The moment you play a remaster/remake and think “hey this look like I remember. No it definitely exactly looks like I remember.” Then when you go back to the OG and notice what a complete overhaul the remaster and remake did, you know that something was done right. That Prime Remaster is a technical marvel on switch, yet retains the originals soul and artstyle while updating and remaking all assets is just bonkers to me. And only for 40 bucks Bravo Retro and Iron Galaxy
@@Kelphelp I just love that we live in an era where fans of the series, people who grew up playing them are developing the games. Prime Remaster is a love letter to the original Prime as much as Dread is a Love letter to Fusion specifically amoung other games. That devs even admit that they grew up with Metroid like with many Mercury Steam devs is bonkers. Nowadays the OGs like Sakamoto and Tanabe are Producers and Supervisors while fans are the developers. Metroid is in the right hands. After what “modern” Retro studios delivered I have no doubt in my mind that Prime 4 will be amazing
Yeah, lol, it had been ages since I played Prime and when I initially watched the reveal trailer on the Direct I was thinking "Huh....looks somewhat cleaner, maybe nicer lighting", then I watched a comparison video and "Woah!....wow....Metroid Prime (the original) kind of looks like crap" then I remember that there was a time that it impressed me technically...and it came out over 20 years ago now....and I feel old.
I was actually halfway through my thousandth playthrough of my original copy of the GC version on my Wii when this dropped. The visual overhaul is the best I've ever seen on any remaster...ever...and the game engine still holds up after all these years. I'm loving the new control schemes and have fallen in love with the dual sticks option. I had to use the 8Bitdo Ultimate and set the macros to remap the face buttons for the beam switching (felt more natural then holding X and using the D-pad) and the underside buttons for jumping & morph ball.
Prime 1 and 2 were fantastic games on the cube. Seeing Prime with the upgraded look is a gift from Nintendo. I just hope we get a few more of these before they move to the next console.
@@Kelphelp what are you hoping for if it comes? The og iteration? Or a revamp of it how it was featured in Metroid Dreads intro with muscle tissues and whatnot
Probably closer to the design on how it was in the original vut not opposed if it leaves more on the organic parts of the suit. Either way Retro was faithful to the original artstyle and it reflects on the new character models as well.
This remaster is absolutely insane. I've been loving playing it! The only thing I wished they did was allow for full button remapping instead of all of these profiles. I wanna' play dual stick with a Gamecube controller D:
I'm surprised they didn't include a "Dread" suit in place of the Fusion suit, or set up a system to read the NSO GBA Metroid Fusion save data and give you the Fusion suit - seems like a missed cross-promotional opportunity for the "Expansion Plan".
So I haven't gone back to the Gamecube release of Metroid Prime since the trilogy version came out. With the remaster I gave all four different control schemes a chance. Dual stick is very natural but very annoying to swap over to beams (I know you can swap it around, but there's a few instances where swapping between visors is as necessary as the beams so I don't think it matters too much.) Hybrid with Gyro is fine, I'm just a curmudgeon who has yet to adapt to Gyro aiming. Pointer style is good, took adjusting from dual stick where shoot was the trigger but now it's for calibration instead. Like that both d-pad and right stick act like on the gamecube but trying to use the joy cons like the wii+nunchuck never felt as natural here as it did on Mario Galaxy. Finally classic, I have one of those Power-A wireless gamecube controllers and I was surprised, despite not playing the original version in over a decade I was surprised how much muscle memory kicked in and it just felt like I never quit at all...HOWEVER: that same muscle memory wouldn't budge from the changes made. Z not being the map and start not being the status screen I could overlook but that didn't stop me from instinctually hitting Z anyways, so you could imagine my frustration when I hit X to go into a tunnel...only to fire a missile OR WORSE hit Y to dispatch an enemy...only for ball time. My mind would budge from the original Gamecube controls even though it was just two buttons that were swapped. I had to stick with Dual Stick for a peace of mind.
For the button remappings I didn't mention but you can invert the button in classic so it feels EXACTLY like the Cube. The start unfortunately is map and not status so it's a big problem there Bro this is such a cool take on everything you've experienced both past and present in the control schemes! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts man!!
What's crazy is they didn't HAVE to go this hard with it. They totally could have given us "Metroid Prime HD" like most of their other HD conversions, and so many of us still would have jumped on it. Instead we get a complete asset overhaul (that apparently required like five 3d modeling companies to make all the new assets for if you read the credits) with brand new high poly models, brand new terrain, brand new textures with gorgeous mapping, new fluid and particle effects, and a new lighting engine that includes HDR, scattering, atmospherics, everything. They _could_ have just given us an upscale, but instead they went out of their way to bring Prime fully up to current gen standards (or at least as close as a Switch can get), making it basically the best looking game on the console - and they did it all without compromising any of the art direction of the original. Absolutely fantastic.
