Ultimate Cutscene Comparison - METROID PRIME: REMASTERED vs. METROID PRIME TRILOGY

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A comparison of a bunch of cutscenes from Metroid Prime: Remastered and the Trilogy version of Metroid Prime for the Wii. God, the Remastered version is pretty.
Credits for the Metroid Prime (core) cutscene as I skipped that one in the trilogy version, oops: • Metroid Prime Final Bo...

[@game-and-mic]

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[@eosaeostre9242]

Even seeing the product of 20 years of graphical advancement right next to it, the original graphics of the game still hold up to this day. It’s very impressive.

[@dufric88]

Definitely. Like, yes the new one looks better in almost every way, but the old still looks amazing in it's own right.

[@jaredcrane3845]

In some places I prefer the original look. Remaster is the way to play though

[@Shendue]

Art style.

[@vitormoraes8320]

@@Shendue indeed. A good art direction will make any media stand the test of time.

[@leoorellana6472]

Yeah honestly There is not nearly as much difference as you would expect from a 20 year difference. Just the textures look better.

[@lumalilies]

9:50 the omega pirate breaks out of its test tube, instantly has a heart attack, and falls on samus, dead

[@zachplayback]

"Guys... I think... I think we fucked it up."

[@ragnell27]

I told you guys that he was getting to much Red Bull!

[@alexmurray8925]

When suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack! The Omega Pirate peril, was ended. The search for Meta Ridley, could continue

[@FoxySpartan117]

​@@zachplayback🤣🤣

[@thronosstudios]

When I first saw Remastered I was like "I don't get it... it looks exactly as I remember". Then I saw the comparison videos and I was like "0_0 whoa"

[@ADreamingTraveler]

What's so mindblowing is how they made it look exactly how our brains think how we remember it looking

[@unfa00]

That's how a good remaster is done! It makes the game look like it was done today, but it's still the exact same game! Not a reboot or remake - these can vary much more.

[@OneWhoKnowsThings6009]

phazon suit in gamecube og version of metroid prime was waaaaaay better

[@thronosstudios]

@@OneWhoKnowsThings6009 I can agree with that. There were some things in the comparison videos that were done better in the OG version than in the remaster, so yeah

[@Numbskill]

I think that’s what the best kind of remasters should be like. It should look how we remembered it through rose tinted glasses, but still feel the same as it did all those years ago.

[@john-fi2ni]

I really enjoy the comical amount of space pirates that fly out of every explosion of the frigate. It's like they had more pirates in the walls than parasites.

[@CHAEU555]

I didn't even notice the Space Pirates flying out of the explosions until I read your comment and rewatched the scene. It is pretty comical.

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

That had me on the floor lol

[@Fredcat11]

Indeed, that ship at start of the game was pretty much dead ship until Samus arrived.

[@Anonie324]

I was hoping someone else noticed! They're just *everywhere*!

[@duckway4733]

Considering how ruthless and brutal the pirates are, I wouldn't be surprised if they stuffed each other in walls as punishment for disobedience 💀

[@RukiHyena]

3:03 has to be one of the coolest new animations they did with how the particles and and transition is with the downgrading suit, next to the Metroid prime chase animations where she doesn't look like a stiff robot chasing Prime

[@RukiHyena]

just reached that part, whoever made this video actually didn't include the transitions between floors in the prime chase, that actually was one of the bigger changes in the game cinematics.

[@Oh-Ben]

I like how the original devs where determined to show Samus's suit malfunction in real time instead of swapping the model with a camera change. Remastered version Is likely what the wanted to do.

[@soulbot119]

I like how Ridley flies by flapping his wings in the vacuum of space

[@tdogable]

Lol I was thinking about this today. They should’ve given him a jet pack or something.

[@10191927]

🤔 Well he is mechanically enhanced

[@thomaspopa3354]

@@10191927 what does that have to do with wings flapping against… empty space?

[@superbeta1716]

@@thomaspopa3354 Space pirate tech

[@wiilov]

Ridley does what he wants. You gonna tell him he can't?

