The fact that Metroid Prime (a Gamecube game) even still holds up in 2024 should say everything about RETRO Studios. MP4 Will be Amazing.

Nothing will ever beat experiencing prime remastered for the first time. Absolutely mind blowing experience

In general, I’m very impressed. I expect this game to be a masterpiece on the switch but I have a feeling it will blow us away on the switch 2.

this is by far the best analysis so far, i love how you adressed every single detail and change like the flames and stuff, many skip most of these and only talk about textures and resolution. are you gonna do analysis again when the next trailer comes out?

VERY IMPRESSED I would like to add that part of the problem with the poor image quality of the trailer video, is that the video is probably affected by the large amount of atmospheric effects such as smoke, fog, dust or fire. When any of those elements appear in a video with the low bitrate that KZfaq videos offer, the image quality suffers very visibly. This is why MP1R videos look much better than MP4B trailer videos. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE GAME LIVE. I'll just say that. Thanks for the analysis.

IMO the graphics of Metroid Prime 4 looks EXCELLENT. MP Remastered was pure gold. MP 4 is pure platinum magnificence so far

It’s the best looking game on Switch and looks like the rest of the games in the series. I got exactly what I wanted.

You mention the compression a few times, there is an uncompressed one from the press site you should look into when you can. I can't link it here on youtube I don't think.

I hope they change the dead bodies to stay on the ground for a longer amount of time, in prime 1 killing the pirates with missiles and watching them ragdoll, slam into a wall, and then fall to the ground was so satisfying

You and Brandon did a phenomenal job explaining the differences between Prime Remastered and Prime 4 Beyond! This is honestly the most in depth I’ve seen when it comes to the graphical comparisons As someone who has never grown up with the Prime series and only got into the Remaster recently I could immediately notice some key differences myself. Prime 4 definitely looks more realistic overall especially with the lighting with the highlights in the metal to the shadows Another really big one is the animation and cinematography. The animations from what I’ve played so far of Prime aren’t bad in the slightest but you can definitely tell it’s sorta video game esque compared to how AAA games are nowadays especially when it’s a cutscene and the angles from what I’ve seen so far don’t link as much nor have as much variety as Prime 4 from the trailer It’s honestly quite impressive how Retro made an already great looking game through Remaster look noticeably inferior to Prime 4. The only thing that I’ve seen that many people agree on is Samus’s design in Prime Remastered looking better but that’s it. Maybe my opinion will change once I finish Prime but man does this make me even more excited whenever Prime 4 comes out next year

Metroid has always been my favorite series ever since it was brought to our daycare's NES. It has mirrored this Life-journey of mine and is always a deep, important moment in time when a new sequel meets my hands.

My mom says I'm not dull, I'm dynamic!

Looks like they went...above and beyond with this game I'll just see myself out

You can definitely see they had to make sacrifices to get this running on Switch, particularly with texture resolution, lack of dynamic shadows (except very up close) and some very low-poly background models (like the NPC scientists) which are probably LOD , meaning the poly count drops as the models get further from the camera, and these types of optimizations can very easily be tweaked for a higher-powered machine. I think it’s obvious this will be cross-platform anyway, but I feel like we’re already seeing where those improvements will be seen on a Switch 2, apart from just a resolution bump.

EXQUISTLY detailed video analysis! Such a joy to watch. Great job 👏👏👏

"It's not dull, it's dynamic". Put that on a T-Shirt right now.

When do you think we will get Metroid prime 2 remastered ? Edit : great video by the way 👏

Great comparison video, Andres.

I personally think they're pretty close. Prime 4 certainly has some improvements, but they look built on what they did with Prime Remaster, which makes sense as it was basically a proof of concept for Prime 4. Many of Prime Remastered's limitations also stem from having to be built over Prime GCN. Like Samus's figure being stylized in Prime Remastered, but in Prime 4 it looks far more natural, with actual female body proportions, much like the model from Metroid Dread. In the end, Retro made the best looking game on the whole console with Remastered, and now they're poised to beat their own record for the system's swan song.

It took me a bit to get used to Samus' new design in this game. Since, it's basically her Prime 3 design, but tweaked slightly. Now, I really like the new look, I like big shoulders Samus as much as the next fan, but Prime 1's shoulders were ridiculous. The same thing with the Scan visor as well. I'm happy it takes more from Prime 2 and 3 as opposed to Prime 1. Personally, I hated looking for red squares to scan. What do you think of Sylux's new design? I don't think I've seen a KZfaqr talk about his new look. Just like Samus, I like his new look. It keeps the same features, but streamlines those same features.

