I hate to say that i wanted to love this game as much as super or fusion but some major issues causes me to only really like it. First of all i played it on the wii and im glad, it felt way more immersive and fluid. The gameplay, controls and graphics were really in line with the rest of the series and as were the enemies. The bosses were kind of hit and miss but i thought most were unique and cool so i forgive some stinkers, meta ridley may be slow bit he was so cool and the final boss was also really cinematic. Now to my problems. First of all the map design and structure i found really annoying, the amount of backtracking through biomes beats almost every other game in the series. Some kind of fast travle or more area connections would be appreciated. Second is the collectables. The artifacts i am not going to go into but i thought they were just padding and hated them. They slowed down the pace of my playthrough to a halt with backtracking and bullshit secrets. Also i found many of the power bomb and missile expansions locations were so bullshit. Dont get me wrong in the older games some spots were shit aswell but atleast there there were markers for in which room there was a secret here oyu have to scan every wall to see if it can be destroyed or tampered with. The decision to not bring secret markers for prime back is baffeling to me. I do really like metroid prime but with some tweaks this game could have ben a 10 and that frustrates me to no end.

Reviewed on Oct 14, 2023


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