[@swanandrew]

I think my favorite part is how different the Plasma Beam looks. In the Gamecube and Trilogy versions, it just looks like molten rock in-between the spaces in the arm cannon, but in the remaster, it looks like actual flowing magma, it looks incredible.

[@mmert138]

The left one is how I remember it looking. I first saw it and said "yeah, they did not improve much" but after seeing the old footage, the difference is massive. And that is not all, the old ones still look amazing. The Retro Studios guys are amazing.

[@delpierro0815]

Interesting, that they moved the camera further away in the remake in some cases to show more of the scenery, good choice.

[@10191927]

I’m playing this right now on the OLED, man the graphics are insane, they overhauled this game yet it retains the gameplay. The dual stick controls are so good, it’s incredible they made this game work in a modern setting.

[@FreaKzero]

The "big thing" i encountered as i was playing it was the first Boss it was just "O F..... how cool is that - LOOK AT HIM" And afterwards just the lighting and updated props - absolut master remake and i normally hate remakes.

[@WarningStrangerDanger]

Medium to high dual stick controls with low-sensitivity gyroscopic aim on top is incredibly natural. I can make those slight adjustments for hitting ranged things that the stick would overshoot at sensitivities high enough to turn around. I can press right on the right stick to quickly turn, but at range that results in a harder time hitting precisely. With motion aim on top, I can have ranged precision AND fast turning. Because the motion controls are the low-sensitivity controls, they don't get in the way of normal gameplay like if you'd reversed the sensitivities. This closes the gap between a mouse and a controller because one of the most critical deficits the controller has is the inability to ratchet up speed. A mouse can be aimed with the fingers, wrist, elbow, or shoulder with progressively higher speed movements as needed. A control stick lacks this capability entirely. With the invention of gyroscopic aim, however, it can do what a hand or wrist could have done with a mouse without sacrificing the elbow or shoulder aim speeds a mouse would also have.

[@audie-cashstack-uk4881]

the dualsticks WITH THE GYRO make it work

[@tekgeekster]

​@@FreaKzerothat's because it's not a remake. it's a remaster.

[@plotpoints1034]

meh. It's better though not that much better.

[@robertfalkenberg]

I brought Metroid Remsaterd & I played it for a half hours and I can't believe how the graphics are. They are so enhanced, so damn excellent that I couldn't believe that I am playing Metroid Prime back when I had it on Gamecube. I hope they do the same to the 2nd & 3rd ones like they did with the first one cause man, the Remastered just blew me away.

[@phixix]

This really puts it into perspective that the character modelling budget in MP1 all went on Samus XD

[@VexAcer]

It really did. The model for Samus in the GC game was 9-10k triangles which is super high for that gen (The normal amount was 2-4k). That model appears in every cutscene and whenever you switch out of morphball mode. Although the models used for the multiplayer in MP2 or the reflections from the Chozo Ruins in MP1 use a low-poly model.

[@Nyxael5845]

@@VexAcer Samus' model in the GC version had approx. 8k triangles in her full model. Samus in the Remastered version has a whopping 56k triangles, which is about 7 times higher than its original counterpart.

[@samquik]

9:44 they went crazy remodeling the Omega Pirate, he has the biggest glow-up between the two versions of the game. looks so much scarier!

[@petersoar2886]

I never noticed the dead space pirates flying out into space as the frigate explodes before. Sweet!!

[@MrCHAMMOND]

Phazon Suit looks glorious. Still my absolute favorite suit ever.

[@96Vladek]

Makes me very excited for a potential Prime 2 Remastered, which has my personal favorite (Light Suit).

[@Skeith1Phase]

So like who does she bill for all this carnage? Is she recording everything in her helmet and sends it to Galactic Federation with a big fat invoice?

[@supramanx1997]

It's a bounty or a contract or she's just doing it pro Bono because eff space pirates. Whatever happens is just part of the job, you either think it's worth the trouble to attempt and you do it at the upfront price, or you pass.

