[Comparison] Metroid Prime Remastered - Switch VS Gamecube
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2025
- Link to the remastered version of this comparison: • Metroid Prime Remaster...
I've since went back and remastered this video to correct the aspect ratio as well as clean up the overlay and fix audio issues present with the Gamecube footage here
A quick graphics comparison of Metroid Prime on Gamecube VS Metroid Prime Remastered on Switch. Nintendo decided to suddenly drop this gem on us yesterday right after the Direct. I have to say, I am genuinely impressed with this remaster. We've seen great remasters in the past such as Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. However the team behind Metroid Prime Remastered has went above and beyond any expectations anyone could have had. With many aspects of this version looking like a brand new game or remake entirely as opposed to a remaster.
#metroid #nintendo #retro #remastered #comparison
This comparison is old and I have since went back and "fixed" it up. Corrected the aspect ratio and an assortment of other things. Link to the "remastered" video is in the description.
I Love how the game wasn't so OVERHAULED that the game would turn out to be unrecognizable anymore. MANY games do that. They forget that we just want an UPDATE on a current system. Not a current gen graphics and engine version of that game.
Great comparison. Oddly enough, this is one Nintendo classic title I didn't try on Switch, yet. But my collection grows every month.
have since GONE back
Lol
What's crazy is how it ran on 60fps even on the GameCube. Retro Studios is truly one-of-a-kind.
Gamecube was an insane console. Most games ran on 60fps with amazing graphics. The only problem was the small size of their discs.
Not really games have been running at 60 for decades.nothing special.
@@SENATORPAIN1 not games with this amount of beauty
Which one is more worth it?
Remastered on Switch or Trilogy on Wii U?
Nobody ever shows footage or even makes gameplay about Part 2 Echoes and Part 3 Corruption.
@@gudgurl Remastered is the best port there's been for Prime yet. Can't speak for 2 and 3 though. I'm just hopeful they'll release those on Switch too.
This game truly blurs the line between remake and remaster. It’s crazy that the remade every single model, be it plant, creature or wall and every single texture, gave it a new lighting engine and whatnot.
Yet when you play it. It’s Prime 1 how you know and love it. It’s clear that they have ported the game using the original source code and then upgraded the ever living shit out of it.
I consider it more of a remake and it would've deserved such a title. Metroid Prime got the same love and talented passion treatment as Demon's Souls Remake did with porting the old code but remaking every single asset for modern hardware standards. Imo by far the best looking switch game. Every second I am playing my jaw is dropping by how beautiful and good it looks
@@romulo886 FF7 is a reimagining, which is a type of a remake. In fact, there were so many major changes to it that it is probably hard to even call a remake. MP4 Remaster is more of a straightforward remake. Remaster would indicate that it just improved on the assets that were already available.
@@crysave lol, you can see this is just a remaster, they only changed few textures, the gameplay is identical. Demon Souls, FF7, REs even Spyro have been entirely remade with a new graphic engine. you can't compare this poor job with the stunning-looking remakes we have had recently. This Metroid is closer to Tales of symphonia remaster than a Demon's souls or RE2 remake, in terms of lazy@ss work.
@@grandePaoloDiCanio Sony/PlayStation fanboy alert.
@@grandePaoloDiCanio you must be trolling. This game has seen so much work put into it!
The greatest gamecube game ever made. I'm glad we got a remaster after all these years.
Yes! Agreed sir!
what about the greatest game ever made?
@ry.hillner I keep hearing this but never played it as a kid. I'm hoping and praying we'll get Echoes and Corruption remasters before Prime 4 release.
@@Rico24337 It’s surely is either loved or hated by the community. I personally like it and it takes what made prime good and made it better. However if you are playing on hard, Echoes will torture you until you either give up or are insane enough to complete it
@@theakiwar9118 Prime on hard is already kicking my ass relatively so I can't wait 😂
You kids have to remember, when this came out back then it felt like the greatest game we have ever seen. It was photorealistic to us.
