Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Retrospective

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  @spiderdude2099 · 3 years ago

  I personally loved everything this game tried. Also, this is the only game where I can CONFIDENTLY say that the motion controls were a delight to use, added to the experience, and were well executed

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• DO

  @dotmadhack · 3 years ago

  I liked corruption because it felt more like a lived in universe. The Federation feels like it's an actual force and I'm super surprised you didn't mention that awesome scene when you lower the planetary shields and the federation fighters swoop down and start raising hell. Then soldiers are assigned to guard the landing pads.  I thought that was so cool. Other bounty hunters with their own styles exist, multiple planets; if only they had continued from there and not waited so long.

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• ST

  @stomboyyuffie · 3 years ago

  I always liked how the Corrupted Aurora Unit final boss serves a similar function to a Mother Brain battle, at least thematically. It felt like a fitting finale to the Prime Trilogy.

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• FR

  @frname7665 · 3 years ago

  Prime 3 did bring a welcomed (to me) more narrative aspect, all the while preserving exploration and feelings of being left on your own most of the time. I love Prime 2 and 3, but I also love narration, and 1 and 2 have none (although I love learning the lore through reading the files). Prime 3 varies between loneliness/exploration, and more epic narrative sequences.

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• -S

  @-siranzalot- · 3 years ago

  Prime 3 Motion Controls were one of, if not the best implementation of motion controls there ever were on the Wii. It might have been finnicky at times with the pumping and stuff but the rest worked very well imho. All in all I liked Corruption a lot, it was a very satisfying conclusion to the trilogy at the time.

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• RE

  @resultedchutoy3353 · 3 years ago

  Man, bro, just hearing that choir for the intro literally is marked on my soul. MP3 was my 1st Metroid game, so it means a lot to have it being reviewed and still loved and enjoyed more than 15 years after it released, so thank you so very much for bringing attention to the prime games that they rightfully earned and deserved.

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• ME

  @Merknilash · 3 years ago

  God damn I love the title soundtrack to this game.

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• SE

  @Seithim · 3 years ago

  Skytown is amazing.

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• NI

  @NicoleMay316 · 3 years ago

  It always sucks hearing how Prime 3 didn&apos;t strike the same chord with a lot of people as it did for me. Prime 3 is my absolute favorite Metroid game in the entire series.<br><br>I love hypermode, I love the unique aesthetics, I love actually using Samus&apos;s ship, I love Dark Samus being taken as the legitimate threat she is, I love the voice acting and the Federation and the other bounty hunters, the controls feel anything but intrusive to me, the story feels more impactful, you get the screw attack much earlier, you don&apos;t lose your entry suit upgrades. It&apos;s just a blast from beginning to end for me.

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• FI

  @fillerpoint555 · 3 years ago

  as someone who plays Prime 3 a lot, the super zoomed out view in the footage is so trippy. I&apos;m used to many of the shots being closer up, especially because they give some nice detail, like how Gandrayda in the intro to 242 leans forward in interest when it starts speaking for the first time, or when Samus gets corrupted and the close up of her visor as she falls back looks very Dark Samus esque.

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• EL

  @ELTABULLO · 3 years ago (edited)

  I figured out why I never had the key &quot;motion controls&quot; fail me but always come by people saying it doesn&apos;t work reliably:<br>Pushing and pulling on the wii remote are not a &quot;motion sensor&quot; input bur rather an IR camera action, so you literally only have to move your wii remote CLOSER or FURTHER from the TV, not yank it or stab at it, the wii remote can tell how much you varied the distance from a to b by the distance between the dots of the sensor bar, the wii&apos;s gyro/accelerometer don&apos;t have to &quot;feel&quot; anything. That&apos;s it, thank you for reading.<br>(PS: I mean I &quot;figured out&quot; that people seem to confuse the type of action, not that I didn&apos;t know the difference, some people never played Warioware and it shows)

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• VI

  @viniciusKohler · 1 year ago

  Watching this in 2025, and knowing Metroid Prime 4 will be releasing soon

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