Topic: REVIEWS: Metroid Prime Trilogy

[GoldenPhoenix]

Sometimes I wonder if games like this should have two reviews, one aimed at those who never played the game(s) and one aimed at those who have. Though I agree with this review's score if it's someone who doesn't own the games, for someone who has all three I kind of feel like the score should be 3/10 or something.

Yeah but people who own it should be smart enough to pick out of the review what is new or not and whether that makes it worthwhile to them.

[Mop it up]

I guess that's true. It wouldn't be necessary but a split score would be nice.
This review does talk more about what the changes are than the games themselves though. Someone who has no idea what the games are about might need more.

[Halbred]

Doesn't matter. Our plicy is to review each release as its own unit. The fact is there are three incredibly long and satisfying games on one disk. Doesn't matter if you own all three: the Trilogy is a 10 in and of itself.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Doesn't matter. Our plicy is to review each release as its own unit. The fact is there are three incredibly long and satisfying games on one disk. Doesn't matter if you own all three: the Trilogy is a 10 in and of itself.

While Halbred is usually wrong, he is right on this.

[Mop it up]

You might want to talk a little more about the gameplay then.

[NWR_Neal]

You might want to talk a little more about the gameplay then.

He links to our site reviews of the Prime games on their own. Why retread what has already been written?

[Mop it up]

Ah I see. Taking a page from Nintendo and recycling old content, eh?

[GoldenPhoenix]

Nick should have written a 20 page review. No excuses.

[Mop it up]

All I'm saying is, if the policy is to review each game as its own entity then I think it should contain both detailed information on what's changed as well as on the game(s) themselves. As was pointed out, Mr. Jack didn't write the reviews of the first three games so he might have a different perspective on them than the others, especially since he played them here again years after their original releases.

I was just offering up a suggestion, I didn't mean to step on anyone's toes.

[KDR_11k]

Sometimes I wonder if games like this should have two reviews, one aimed at those who never played the game(s) and one aimed at those who have. Though I agree with this review's score if it's someone who doesn't own the games, for someone who has all three I kind of feel like the score should be 3/10 or something.

If you already have the games and know you don't want to buy them again you don't need a review.

[vudu]

Doesn't matter. Our plicy is to review each release as its own unit.

I would like to bring you attention to NWR's reviews for Mario Party 4, 5, & 6.

[broodwars]

Having just completed a playthrough of Prime 1 on the Trilogy disc, you might not have noticed but the review should note that there are some changes to this NA version due to it incorporating elements from the GameCube PAL version.  For instance, several lore/pirate scans have new titles and one was removed altogether; Fission Metroids now spawn in the Phazon Mines once you kill the Omega Pirate (an incredible annoyance); and apparently Ridley's jumping attack during his boss fight is new.  While the latter is fine by me, I don't appreciate the first two since as a former owner of the GCN version it just screws with my head (not to mention makes the Phazon Mines even more tedious than they already were to traverse).  The achievement system is also just kind of...there for Prime 1 (and presumably Prime 2).  Just by playing the game you get all the tokens you need to unlock everything related to those games, and you still need to do all the scanning and item collecting just to gain the ability to purchase unlockables so in the end it's pretty much the same thing you did in the original games.

[KDR_11k]

Did you try powerbombing the Omega Pirate? I hear that wasn't possible in the NTSC version but I did it in the PAL version just fine.

[broodwars]

Did you try powerbombing the Omega Pirate? I hear that wasn't possible in the NTSC version but I did it in the PAL version just fine.

No, doing that never ocurred to me.