I got SUPER lucky yesterday and got the last physical copy that Walmart had, and MAN this does not disappoint. The reversible sleeve is a bonus too. I guess the only "complaint" I have, is that there's no light ambience coming off the arm cannon blasts like the original.
The Prime menu was made in 16:9 in the Japanese Wii release because Japan released Metroid Prime 1 and 2 as two different games under the Wii Play Control line, like Pikmin.
I played the original Metroid Prime on GameCube; Still have both game & system. I appreciate that the Switch MP1 is $40 however with so many games coming out I want, I need to save my money. My heart is also saddened that they never name dropped in the credits for Metroid Prime Remaster (switch) the folks who worked on the original game, I can't get over that decision. I'm glad the sales are doing well, I adore the Metroid IP, when I was a late teen I logged onto the Metroid Database site all the time and even cosplayed as Samus many years ago. I'm glad Metroid is getting seen by the masses and I'm looking forward to Metroid Prime 4. "See you Next Mission"
That was pretty sacrilegious to not mention the original team, I think it was just a "thanks to the original team" right? That's very sad, and each and every person deserves recognition for their hard work. I'm glad to hear the games affected you so deeply and same on my end. One of the best I've played as a kid, and a masterpiece now
MP randomizer is my favorite way to play Prime as it adds so much to the replay ability. However, MP remastered is definitely my favorite way to play this game vanilla (just need some gamecube joycons to make the experience perfect imo)
I was a huge Metroid fan growing up. Had arguably the quintessential 2d line up (thanks to my mom) Zero Mission, Fusion, and Super Metroid. I got a Wii and dabbled in prime trilogy for a bit before eventually just beating 3 and moving on. But with this? These controls. These graphics. This game…it turned me into a Metroid freak. I’ve played and beaten it without hyperbole, 5 times this year already. I’m downloading the Trilogy collection on my Wii U as I type this because I need to play 2 I cannot wait for the port.
Dual Stick control is what this game needed. My nitpick goes to the springball being mapped to the x button in that control scheme. Otherwise, this is glossy smooth and I must have made three completions of it so far.
If the controls for thenanalog sticks were flipped I think it would be amazing cuz then the A button could be utilized as the primary gun vs Right bumper
Well warranted though. The original designer of the doors on Twitter complained it wasn't faithful to the original design and imho he has every right to feel that.
I believe the doors were altered so that players could easily see where to head next. I feel for the designer, imagine spending hours on something and it doesn't get seen/used? Maybe it's because I've done art projects before but it hit hard when I read his Twitter post. To the average person though, I suppose it comes off as silly.
@@Kelphelp It's almost certainly done for visibility's sake. On a small screen like the switch in portable mode a door with the original visuals across a room might be really hard to see. Additionally, while I haven't tested it myself, I had a thought that the 'Alpha' channel the original dev talked about being wrong might be the only part of the doors that glows while in the thermal visor so to make doors more visible while in thermal visor it was probably MUCH easier to adjust the alpha rather than recreate the asset.
@@danielhartley9003 It's just haters using the designers complaint as a weapon. None of them are actually smart or cultured enough to take the time to appreciate the way a door looks in a video game lol. Hell none of them probably even noticed the door change until the designer pointed it out.
Man, it doesn’t keep me from liking or buying the game but not having the possibility of the the original Metroid, Fusion Suit, and true full GameCube controller support is a real shame. It just seems like it wouldn’t take much to put it in. Some of the little graphic tweaks like shots from the beam emitting light, proper door lighting, and filters would be nice too; but understandably a bit harder to work in while keeping 60fps locked.
At the end of the day it's for sure small nitpicks but important to mention too. Just...one tweak and gamecube is perfect. I hope a small tweak fix will come out to shape it all up
I want 2 and 3 to be ported now. I never beat the games on the Gamecube growing up. I know 3 is going to be a bigger challenge because it was made for motion controls but I think if they can break 1 and 2 to put in motion controls, they can break 3 to have standard controls.
@@Kelphelp yes and its not his wings its Ridley himself that turns purple because he is entering the atmosphere kinda like how a meteor burns when falling from the sky
I want to get a Switch now that this game exists. Great review as always Kelphelp! Also, will you be showing anymore of your Retro PC games? I would love to see your opinion on Thief Gold with all the great mods for it.
Appreciate the watch man thank you! For retro pc content I usually use it specifically for comparisons so if people are interested in a Thief Guide I wouldn't mind! I haven't played the series yet but it's definetly in my list!
Probably not too many people playing StarCraft Brood War anymore but that remaster was amazing in fidelity to the original too. Would have been perfect if they didn't implement the ladder so poorly and leave it barely maintained after. Still fun besides the deluge of people that delete their account and remake every game to stay perpetually in the middle of the ladder. How they thought that was ok in a competitive game I'll never understand. The sprite redrawing and the faithfulness to the original is thorough though.