[@zn6632u]

this mission is pure love of the game

[@JohnHPV]

Nintendo didnt knew what a bounty hunter was, thee saw samus as a Heroine of space. That is why you never see a payout or o something similar

[@goldtorizo2294]

i imagine it started with the distress beacon for pay, then changed to fuck up ridley for the bounty, then changed to gotta help my surrogate ancestors with their meteor trouble

[@nihilvox]

I'd assume it went something like 1- Samus is cruising around between contracts 2- Distress Signal. Samus detects a chance to do a good deed and probably get paid. 3- Actually, it is pirates. 4- Samus hates those guys. Investigate, wreck them, send the Federation a report since they surely have a standing bounty on wrecking pirates.

[@2URLex]

I still get the same chills on Thardus intro. All these years and I love this game more and more. I hope we get Echoes and Corruption.

[@Jsteiner1974]

I'm bummed that they didn't use the gamecube phazon suit acquisition cutscene. It was way better than the one from the wii version.

[@boomguitarjared]

Ooh ryte, wasn't she kinda twitching in a strained way coming out of it in that version? it was uber koul ahnd gave an impression of how extreme the phazons incorporation to the suit was.

[@ashura9699]

She also strikes a sick pose.

[@ridley2172]

i was really hoping they would when i fought the omega pirate, but i'm glad they at least readded t he ice beam freezing the gun because they got rid of it in the trilogy version yet you can still hear the sound effect of it happening

[@Guitarheadleo777]

Yeah i know right?!

[@petergriscom3431]

Every time someone does a comparison video, they just use the Wii port. It's so frustrating.

[@Khedaar]

The Varia Suit in HD. Dreams come true. Prime 2 & 3 now please xD

[@masteryoshi87]

You know, a better comparison would be the Prime hack with all it's side features.

[@DekkarJr]

Blurs the line of Remake and Remaster lol. They created a lot of new assets for this game. It runs so amazingly well too.

[@Agen_octo8]

The Original is better in this secuence 6:52

[@Austroid]

14:46 Anyone else prefer Samus having a more realistic face as opposed to the anime-like one? She always looked more believable as a warrior here compared to nowadays with the excessive makeup and stark yellow hair.

[@kdaltex]

I prefer the original prime face. you can see it in the visor reflections. No idea why they didn't keep it

[@groudonor12]

@@kdaltex they did keep it though....

[@mrdoggo3569]

@@kdaltex you can see her face in reflections lol.

[@ggamer77]

Samus always puts on her face before destroying space pirate armies.

[@kdaltex]

@@mrdoggo3569 I know. They updated the reflection face but didn't use it for when she took off the helmet. Bugs the hell out of me and idk why more people aren't mentioning it. Original face was the best

[@cinnamonrollsinpasas4890]

cant wait they make a remaster of Echoes, that was my first Prime saga i played

[@Burning-Moon]

@7:18 Just imagine, you're a Space Pirate, and you hear the alarm sound. The doors are locked, and you go to the source, only to find two hunters. Both Samus. My favorite cutscene without a doubt, is after you beat Thardaus. It always has been, and always will be.

[@Halo44327]

The original game is very impressive but I’m glad they did major extensive upgrades to the remaster.

[@maravreloaded]

Samus' suit looks amazing even 20 years ago not much change.

[@roflBeck]

This is a badass release though. They upped the graphics so much but did a great job preserving the original look.

[@Senpada]

Luckily not too many spoilers in this video...

[@Liliphant_]

Samus looks so stressed when she sees the metroid.

[@OutOfTouch_YT]

I love how the story of Metroid Prime 1 is basically, a symbiote fell on Samus and assimilated with her suit, turning into Bully Aran after having fought a Titan. Most of this whole mission is she's really just trolling the space pirates that're pooping their pants when she finally gets to their homeworld. Then after the final boss, Metroid Prime basically became like Venom and possess the phazon suit there after!

[@BeeWaifu]

NO. PLEASE TELL ME THAT GODAWFUL INTRO NARRATION IS JUST IN THE TRILOGY

[@EvaNorthrup]

it is just in the trilogy

[@DeskoDev]

It's in the Switch version, but toggleable. It's not in the US version of the Trilogy at all.

