Even seeing the product of 20 years of graphical advancement right next to it, the original graphics of the game still hold up to this day. It’s very impressive.
3:03 has to be one of the coolest new animations they did with how the particles and and transition is with the downgrading suit, next to the Metroid prime chase animations where she doesn't look like a stiff robot chasing Prime
just reached that part, whoever made this video actually didn't include the transitions between floors in the prime chase, that actually was one of the bigger changes in the game cinematics.
I really enjoy the comical amount of space pirates that fly out of every explosion of the frigate. It's like they had more pirates in the walls than parasites.
I know it looks great! Part of me kinda likes the sorta shiny texture they put over the phazony and techy stuff in the original but the remaster is undeniably an upgrade.
That's how a good remaster is done! It makes the game look like it was done today, but it's still the exact same game! Not a reboot or remake - these can vary much more.
@@OneWhoKnowsThings6009 I can agree with that. There were some things in the comparison videos that were done better in the OG version than in the remaster, so yeah
I think that’s what the best kind of remasters should be like. It should look how we remembered it through rose tinted glasses, but still feel the same as it did all those years ago.
I think my favorite part is how different the Plasma Beam looks. In the Gamecube and Trilogy versions, it just looks like molten rock in-between the spaces in the arm cannon, but in the remaster, it looks like actual flowing magma, it looks incredible.
I like how the original devs where determined to show Samus's suit malfunction in real time instead of swapping the model with a camera change. Remastered version Is likely what the wanted to do.
Unfortunatly at 13:09 because they had way less of a big bright saturation in the way, you can see the bone spire thing just break and vanish when the Essence of Metroid Prime appears. There's a few other bits here and there where you can tell the exxcessive light was there to mask a change in geometry or models, but removed the changes are stark and unanimated.
The left one is how I remember it looking. I first saw it and said "yeah, they did not improve much" but after seeing the old footage, the difference is massive. And that is not all, the old ones still look amazing. The Retro Studios guys are amazing.
I’m playing this right now on the OLED, man the graphics are insane, they overhauled this game yet it retains the gameplay. The dual stick controls are so good, it’s incredible they made this game work in a modern setting.
The "big thing" i encountered as i was playing it was the first Boss it was just "O F..... how cool is that - LOOK AT HIM" And afterwards just the lighting and updated props - absolut master remake and i normally hate remakes.
Medium to high dual stick controls with low-sensitivity gyroscopic aim on top is incredibly natural. I can make those slight adjustments for hitting ranged things that the stick would overshoot at sensitivities high enough to turn around. I can press right on the right stick to quickly turn, but at range that results in a harder time hitting precisely. With motion aim on top, I can have ranged precision AND fast turning. Because the motion controls are the low-sensitivity controls, they don't get in the way of normal gameplay like if you'd reversed the sensitivities. This closes the gap between a mouse and a controller because one of the most critical deficits the controller has is the inability to ratchet up speed. A mouse can be aimed with the fingers, wrist, elbow, or shoulder with progressively higher speed movements as needed. A control stick lacks this capability entirely. With the invention of gyroscopic aim, however, it can do what a hand or wrist could have done with a mouse without sacrificing the elbow or shoulder aim speeds a mouse would also have.
I brought Metroid Remsaterd & I played it for a half hours and I can't believe how the graphics are. They are so enhanced, so damn excellent that I couldn't believe that I am playing Metroid Prime back when I had it on Gamecube. I hope they do the same to the 2nd & 3rd ones like they did with the first one cause man, the Remastered just blew me away.
It really did. The model for Samus in the GC game was 9-10k triangles which is super high for that gen (The normal amount was 2-4k). That model appears in every cutscene and whenever you switch out of morphball mode. Although the models used for the multiplayer in MP2 or the reflections from the Chozo Ruins in MP1 use a low-poly model.
@@VexAcer Samus' model in the GC version had approx. 8k triangles in her full model. Samus in the Remastered version has a whopping 56k triangles, which is about 7 times higher than its original counterpart.
I grew up on Metroid Prime on the Game Cube when it first came out. I do hold some slight envy to those getting to play the game for the first time now. Seeing how everything aged as a whole, still knocks many modern games of this particular genre out of the park. I didn't get to play games like Halo til much later in my formative years, but I'd argue with kids at school how Metroid Prime was my Halo. Even stating that the smallest details made a world of difference; examples, the rain effects on the arm cannon and visor, the freedom of travel, no loading screens, and the reflection of Samus' face on the visor when an explosion hits nearby. I showed this game to my brother in law last year on the Game Cube (because I won't get rid of the original), and those little details blew his mind, and he wondered how he never knew a game with as much detail as Prime has existed.
14:46 Anyone else prefer Samus having a more realistic face as opposed to the anime-like one? She always looked more believable as a warrior here compared to nowadays with the excessive makeup and stark yellow hair.