I honesty though we'd get HD Remasters of Metroid Prime 2 Echoes and Metroid Prime 3 Corruption before a new trailer for Prime 4.

The music. The theme tune for Metroid. Is so so so good.

What a great analysis video. Great job on assessing the smaller details. I think the graphics will be touched up a bit before release.

This video is Digital Foundry level analysis, great job. In hindsight this game looks like half a generation ahead of MP1 Remastered, I didn’t even realize how much better it looked until you compared the ships

This video is dedicated to the ones who are saying Prime 4 is not running on Nintendo Switch

Keep the MP4 vids coming. So excited

Great video!

Both games look pretty good!

I need a date, an actual date not a year. Been waiting so long.

Man, Samus shoulders were this giant? Metroid dread and MP4 corrected somehow😅

More content like this please! Great video

Well said about MPR being a ’stepping stone’ for MP4. They are probably reusing code from around 2000!! There are literally decades of optimizations on that render engine. As a company, they have a MASSIVE head start on metroid prime games. Thus, they can focus their resources on not reinventing the wheel

nice work friend

The devs of Retro Studios are magicians. Too bad their output is so low. Nintendo should hire and pay more supporting artists/programmers.

9:30 The change of scanning to remove boxes and directly highlight objects started as soon as Prime 2, so it makes sense they would keep continuity there and develop that idea rather than return to boxes again. I’m guessing they kept the boxes in Remastered purely for authenticity.

Do you think MP4B will be switch 2 release?

Great analysis!

4:30 I think you, like pretty much everyone, are missing the point of why her anatomy was "weird" or "wrong" originally. It was not incompetence. It was not that Retro did not understand how a human body fit into a suit. It was a deliberate design choice, one that communicates that the suit she's wearing is not just any power armor, but something that can warp and distort her body in ways beyond the understanding of modern physics, to the point of turning her body into a ball. It subtly conveys how advanced the Chozo are.

I'm praying it's not just a single player game though. I loved Metroid Hunters Multiplayer so much. Hopefully we get both !!!!

Interesting stuff! What’s gonna be most important to me is the gameplay tho!

I remember this vividly about Metroid Prime on the Wii U (not sure how enhanced of an update there was for the Remastered version on Switch), but there was a really aggressive normal mapping choice. Some walls that apparently were with pretty nice geometry actually were quite literal boxes, making it so if you shot a shot to the wall, the aftereffect of the beam shot would be a decal (which is the norm for any shooter game) over the actual geometry, which made it so you saw it floating over the visualisation of the wall. It was pretty jarring, and I guess it was a choice to give good visual effect while saving on computing, but at some of those places, the shots should not have had aftereffects to avoid that jar. I kinda expect that either Prime 4 has much more geometry to accompany the normal/AO maps, or that the aftereffects of the impacts on walls will be better defined to remove that jar that you say about the floatiness.

Brandon wrote an awesome script for this one!

Hope we get some ship gameplay, I'd love to fly around.

Great comparison video Andres! I feel like the graphics in Prime 4 Beyond look so much better than Prime 1 Remastered. I do want to play Prime 1 Remastered first so I can get more used to the game controls by the time Beyond comes out! 😊

the fact both these games run at 60 fps on the fuckin switch is absolutely incredible

I much prefer the dominant robust shoulders from the original metroid pirme as opposed to the smaller modern ones in MP4

Metroid Prime 1-3 need to be remastered and enhanced for the next Nintendo console.

Metroid already has some of the best looking games on the switch out of any of Nintendo's main franchises. I mean, just look at Dread, Prime Remastered and now even Prime 4's trailer. It looks beautiful, at certain cutscenes during those games it almost felt like I was watching a movie, even if Prime R's age does shine through a little with the models.

Gotta say, I like Samus' new design for the most part, but something about her visor's shape/size/position feels slightly off to me.

MP4B likely uses a deferred rendering pipeline, which allows a ton of lights to be rendered relatively cheapely.

I believe that details of games don't matter. The " how it makes you feel" and how it excited and made you happy to play matters for most games.

Maybe I need to see this video because after seeing the trailer I thought the game looked dated already. It was looking metroid prime a little too much... like there was no signature new feature to separate it from the rest of the games. But I guess that's because it is teaser.