[@OrreFan54]

The Drifts look incredible

[@Smitty8008]

I'm at the end of the remaster and get myself to finish it I need the other 2 games like this now please

[@cometsands]

They really perfected the lighting in the Remaster

[@Dash123456789Brawl]

I dunno about that, Samus looked pretty dim while she was literally on fire, as her armour burned up in the remaster. It feels like her suit should be reflecting a lot more light in that scene, but not quite as much as the original version.

[@Vanoroc]

awesome, childhood right there

[@guybrush3000]

they freaking nailed it

[@thejoker9998]

Fantastic Remaster but it would have been awesome if they did what Halo 1 and 2 Anniversary did adding the feature to switch between the Orignal Graphics and the new. Still very satisfied with it non the less. Hope we get Prime 2 + 3 in HD on the switch soon!

[@305SEGA305]

The original on a CRT TV looks amazing 🎮

[@AlejandroMorales-cx2mh]

Everything is perfect, excpet Samus face

[@Jerberjer]

I just wanna say that even though the remaster IS better quality overall, the pixels were not NEARLY as apparent in the original as this vid makes it out to be. the CRT really did wonders for low resolution stuff

[@erick77dp7]

I miss the original phazon suit scene. Wish they had used that one over the trilogy version

[@Echohah]

One of the first games that I played was Metroid Prime, and I always loved the graphics. The new version is ALMOST exactly the same. The narrator is kind of annoying, and that is basically the only thing that bugs me. When I first played it, though (the GameCube one), I never knew Samus was a girl! So that's why I was so happy at the end of the game whenever she took off her helmet and I found that out! Knowing at the beginning kind of ruins the memory of not knowing, I honestly thought Samus was a robot. There goes my childhood surprise 😆

[@ghostofsilence2697]

The only thing I don't like about the remaster is how toned down a lot of the effects are, in both scale and opacity. Other than that it's nearly perfect

[@copingflower1909]

I may be an idiot for waiting to play this masterpiece till the physically release but dammit I don't exactly trust Nintendo to honor me a digital game forever, that and if one day I ever homebrew my switch I'd rather have most of my games in case my account gets banned off of my switch

[@roflBeck]

It's a shame we still need original model Switches to softmod. Glad that's what I got. It's a great game though, hope ya enjoy.

[@davidgreen6737]

the new one makes the metroids look more edible

[@robertkenny1201]

Is it just me or does Omega Pirate have a more Resident Evilish look to him in the Switch version?

[@DovonMac1]

13:25 Wii colorful explosions switch just blue

[@KaneoHakune]

Samus' stance after the Omega Pirate is different in the original game too.

[@adrabbit9310]

Gamecube/wii samus model actually really nice for the time

[@HarmonicWave]

Woah, I had no idea that all the cut scenes together don't even add up to 16 minutes. Crazy.

[@markh995]

Metroid Prime was a good example of "Show; don't tell." It didn't need two hours of cutscenes to tell the story, we got the story by playing, scanning creatures and artifacts, and exploring the world. It's my favorite game from that generation.

[@bemad7886]

2:30 most aesthetic scene in any nintendo game right here

[@otaking3582]

Definitely looks better in Prime Trilogy

[@paris-1911]

10:22 what I would’ve given for them to change the cutscene back to its original animation 😂 oh well, still looks sick.

[@albertorodriguez3927]

Here's hoping they make her more badass in prime 4. Something like dread would be hard to beat. After so long waiting, I'm hoping 4 isnt just more of 1 2 and 3. I'd love an upgraded feel to it.

[@netweed09]

*And heck they delivered!!* 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳😎😎

[@albertorodriguez3927]

@@netweed09 it hasn't come out haha. The trailer looks like more 1 2 and 3 tbh. Aside from that story line which I'm all in for. Mocktroids behind Sylux?? I'm sold either way haha. But I want some melee attacks and some slides like in dread. It'd be so cool the have a sprint button too

[@netweed09]

@@albertorodriguez3927 Yea, she definitely needs a Sprint! Like Link's jump Button duck lol. Despite looking the _slightest_ bit zippier in that trailer We need more mobility , it would be a bit of a chore and not satisfying having to morph Ball round any larger expansive areas for minutes on end in real time.