@@mrdoggo3569 I know. They updated the reflection face but didn't use it for when she took off the helmet. Bugs the hell out of me and idk why more people aren't mentioning it. Original face was the best
@7:18 Just imagine, you're a Space Pirate, and you hear the alarm sound. The doors are locked, and you go to the source, only to find two hunters. Both Samus. My favorite cutscene without a doubt, is after you beat Thardaus. It always has been, and always will be.
4:58 - Don't know if it's "correct" but I'm just going to say that the original Prime's version of the solar panels looked cooler. 7:17 - I'm glad they got rid of the goofy as shit and exaggerated arm movements from the original there. 8:13 - I like how you can see actual flecks of snow in the remaster swirling around rather than just the cloud effect in the original, nice touch. 8:34 - And how you can see some of the snow falling at a rate consistent with the rocks dropping, independent of the rate snow from the exterior is falling.
Ooh ryte, wasn't she kinda twitching in a strained way coming out of it in that version? it was uber koul ahnd gave an impression of how extreme the phazons incorporation to the suit was.
i was really hoping they would when i fought the omega pirate, but i'm glad they at least readded t he ice beam freezing the gun because they got rid of it in the trilogy version yet you can still hear the sound effect of it happening
This is exactly what I was looking for because I never had the chance to play the original Prime series. Old versions still look great but damn what a stark difference. And Samus looks so pretty at the end too❤
I know right?? Finally, I found it late but so glad someone out there saw it too lol. I pointed this out a Year ago and received so much hate for it haha, the community really can be toxic for no reason - it was coming anyway and sure enough: We've finally got it!! 🥳😎
That's only the case for the North American release and its Wii counterpart. The European and Japanese versions have English narration in both the GameCube and Wii versions.
this is the best remaster of any game to date. perfectly encapsulates everything that made the original so great and improves only where it absolutely needs to
Exactly the comparison i was searching for. I played this game when it was released, then the Trilogy Version and still playing with emulator on 4x Native res which look really comfortable. But everything has been redone and textures, lightning, reflection, etc.. looks really worth it. I wished some effects to stay the same as before but overall would buy it.
Imagine making a game with gameplay that still holds up perfectly 20 years later without any changes (besides controls). It's absolutely insane how ahead of its time Prime was. Truly a testament to the passion and love Retro poured into this game.
Nor those wondering how there's a narration, Europe and Japan got a narration and not the US. But in the Remastered version, everyone gets a choice to have the narration from Japan or Europe or have it off completely like US had. I don't know the extent of the Japanese narration.
It's a bounty or a contract or she's just doing it pro Bono because eff space pirates. Whatever happens is just part of the job, you either think it's worth the trouble to attempt and you do it at the upfront price, or you pass.
i imagine it started with the distress beacon for pay, then changed to fuck up ridley for the bounty, then changed to gotta help my surrogate ancestors with their meteor trouble
I'd assume it went something like 1- Samus is cruising around between contracts 2- Distress Signal. Samus detects a chance to do a good deed and probably get paid. 3- Actually, it is pirates. 4- Samus hates those guys. Investigate, wreck them, send the Federation a report since they surely have a standing bounty on wrecking pirates.
I prefer the old cartoony lighting - it is more reminiscent of Super Metroid. Also Remastered Samus has a dumb puffy face of a teen. Wii rendition looked charismatic.
I love how the story of Metroid Prime 1 is basically, a symbiote fell on Samus and assimilated with her suit, turning into Bully Aran after having fought a Titan. Most of this whole mission is she's really just trolling the space pirates that're pooping their pants when she finally gets to their homeworld. Then after the final boss, Metroid Prime basically became like Venom and possess the phazon suit there after!
I actually don't care for them changing Ridley's head to a more purple color. I liked that Meta Ridley had such a different color scheme from his fully organic form, with it mostly being grays and silvers with the yellow popping out on his eyes, wings, and chests. Plus, him having a literal chrome dome just looks cool.
I think the developers for the Remastered version wanted to show Meta Ridley as a patchwork cyborg, with his organic parts contrasting with the mechanical ones. I also like his original design and I think it still looks good, but the new design is more on line with the Space Pirates' modus operandi. They only care about results, so it makes sense that they would gather Ridley's body parts and just merge them with machine parts. It also makes Meta Ridley more distinct from the Ridley robot we see in Zero Mission (which was completely mechanical).
@@96Vladek You can see organic bits in the original, but I can understand making his head purple as well to showcase that. It is kind of hard to see his limbs when he's busy either flying in the air or charging into you. The space pirates probably would have to be a little careful with how they made Ridley look, considering he is sentient. If I remember correctly you can find a scan talking about how Ridley is pleased by the job they've done on him. If he wasn't, he'd probably chuck them out the airlock without a space suit.
It might also be to maintain parity with other depictions of Meta-Ridley, namely as he appears in Smash Brothers Brawl and Ultimate and Corruption, as well as bring more of a contrast between him and Mecha Ridley, who is almost entirely silver and more of an "in-between" of Mecha Ridley and Proteus Ridley.
