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Metroid Prime Remastered Review With Ex Retro Studios Developer(Jack Mathews)
Episode 149
I review Metroid Prime Remastered with the former Lead Technical Engineer on the Original game Jack Mathews. #metroidprimeremastered #metroidprime #gamereview NOTE: Jack had some audio issues for the first minute, which disappeared after that.TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Intro01:14 - Metroid Prime Remastered Is How You Remember It03:01 - Updates To The Audio/Gameplay Holding Up04:15 - UI Fixes05:12 - Trilogy Code Being Used For Remaster05:52 - Mirror Reflection Removal/Physically Based Rendering12:45 - Updated Artwork/Lights On The Orpheon15:38 - Animation Rig For Metroid Prime Form 1 Boss17:14 - Metroid Prime Hasn’t Been Replicated/Games Copying Metroid Primes Visors19:00 - Jack & Kiwi Joke About Pitching An FPS With The Morph Ball Mechanic20:00 - Space Pirate Morph Ball Lore/Morph Ball Makes No Sense Logically21:20 - Original Team Being Puzzled Trying To Animate The Morph Ball23:10 - Complexity Of Making The Morph Ball25:00 - Why The Original Team SHOULD Be Credited31:15 - Why The Thermal Visor In MPR Is Worse Than The Original Game37:54 - Why Your Beams Don’t Light Up Rooms In MPR44:20 - It Would’ve Been A Herculean Effort To Make The Game Run At 60FPS47:00 - MPR Was Retro Proving They Have Still Got It/Setting The Stage For Metroid Prime 451:00 - Jack Falling For The Gravity Suit Trap54:04 - Ramping Of Difficulty In The Phazon Mines Gauntlet57:50 - Jack Wanted Checkpoints59:30 - What Constitutes An HD Port, Remaster And Remake.1:04:35 - Controller Options & Issues For MPR1:09:33 - Hot Light Sticks In Phendrana Drifts1:10:10 - Particle Effects Upgrades/Magmoor Caverns Looks Amazing Now1:11:45 - Metroid Prime Biomes1:14:45 - Patches Jack Wants Added To The Game1:18:38 - Samus Character Model In The End Cutscene1:22:35 - Why Samus’ Character Model Changed In Subsequent Games1:23:40 - Jack Is Proud Of Everyone That Worked On The Game1:25:00 - The Weirdness Of Not Marketing MPR/Repeat Of History Of Retro Being Underdogs Again 1:27:57 - We Are In A Renaissance Of Metroid Series1:28:50 - Dread Vs Prime Remastered/Older 2D Metroids Have Aged1:32:30 - Jack Plugs His Wifes New Cook Book
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