Most of those effects look to be stuff that's been in video games for years. It certainly looks good though. I've heard that this trailer could be a switch2 version or maybe possibly running on a PC and not switch hardware. Will be intresting to see if the release matches up with this trailer.

is metroid prime 2 and 3 coming out on switch?

2:42 are we looking at the same thing because her thighs are clipping like hell. It's the only thing that instantly caught my eye and bothered me in the trailer and it kinds of shock me that they choose to present that. It looks like the movements are made by someone in a motion capture suit which has much more flexibility than Samus in her armor. Her thighs clips all the way to her chest, when landing, her right shoulder clips into the helmet, her upper arm clips into the sides of her chest area.... Not hating, just pointing it out. Overall, I'm very impressed and can't wait for that game. By far the best looking title on the console.

The beam's light effects restored are all I cared about lol

4:45 honestly that's no objective "improvement" at all. I personally love the super bulky heavy Suit of the original Prime. It's intimidating, sturdy, it looks like an extremely tough armour. Despite this redesign, it still doesn't make much sense for Samus' shoulders to be that wide, so what's the point. Her neck and shoulders also seem to be too exposed, borrowing too much from Dread, taking away that protection. I understand that the clipping didn't really look good in a lot of points, but I also fail to see an actual "improvement" in the design. The lighting, while better as you stated, still has those weird matte/opaque reflections, which are more fit for plastic materials, rather than metal (as opposed to the original GC Prime). I think that's a fault of the Switch, so there's not much that can be done there.

MP4B will be the most gorgeous Switch game. I love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom but my Queen Samus Aran will take the gold as the main character of the best looking Switch game! Keep up the good work Andres i look forward to see your future videos about Metroid Prime 4 beyond! 🧑‍🚀

The only thing which I noticed is better in MPR, is the level of detail in polygons, texture and some reflections in the facility seen in the trailer of MP4, noticibly the concreate, compared to the ship in MPR This is probably because there is a LOT more going on in MP4 Maybe it will still get touched up before release, but we will see Also, while the flames do often look more like they belong into the scene, the flames do look a little less realistic to me

It looks great now on release it’ll look even better

I like Samus’s redesign as her shoulder pads don’t look like F’ing boulders which always bothered me. This time they’re well proportioned with the rest of the suit. (I personally prefer Samus’s suit in dread much more.)

I think ex dev from 343 industry have a lot of impact on how they make Metroid Prime 4. on how the color tone or on how to optimize the game, I am pretty sure about that

10:24 nice pun

The prime series has always been pushing the visuals on Nintendo's consoles. Definitely going to be something to show off any new hardware getting announced

Both look amazing

I will be honest when she walks on to the new world possibly Tallon IV it doesn’t look up to much.

I think the game is extremely impressive for a Switch game. I almost find it hard to believe that this could possibly run on the switch at 60 FPS.... I still almost wonder if it will be a dual generation release on both the Switch and Switch successor. This just goes to show how little most developers take advantage of the hardware of the consoles that they develop for.

Will not be nearly as impressive if Nintendo actually make this an exclusive for the Switch 2 in 2025. With Switch 2 level graphics and immersive game-play via Retro is the version I am looking forward to seeing provided Nintendo does do a lazy port without enhancements. Time will tell when the Switch 2 is revealed.

We have no idea if any of that trailer footage was from the switch or not.

Plot twist ... Prime Remaster is a Remaster not a Remake prime 4 does look amazing, cant wait to play

I just want to see this one new hardware Mr restart 🎉🎉🎉

Can’t wait to play this on switch2 🔥🔥

Has any one else ever thought Samus' shoulder pads should extend and engulf her as a ball? Is this not how it works?

That metal log rolling near the beginning looks like the physics have received an overhaul, compared to Prime remastered.

Textures and art are typically done last. The final game may not look as good as the teaser or it may look better. Teasers are doctored. They needed to get something out. No matter what it will look better than Prime Remaster otherwise what’s the point. Prime Remaster was most likely their testing grounds for Prime 4 (and hopefully Prime 2 and 3 Remasters as well). They needed a baseline engine and crowd input.

