Everything you lay your eyes on - from weather and elemental effects to cutscenes and the incredibly cool visual tricks that play off Samus’ visor - doesn’t just raise the remaster bar but blasts it like a Phazon Beam through our previously established expectations.
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Whether spying the subtle glow of a flying Plazmite reflecting off a cave wall or stopping dead in your tracks to fully appreciate the droplets of rain running down the barrel of Samus’ blaster, you’ll need to regularly remind yourself this is an update of a game originally released the same year as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - whose 2021 remaster still hurts our eyes.Īnd while the aforementioned examples ably convey the presentation’s scope, they’re merely appetizers to the visual feast that awaits. Overhauled effects, such as the more prominent, pulsing beams on Samus’ arm cannon, pop off the Switch’s screen - especially the OLED model’s crisp display - while entirely new elements like the barely contained crackling bolts bouncing within the weapon’s spherical Charge Beam don’t simply stand out as minor improvements but striking inclusions any modern triple-A game would proudly call their own.
Enemy bosses and other character models once defined by menacing, surface ugliness now sport musculature and other creepy touches beneath their skin. Where many remasters shed some of their source material’s artistic magic in an effort to look shinier, Metroid Prime’s enhancements never stifle its original creative vision but consistently complement it.įoliage previously represented by nondescript forms of green and brown now look like actual branches, leaves and grass with distinct detail and definition. But bathed in better lightning, fresh effects, improved physics and abundant new details, its existing fauna and flora now make the planet an even more engrossing, immersive playground just begging to be explored. The moody, alien world of Tallon IV was always a looker, packed with inspired environments and imaginative extraterrestrials. But it also goes far above and way beyond the usual fresh coat of paint and filing down of rough edges to deliver an eye-popping showcase on par with its current-gen peers. Sporting smoother textures, sharper details and a more vibrant overall presentation, Metroid Prime checks all the requisite “remaster” boxes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account
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