r/MetroidPrime4_Beyond

I've been reading a lot of posts asking if we could change "one thing..." with the presumption that that one thing would make the game better. I enjoy the game the way it is. No, it's not perfect, but then none of the games in the series are perfect, and all of them could be improved.

MP4 could absolutely do for some tweaking and polishing, and just one change wouldn't be enough. Here is my list of tweaks that I would suggest to improve the game play:

- Allow sequence breaking.

- In Sol Valley, reduce the frequency of the attacks by the "MAGs" (the Maurauders, Areonauts, and Gullbats); they're annoying and pointless.

- Instead of gaining the ammo expansions and energy tanks in the Shrines and from Tokabi, you would earn them by defeating attacks by the MAGs: (1) Mauraders = missile expansions; (2) Gullbats = shot expansions; (3) defeat one Aeronaut = 1 energy tank--similar to the Swim Catcher chase in Flare Pool.

- In the Shrines, make it more of a challenge to earn the arm cannon upgrades by implementing a tougher, 2-3 pronged puzzle.

- Make the Fire, Ice, and Thunder chips immediately functional the moment they're found--no need to return to base camp to activate them.

- Implement the use of the Vi-O-La (1) in Fury Green--something like a BMX run; and (2) allow Samus to ride the Vi-O-La in the Snow Wolf battle in Ice Belt.

- Turn off MacKenzie--period. Put him in Ice Belt with Tokabi, but have him accompany Samus, similar to how Duke and Armstrong accompany her in Flare Pool. Samus meets both MacKenzie and a leg-wounded Tokabi right after the Snow Wolf fight, but Mac accompanies Samus while Tokabi hangs back like he currently does.

- Allow Samus to drive one of the trucks in Ice Belt in a "Ice Road Truckers" like sequence in the mountains to gain the energy tank and the Psychic Spider Ball upgrade.

- With sequence breaking, "if" you defeat the Omega Griever early and get the Power Bomb, you can use it early to break the boulders in the green crystal search and get the Legacy Suit early.

- I would change nothing about the green crystal search except to make some crystals discoverable in Ice Belt, Flare Pool, and The Mines (particularly) for the "100%" goal.

- I would change nothing with VUE-995.

Never played any Metroid game but gave this a shot since it was $30 at Costco a couple weeks ago for Switch 2

Anyways, I did get 100% of the items in the game and its GREAT but not perfect…

Loved the lore, atmosphere, music, my thoughts on the low points…

1. It’s really short, I was expecting to fly on a space ship and explore planets but you are stuck on this 1 planet, I beat the game in 19 hours and that was me exploring and taking my time

2. Felt like the bike was under used, super cool concept but its basically only for Crystals which is a huge bummer, I was expecting more boss fights with it or with other “racer” enemies but that didn’t really happen

3. Yeahhhhh probably worst part is the desert, why, WHY is this even a thing there was hardly anything of interest and it felt like padding for 1 quest

4. This game needed more Shrines in Sol Valley, could have had more shrines to use your powers with more puzzles to solve

My favorite part of this game is the Ice Belt, it felt like I was playing Alien loved the creepy space horror vibes and exploring the science labs and reading the logs, its my favorite area hands down.

I also really enjoyed the last boss fight in this game it was challenging and I appreciated the challenge especially because some of the earlier bosses were push overs…

Would I recommend this game? YES! But again I am new to this series, I can see how this game can be polarizing to veterans of this series

Honestly, I want to go back and play the other games to see what I missed out on ESPECIALLY back stories on Samus and the main baddie

I know Metroid was primarily a platformer game so I might jump into those old Metroid games

it took me 17 hours to beat it on normal, doing a good chunk of exploring and it is one of the weirdest games i ever played

about 40% of it is pure brilliance and nintendo magic. There are really awesome parts there…but is dragged down heavily by about 60% of poor decisions

it almost show that the game was made by two teams with two different talent levels

as usual, the desert is one of the worst hub worlds i ever played…is like they put it there just to make one of the worst quests i ever did too.

i think that 7,5 out of 10 is a fair score…if they took out that 60% of poor decisions, it would be the easiest 10 in my life