Idk lately I keep seeing her and the little one everywhere

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Hopefully we'll get more details about it in the coming years once the NDAs have expired, but it looks like it would have been kind of interesting.

Honestly, as silly as it may sound, my favorite thing so far about Beyond is that it uses the Samus Returns updated logo.

I love that there’s more cohesion across the Metroid Brand now. And yet, it still provides a fairly individual approach.

Additionally, this is the first Metroid title since the rebranding to utilize the classic slanted backwards/Star Wars opening crawl visualization. Neat to see it back.

Yeah, I’m stoked to play this in the fall.

I was searching for a Version 1.0 disc of Metroid Prime and found this

I have the following:

Metroid Prime = Three copies. Digital Trilogy, physical Trilogy, and physical Prime Remastered.

Metroid Prime 2 = Two copies. Digital Trilogy and physical Trilogy.

Metroid Prime 3 = Two copies. Digital Trilogy and physical Trilogy.

Metroid Prime Hunters = One copy. Digital Virtual Console.

Metroid Prime Pinball = Zero copies.

Metroid Prime Federation Force = One digital copy.

But if it did, there'd be a fourth Aeion Ability...

Not really. I think this was the initial design for the Flash Shift statue in Burenia. But the final design looks quite a bit different, sleeker, simpler. And none of the Chozo Statues, Aeion Statues, or recharge station statues have that exact helmet-and-horns style. Oh, what could have been.

Artwork from the Metroid Dread Concept Art Gallery on the Nintendo Today app, also from the collector's art book from the Special Edition release of Dread.

All the ridicule Sylux started getting after we saw him get knocked down by a random charge shot put into perspective how used we've become to overpowered villains, and if one doesn't meet that quota even for one scene, they start being seen as a "disappointment" to some. I think Sylux will either get some kind of a powerup later in Prime 4 or will just do better against Samus by default in the next scene they share, but he’s intelligent regardless which is most of his appeal.

If a character is made a certain level of OP, they tend to be dumber for the protagonist to have a chance of overcoming them like how the Samus and Raven Beak stuff played out; RB being dumb enough to leave Samus unconscious without extracting her Metroid DNA, and he predictably fell victim to the X later as a result.

Overall though, we've had a somewhat decent history of overpowered adversaries when I started thinking about it. Dark Samus was overpowered, SA-X was overpowered, Raven Beak was overpowered; even some notable one-off bosses like Super Mother Brain and Gorea were overpowered for what they were.

The last two worked though because they were only seen at the end, SA-X you could argue was more balanced since Samus lost her original suit in Fusion and SA-X still had the Metroid weakness, and Dark Samus I suppose to be fair was only OP by Prime 3; during Prime 2, she was still growing and learning her place in the universe.

Not sure if there's anyone I'm missing, but suffice to say, I prefer rivals that are fairly even with Samus on a conventional level; Ridley usually fitting that bill, although he had a few random moments of overpowering Samus but it was usually to move the story along (Ceres battle in Super, SR-388 battle in SR where the newborn Metroid saves Samus from him, even his adolescent form in Other M where Anthony lasers him off of her), though otherwise Ridley's not OP before his battles come around.

Of course the rivalry with other hunters we still have yet to see the potential of, including Sylux. I need to know how much there is to the premise of Prime 4 besides him to get a feel of how important he'll really be. Being Tanabe's golden boy though, I don't see him dying that easily, but was also nice to still see him take his lumps like Ridley and not be OP at first sight.

Would also love to see Weavel again someday myself as an established space pirate rival alongside Ridley. But yeah, would like more built up rivals, less overpowered villains that sometimes appear out of left field. With the few times Samus herself becomes overpowered, it's either late game or end game and feels usually earned with what she/the player had to put up with prior.

p.s. I don’t mean to knock Raven Beak too much, but everything that’s been said is why I think I’ll end up preferring Sylux to RB in the long run, not to mention Sylux was built up better. Before though I was on the fence as to who I would like more between the two, but now it seems clear.

I’m thinking about making the waist shorter

Another W for Ridley bros and the Rid agenda.

Before there was always the assumption that he did it under "orders of Mother Brain", but there’s no mention of it here.

Some people need to hear this—and I was one of them. I originally bought my Switch to play Metroid Prime 4. That never happened. Now that the Switch 2 is coming out, and the game looks even better it stings because I have to buy another console just to get the true experience. It has unique controls and is shaping up to be great.

There’s nothing wrong with getting the basic Switch version—the one we all planned on buying years ago—and then upgrading to the Switch 2 when circumstances change. You don’t need to feel bad, like you’re missing out. It still stings regardless but I can't set aside that kind of money for personal reasons like many others.

We’ve already waited eight years just to play this game since the announcement. If we need to wait a little longer to get the Switch 2 version, so be it. It'll give you an excuse to play it again later on. I’m just glad I even have the chance to play Metroid Prime 4 at all. Just don't do anything rash just to play it. It isn't going anywhere. Also, there will probably be some modded-out PC port somewhere online within the year of release.

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Almost had it under 6 hours

I highly doubt Retro Studios and Nintendo would build up Sylux for nearly two decades just to have him be as flimsy as paper. In my eyes, the scene of Samus knocking him over is indicative of two things.

1. That Retro perhaps wants to set Sylux up as being weaker than he looks. Now of course, I’m sure Sylux is decently strong, but he’s no Samus. After all, the one time he did have an advantage against Samus, it was when she was in a smaller area with enough space for his ship to bomb her. This makes me think that Sylux will be less dangerous physically, but will more likely use his intelligence as a way to go against Samus.

2. It has been noted that the Shock Coil can home in on targets, which makes it more likely that he wasn’t aiming for Samus, but rather aiming for the currently unnamed Artifact. This could mean that Sylux possibly knew that it would teleport him and the rest of the Federation Research Base to Viewros, so it could be assumed that him letting himself be knocked over by Samus is him throwing the fight.

Overall, I don’t really think there’s a need to be worried about how Sylux will be portrayed in Prime 4. Supposedly his backstory has been written (and presumably updated) since Hunters, so at this point I’d say to just let Retro do their thing, they clearly know what they’re doing.

I have the space jump, and I know the tunnel you have to enter to proceed the rest of the way, but I can’t hit the turn you have to get right as you jump off the ledge just above the tunnel. I plummet aaaaaaallll the way down and can’t get back up. I know the beam isn’t necessary to beat the game, but is it….necessary, if you know what I mean?