I dunno about that, Samus looked pretty dim while she was literally on fire, as her armour burned up in the remaster. It feels like her suit should be reflecting a lot more light in that scene, but not quite as much as the original version.
Cuando jugué el remaster pensé que se veía igual original y ahora con esta comparativa puedo apreciar el gran trabajo que hicieron por adaptar y corregir varias carencias de la epoco
The only thing I don't like about the remaster is how toned down a lot of the effects are, in both scale and opacity. Other than that it's nearly perfect
Fantastic Remaster but it would have been awesome if they did what Halo 1 and 2 Anniversary did adding the feature to switch between the Orignal Graphics and the new. Still very satisfied with it non the less. Hope we get Prime 2 + 3 in HD on the switch soon!
One of the first games that I played was Metroid Prime, and I always loved the graphics. The new version is ALMOST exactly the same. The narrator is kind of annoying, and that is basically the only thing that bugs me. When I first played it, though (the GameCube one), I never knew Samus was a girl! So that's why I was so happy at the end of the game whenever she took off her helmet and I found that out! Knowing at the beginning kind of ruins the memory of not knowing, I honestly thought Samus was a robot. There goes my childhood surprise 😆
Here's hoping they make her more badass in prime 4. Something like dread would be hard to beat. After so long waiting, I'm hoping 4 isnt just more of 1 2 and 3. I'd love an upgraded feel to it.
@@netweed09 it hasn't come out haha. The trailer looks like more 1 2 and 3 tbh. Aside from that story line which I'm all in for. Mocktroids behind Sylux?? I'm sold either way haha. But I want some melee attacks and some slides like in dread. It'd be so cool the have a sprint button too
@@albertosingsattimes Yea, she definitely needs a Sprint! Like Link's jump Button duck lol. Despite looking the _slightest_ bit zippier in that trailer We need more mobility , it would be a bit of a chore and not satisfying having to morph Ball round any larger expansive areas for minutes on end in real time.
@@netweed09 exactly! A lot of that is missing in the previous installments. Like it'd be so cool to arm cannon bash a space pirate, slide under another immediately into morphball and bomb drop behind you only to jump out and grapple to another opponent. It's unlikely to be the case for this game, but a gamer can dream lmao
@@albertosingsattimes Yep , the issue is they stick to the 'tried and tested' too much, simply expecting you to Morph Ball and drop bombs and morph out to mix things up again. Combat should be refined as you said. I just want that wonderful script back where a significant threat appears and Samus' visor dramatically flashes and she does the code typing onto her armpad thing. 😎 Anyhow , at least it all looks Fantastic this time round and with a fresh new insight over a very Mysterious villain.
The ''the 20000 year old Gamecube graphics hold up to this day'' opinion is getting a bit long in the tooth for me now guys, sorry. It's starting to get extremely predictable, like those ''1st!!'' comments that hit a trend but now have died down because sensible people grew tired of them. I mean , yes the GC was great for it's time but the graphics _do not_ hold up well *today* ppl: they lack fine detail. What _does_ 'hold up' though, is *that Epic opening.* It's Great that Beyond's opening follows in a similar vein of intensity.
Game Cube games had interesting soft "dreamy" lighting. It is most obvious in Metroid Prime, Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil. Remasters of these games look plastic and dark.
Yeah, and also at the end of the game, as well as whenever you start up a save. The narration was removed in the North American version, but it was still there in the European and Japanese versions. There's an option in the menu to shut it off if players want a more original experience.
Special effects with her. The games are massive like the asteroid that’s in the beginning of the game looks more detailed in the Wii port Remastered’s model, a Simas is much darker for some reason, but then environments are much brighter. Good change special effects are massively different though, especially when she transforms back into her Varia suit honestly, the Wii version looks better during transformations special effects and light on Samus
Metroid Prime was a good example of "Show; don't tell." It didn't need two hours of cutscenes to tell the story, we got the story by playing, scanning creatures and artifacts, and exploring the world. It's my favorite game from that generation.
I may be an idiot for waiting to play this masterpiece till the physically release but dammit I don't exactly trust Nintendo to honor me a digital game forever, that and if one day I ever homebrew my switch I'd rather have most of my games in case my account gets banned off of my switch
One aspect I full heartily enjoy in Trilogy (I know how minor it sounds but stick with me), is the spring ball, sure its minor but in prime 2, the spring ball alone made the whole game a pleasant hike, my shins are fucked up but my entire legs aren't fucked up, even in prime 2, the constant dread I get when I have to deal with that one boss, sure its passable without the spring ball but its frustrating without. With spring ball, I find myself playing all 3 games and I say "they are all good"
I don't think talking about the Spring Ball is unimportant, it was a great quality-of-life addition. Honestly, I also thought the motion controls for Trilogy were way bettter than the classic controls, and that's more important for me than "preserving the intended difficulty" of the original game.
