[Wii] Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Originally Posted by Protom@nNeo

I'd love to see Retro really make use of the Wii remote's built in speaker. Getting communcations from your ship, or Space Pirate mumbles and groans in a dark room would be awesome.

I thought much of the speaker use in Zelda was pointless. It would seem to make more sense in a sci-fi setting such as Metroid. I'm fine with it, as long as it doesn't run my battery down too much.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If games like MP3 are going to have downloadable content, they really need to update the Wii to allow us to hook up USB HD's...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

This game is out now - I'm surprised that there aren't more posts here yet.

What I would like to know about this game, is if it is more action-oriented than Prime, or if there is a ton of "dead space" filled by endless back-tracking, exploring dead areas with no enemies or enemies that are nothing more than a nuisance, etc. I'm not sure I'm up for back-tracking through the same hallway and shooting the same critter 40 times again to be honest.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Guru

It's definitely a lot easier to get around, and the backtracking is there, but it's not a huge hindrance like it has been in past metroid games. Although one would say, if you don't like backtracking and working towards 100%, then metroid games really aren't for you and you shouldn't be playing anyways.

But it's significantly easier to retrace your steps since you can fly your ship from planet to planet, and sometimes to multiple locations on the same planet. This is a huge improvement from endlessly spelunking the same areas over and over just to get to the next zone to open that door you couldn't when you found it the first (or second or third or fourth) time.

Thanks for the info. I really enjoyed Metroid II for Gameboy, Metroid Fusion for GBA, and also Super Metroid which I completed about 60% of before getting stuck. I played through Metroid Prime, and enjoyed it well enough but the backtracking for some reason seemed unreasonable by comparison to other Metroid titles I had played. But, from the sound of your post and those on other forums I visit, it sounds like Corruption is more up my alley. Back-tracking I don't mind, but back-tracking just for the sake of padding game content isn't my cup of tea.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by rpgcrazied

so.. I dont have a wii yet.. but I loved the first 2 primes. I hear you can jump into this game w/o any knowledge of the other 2? So is dark samus not in this one or something?

I played MP1, haven't played MP2. I would say yes you could jump into MP3 without having played any of the earlier games, although the scanning and morph-ball concepts will be strange and alien at first.

I was speaking idiomatically.