Metroid Prime Remastered was exactly what I expected. They took a classic masterpiece and made it beautiful, added a lot of detail, and gave major quality of life improvements (mainly the dual stick controls) and made a masterpiece even better.

Talon IV is more beautiful but the atmosphere is still very much the same. An obviously dying yet beautiful planet filled with mystery. Metroid is the greatest franchise of all time when it comes to atmosphere and the graphical improvements did not hurt the charm and wonder of the originals feel but it did manage to even improve upon it.

I would definitely play this game on the normal setting and not casual. I always play games on normal or harder but since I had already played this and mainly just wanted to experience the world in its new paint I chose casual mode which basically made Samus indestructible. Enemies do very little damage which led to no challenge at all. So even if you are like me and just re exploring this wonderful game keep the difficulty where it should be.

I hope with this game selling well, Nintendo pumping up fusion on the switch, and Dread doing so well that Nintendo will begin giving Metroid the respect that quite frankly it deserves.