@@96Vladek That is true but I am harping on one boss where its not only a puzzle boss but its also timed, so much so the morphball bombs can feel really taxing, on the gamecube I was lucky. A quality of life for certain and I agree on the motion controls, sure there is merely a visual loss in prime1, but the games feel just as fine.
I loved many elements about the Remaster. I’d say my only complaints were the lighting issues (especially in Phazon Mines), the triple shot feature before a charged shot, the lighting effects on a charged beam (in the original version it lit up areas around you), and finally how expressive they made the eyes in the original vs the visor seen in the Remastered cinematics.
I just wanna say that even though the remaster IS better quality overall, the pixels were not NEARLY as apparent in the original as this vid makes it out to be. the CRT really did wonders for low resolution stuff
The only thing I think looks worse is the ice beam charge animation (compared to GameCube since Wii did not have the charge beam effects for some reason), although the new frozen enemy effect looks fantastic
I made a video about an interesting blunder in Metroid Prime's lore: ua-cam.com/video/YP6VKb9lSzs/v-deo.html
Even seeing the product of 20 years of graphical advancement right next to it, the original graphics of the game still hold up to this day. It’s very impressive.
Definitely. Like, yes the new one looks better in almost every way, but the old still looks amazing in it's own right.
In some places I prefer the original look. Remaster is the way to play though
Art style.
@@Shendue indeed. A good art direction will make any media stand the test of time.
Yeah honestly There is not nearly as much difference as you would expect from a 20 year difference.
Just the textures look better.
3:03 has to be one of the coolest new animations they did with how the particles and and transition is with the downgrading suit, next to the Metroid prime chase animations where she doesn't look like a stiff robot chasing Prime
just reached that part, whoever made this video actually didn't include the transitions between floors in the prime chase, that actually was one of the bigger changes in the game cinematics.
I like how Ridley flies by flapping his wings in the vacuum of space
Lol I was thinking about this today. They should’ve given him a jet pack or something.
🤔 Well he is mechanically enhanced
@@10191927 what does that have to do with wings flapping against… empty space?
@@thomaspopa3354 Space pirate tech
Ridley does what he wants. You gonna tell him he can't?
9:50 the omega pirate breaks out of its test tube, instantly has a heart attack, and falls on samus, dead
"Guys... I think... I think we fucked it up."
I told you guys that he was getting to much Red Bull!
When suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack! The Omega Pirate peril, was ended. The search for Meta Ridley, could continue
@@zachplayback🤣🤣
I really enjoy the comical amount of space pirates that fly out of every explosion of the frigate. It's like they had more pirates in the walls than parasites.
I didn't even notice the Space Pirates flying out of the explosions until I read your comment and rewatched the scene. It is pretty comical.
That had me on the floor lol
Indeed, that ship at start of the game was pretty much dead ship until Samus arrived.
I was hoping someone else noticed! They're just *everywhere*!
Considering how ruthless and brutal the pirates are, I wouldn't be surprised if they stuffed each other in walls as punishment for disobedience 💀
An actually great remaster. Looks like the game we all saw in our heads.
I know it looks great! Part of me kinda likes the sorta shiny texture they put over the phazony and techy stuff in the original but the remaster is undeniably an upgrade.
@@thezestfall1st107 Yea the Phazon did felt different, but not in a bad way.
nah... gamecube has the better phazon suit acquiring..
Its not perfect but god damn if it doesn't look good. Great shit
This remaster is exactly how I remember the game when I first played it on the GameCube lol
When I first saw Remastered I was like "I don't get it... it looks exactly as I remember". Then I saw the comparison videos and I was like "0_0 whoa"
What's so mindblowing is how they made it look exactly how our brains think how we remember it looking
That's how a good remaster is done! It makes the game look like it was done today, but it's still the exact same game! Not a reboot or remake - these can vary much more.
phazon suit in gamecube og version of metroid prime was waaaaaay better
@@OneWhoKnowsThings6009 I can agree with that. There were some things in the comparison videos that were done better in the OG version than in the remaster, so yeah
I think that’s what the best kind of remasters should be like. It should look how we remembered it through rose tinted glasses, but still feel the same as it did all those years ago.
I think my favorite part is how different the Plasma Beam looks. In the Gamecube and Trilogy versions, it just looks like molten rock in-between the spaces in the arm cannon, but in the remaster, it looks like actual flowing magma, it looks incredible.
I like how the original devs where determined to show Samus's suit malfunction in real time instead of swapping the model with a camera change. Remastered version Is likely what the wanted to do.
Interesting, that they moved the camera further away in the remake in some cases to show more of the scenery, good choice.
Unfortunatly at 13:09 because they had way less of a big bright saturation in the way, you can see the bone spire thing just break and vanish when the Essence of Metroid Prime appears. There's a few other bits here and there where you can tell the exxcessive light was there to mask a change in geometry or models, but removed the changes are stark and unanimated.
