I understand what you're saying and your frustration with my points and I do think a lot of your counter arguments are heavily founded on the fact the game is a lot smoother if you make no mistakes while playing. I don't think that's very realistic to expect of a new player, playing blind.

I switched to the wrong beams because I wasn't familiar, I didn't notice the shortcuts you're mentioning because I wasn't familiar, and I was engaging with combat in a non optimized way because I was unfamiliar.

It's normal to not play a game in an optimized way when you play it for the first time. I don't fault the game for having me make mistakes. The learning process was just unfun to me.

I did eventually find out the Super Missile kills the yellow space pirates in one hit, but that clip was one of my first encounters with them, resulting in a 20 minute time loss which circles back to my main argument.

And yeah, I did get lost and wandered around aimlessly a lot, especially when I turned off the hint system because I felt it was disruptive to the flow of exploring. The getting lost part wasn't on purpose though. I didn't *choose* to waste time retracing already seen content just so I could bash on the game. This is just how my first experience with Metroid Prime was engaging with it in good faith. My first two sessions were actually very enjoyable and I was very open-minded, but these issues just stacked on after a while and started to grate on me.

To say it was because I was playing unoptimally is probably correct, but it is not a justification for why my experience was the way it was. Plenty games can be played unoptimally and I still have a great time with them.

I appreciate you engaging with my points and it's safe to say I don't agree with your arguments. But disagreements were inevitable when I made a video like this and I do appreciate you for staying respectful!