For those who don't know, in the control options for Dual Stick there is an option to aim with gyroscopic controls on top of the right stick. This is my personal favorite control scheme, as the hybrid controls use the GameCube control scheme, with gyroscopic aiming being relegated to holding down a button. Not to say that the GameCube control scheme is bad, just not to my taste.
@@Kelphelp Yeah, I end up swapping to where I only have to hold x to swap visors, since beams end up being more oftenly swapped, and switching from scan visor to combat is as simple as pressing the beam button. The only reason stick I use the Dual Stick control scheme is I'm used to being able to move and look at the same time, like in the Prime Trilogy collection I used to play.
That thermal Visor F up irks me the most. I got a couple other minor complaints, but that thermal Visor takes the cake. How tf did they let that go like that 🤔
@@Kelphelp the original versions was slightly annoying. The remaster is like staring at the sun almost. They F'ed it up plain & simple. They should've just ported the GC/wii version
In some instances but highly disagree a simple port would have sufficed. We got something very special here and to downgrade it solely due to Thermal Visor saturation is a disservice man.
@@Kelphelp Personally, I probably wouldn't have even noticed the difference if they ported it. I DEFINITELY noticed the difference when it got redone 🌞
the color space mismatch is killing me lol; the gamecube footage is all full of black crush, and the Switch footage is washed out, as if the RGB ranges for the 2 were mixed up during capture :\
Just thought I'd ask how is the pointer controller option I ask cause does it feels like the Metroid Prime trilogy pointer controls? As soon as I get this game I'm going to test out the motion control option to see how they are that's what I usually first do with any Nintendo remasters that has motion controls on the switch.
I won't lie it feels EXACTLY as the Trilogy. When switching to pointer it asks to calibrate the Joycon in a flat surface. When done that's it!!! It plays normally like on the Trilogy. Pretty wild took a damn sensor bar snd now it's obsolete on the Switch!!!
@@Kelphelpthere is an effect surrounding the visor circle. The circle sends out opaque, white "spikes" in all directions. In the gc Version the visor was just a square, in the wii Version, at least in echoes, it looks like described. In remaster its a plain circle.
I checked it. They simplified the visor for remaster, it looked way better on wii. Dont know about the other visors, but thermal also seems to look worse. Its sad, really, as they are such a big Part of the game. Btw, all charge beams emitted light bars from the slits in the blaster. This is gone in the remaster, also. And the dual stick makes the blaster rigid, when on wii (and with the messed up pointer scheme) it was spectacularly animated.
I've never played Metroid Prime. I've only messed with the 3rd one on Wii several years ago. I just picked up the remaster. I hear it's a great game. And I do like Metroidvanias, loved Metroid Dread, Hollow Knight, Ori, Jedi Fallen Order, basically I've discovered metroidvania are some of my favorite style of games. And it's one of the best-looking and performing games I've seen on Switch. It's really impressive.
Hope they manufacture more and restock on physical copies soon, because there sold out practically everywhere and many people preordered a physical copy never got one.
@Kelphelp Yeah well hope they keep there promise and I hope doesn't take too long for them to restock on copies, many people who pre-ordered a physical copy didn't get one its embarrassing.
I hesitated buying this game for the 4th time, but after seeing this video i don't think i will. The remaster looks great in many regards, but i really don't like the new lighting system, the game now looks very washed out, the colors are desaturated, many shadows seem to be gone, some metallic surfaces like Samus' suit have lost their reflective properties, imo the darker visuals of the original looked better. Also, a bit nitpicky but the pulsating light on the cannon is a bit distracting for me.
And that's fine man, it's exactly why I wanted to showcase some features and changes that may make people love or hate this version. The arm cannon light is definetly new but not too distracting. I'm at the end and didn't think too much of it!
@@Kelphelp What's wrong about it? It would have looked vastly superior like night and day difference on modern Ps5 hardware. That's a fact. I never said that it looks bad on the Switch just that it could look significantly better on modern hardware.
After the first waves of remasters I've become tired of the concept. I just think it's a waste of effort and a waste of money on the consumers part. Seeing Crash and Spyro in updated graphics was nice, but at the end of it all I didn't need it. I can just as well play the original. I also have a feeling that being swayed by nostalgia this easily is rather detrimental. For anyone who hasn't played MP1 on the Gamecube? An absolute recommend. But honestly, we all know that remasters are made for the people that have played the original.
i think this kind of thing is nothing but a good thing…it’s great to have classics brought back for people to play easily without having to keep around old hardware or emulate them. especially makes sense to make old games as accessible as possible when they’re planning sequels for said games that haven’t been available for a long time and make it easy for newcomers to get into a series. the only thing i don’t like to see is developers spending time on remasters/remakes when they could be making something new entirely- though maybe this was a useful project for retro to be involved in since most of the original prime devs have left. having the new staff fully understand what made prime so great to begin with will hopefully help with prime 4
I'm not saying we don't need new IPs but there is Def a reason companies invest more in Remaster than new titles, since it's a guaranteed seller and very possible to get away with the bare minimum. It also gives another reason for newer titles to become more accessible as well so newer audiences can experience it. Crazy to think people born in 2002 can now experience that as adults if you think about it
Glad it's great, still think I prefer the gamecube version. Like, the remaster looks great, but the reflections on the gamecube dude, phew, that shit is still timelessly atmospheric. I couldn't care less about the detail they added, for me they sacrificed the atmosphere you add that detail. I bet you that the gamecube version would blow the remaster out of the water with a ray tracing mod though. Don't lie, that would look sick.
