Most of the game’s world is covered with an endemic blandness that permeates both the dark and light variants of each area, sapping the player’s motivation to explore or to stop and gaze at the scenery. Outside of the Sanctuary Fortress and the Ing Hive, there are few locations that truly stand out. The game also suffers from drab-level design. The difficulty, however, is the least of Echoes’ major three flaws. However, at other times, it can make the game supremely frustrating.īosses like the Chykka and Spider Ball Guardian are among the most difficult in the series. Sometimes, this difficulty merely sets it apart from other Metroid games. While its difficulty in the Wii collection, Metroid Prime Trilogy, is toned down significantly, the original release remains quite challenging for a Metroid game, requiring that the player consider ammunition and account for the atmosphere’s intense damage. This sense of helplessness is further enhanced by the game’s comparatively high difficulty. It creates in the player a sense of intense dread, a feeling only rivaled by the Wrecked Ship in Super Metroidand encounters with the SA-X in Fusion. In Echoes, Samus feels like she is in perpetual danger as if the worst has yet to come and may lurk just behind the next portal to Dark Aether. Echoing–pun fully intended–the SA-X in Metroid Fusion, the presence of this ominous doppelganger makes the world of Aether all that more oppressive and removes the sense of control and power that players normally feel in Metroid games. Introduced in the 100% completion ending of Metroid Prime, Dark Samus haunts the planet Aether, both Dark and Light, and makes the hunter feel hunted. Much the same could be said for the character of Dark Samus.
Some of the upgrades in Echoes, like the Dark Visor, felt a bit uninspired. Echoes succeeds at crafting a world that feels like its own malicious entity, an antagonist that, though Samus never fights it, still haunts her whenever she steps into its domain. From limited beam ammo, to battles against collections of undead Galactic Federation troopers resurrected by the demon-like Ing, the game’s main antagonists, to the very atmosphere of Dark Aether, which damages Samus whenever she ventures out from beneath the safety of light crystals scattered around, every aspect of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes feels designed to make the player dread journeying into Dark Aether. Much of this success came from developer Retro Studios’ decision to craft Echoes with techniques pulled right out of survival-horror games.
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In doing so, it succeeds in crafting an experience that makes the player feel helpless in spite of their ever-increasing power, something that, outside of Metroid Fusion, the series had never done previously. By defying Metroid tradition and eschewing the verdant overworld and heated magma chambers of Metroid Prime in favor of light and dark versions of Planet Aether, Echoes creates its own identity early within its adventure. Metroid Prime 2: Echoesis nothing like its predecessor. Why Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Remains A Classic!
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