![]() ![]() It’s a game about exploring more than shooting discovering, rather than conquering. Samus is more an archaeologist than a warrior, though she faces down some extremely creepy places and creatures without fear. You shoot things with her arm cannon, sure, but you’re spending most of your time using your brain and her slowly reinstated abilities to navigate this planet and figure out what happened here. We can scan what’s around us to familiarise ourselves with its ecology, and search for clues about what precipitated its ruin. We slowly map this planet, figuring out how it fits together, collecting power-ups for Samus’ suit that let us probe it further. The experience that ensues defies easy categorisation, but I would call it a first-person adventure game. After encountering some genetically manipulated horrors on an abandoned spaceship, which then explodes in a memorable escape-against-the-clock prelude, bounty hunter Samus Aran lands on Tallon IV, a beautiful but forsaken planet infected and poisoned by a meteor-borne contaminant. In fact, I didn’t appreciate it in 2003, when I was a teenager, as much as I do now.įor the uninitiated, Metroid Prime is a Nintendo game made by an American developer, Retro Studios, and has a totally different atmosphere to the 2D Metroids you might more readily associate with the name. This game was astonishingly ahead of its time. I’ve been unable to play anything else for weeks, since I downloaded it on a whim after February’s Nintendo Direct. Metroid Prime Remastered is one of those games. But sometimes, you play a game from a decades ago and think, this might actually hit better now. Replaying games from that period today requires a kind eye and a willingness to accept compromising quirks. I wrote a few weeks ago about how bringing games back from the 1990s can be a difficult exercise, given how technologically hamstrung developers were in the early 3D era. A corrected version is on the Guardian site. Most obviously, I referred to the Meta Quest 2 headset as the now-discontinued Oculus Go (even though I’d just been playing with the Quest 2, to compare it with PSVR2 – nice job, brain). Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! First up – last week’s newsletter had a few errors in it.
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