Beams not illuminating the environment is an unfortunate loss. It’s a small detail, but one which establishes your presence and impact on the world around you.

The remaster is fantastic but the loss of projectiles lighting up the environment is a painful one. Was an amazing and immersive effect.

the lava was honestly one of the best changes in the remaster, the original lava looked like spicy pizza sauce,

The difference between the original Magmoor Caverns and the remastered is just insane

The fact the original even put Samus’ reflection in her visor is such a subtle yet important effect to actually feeling as though you are in the suit. This game has such detail that holds up to this day in an incredible way.

Very unfortunate to see the loss of lighting on the beams, Morph Ball and (less importantly, but still weirdly noticeable) the Pulse Bombs. It feels odd that they left out such details in an otherwise amazing remaster/remake, which improves on almost everything else.

i literally just read about the chozo ruins entrance room in an off-shoot orange scan stating that it once was a large structure that has been eroded away after so many thousands of years of wind and sand deteriorating the structure. Never have I noticed the strong wind gusts or sand pouring through the cracks until today! Awesome attention to detail in both!

In the Chozo Ruins, there is a small mirror where you can see Samus reflection in the original game. Such reflection is missing in the remaster.

Bob is only reduced in dual-stick-mode. With the pointer controls it's still there, surprisingly.

How can a game be this incredible so many years later?

I never really saw the two compared side by side like this and I have to say, for a gamecube game, the original metroid prime actually aged fairly well. as for the hit to the projectile lighting, I feel like that was to emphasize heavier use of the thermal visor in the dark areas (regardless of the version, still one of my least favorite parts).

I haven’t played this game since the game cube version back in the day, and something that I appreciated much more this time around was all the lore you get from your surroundings. All the information about the creatures is really well thought out and rich in detail, it gives you a greater sense of being on an adventure and not only unravelling a story, but also learning about an entire ecosystem full of life, and why that life looks the way it does. The world building in this game is so subtle and creative.

The most surprising one of these to me was the magmoor caverns lava. In my head the way it looks now is the way I remembered it looking in the original so to see it side by side looking so much better now is amazing

This video shows just how visually great the GC version really was. My beefs about the lighting and lighter snow don’t detract too much though. The remaster has been an absolute joy. Overall it looks incredible!

Definitely prefer the snowfall from the GC version.

I kinda prefer the subtle visor reflection of the original, as seeing her face was something rare, but still, truly amazing overall.

Definitely one of the best channels to get all the little details.

My first time playing Metroid Prime. Picked up the remastered copy & it's been incredible 👍

Excellent finds! I’d add some animation changes that people have picked up on (like Samus running cutscene vs Metroid Prime)

The lighting is a major loss. I had it rough in many areas where the game was just too dark. Unfortunately the thermal visor looks like a fuzzy mess on top of it, so it was a bit painful, especially in the lab. Still a great remaster regardless.

The beams still do have particle lights, but their radius has been DRASTICALLY reduced. You can test it by firing very close to a wall, especially with charged shots. I'd gladly trade a few frames per second for larger radii though :(

Been waiting for your analysis!

Es increíble ver como un juego aún después de más de 20 años se sigue viendo como si fuera ayer, Metroid Prime estuvo muy avanzado a su época

A lot of people also don't remember this detail, but if you shot the power beam a lot, like by itself or after a fight, it produced heat waves over the barrel of Samus's beam cannon in the original. I noticed it being gone in the remaster and it seems a lot of people never noticed it. It was my favorite detail I always noticed growing up.

Ive never been so impressed with the care that went to environments that the remaster. Every room is unique, no repeated textures. Well done art team

I enjoyed this comparison video. Straight to the point with each example

ive been waiting for this video haha thx!!

oh boy this is interesting! i noticed alotta changes but most seemed for the best? at least one or two werent better 😅

I prefer the denser snow effect, adds so much atmosphere. The new effect is TOO light. Also prefer the heavier sand winds. Both these original examples add a heightened sense of reality, of verisimilitude, to games, making them feel more immersive. Shots illuminating interiors is a very sad loss, but heat distortion was good effective addition. I first saw this effect in Ocarina Of Time’s Fire Temple on N64 - adds so much atmosphere, yet the effect was bizarrely removed in subsequent Ocarina Of Time console ports

Been waiting for this video for awhile!

Hopefully we get some updates to fix the beams and morph ball not emiting light, it honestly looks like a bug. Or at the very least they should fix it in future remasters. metroid prime 2 would look pretty dope with modern illumination, since you spend so much time in dark places.

Those missile reflections showing Samus' face reminds me so much of how you could see her face in the menu in Corruption. What's more, you could also see the veins on her face slowly turning blue due to the Phazon in her.

headbob is reduced depending on the controller set up

Ngl, after watching your metriod dread little details. I was wanting the day you would make this video. Worth the wait.

