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| Louie said: I have to say, in hindsight I really did not enjoy the game. I think it's inferior to the other Prime games in almost every aspect. I absolutely adore Prime 1 and I love Metroid, but Prime 4 just wasn't a Metroid game. The ice region was really cool and I remember thinking "oh, this is where the game picks up! Feels a lot more like Metroid now!" ...unfortunately later areas become more linear again and it really felt like baby's first Metroid in some aspects. I was very disappointed to see that the last big area was just another linear pathway. And when the final boss fight rolled around, I just wanted it to end lol. The bike sections and the desert in general were just bad in my opinion and totally out of place in a Metroid game. Some of the upgrades you can collect just felt ridiculously useless to me. The game lacked the magic of Prime 1 and 2. It was even more linear than 3 and that game got criticized a lot for being too linear. All in all, the bike sections combined with the empty overworld, the linearity, the disconnected world design (each area is basically a silo, completely disconnected from everything else) and the many side characters just made this feel like some sort of generic shooter and not like a Metroid game at all. It's a bit like the Paper Mario situation: You may think the newer entries are good games in their own right, but they are not what you would expect from a Paper Mario game. With Prime 4, it may say Metroid on the box, but there's not Metroid in the box. |
I did end up enjoying the game, but I do agree, it wasn't a metroid game. Nintendo should have called it something else.
I hated the desert and the lack of connection between areas. It just left me wanting.
