We've finally made it, folks! This week marks the long-awaited arrival of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond . After years of development, delays, and even a restart, Samus Aran's next 3D outing is officially here for the Switch and Switch 2.

The critic reviews have also gone live ahead of the big release, and admittedly, the aggregate score has got a lot of people talking online. Prime 4 is currently sitting on 81/100 based on 74 critic reviews. At the time of writing, it's got the same "top critic" score on OpenCritic.

This score technically makes Metroid Prime 4 the lowest-rated "mainline" Metroid Prime release on Metacritic. The Switch remaster of Retro Studio's first game received an aggregate score of 94/100 when it was released in 2023, and every other "major" entry in the Prime series has

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