Metroid Prime 2 Remaster
The remaster of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is reportedly set for release in early 2025, following successful reception of the first game.
- Release Date: Early 2025 (pending official announcement)
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch
- Features: Enhanced visuals, quality-of-life updates, modern enhancements including improved controls and higher-resolution textures.
- Fan Hope: Tweaks to streamline complex backtracking elements.
This news follows the success of Metroid Prime Remastered, which launched in 2023 and garnered critical acclaim. The game is expected to retain its darker tone while providing enhanced visual and gameplay experiences familiar from its original release.
It is very peculiar how Nintendo has handled the 3 games, with releases more than a year after their completion, in fact they can release them whenever they want.
What did you think of Metroid Prime: Remastered? How do you think Metroid Prime 2: Remastered will compare?
I finished the first Metroid Prime thrice on the Gamecube, twice on the Wii, once on Dolphin Primehack (mouse+keyboard) and once on the Switch. It’s no exaggeration to call it my favorite video game of all time.
I finished MP2 once on the Gamecube and I regret every second of it. I’ve played several games that were worse, but none of them had such a vertiginous fall from grace compared to what the same IP had produced before. The only one that comes close is Diablo 3. MP2 managed to go wrong with every single change they made in relation to the original: the soundtrack is worse, the environments are uglier, the story is uninspired, the enemies are boring, the puzzles are too easy, the gimmick is awfully cliché and actively hampers enjoyment and then removes itself for the last 20% of the game, and I don’t even remember the final boss, which shows what a huge impact it had on me.
I have never been so disappointed by a piece of media in my entire life, and I probably never will. I feel personally insulted that even a single person would consider remaking this garbage anything other than an affront to good taste.
Metroid Prime 2 is the only main Metroid game I’ve still not completed. The whole light/dark mechanic was just so joyless and punishing. I’ll still be buying this and giving it another go; a few quality of life tweaks and this could be enjoyable.
Taste is subjective and yes, you might enjoy it, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Limited beam ammo makes the game unenjoyable all on its own, then there’s everything else I mentioned.
SamusHunter2 is not a credible source, lol. What they get right are safe guesses or other people’s leaks that they try to pass off as their own.
Would be excited for a Prime 2 Remaster though. Prime 1 Remaster was a remaster done right: it looked exactly how I remember the original game looked, and that’s not easy.
Sounds great but I won’t own any modern consoles. I’ll stick with Prime hack with HD textures and widescreen support.
Not sure I want to buy them again unless I find them ultra cheap at one point. I have bought them twice already, once on GameCube and Wii, and once as trilogy on Wii U.
I am replaying trilogy currently. Echoes may be the one I know the less of the three (I basically know MP1 by heart), but it’s great. Most confusing map of the three though.
I really, really loved Echoes and it has some prime (heh) world building, level design and boss fights. Enjoy!
I think the thing that had the most impact on me when I first played Echoes was the screw attack power up, because even if it’s a bit limited so it works in 3D, it’s still a very fun move.
Though, come on Retro Studios. That move is not the screw attack, it’s the actual space jump, which was not supposed to be a single mid-air jump. Screw attack is just the sparkly hurty part of it. Metroid 1 even had screw attack without the space jump!
Have you played it on dolphin with primehack? The control and graphics updates are really good.
Haven’t tried that, no. Not sure I would be very interested in the control hack part of it though, I don’t really like mouse/keyboard controls.
Also, I think stuff like ripping the shields off pirates in MP3 feels quite satisfying.
I play it on the Steam Deck with dual-stick controls (and a little bit of gyroscope aiming), it feels pretty natural
Sigh… I guess there will be a reason for me to buy a Switch 2 after all.
