Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is one of those games that been a long time coming. Fans have been waiting almost a decade for the next entry in Samus’ first-person adventures. Early previews painted an alarming picture of overly chatty sidekicks ruining what’s traditionally a lonely and moody experience. Meanwhile formal reviews run a gamut of opinions, leaving the game in the interesting if tiresome discourse-inducing “7 / 10” range – not perfect, not awful, but possessed of a certain something that makes it uniquely more interesting than many higher scoring games.
So what exactly is that something? Does Metroid Prime 4 even have it and if it doe …