Metroid Prime Remastered review – the perfect first person Metroidvania

metro.co.uk:

has had plenty of unsuccessful consoles in its time, but the GameCube was unique in that none of its best games came from the usual, high profile franchises. That generation’s, Zelda, and Mario Kart titles are arguably the worst in each series’ history and instead the best games were new entries for Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros., F-Zero, and, of course, .Although some like to pretend that Metroid is part of a Nintendo holy trinity, together with Super Mario and Zelda, it really isn’t.

Although the games are of equally high quality there’s no comparison in terms of either their commerical success or the number of individual entries. There was no Metroid game on the and if that happened to be your first Nintendo console then Metroid Prime would have come as a bit of shock – what with it being one of the best games ever made and all.It’s easy to imagine the difficulties Nintendo would’ve faced trying to get Metroid to work on the N64, given it would’ve struggled with a full 3D camera and a purely 2D game would be unlikely to sell well.

So instead, Nintendo gave American team Retro Studios the chance to recreate the series as a first person title on the GameCube. And in terms of turning a 2D game into a 3D one it’s right up there with Super Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.Although the Metroidvania genre is commonplace today it was not back in 2002, when Metroid Prime was first released.