WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:11.000 Books. It is me Dan Reichert. I have played and 2 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:15.919 beaten Metroid Prime for really marathoning this game over the 3 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.039 last three days. I just finished the game with ninety 4 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.239 eight percent items. No idea where those last two were, 5 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:24.440 but I'll go back a second time. Folks, if you 6 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:26.480 were hearing this, that means thing Bargo has lifted on 7 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:30.280 Metroid Prime four review coverage, which I have written a 8 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.520 full review written style if you've ever heard of that, 9 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:35.920 that is on our website. That is on giant bomb 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.719 dot com. So if you want to hear my full 11 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:41.520 thoughts out there, not just rambly podcast style, I would 12 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.560 say go to johnbomb dot com read my review. But 13 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:47.000 this is a game that I'm the only one here 14 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.799 who has played it outside of demos and preview events 15 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.079 and stuff like that. So I went to field questions 16 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.039 from the Metroid curious here on this call. That's right, 17 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.520 I've got Jeff Grebb, Mike Manati, Jeff Backler, Turbo Sean 18 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.840 all here, all interested in the Metroid Prime for folks, 19 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:05.519 hap me with your questions. 20 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:09.079 Uh, were you able to romance Miles? 21 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:12.359 No? I have thoughts about Miles. If you want me 22 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:13.680 to go into it, we can do that now. 23 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:17.000 I don't. Yeah, and like you know, I'm like terrified 24 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.439 of spoilers still and I normally am not butt spoilers. 25 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.439 Which is, yeah, this is good to say up front 26 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.560 here for folks like I'm not going to like it's 27 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:27.719 it's a Metroid game. There's not a ton of story 28 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.359 going on here, but I think I can speak to 29 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:33.159 things like the concerns about Miles and the chatty characters 30 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:33.799 and stuff like that. 31 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.519 Well, I think at the very top, what would be 32 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.760 the most helpful is like, what's. 33 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:40.719 The deal man? You like this game? 34 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:40.920 A what? 35 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:41.359 Like? 36 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:41.680 What? 37 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:41.760 What? 38 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.359 Five? What do you think? Five stars? Stars? Perfect? That 39 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.879 is not what a five stars means. That's never what 40 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:54.560 I a No, got a couple? 41 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.480 Are there more than five stars on the scale? 42 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.799 No, okay, got it them. 43 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.799 I guess my question there is that you know, Metro 44 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:06.799 Prime one to me is this monolithic game, and then 45 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:11.800 it has two sequels that are also good to very good, 46 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.240 but few people will say that they are as good 47 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.199 as Metro Prime one. When you're saying that this is 48 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.319 five out of five, that is actually beyond my expectations 49 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:21.960 for a Metroid Prime sequels. 50 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.199 How are you handling this mic, I need, I need 51 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:25.039 a check. 52 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.039 Try to keep my excitement in check, because I want 53 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.919 it was already excited. I played the demo at a 54 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.960 target Kiosk and then Dan coming out, you know, with 55 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.199 that kind of score, I mean, should I be expecting 56 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:42.400 to like this as much as Metroid Prime one? I guess. 57 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:44.599 I guess all you can be now is disappointed. 58 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.479 I would say I'm going to hold off on I 59 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.280 actually have not written review yet. I have the outline, 60 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.280 but I'm going to hold off on any super declarative 61 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.800 like this is where it's this is the better than 62 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.159 one or whatever. I will say for sure, definitively, this 63 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.520 is definitely better than two and three. It's not even 64 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.360 sure discussion. I could see a world where after I 65 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:04.680 let it simmer a bit and really think about and everything, 66 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.159 where I do say this is my favorite one, but 67 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.080 I'm not going to depend who say that yet. I 68 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:12.680 will say the feeling I had playing this for sixteen hours, 69 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.080 I can only compare it to the feeling I had 70 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.960 playing at Metroid Prime one in Winter Break two thousand 71 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.400 and two, sixteen, and I did this again. That was 72 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.080 about right, and that that is about where the other 73 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.159 ones were as well, and that was with ninety eight 74 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.759 percent items, which you can get these like kind of 75 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.319 scout bots at a certain point that'll tell you like, okay, 76 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:34.280 in this area, we're going to mark the collectibles, and 77 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:36.800 here's the overworld scalpot where we can mark that and everything. 