[@albertorodriguez3927]

@@netweed09 exactly! A lot of that is missing in the previous installments. Like it'd be so cool to arm cannon bash a space pirate, slide under another immediately into morphball and bomb drop behind you only to jump out and grapple to another opponent. It's unlikely to be the case for this game, but a gamer can dream lmao

[@netweed09]

@@albertorodriguez3927 Yep , the issue is they stick to the 'tried and tested' too much, simply expecting you to Morph Ball and drop bombs and morph out to mix things up again. Combat should be refined as you said. I just want that wonderful script back where a significant threat appears and Samus' visor dramatically flashes and she does the code typing onto her armpad thing. 😎 Anyhow , at least it all looks Fantastic this time round and with a fresh new insight over a very Mysterious villain.

[@petergriscom3431]

The suit upgrade scenes look better in the original, I don't know why the particles don't sync up to the sound effect in the remaster.

[@Equinox_4D2]

The first thing I was happy about was that they fixed her foot when she lands in the very beginning

[@Tucher97]

One aspect I full heartily enjoy in Trilogy (I know how minor it sounds but stick with me), is the spring ball, sure its minor but in prime 2, the spring ball alone made the whole game a pleasant hike, my shins are fucked up but my entire legs aren't fucked up, even in prime 2, the constant dread I get when I have to deal with that one boss, sure its passable without the spring ball but its frustrating without. With spring ball, I find myself playing all 3 games and I say "they are all good"

[@96Vladek]

I don't think talking about the Spring Ball is unimportant, it was a great quality-of-life addition. Honestly, I also thought the motion controls for Trilogy were way bettter than the classic controls, and that's more important for me than "preserving the intended difficulty" of the original game.

[@Tucher97]

@@96Vladek That is true but I am harping on one boss where its not only a puzzle boss but its also timed, so much so the morphball bombs can feel really taxing, on the gamecube I was lucky. A quality of life for certain and I agree on the motion controls, sure there is merely a visual loss in prime1, but the games feel just as fine.

[@sinofsanity6593]

I'm close to finishing the remaster, you can clearly see what retro were aiming for with the tech we have now. ridley looks much more like his boss battle in the samus returns remake, you can clearly see where his organic parts are, makes him more frightening metroid prime returning as dark samus, the eye now looks like it belongs to someone, very creepy echoes revived H.P Lovecraft to tell him his career just ended, I can only imagine how dark it would look if echoes remastered got the same kind of work on it

[@bk327]

Does ANYONE ELSE notice when the ship is landing ay the very beginning, the background dust is blue just like the Metroid Prime 4 official teaser?

[@espurrseyes42]

COWARDS! Nor using the sick Phazon Suit GET cutscene from the Gamecube version.

[@Fafabear8]

14:41 my favorite part

[@robertkenny1201]

I really Prime 2 Echoes and Prime 3 Corruption get Remastered someday.

[@user-F1R35T0RM]

more 20 year and getting the Phazone suit still better in the orgianl version, love see Samus Suffer with all the Phazone and controlling it in the end

[@ammarahmad6422]

I Love Phendrana💙

[@irr3v]

Wait, there’s a narrator in the first scene?

[@swanandrew]

Yeah, and also at the end of the game, as well as whenever you start up a save. The narration was removed in the North American version, but it was still there in the European and Japanese versions. There's an option in the menu to shut it off if players want a more original experience.

[@cerebrophage7709]

Am I the only one who thinks that there are some shots in the original that are shown better than in the remaster?

[@flarecthefox6403]

I will only say that there are many people who do not know how to complain OMG THIS is a freaking Remake

[@Boi-xo1ho]

Its not

[@ADreamingTraveler]

@@Boi-xo1ho It blurs the bar between what is considered a remake and a remaster. Everybody seems to have their own definition of which is what. People say that since it has the same skeleton as Prime 1 on the Gamecube that it's technically a remaster but everything has been completely overhauled and updated to such a degree that it looks like a remake

[@Boi-xo1ho]

@@ADreamingTraveler i understand the point, and i have to say it does look like a remake, but to be a remake they had to make it from scrap, at 0, which they didnt, they worked on the Metroid Prime's base code and made a bunch of tweaks on textures and animations, and tbh its insanely well made

[@ammarahmad6422]

I miss Winter already.... when I hear Phendrana💙

[@moondawwg]

14:54 She went from looking like Kim Basinger to looking like Kristen Wiig.

