Video: Digital Foundry’s Technical Evaluation Of Metroid Prime Remastered

Are you continue to recovering from Metroid Prime Remastered’s shock announcement and launch? Nicely, how about some extra detailed evaluation on Retro Studios and Iron Galaxy’s stellar rerelease from the workforce over at Digital Foundry?

Evaluating the brand new Swap launch to each the GameCube and Wii titles, Digital Foundry has given the sport a fairly glowing overview, whereas additionally declaring a couple of minor quibbles. And we actually do imply minor. The sport runs at a constant 60fps based on Digital Foundry’s assessments in each handheld and docked, regardless of how chaotic the display screen will get, whereas decision is at 900p on the massive display screen and 600p on a Swap display screen. But it surely appears gorgeous on an OLED, all due to the sport’s improved lighting.

Lots of focus is given to the lighting within the video, and understandably. New gentle sources have been added, and a number of pure options have been given luminescent properties to actually improve every of Tallon IV’s environments. Digital Foundry believes that the sport’s model new lighting all through is defines this remaster, and we’ve got to agree. if there’s one tiny disappointment, it is that the beam lighting is so much much less noticeable, and you may solely actually spot the sunshine emitted out of your photographs in sure corridors.

The unique sport is certainly one of many GameCube’s best-looking titles, but it surely’s really wonderful how good the Swap remaster appears. The brand new fashions for the Remastered have had the textures remade and tons of particulars have been added. Plus, each object is just about the place you keep in mind it being, proper right down to the pixel. The one motive you may actually inform it is a remaster is due to the animations — plus, lots of the cutscenes are primarily one-to-one recreations.

The visor motion from the unique launch is in-tact, however weapon bobbing has been lower down pretty considerably. Digital Foundry speculates that that is to accommodate the free-camera motion now accessible due to the dual-stick controls. The unique digicam tilting remains to be in-game too, although, in case you change management settings to a extra GameCube-like model.

Ending the video by saying that Metroid Prime Remastered is “one of many best-looking Swap titles I’ve seen”, and taking a look at Retro Studios’ previous (and future — sure, Metroid Prime 4 is talked about), the builders have set the usual for remasters on the Swap with this launch.