Phendrana drifts loses a bit of comfy points for making the snow smaller and having less of that fog effect. I get why they did it. But it's definitely a downgrade on why I loved that level.

One of my favorite mods for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy added a colored light on Sparx that lit the environment. It looks SO much better. A little light can go a long way.

Thank you for making this!

The darkness in the Pirate Labs post-Thermal Visor may have been tweaked in the PAL version of the GameCube release. I remember a similar situation in the Trilogy version.

Also, the "new animation" when pointing Samus' arm cannon at a nearby wall in the remaster is actually inverse kinematics attempting to point the end of the barrel such that the beams will actually make contact with where the reticle is sitting. It's likely in the game as a byproduct of the pointer support.

vidéo très intéressante!! à part les effets de lumière que nous avons perdus à certains endroits, le jeu a été entièrement recréé et amélioré. merci à cette vidéo de nous permettre d'apprécier le travail accompli.

The Remasterbis amazing for sure, but losing the small details like the illuminating light is a loss for sure. With the beam and even the morph ball like why? It gave them a unique feature and we definitely needed the light from the morphball but I guess they wanted to make the gamer a little harder lol

First thing i tried was Samus's Reflection while shooting a beam, it's my all time favorite detail in videogames. Not disappointed

I'm 99% sure the lighting effects are an oversight that'll get fixed in a patch, not a deliberate choice. Like how they were using the wrong door textures at launch.

here i was expecting just upscaling, but damn they really did remaster it

I prefer the exaggerated weather and environmental effects from either game. The snow and blowing sand from the original, and the pouring sand from the remaster, for example.

You put in such incredible effort to recording the footage! The remaster artists did great too. I sure hope the lighting removal is a better design choice and not technical limitations. Metroid Prime had a reasonable VR mod for it. I sure hope this version can be modded into VR someday! Unless ... Nintendo is trying to be two steps ahead and this is already prepared for their super secret VR plans 🤔

It's great that a lot of subtle details were added, but I wish they kept a few things from the like Samus creating light sources and some of the heavier environmental effects like the heavier snow and sandy wind.

how did you make your ending graphic?

A patch to fix the gun fire lighting and the game is perfect

they did such a great job udpating the graphics, and making it still feel how i remember it looking as a kid.

The rain effect on her arm also changes direction when looking up and down.

Question. Are you able to switch between original and remastered visuals in this game?

How do you do rapid fire missiles? I'm in the middle of a playthrough in the remaster, and haven't played the original in probably 10 years. Is it an upgrade I forgot about? Do you just hold the button?

I like some of the new details but I really don't like how they removed the light effect in your shoots or when you morph into a ball. Something that I really love in fps games is how your shots iluminates a dark area.

Hope they Remaster Prime 2 Echoes and Prime 3 Corruption someday.

Can we acknowledge how great the visor eye animations are?

Is it bad that I really dislike a lot of these changes? Specifically the loss of lighting with ball and beams made me sad.

The shame about the beams not lighting the environment. You never really appreciate something until it's gone. At least everything else makes it worth it.

They really got to add the beam lighting effects back literally the worst change and makes me think the original is better just based on that alone

I saw somebody in the comments of another metroid prime remastered comparison video call the remaster "low effort" and that it doesn't have a "realistic art style" like the original 💀

The missing light of beamshots is the worst

Can you shoot while standing right in front of a wall in the remaster? I heard about game developers using that "aim gun off center" animation as an indicator for the player that there's not enough room for the character to hold their weapon in between the character and the wall.

This just shows how ahead of it's time the original was, it's amazing how good it looks even when compared to this beautiful remaster.

Both are incredible examples of technical know-how, art, and design. Metro is Prime is a Masterpiece!

The beams do illuminate de environment. I've noticed it in several areas, and admittedly it was toned down. Bout there are several rooms where it happens.

Samus makes sure to nail the eyeliner routine before she goes on each of her space pirate raids.

Man, I want to play this remaster so bad! Edit: Also, great choice in the song. My favorite from the game.

I think it's cool that in the visor reflection when shooting missiles, Samus' eyes constantly shift over to look at her missile count

Losing the lighting effect is very unfortunate. The remastered is a lot darker than the original and losing the lighting effect exacerbates this since I used to fire the beams to light up very dark areas throughout the game, not just in the Hydra Lab. I also don't like how you have to shoot three times even without charging. I hope that they address the lighting effect and maybe make the shooting three times thing an option in a patch or at least in future entries if they so choose to make 2 and 3.

Classic Phendrana snow was substantially better

3:27 Original game lava = crusty pepperoni pizza Remake = glowing tomato soup

Thanks for making this video! Glad a new version came out but always gonna love the original! Cool to see the differences it reminds me of wind waker hd; still love the original for many reasons. Mp i like the snow and shoot lighting better! In ww i prefer the original colors

Man they really dropped it on the lighting from bombs and beams.

