Just finished Metroid Prime 1 for the first time (Wii version).
I first played this game on the Gamecube when I was about 13. I could never get past the Omega Pirate.
Good game. I think it's admirable that despite the change to a first person shooter presentation it's still very unmistakably a Metroid game.
Finishing a game you couldn't finish as a kid is a very uniquely fulfilling experience, I don't have that many left at this point, so it's becoming an increasingly rare one for me...
I first played this game on the Gamecube when I was about 13. I could never get past the Omega Pirate.
Good game. I think it's admirable that despite the change to a first person shooter presentation it's still very unmistakably a Metroid game.
Finishing a game you couldn't finish as a kid is a very uniquely fulfilling experience, I don't have that many left at this point, so it's becoming an increasingly rare one for me...
@Indigo I still haven't played it. I'm pretty sure it's good but I feel like part of the charm of Metroid was that it brought non-linearity to a perspective that is normally for linear games which is why I get that a lot of people were uneasy about the change.
@xianc78 Yeah, that's about what I remember about the press when it was first announced, people were scared Nintendo/Retro Studios were going to turn Metroid into Halo or something.
Most of that worry died when the game actually came out and it was still a proper Metroidvania game, just adjusted to an FPS perspective and a 3D map; which I think turned out very well overall. There are certain things that didn't translate too well, they kept a lot of the platforming aspect of Metroid, and they didn't make the jump to first person too well; judging distance with the grapple beam is probobly the worst offender.
Most of that worry died when the game actually came out and it was still a proper Metroidvania game, just adjusted to an FPS perspective and a 3D map; which I think turned out very well overall. There are certain things that didn't translate too well, they kept a lot of the platforming aspect of Metroid, and they didn't make the jump to first person too well; judging distance with the grapple beam is probobly the worst offender.