12 year old me remembers
Very true
By far far indeed
Ok boomer
Brain is the best graphic card 😁
This game was ahead of its time. 20 years old and STILL superior level design to many supposedly AAA titles today
AAA titles today are actual ass. pretty much the AAA gaming golden age was 1998-2012. it's over folks, theres maybe 1 genuinely good AAA game a year at the very best these days and thats very generous
@@Aycheffe you're just old and rehashed games are no longer fun for you because you've done it all. happens to all of us old gay-mers.
@@automachinehead might be true, but they are rehashing what we saw happen for the first time, we saw the age of innovation. It's not just that we've seen it all. They could continue to innovate but they rarely do. Half Life Alyx gave me that feeling again, resident evil 7 gave me that feeling again, Elden Ring pretty much gave me that feeling. It still happens but it's very rare now
@@automachinehead It's not because we're moving forward in time buddy, that things improve you know. The year 23 is not necesarily better than the year 22. So it's not because you get old (I'm 35) that you get bitter and refuse to see any progress in certain areas. Is just that nowadays, there isn't any progress and we are moving backward. The videogame industry preffers to sell Fortnite shits than making good new games. Otherwise, how would you explain the plethora of remasters and remakes ?
@@Aycheffe oh i know where you're coming from. playing normie aaa games gave me that feeling too but after 8 hrs in, meh. graphics=good. so much repetition = bad.
I just thinkk this shows how well the original holds up to modern games these days
Alot of og Xbox ps2 and gamecube games would do phenomenally well Givin all consoles can play them well enough. I'd live to see xmen legends 1 and 2 get a remaster
Golden age of gaming this comment gave me a smile
@@Bee_Mavrick bro what happened to games now remember when we used to get a lot of good games back to back on console
@@TheFallenSithMaster Development costs for AAA games skyrocketed and now only a few publishers can afford great made games.
Also, few investors are willing to put in more money into new franchises like they did in the past since its more expensive.
That's what happened.
@@TheFallenSithMaster I'd say PS3/Xbox 360 was the peak as far as graphical and game design and the advancement in those areas every gen since then has been less and less impressive. But MP/ RE4 on gamecube were games ahead of their generation that could have been early next gen games and no one would have batted an eye.
They honestly did a killer job on this! Great comparison to truly show the difference between the two!
apart from squishing the Switch version
@@ZidaneSteiner Squishing? what do you mean?
Which one is more worth it?
Remastered on Switch or Trilogy on Wii U?
Nobody ever shows footage or even makes gameplay about Part 2 Echoes and Part 3 Corruption.
Excellent remaster, but it really just shows how good the original was. Still holds up so well considering it's over 20 years old
Yep i never seen more realistic games for game cube like Prime Star fox adventures now sure with 4k and more graphic framing looks next to real life but dam it got as a 12 year old back then it still kinda does
The original actually looks better in many ways. The fog makes it feel more gloomy and spooky, which is very fitting for this game.
@@justinmadrid8712 yeah removing the fog is a common mistake made by remasters. They want to show off the draw distance capabilities of modern hardware, but it can kinda ruin the look.
GTA Trilogy remaster is a good example (all though there are other things wrong with that release) in GTA SA, they cranked up the draw distance and removed the distant fog, but that just meant you could see the whole map all at once, revealing how small it is by today's standards. Made the world less vast.
I wish they would either leave it alone, or touch up the fog in a tasteful way.
totally agree
@@ungratefulmango shadow of the colossus is another good example. The OG has the best atmosphere
As Great as this Remaster is... The Beam weapon effects are totally missing from the Remaster - In the Original Game all the Beam/Laser weapons each lit the environment as they traveled across the space! - That super immersive feature is Totally missing in the Remaster. You can clearly see that even in this video... But still a great Job!
Can we appreciate how good the OG still looks? Dang!
I think the OG looks better than the remake.
There are just a lot of things that the OG does better, starting with Samus's suit textures. In the OG, the suit looks metallic, whereas in the remake, it looks like a cheap plastic suit. This is Metroid Prime, not Sarges's Heroes: Metroid Edition.
The lighting effects when Samus fires a shot; the charge shot itself; the enemies in Phendrana that drop electricity and light up the room as they do; the small shockwave of light when a shot hits something... they all look better on the Gamecube.
