{"id":21051,"date":"2025-12-02T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-review-samus-aran-is-suited-up-for-action-again-was-it-worth-the-18-year-wait\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:37:18","slug":"metroid-prime-4-beyond-review-samus-aran-is-suited-up-for-action-again-was-it-worth-the-18-year-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-review-samus-aran-is-suited-up-for-action-again-was-it-worth-the-18-year-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review \u2013 Samus Aran is suited up for action again. Was it worth the 18-year wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2 (version tested); Retro Studios\/Nintendo
<\/strong>The bounty hunter \u2013 Nintendo\u2019s most badass and most neglected hero \u2013 returns in an atmospheric throwback sci-fi adventure that\u2019s entirely untroubled by the conventions of modern game design<\/p>\n

In a frozen laboratory full of cryogenically suspended experimental life forms, metal boots disturb the frost. A lone bounty hunter in a familiar orange exosuit points her blaster ahead. Making my way towards the facility\u2019s power generator, scanning doors and hunting for secret entrances, broken hatches and hidden keys, I suspect that I know exactly what\u2019s going to happen when this place begins to thaw; every clank and creak sounds sounds as if it could be a long-dormant beast busting out of one of those pods. And yet Samus Aran delves deeper, because she has never been afraid of anything.<\/p>\n

This section of Prime 4 is classic Metroid: atmospheric, eerie, lonely, dangerous and cryptic. Samus, Nintendo\u2019s coolest hero, is impeccably awesome, equipped here with new psychic powers that accent her suit with pulsing purple light. (I have taken many screenshots of her looking identically badass all over the game\u2019s planet.) She is controlled with dual sticks, or \u2013 much better, much more intuitive \u2013 by pointing one of the Switch 2\u2019s remotes at the screen to aim. Or even by using it as a mouse on a table or your knee, though this made my wrist hurt after a while. She transforms into a rolling ball, moves statues into place with her mind, and rides a futuristic shape-shifting motorcycle across lava and sand between this distant planet\u2019s abandoned facilities, unlocking its dead civilisation\u2019s lost knowledge.<\/p>\n

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\nNintendo Switch\/Switch 2 (version tested); Retro Studios\/NintendoThe bounty hunter \u2013 Nintendo\u2019s most badass and most neglected hero \u2013 returns in an atmospheric throwback sci-fi adventure that\u2019s entirely untroubled by the conventions of modern game design
\nIn a frozen laboratory full of cryogenically suspended experimental life forms, metal boots disturb the frost. A lone bounty hunter in a familiar orange exosuit points her blaster ahead. Making my way towards the facility\u2019s power generator, scanning doors and hunting for secret entrances, broken hatches and hidden keys, I suspect that I know exactly what\u2019s going to happen when this place begins to thaw; every clank and creak sounds sounds as if it could be a long-dormant beast busting out of one of those pods. And yet Samus Aran delves deeper, because she has never been afraid of anything.
\nThis section of Prime 4 is classic Metroid: atmospheric, eerie, lonely, dangerous and cryptic. Samus, Nintendo\u2019s coolest hero, is impeccably awesome, equipped here with new psychic powers that accent her suit with pulsing purple light. (I have taken many screenshots of her looking identically badass all over the game\u2019s planet.) She is controlled with dual sticks, or \u2013 much better, much more intuitive \u2013 by pointing one of the Switch 2\u2019s remotes at the screen to aim. Or even by using it as a mouse on a table or your knee, though this made my wrist hurt after a while. She transforms into a rolling ball, moves statues into place with her mind, and rides a futuristic shape-shifting motorcycle across lava and sand between this distant planet\u2019s abandoned facilities, unlocking its dead civilisation\u2019s lost knowledge. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2 (version tested); Retro Studios\/NintendoThe bounty hunter \u2013 Nintendo\u2019s most badass and most neglected hero \u2013 returns in an atmospheric throwback sci-fi adventure that\u2019s entirely untroubled by the conventions of modern game design In a frozen laboratory full of cryogenically suspended experimental life forms, metal boots disturb the frost. A lone bounty hunter …<\/p>\n

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review \u2013 Samus Aran is suited up for action again. Was it worth the 18-year wait?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}