I went to check some reflections (Chozo Ruins room) ND saw they took that off mostly because of the lighting. It's a shame but even then minor nitpick. But idk man I love RT but it isn't a one stop solution to making a game AAA. I prefer this experience without RT imho
@@Kelphelp My thing is that rn older, more optimized games are WAY better with ray tracing and for new games there's literally NO difference in visual quality but only a few solid examples. I think for triple a games rt sux, but for mine craft and older shit, it looks hella nice. So idk, seeing the quality of the reflections on gamecube for me 20 years later, that game would look incredible with Ray tracing, all's i'm saying lol.
The moment you play a remaster/remake and think
“hey this look like I remember. No it definitely exactly looks like I remember.”
Then when you go back to the OG and notice what a complete overhaul the remaster and remake did, you know that something was done right.
That Prime Remaster is a technical marvel on switch, yet retains the originals soul and artstyle while updating and remaking all assets is just bonkers to me.
And only for 40 bucks
Bravo Retro and Iron Galaxy
I cannot commend them enough for their hardwork and passion in this project. Not many Remaster live up to thr potential of Prime. It's insane.
@@Kelphelp I just love that we live in an era where fans of the series, people who grew up playing them are developing the games.
Prime Remaster is a love letter to the original Prime as much as Dread is a Love letter to Fusion specifically amoung other games. That devs even admit that they grew up with Metroid like with many Mercury Steam devs is bonkers. Nowadays the OGs like Sakamoto and Tanabe are Producers and Supervisors while fans are the developers. Metroid is in the right hands.
After what “modern” Retro studios delivered I have no doubt in my mind that Prime 4 will be amazing
Yeah, lol, it had been ages since I played Prime and when I initially watched the reveal trailer on the Direct I was thinking "Huh....looks somewhat cleaner, maybe nicer lighting", then I watched a comparison video and "Woah!....wow....Metroid Prime (the original) kind of looks like crap" then I remember that there was a time that it impressed me technically...and it came out over 20 years ago now....and I feel old.
I was actually halfway through my thousandth playthrough of my original copy of the GC version on my Wii when this dropped. The visual overhaul is the best I've ever seen on any remaster...ever...and the game engine still holds up after all these years.
I'm loving the new control schemes and have fallen in love with the dual sticks option. I had to use the 8Bitdo Ultimate and set the macros to remap the face buttons for the beam switching (felt more natural then holding X and using the D-pad) and the underside buttons for jumping & morph ball.
I'm guessing with the Remaster that makes this playthrough thousand & 1 right? 👀
Thanks RETRO for 21 years of nostalgia and this masterpiece !
And for more to come yo!
Prime 1 and 2 were fantastic games on the cube. Seeing Prime with the upgraded look is a gift from Nintendo. I just hope we get a few more of these before they move to the next console.
God if Prime 2 got this treat ment I'd scream. My favorite of the trilogy
Loving the Remaster so far, but disappointed to hear that there is no Fusion suit.
Yea man it feels slightly incomplete without the Suit. I really wished they could include it at least with DLC somehow.
@@Kelphelp i hope once Fusion drops next week that they flush out the suit with an update
You and me both man, that's exactly what it needs for it to be complete.
@@Kelphelp what are you hoping for if it comes? The og iteration?
Or a revamp of it how it was featured in Metroid Dreads intro with muscle tissues and whatnot
Probably closer to the design on how it was in the original vut not opposed if it leaves more on the organic parts of the suit. Either way Retro was faithful to the original artstyle and it reflects on the new character models as well.
This remaster is absolutely insane. I've been loving playing it!
The only thing I wished they did was allow for full button remapping instead of all of these profiles. I wanna' play dual stick with a Gamecube controller D:
Actually that would be lovely to have in game. A great option if necessary
That's my one complaint about this game is wanting to remap buttons. Would rather have Y to shoot and A or even X for Morph Ball.
It’s so funny to see how extensive the changes are, when before viewing the comparison I swore in my memory the game always looked roughly like this.
Our eyes always play tricks on us as a kid and always many factors why it looked better before than now. But my God. It's too impressive.
You made a totally objective, clear, calm review! Great Job... this is a masterpiece!
Very kind of you to say, that'd absolutely my goal in this. Thanks for the watch yo!!
