The only real changes you’ll notice while playing the adventure are that the graphics have been updated and the control scheme has been changed to make it play like a contemporary shooter.
The Nintendo GameCube classic Metroid Prime isn’t completely redesigned, as the title suggests. The first-person adventure game plays out in every scene exactly as you remember it, from the thrilling beginning on a crashed space frigate to the somber journey through Phendrana Drifts.
For a game as perfect as Metroid Prime, that strategy is appropriate. The GameCube title didn’t require modification, even though it might have been tempting to give the original a remake like Dead Space treatment. Instead, the remaster quietly performs technical work to remind players of the reasons why Samus’ initial 3D adventure is still a superior journey two decades later.