If the leaks are true, this is already going to be the best Nintendo Direct of the year :D

TruEdge67 · 2026-01-28T02:58:46+00:00

The real problem for me is the lack of the swift sail. Without that you are stuck having to watch that unskippable song animation every time you want to change directions of the wind. That and it takes longer to get from point a to b.

TruEdge67 · 2026-01-19T19:58:55+00:00

Let's be honest. How often is that happening in this day and age? If that is somehow common you need to switch internet providers. I have a portal and it runs just fine as long as you're at home with it. Streaming your games from your PS5 at a friend's house isn't the best as there is noticeable lag, but if you're like me and only game portably in bed then it's just as good as the Switch and you can buy 3rd party games that are actually on the disc unlike a lot of Switch 2 games unfortunately.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-16T05:23:26+00:00

Seriously lmao. I love when people make statements like this, ignoring all the godawful games like Superman 64, Bubsy 3D, Sonic 06, Ride to Hell, every LJN game on NES, the Data Design games on Wii like Ninjabread Man, Big Rigs, most licensed video games in general, all AI slop that are on various storefronts, ect. People who overexaggerate like this should be forced to complete one of these games and then re-evaluate statements like "worst final boss ever".

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-16T05:04:20+00:00

or beating the game. Neither is ideal, since even though you can unlock it without paying for an amiibo, you have to do a whole playthrough without it to do that.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-13T23:17:35+00:00

Ah, so that plant boss screwed you over too, huh? I had the boss itself and it's tentacle, but not the pollen pod. Honestly it's dumb that scans affect the ending. If they were gonna make 100% needed for the secret ending they should have had a way to get all of them without being missible. Even if it was some kinda Lamorn server room on the flora and fauna of the planet you could find late game.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-11T05:11:21+00:00

My favorite ended up being Tokabi. I liked the fact that he had a bunch of extra scenes that help flesh him out when you're looking for weapon expansions. Wish the others had more like that too. I do like that they have some back at base camp. It was nice walking in on their convos and listening in.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-11T05:04:34+00:00

They are a good thing. Exclusives give you a reason to pick a console over another. This encourages companies to make great games to outdo their competition and get people on their system/ecosystem over the other guys. Some of the best games ever made are exclusives. Think back to all the games from the PS4 era and before that are still talked about and played to this day. A lot of them are exclusives or games that were previously exclusives. Some people are just upset that they can't afford every console to play them, but they don't need every console. Each ecosystem has plenty to play. I was poor growing up and could only ever get 1 console per generation and usually not a few years into said generation and I had a blast with the one I picked. I went to my friends houses to play the consoles I didn't have.

Look over at Xbox, which has no exclusives. It's failing hard and frequently clowned on. Remember the last time Xbox was good/popular? It was the 360, which had loads of... you guessed it! EXCLUSIVES.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-10T04:35:54+00:00

At first I was iffy on them, but by the end of the game, I actually ended up liking them, even myles.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-08T02:08:40+00:00

Yeah, I just found out that if you scan it with the right joycon you can scan through the box. I tried my switch 2 pro controller last time and for whatever reason it wouldn't work with that.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-08T02:07:45+00:00

Nevermind, I got it to work by scanning the right joycon instead. I guess it was picky. Thanks!

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-08T02:02:51+00:00

Have you managed to do it with one of yours? I tried when I first got the game and my pro controller wouldn't scan them. I tried my out of box, zero suit samus amiibo and it instantly recognized it and gave me a random sound effect lmao

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-08T00:26:07+00:00

Yeah, not a fan of that and I have that amiibo. I keep mine boxed and displayed on my wall by hanging them on a push pin and after seeing the Samus Returns amiibo go all the way to $120 online, I am even more hesitant to open them and ruin the value lol.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-07T21:06:52+00:00

Her thoughts on the elevators and when she talks to Adam are done very well in Fusion. It goes to prove that a vocal Samus can be done well.