[@sasook]

I just wish her visor wasn’t so opaque now

[@SnoozinFox]

8:47, you're welcome

[@netweed09]

The ''the 20000 year old Gamecube graphics hold up to this day'' opinion is getting a bit long in the tooth for me now guys, sorry. It's starting to get extremely predictable, like those ''1st!!'' comments that hit a trend but now have died down because sensible people grew tired of them. I mean , yes the GC was great for it's time but the graphics _do not_ hold up well *today* ppl: they lack fine detail. What _does_ 'hold up' though, is *that Epic opening.* It's Great that Beyond's opening follows in a similar vein of intensity.

[@VGMStudios33]

A-RAN Not Aaron. There are some things that I prefer in the original but it is a nice upgrade for sure.

[@bronyferienminuet2125]

What the heck is that dialoge at the beginning.

[@Downhuman74]

Phendrana Drifts are the only thing they got wrong on this remaster. It looks colder and more foreboding in the original.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

I always disliked the font used in the Prime games, wish a visual remake could revamp that, pick up a different font or alter the UI entirely. It does not look futuristic or sleek, the texts are just ugly looking. This "remaster" did not changed that, so I hope Prime 4 can embrace a more clean look (I did not like Metroid Dread, but the UI in this game looks pretty good and "modern")

[@Phoenix_1991]

This remaster was so good that people were actually calling it a "remakester".

[@netweed09]

😑

[@supramanx1997]

PLEASE tell me they left the corny voiceover out of the remaster, if only for NTSC... Like, we can get that but we can't get the perfectly acceptable suit voice telling us when all our power ups get busted in the opening sequence??

[@chozogoat]

Actually there's a toggle for no narration, partial, and full!

[@supramanx1997]

@@chozogoat good to know, now I just need to know what Exactly that option changes and when... That first narration is corny as hell, but I remember the first time I watched a playthrough or speedrun or something of the PAL version of prime and all the malfunctions in the beginning got read out loud, and wishing my version did that, but this male VO is just baaaad imo. It's horribly generic, not adding anything at all, and detracts from otherwise well composed moments. I think "corny" is still the best way to describe it for me...

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

@@supramanx1997 No narration = no voice at all. Partial narration = PAL Narration. Full narration = All narration including suit voices and area transitions

[@supramanx1997]

@@JacobNintendoNerd99 I was really hoping one of them would be the suit voices only...

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

@@supramanx1997 Full narration is your best bet since that includes all the suit voices, including some you may not be aware of. That's also the intended experience Retro and Nintendo designed (VA simply couldn't be finished before the original US release date so it was saved for the Japanese version). The intro and ending cutscene dialogue is included in both narration toggles, but not all suit voices are included in partial since they were not in any version except Japanese

[@MetaVaria]

They completely messed up the omega pirate

[@thefrostedchicken]

Just waiting for the trilogy…😊

[@DovonMac1]

14:42 switch More impressive, fire detail, but a better explosion, radius, and Wii version

[@superdinobros1262]

Bro this is Good as Destroy All Humans!

[@benjaminelterman8663]

If I am only going to buy one, which should I get, Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii or Metroid Prime remastered on Switch?

[@CarlosMartinez-cn8gz]

El mejor juego remasterizado que he visto

[@plotpoints1034]

Yea. It's not that much better. Trilogy for $20 wii u is a steal. Get before Wii U shop close mid March.

[@relicvault1515]

Eat your heart out, Gamefreak.

[@netweed09]

? Gamefreak don't focus on visuals primarily - they just do their thing in their on artstyle. Imagine wanting Unreal 5 engine Quality Todd in New Pokémon Snap. You don't understand the series if you're banging on down this narrative alleyway.

