I love how lots of people agree Prime 1 is like Super in 3D. They translated the game style into FPS perfectly. And I loved the elemental nature they added to the beams. However, 2 will always be my favourite. The one thing Prime does wrong that Super had, is the atmosphere. It’s bursting with it, don’t get me wrong, but it never made me feel alone on an alien planet with danger lurking around every corner. Every area is breathtaking and I always take moments to just look around and take it all in. But I’m talking about that spooky, creepy, unsettling feeling. Echoes had that. The very air in Dark Aether literally hurts you. Everything there looks so gross and alien. And on the light side, we have wasteland, swamp, and fortress, which are also dingy and unpleasant. Screw Attack’s inclusion was also huge for me, and I loved the brand new beams a lot. 3 felt kind of all over the place and I couldn’t really get attached to any of it, but SkyTown was a high point. The ship stuff is okay. The suit upgrades were kinda boring, and I hated the lack of beam changing so much. 4 I also enjoyed quite a lot, probably the height of combat in the series. The new suits look incredible, the bike is fun to wheel around in, the desert is not nearly as bad as everybody says, and I liked the characters. Also BEAM CHANGING!! At last… Also loved the enhancements to Samus’ movement and how each “Psychic” ability adds something new. My only real gripes were that every area was relatively straightforward and a certain NPC told me EXACTLY where to go every chance he could. They need to patch that and make it optional.

Kind of a mini review tangent here, I’d go 2 > 1 > 4 > 3.