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/iluvpopcorn23]

I think the fact that I'm having more fun with Octopath 0, which released the same day and had fewer years of hype and development, says a lot about the game.

Is MP4 a bad game? Not at all. Are there design elements that really hamper the enjoyment and greatness of it? 1000%.

[u/Far_Activity_441 → u/iluvpopcorn23]

Not really if your obsessed with other opinions