I'm surprised they didn't include a "Dread" suit in place of the Fusion suit, or set up a system to read the NSO GBA Metroid Fusion save data and give you the Fusion suit - seems like a missed cross-promotional opportunity for the "Expansion Plan".
A dread suit as an extra would be phenominal! I would absolutely love to see something along those lines
So I haven't gone back to the Gamecube release of Metroid Prime since the trilogy version came out. With the remaster I gave all four different control schemes a chance. Dual stick is very natural but very annoying to swap over to beams (I know you can swap it around, but there's a few instances where swapping between visors is as necessary as the beams so I don't think it matters too much.) Hybrid with Gyro is fine, I'm just a curmudgeon who has yet to adapt to Gyro aiming.
Pointer style is good, took adjusting from dual stick where shoot was the trigger but now it's for calibration instead. Like that both d-pad and right stick act like on the gamecube but trying to use the joy cons like the wii+nunchuck never felt as natural here as it did on Mario Galaxy.
Finally classic, I have one of those Power-A wireless gamecube controllers and I was surprised, despite not playing the original version in over a decade I was surprised how much muscle memory kicked in and it just felt like I never quit at all...HOWEVER: that same muscle memory wouldn't budge from the changes made. Z not being the map and start not being the status screen I could overlook but that didn't stop me from instinctually hitting Z anyways, so you could imagine my frustration when I hit X to go into a tunnel...only to fire a missile OR WORSE hit Y to dispatch an enemy...only for ball time.
My mind would budge from the original Gamecube controls even though it was just two buttons that were swapped. I had to stick with Dual Stick for a peace of mind.
For the button remappings I didn't mention but you can invert the button in classic so it feels EXACTLY like the Cube. The start unfortunately is map and not status so it's a big problem there
Bro this is such a cool take on everything you've experienced both past and present in the control schemes! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts man!!
What's crazy is they didn't HAVE to go this hard with it. They totally could have given us "Metroid Prime HD" like most of their other HD conversions, and so many of us still would have jumped on it. Instead we get a complete asset overhaul (that apparently required like five 3d modeling companies to make all the new assets for if you read the credits) with brand new high poly models, brand new terrain, brand new textures with gorgeous mapping, new fluid and particle effects, and a new lighting engine that includes HDR, scattering, atmospherics, everything. They _could_ have just given us an upscale, but instead they went out of their way to bring Prime fully up to current gen standards (or at least as close as a Switch can get), making it basically the best looking game on the console - and they did it all without compromising any of the art direction of the original. Absolutely fantastic.
100% agree. It didn't have to be this goddamn good, but it was and blows anything the original was able to make. Goddamn it's good
I got SUPER lucky yesterday and got the last physical copy that Walmart had, and MAN this does not disappoint. The reversible sleeve is a bonus too. I guess the only "complaint" I have, is that there's no light ambience coming off the arm cannon blasts like the original.
Damn hyping me up for when I get my pre-order man. I'd love to see how the physical looks when it comes through
The Prime menu was made in 16:9 in the Japanese Wii release because Japan released Metroid Prime 1 and 2 as two different games under the Wii Play Control line, like Pikmin.
I actually didn't know that at all!!! Damn that's such a cool thing I have to go back and see. Thanks so much for updating here!
I played the original Metroid Prime on GameCube; Still have both game & system. I appreciate that the Switch MP1 is $40 however with so many games coming out I want, I need to save my money. My heart is also saddened that they never name dropped in the credits for Metroid Prime Remaster (switch) the folks who worked on the original game, I can't get over that decision.
I'm glad the sales are doing well, I adore the Metroid IP, when I was a late teen I logged onto the Metroid Database site all the time and even cosplayed as Samus many years ago. I'm glad Metroid is getting seen by the masses and I'm looking forward to Metroid Prime 4. "See you Next Mission"
That was pretty sacrilegious to not mention the original team, I think it was just a "thanks to the original team" right? That's very sad, and each and every person deserves recognition for their hard work.
I'm glad to hear the games affected you so deeply and same on my end. One of the best I've played as a kid, and a masterpiece now
MP randomizer is my favorite way to play Prime as it adds so much to the replay ability.
However, MP remastered is definitely my favorite way to play this game vanilla (just need some gamecube joycons to make the experience perfect imo)
Agreed, I really can't believe how incredible Remastered has been in every single way
I was a huge Metroid fan growing up. Had arguably the quintessential 2d line up (thanks to my mom) Zero Mission, Fusion, and Super Metroid. I got a Wii and dabbled in prime trilogy for a bit before eventually just beating 3 and moving on. But with this? These controls. These graphics. This game…it turned me into a Metroid freak. I’ve played and beaten it without hyperbole, 5 times this year already. I’m downloading the Trilogy collection on my Wii U as I type this because I need to play 2 I cannot wait for the port.
