For seven years, Metroid Prime 4 was only a logo. Fans obsessively adapted to each Nintendo presentation, hoping to update the game until 2024, when the trailer was finally released and the film material in motion was actually disclosed. This year, not only Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gets Extion, but also gains really compelling visual updates and games at Nintendo Switch 2. We played the latest part of Retro Studio in the classic series of adventures science fiction on Switch 2 and we have a lot to tell. Read on to learn more.
Apart from the stunning
The first thing we noticed from Metroid Prime 4 was how wonderful it was. It has an incredibly pristine and stylish aesthetics, and Nintendo advertised it as a 120 frame per second on the switch 2. It will not be on Switch 1 and it is tough to follow how much Nintendo will be able to stick to this number in a full game, but this is an ambitious goal. So far, Prime 4 has a really great sense of scale. We fought with a group of grunting enemies, saw a massive, powerful mecha spread in the battle, and then defeated a enormous boss, which contained several different phases of the attack. The area we demonstrated was simply a tiny look at what a full game can offer, so we hope that we will see wonderful hundreds and enormous, open environments, some of which have already been irritated in trailers.
But Metroid also affects tight tunnels and obscure corridors, and we also saw several of them. Like the previous Prime games, the quick press of the button immediately pops up from the first person targeting the Morph Ball mode with a third person, allowing them to go to some areas to which he cannot reach otherwise. We have to test it a bit and works great, so we can’t wait to look for every nook and tap of this game, looking for rocket updates, energy tanks, shortcuts and others. This is the most detailed metroid game so far and these sections do not differ, giving us a look at the battles between the fighting factions that take place under you when you fall in tunnels above them. But wait, how is it all playing?
Samość Aran (or, mice and metroids)
One of the most fascinating additions to Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 2 is optional mouse control. Looking back, The Prime Series experimented the tone with unique control options in various games. The first two matches of Metroid Prime were built around a fairly classic Nintendo Gamecube controller (although there was nothing classic in a historically transformation 2D bids -sside Crolling Game First Person Action Action Adventure Mechanics), but then all plants were turned off. Metroid Prime: Nintendo DS hunters had a touch screen control. Metroid Prime 3 on Nintendo Wii had indicators and traffic controls. Metroid Prime Pinball on DS sent with the Rumble package in the shape of the Game Boy Advance cassette. We are not talking about Metroid Prime: Blast Ball on Nintendo 3DS.
And now Metroid Prime 4 on switch 2 allows you to turn right Joy-Con 2 on the side, put it on a flat surface and control aiming Samus with a abrasive and precise mouse indicator with touch touch. Even worse, the game easily allows you to switch from classic controls to control mice on a whim, without having to stop to go to settings. We have seen many people who decide that they are preferred a way to play Metroid Prime 4, and the ease that can be turned into this and back between mouse control and indicators means that you can only choose the Joy-Con 2 on the table, when time comes for a solemn combat sequence, and employ classic controls for more cold segments of frosty exploration. Or maybe you will want to play the whole game in portable mode or with Pro Controller. Either way, you have options.
“Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” update path
One thing on which Nintendo is not completely clear is that Prime 4 sits on its awkward transient switch 1 to the Switch list of 2 titles. While some original Switch games, such as Echoes of Wisdom and Link’s Awakening, receive free improvements for Switch 2, others such as Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom download $ 10 for visual improvements (and a few bells and whistles), while some games such as kirby and forgotten earth They improve visual and add recent content. Which of these categories will control Metroid Prime 4 and 120 frame options per second when Switch 2 appears?
Well, like the release date and basic price of the game, we just don’t know yet. You will be able to buy a basic game and “Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack” individually or as a package in a branded red switch 2, but for now we have no idea how many of them will cost you. We best suppose that it will be $ 10 more for the Switch 2 version, given that it is not with the extension like “+ Jamboree TV” Mario Party and “+ Star world”, but we are not 100% sure yet. Samus has possible to unlock mental powers in Prime 4, so maybe we will have to ask her. However, it is usually not very talkative.
Metroid Prime 4 does not yet have the release date, but it is coming to switch 1 and switch 2 in 2025, so hey, at least we will not have to wait seven years to learn more. Close it so that Ign for all things metroid and remember to read on our practical cover of Nintendo Switch 2 equipment, Donkey Kong Banana and Mario Kart World.
Brian Altano and Logan Plant love Metroid and often talk about it on Nintendo Voice Chat, a weekly Ign Nintendo podcast. Check it out at Fridays on Ign.com, YouTube and Podcast Services.
