My thoughts on Metroid Prime 3

I currently have 5 games for my Wii: Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda - Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Wii Sports and Wii Play. Due to serious lack of time I'm only playing Zelda and Metroid and I wanted to share and discuss my impressions on Metroid. Tell me what you think (without spoiling any part of the story/items, please).

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is literally amazing, I thought I wouldn't buy this because MP 2: Echoes didn't hook me up, but I have to thank Far Cry Vengeance (which disgusted me so much that I traded it in 18 hours after I bought it, and Metroid is what I got instead) that game convinced me I needed a shoother. A good one.
Metroid Prime 3 takes all the best from the prequels and boosts it up by adding a fantastic control scheme, which is by far the best use of the Wii controls I've seen so far: I'm still shocked about how easy it is to turn around and perform any action, they even added the ability to ball-jump by waving the Wiimote, which rid us of most bomb-jumps.
The addition of the ship cockpit part is fantastic: instead of a static menu to access your stats you get that awesome environment with arm cursor. The graphics are quite outdated and this may be a big drawback if you care for this kind of things. I don't, so I'll just move on.
A story? I was like: 'Metroid has a story?' You can talk to people and stuff like that? Wow. I call this a great improvement over MP1 and what I've seen of 2, though there's not much in terms of storytelling.
One little complaint I have is the game is too easy: MP1 was hell on earth, but this one is pretty forgiving. I know there are extra difficulty settings you can unlock, but we could have used them from the start.
It's a great game and everyone should play it.

Any praise or critic you wish to add?

EDIT: I'm going to post my thoughts on Zelda: TP pretty soon, cause I have a lot to say about it.

I agree with pretty much everything except story. The metroid series actually has a pretty cool complex story if you care to investigate it.

Also, with alot of Nintendo franchises, it's kind of fun to use your imagination and fill some of the story in yourself. IDK maybe i'm just kooky that way.

I agree with pretty much everything except story. The metroid series actually has a pretty cool complex story if you care to investigate it.

skingus

True, it was amazing to see the background story shaping up as you investigate Lores and Datas. And there's a lot of cool references in those texts. But in MP2 this system wasn't so well achieved.

I love metroid 3 overall, however i think that the action in the game is pretty shallow. Nintendo should implement more intensity in the gun fights and leave all that puzzle solving to games like zelda and mario. I dont mind the graphics, i think the pixels are ok. But then there isnt any multiplayer. Now thats sad. I just hoped that mp3 was going to feel like a more traditional shooter with plenty of enemies and all, but the action didnt suck me in.ibra_unit

metroid is about exploration more than action. but ya some mulitplayer would be cool. the x-ray visor in a deathmatch would pwn

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I agree with pretty much everything except story. The metroid series actually has a pretty cool complex story if you care to investigate it.

Wintry_Flutist

True, it was amazing to see the background story shaping up as you investigate Lores and Datas. And there's a lot of cool references in those texts. But in MP2 this system wasn't so well achieved.

I definitely agree. To read those old Chozo Lores was very exciting, and it really felt epic. And to read the stuff the Space Pirates wrote about their experiments and stuff was awesome. I remember them writing something about "The Hunter". Oh, how powerful I felt when I read that. :P

i agree with all your points except for the graphics and MP1 being hell on earth. the art was amazing and it was pretty good technically. and to me MP2 was hell on earth (or Aether?!?)Nickster_11

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE MP1. With hell on earth I only mean it was a hard game.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE MP1. With hell on earth I only mean it was a hard game.

Black_Knight_00

MP1 had the most intense and harder boss fights.

Don't know about the US version but the MP3 european version has 2 difficulties avaiable from start. The hardest one is pretty decent having players dying several times before finding out how to kill a boss or one of those lots-of-space-pirate section (at least for me because i played the game for the first time directly on it).

However the new hipermode made fights easier i think, not because it's extra damage but because it uses 1energy cell. I mean you have to burn your health to get to hipermode so most bosses drop a lot of health power-ups or have you health farming when you get used to his attack pattern and keep building health up again to re-enter hypermode.

Metroid Prime 1 was my favorite of the Prime series. Echoes>Corruption. However, the thing I dislike most about Echoes was that the puzzles and keys were just incredibly hard after a while, especially the Sky Temple keys. Corruption was the easiest of the 3.

MP1 had the most intense and harder boss fights.

Don't know about the US version but the MP3 european version has 2 difficulties avaiable from start. The hardest one is pretty decent having players dying several times before finding out how to kill a boss or one of those lots-of-space-pirate section (at least for me because i played the game for the first time directly on it).

However the new hipermode made fights easier i think, not because it's extra damage but because it uses 1energy cell. I mean you have to burn your health to get to hipermode so most bosses drop a lot of health power-ups or have you health farming when you get used to his attack pattern and keep building health up again to re-enter hypermode.

Itsthetruth

Yeah, I remember the stone giant from MP1 and Metroid Prime himself: those bosses were so hard to beat that the very memory makes me sweat. In MP3 I happened to beat some bosses with 100% energy, because of the frequent health pickups. Oh, btw, you are probably right about difficulty levels being two from the start.

Also: [spoiler] I just got the Screw Attack (.com?) upgrade. How awesome is that? [/spoiler]

lol

I found prime 1 easy