While this boss battle does, indeed, more or less boil down to “shoot the butt,” before one can get to that phase, some deduction is required. Concentrated weapon fire can daze it for short periods. Its lower root system is unprotected and vulnerable, however. This exposure has made Flaahgra’s outer shell thick and durable. As a result, it requires near-constant exposure to solar energy to remain active. Take the Log Book entry for Flaahgra, an early boss, for example:įlaahgra’s growth cycle has been radically accelerated. Much of the text is inconsequential to the game’s mechanics but is hugely important with respect to character and the texture of Prime’s narrative. Crucially, however, Metroid Prime does not throw a big block of text up on the screen that just says “Shoot the butt.” Instead, it situates this information in-fiction alongside scientific observations. Scanning enemies and bosses reveals information essential to defeating them, which heavily incentivizes the action, since an enemy’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities are not always obvious just from blasting at them. You can scan trees and architecture and creepy crawlers and more in Metroid Prime. Image: Retro Studios/Nintendo via Polygon What remains unchanged, insofar as I can tell, are the game’s many, many text entries. Metroid Prime Remastered looks great and plays smoothly in both TV and handheld mode, with new models and textures that are obviously updated but feel faithful to your childhood memories. This is an alien world, and you are alien to it. The soundtrack and sound design of Prime still evoke a sense of loneliness that few games have achieved to date. Replaying the game now at 32, I find myself taking my time with it. What did I care about the behavioral patterns of something called a Geemer? What was there to know about a War Wasp beside the fact that I should kill it before it kills me? As such, I remember skipping almost all of the game’s inessential log entries, which are helpfully marked as orange squares on your HUD versus the progression-critical red boxes. I played the original release of Metroid Prime when I was 12, when I had significantly less patience for reading than I do now. Playing from the claustrophobic, in-helmet perspective of Samus, you glean information about the world and its assorted flora and fauna, presented as text, collecting the entries in the bounty hunter’s Log Book throughout your adventure. One of your first objectives in Prime, a game in which you explore, solve puzzles, backtrack, and combat the occasional enemy in search of Chozo artifacts, is to scan your environment. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Metroid Fusion hits Nintendo Switch Online next week on March 8.Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. Check out our list of every NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, Sega Genesis, and GBA game on Nintendo Switch Online after that. Speaking of Metroid Dread, read Game Informer's review of it to find out why it was one of our favorite games of 2021, and then read Game Informer's Metroid Prime Remastered review. Nintendo says Metroid Fusion contains "a multitude of secrets" for players to experience that links Super Metroid to Metroid Dread. Weakened and out of options, Samus must do whatever it takes to destroy the X threat before it's too late." "This organism is not only deadly, but it can mimic the abilities of any creature it infects – including Samus herself! Saved from the brink thanks to an infusion of Metroid DNA, the X parasite's only natural predator, she soon discovers that the parasite has spread to the research station orbiting SR388. "In Metroid Fusion, interstellar bounty hunter Samus Aran is attacked by an X parasite while exploring the mysterious planet SR388," Nintendo's description of the game reads.
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