As Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's 'Annoying' Initial Sidekick is Revealed, A Fresh Trailer Confirms Other NPCs Will Join Samus Throughout The Game

Hands-on impressions of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond person deed the internet, bringing stinging disapproval of an aboriginal quality sidekick. And now, a caller trailer published by Nintendo shows Samus volition besides interact with a wider formed of quality characters passim the game.

In IGN's just-published Metroid Prime 4: Beyond hands-on preview, we described Galactic Federation trooper Myles MacKenzie — who Samus gets lumbered with for a lengthy chunk of the game's opening country — arsenic "mildly annoying to downright infuriating" with "cringey" dialog and contstant chattering done gameplay.

Alongside Myles, 3 different quality troopers are highlighted successful Nintendo's caller 7-minute Overview Trailer (which feels arsenic adjacent arsenic we're going to get to a dedicated Direct) seemingly from aboriginal sections successful the game.

Beyond is structured with 4 large areas accessible via its godforsaken hub (a wood country wherever you conscionable Myles, past an electrical powerfulness plant, frozen probe center, and firey volcano area). The proposition is that Samus volition conscionable much of the main quartet successful each.

"Like Samus, immoderate Galactic Federation troopers were besides transported to Viewros," the trailer states. "Follow distress signals to assistance the troopers, and occasionally conflict alongside them. They tin supply utile upgrades. Teamwork is cardinal if immoderate of you anticipation to flight the satellite alive."

A montage past shows the different troopers successful action, chatting distant astir getting backmost to their families, donning a mech suit to smash a partition for Samus, and adjacent prising unfastened a door. Huh — couldn't Samus person conscionable done that with a caller suit upgrade?

Of course, Metroid games person featured different quality characters earlier — adjacent portion Samus is typically a soundless protagonist. But the existent interest here, beyond it interrupting the halfway solitary exploration of astir Metroid adventures, is that the quality characters connected connection successful Beyond are simply excessively distracting, and excessively unlikable.

As we discovered successful our hands-on preview, gameplay with Myles features escort-style sections and moments wherever you request to support the hapless trooper portion helium hides down the rock. Allow him to perish successful a firefight and you're fixed the accidental to revive him utilizing Samus' psychic powers. Fail to bash truthful (or effort and refuse) and you get a Game Over screen.

"Of each the things Metroid Prime 4 could’ve been, I ne'er would’ve guessed it would see outdated escort missions with a companion that ne'er stops talking," we wrote. For overmuch much connected the interaction of playing alongside the game's NPC characters, cheque retired Metroid Prime 4: Beyond hands-on preview now.

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