Yeah, no. I really hate this.

Terrible combat, especially once they begin to introduce the space pirates and weapon specific enemies. Terrible platforming that feels floaty and way to weighty in exactly the wrong places. Terrible progression, even with some tolerance for backtraking, the items the game chooses to guide you to versus the ones they don't is baffling to me.

The only real positives I can see are the music, which is very tense and genuinely beautiful in moments, and the atmosphere, which is extremely solid.

I wonder if this game's reputation is because of it being in a more popular genre (a kinda-FPS), being a spin on an old franchise or simply because people were starved for good shooters on the GameCube.

Maybe we'll never know.