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Honestly, I gotta apologize to Metroid Prime. After squeezing its way into the top 10 last year with the amazing remaster, I'm now dropping it outside of it yet again. Ridiculously enough, having first played this in 2014 - the same year I first made this list - it has only made the top 10 four out of eleven times, despite having never dropped any lower than #12, a position it ended up in a whopping five (!!) times. So, I'm sorry, Metroid Prime. Hey, at least you didn't end up at #12 again?
Anyways. Yeah, this game is a masterpiece. The kind of masterpiece you struggle to use any different term for, that word is the first and only thing that comes to mind whenever you think about it. Meaning I struggle to even think of what to say about it. Have I mentioned it's a masterpiece? Cause yeah, it sure is a masterpiece.
No really, I don't know what else to say. There's barely anything I could possibly fault this game for. Just a ridiculously well-made translation of everything Metroid should be into a first-person perspective, visually stunning and among the most impressive technical achievements on both the GameCube and the Switch, with an incredible soundtrack that immerses you entirely in this amazing alien world, filled with tense moments and discoveries, very interesting lore behind everything you see, the controls feel great, the level design is fantastic, and most importantly: it's all just so iconic. So, yeah. Masterpiece.
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