2 nights ago I started playing the OG on an emulator and man does it still look good. I know it would look pretty bad if i hooked my gamecube up to me modern TV that's why I opted to play it on an emulator. My biggest problem and it's not just this game it's all games is that I'm terrible at them. Last night I got to Thardus and he's killed me 3 times I just have the hardest time getting out of his way.... arg
They gave this beautiful game an upgrade while keeping it true to its original style. Love it!
If they do this for Prime 2, I will be beyond hyped !!!
Could you imagine the Sanctuary Fortress in HD?
Not to mention Prime 3 :')
@@chrisbg99 it would look incredible. Also Torvus Bog, I love that level.
Imagine Sanctuary Fortress and Skytown full-on remastered. 😍
Just imagine the light suit.
Compared to the other remasters, this one actually truly deserves the remaster title
True
@@paraonengatai5968No it’s a remaster because it’s the original source code, they just upgraded every asset to an insane degree. I wish Nintendo did more remasters like this since they are pretty good about keeping the original source code to games
I hope they do the same with echoes. This looks amazing, can’t tell how much joy these games gave me back when I was like 8-10ish, and seeing the remaster, I can only think on buying it so I can show my son what a good action game looks like.
One of the developers say it's possible for the echoes to come on the switch, but the third game is harder to add due to the motion controls
@@toongame6 well they managed to port legend of Zelda skyward sword to the switch and that had motion controls.
When they finish remastering the prime series, I really hope for a prime 4. Other M, dread and return are all decent to play, but prime was just awe🔥
@@Faded.Visuals Much more complicated motion controls at that, too.
@@toongame6 excuses skyward sword says hi
Retro Studios went above and beyond for this game! I tip my hat to them. They didn't have to do this. In some ways, the GameCube version still looks good, but it pales in comparison to this "remaster". It looks more like a remake. The same kind of overhaul that Crash Bandicoot got for his first 3 games.
I couldn't agree more. It really does blur the line between remake and remaster.
Remaster is when they redo the graphics.
Remake is when they make the game again from the ground up.
Tf do you people mean when you say stuff like this blurs the line? It's literally prime example #1 of what the line even is.
If you don't understand what we mean you should probably just tune out and move on to something you do get.
@@Cri_Jackal well they did say that they in fact remade portions of the game. Therefore it blurs the line simply because it wasn't a full remake, but a partial one.
The left: How it was
The right: how we remember it
100% the truth.
Honestly I played the crap out of the GC original and I played the remaster without realizing how crazy beautiful it is because it just stacks up so damn well to the original but when you compare them side by side, it's mindblowing to see the labor of love and respect that went into this. Echoes needs this same treatment so badly!
The music in this game never ages.
Even when comparing the original to the remaster, the original holds up surprisingly well. To me, that just blows my mind. This game was so good for what was technologically available with the GameCube, or anything during that era. SUPERB!
Its the art direction that holds up
@@thaneros The Gamecube was the most powerful console that Nintendo ever created
@@saricubra2867 Pretty sure Wii, Wii U and Switch are more powerful than the GameCube.
@@thaneros But WAY worse relative to competition.
Graphics just peaked in 2002
This game really is something else. I constantly keep forgetting just how good this game really is.
I never played the original but there’s something beautiful about 2000’s games
Facts.
I like the shading of the og. The shading of the older games being darker was due to the way lighting was used, and it's limitations. A lot of the shading is just done on the textures themselves (or something like that I think).
It's weird because when I first played MPR I was like "not much different from the original".
But then watching this, I realised the difference is night and day. It was simply because the Gamecube version was so incredible and ahead of its time, it still holds up today! This is a serious upgrade!
It's crazy to think the original is 20 years old now and still looks decent
we’ve been so used to getting shitty remasters that when we finally got a true remaster we consider it almost a remake. I was so fucking amazed how well they truly remastered this game. It is so fucking beautiful on the switch.
It's honestly crazy to me how I remember the original looking like the remaster, I guess when the atmosphere is that good your brain naturally ignores the jagged edges and fills in the blanks for you.
SAMEEEE!! I thought I was the only one XD but, no. I didn't play the game but I grew up watching my brother do it.
