Same here, never played a metroid game before. Has always been in my top 3 games of all time. I come back to metroid prime every few years to play through it.

Got this and fusion for Christmas in 2002. So awesome.

Heck yeah 1st metroid prime was waaay ahead of it's time with atmosphere building, story driven, and the lens flare when using the gun-arm, where you can see her reflection from inside her helmet. Friggin fantastic and I haven't really seen that type of detail since.

First Metroid game for me too. Finished it, but really hated the substantial amount of backtracking and thought I would never play it again. But the game grew on me and ended up replaying it more than once. The atmosphere, the exploration, the soundtrack, the minimalist tone and later on the superb Wii motion controls. A masterpiece.

If they port it to switch, I hope they update the controls to have more user friendly options. The OG GameCube controllers were fine, and I agree with Jackson's assessment, but the motion controls on the Wii are... annoying... to say the least. This wouldn't have been all that bad, but the Wii port doesn't have standard controller support. It has to be played wiimote/nunchuck. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I found it incredibly irritating. Having the ability to use either motion controls or a standard controller, and being able to swap controller layouts between original controls and modern, standard fps controls would be a huge quality of life upgrade.

@@Theophicles I was under the impression a lot of people liked the motion controls for the Wii port. I agree though, the choice between standard and motion controls would be ideal.

@@elastichedgehog6339 so it is just me. Fascinating 😅

This comment aged well ; )

it's good. graphics about as good as can reasonably be expected from hardware and runs at 60 FPS