78 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.039 And I got every one of them that the scout 79 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.840 bot pointed out, and I went back. I did a 80 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:42.360 whole thing. I was up till three or four last 81 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.719 night getting everything, and it's like I got to the 82 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:45.960 point where it's like, hey, do you want to do 83 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.439 you want to move forward? I mean, there's no going 84 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:48.719 back after this. And I was like, well, I'm a 85 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.879 ninety eight percent. I definitely want to get one hundred. 86 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.360 Maybe that last two percent is in the like end 87 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.800 end game and I did not get it. So I 88 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.439 got to figure out where the last two percent is. 89 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.240 But yes, it's ninety eight percent on items. Is it 90 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:02.599 like ninety three percent scans if you remember, you know 91 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.560 scans from the old Metro Prime So like right, I 92 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:07.960 went very hard on it. So that was close to completionists. 93 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.840 I would say, okay, I guess my thought, and this 94 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.479 does kind of lead us to you know, the concerns 95 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.480 on the Internet. But the overall feel of the game, 96 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:20.040 I'm wondering because Dan, you've you're at least familiar with 97 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:22.120 all of the Metro Prime games. You know, we talked 98 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.639 a little bit, like, you know, you reviewed Prime three 99 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:26.480 back in the day, but that was what like seventeen 100 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.759 years ago or whatever. It's been a long time. Yeah, 101 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.720 So I'm kind of curious. Does it feel mostly like 102 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.000 Metro Prime one where it is more isolated? 103 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.639 Okay, all right, specifically about isolated. So that's the question because. 104 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.199 Hang on, because because as the series went on, it's 105 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.879 clear that Retro wanted it to be Nintendo's Halo because 106 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:49.959 Halo was popping off at the time. So by the 107 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:52.319 time they got to three, they could develop in a 108 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:55.600 way where it was more cinematic, more cut scenes. The 109 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.519 beginning was a lot about the Federation, and then it 110 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.800 puts you into traditional you know, Tray Prime as you 111 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.199 expected from one, and the most part too. I'm just 112 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.240 curious if they it sounds to me like they struck 113 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:09.199 a balance base on the way you've talked about. 114 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.040 It so far, I think so it definitely does not 115 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.920 seem like outside of the beginning, which some of you 116 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.720 have played and seen. It does not feel at all 117 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.519 like it's going for like a Halo vibe or like 118 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.480 a Call of Duty campaign level or anything like that. 119 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.600 That first setup is very much like, h we're. 120 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:22.000 Turns in the thing. 121 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:23.560 We got to get the artifact we got like oh, 122 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:25.279 you know, yelling and shooting in a big war scene 123 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.639 and stuff like that. That is kind of the only 124 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.920 time you're gonna see that level of it. Now. There 125 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.839 are characters that they introduce, starting with Miles, which you 126 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.120 know we've talked about on on podcasts and stuff so far. 127 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.839 And there is there is a crew. There is a 128 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.360 crew that you do find. It is a limited crew. 129 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:43.120 They definitely are not all like Miles. They are you know, different, 130 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.160 just kind of archetype of soldier types and stuff. There's like, 131 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.040 you know, a girl that's like, you know, kind of fanygirling. 