I’m not a Nintendo fan, I’ve always been a Sony guy but I did buy a GC for MP, ReRemake, Viewtiful Joe, and Killer 7. Those were some of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
It looks better on the switch definitely, but the GameCube is aging VERY WELL.
Gamecube version still looks and sounds absolutely beautiful. It holds up VERY well to this day, other than its one stick control on a two stick controller. The remake is how I saw the game back in during my many runs. I love both versions.
I am currently on the cusp of finishing this game for the first time, and I’m legitimately sad it’s about to be over. Hopefully the replay value will last me for years
I beat it literally in a day. Replaying on hard mode sad the fusion suit isn't in it.
I love this game
They’ll remaster the other 2 games at some point.
@@SaberRexZealot, considering how well this game is doing I’d be surprised if they didn’t
@DGISALWAYS that's lame. They should have added that in the game. Not that it makes a bad game but would have been extra cool. if it happens when fusion drops on gba I'd be more interested in getting the extortion pass.
This game when I was 12 was my go to... I remember not even reading hints on the scattered artifacts and just exploring and exploring for months... No tips and I had no idea what the internet was or if the internet even was there lol. AOL. Have probably beat it 20+ over all these years. It's amazing.
It's so cool because you feel as though you're playing the same game. I always thought Metroid Prime looked as good as the Remaster, until I saw the side by side comparison. Now I'm like "oh, Gamecube graphics were pretty darn good, but I have to admit Switch looks absolutely beautiful 😍
Remaster is pretty damn good, i do notice some details from the og version are missing in tge remastered one. Og version pointed out where a save station was detected and the remaster didn't. Still an awesome game to finally be able to play again.
Still the best looking game on Switch, i'm mad that they didn't do Prime 2 and 3 as well, they really should released a remastered trilogy.
I'm just hoping at this point that it's at least a project they do on the Switch 2.
@@indominus_B knowing nintendo i have very low expectations, they only make Mario games and a Zelda title once every so often, every other IP is so unimportant to them.
GameCube: we want the best graphics of our time! And make sure the audio is booming good!
This is a remake named remaster for modesty. Awesome work on the comparison!
It's just a remaster. You clearly don't know what a remake is
@@johndodo2062 you don't have it do you? 🤣 Otherwise you'd know this game is pretty much a remake lol. Just with the title of remaster. How many other devs are making remasters of 20 year old games that look brand new in almost every way and not just a simple upscale of the resolution?
@@bmac2814 A remake is starting from the ground up while a remaster is just upgrading. And yes there have been a few remaster that was way better looking than the originals. For example Final Fantasy 8 and 9 remaster looks amazing.
@@johndodo2062 It is a point in between.
While regards like the movement and layout remain almost the same, others like the visuals are absolutely overhauled, except for certain animations but I imagine they will polish those later
@@Yannaro_Kim except this is a significantly bigger upgrade than the ff8 and ff9s remasters. Those are more like what people consider a remaster. This does keep a lot of the original elements gameplay wise, but visually much more akin to a remake.
I'm impressed how good it looked on GameCube as well!! Retro Studio is legendary.
when my biggest fear is nintendo not doing this treatment for prime 2, you know they did something right.
you never know we might get the trilogy remastered and that would be a dream come true
This! Is what you call a remaster! Amazing job to the team who revitalize the game.
This has got to be the most amount of effort I’ve ever seen put into a remaster! If you showed me this before it was announced and told me it was a remake I’d probably believe you.
Let's appreciate how awesome Metroid prime for GC looks, this game is over 20 years old!
I still have the old Prime games and still enjoy it to this day. I really am tempted to grab the remastered prime 1 game just for the fun of it all.
I remember when I was a little kid playing prime for the first time, those were good times. This remaster looks so sick, some day I'll have to sit down and play it to relive those old times again.
They literally redesigned the entire Gane, every detail of the Areas can be seen
The eges of the Metal Sheets can be seen on the ship, the cracks in the walls of the Chozo Ruins can be seen, Ice is now transparent and so on
That's one hell of a "remaster"
Today's kids will taste the golden era of games as we did in early 2000's if things like this keep getting remastered.