The left one is how I remember it looking. I first saw it and said "yeah, they did not improve much" but after seeing the old footage, the difference is massive. And that is not all, the old ones still look amazing. The Retro Studios guys are amazing.
This felt like a graphical demo for Prime 4 and if so, this raises my expectations quite a bit.
Well this aged well lol
I’m playing this right now on the OLED, man the graphics are insane, they overhauled this game yet it retains the gameplay. The dual stick controls are so good, it’s incredible they made this game work in a modern setting.
The "big thing" i encountered as i was playing it was the first Boss
it was just "O F..... how cool is that - LOOK AT HIM"
And afterwards just the lighting and updated props - absolut master remake and i normally hate remakes.
Medium to high dual stick controls with low-sensitivity gyroscopic aim on top is incredibly natural. I can make those slight adjustments for hitting ranged things that the stick would overshoot at sensitivities high enough to turn around. I can press right on the right stick to quickly turn, but at range that results in a harder time hitting precisely. With motion aim on top, I can have ranged precision AND fast turning. Because the motion controls are the low-sensitivity controls, they don't get in the way of normal gameplay like if you'd reversed the sensitivities. This closes the gap between a mouse and a controller because one of the most critical deficits the controller has is the inability to ratchet up speed. A mouse can be aimed with the fingers, wrist, elbow, or shoulder with progressively higher speed movements as needed. A control stick lacks this capability entirely. With the invention of gyroscopic aim, however, it can do what a hand or wrist could have done with a mouse without sacrificing the elbow or shoulder aim speeds a mouse would also have.
the dualsticks WITH THE GYRO make it work
@@FreaKzerothat's because it's not a remake. it's a remaster.
meh. It's better though not that much better.
never would've noticed this but the there is a jetpack animation that got removed from her jump at 1:36
I brought Metroid Remsaterd & I played it for a half hours and I can't believe how the graphics are. They are so enhanced, so damn excellent that I couldn't believe that I am playing Metroid Prime back when I had it on Gamecube. I hope they do the same to the 2nd & 3rd ones like they did with the first one cause man, the Remastered just blew me away.
This really puts it into perspective that the character modelling budget in MP1 all went on Samus XD
It really did. The model for Samus in the GC game was 9-10k triangles which is super high for that gen (The normal amount was 2-4k). That model appears in every cutscene and whenever you switch out of morphball mode.
Although the models used for the multiplayer in MP2 or the reflections from the Chozo Ruins in MP1 use a low-poly model.
@@VexAcer Samus' model in the GC version had approx. 8k triangles in her full model.
Samus in the Remastered version has a whopping 56k triangles, which is about 7 times higher than its original counterpart.
This game is absolutely incredible. So much nostalgia.
The Varia Suit in HD. Dreams come true. Prime 2 & 3 now please xD
I grew up on Metroid Prime on the Game Cube when it first came out. I do hold some slight envy to those getting to play the game for the first time now. Seeing how everything aged as a whole, still knocks many modern games of this particular genre out of the park. I didn't get to play games like Halo til much later in my formative years, but I'd argue with kids at school how Metroid Prime was my Halo. Even stating that the smallest details made a world of difference; examples, the rain effects on the arm cannon and visor, the freedom of travel, no loading screens, and the reflection of Samus' face on the visor when an explosion hits nearby. I showed this game to my brother in law last year on the Game Cube (because I won't get rid of the original), and those little details blew his mind, and he wondered how he never knew a game with as much detail as Prime has existed.
I still get the same chills on Thardus intro. All these years and I love this game more and more. I hope we get Echoes and Corruption.
I never noticed the dead space pirates flying out into space as the frigate explodes before. Sweet!!
14:46 Anyone else prefer Samus having a more realistic face as opposed to the anime-like one? She always looked more believable as a warrior here compared to nowadays with the excessive makeup and stark yellow hair.
I prefer the original prime face. you can see it in the visor reflections. No idea why they didn't keep it
@@kdaltex they did keep it though....
@@kdaltex you can see her face in reflections lol.
Samus always puts on her face before destroying space pirate armies.
@@mrdoggo3569 I know. They updated the reflection face but didn't use it for when she took off the helmet. Bugs the hell out of me and idk why more people aren't mentioning it. Original face was the best
@7:18
Just imagine, you're a Space Pirate, and you hear the alarm sound. The doors are locked, and you go to the source, only to find two hunters. Both Samus.
My favorite cutscene without a doubt, is after you beat Thardaus. It always has been, and always will be.
9:44 they went crazy remodeling the Omega Pirate, he has the biggest glow-up between the two versions of the game. looks so much scarier!
You know, a better comparison would be the Prime hack with all it's side features.
13:25 Wii colorful explosions switch just blue
It's stoaking that so many people are in love/falling in love with this series.
4:58 - Don't know if it's "correct" but I'm just going to say that the original Prime's version of the solar panels looked cooler.
