Metroid Prime 4 Review

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dan has played through the entirety of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (almost to 100% completion!) and decided he wanted to do a proper written review for it! This is the podcast companion to said review where he elaborates on his thoughts and fields questions from Grubb, Mike, Bakalar, and Shawn.

Read Dan's full review here: https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/metroid-prime-4-beyond-review/1900-805/

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0:00.0	Folks, it is me, Dan Reichert.
0:09.3	I have played and beaten Metroid Prime for really marathoning this game over the last three days.
0:17.7	I just finished the game with 98% items.
0:20.8	No idea where those last two were, but I'll go back
0:22.8	a second time. Folks, if you are hearing this, that means the embargo has lifted on
0:26.5	Metroid Prime Core review coverage, which I have written a full review written style. If you've
0:32.5	ever heard of that, that is on our website. That is on giantbom.com. So if you want to hear my
0:37.2	full thoughts out there, not just rambly, you know, podcast style, I would say go to giantbomb.com, read my review. But this is a game that I'm the only one here who has played it outside of demos and preview events and stuff like that. So I want to field questions from the Metroid Curious here on this call. That's right.
0:56.3	I've got Jeff Grubb, Mike Manate,
0:57.9	Jeff Bacler, TurboShan,
0:59.8	all here, all interested in the
1:01.7	Metroid Prime 4. Folks,
1:04.5	hit me with your questions.
1:07.1	Were you able to romance Miles?
1:09.7	No. I have thoughts about Miles. If you want me to go into it, we can do that now. I don't, yeah. And like, you know, I'm like terrified of spoilers still. And I normally am not, but Metroid Prime 4 is just. Yeah. This is good to say up front here for folks. Like I'm not going to like, it's a Metroid Metroid game there's not a ton of story going on here
1:28.3	but I think I can speak to things like the concerns about Miles and the chatty characters
1:33.0	and stuff like that well I think at the very top what would be the most helpful is like
1:38.4	what's the deal man you like this game or what like what five stars five stars so perfect are. So perfect. Perfect. That is not what a five stars means. That's not what a 10 means. No. That's never what a means. A plus. No. I've got a couple of issues with it. Wait, are there more than five stars on the scale? No. Okay. Got it. Five done to say perfect. I guess my question there is that, you know,
2:03.5	Metroid Prime 1 to me is this monolithic game.
2:06.3	And then it has two sequels that are also good to very good.
2:11.8	But few people will say that they are as good as Metroid Prime 1.
2:15.2	When you're saying that this is five out of five, that is actually beyond my expectations
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