You’ll encounter just three types of enemies in the whole of First Hunt – The Zoomers and Tallon Metroids from Metroid Prime, plus a highly weak Metroid-like enemy referred to as a Xenomorph that has more to do with Super Metroid’s Mochtroid than the real thing. You are given just 10 minutes to beat a brief single-player level, facing rooms of enemies that must be cleared before progress can be made to the next one. ![]() Regulator can be considered as the most “traditional” mode. After each mode’s completion, you’re given a score, and achieving a high score on all three modes will unlock a brief teaser trailer for the Metroid Prime Hunters game. Three single-player modes are available, plus local multiplayer, giving just a brief taste of what’s to come. Narratively speaking, this demo is largely unconnected to the main Prime Hunters game itself, acting as a training or diagnostic programme of sorts – Giving Samus’ suit functions a good workout for future missions. Metroid Prime Hunters First Hunt Demo Impressions NST are mainly known for their work on ports and software applications for Nintendo systems but have been known to create the odd original game here and there. Unlike Metroid Prime, First Hunt (and by extension, Metroid Prime Hunters) was developed by the in-house Nintendo Software Technology team, based in North America, although Retro Studios provided supervision and art direction. Metroid Prime Hunters wouldn’t even be released until 2006, but here was a Metroid game, front and centre at the launch of one of the biggest consoles in gaming history (not that anyone could have guessed, at that time). Not even The Legend of Zelda has had one of its games bundled in with a system at launch. Think about that for a minute – The Metroid series was huge enough at the time for Nintendo to see it as enough of a draw to get players hooked on their new system. However, rather than bundle the system with a Mario title, like maybe the port of Super Mario 64 that was available at launch, instead, Nintendo put a cartridge in the box featuring a demo of an upcoming Metroid game – Prime Hunters. To put this all in context, when Nintendo released their brand new Nintendo DS in Western territories at the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005, they decided to bundle it with a cartridge at launch, for the first time since the Super Nintendo’s launch. However, after thinking it over, I do believe it should be covered in this series, even if this won’t be a proper review in the traditional sense. You see Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt is not exactly a game in the fully-formed sense. So, cards on the table – I did a fair amount of thought on whether I should have done this video.
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