7:17 - I'm glad they got rid of the goofy as shit and exaggerated arm movements from the original there.
8:13 - I like how you can see actual flecks of snow in the remaster swirling around rather than just the cloud effect in the original, nice touch.
8:34 - And how you can see some of the snow falling at a rate consistent with the rocks dropping, independent of the rate snow from the exterior is falling.
I'm bummed that they didn't use the gamecube phazon suit acquisition cutscene. It was way better than the one from the wii version.
Ooh ryte, wasn't she kinda twitching in a strained way coming out of it in that version? it was uber koul ahnd gave an impression of how extreme the phazons incorporation to the suit was.
She also strikes a sick pose.
i was really hoping they would when i fought the omega pirate, but i'm glad they at least readded t he ice beam freezing the gun because they got rid of it in the trilogy version yet you can still hear the sound effect of it happening
Yeah i know right?!
Every time someone does a comparison video, they just use the Wii port. It's so frustrating.
This is exactly what I was looking for because I never had the chance to play the original Prime series.
Old versions still look great but damn what a stark difference. And Samus looks so pretty at the end too❤
can't wait to see what they did for 2
Seeing the landing site in HD blew my mind. It's almost unbelievable seeing how it used to look now.
GUYS LOOK THE REMASTERED VERSION HAS BLUE SPACE DUST IN THE INTRO, IT'S A PRIME 4 REFERENCE
I know right?? Finally, I found it late but so glad someone out there saw it too lol. I pointed this out a Year ago and received so much hate for it haha, the community really can be toxic for no reason - it was coming anyway and sure enough: We've finally got it!! 🥳😎
@@netweed09 Thank you for your contribution to the Metroid community Mr Sylux
The original GameCube version does not have any narrator.
That's only the case for the North American release and its Wii counterpart. The European and Japanese versions have English narration in both the GameCube and Wii versions.
this is the best remaster of any game to date. perfectly encapsulates everything that made the original so great and improves only where it absolutely needs to
cant wait they make a remaster of Echoes, that was my first Prime saga i played
Exactly the comparison i was searching for.
I played this game when it was released, then the Trilogy Version and still playing with emulator on 4x Native res which look really comfortable.
But everything has been redone and textures, lightning, reflection, etc.. looks really worth it.
I wished some effects to stay the same as before but overall would buy it.
Phazon Suit looks glorious. Still my absolute favorite suit ever.
Makes me very excited for a potential Prime 2 Remastered, which has my personal favorite (Light Suit).
Blurs the line of Remake and Remaster lol. They created a lot of new assets for this game. It runs so amazingly well too.
Imagine making a game with gameplay that still holds up perfectly 20 years later without any changes (besides controls). It's absolutely insane how ahead of its time Prime was.
Truly a testament to the passion and love Retro poured into this game.
Nor those wondering how there's a narration, Europe and Japan got a narration and not the US. But in the Remastered version, everyone gets a choice to have the narration from Japan or Europe or have it off completely like US had.
I don't know the extent of the Japanese narration.
I never realized how the Metroid Prime's face is supposed to be upside down in the original version.
Man, this graphics overhaul is amazing!
So like who does she bill for all this carnage? Is she recording everything in her helmet and sends it to Galactic Federation with a big fat invoice?
It's a bounty or a contract or she's just doing it pro Bono because eff space pirates. Whatever happens is just part of the job, you either think it's worth the trouble to attempt and you do it at the upfront price, or you pass.
this mission is pure love of the game
Nintendo didnt knew what a bounty hunter was, thee saw samus as a Heroine of space. That is why you never see a payout or o something similar
i imagine it started with the distress beacon for pay, then changed to fuck up ridley for the bounty, then changed to gotta help my surrogate ancestors with their meteor trouble
I'd assume it went something like
1- Samus is cruising around between contracts
2- Distress Signal. Samus detects a chance to do a good deed and probably get paid.
3- Actually, it is pirates.
4- Samus hates those guys. Investigate, wreck them, send the Federation a report since they surely have a standing bounty on wrecking pirates.
awesome, childhood right there
The original game is very impressive but I’m glad they did major extensive upgrades to the remaster.
I prefer the old cartoony lighting - it is more reminiscent of Super Metroid.
Also Remastered Samus has a dumb puffy face of a teen. Wii rendition looked charismatic.
Samus looks so stressed when she sees the metroid.
NO. PLEASE TELL ME THAT GODAWFUL INTRO NARRATION IS JUST IN THE TRILOGY
it is just in the trilogy
It's in the Switch version, but toggleable. It's not in the US version of the Trilogy at all.
Samus' suit looks amazing even 20 years ago not much change.
Luckily not too many spoilers in this video...
This is a badass release though. They upped the graphics so much but did a great job preserving the original look.
I'm at the end of the remaster and get myself to finish it I need the other 2 games like this now please
Very much of topic, but I really wonder how do you make a good robocop game. Seeing the metroid suit kinda makes me think about it
The dev team that made Terminator Resistance is making a RoboCop game. They put up a teaser trailer on UA-cam last year.
