many exemples.

[@nintendokings]

Crazy to think a graphics jump from Super to Prime was 8 years. Looking at 2013 vs 2021 it’s not that big of a deal

[@_ArsNova]

Have long awaited you to discuss my second favorite game, second only to Metroid Prime 2 :)

[@Fiendzy]

Easily my favourite review of the game, thank you gman for doing this game justice. :D