Finished it yesterday. Really enjoyed it for what it was. Not as good as Prime 1 but kept me going until they end, unlike Prime 2 and 3. I found the desert a nice pallet cleanser between boss fights. Reminded me of the Great Sea in Wind Waker or running around Hyrule Field on horseback in Ocarina of Time. I didn’t find the supporting cast annoying at all, they broke up what can he a very lonely type of game if we were just to repeat Prime 1’s formula. The villain was undercooked, I just saw him as a less impressive Dark Samus. It would have been better to make him the last Lamoran driven mad by green energy (which I thought was going to be the twist, the last Lampran who says ‘I wish I could speak to you face to face’ from the recordings driven mad by his isolation on the planet).
‘You swapped three different N64 games for Pokemon Stadium? Where’s your pride? Your dignity?!?
"The Last Lamorn Driven Mad" would be a good concept for a villain. It just wouldn't work at all as Sylux's secret ID, not with what was already established about him.
That said, if they do decide to follow up on some of the plot threads they left danging in future games. . . well, the Lamorn did send twelve emissaries out into the universe, none of which returned. No reason Samus couldn't run across one of them, still alive but driven mad. . .
It still bums me out that the ice area did a genuinely great job of setting up the atmosphere, but failed to live up to even "Space pirate base in Phendrana after the lights go out" , let alone SA-X or E.M.M.I. in terms of having that element lead to any threatening, quasi-horror enemy encounter worth anything. I was ready to be super into a rated T for Teen type of horror that that area obviously should've lead to, instead of switching up the atmosphere later on so you could reliably fight relatively easy enemies instead. Not only that, but it could've then also stood out from the mines, which then did something similar but much better.
It did not help that I had just recently finished playing Alien Isolation, but even if I hadn't, it felt like that area was all build up, lacking pay off.
@metaphysician I agree, not as a back story for Sylux (as he has been around since Hunters on DS I think?) but as a separate boss at the end. It would be a bit of an ass pull to have Sylux turn up, only to be pushed aside or destroyed by the true big bad, but he could have been a secondary villain, perhaps who is dealt with at some point in the story (possibly running away to fight another day) with the big bad of the planet being fought after (a bit like Meta Ridley and the Metroid Prime in the first game).
‘You swapped three different N64 games for Pokemon Stadium? Where’s your pride? Your dignity?!?
@AdmiralBribery I can’t say for sure about a cartridge, but I assume load times can still be improved just by playing on a Switch 2 (seen in other games by default).
For the most part, I believe the only tradeoffs would be the main differences between the Switch 1 and 2 editions if you don’t have the upgrade purchased. (Switch 2 edition can go up to 4K in tv mode and supports 120fps as well as mouse controls)
But shouldn’t be much of a difference if any between the Switch 1 cart and upgrade, and the Switch 2 edition cart.
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