Kids? They're playing fortnite and cod. Most of the sales came from og fans. Lmao
@@kg888 Ok ageist who doesn't realise a lot more kids hate Fortnite than you think and they are too young for Cod and they might actually like really really good indie games and other stuff took like Mario and Baldurs gate and Metroud Dread as well as the fact that not everyone who buys those games are games kids are smarter than you thiiiink
@@kg888Tbf fortnite isn’t a bad game in its own right…
No matter what Metroid will always be my favorite video game series from Nintendo ever there will never be a debate in my eyes.
I'm happy that people can play these classic games on a new system, but I'm content with playing these games on the original systems for the memories/nostalgia.
While the good that the remaster brought is undeniable and it's likely to be the way I play from now on, I gotta say I still kinda prefer the original's atmosphere in a lot of places. The punched up lighting, while looking amazing, does make some things feel less grounded, which is a lot of what i loved about the original.
The game cube version still looks amazing especially for its time
I was 17 yo old when I bought Metroid Prime in the black! Gamecube bundled with the game. The black GC looked far better than the purple one.
I had the black gamecube as my first. It eventually failed and I got a platinum. I was about 11 or 12 myself at the time. I love that console lol. The remaster of Metroid Prime is incredible.
I will say that it is harder to tell that the planet’s been impacted from space in that first shot in the remaster. You can see the fracture lines from what I assume is the impact point in the Gamecube version.
Man, I have the same feeling with this remaster as I had with both zelda games and dtarfox remasters on the 3DS.
They have done such a good job !
Anyone who thinks the Majora's Mask "rEmAsTeR" is anything but garbage must be a bot, or never played the original.
@@zamonsta Majora's Mask was the first Zelda I have ever 100%-ed without FAQs or walkthroughs back and was my only Zelda I had on the N64. The 3DS version has its own strengths and weaknesses, but I overall enjoyed it. Not the Mona Lisa, but not garbage.
Awesome video man I like the comparison videos you put up keep em coming!
Considering how this was one of the first GameCube games really goes to show how underrated the gc was
I still don't understand why they fuck up the beams light source on the remasters, like why you remove that?
Gamecube was straight up flexing with this game. This is a great comparison video. I like how you show old vs new and then back and forth again. Great job!
Great video. I just got my copy today. Nintendo really hit it out of the park with this one. The lighting alone looks crazy good. I can only imagine what this looks like on the OLED model.
If The Last of Us part 1 is a remake then this Metroid Prime is also considered a remake rather a remaster!
I'm excited for Prime 4, but I wish we could get Prime 2 and 3 remastered like the first game.
Finished the remaster today! Still have the GC copy that my brothers would play 15 years ago. It's crazy to see how well the graphics hold up to today
This just confirms that the Gamecube version was truly amazing for its time!
I remember this coming out back in 2002 and it was really the first game where I was like whoa... graphics just reached a whole new level. It was mind blowing.
gamecube version still looks fantastic. gave me chills watching it.
This remaster + the added gyro aiming option = gaming heaven.
The Motion Control was already added in the Wii version, but yes, gyro is more comfortable than having to point towards the TV
Its.. as beautiful as I remember.. 😭 in the way that I remember the original, this remaster looks goooood!!!
dude the parasites queen looks gnarly now! The updated textures & lighting look so beautiful 👌
I can still feel the rumble of the controller when Sami’s lands on the frigate
Just ran through this classic twice. Once in normal and a 2nd on hard. Man the memories
I still can't believe how efficient this remaster is. It's built for the Switch but it look as good as Doom Eternal. That and frame drops and load times are virtually non existent.
Wow. Props to Nintendo and Retro! I bought it yesterday and haven't had a chance to play it yet but the game looks far better than I imagined it would!
Just got mine this morning! I remember staring at the environment as a kid playing the original. Thanks to your video I can tell I will be doing the same with the Remastered version as well!
Amazing game music and my go to example for how to do boss battles right!
