Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Reviews
The game delivers a solid experience, respecting the essence of the franchise while introducing relevant new features, such as Lamornian psychic powers, new allies from the Galactic Federation, and a less linear structure that expands the possibilities for exploration.
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Metroid Prime 4 Beyond is a good game, where the foundations of the Prime experience are extremely well done, managing to mantain or even exceed the quality of the original trilogy. However, it often stumbles on the smallest details: whether for its unoriginal narrative, NPCs in marginal or clichéd roles, or a vast area with low content density, the game struggles to be 100% lovable.
Review in Italian | Read full review
After an eight-year wait, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond delivers a return worthy of the series with its strong atmosphere and fluid gameplay, while also introducing some debatable design choices.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has a couple of stumbling points, but it’s still a primarily great follow-up to the titles that came before. The environments are soaked in eerie atmospherics, the characters are surprisingly pleasant, and the gameplay is as satisfying as ever. The linearity may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but I think that this all comes together to make for a unique and solid Metroid Prime title. Let’s just hope we get the next one before 2033.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond feels like a representation of where the franchise is in a way, stuck with one foot in the past and one in the present, without a clear direction of where it wants to go. It certainly has some great moments, is enjoyable overall, and is worthy of the franchise name, but several aspects of the game come off shallow. Waiting eight years since the initial announcement hasn't helped establish this title as the definitive next step for Samus either. While not a complete misstep, it isn’t the strongest action-adventure game or what I personally have come to expect from the same series that put out titles like Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime Remastered. It’s nice to have Samus back, but if there’s a follow-up, next time I’d like a little more Metroid in my Prime.
For those with open mind, the long-awaited return of Metroid Prime offers a successful package of action, light puzzle-solving, and above all, a lot of excitement.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
After such troubled development, it would have been a mammoth task for Beyond to live up to fan expectations. While elements of the game do stay true to the series, much of the game strays away from what makes Metroid great. Linear level design, unnecessary hand-holding, and a bland hub world that rudely inserts itself into an otherwise decent game all make this the weakest entry in the series. Which, after almost 18 years of waiting, is beyond disappointing to admit.
Despite its issues and the introduction of new mechanics and systems that still need refinement, Retro Studios’ return with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond delivers an excellent sequel that could mark the beginning of something bigger.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
These grains of sand aside, Beyond is a full-fledged Metroid Prime: atmospheric, intense, and rewarding. It's not revolutionary, but it forcefully reaffirms why the saga has remained in the hearts of players for nearly forty years.
Review in Italian | Read full review
While Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, on the Nintendo Switch, is a jaw-dropping visual feast that runs incredibly well on the hardware, even in portable play, the foundation the game is built on is anything but a Metroid game. In many ways, this feels like a mediocre Halo game starring our beloved bounty hunter, Samus Aran. What suffers the most is the very linear nature of the game, the vast open desert that feels wasted, and the lack of anything that really cements itself as the originator of a beloved genre. Extremely disappointed.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is just fine—a whiplash of an experience that has some really memorable moments and others that are just grating.
The long-awaited Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a gorgeous game, but it's clear that it's delayed development cycle got in the way of the final product. (Review in Portuguese for Entertainium Brasil)
It's a good game, but far below the level of other titles in the Prime series or the mainline games. When I think about it, I only see the problems. It's what it could have been, not what it is. A sad and bittersweet experience. In the end, I finished the campaign with absolutely no desire to play a "Metroid Prime 5" in the future.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond delivers reliably fun old-school charm in doses but its new ideas are too inconsistent to ignore, resulting in a good Prime that could've been better in some aspects.
Metroid Prime 4 isn't the worst game Nintendo has released for Nintendo Switch 2, but it is the most disappointing.
Metroid Prime 4 is an interesting experiment born with the clear objective of bringing the saga to a wider audience through a mix of new ideas that, depending on the case, either hit the mark perfectly or fail miserably, resulting in an extremely solid title that risks alienating its historic fanbase. That said, the game should be judged for what it is, not for what someone would have liked it to be. What we have here is a chapter that, while not the ideal sequel to Metroid Prime that many were expecting, proves to be an excellent overall experience with cinematic overtones, supported by a surprisingly successful cast and gameplay that continues to work great.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond disappoints by replacing the classic interconnected maps with a tedious open world, which, combined with a shallow narrative and a lack of innovation in its gameplay mechanics, turns Samus’s return to the Metroid Prime franchise into a major wasted potential.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
While there’s a nostalgic and fun, arcade-like foundation in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, it’s buried beneath tedious flaws like a bland hub world, a lack of enemy variety, and companions that just won’t let go of your hand.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a work that manages to captivate players with the timeless charm of discovery and the atmospheric design that made the series immortal... but with various “modern” concessions that have perhaps simplified some sections of the game a little too much. The introduction of an outdated open-world hub in the desert and the repetitive collection mission associated with it are burdens that significantly weigh down the pace and flow of exploration. Beyond therefore sits halfway between a perfectly preserved tradition and a not entirely successful innovation. It's a magnificent game to look at, fun and technically stunning, but it can't shake off the nagging feeling that it tried to be something immense without quite succeeding.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a beautifully crafted return that values restraint over reinvention, leaving a strong but slightly hollow impression that loses its wonder.