A 2.5D platformer with triple-A production values, the collaboration between Nintendo and Mercury Steam produces a stone-cold classic that's a credit to the Switch library that brings back everything great about the Metroid franchise and pushes the series in new directions.
- boot up is fast
- loading into the game is fast and few loading scenes are quick
- cutscenes are all real time
- 900p in docked, 720p handheld
- no AA
- the game plays with camera in ways that can only be done in 3D and HD
- movement is great
- lots of animation blending
- fluid simulation looks greats
- environment-based film grain
- particles update at 30Hz
- framerate and frame time is 99% stable
- stutter does happen, possibly due to streaming
- cutscenes are in 30fps
- 5.1 surround sound supported
- John thinks it's the best audio design of 2021
- lots of Another World allusions
- the best Mercury Steam game yet
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