PBR is way better in M4 beyond

10:24 Ha! I see what you did there

Prime 4 is definitely going to be a switch 2 release

My switch may explode after playing this but I can’t wait

Yeah the graphics look good but I will always think the old prime games look great. It’s all about the gameplay. In the trailer I am already pumped for the game I have been waiting since 2017 when they revealed prime 4 was in the making. Gotta get me a switch now

I’m finally in another GAME! 😭 I’m not really sylux but still 🙌

2:59 Those shoulders are definitely clipping. Not that that's a problem for me, especially in a first person game

"much more better"

I don't believe Metroid Prime Remastered is the best looking Switch game. It can definitely be argued that it's the *best looking 60 fps game* on Switch, but people seem to forget that this little console is home to games like Doom Eternal (as if the first Doom wasn't amazing enough. Then there's Nintendo's own games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade games... all of which are very stunning looking games. Perhaps one can say, Metroid Prime Remastered is currently the most IMPRESSIVE game on Switch, since that would take into account performance as well as visuals. That said, Metroid Prime 4B is about to blow everything on Switch out of the water, regardless of what frame rate we're talking about. Retro Studios is awesome, but this will cement their legacy as Legendary!

I don't mind the new ship design, but I wish they kept the color scheme of the Prime ship. It looks dull(color) now.

Good vibes, good life! 🌈

My daughter said, prime remaster look better

#AndresRestart

Would be funny if this ends up being Switch 2 footage after all. The only evidence people can use to say it’s Switch 1 is the resolution. But the resolution of a trailer (or even the game) doesn’t tell us anything really. Secondly, it has a switch logo on the trailer. But they could just be saying it’s coming to switch as well.

From what we've seen the art direction from Prime Remastered is still better.

I have a feeling that this will be a cross generation game, seeing as it is coming out in 2025. It just seems too far fetched that this game will look and run this good on the switch. I feel like this is Switch 2 footage we are seeing, and the switch 1 version will have lower fidelity graphics and 30 fps. However if this IS switch 1 footage then holy cow.

I dunno, I'm personally seeing a few things that look obviously worse to my eyes (along with some stuff that looks better too obviously), but I think people are just making excuses for anything that isn't up to par and basically convincing themselves it all looks so much better. For me, it looks very good, but I somehow expected more given that this game is coming 23 years after Metroid Prime, and I genuinely don't think it's that much of a graphical jump at all if you ignore the obvious resolution difference for a moment.

Topic suggestion: Has Nintendo made a mistake by not releasing Metroid Prime 4 in 2024?

I feel like overall these assessments are hit and miss. The assertion that samus' model is "more rounded" and "higher poly" for instance seems a bit far fetched. To my eye it's more of a change in design rather than a strict upgrade.

It does look a lot more reallistic. It is insane what Retro studio did with the Switch hardware. Some AAA PS4/PS5 and Xbox series don't even look as impressive as this. Some of course. This obviously look much better than most PS4 games by a mile.

(EDIT: I don't think what we saw in the trailer looks bad or necessarily suggests the following, just a little thought) I just hope they won't make MP4 TOO washed out in favor of "REEEALISSMMM and ""GOOOD GRAPHIIICS""" "

The fire in MP4 looks blocky and way too saturated to look believable to me. The fire in MP1 doesn't look wrong, light from fire actually looks and behaves a lot more like that in reality if you look up videos of burning buildings. I also gotta disagree on the explosions. Framerate aside, the way the smoke actually looks and acts is far too blocky and dissipates too quickly. I think they set a transparency effect to the smoke and had the animation ease out too quickly far too late in the animation for the smoke. Mp1 had smoke fade too quick as well, but here it was at least done in a more gradual and subtle way. And there is no way the explosion in the cutscene looked better. You can see blobs and chunks that take on the properties more akin to slime or something more solid in substance. Rather than the intangible and opaque properties that make up smoke. The way metal reacts to lighting is more believable and realistic. But overall everything is far too saturated and overly contrasted, creating this artificial look that feels like they applied an rtx filter over everything. Which takes away from the realistic look of MP1 that helps make it so immersive. I do rly like this video tho. It's probably the best comparison video out currently as it covers aspects and details I think many overlook or just aren't bringing enough attention to in general. Even if I disagree with like half the points made lol

I wager to guess, just my opinion, is that the graphics for MPR didn't get as much love for any/all of the following reasons: Resources were not spent as they didn't expect enough return Did not want to 1UP MP4 Pay respect to the original game Again, just my opinion, but I wouldn't be surprised that two of the reasons are true. EDIT: Correcting opinion and grammar

Looks similar to halo 4

Well, while I agree to say it's better, it's still ugly regarding games like RE4R for instance. I wish Nintendo drop the consoles and start developing for PC already.