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User Rating: 5 | Metroid Prime: Hunters DS
By Splash-Bar | Review Date:
This game came as a huge disappointment to me. I was excited because, wow, it's 3D! As a matter of fact, this game was one of the main motives behind my buying a DS Lite oh so long ago. But, alas, my hopes were in vain. As soon as I started the game up, a chunky, pixelated cutscene greeted me, showing a bunch of Metroid hunters. That was just one of the first clues. Then I started playing. The majority of the textures were excessively pixelated... even from a distance, landscapes looked grainy... and people are HAPPILY saying that this is as good as the $130 DS's graphics are going to get.

The gameplay. Yet another downside. The reticule in the middle of the screen is extremely inaccurate to control with the stylus. It provides wayyy too much leeway, making it so you had to meticulously poke and prod at the screen to aim correctly. And, sometimes, when selecting items, you'll miss and hit another just because of the touch screens inaccuracy, and end up getting killed. Especially in online mode.

The sound is yet another downside. It's extremely dull, and almost depressing. It feels like loneliness, when you're walking across mostly empty, ugly, dreary worlds, and having the music to match it, and only a few silly, primitive AI enemies coming toward you to shoot. The AI is another downside. It feels like you're playing a crappy spinoff for Doom.

There really aren't any upsides to this game but for the Gameboy idolizers who are amazed their "2-screened Gameboy" could produce 3D, and the "intuitiveness" (it's like trying to play Counterstrike with a touchpad, fergodsake!); I could go further into detail, but others already have. All in all, unless you already have a DS and you see this game in the bargain bin, I'd recommend not letting it tempt you.

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