132 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:48.160 I was like, oh my god, it's Sam, and so 133 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:49.680 I want to I want to open the door with Sam. 134 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:50.759 Is I want to take a picture where there are 135 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.879 you know, like that type of stuff. But I will say, 136 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.199 you know, I don't have a lot of tolerance for 137 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:58.920 obnoxious characters that talk a lot and stuff like that, 138 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.120 Like I hate like that a Loys and the Mamers 139 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:04.360 and things like that. None of it is that. None 140 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.240 of it is it. Like the like that first part 141 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.160 you've seen when you meet Miles and you get him 142 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.160 down in Fury Green and stuff, he's being kind of 143 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.319 talkative and stuff. After that, Miles is mostly relegated to 144 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:16.000 Like I thought it was gonna be more of a 145 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.560 codec thing because when you go to a map, you 146 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.160 can hit X to call the radio, and like half 147 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:21.839 the time, if you're in like one of the big 148 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.399 areas or whatever, like I'll call them dungeons. For lack 149 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.040 a better term, it just says communication disabled, so you 150 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:28.319 couldn't even talk to him if you want it to. 151 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:30.519 And then it's just like the time he'll kind of 152 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:32.800 chime in on the radio, is like, oh, in between 153 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.079 these big kind of more dungeon like areas, you're kind 154 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.680 of roaming the open world, and he'll just be like, 155 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.480 you know, if the game senses that you've just kind 156 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.399 of been driving around aimlessly for a while, he'll come 157 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.680 and be like, hey, you got that thing, you should 158 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.279 maybe go Maybe you can go past that lava river now, 159 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.759 you know, like and it'll show up on your map. 160 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.040 So he'll kind of nudge you in a direction, but 161 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:52.439 it's few and far between. 162 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:55.480 So so it's it is Metro Prime four, the sequel 163 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.480 to Prime three, but maybe made knowing that a lot 164 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.199 of the core fan base really identifies with the one 165 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.000 the most when it comes to METROI Prime, and so 166 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:05.240 they may with that in mind. 167 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:06.120 Yeah, that's the. 168 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.079 Thing is like two and three kind of took swings 169 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:09.720 where it's like two had the whole kind of dark 170 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.480 world thing going on, which you know, kind of turned 171 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:12.879 me off. That's kind of my least favorite thing in 172 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.759 the Prime series. And then Prime three, you know, it's 173 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.000 on the we you know, a bunch of motion control stuff. 174 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:19.720 You know, as you mentioned Sean, there's more kind of 175 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.600 like a story and things going on there. So this one, 176 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:25.959 despite the fact that it is quote unquote like an 177 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.639 open world and introduced some new elements, like you know, 178 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:32.240 the motorcycle, it really does feel a lot more like 179 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.399 one than it does two or three. Cool you. 180 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.439 When we were talking early, you were kind of like 181 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:39.920 kind of giving us your early ideas of like what 182 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:41.879 you were feeling about the game, and you were you 183 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.199 were heaving around like a four point five obviously that's 184 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.680 just something like you were just like feeling it early on. 185 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.160 Is there a moment where you're like, hey, this is 186 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.279 a five star game. This is the exactly what I wanted, Like, 187 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:55.199 did you okay, go ahead? 188 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:56.759 No, it was last night. It was last night. So 189 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:58.959 I mean I was actually like pretty much all day 190 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:00.920 and all night last night I was playing. And it 191 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.360 was during that really lengthy play threas, like as I 192 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.519 was kind of going back and kind of just mopping 193 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.920 up everything before the big stretch at the end where 194 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:09.040 I was like, you know, once you have all these 195 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.040 powers and stuff, and it's that metroid thing that like 196 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.639 you're going back to old areas, but now the enemies 197 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.480 are going down easier. You have access all these things 198 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:17.759 that you were just kind of like making a mental 199 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:19.920 note of before, like Okay, I'm gonna need a spider 200 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:21.600 ball to get through there or whatever. When you have 201 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:23.120 it all, then it's just like all right, this place 202 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.680 is blown wide open. All the doors