Phazon Suit Samus Looking Badass
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Here is an excerpt from my epinions.com review of Metroid Prime, which was released for the GameCube in 2002 and developed by Retro Studios. It redefined the way people saw first-person action adventure games; and set many standards. In addition to completely redeeming Nintendo’s idea of switching the series to the first-person perspective.
“The visor Samus sees her world through is almost like a character in itself! And this first Metroid Prime conveys this arguably even better than its sequels and better than any game up to this point (and even today, it stands out). And it was a striking sight to behold and still is, the first time your visor is interracted with in a fun (and back then, entirely unique and new) way.
How so? Fog and condensation will build up on your screen if you pass through some steam, rain pelts the visor as it hits if you look up at the cloudy sky above, acid or bug guts will splatter across your face when they attack or you obliterate them with fire, if light hits your visor at just the right angle you can actually see Samus’ human face reflected on the glass from inside the suit, and certain electricic machines and enemies will interfere with your display, causing it to static out like a television!
All of this contributes to Metroid Prime’s expertly crafted sense of “life”, the world around you and Samus herself feel like much more than the cardboard cutouts of a lot of games, here the world is living and breathing and even the world you see and how you see it, play an integral part in the experience; and it all comes together so smoothly that you’ll be amazed at how incredibly cohesive it feels. It all feels natural and every part of the game resonates as if was all built to go together from the get-go (It wasn’t, in fact the game was originally a third-person platformer until Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and Nintendo mastermind, demanded the switch to first-person).”
