This one’s dedicated to the weenies who had a GameCube.

My reasons for that are very specific and personal. (Three cheers for Alcryst-my dear boy, my terrified and ironically horrifying assassin!) But as I played more, I realized I couldn’t throw myself in line with the choirs of praise-even though I could appreciate that they were all correct and that I was playing an exemplary remaster of an exemplary game.

Part of the reason is that, in order to fully give my attention to anything, I had to finish Fire Emblem Engage so it could be exorcised from my brain. My biggest complaint is that it’s often prohibitively dark, although the original is apparently even darker.īut I’ve been putting off writing my thoughts about it for about a month now. Critics internet-wide have even celebrated it as a new gold standard for remasters, which I’d agree with-the game plays intuitively on the Switch, to an impressive degree. Metroid Prime Remastered, which shadow-dropped after last month’s Nintendo Direct, has been heralded as a triumph and a delight that does the original game more than proud.

Developed by Retro Studios in the U.S., rather than Nintendo’s in-house Japan team, Prime was a huge surprise success-and hit. As beloved as the Prime series has become, it’s hard to imagine that the general public scoffed at the idea of turning Metroid into a 3D first-person shooter. At the time, Metroid was very definitively known as a 2D platformer. Originally released in 2002, Metroid Prime is easily one of the most iconic and definitive first-person shooters ever released.

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