So my GameCube came today, with its complementary copy of Metroid Prime.
My comments so far:
- Whoa. Damn.
- … I need a memory card.
Is it just me, or do Nintendo really pack their stuff well? Opening each of my GBA and my Gamecube for the first time (in their respective moments), I got a rush of nostalgia. When was the last new device I opened which seemed so lovingly, sturdily boxed? I can’t remember. My Genesis?
Opening this thing, I got the distinct impression that I was unveiling to myself something uncommonly important. Something which would stick with me and last for years.
Not a feeling one gets much from electronic devices these days.
Particularly not Sony devices.
Odd, that.
Wow, that remixed music sounds good.
Why does it make me giggle, the first time I hear Samus’s theme in any new Metroid game?
Or the item power-up theme, for that matter?
Wow, there’s a lot of text in this game. I wonder who thought up all of this background info. Does it say in the credits? I don’t want to walk downstairs for my game case. I’ll look later. Was it someone from Retro? Would NCL have given them such free license? The game does a better join tying together and explaining the Metroid universe in the first half hour than the other four do, put together.
Intelligent Systems, my hindquarters!
Yes.
You just don’t know, I tell you.
I think this is an example of how the third dimension can be used to add more than just spatial depth to a game. It’s a similar phenomenon to what I saw in Sonic Adventure, only… much more so. Much more seamless.
To mention:
This game doesn’t seem to come from anywhere. It doesn’t feel Western. It doesn’t feel distinctly Japanese. It… feels like the love child of Metroid and Myst. Only more so.
Oh god. Oh god. The nose. Must do something.
Juice me up!