Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Despite a few tweaks and new features – motion controls, psychic powers, a nonlinear hub world, and the occasional side character – this is Metroid Prime through and through. It’s without a doubt the closest the series has ever felt to the original Metroid Prime, in terms of tone, gameplay, and quality. Time will tell where I place Metroid Prime 4 in the ranking of the overall series, but fresh off my first playthrough I feel comfortable putting it among the likes of Super Metroid and the original Metroid Prime. It’s the best Switch 2 title yet, and I have to imagine that fans of the series will find themselves captivated by Metroid Prime 4.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond proves that Nintendo did a good job returning the series to Retro Studios. And they, in turn, claim to know exactly what they're doing. Capture a bit of the magic of the past, borrow lessons from previous installments here and there, and—unfortunately—never add anything new worth mentioning. But just as Metroid is a relatively small series for Nintendo alone, a relatively "regular" Metroid Prime game is still a fantastic title.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a worthy successor to the classic first-person adventures of Samus Aran. The blend of shooter, puzzles, platforming, and exploration works well, although the core gameplay is somewhat linear. What most of the regular combat lacks in style, the superbly designed bosses more than make up for.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond took years to arrive, and what we get is a game that remembers the series’ strengths while trying to push into new territory. It may not be the series’ best, but it’s a worthy return—and a promising glimpse of where Metroid Prime can go next.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is a stunning showcase for the Switch 2 and a consistently entertaining action-adventure game that delivers a polished experience, but dedicated fans may find it doesn’t live up to the wait and the series name attached to it. For steps taken forward in specs, production, and quality-of-life, there are others taken backward through strange quirks in story and gameplay. Despite its failure to meet the moment, however, it remains to be one of the most exciting games to grace the system so far, and a worthy addition to any Switch 2 library.

Almost exactly what fans didn’t want from a new Metroid Prime but while it is widely inconsistent the majority of the game is undeniably entertaining.

With that, a largely flat Metroid is further degraded, from disappointing to a little bit embarrassing. Nintendo games have tested our patience before, but rarely in so many ways at once, and not without a core brilliance that makes such transgressions forgivable. Whatever ideas swirled in your mind back in 2017, you can't have been dreaming of this. [Issue#419, p.100]

Me encanta el juego, porque mantiene la esencia de la anterior trilogía.Gráficamente hablando se ve increíble y el gameplay es una locura.

Metroid Prime 4 ist kein schlechtes Spiel, bleibt als Gesamtpaket aber klar hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Das klassische Prime-Gameplay funktioniert, die Dungeons zählen zu den stärksten Momenten und auch atmosphärisch zeigt das Spiel stellenweise, wie stark ein modernes Metroid sein kann. Gleichzeitig ziehen die leere Pseudo-Open-World, die schwache Story, unpassende Nebenfiguren und vor allem die stumpfen Bosskämpfe das Erlebnis immer wieder nach unten. So bleibt am Ende ein Abenteuer mit sichtbarem Potenzial, das aber nicht über solides Mittelmaß hinauskommt. Wertung: 75% Das gesamte Review findet ihr auf unserer Website skillpoint_at

While its flaws and inconsistencies with the series prevent it from being truly great, Metroid Prime 4 is a fun and captivating experience, and it controls like a dream. Just don’t let the side characters bother you too much.

This game was a pain to get through. characters are written by chatgbt and story is awful. the game makes u go back into areas u have already been to multiple times just to go into 1 room and get an upgrade. the game is actually like 5 hours long if u take away all the BS stuff the game forces u to do. save ur money.

I wanted so bad to like this game. I jumped on the Metroid train 2023 so I didn't have to wait too long unlike those waiting from 2017. I should first mention that for a Nintendo game, this is so dang nice looking, running this game at 4K at 60fps was marvelous and felt like a PS5 game at times. The boss fights though few in my opinion were for the most part fun. That's about all the nice things I have to say. The open world **** and it hurts me to say that. I enjoy open worlds for the most part and the desert was fun the first time but this is Metroid, you back track, a lot. Rising across the desert staled pretty quickly and quickly became unfinished. I swear I would go to one place just to pick something up in the first room so I could turn around and ride allll the way back. The zones were well made though linear. And I didn't mind the side characters ( but oh my gosh can we please turn McKenzie voice overs off, I would leave one place and in less then 10 seconds he would start yapping telling me where I needed to go, the hand holding in this game is ridiculous, I prefer to discover what I need to do on my own.) So the game has great parts but theres so many bad parts that drag it down. Nintendo announced that they scrapped the original game in 2019 and started over from scratch, I am formally asking that Nintendo gives us that version instead.