The GameCube had some nice graphics
Wow 😱 The original was great, but the remaster makes it look like THE unfinished version. Can’t wait till they roll out 2 & 3- then 4 😍
Honestly it’s such an unnecessary remaster because I just played Metroid prime one on an emulator and it still got his day holds up to the test of time graphics wise
I never played this game before, but I gotta say the remastered game looks so good. looks so polished, and assuming this game is mainly keeping most of the original games original game style. gonna try and take a crack with this myself sometime.
I think Retro Studios did a test run to see what Metroid Prime 4 would look like by remastering Prime 1
Yeah this is their prototype Engine, MP4's engine going to be way better than this one..
The original is so well done. But the remaster is definitely easier on the eyes.
All these people want a Echoes and Corruption Remaster too but what about a Fusion Remaster using Dread’s engine
The original Metroid Prime was way ahead of It's time. I even remember several game journalists commenting on this back In 2002 with one saying that It felt like some cutting edge game from 7 years Into the future got shot back In time and released on the GameCube, haha.
What’s amazing is my dad got me the game for 7$ between super smash melee and Mario kart double dash, this became my favorite to this day, 18 years later
The original GameCube version still looks great.
The original even for today standards looks so good... Metroid Prime is a quality product. 😗
Blown away at 1) how well they remastered it; 2) how good the original was
I could tell by the style and the looks of it. I'm definitely going to buy a Nintendo switch 2 for 2023 for the legacy Metroid
And gamefreak can't even optimize their 3ds graphic game smh. Shoutout to retro studios they are wizards
Of all tweaks and changes, this might be one of the smallest that bugged me, but I can't be the only one out there that feels this way - does anyone else feel the Power Beam's pulsing light effect along the arm cannon to be way too flashy in the remaster?
In the original it was very subtle, more of a little accent detail and finishing touch to the arm cannon to let you both visually see the beam type selected, and give you the sense that this was a piece of technology that was primed and ready to use. In the remaster, it's like a bloody rave is going on inside the thing. The effect is cranked up to the point where it's almost distracting.
You don’t even have to put a comparison. Its immediately clear how much the visuals have been upgraded . I played the original, and even after all these years I could still remember the blurry, muddy, look of the original. Playing remastered its breath taking. Some parts look so photorealistic too
Me personally i stay with the original version even though its old i feel like it has much mor detail then the remasterd one for example in the original version you could se samus eyes through the visor on the remaster on you just se a green screen
What’s crazy is while playing the game it felt & look exactly how it did when I was a kid! The way it looks now is what the graphics looked like to me then lol but seeing the side by side you see how much they improved it. The only thing that jump out to me like whoa I don’t remember this looking like that was this boss & the ice 🦖 looking things you can tell they was updated
J'adore le travail que tu a fait sur cette vidéo comparatif.
I see they gave Samus that sweet, sweet intergluteal crease. Seriously though, they did a fantastic job overall and I've been loving the game!
with this becoming a reality its only a matter of time before prime 2 and 3 join it
Never played this game but seeing this shows how much effort was put into this remaster.
Yo I’m old, I can’t believe it’s a first person shooter for Metroid, I didn’t think that would ever happen, these fuckers love the arcade style
What's crazy to me is that Technically, if they still made Games for the GameCube, It could still punch way above it's WeightClass (TEAM RED! If you didn't Know is powering the GC)
The GameCube was a worthwhile game console to have, and in the face of whatever PlayStations and X-Boxes were out there, games like "Metroid Prime" made it justifiable to own an NGC.
Truth be told, the original doesn’t even look that bad. It aged really well.
I'm playing it rn and it's amazing definitely worth to spend time playing
I am loving it. I’m also equally surprised at how much I remember and how much I can’t remember lol! I didn’t realise how much improved the graphics were until this video so thanks. Only thing I will say it that the switch version seems to make it harder to see some things… or is it just me? I’ve run around a room several times trying to figure out where to go until i’ve seen a ledge from the right angle…
I remember playing Game cube version, and playing right now the switch one... Damn it looks so good like new generation games, i am enjoying this so much. Waiting prime 2 switch remake
I been playing the remastered version for a while I do like how the visor screen has led lights top and bottom and Samus arm cannon flashing all the time in comparison to the game cube version