[@ethankoernke1329]

I see alot of texture reduction with the remake. It looks worse than what was released 22 years back. and it is way too dark in areas. And When you get to Phendrana and Ridly fly's over, the atmospheric Fog is not as Dense so Ridly just Blinks out of existence. It is bad. there needs to be an update and patch for allot of the issues with this type of stuff. The doors are missing texture and components that gave them character and show functionality with the animations. Allot has been downgraded in detail, and allot has been smoothed out allot, while even maintaining some lame downscaling issues. With the Plant Mantis there should have been a few more animations with it's attacks that where in the original, as well as it's growth animations should have shown more of an evolution as it grows. Not just downscaling as in the original. there is allot more, but it is a continued issue since Prime Trilogy for Wii.

[@MrLeComteDream]

At last, finaly one who see what i see too... I agree. A big downgrade of complexity and details compare to the first one, including the harmony. The original Metrod Prime game is an ambitious fictive realist visual. And it has been destroyed because of a lack of experience. A good remaster is an upgrade of what is already here, like upgrading resolution, adding more détails for better coherence, better animation... And never taking off something. The last metroid games were closely in the same level of high details than the First Retro Studio Team, so why nintendo din't care baout it in that one ? Reasons most possible : It can the new team wich isn't experienced enough to endure such level of complexity, or they have collaborate with extern teams like mentionned in the credits who are not experienced enough, or both. And the worse, wich is affirmative by the release of it by nintendo direction ( not enough money, or time, or voluntee) : they didn't care (at all or enough) about respecting visual art signature, and fictive realism. Iit's a distaster in the visual art specialist eyes !

[@roflBeck]

I'm a little confused about why they changed the Phazon Suit animation (I've now been reminded that the change was from the Trilogy version). The original animation was cooler imo.

[@sapodillaice]

game cube version has better raining animation. really don't know what happened with NS, most of the raining animation are sucks in NS game.

[@TheWrathofdoom]

Ok the remaster looks awesome, but is $60 worth it? And trust me I am a huge Metroid fan but still $60?

[@juansanchez209]

Good thing it's not $60 then! It's $40 :)

[@midnightbloomofeorzea7182]

It's actually only $40, which imo is very much worth it.

[@Boi-xo1ho]

Its $40

[@Singleraxis]

14:50 this is the Samus I wanna see in the next metroid game, not this stupid anime version like in 2 and 3... :/

[@johnetanneso5095]

Totally right. She looks like catherine deneuve, a french actress 😅

[@oscaraleman4950]

I still prefer much of the original design. In my opinion some of the bosses ended up looking a little bit cartoonish in the Remaster. Take the Phazon Elite, Omega and Sheegoth as examples. The lighting is drastically improved yet I feel it took away some of the dark, distressed, eroded, worn elements from the original game. I even feel Phazon looks less menacing in this remaster. I remember being kinda grossed by the original Phazon with its vines and almost fungi like appearance.

[@moondawwg]

In other words: wahhhh wahhhh wahhhhh

[@jimmyklein4832]

I thought the final boss looked cooler in the og lol

[@WarningStrangerDanger]

I'm not a fan of the endlessly blinking aperture on the remastered Arm Cannon. It is more distracting and annoying for no reason. If it did this when she was firing it would at least have context, but this just seems like a mistake made worse by the fact that it is shown in every cutscene.

[@MasterSprintersan1]

Funnily enough, I actually love how it’s always glowing like that. It’s as if it’s always just pulsing with energy and whatnot. Of course, you feel otherwise, which is fine! I just wanted to share my view, too X3

[@thegodpharaohsraven8538]

Why the narration 😑

[@MrMegaMetroid]

It always had narration mate. Beginning and end cutscene

[@bioforest6602]

​@MrMegaMetroid Only if you're PAL. America never got them. Apparently there's more narration in the Japanese version.

[@jonbitz9618]

Just found it in the options of the remaster you can switch it to the PAL or Japanese narration or turn it off

[@samuelpowell5021]

Promo>SM

[@EvaNorthrup]

Okay, but why does remastered samus have a buttcrack detail on her suit now???????? Edit: okay I guess it was always there, but its more noticeable now

[@netweed09]

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