Who played a lot of Metroid Pinball? I wanna hear those thoughts! The game's pretty good, supposedly, no?
Anyway, the ones I've finished are: Prime 1, Super Metroid, Zero Mission, Fusion, Other M, and the 3DS remake of Metroid II.
Of these,
Metroid Prime was my first and it's still one of my favourite video games. The world felt really vast, the music was incredible (
Phendrana Drifts y'all), and it was a style of gameplay I was not familiar with. It definitely helped me gain an appreciation for environmental storytelling through architecture, artifacts, and scanning. Previously I thought all video game stories were just basic/bad, or very overwrought (Final Fantasy on PS1). Metroid Prime felt different: isolating and very tense due to the ever-increasing difficulty (damn those Chozo Ghosts!).
How BeautifulShy managed
Super Metroid in three hours is just bananas to me. It took me like 17 hours, and while I cleared it with a lot of items (90+%), I still died loads of times. The bosses were really difficult, I felt I had to be careful everywhere, and I hate that part with the quicksand.
Very fond of Super Metroid,
again incredible music, and it does such a great job of guiding you. Figuring things like the Shinespark out felt amazing, or when you get somewhere using bomb climbing and feel like you cheated. If the Wall Jump wasn't such a pain, this would be perfect. I really hate that wall jump though, luckily it was fixed for the GBA games.
Samus Returns on 3DS is very competent, but it's kinda too long and I don't think they really manage to guilt-trip you as much as they should. For a 2017 game I would've liked a bit more nuance there; Samus is functionally a genocidal agent of destruction, but the Metroids are so aggressive and violent you can still half-justify her acts.
I think they should've made some of the bosses cower and run from you once your objective is clear to them, maybe have them let out piercing wails when you slaughter them, or show abandoned nests whose parents you've killed. Overall I liked the game, and the free aiming was great, but I didn't
love it like most of the other ones I played (Prime, Super, Fusion, Zero Mission). If MercurySteam make another one, I hope it'll be Metroid 5 and not another remake.
I did technically start Prime 2 and Prime 3, but never got very far. One downside about the Prime games is how they're very complex, rather long, and quite demanding games in terms of spatial reasoning. I find restarting them quite a daunting prospect due to how stressful they can be.
Maybe I'll play Corruption first since it seems easier and won't require me to dig out a GameCube, but it feels a bit wrong to own both but still play them out of order.
Prime came out right around the time I started wearing glasses. I don't know if science backs up any correlation, but this was also the time I started getting motion sick. I literally could not play Prime without feeling nauseated or getting a headache. I got Prime 2 without beating Prime, thinking that since time had passed, maybe I had gotten better. Nope. Same deal.
Out of curiosity, does the motion sickness persist with other first-person perspective games too? I'm not thinking just shooters, but maybe also Minecraft and such if you've ever tried them?