Metroid Prime 2 is a pretty good game. The graphics look great for a
last generation title. The music generally fits the game well and there
is a few standout pieces. The gameplay is as good as ever.
So where does it fall? Well, let's just say that it took me 20 hours to
finish this game and they were, easily, the longest 20 hours ever.
You're thrown into a world with barely a soul alive, there is no story
or cutscenes, you have only four environment types to explore which
equals to a LOT of repetition. I know repetition and backtracking is
Metroid's forte, but this is just ridiculous. After 20 hours of seeing
the same things over and over again anyone would get tired of it.
Some areas are really tedious, and some are just plain mean. As in,
you're trotting along like a good trooper, you haven't saved in at
least 30 minutes, and then out of the blue you fall into some machine
from hell that shoots lightning at your from ground level and has
freaking mechanical arms coming in and out trying to get you. The first
time you fall into that you're pretty much sure to die because you have
no clue of what's happening. In MP2, the saves are usually pretty far
from one another and you need to make a detour to save, so when sucky
stuff like that happens it's just a bummer.
So yeah, repetitive, sometimes mean, and often a friggin pain in the
derriere. But hey, the game is still truly great and a whole lot of fun
to play, but it could have been better.
