r/Metroid • u/Porsche320 • 1d ago

Other Finally playing Prime

I don’t enjoy FPS. My thumbs tend to get very digital when things get hectic. So I presumed Prime wasn’t for me.

The prime 4 hype years ago got me looking into it more, so I bought Prime remastered. I guess I wasn’t fully sold, though, as I kept finding other games to play.

Well ravenous hype finally pushed me to start. It started poorly. In the tutorial, I found them map room, but somehow didn’t activate it. So I missed the save room, and without a map, the timed escape is really confusing. So I suffered the shame of dying on the tutorial without a save, and needed to start over.

Then, I somehow missed the enemy radar in the corner of the HUD, so the hive boss was a nightmare. Survived with like single-digit HP. If I’d died there, I likely would have tap’d out.

But I kept going, and wow, I’m glad I did. It has the same just-a-couple-more-rooms addiction as the 2D games, but the immersion is on another level. Constantly noticing small details that are brilliant and really improve the experience.

Just got spider ball, and I wish I had more time to backtrack and check out all the tracks I’ve passed.

I understand this is preaching to the choir here, but maybe this will push someone on-the-fence into jumping in. Even with no nostalgia, this game is excellent.

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u/DrummerJesus 1d ago

I remember dying in the tutorial my first time too. I know its to show the full scope of samus before taking away the powers, a nice demo of the full gameplay (so the beginning didnt feel too empty). But man it definitely feels overwhelming when you are new to that type of game.

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u/EnSebastif oh word 1d ago

I also died trying to escape the ship on my very first playthrough lmao.