Samus taking a page out of Ness's playbook now.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/70419/new-metroid-prime-4-beyond-footage-shown
Although it didn't provide a release date, gameplay for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond was shown in today's Nintendo Direct.
The gameplay showed Samus doing the traditional Prime scanning of objects on a planet called "Viewros", but also making use of psychic powers to manipulate objects in the environment and blaster fire.
The trailer ended on a "2025" date and a cutscene with a red-suited Samus.
About 15 new screenshots of the game have been released. You can view these as part of the article or check out the profile on the website.
I was not expecting both this and Pokemon Legends Z-A to not have firm release dates shown. I'm assuming the date does exist but that both titles will have some cross-platform release on the Switch 2, either a separate Switch 2 version or performance improvements when playing the game on Switch 2. So they avoided revealing the release dates because that would reveal details about the Switch 2 release date and they're saving that for next week's Direct.
I would agree that the negativity online is bit over blown. However when it comes to gameplay and animations, what we have seen so far does look very dated. It's not necessarily a bad thing either, if what people want is more Prime they certainly have it. Seemingly anyway.
As far as I'm concerned this is par the course for a Nintendo trailer. We first see what we generally know and love. It's very safe. Months later just before release we find out a major hook and gameplay loops that have half of us screaming in delight.
The arm cannon and morph ball gameplay look to play and animate exactly as we remember. Granted there are additions shown. It looks like she can dash backward and controlling shots like the Beatle from Skyward Sword will definitely change things up.
Add that to the somewhat slippery and jittery animations of the 4 armed enemies along with the relatively closed off environments I can see why people are disappointed for now. After 16 years I would just say it looks a little too similar to what came before.
I mean people are going to judge one way or another. I don’t blame anyone for “yawning” at this first impression any more than I get on others for being super excited. On both accounts I can see where each side is coming from.
This makes a lot of the negatively online right now look all the more embarrassing.
This makes a lot of the negatively online right now look all the more embarrassing.
There's been a lot of negativity? Glad I haven't seen it.
As expected this is also going to have a Switch 2 version. But there is still no release date. I really figured they were just holding it off for the Switch 2 Direct. So is there a possibility that this could still get delayed into 2026? Why would they not give this a date at this point? We don't even have a season or quarter associated with it yet.
