![]() ![]() Elysia, in particular, continues to take my breath away. Each planet is fully realized and lets Retro be as creative as they want to be. Folks didn’t seem to appreciate traveling to separate planets rather than wandering several interconnected environments, but I thought it was a nice change of pace. But if you can push through the pain, there’s a lot of fun to be had with Echoes.Ĭorruption takes a lot of hindsight heat, but I still really enjoy it. The game’s light/dark world conceit is hampered somewhat by the fact that the dark world is always a bitch to navigate-everything is purple, Samus takes damage unless she’s within a force field, and the enemies are more punishing. ![]() The Sonar Visor-acquired way too late in the game-is really cool, and Quadraxis is still my favorite Metroid series boss ever. The puzzles in Echoes are among the best in the entire series. However, Echoes is also beautiful, staggering in scope, and mentally challenging. It is outright difficult, obtuse, and at times frustrating. Jonathan Metts has referred to it as “one of the most hardcore games ever,” and he’s right. It makes the original look like a Leapfrog game. The Trilogy’s only downfall is that you can’t unlock all the meta-game collectables anymore-previously, you had to swap certain tokens with folks on your Wii Friends List to unlock everything, but obviously that service is no longer available.Įchoes is the hardest Metroid game ever made, full stop. The GameCube games have been Retro-fitted (ha!) with Wii controls, which generally suit the old games just fine-the only thing that feels forced is visor-switching but you get used to it pretty quickly. It, alone, is worth the price of admission.īut you’re also getting Echoes and Corruption. It came down to Metroid Prime and Super Mario Galaxy this time, but Metroid Prime defended its title and came out ahead in the end (by a larger margin than before). Four years later, We hosted a March Madness-style tournament, with 68 “teams,” for readers to decide the best game of the last fifteen years. Metroid Prime eked out a victory over Majora’s Mask to win that coveted title. About four years ago, Radio Free Nintendo put together a list of games for the readers to vote on for the Game of the Decade (2000-2010). ![]()
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