A decade ago, Metroid made its return to Nintendo consoles. Here, we discuss Metroid Prime, and what made it such a classic.
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One of the biggest TV and movie tropes in the last decade has been the multiverse, the idea of exploring multiple dimensions to uncover alternate versions of existing ideas. From both a business and creative perspective, it makes sense why established franchises are shaking things up in this way.
However, there aren't many video games latching on to this trend, as rendering multiple worlds in real-time is a difficult feat and the medium is relatively young in comparison to its contemporaries, making crossover opportunities more difficult. Still, there are a few great titles that manage enough to overcome these challenges, and here are some of the best examples.
While I love someone mentioning Planescape, not really multiverse. Planes and dimensions, yes. But, they are typically their own locations and are very rarely tied to another 'verse' let alone another plane. The only things that are directly tied are the ethereal and material planes. Otherwise, they are dimensions created of their own design and goals by the creator/owner and not comprised of 'their own version of another dimension'.
Metroid Prime is a detective game at heart, and the Scan Visor is Samus' trusty magnifying glass.
Man it's actually been a decade?
Crazy.
I love the Metroid Prime Trilogy collection. One of my favorite Wii games because you get three awesome games all packaged together. Plus it updated Prime and Prime 2's controls to support the wiimote and nunchuk.
Such fun games. I got the first two on the Gamecube and then I got the trilogy on the Wii in that amazing hard case. I found it for $20 somehow a while back. One of my favorite Wii games.
Ah what a game! I remember seeing an issue of a Magazine called NGC that had Samus on the front cover and after playing Super Metroid WAY back in the day and being obsessed with it I bought the issue because it had been 8 years since Super Metroid. I read through the Metroid Prime & Fusion articles nearly every day for 8 months on the same magazine!
After the 8 months Prime had came out and I didn't know but my best friend who was also a massive Metroid fan bought the game and I stayed over at his house and we played that game all weekend! The memories I have with the Metroid games are memories ill cherish forever