Metroid Prime Trilogy is an exceptional collection that revisits Samus Aran's iconic 3D adventures with beautiful visuals and the intuitive motion controls of the Wii Remote. Prime 1's atmospheric exploration and world-building remain superb, while Prime 2 and 3 offer greater action and varied environments. This compilation provides a seamless and immersive journey through a classic trilogy of the Metroid series, delivering superb value for any fan of first-person adventures and sci-fi exploration.
THE PEAK, THE RAW AND THE GAS!!
Honestly don't see what isn't to like about this collection.
Hot take: I am actually not a big fan of the design of Prime 1. It felt tedious and repetitive, but the motion controls here help actually. They help the first 2 games a lot.
You get just so much value out of this one package. And a really great experience when you look at all of it together.
If you haven't played these yet, they should be on your radar.
Hot take: I am actually not a big fan of the design of Prime 1. It felt tedious and repetitive, but the motion controls here help actually. They help the first 2 games a lot.
You get just so much value out of this one package. And a really great experience when you look at all of it together.
If you haven't played these yet, they should be on your radar.
Fue la primera vez que probé un metroid la verdad, me pase los 3 y quede muy sorprendido, algunos eran un poco pesados pero estaban muy bien.
I only beat MP1 on this one (for a total of 3 times by now, dayum), blocking way earlier on MP2 while still unfinished on GameCube and done way more progresses than expected on MP3C.
It's truly the prime of Metroid... three times
I don't think Metroidvanias are for me. The constant backtracking is extremely tedious and going through the same 3 areas gets a bit draining. On a more positive note, the game has a fantastic soundtrack (especially tallon overworld), The boss fights are very good for the most part, and the atmosphere is great. I would totally recommend these games for anyone who likes metroidvanias. Might pick these back up later on, maybe when prime 4 comes out.
Terrible choice to remove some of the best title screens in all of gaming but its fine I guess 🙄
These games are really great, and its unfortunate we've had to wait so long for another installment in this side series. IIRC I liked MP2 the most with 1 closely behind
A fine artisan wine going out of it's way to make a great trilogy even more accessible for people around the time of it's release. There's absolutely no negatives here. It's aces.
Still waiting on the Switch version but hey according to Twitter, the Switch 2/Pro is going to happen literally tomorrow and THAT'S when they're gonna drop Prime 4 and this. Totally, guys. My dad works at Nintendo.
Still waiting on the Switch version but hey according to Twitter, the Switch 2/Pro is going to happen literally tomorrow and THAT'S when they're gonna drop Prime 4 and this. Totally, guys. My dad works at Nintendo.
Good trilogy
Three must-play games.
Love all three of them, motion controls feel great. Best way to play these games
3 games in one!? Holy cannoli!
A collection of 3 amazing Metroid games all in one place, with the Multiplayer of Prime 2 included! What more can you ask for? The collection is amazing with the addition of achievements to the first two prime games but I will say being forced to use Prime 3's controls does hurt a bit.
This is where the Prime 4 review would be. Take it as a placeholder.
Oh and Trilogy? 10/10.
Oh and Trilogy? 10/10.
I remember the Wii U eShop days when this was the biggest steal in gaming history
A perfect trilogy. The new Wii controls for Prime 1 and 2 are somehow even better than the original, but they don't necessarily make the original games obsolete.
This is a top tier game copilation, and the 3 games inside are also so good (Idk about Prime 3 yet, but 1 and 2 are so masterful even if 3 sucked ass it'd still be amazing).
Good fun. People seem to dislike 3 the most but it’s the only one I didn’t need a walkthrough to navigate. I never use walkthroughs but 3d Metroid is hard to navigate and the map is hard to look at. Very fun other than that.
It's got a cool metal box. I like metal and I like boxes. Easiest 5/5 ever
Adding a Power Bomb barrier to the Plasma Beam without any nearby power bomb ammo spawns is an utterly unnecessary fuck-you to the players. This barrier does not exist in the original. It only exists because Retro hates even the possibility of sequence breaking, which only illustrates that they barely understood what made Super Metroid a great game in the first place. Coupled with an inferior script that attempts to patch plot-holes, while removing the techno-spiritual edge of the original, makes this the inferior method for experiencing Prime 1.
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They also jacked up the HP of Prime phase 2, AND made Meta Ridley more irritating. He gains a new shit-tier attack that he spams over and over, all the while being invulnerable. This makes their respective bouts an insufferably terrible way to end the game.
To top this all off, every time I play a Prime I feel I like the series just a little bit less due to tedium and glaring plotholes killing my immersion.
So many of the key bosses in the series are simply not fun. With tiny janky hurtboxes and time-wasting invulnerability animations where they spam the same few braindead attacks over and over. In terms of mechanical execution I'm starting to think the entire series barely deserves above a 7/10, and only coasts by so highly due to excellent world tone in 1 & 2.
Tone that rapidly begins to falter when a close examination of the full scanlog across the series reveals a slapdash unplanned story that repeatedly had to retcon itself. Tallon IV and Zebes being in the same star system especially irks me. The leviathan crashes 20 years ago in the first version of the script, "indeterminately long ago" in the Pal version onwards, until once again being retconned in Prime 3 to 50 years ago. Yet there's supposed to be a Chozo civilization on Zebes that have no involvement with Tallon IV before raising Samus and disappearing in time for Zero Mission? The original Prime 1 Chozo Lore script at least implied that they were the Zebesian Chozo and knew of Samus as the Hatchling, but that entire version of the script was dumpstered by the Trilogy version.