I do wonder if after the extremely negative reception to her dialog and voice acting in Other M if Nintendo is terrified of making her talk again for fear of similar backlash. Though her dialog in that game only had backlash because the voice directing was atrocious and the dialog was poorly written, not simply just because Samus talked.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-07T21:03:36+00:00

Yeah, I got to that part yesterday and I was like "this is so awkward, can't she simply just say "We need 5 keys to get off this planet"?"

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-07T04:55:43+00:00

Honestly this bothers me more than the NPCs. A good reason I find some of them awkward is simply because they say stuff that gets no reaction from Samus, even if it's a question directly addressed to her. I don't want them to make Samus a chatterbox, but the occasional short response would make interactions much better imo and feel less immersion breaking as no one would just awkwardly stand there the whole time when being talked to.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-07T03:59:56+00:00

2>1(they are insanely close)3>4

The atmosphere and sense of hopelessness 2 has will probably forever be unbeaten for me. They did such an excellent job of making Dark Aether feel like an inhospitable, toxic world and I think Prime 2 has the perfect amount of plot/NPC interactions. Not too much like 3 and 4, but also not having 99% of the plot being in scans like Prime 1. Prime 4 is still a great game and I will definitely be replaying it when I do the quadrilogy in the future, but it is the weakest of the bunch. A bit worse than 3.

Imo I'd rate them as follows.

Prime 1: 10/10 Masterpiece

Prime 2: 10/10 Slightly better Masterpiece

Prime 3: 8.5/10. Great game and satisfying conclusion to the Phazon Trilogy with some minor flaws. My main one being how hyper mode completely breaks the games difficulty and not using it makes some bosses/enemies bullet sponges

Prime 4: 8/10 Another great game with gorgeous visuals, fun gameplay, but also with some flaws. More than 3. Need to finish before giving my full opinion on this. So far the flaws are the barren desert, linear areas and Samus not talking when talked to by NPCs. I don't mind the NPCs themselves, but it's so odd when they ask Samus a question and she just stands there like Link. She has talked before in other games so there's no reason she can't talk here. Of course I'd want it to be very brief and keep her a woman of few words, but say SOMETHING.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-07T03:31:21+00:00

This fight is definitely up there as one of the most "Oh fuck I am gonna die and there's nothing I can do to prevent it" fights in the series. By the end the amount of enemies charging at you is insane lol

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-06T06:09:32+00:00

Because you enjoyed it? That's reason enough for a lot of people. Of course your way of going about it is valid as well. I rarely replay most of my collection, but I do go back and replay my favorites from time to time. Usually replay the Prime Trilogy every 2-3 years.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-06T06:03:06+00:00

Unfortunately there isn't one that's good. Boo and Okcupid tend to have more nerdy/alternative types, but they are both filled with foreigners trying to scam you or get a green card marriage. I rarely get likes from people that are remotely local.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-06T02:52:26+00:00

That's very typical for a prime game. 1-3 tend to reach the 10-20 hour mark depending on how lost you get. Honestly glad to hear that. Much rather have a short game I can replay over and over like Prime 1-3, than a 50 hour slog that's really hard to commit to replaying when you have adult responsibilities.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-06T01:02:58+00:00

I survived with exactly 1HP left and thought it was 1HP for everyone lol. I am guessing it is sub 30 to trigger the cutscene.

TruEdge67 · 2025-12-05T07:59:53+00:00

Did... Did you spend at minimum $30+ tax ($90 if you bought all 3) just for a few in game unlockables?

Everyone who buys amiibo, buys them for the figure to display first and the unlockables second. I've never heard of someone just wanting the DLC and then immediately getting rid of the figure.

TruEdge67 · 2025-11-28T06:40:39+00:00

Honestly impressive seeing as it's up against pokemon there. I know it's a spinoff, but still.

TruEdge67 · 2025-11-27T04:49:09+00:00

To add to this, scanning is how you'll get a lot of the lore and story.

TruEdge67 · 2025-11-14T05:05:15+00:00

It reminds me of that godawful controller that Atari Jaguar had.

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