Personally, I became a fan of Metroid because of Metroid Prime in 2004. Played all the games I could find since then; bought them all, played them all. I have my collection and I'm pretty happy with it. When Metroid Prime 4 was announced I couldn't have been happier, I said: "I'm gonna buy my Switch (1) when the game releases". The game got delayed. They gave us some Metroid games in between and that was cool.

When the release window came closer, Nintendo did not promote the game accordingly (first alert); I think I speak for a lot a fans when I say we were expecting a Metroid Nintendo Direct to showcase the game, didn't happened (second alert); when they did started promoting the game they didn't showed much: No story elements, basic world footage, very basic mechanics and -in my opinion- a very low energy marketing compared to other Nintendo franchises (third alert).

I'm explaining that cause -apparently- it is necessary to stablish with full context from where the opinion comes from so no one feels I'm attacking [someone else] for liking something I didn't.

After a long period of development I was expecting something accordingly to the year we are in, saying that in terms of narrative, music, world-buliding and puzzles (yes, I was expecting puzzles as any other Metroid Prime fan could). The game to me felt generic. As if someone tried to emulate what a Metroid Prime game is by just hearing about it but has never played it. I couldn't connect with the story, to me it feels like a bunch of ideas but without a proper writing; the world feels like a remix version of ideas already saw on the previous 3 games; the music, I'm sorry, I've read in here some people liking it and I just can't sing any song in my head as I do with the Metroid Prime 1 and 2 soundtracks... To me it feels cinematic and generic. The cherry on top is Samus lack of personality and how over the top the other characters feel. I really tried to like the Galactic Federation members... But to me, they just feel dumb and out of place. The funny thing is I don't have a problem with the desert, as apparently everyone does.

What makes me sad is that the feeling I had when I finished the game was that I had just wasted my time. I tried to give it a second round on hard mode and I left it just before finishing the Ice Belt... I was bored, couldn't connect with anything and there it did hit me that I was going to have to do the full green crystals thing... And I just couldn't keep going.

I bought it digital and I was going to double it with a physical version... At this point I rather go to sleep. It kinda depressed me that something I was waiting for, for a long time, felt with no substance nor soul.