Idk if anyone noticed the sounds of the beams were different when you shot them inside a tunnel or out in the open

0:36 I'd assume that the new effect is a side effect of the higher resolution. I'm not sure you'd even notice the new effect on an SD display.

Im looking forward to playing this but im terrified of the underwater sections in the original and now they look even more realistic.

1:12 the face reflection creeped me out at first because it was on the space station, and it was an almost, translucid part of only the left side of Samus' face - basically only her eyes appeared very briefly and suddenly. Then I shot a couple more missiles to the wall and became amazed by how polished this game is.

I absolutely love the remaster. The only thing I've ever actually complained about was the environmental lighting of enemy attacks and Samus' attacks and the fact that charge beam now automatically fires shots before charging. Makes consecutive charge beam firing take longer and also makes fighting certain enemies a bit harder too (wave trooper) And even then, I still absolutely love the remaster.

The power beams heat blur effect when rapid firing was replaced with a smoking effect

I know Retro Studio was recently looking for a Lighting Artist. Seeing the Morph Ball and projectiles not lighting up the environment makes me see why.

It's insane how well they remastered Metroid prime by just the graphics and the fact it doesn't even slow down at all as shown by infamous games like Scarlet and Violet.

Don’t know if this is in the original version as well, but when swapping beams while in x-ray you can see samus’s hand move to various gestures roughly matching the beam icon.

I hope there is an updatr to fix the ambiet light the brams and morph ball provided, the game is too dark for me to play on portable mode because of the lack of lighting.

Tell me your console is weak without telling me your console is weak. Nintendo: We reduced the wind particles in a 20 year old game to perform on our 6-yr old frisbee.

The X ray would also show Samus moving her hand with beam combinations and firing her arm cannon in the original while it remains still visible yet static in the remake.

You forgot to mention that ALL save stations now heal you to max. This never used to be the case. You used to have to go out, farm a room for a few minutes, and THEN save. All in all though, I am very pleased to see the side-by-side comparisons. Hoping they update the game to include some old features, like the Metroid Fusion-Crossover stuff, the Original NES Metroid port, the option to toggle projectile lighting (for those with epilepsy), and also: some more animations for cutscenes. For instance: beating Omega Pirate now, instead of Samus holding a pose of electro-static shock empowerment with her arms out and seizing from the transformation from Gravity Suit to Phazon Suit, she instead just kind of appears with the new suit standing there. I was really looking forward to seeing new cutscenes, but most of them remained the same. Still a beautiful-ass remake. Hoping they do MP2 and 3 while we eagerly await MP4.

My favs are back!

you know the original Metroid prime still looks good even compared to the remastered version.

Ok, how do you get her to lose her grip on her cannon? Testing charge shots, and she's just holding it normally. I'm on the dual stick default controls so nothing fancy,

One of the few remastered games out there that didn’t turn out completely inferior. Yes, there are a number of downgrades (I was upset about the Hydra Labs Morph Ball missile with the lighting), but as a handheld gamer, I love being able to play in handheld mode. I have no strong desire to play Remastered outside of handheld mode; I already own the original.

I remember other cool details in the original, like idle animation for Samus when you stand still for a while, and animations for changing beam type, as well as animation for taking damage and landing on ground from a great height. I wonder how the remaster changed these.

Very bizarre how her face reflection doesn’t match the botched face reveal at the end of it. The reflection at least looks like a upgraded version of the original while her actual new face at the end is completely different. It’s like they had two different teams working on it.

I noticed that in the remaster I wasn't able to fire the power beam as rapidly as I could in the original. Used to be able to shoot it as rapidly as you can press the button.

Shows what for a graphical beast Metroid Prime was on the Gamecube. Twenty years later and they can't reproduce the same lighting.

Does anyone know the name of the music track that is playing in the video?

The visor face reflection is far better realized in OG. It's subtle, easy to miss, tastefully tinted and more realistic because why wouldn't a futuristic suit with advanced tech not have something as basic as anti-glare coating on its visor? More than anything, you shouldn't have Samus' face appear in this much detail and clarity all the time throughout the game, up close blown up over the entire screen with no tint or anything, it devalues the enigma of her actual looks and spoils the series classic ending scene where she removes her helmet. They cranked this effect up so hard it's distracting. The fact that you can easily tell what her eye color is from just this effect is a sign of bad design choice of lack of restraint. Just because the technology allows you to do this now doesn't mean you should dо this.

I wonder if they took out beam illumination just because it made the thermal visor redundant in Phendrana. It couldn't have been too taxing on the system to set up, right?

I will miss the projectile lighting but one aspect that is a quality of life I enjoy from trilogy mostly I suck at triple bomb jumps, (I have terrible sense of timing, I am truly sorry.) But is the spring ball still a thing in the remake?

If they could patch in the lost lighting element and reflections this would be perfect.

Im mad that they still kept the artificial darkness in the labs. That area looked way better on gamecube