Enth's Insight - Nintendo Blog

Controversial title, right? I can imagine there are a fair few people only reading this entry now out of disbelief and yelling "are you insane!?" at their screens, but allow me to explain my thoughts. Much observation over the past number of years has brought me to the conclusion that the Metroid fanbase is split into two main camps of views (with alternative opinions being in a small minority). There are those who think Metroid Prime is one of the best games of all time, that Prime3 is pretty good, and Prime2 is average/poor. And there are those (like myself) who see Prime2 are the best installment, followed by Prime and Prime3 coming last. You'll still find people who like Prime3 the most, but not that many when you look at the big picture.



To understand why Prime2 is better than Prime you have to understand how it is feasible for sequels to be better than originals. Taking graphics out
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As most of you Nintenfags out there will know, the most recent Nintendo Direct presentation was jam packed with surprise announcements, but perhaps none more so than the revelation of the 2003 Gamecube classic The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker getting the HD treatment and being ported to the Wii U this Fall. We were also teased that the game will receive some gameplay tweaks as well, such as interaction with the GamePad controller. But how far will these tweaks take us? Time to speculate!


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The handful of screenshots we were provided with were no less than jaw-dropping. It's actually quite admirable of Nintendo to take the decision to completely upgrade all the graphics, rather than just make the original look "HD", as is the case with all the PS3's HD ports of classic PS2 games. Even if Nintendo had used the quicky-HD method, no doubt the game would still look beautiful, as Wind
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