are open for me, 203 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:27.759 you know, And it's like I was having so much fun, 204 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.519 and it does that ability the thing where as you 205 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.919 keep gaining abilities, the game just keeps getting more and 206 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.360 more fun just to move around these spaces, and like, 207 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.440 as I'm moving through these old spaces, it's like, oh, 208 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.000 I remember when I didn't have this or that or 209 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:41.759 this or the double jump and stuff. And now I'm 210 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.279 just flying around, I'm grappling around, I'm killing things, I'm 211 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:46.480 charging up a triple thundershot and screwing up all these 212 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.200 robots that messed me up before. It's I was like, 213 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:51.159 I had that moment where it's like, I don't know 214 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:53.039 what else I would want a Metroid game, a Metric 215 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:54.919 Prime game to be than this. You know, this is 216 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:55.919 exactly what I wanted. 217 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.639 What about the motor cycle, Like, how much of that 218 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:03.080 is in the game? Is it interesting? Is it mostly 219 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.679 like kind of just transporting you to different kind of 220 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.159 sections of the area, And is it is it like 221 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.080 its own giant area of itself where it feels more open. 222 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.519 Yeah, so it's it is very much relegated to that 223 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.720 open world. So Soul Valley is the hub world. And 224 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.440 I think this is important to note here. Is that 225 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.440 it is you know, I'll use the phrase open world 226 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.480 for lack of a better term, but this is not 227 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:26.840 the Metroid Breath of the Wild. It is not that 228 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.360 it is Soul Valley is much more akin to hirol 229 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.480 Field from Ockery enough time where it's like it is 230 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:35.600 an open area. You can choose where you want to go. Oka, 231 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.399 I'm gonna go to Death Mountain. I'm gonna go to Lakehilliya, 232 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:39.759 you know whatever. But there's not a ton of stuff there. 233 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:41.240 It's not a breath. While where there's one hundred and 234 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.559 twenty shrines, there are like occasional little shrines you go 235 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.039 into and solve a small little puzzle, you get some 236 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.039 some currency and stuff. Well, very zeld ish. 237 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.080 That's that analogy, like completely answers my question makes sense 238 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:52.600 to me now know exactly what you mean. 239 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:55.840 Yeah, it is like hirol Field, I would not call empty, 240 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.120 but it's not like littered with stuff everywhere you turn. 241 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.639 So this is what it. Yeah, No, this is a 242 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.840 desert and it is like, honestly, one of the main 243 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:05.879 things you're doing there is there are these kind of 244 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.799 green crystals everywhere, these like clusters of green crystals, and 245 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.799 like there are crystal beating well okay, and they're like 246 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.240 so you'll see in your menu, like there's a crystal 247 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.480 kind of hud element and as you hit certain lines, 248 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.159 you know, Miles will call you back like, hey, you 249 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:20.519 should come back to the altar. You'll get like an 250 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.240 upgrade or whatever. So I would also very much suggest 251 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.559 to people as you were playing, even early on, just 252 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.080 be getting a bunch of crystals. You know, if you 253 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.240 see a green crystal, they are finite. They don't like regrow, 254 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:34.399 they will regrow clear, and then you just get normal 255 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:36.320 like energy and missiles and stuff like that. But to 256 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:38.720 get that green crystal currency, you want to hit it 257 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.679 and then you only get it once, so get them 258 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.639 as you're going through so you don't feel the need 259 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.240 to do a bunch at the end. But anyway, Yeah, 260 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.480 the motorcycle is for Soul Valley and there are some 261 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:51.519 fun like little puzzles there and things where it's like 262 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:52.960 some rams and if I can get up to that 263 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.320 plateau and hit this boost or like there's a missile 264 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:58.080 upgrade that is in between this big kind of rock 265 00:10:58.120 --> 00:10:59.799 formation and I can kind of ramp up and hit 266 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.720 that and you get five extra missiles. But yes, largely empty, 267 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.960 and it is mainly a way to get between again. 