re: Better Trilogy: Halo or Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime is my favorite game of all time

I remember not even being interested in it, but my mom got it at a garage sale for some reason for my 16th birthday back in 2004. Why, I don't know. I didn't ask for it.

Anyway, I decided to play it and was hooked on it. It had that addictive type of gameplay where you see some door or ledge or area that you can't get to yet, and have to figure out how to get there. And solving puzzles, and all of that. It's a game where using a guide or walkthrough would destroy it, because the fun is figuring out the shite yourself.

I think they nailed the atmopshere and music and environments. The prime example being when you go underwater to the crashed frigate. I remember being blown away by that whole area.

My only issue with the game is the final boss. Instead of being creative they just decided to make a mega boss with a shitload of HP and have you grind it down, rather than figuring out some clever way to defeat it.

What a great game. I usually play it about once every 4 years. Last played it in 2011, so I will probably be booting up the Game Cube soon