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Well, me never playing a metroid game not knowing what another of the Nintendo originals is about, I decided to get the game and find out for myself. And upon starting my GameCube I was disappointed to see that there wasn't going to be an opening video like so many other games have, but the main menu more then made up the missing opening video. I have never seen a main menu so impressive looking and delightful to the eye.
Since there were no other options I started a game and became absorbed into the game itself, the realness that it felt at times, the creature's and surroundings noises helped to keep me immersed in the game. At times I began to feel like I was Samus, squirming in my chair to get the right angle to shoot something or scratching my head to contemplate on how to defeat a boss. The game is pulled nicely together; it was almost like a darker version of Zelda.
Now let me break from the game story to talk about the graphics, never before have I felt like I was actually in the game, the only way I would've felt more like I was Samus is if I was actually in a life size replica of her Chozo made suit. Every object smooth and round, the environments were seamless, and most importantly when there was a flash of light you could see your (Samus's) eyes in the visor. But one of the things that helped make you feel like you were in the game, also became an annoyance when you were looking for enemies, this would be whenever you walked by a waterfall, leaking gas pipe, smoke vent, or splatted a bug, water vapor of bug guts would cover your visor causing a hard time to view. Now this is quite a cool affect, but it cane be an annoyance at times.
But back to the game itself, it starts you off on a training level that, which is the pirate ship that you've received a distress beckon from. At this point you have all your weapons and visors, it tells you how to get passed certain points telling you the importance of scanning (almost scanned as much as I used my gun, almost) and getting you used to the controls. During this training level, you forget that its letting you get to know your game, your just there following which way you think you should go and shooting anything that moves. There's even a boss at this training level, it's a quite easy one that shouldn't be a problem for anyone.
Skipping ahead now, at the end of the training level, you lose all but one gun, and two of your visors (Thermal vision and X-ray vision), and you see Ripley flying to Talon IV and you take hot pursuit. After landing on the planet, your only in your basic suit and you need to find all the upgrades, since you can't do one thing without another, its pretty much self explanatory, something I like in a game, where I can't mess-up even if I make a huge mistake.
During the game process, you'll encounter research data, Chozo text, Pirate data, and the like; now you can go without reading the data or getting it, but it really does immerse you into a story line. The Chozo text explains why all this stuff is happening to the planet and speaks of a chosen one (Which conveniently happens to be Samus?). While the Pirate data explains about their research on Phazon and about orders to kill Samus.
But I'm not going to give anything else away, its an all in all very good game, it has its annoyances (-cough cough- bosses and their minion summons -cough-). I believe everyone should at least to give this game a try, even if you don't want to beat it, but to just admire the wonderful game play and 3D work.
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