After almost two decades there’s finally a new Metroid Prime game but what does the new sequel bring to the table, and can it live up to the quality of the originals?

It is now 18 years since Metroid Prime 3 was released on the Wii and 23 years since the original Metroid Prime reinterpreted the 2D gameplay of the earlier titles into a first person adventure. It’s fair to say that a lot has changed in that time, including the popularisation of the term Metroidvania and the concept becoming a favourite of indie developers all around the world. So much so that even Nintendo was tempted to make a new 2D entry.

And yet in over two decades there have been virtually no other games that have attempted to copy Metroid Prime or otherwise expand the Metroidvania concept into 3D. The reason why has

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