The original on a CRT TV looks amazing 🎮
they freaking nailed it
I love how the story of Metroid Prime 1 is basically, a symbiote fell on Samus and assimilated with her suit, turning into Bully Aran after having fought a Titan. Most of this whole mission is she's really just trolling the space pirates that're pooping their pants when she finally gets to their homeworld. Then after the final boss, Metroid Prime basically became like Venom and possess the phazon suit there after!
The Drifts look incredible
Love the remaster and how most stuff looks but I do like the O.G being darker overall
I have played this game for years and I never knew there was dialogue in the opening and ending in certain regions
I have the Gamecube original and the Wii Trilogy and I so cannot wait to play this when my physical copy arrives next week!
I actually don't care for them changing Ridley's head to a more purple color. I liked that Meta Ridley had such a different color scheme from his fully organic form, with it mostly being grays and silvers with the yellow popping out on his eyes, wings, and chests. Plus, him having a literal chrome dome just looks cool.
I think the developers for the Remastered version wanted to show Meta Ridley as a patchwork cyborg, with his organic parts contrasting with the mechanical ones. I also like his original design and I think it still looks good, but the new design is more on line with the Space Pirates' modus operandi. They only care about results, so it makes sense that they would gather Ridley's body parts and just merge them with machine parts. It also makes Meta Ridley more distinct from the Ridley robot we see in Zero Mission (which was completely mechanical).
@@96Vladek You can see organic bits in the original, but I can understand making his head purple as well to showcase that. It is kind of hard to see his limbs when he's busy either flying in the air or charging into you.
The space pirates probably would have to be a little careful with how they made Ridley look, considering he is sentient. If I remember correctly you can find a scan talking about how Ridley is pleased by the job they've done on him. If he wasn't, he'd probably chuck them out the airlock without a space suit.
It might also be to maintain parity with other depictions of Meta-Ridley, namely as he appears in Smash Brothers Brawl and Ultimate and Corruption, as well as bring more of a contrast between him and Mecha Ridley, who is almost entirely silver and more of an "in-between" of Mecha Ridley and Proteus Ridley.
Awesome day to be a fan.
just imagine if this remaster was done for PC...
They really perfected the lighting in the Remaster
I dunno about that, Samus looked pretty dim while she was literally on fire, as her armour burned up in the remaster. It feels like her suit should be reflecting a lot more light in that scene, but not quite as much as the original version.
Cuando jugué el remaster pensé que se veía igual original y ahora con esta comparativa puedo apreciar el gran trabajo que hicieron por adaptar y corregir varias carencias de la epoco
12:43 makes it look like prime slipped down a hole and accidently cracked itself falling down the shaft. 😂
The only thing I don't like about the remaster is how toned down a lot of the effects are, in both scale and opacity. Other than that it's nearly perfect
Fantastic Remaster but it would have been awesome if they did what Halo 1 and 2 Anniversary did adding the feature to switch between the Orignal Graphics and the new. Still very satisfied with it non the less. Hope we get Prime 2 + 3 in HD on the switch soon!
One of the first games that I played was Metroid Prime, and I always loved the graphics. The new version is ALMOST exactly the same. The narrator is kind of annoying, and that is basically the only thing that bugs me. When I first played it, though (the GameCube one), I never knew Samus was a girl! So that's why I was so happy at the end of the game whenever she took off her helmet and I found that out! Knowing at the beginning kind of ruins the memory of not knowing, I honestly thought Samus was a robot. There goes my childhood surprise 😆
Here's hoping they make her more badass in prime 4. Something like dread would be hard to beat. After so long waiting, I'm hoping 4 isnt just more of 1 2 and 3. I'd love an upgraded feel to it.
*And heck they delivered!!* 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳😎😎
@@netweed09 it hasn't come out haha. The trailer looks like more 1 2 and 3 tbh. Aside from that story line which I'm all in for. Mocktroids behind Sylux?? I'm sold either way haha. But I want some melee attacks and some slides like in dread. It'd be so cool the have a sprint button too
@@albertosingsattimes Yea, she definitely needs a Sprint! Like Link's jump Button duck lol. Despite looking the _slightest_ bit zippier in that trailer We need more mobility , it would be a bit of a chore and not satisfying having to morph Ball round any larger expansive areas for minutes on end in real time.
@@netweed09 exactly! A lot of that is missing in the previous installments. Like it'd be so cool to arm cannon bash a space pirate, slide under another immediately into morphball and bomb drop behind you only to jump out and grapple to another opponent. It's unlikely to be the case for this game, but a gamer can dream lmao
@@albertosingsattimes Yep , the issue is they stick to the 'tried and tested' too much, simply expecting you to Morph Ball and drop bombs and morph out to mix things up again. Combat should be refined as you said. I just want that wonderful script back where a significant threat appears and Samus' visor dramatically flashes and she does the code typing onto her armpad thing. 😎 Anyhow , at least it all looks Fantastic this time round and with a fresh new insight over a very Mysterious villain.
