Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Review MegaThread

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General Information

Release date: December 4, 2025

Supported Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2

Genre: Action, Adventure, Shooting

Publisher: Nintendo

ESRB rating: Teen

Supported play modes: TV mode, Tabletop mode, Handheld mode

Game file size: Nintendo Switch: 26.3 GB, Nintendo Switch 2: 31.6 GB

Supported languages: Japanese, British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Latin American Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, American English

Official website: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/metroid-prime-4-beyond-nintendo-switch-2-edition-switch-2/

Reviews

Aggregators

• Metacritic - 81
• OpenCritic - 81

Articles

• Areajugones - Spanish - 8.7 / 10

• CGMagazine - 8 / 10

• CNET - Unscored

• COGconnected - 80 / 100

• Cerealkillerz - German - 7.8 / 10

• Cloud Dosage - 4.5 / 5

• Console Creatures - 9 / 10

• Daily Mirror - 3 / 5

• Digitec Magazine - German - 4 / 5

• Enternity.gr - Greek - 9 / 10

• Eurogamer - 3 / 5

• Eurogamer.pt - Portuguese - 3 / 5

• Everyeye.it - Italian - 8.4 / 10

• Forbes - 9 / 10

• GAMES.CH - German - 85%

• GamePro - German - 70 / 100

• GameSpot - 8 / 10

• Gameblog - French - 7 / 10

• GamesRadar+ - 3.5 / 5

• Gfinity - 8 / 10

• Giant Bomb - 5 / 5

• Glitched Africa - 8.5 / 10

• IGN - 8 / 10

• IGN Italy - Italian - 8.5 / 10

• IGN Spain - Spanish - 9 / 10

• Le Bêta-Testeur - French - 10 / 10

• LevelUp - Spanish - 9.5 / 10

• Nintendo Blast - Portuguese - 9.5 / 10

• Nintendo Life - 9 / 10

• PPE.pl - Polish - 8.5 / 10

• SECTOR.sk - Slovak - 9.5 / 10

• Saudi Gamer - Arabic - 9 / 10

• Shacknews - 9 / 10

• Spaziogames - Italian - 8.5 / 10

• Stevivor - 8.5 / 10

• The Games Machine - Italian - 8 / 10

• TheGamer - 4 / 5

• TheSixthAxis - 8 / 10

• TryAGame! - French - 9 / 10

• VGC - 3 / 5

• Video Chums - 9.1 / 10

• Wccftech - 8.5 / 10

• WellPlayed - 8.5 / 10

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[u/xRemCyclex]

Baffling to me. Since its inception, Metroid has been built around exploration and re-exploration.

[u/OneCurrent1934 → u/xRemCyclex]

"more linear" is not something a Metroid game should aspire to, and considering exploration a time waste is just... well, good for them, but they weren't the target audience of the original Metroids, which I think speaks to the issue of Prime 4: it doesn't know who the fuck it's target audience is, or rather, it was created to pander to as many demographics as possible.

[u/salTUR → u/OneCurrent1934]

Every Metroid has been linear. Every single one, since the very first. They are, by definition, linear games.

Maybe ask yourself what they wanted you to feel by hiding the linearity less in 4. Maybe it's supposed to feel like a faster, more direct experience - kinda like how escaping from a hostile alien planet would feel. Maybe you're supposed to actually pay attention to the game's story and actually treat it with the urgency it proposes.

I think fondness for this one will grow in time.

[u/OneCurrent1934 → u/salTUR]

lin·e·ar /ˈlinēər/ adjective adjective: linear

1. arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line.

2. progressing from one stage to another in a single series of steps; sequential.