268 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.519 It's kind of like hiro Field and Akarna. There's like 269 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.559 five main areas basically, you know, there's like you know, 270 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:15.200 Fury Green, which Jeff you saw, Mike you had mentioned 271 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:17.919 before the kind of lightning area from the trailers that 272 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:21.240 is volt Forge, which volt Forge is just a stunning area. 273 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:22.120 It's awesome, that's great. 274 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:22.480 Cool. 275 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.600 That's where you get the bike, and so yeah, the 276 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.399 bike is for getting around Soul Valley, collecting all those crystals, 277 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:29.759 finding the occasional shrine. And then when you go to 278 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.159 one of these five main areas, there's like a little 279 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:34.159 place that you kind of put your bike and just going. 280 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.639 You kind of just like rev it up to open 281 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:38.440 it up and move on. Like there's almost like a 282 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.799 load screen thing where like you know, Fury Green will 283 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.720 launch you from a cannon into the area. You know. 284 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:44.159 One of them is like kind of a train, like 285 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.600 a tram that you go on Mic that's almost like 286 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:49.879 a monorail. So yeah, yeah, so there is some obvious 287 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.360 separation between like Soul Valley and then these five other 288 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:54.200 bigger areas. 289 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:59.159 Yeah, okay, Neat the psychic abilities, how much do they 290 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:01.919 factor in? Do they feel like replacements for abilities we 291 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.159 might have had before, but sort of palette swap? Do 292 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:05.519 I do they feel completely fresh? 293 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.080 Like what it is I would say that is I wouldn't. 294 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:11.960 I don't want to reduce it to just pallette swap. 295 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.039 But it does feel like there are certainly abilities where 296 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:15.759 it's like, okay, these are things we had before. You 297 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:17.399 just put the word psychic in front of it and 298 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.320 you've got it's kind of like purple now you know. 299 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.679 There's like, oh, the psychic boostball and the psychic you know, spiderball. 300 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.000 I don't know if we get all the names right. 301 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:26.679 The psychic grapple, things like that. It's just instead of 302 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.840 the grapple beam, you're getting a psychic grapple instead of this, 303 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.720 you're getting that. There is there are a couple that 304 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:33.559 are new, like I don't know if they've shown any 305 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:36.200 previews stuff. There's like like your charge shot with your 306 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.279 energy beam. If you do it while you have kind 307 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.519 of the psychic vision on, you can curve it. You 308 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:45.440 can control the our quick look. Yes, yeah, it's like 309 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.320 a heavenly sword when you were shooting arrow, you know, 310 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.639 of course, so you can like after touch it. And 311 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.960 by the way, the gyro stuff in this game, there's 312 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.279 a lot of tweaking you can do so individual abilities 313 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.639 where you're like, okay, do I want to be able 314 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.200 to like grapple with motion. Do I want to be 315 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.480 able to target individual limbs and stuff with motion? Do 316 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.600 I want to like, you know, all these very specific things. 317 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:04.679 And I tweaked it a lot because I did find 318 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.480 that the gyro stuff was fantastic to use, which remind 319 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.080 me later I'll touch on the mouse stuff and how 320 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.000 I don't even know that's necessary because like it doesn't 321 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.039 do anything that the gyro doesn't do better, honestly, But yeah, 322 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:17.879 the psychic powers, there's the occasional once where it's like 323 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.840 almost like a telekinetic thing where it's like, okay, I 324 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:22.200 just need to move this crystal and a pattern to 325 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.360 open a door, which you know, metri Prime three did 326 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.720 some of that stuff, but it's it's largely it's kind 327 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.759 of just a branding of like it's your scanner is 328 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.480 through your psychic vision, which it is better now because 329 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.159 it's like instead of little red and orange squares, it 330 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.320 is just like the psychic vision. If it is something 331 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.039 that you can scan, the entire thing, even if it's 332 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.279 a big statue, will all be green and everything else 333 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.600 