Damn, the OG still lookin hot off the grill.
Everything is perfect, excpet Samus face
The ''the 20000 year old Gamecube graphics hold up to this day'' opinion is getting a bit long in the tooth for me now guys, sorry. It's starting to get extremely predictable, like those ''1st!!'' comments that hit a trend but now have died down because sensible people grew tired of them. I mean , yes the GC was great for it's time but the graphics _do not_ hold up well *today* ppl: they lack fine detail. What _does_ 'hold up' though, is *that Epic opening.* It's Great that Beyond's opening follows in a similar vein of intensity.
Game Cube games had interesting soft "dreamy" lighting. It is most obvious in Metroid Prime, Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil. Remasters of these games look plastic and dark.
Is it just me or does Omega Pirate have a more Resident Evilish look to him in the Switch version?
Does ANYONE ELSE notice when the ship is landing ay the very beginning, the background dust is blue just like the Metroid Prime 4 official teaser?
2:30 most aesthetic scene in any nintendo game right here
Wait, there’s a narrator in the first scene?
Yeah, and also at the end of the game, as well as whenever you start up a save. The narration was removed in the North American version, but it was still there in the European and Japanese versions. There's an option in the menu to shut it off if players want a more original experience.
Everything in prime remastered looks more proportional with everything in classic prime looks physically bigger.
The animations seems smoother, but the visuals are lacking something, idk how to explain. i guess is something with the textures or lighting.
Special effects with her. The games are massive like the asteroid that’s in the beginning of the game looks more detailed in the Wii port
Remastered’s model, a Simas is much darker for some reason, but then environments are much brighter. Good change special effects are massively different though, especially when she transforms back into her Varia suit honestly, the Wii version looks better during transformations special effects and light on Samus
Woah, I had no idea that all the cut scenes together don't even add up to 16 minutes. Crazy.
Metroid Prime was a good example of "Show; don't tell." It didn't need two hours of cutscenes to tell the story, we got the story by playing, scanning creatures and artifacts, and exploring the world. It's my favorite game from that generation.
I still don't understand why the hell the phazon suit has that huge border on the outline
Man, when you see it like this it's really quite insane how far they took that remaster. That being said, the original still looks GREAT!
During the console wars I proudly owned all three consoles indulging in all the sweet exclusive content each system had to offer...this being of them
The suit upgrade scenes look better in the original, I don't know why the particles don't sync up to the sound effect in the remaster.
Samus' stance after the Omega Pirate is different in the original game too.
The first thing I was happy about was that they fixed her foot when she lands in the very beginning
game cube acquiring the phazon suit was the best...
I may be an idiot for waiting to play this masterpiece till the physically release but dammit I don't exactly trust Nintendo to honor me a digital game forever, that and if one day I ever homebrew my switch I'd rather have most of my games in case my account gets banned off of my switch
It's a shame we still need original model Switches to softmod. Glad that's what I got. It's a great game though, hope ya enjoy.
One aspect I full heartily enjoy in Trilogy (I know how minor it sounds but stick with me), is the spring ball, sure its minor but in prime 2, the spring ball alone made the whole game a pleasant hike, my shins are fucked up but my entire legs aren't fucked up, even in prime 2, the constant dread I get when I have to deal with that one boss, sure its passable without the spring ball but its frustrating without.
With spring ball, I find myself playing all 3 games and I say "they are all good"
I don't think talking about the Spring Ball is unimportant, it was a great quality-of-life addition. Honestly, I also thought the motion controls for Trilogy were way bettter than the classic controls, and that's more important for me than "preserving the intended difficulty" of the original game.
@@96Vladek That is true but I am harping on one boss where its not only a puzzle boss but its also timed, so much so the morphball bombs can feel really taxing, on the gamecube I was lucky.
A quality of life for certain and I agree on the motion controls, sure there is merely a visual loss in prime1, but the games feel just as fine.
What the heck is that dialoge at the beginning.
14:54 She went from looking like Kim Basinger to looking like Kristen Wiig.
I loved many elements about the Remaster.
I’d say my only complaints were the lighting issues (especially in Phazon Mines), the triple shot feature before a charged shot, the lighting effects on a charged beam (in the original version it lit up areas around you), and finally how expressive they made the eyes in the original vs the visor seen in the Remastered cinematics.
14:41 my favorite part
I just wanna say that even though the remaster IS better quality overall, the pixels were not NEARLY as apparent in the original as this vid makes it out to be. the CRT really did wonders for low resolution stuff
Gamecube/wii samus model actually really nice for the time
I Love Phendrana💙
The only thing I think looks worse is the ice beam charge animation (compared to GameCube since Wii did not have the charge beam effects for some reason), although the new frozen enemy effect looks fantastic