Trust me, I have the largest urge to pkay 2 port so bad. It's my favorite among em
Dual Stick control is what this game needed. My nitpick goes to the springball being mapped to the x button in that control scheme. Otherwise, this is glossy smooth and I must have made three completions of it so far.
It's been nothing short of spectacular. Glad to see so many people love it!
If the controls for thenanalog sticks were flipped I think it would be amazing cuz then the A button could be utilized as the primary gun vs Right bumper
Interesting I wouldn't mind trying that. I think a little total remapping would go a long way for this
I like how some complained about changes to how the doors looked.
Well warranted though. The original designer of the doors on Twitter complained it wasn't faithful to the original design and imho he has every right to feel that.
I believe the doors were altered so that players could easily see where to head next. I feel for the designer, imagine spending hours on something and it doesn't get seen/used?
Maybe it's because I've done art projects before but it hit hard when I read his Twitter post. To the average person though, I suppose it comes off as silly.
@@Kelphelp I accept that from someone in that position. So that's 1 opinion that has merit. Coming from others seems petty
@@Kelphelp It's almost certainly done for visibility's sake. On a small screen like the switch in portable mode a door with the original visuals across a room might be really hard to see. Additionally, while I haven't tested it myself, I had a thought that the 'Alpha' channel the original dev talked about being wrong might be the only part of the doors that glows while in the thermal visor so to make doors more visible while in thermal visor it was probably MUCH easier to adjust the alpha rather than recreate the asset.
@@danielhartley9003 It's just haters using the designers complaint as a weapon. None of them are actually smart or cultured enough to take the time to appreciate the way a door looks in a video game lol. Hell none of them probably even noticed the door change until the designer pointed it out.
Man, it doesn’t keep me from liking or buying the game but not having the possibility of the the original Metroid, Fusion Suit, and true full GameCube controller support is a real shame. It just seems like it wouldn’t take much to put it in.
Some of the little graphic tweaks like shots from the beam emitting light, proper door lighting, and filters would be nice too; but understandably a bit harder to work in while keeping 60fps locked.
At the end of the day it's for sure small nitpicks but important to mention too. Just...one tweak and gamecube is perfect. I hope a small tweak fix will come out to shape it all up
I just picked up a physical copy today so excited!!!
Hell yea man, you did good on that! Enjoy the physical man!
I want 2 and 3 to be ported now. I never beat the games on the Gamecube growing up. I know 3 is going to be a bigger challenge because it was made for motion controls but I think if they can break 1 and 2 to put in motion controls, they can break 3 to have standard controls.
I'm craving 2 so badly on my Switch. That's the one I been waiting for 😩
One thing i noticed is when Ridley first enters Tallon IV he starts to burn and the fire is purple but in the remaster there is no fire
When he first enters IV, wait so when Samus goes in her gunship to follow Ridley his wings are turned purple on GC?
@@Kelphelp yes and its not his wings its Ridley himself that turns purple because he is entering the atmosphere kinda like how a meteor burns when falling from the sky
I honestly did not know that detail I need to check back my footage to see how it looks! Thanks for letting us know!!!
I want to get a Switch now that this game exists. Great review as always Kelphelp! Also, will you be showing anymore of your Retro PC games? I would love to see your opinion on Thief Gold with all the great mods for it.
Appreciate the watch man thank you!
For retro pc content I usually use it specifically for comparisons so if people are interested in a Thief Guide I wouldn't mind! I haven't played the series yet but it's definetly in my list!
@@Kelphelp My favorite parts about those games are the guards long random conversations. They are so funny bro!
Convincing me to play I see! Ight man, I'll give em a go on my free time. I Def wanna check em out
It's kinda crazy to think how fun just the menu is. Would make a great screensaver if it just kept swimming around.
👀👀👀👀👀👀 I am...fucking on jt it's gonna be a phone wallpaper thank you for mentioning this!!!
Probably not too many people playing StarCraft Brood War anymore but that remaster was amazing in fidelity to the original too. Would have been perfect if they didn't implement the ladder so poorly and leave it barely maintained after.
Still fun besides the deluge of people that delete their account and remake every game to stay perpetually in the middle of the ladder. How they thought that was ok in a competitive game I'll never understand. The sprite redrawing and the faithfulness to the original is thorough though.
You know I did want to cover Starcraft with it's Remaster snd see thr changes, but you brought s good point. Thanks for reminding me about it°!!
I wonder why they didn't include in the credits the original developers of the OG game.
It baffles me so much but I'm not a fan of it. They deserve so much credit, it's disrespectful on every level
For those who don't know, in the control options for Dual Stick there is an option to aim with gyroscopic controls on top of the right stick. This is my personal favorite control scheme, as the hybrid controls use the GameCube control scheme, with gyroscopic aiming being relegated to holding down a button. Not to say that the GameCube control scheme is bad, just not to my taste.
