Metroid Prime 4 - Mission Complete...

Complete? "Mission complete"? NO! Mission not complete! The hell was that ending?! Send me back, dammit!

Anyway, now that I've unlocked everything in the gallery, thoughts on the game. I have some mixed feelings admittedly, but first, the good:

• Everything that isn't Sol Valley. When you're in first person, it just feels like Metroid Prime, and I say this having played Prime Remastered, so it's not just my memory stewing in 15 years of nostalgia. The environments, the music, the controls, all of it is on point.
• On the subject of controls, special mention to the fact that pointer controls now have a dedicated recenter command. It's such a minor thing to implement, but the QoL improvement is phenomenal. Seriously, my right joycon has major drift, which made pointer controls absolutely unplayable in Prime Remastered. So being able to reset the pointer at will is a godsend. Sure, I could have used twin stick controls instead like a heathen, but why would I do that?
• The GalFed characters. I wasn't expecting to, but I actually liked their inclusion. Yeah, having other people ruins the whole isolation thing, but Prime 3 already put a hole in that anyway. On normal difficulty, they were actually useful in fights, able to dispatch enemies while I drew aggro. The beefier enemies in hard difficulty made that less viable, but I usually still didn't need to babysit them too much.

But now, the bad:

• Sol Valley. Look, I like open world games, okay? I like BotW, which was an excellent open world adventure (as a Zelda game though, it was garbage), I liked the Mad Max game, I've played most of the mainline AssCreed games through Syndicate. So the fact that they stuck a huge open world hub into the game is not the issue. But the key to a good open world is that it's full of stuff. Items to find, activities to do, people to interact with (whether friendly NPCs or not). Sol Valley... doesn't. It's almost entirely sand dunes and green crystals, which is just boring. And since you have to crisscross the region multiple times over the course of the game, you'll get slapped with that bland sameness over and over, especially since there's no fast travel.

All in all, if I were being completely objective I'd put this at maybe 60/100, but on account of being Metroid I bump that up to 75/100.