Metroid Hunters delivers another great action adventure that you had on the Gamecube on Metroid Prime. In hunters unlike the other prime titles you will be able to travel to different planets and go seeking out for these crystals looking Octoliths. However you are not alone in this search for Octoliths. A total of 6 hunters are also looking for the Octolith. So you will eventually end up seeing them through random areas of the planet. And end up having a sort of mini-boss battle with them. If you lose the battle against any of them you will lose and Octolith and you will have to eventually go and search for him to battle him once again and get your Octolith back. These hunters mostly attack you when you are in times like almost reaching a boss or when the time limit is running. Now that is one of the minor problems of this game, after you go all the way through the planet and fight the final boss you will have to do backtracking to return your ship before the time limit. While is a way to add challenge, it still feels unnecessary.
The overall adventure is still pretty much the same thing you did on the Gamecube title by entering different areas, looking for information with your scan visor or open door locks with it, solving simple but fun puzzles on first person or in morph ball. The real bosses that are not the hunters have some interesting designs that is something the Metroid Prime series always been good at. Yet they are not too hard too fight since you basically just need to find their week point. They still have many different ways too attack and can try challenging you. One of them is like a big stone that starts spinning and shoots fire while it spins. It will remind many people of one of the bosses on the first Metroid Prime that if you remember well. They have done a nice job on making bosses on hunters. However the new important aspect of the game is the new controls style. This game offers you to decide to use the stylus mode that is with the touch screen or the dual mode that is with the buttons. With the touch screen you can move your view very easy and move it anywhere you want.
The graphics on the game are quite a big surprise because of how well they implement the game's look on the Gamecube and the 3-D style. Surely is not has perfect has the Gamecube one but is still surprising to see on a handheld. Samus and the other hunters have enough details only thing they are not exactly sharp but for a DS game is surprisingly good looking. Still one aspect I really love from the game cube titles is the ambience that I feel like I am inside the game because of the realistic sounds and graphics, however in Metroid Hunters there is a lack of that that even tough I understand that is not completely possible for DS graphics is still something that is very fundamental in the Prime series. Still the overall presentation is fairly nice.
The Audio on the game is still very similar to previous titles in terms of the soundtrack, however the only thing it misses is some really good ambient sounds when going through the singleplayer campaign mode. The sound effects are top notch with no exaggerated sounds or ridiculous ones. Metroid has never had voices before and this game is no exception. Yet you can still hear the voice of some aliens talking that are impossible to understand. This kind of category is not that quite special when talking about a game like Metroid Hunters that is just a handheld title.
The real reason that Metroid Hunters was moved is because they were adding multiplayer wi-fi gameplay into the mix. This got everyone excited because it is the first and only Metroid game for now that is online. In the online player you are able to use any of the hunters you encountered throughout the singleplayer. The good news about this is that each hunter has a different style of weapon and attacks to do making the battles more varied and interesting seeing what other online opponents can do with other hunters. However the problem with Metroid Hunters online is that it feels bland when finding unknown players. Because you simply just search for opponents and start battling, you don't get to know a little bit of your opponents and they are no rooms like we had on Mario Kart DS. Sure they were only a few but something is something. With Friends you can get to know a lot of stats about your friends and when you battle an unknown player you can ask him to be your rival so you can see his stats and battle him some other time.
The online multiplayer offers different styles of play including hunt, survival, Prime hunter, Octolith search and others. Plus there is a ton of multiplayer arenas to play around. The problems with online play is that there is always someone who always uses a cheap trick to kill you instead of being varied the way he kills you and the 2nd thing is that sometimes it doesn't feel like if you were really playing online it felt like if you were battling bots in which you actually can in the game. They could have expanded a few things here and there to make it more interesting. Is still fun and Nintendo is just starting online play so let's not judge them on online play that serious yet.
Metroid Prime Hunters delivers the first person shooting on the DS and porting all of his great concepts. Yet the game fails to deliver to be high quality like other Metroid titles. Is still a fun play that most Metroid fans would enjoy, but if you don't like metroid then I really don't suggest buying it. The rest who want to start going into Metroid with this game I would suggest to rent it first or pick up first Metroid Prime on the Gamecube that is bigger and better.
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