Hybrid is a new favorite option. Little old and new in one playthrough
@@Kelphelp Definitely, and I can imagine how nice it is to swap beams/visor without having to hold the X button.
Ugh just thinking thinking you have to hold X to swap is terrible man. I hate ittttt
@@Kelphelp Yeah, I end up swapping to where I only have to hold x to swap visors, since beams end up being more oftenly swapped, and switching from scan visor to combat is as simple as pressing the beam button. The only reason stick I use the Dual Stick control scheme is I'm used to being able to move and look at the same time, like in the Prime Trilogy collection I used to play.
I do love how the Trilogy let's play with that in mind, seeing everything from every angle is such a cool experience.
That thermal Visor F up irks me the most. I got a couple other minor complaints, but that thermal Visor takes the cake. How tf did they let that go like that 🤔
I mean the thermal visor while cool feature was always pretty annoying in some way
@@Kelphelp the original versions was slightly annoying. The remaster is like staring at the sun almost. They F'ed it up plain & simple. They should've just ported the GC/wii version
In some instances but highly disagree a simple port would have sufficed. We got something very special here and to downgrade it solely due to Thermal Visor saturation is a disservice man.
@@Kelphelp
Personally,
I probably wouldn't have even noticed the difference if they ported it. I DEFINITELY noticed the difference when it got redone 🌞
That's because it needed ti get redone. The assets are still 480p quality so that blown ti 900p looks pretty terrible
Can't wait for Prime 2 and 3 to get the Remastered Treatment, Trying to play Prime 2 after Remastered is a touch jarring.
Yea I definetly went back to record for the inevitable video and it's weird, I'm not a fan of its age and I want an enhanced asap
Its allrdy confirmed that they dont get the same remaster treatment as Prime1. Expect a port but not a remaster
That's a rumor and not confirmed. I'm gonna wait until Nintendo official confirms this
the color space mismatch is killing me lol; the gamecube footage is all full of black crush, and the Switch footage is washed out, as if the RGB ranges for the 2 were mixed up during capture :\
No the RGB ranges match. I always make sure before I record
Just thought I'd ask how is the pointer controller option I ask cause does it feels like the Metroid Prime trilogy pointer controls? As soon as I get this game I'm going to test out the motion control option to see how they are that's what I usually first do with any Nintendo remasters that has motion controls on the switch.
I won't lie it feels EXACTLY as the Trilogy. When switching to pointer it asks to calibrate the Joycon in a flat surface. When done that's it!!! It plays normally like on the Trilogy. Pretty wild took a damn sensor bar snd now it's obsolete on the Switch!!!
Hopefully your Joy cons don't drift.
Did the Scan visor only send out these radiant spikes in echoes? Or did they remove it for remaster?
Radiant spikes? In what way? I don't thinkni remember
@@Kelphelpthere is an effect surrounding the visor circle. The circle sends out opaque, white "spikes" in all directions. In the gc Version the visor was just a square, in the wii Version, at least in echoes, it looks like described. In remaster its a plain circle.
I checked it. They simplified the visor for remaster, it looked way better on wii. Dont know about the other visors, but thermal also seems to look worse. Its sad, really, as they are such a big Part of the game.
Btw, all charge beams emitted light bars from the slits in the blaster. This is gone in the remaster, also. And the dual stick makes the blaster rigid, when on wii (and with the messed up pointer scheme) it was spectacularly animated.
I've never played Metroid Prime. I've only messed with the 3rd one on Wii several years ago.
I just picked up the remaster. I hear it's a great game.
And I do like Metroidvanias, loved Metroid Dread, Hollow Knight, Ori, Jedi Fallen Order, basically I've discovered metroidvania are some of my favorite style of games.
And it's one of the best-looking and performing games I've seen on Switch. It's really impressive.
You gonna have an incredible time it's nothing short of spectacular from beginning to end.
I will say that I miss how dark the lighting in the original was.
It certainly had alot more atmosphere and that's probably in part due to the lighting. I do miss it to a degree
Hope they manufacture more and restock on physical copies soon, because there sold out practically everywhere and many people preordered a physical copy never got one.
I still haven't gotten my pre-order and I was one of the first ones. They making more, Nintendo made a statement more are coming g
@Kelphelp Yeah well hope they keep there promise and I hope doesn't take too long for them to restock on copies, many people who pre-ordered a physical copy didn't get one its embarrassing.
Still waiting for mine to come In April and tbh that's why this review took longer because I was waiting for the physical so I had to buy it twice 😭
@@Kelphelp April when exactly?
My mistake, I checked my Amazon order and March 12th is the date its coming!!
I decided to watch this on my crt TV. And metroid prime game cube look way better than the remastered on that TV
Oh of course, technically that ERA was the last to utilize CRTs so it's gonna look phenominal on that.
Here's hoping for an equally good remaster of Prime 2 and 3.
... and here's gloating at that there will never be a remaster of Other M.
