Metroid Prime: Remastered is a simply brilliant release. Here's the digitalfoundry tech review:
The original Metroid Prime is one of the most beloved games of all time, adapting the classic 2D Metroid formula into a full 3D open-ended world on GameCube. The game pushed visual boundaries, with dense, moody environments and a solid 60fps frame-rate target. More than 20 years on, the Switch remaster is here: a complete visual remake of the source material, retaining the same gameplay but with radically overhauled graphics and modern controls.
Metroid Prime's models and textures have also been completely remade for this version. Prime's original asset work looked good for the period, with impressive geometric density and solid texturing, but they don't hold up well to modern scrutiny. The new models boast higher polygonal complexity and refined textures; every asset appears to have been completely remade to suit the capabilities of the Switch hardware, with loads of incidental detail added.
Water behaves in much the same way as in the original too, with raindrops colliding with the player weapon, now leaving trails on the cannon itself too. The geometry-based water ripple effect from the original is replicated, alongside more intricate deformation in smaller pools of water. Surface detail on the water itself looks much more pleasing now, with normal-mapped ripples and cubemap-based reflections, though the cubemaps do fall out of alignment fairly easily.
Performance is very straightforward, which is a good thing. I didn't spot any noticeable frame-rate dips across my testing, with a locked 60fps throughout in both docked and portable modes. The new release shines in portable play, particularly on the OLED Switch model, where the darker hues of the revamped lighting really pop. The mildly sub-native presentation is scarcely an issue - Remastered just looks awesome on a seven-inch screen.
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