is kind of purple, so things like stick out more 334 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.519 and it's easier to kind of get around and figure 335 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.440 out what to scan, you know, But yeah, I wouldn't 336 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.120 say there's a ton of like some of it looks cool, 337 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:55.440 like the psychic boostball is like if you see these 338 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:57.759 certain kind of purple things that the ball can go into, 339 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.559 it'll like shoot you along like a spirit track for 340 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:08.200 lack of a better term, right, But like, yeah, it's 341 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.679 it's all. It feels kind of more like a branding 342 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:12.639 aesthetics thing. It's just a lot of purple stuff, a 343 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:13.279 lot of It's. 344 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.159 Not like the force awakens all of a sudden, No, it's. 345 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.240 Just kind of ethereal. Like there's cool Like there's platforms 346 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.799 where it's like let's say there's an area and oh, 347 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:22.120 I can't get up to that platform up there, but 348 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.919 you see some like pink clouds. Basically you can go 349 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:26.960 into your psychic ability. You can just kind of like 350 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:30.000 kind of scan the pink cloud basically into like fill 351 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.200 in these psychic platforms and sure you can use to 352 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:33.000 get up to that area. 353 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:34.799 Yeah, it sounds like it's just because each of the 354 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.600 prime games has a theme after one, like two is 355 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:39.799 light and dark, three is the phase on this sounds 356 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:42.080 like psychic is sort of just the theme of this. 357 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:43.639 It's the theme, and it's even it comes down to 358 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.200 the suit like samos hays the crystal in her helmet 359 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:48.679 and everything. So yeah, that is the theme. You were 360 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.919 getting talked to from a lot of ghosts of an 361 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.240 ancient race of you know, aliens. It is it is 362 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.759 what I want. There's a lot of ancient ghosts talking 363 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:57.000 to you. 364 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:58.360 Brand cool. 365 00:14:58.759 --> 00:14:59.759 Yeah. 366 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.320 I am curious though about like the mouse controls and 367 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.240 like just if you experiment of all the control types 368 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:08.919 you do, like the classic more take stock control. Is 369 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.360 that even an option in this one? 370 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:15.799 Boy tanks not like without dual analog like originally did 371 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:17.799 I don't know if I want it to be an option. 372 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.240 I kind of liked the idea of the purest controls. 373 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.240 I mean I would never use him, but yeah. 374 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:23.840 I did not see that option. I don't know there's 375 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:25.600 a way you could tweak it to make that the case. 376 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:28.000 But it's like this is more like if you played 377 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.120 Metroid Primary Mastered. A lot of that is more like 378 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:33.840 by default how it feels, which felt great. So the 379 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.120 thing is a lot of these boss fights specifically again 380 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:37.720 you might have seen some of them, will have very 381 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:40.320 specific weak points to hit, and if you just do 382 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:42.360 the lock on, like the ZL lock on, it just 383 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.399 kind of locks onto center mass, you know, and you 384 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:47.120 do need to tweak a little bit. So like when 385 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:48.679 I did the preview event in New York City, I 386 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.240 was doing the mouse mode, and of course that was 387 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.519 set up in the most optimal way with like basically 388 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.240 a giant mouse pad in front of me. And it's like, 389 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.600 oh wow, that's actually is easier to aim at these 390 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:00.159 four spots on this guy's chest or whatever. But I'll 391 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.480 say it's just as easy and better, honestly to use 392 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.000 the gyro stuff. So you can you can even tweak 393 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.960 the threshold that you need to move the controller for 394 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:10.720 it to kind of break away from that, you know, 395 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.120 center lock on. So I kind of messed with that 396 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:14.159 a little bit because you don't want it to be 397 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:15.440 too weak because most of the time you do want 398 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:17.759 to aim dead center, but you want to be able 399 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.080 to break off and like, okay, I need to hit 400 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:21.240 this thing's limbs, you know, at a certain point. So 401 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.360