It's absurd that a script rewrite that was supposed to patch the "How is Metroid Prime inside the crater?" plothole not only introduced more plotholes, but also failed to even address the original fucking plothole. Phazon metroids can't phase through energy barriers. It's how they're kept in containment on Elysia. Metroid Prime had to have either come from Phaaze itself, or burrowed into the crater through a path we don't see ingame that bypasses the Chozo energy barrier. If there is a path past the energy barrier besides the artifact gate, which is plausible as evidenced by how phazon is leaking out anyways, then the initial plothole that instigated this bullshit rewrite DIDN'T EVEN EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Anyone who thinks that Metroid Prime isn't a metroid is also dead wrong. The phase 2 of its bossfight show it spawning new metroids. Prime 3 also heavily implies that phazon metroids eventually molt into primes via the hopping metroids.
Seriously though, negatively impacting casual play over paranoia surrounding sequence breaking is inexcusable.
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They also jacked up the HP of Prime phase 2, AND made Meta Ridley more irritating. He gains a new shit-tier attack that he spams over and over, all the while being invulnerable. This makes their respective bouts an insufferably terrible way to end the game.
To top this all off, every time I play a Prime I feel I like the series just a little bit less due to tedium and glaring plotholes killing my immersion.
So many of the key bosses in the series are simply not fun. With tiny janky hurtboxes and time-wasting invulnerability animations where they spam the same few braindead attacks over and over. In terms of mechanical execution I'm starting to think the entire series barely deserves above a 7/10, and only coasts by so highly due to excellent world tone in 1 & 2.
Tone that rapidly begins to falter when a close examination of the full scanlog across the series reveals a slapdash unplanned story that repeatedly had to retcon itself. Tallon IV and Zebes being in the same star system especially irks me. The leviathan crashes 20 years ago in the first version of the script, "indeterminately long ago" in the Pal version onwards, until once again being retconned in Prime 3 to 50 years ago. Yet there's supposed to be a Chozo civilization on Zebes that have no involvement with Tallon IV before raising Samus and disappearing in time for Zero Mission? The original Prime 1 Chozo Lore script at least implied that they were the Zebesian Chozo and knew of Samus as the Hatchling, but that entire version of the script was dumpstered by the Trilogy version.
It's absurd that a script rewrite that was supposed to patch the "How is Metroid Prime inside the crater?" plothole not only introduced more plotholes, but also failed to even address the original fucking plothole. Phazon metroids can't phase through energy barriers. It's how they're kept in containment on Elysia. Metroid Prime had to have either come from Phaaze itself, or burrowed into the crater through a path we don't see ingame that bypasses the Chozo energy barrier. If there is a path past the energy barrier besides the artifact gate, which is plausible as evidenced by how phazon is leaking out anyways, then the initial plothole that instigated this bullshit rewrite DIDN'T EVEN EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Anyone who thinks that Metroid Prime isn't a metroid is also dead wrong. The phase 2 of its bossfight show it spawning new metroids. Prime 3 also heavily implies that phazon metroids eventually molt into primes via the hopping metroids.
Seriously though, negatively impacting casual play over paranoia surrounding sequence breaking is inexcusable.
The Metroid Prime Trilogy as a complete package, is one of the best in gaming. Three iconic games in their own right, now with enhanced motion controls. I actually enjoy how the motion controls feel, but I do wish there was an option to play the games without them as well. I've completed the first Metroid Prime, and intend to finish Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption eventually.
These are 3 amazing games and awesome first person adventure/action games.
My only issues are are from the second game which has some bad designed bosses. To much back tracking and a terrible endgame fetch quest. Overall though I would highly recommend to give these games a try.
My only issues are are from the second game which has some bad designed bosses. To much back tracking and a terrible endgame fetch quest. Overall though I would highly recommend to give these games a try.
The ultimate trilogy, with improved graphics (HD ports) and new wii controls. Nothing to say other than, well, it’s a trilogy of some of the best games for gamecube and wii. And it’s metroid prime. You can’t go wrong.
I've only beaten the first game out of the three, and wasn't a huge fan of it. I appreciate and acknowledge what it has done for gaming as a whole, though.
Absolute masterpieces here. Such detailed, immersive sci-fi worlds that constantly amaze me.
Thank god for the Spring Ball being added to prime 1+2, I could never beat the Spider Guardian on GameCube.
Easily one of the best video game trilogy collections of all time. I don't have much to say about this version specifically, so please check out my review for each individual game instead:
- Metroid Prime (2002): https://backloggd.com/u/Francca/review/678380/
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004): https://backloggd.com/games/metroid-prime-2-echoes/
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007): https://backloggd.com/games/metroid-prime-3-corruption/
I have also reviewed Metroid Prime Remastered (2023), which can be found here: https://backloggd.com/u/Francca/review/879459/
- Metroid Prime (2002): https://backloggd.com/u/Francca/review/678380/
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004): https://backloggd.com/games/metroid-prime-2-echoes/
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007): https://backloggd.com/games/metroid-prime-3-corruption/
I have also reviewed Metroid Prime Remastered (2023), which can be found here: https://backloggd.com/u/Francca/review/879459/
Still blown away by the absolute theft this title was. Maybe the best game collection ever arranged.