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"At last."

At long long long last, the feeling has come back. That fantastic, yearning feeling, just sitting there, looking at the TV, and absent mindedly fiddling with the controller. Then turning the console on yet again, just to look and play the game. Of waiting at school, and wanting to get home to play it. Of playing, not out of some sort of guilt, but actualy because it immersed you so.

The first time I felt it, was playing Super Mario World. Just sitting there, turning the beloved SNES on, just to watch the chirpy hills in the background, bounce up and down on Yoshi, and explore the magical worlds. Then, it was Ocarina Of Time. This was the greatest. It just blew me away, gave me something to live in for weeks on end. It was all I did from afternoon to night, after school.

Now, finaly, at long long last, the feeling has come back. Metroid Prime has brought it back and with a vengeance. All weekend I blasted and explored my way through the fantastic canyons, cliffs, temples and caverns of Tallon IV. Not since the opening of Hyrule Field had I felt so happy at a simple piece of plastic. These are the real times, the places where Nintendo merge storytelling and disbelief with emotion and reality. You know its a game, but its more than that. Its an experiance you only get a few times. Ever.

Ever since OOT, no other game had quite filled that feeling for me. Mario Sunshine came damn close, but it did not quite encapsulate the wonder that OOT did in me. Then on Saturday (after an agonising wait) I got to play Metroid Prime. Oh yes. It was back. I was once again immersed in worlds far away, playing to explore things. The storyline may not (as usual) be the greatset ever, but the game itself is so good, that you don't care.

Thank you Nintendo, and thank you Retro.

:)

I have that feeling at the moment with Super Mario Sunshine, I never played Mario 64 so its kinda new for me. And I think its amazing!

Gonna get Metroid Prime soon though.

I like equipping the Thermal Visor in Magmoor Caverns.

And listening to the load game screen music.

I liked looking up the sky on Tallon Overworld and seeing the raindrops hit my visor.

Stepping out into the drifts was great, so many snow flakes, yet you could still see the whole area clearly. It was crisp snow, like in the real world.

It looks really good in the little cutscene where Meta Ridley flies overhead.

Doesn't happen too much with me. Normaly with the Hover Space Pirates, and their missiles.

MP is weird. It doesn't quite have stand out moments like Hyrule field, but as a whole....it just gels incredibly well.

The best thing about Metroid Prime are the walls.

They aren't straight, there are random bricks lying about and stuff. They rule. They trick you too, you cna looka tone wall and think "hmmmmm could this be something" but then you realise it isn't. Or you try and do soemthing on the wall but it doesn't work.

Walls, oh yes.

It depends if you fight them with weapons that cause explosions.

The face reflection thing is nice at first, but when it happens every five seconds when you're fighting three invisible Pirates, it soon gets annoying.

Yeah. I love those little touches, also when you blow up a creature w=close, slime covers up your viser. Priceless.

You know what else is great about MP?

The way you can see Samus' face reflected in the visor when there's an explosion quite close to you.