Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime is an action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii. It is the first installment of the the Metroid Prime series and is the second game chronologically.

Plot
Samus intercepts a distress signal from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon, whose crew have been slaughtered by the Pirates' own genetically modified, experimental subjects. At the ship's core, she battles with the Parasite Queen—a giant version of the tiny parasites aboard the ship. The Parasite Queen is defeated and falls into the ship's reactor core, initiating the destruction of the ship.

During her escape, an electrical surge and explosion destroys her suit upgrades, forcing her to revert to her original Power Suit. Samus escapes the frigate and chases her nemesis in her gunship towards the nearby planet Tallon IV.

Why It's a Real Prime Time

 * 1) This is the very first 3D Metroid game to be created, and an absolute game changer on top of that. It's basically like the amazing Super Metroid but made into a 3D game.
 * 2) Beautiful, impressive, and jaw-dropping graphics and environments for the time, and they still look great today.
 * 3) Epic, non-linear gameplay and exploration mechanics.
 * 4) An awesome, moody, ambient soundtrack, even popularizing Lower Norfair's theme with Magmoor Caverns.
 * 5) Revolutionary first-person shooter gameplay, a first in the Metroid series.
 * 6) Fantastic power ups.
 * 7) Lore scans are a cool concept that are great at building the lore of each location you go to. Each lore that can be scan in Metroid Prime is super engaging to read, from the Chozo's tragic backstory with Phazon, to the Space Pirates plan to use Phazon as a weapon, to the reveal that Samus is a hero that can defeat the new threat of Phazon.
 * 8) Really tight controls for both the Gamecube and New! Play Control/Trilogy ports.
 * 9) Like Super Metroid and other games in the franchise, there's a huge amount of hidden items and collectibles which give players a lot of replay value. And the expansions all require creative solutions or puzzle-solving to obtain.
 * 10) While beams being separate (from Metroid and Metroid II) returns, it gets fixed by the fact that all four of the beams have their own element to them.
 * 11) *The Power Beam is a basic normal beam that has no effects, be can be fired rapidly and has the highest rating fire.
 * 12) *The Wave Beam is an electric-theme beam that can home in on enemies when locked on and when charge can paralyze them.
 * 13) *The Ice Beam is (as its name applies) an ice-theme beam that has the slowest rating fire, but can freeze enemies in place, and has great damage.
 * 14) *The Plasma Beam is a heat-based beam that has the shortest range, but can set enemies on fire, continually damaging them, when charge up, it can one-shot them into black ashes. It is essentially the most powerful beam in general.
 * 15) There are secondary weapons for all four of the beams that use missiles.
 * 16) *The Power Beam gets the Super Missile, it can fire a large yellow blast that can one-shot almost every enemy in the game, while dealing heavy damage to bosses.
 * 17) *The Wave Beam gets the Wave Buster, it can shoot out an electric lighting-like tractor beam that will complete stun the enemies in place and do continues damage to them.
 * 18) *The Ice Beam gets the Ice Spreader, it can fire an icy blast that if hit on contact with a floor and/or wall, will cause that area to get covered in ice, it can be use agents multiple enemies.
 * 19) *The Plasma Beam gets the Flamethrower, as its name suggest, it can can launch out continues flames like a real flamethrower, its useful agents large swarm of enemies.
 * 20) Over the top and epic boss battles, like Meta Ridley (who is essentially the most infamous boss of the Prime series), Omega Pirate and the final boss/title antagonist: Metroid Prime.
 * 21) Balanced difficulty, not too hard, but not too easy. It really varies depending on your view and the difficulty, however.
 * 22) Incredible areas, such as Phendrana Drifts.
 * 23) Camera spans to third-person when switching to Morph Ball mode, making it feel fun to control, like you're playing a game like Marble Blast Ultra or something.
 * 24) If you’ve already finished Metroid Fusion on your Game Boy Advance, you can link it to your GameCube to unlock the original Metroid from the get-go, and if Metroid Prime has also been finished, you can replay the game with the Fusion Suit.
 * 25) *In Metroid Prime Trilogy, however, it's a simple unlockable that can be switched on and off.
 * 26) Multiple endings and secrets depending on the percentage of found items and power-ups.
 * 27) *The 75%-99% ending shows Samus taking off her helmet and looking at the environment, a staple in Metroid games.
 * 28) *The 100% ending, on the other hand, shows a post credits scene involving Dark Samus' horrifying and tense rebirth, teasing Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The lighting effect can be a bit annoying.
 * 2) Somewhat tedious backtracking, which the game unfortunately seems to have a big obsession with.
 * 3) This is the only Metroid game where the iconic Screw Attack isn't a collectible item, although it returns in the sequel.
 * 4) The Chozo Artifacts scavenger hunt near the end of the game is quite tedious.
 * 5) Some areas are really dark, making it extremely difficult to navigate through and they often force you to adjust the brightness of the TV or when it's literally pitch black (this is present in some areas of the Phendrana Drifts), use the Thermal Visor just to see where you're going or what you're doing, which can interfere with navigating.
 * 6) Some of the bosses are really weak and underwhelming, like the Incinerator Drone, the Cloaked Drone, and even the Metroid Prime's second phase.
 * 7) If you're going for 100% scans, that could easily go wrong with the fact that there are quite a handful of missable scans, like Flaagrah's thorny roots.

Tips

 * 1) When you get a particular upgrade (such as the Wavebuster), you can backtrack to that area to get a Chozo Artifact.
 * 2) There are really neat tricks to defeat the Omega Pirate.
 * 3) *You can destroy the Phazon armor with Power Bombs.
 * 4) *You can take out the Omega Pirate in three shots by using Super Missiles.
 * 5) In the Gamecube version of this game, you can easily destroy an Ice Trooper by freezing it with your Ice Beam and using a missile. This isn't present in Trilogy, but you should manage them quite easily with just the Ice Beam in general.

Reception
Metroid Prime was a critical and commercial success, selling more than one million copies in North America alone. It received universal acclaim for its high quality graphics, immersive atmosphere, moody soundtrack, and innovative gameplay. Widely considered one of the greatest video games ever made, this game completely defined the Metroid franchise ever since and was even put in one of Nintendo's important franchises after Pokemon and Mario.

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