Likewise. Prime 2 is my favorite and I'm stupid excited to see how it will turn out.
I hesitated buying this game for the 4th time, but after seeing this video i don't think i will.
The remaster looks great in many regards, but i really don't like the new lighting system, the game now looks very washed out, the colors are desaturated, many shadows seem to be gone, some metallic surfaces like Samus' suit have lost their reflective properties, imo the darker visuals of the original looked better.
Also, a bit nitpicky but the pulsating light on the cannon is a bit distracting for me.
And that's fine man, it's exactly why I wanted to showcase some features and changes that may make people love or hate this version. The arm cannon light is definetly new but not too distracting. I'm at the end and didn't think too much of it!
Remastered ECHOES
God I would absolutely love for Echoes to be done in this fashion. Yes pplleeeeaaaseeew
1 small gripe, you should've said to my ears, not to my eyes.
Edit: I've been playing with a USB gamecube controller, it works perfectly.
It's called.
A typo
@@Kelphelp stupid little picky people right? Lol. No disrespect, the video was great.
Trust I know you didn't don't even trip. Appreciate the watch man.
Can't imagine sticking with the original control scheme. More power to ya but the original controls are just plain awful.
It definetky works nicely but depends on the person. That's why they have four play styles.
Prime 1 deserves a Ps5 hardware level remake.
Absolutely disagree. Very unnecessary and no reason to change a classic. It's already the best it's gonna be
@@Kelphelp I mean it deserved a Ps5 level remake instead of a remake on outdated Switch hardware
@@Kelphelp It would have looked at least 100 times better on Ps5 hardware
There's alot of wrong with these statements but I really don't feel like delving deep there's too much why it will never happen
@@Kelphelp What's wrong about it? It would have looked vastly superior like night and day difference on modern Ps5 hardware. That's a fact. I never said that it looks bad on the Switch just that it could look significantly better on modern hardware.
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Thank you so much! 🥺
After the first waves of remasters I've become tired of the concept. I just think it's a waste of effort and a waste of money on the consumers part. Seeing Crash and Spyro in updated graphics was nice, but at the end of it all I didn't need it. I can just as well play the original. I also have a feeling that being swayed by nostalgia this easily is rather detrimental. For anyone who hasn't played MP1 on the Gamecube? An absolute recommend. But honestly, we all know that remasters are made for the people that have played the original.
i think this kind of thing is nothing but a good thing…it’s great to have classics brought back for people to play easily without having to keep around old hardware or emulate them. especially makes sense to make old games as accessible as possible when they’re planning sequels for said games that haven’t been available for a long time and make it easy for newcomers to get into a series.
the only thing i don’t like to see is developers spending time on remasters/remakes when they could be making something new entirely- though maybe this was a useful project for retro to be involved in since most of the original prime devs have left. having the new staff fully understand what made prime so great to begin with will hopefully help with prime 4
I'm not saying we don't need new IPs but there is Def a reason companies invest more in Remaster than new titles, since it's a guaranteed seller and very possible to get away with the bare minimum. It also gives another reason for newer titles to become more accessible as well so newer audiences can experience it. Crazy to think people born in 2002 can now experience that as adults if you think about it
The original looks better
In what way? I'd love to genuinely hear what you love about it
Metroid Prime Remake looks Dead Space PS3 xD
Probably one of the stupidest comments with no context at all. You clearly haven't played it one bit
The left part of my hud is so blurry idk why it’s like that. Makes me dizzy 😕
There are HUD settings you can toggle in terms of opacity and position.
fusion suit is in the data it's there it's probably not redone so turned a flag to false and that's it. maybe an update at some point.
You have a source that the data is in Prime?
Glad it's great, still think I prefer the gamecube version. Like, the remaster looks great, but the reflections on the gamecube dude, phew, that shit is still timelessly atmospheric. I couldn't care less about the detail they added, for me they sacrificed the atmosphere you add that detail.
I bet you that the gamecube version would blow the remaster out of the water with a ray tracing mod though. Don't lie, that would look sick.
I went to check some reflections (Chozo Ruins room) ND saw they took that off mostly because of the lighting. It's a shame but even then minor nitpick. But idk man I love RT but it isn't a one stop solution to making a game AAA. I prefer this experience without RT imho
@@Kelphelp My thing is that rn older, more optimized games are WAY better with ray tracing and for new games there's literally NO difference in visual quality but only a few solid examples. I think for triple a games rt sux, but for mine craft and older shit, it looks hella nice.
So idk, seeing the quality of the reflections on gamecube for me 20 years later, that game would look incredible with Ray tracing, all's i'm saying lol.
@@Kelphelp Also isn't an intensive game to run for today's standards to begin with.
Gamecube and Remaster for me
Damn so you gonna go back to both!!
@@Kelphelp I still have the GC one. I Want both and will likely compare them a ton.
I have videos on that and the Trilogy so feel free to check those out if you want a comparison as well