Metroid prime ds5/24/2023 ![]() Every planet has unique enemies with certain attack patterns, and the pacing never slows down for a second. The story mode - while feeling a bit empty in terms of immersive storyline - feels like a solid action game. The game never feels like you are out of control, and the removal of a multitude of Prime gameplay features such as alternate beams, as well as other Metroid power ups does not take away from the actual gameplay experience. The Gameplay The Good:ĭespite trying to cram the gameplay of Metroid Prime into a tiny Nintendo DS cart sounding like an impossibility, Metroid Prime: Hunters actually pulls it off quite well. This is ultimately a failing resulting from the game's focus on multiplayer, but it is a failing nonetheless as the game strongly lacks the immersion that players get from other Metroid Prime titles. The Scan Visor - despite being present - is completely worthless due to its poorly integrated design, as well as the entry logs feeling as though the developers were not invested in the game's world. While I normally praise the Prime series for its strong plot, Prime: Hunters lacks the care that was taken in building the worlds seen in previous titles. Why the game was titled Prime: Hunters is a mystery, unless of course Prime has simply become synonymous with "first-person Metroid" at this point. In Prime we fought the titular creature at the end of the game, in Prime 2 it showed itself in the form of Dark Samus, and in Prime 3, Dark Samus returns again to ruin our day. Oddly enough, despite being called Metroid Prime: Hunters, the game is the only one in the series to not feature Metroid Prime itself. Their desires include: the conquest-fueled Trace, the vengeance seeking Space Pirate Weavel, the power-mad super soldier Kanden, and the Galactic Federation's prime enemy Sylux. The other four hunters, however, have malevolent plans for the Ultimate Power. Noxus simply searches for the Ultimate Power to aid him in a battle against wrong-doers and crime throughout the galaxy, meanwhile Spire wants to retrieve the power so that he can discover the fate or location of his long-lost civilization. Not all bounty hunters searching for the Ultimate Power are doing so for malevolent purposes. Sylux is one of six hunters searching for the "Ultimate Power" in Prime: Hunters Samus immediately receives a warning from her gunship that she must escape the archives as a self-destruct sequence has activated, and so after a narrow escape she begins searching the neighbouring planets to find out more about this "Ultimate Power". It is here that Samus - after defeating her first hunter "Kanden" - finds her first Octolith, a key to this supposed "Ultimate Power". The message - although translated in multiple languages and slang - always boils down to "The secret to ultimate power resides in the Alimbic Cluster." While Samus does not recieve this message directly, she does recieve a mission from the Galactic Federation as follows:ĭiscover the truth about this mysterious message, to protect against a potential threat, and keep the Alimbics' ultimate power from falling into the wrong hands.Īfter traveling outside of Galactic Federation space, Samus enters the Tetra Galaxy where the extinct race of the Alimbics were once said to rule, entering a space station known as the Celestial Archives. The PlotĪfter the events of Metroid Prime, a strange telepathic message is sent to six bounty hunters across the universe. With that said, let's get ready to throw down with rival hunters and start collecting Octolith Crystals in Metroid Prime: Hunters on the Nintendo DS. Nothing will excuse the game from anything that we - as modern gamers - would expect to see in the genre today. No nostalgia glasses, no excuses, no rationalizing hardware limitations, and no sparing myself from angry fans and readers. ![]() As with all Rewind Reviews, Metroid Prime: Hunters will undergo a review process through the eyes of a modern critic. The question then is: Is Metroid Prime: Hunters a good Metroid game? And if not, is it a good game at all?Īs we rewind the clock to analyze Metroid Prime: Hunters we will explore the game as both a member of the Metroid series, but also as a member of the standalone Prime series. Interestingly enough, this seems to be a common trend in the later games in the series as the fans of the series become torn between their love of the 2D genre that they are accustomed to, as well as the influx of newer players more accustomed to the action-FPS genre the series has become. Metroid Prime: Hunters marks the second time fans have been divided on what exactly they want from a Metroid title.
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