Metroid Prime 4:Beyond

Really enjoying the game thus far. Game is beautiful. I know there is better but something about the environment and the color choices that really makes this game aesthetically pleasing.

Some reviews say not enough encounters and some say not enough puzzles. Personally I think there are some “empty” moments but only because I think I’m used to other FPS games just being crazy chaotic but it’s so cool to look around it doesn’t bother me.

Still pretty early but it’s made me really appreciate buying the Switch 2 if nothing else.

IIRC- metroids only “evolve” past the floating blob style on their home planet. There are variants and sizes but the different “types” are only able to evolve or grow on that one planet…because reasons.

Rajaah said:

Hoping maybe Prime 4 will have some Metroids.

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Metroid Prime 4 definitely has Metroids, you encounter them like five minutes into the game.

I've played another hour or so. The first "tag-along NPC" comes with you for about 4 or 5 rooms until he has to stay in place to repair some stuff while you go explore on your own (including a boss encounter). Then after that, he stays in that area and only contacts you a bit when he finds some info you could need to progress (and even then, the atmospheric conditions makes it so he can't contact you often). There was exactly one combat encounter where the NPC was like "Help!" but even when I let him get attacked by monsters, he didn't die and was able to kill some on his own. I'm not sure if the other NPCs will be more annoying or more present in gameplay, but from what I can tell after this first experience with a talking NPC "escort", the annoyance factor is blown way out of proportion I think, I didn't find it any more grating than speaking with your XO in Dread through consoles, in fact I found it less annoying because you can still move about when the NPC is talking to you.

I'll keep giving my impressions here if it gets better or worse, but so far as I said earlier, it feels very much like a Metroid Prime game (it reminds me mostly of the first one but perhaps that's because I played the remaster some months ago).

As an old man, I need to know...

Is it press and hold lock on targeting like Prime 1, or do I actually need to "aim" like the Wii

Siliconemelons said:

As an old man, I need to know...

Is it press and hold lock on targeting like Prime 1, or do I actually need to "aim" like the Wii

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Kinda both. You can lock on, but if you use.motion sense a bit the reticle will be free aim. You can also use the joycon like a mouse. Hope that makes sense.

Rajaah said:

Everywhere else that we've seen Metroids pop up, they were in some sort of containment / being used as weapons in their base form.

With one exception: the Impact Crater in Metroid Prime, which had base form Metroids as well as Fission (split into two when attacked) and Hunter (base with a tentacle, basically) Metroids. Prime has "Metroid Prime" as "the ultimate evolution" as well.

Naw, at this point it's safe to say they just haven't made any good use whatsoever out of the Prime series taking place in a time period where Metroids can be as populous as you want.

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The only reason why you seen Advanced Versions of Metroids on Tallon IV was because of the Phazon Seed(Yes the metroids that are on Tallon IV came from SR388, they mutated because of the mass amount of energy Phazon gives off.), I honestly think the Chozo originally tried to use the metroids too remove the Phazon seed, but instead it backfired and created Metroid Prime.

We have seen Metroids evolve in other areas also, the SR388 Biologic Space Labs created a good breeding ground for base metroid forms, but the introduction of the X drove them to evolve in a frenzy, we fight a gamma at the end.

A Queen was made on the Bottle Ship(Other M), but it didn't live long enough to produce any "eggs" they were trying to imprint a baby onto Melissa Bergman(yes its Mother Brain.. so original *eye roll*).

In Dread , the whole point Raven Beak wanted Samus powers activated, all the EMMI's, taking over Adam's communications, the experiments, Kraid etc, and don't forget all the X-parasites inside the central chamber. He needed her awakened powers in order to easily manipulate the Chozo DNA inside her and create a new Chozo army.