Early impressions just dropped! While it does appear most of our worries may be put to rest regarding the traditional Metroid Prime experience, there does appear to be one flaw everyone is pointing out: chatty NPCs.

My expectation is that this is just an early-game issue (i.e. these NPCs are present early on in the game solely to get you familiarized with the game and its controls)… but it could be that these characters are present throughout the entire experience. Just need to wait it out and see. Early impressions have mostly been suggesting the former theory, claiming that one of the NPCs — Myles MacKenzie — while chatty throughout a big portion of their 1hr demo playtime, is dropped off somewhere, never to be revisited, before the demo’s conclusion.

I hope there is a skip "sidekick mission section" button

I'm glad I canceled my preorder before because I don't need to do that now. FFS!!

Y’all are gonna make this thing do a Pokémon with all that negativity. Metroid Prime 4 is doing 10 million confirmed now. 

As if Pokemon ever needed that negativity to sell 10m 

Haha…no, but Metroid Prime will!

Seems that Arlo is having a very reasonable reaction to all of this. (I really do enjoy watching Arlo’s content, but I think sometimes he just really misses the mark… that said, I can understand where he’s coming from. But also, I feel like he’s not recognizing that he’s freaking out over he first twenty minutes of the entire game lol. He needs to chill out and just wait.)

I enjoy a lot of Arlo’s content, but I stay away from the negative rants. I’m sure he makes good points (although sheesh, this is still a preview) but I just don’t need to hear him having a crisis over a game. It bums me out and that’s not usually why I listen to gaming channels. 

Jeez, people need to chill out a bit. 99% of the trailers have had zero npc companions. I think it's very likely that this is just a very small portion of the game and a vast majority of the game is going to be Samus doing her usual thing.

Oof, these reactions from the preview session the gaming press got are kind of a mess. Seems like they run the gamut from “very disappointed” to “exceeded all expectations” to everything in between. I think this is going to be the most divisive Metroid ever based on these early reactions, but at least it sounds like it won’t be a huge disaster ala Other M or anything. Gonna say a meta in the low 80s

I saw a very good theory on ResetEra:

MP4B is about to hit 95MC/OC. Just watch.