Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 265: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

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Todays game is Metroid Prime 2. How would you rate the story on a scale from 1-10?

You can still rate previous days games if you missed them, just write <game name><rating>. If you want to change your rating you can just specify that you are changing your rating. Nominations for future days are also welcome, nominate as many games as you like and I will get to all of them. Games need at least four votes to count for the list.

Previous Results:
Planescape: Torment - 9.85 (13 votes)
Clannad - 9.75 (4 votes)
Omori - 9.67 (6 votes)
Outer Wilds - 9.61 (22 votes)
Silent Hill 2 - 9.5 (20 votes)
Higurashi When They Cry - 9.5 (9 votes)
Deus Ex - 9.32 (12 votes)
428: Shibuya Scramble - 9.27 (9 votes)
Nier Automata - 9.25 (31 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 9.2 (20 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - 9.19 (35 votes)
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West - 9.15 (10 votes)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9.1 (14 votes)
The House in Fata Morgana - 9.06 (11 votes)
Yakuza 0 - 9.03 (13 votes)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 9 (8 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 8.95 (31 votes)
Steins;Gate - 8.94 (9 votes)
Mother 3 - 8.91 (15 votes)
Umineko When They Cry - 8.89 (14 votes)
Zero Escape: Virtues Last Reward - 8.88 (21 votes)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.85 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 4: The Room - 8.83 (6 votes)
Suikoden II - 8.8 (11 votes)
Persona 3 - 8.76 (22 votes)
Nier - 8.75 (18 votes)
Grim Fandango - 8.75 (14 votes)
Xenogears - 8.73 (24 votes)
Tales of Berseria - 8.71 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 8.67 (27 votes)
Metal Gear Solid - 8.67 (28 votes)
Pyre - 8.64 (7 votes)
Portal 2 - 8.64 (19 votes)
Bastion - 8.63 (12 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.63 (32 votes)
Dragon Quest V - 8.6 (15 votes)
AI: The Somnium Files - 8.59 (13 votes)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 8.58 (6 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask - 8.57 (28 votes)
Persona 4 - 8.56 (32 votes)
Disco Elysium - 8.56 (17 votes)
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - 8.53 (18 votes)
SOMA - 8.5 (6 votes)
Fate/Stay Night - 8.48 (12 votes)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 8.47 (16 votes)
Undertale - 8.45 (42 votes)
Mass Effect 2 - 8.44 (29 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - 8.43 (12 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice - 8.42 (17 votes)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 8.41 (19 votes)
Chrono Trigger - 8.4 (41 votes)
Shenmue II - 8.38 (4 votes)
Snatcher - 8.33 (6 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.31 (56 votes)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - 8.31 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy VII - 8.29 (38 votes)
South Park: The Stick of Truth - 8.25 (18 votes)
Dead Space - 8.25 (8 votes)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - 8.23 (6 votes)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - 8.21 (19 votes)
Parasite Eve - 8.19 (9 votes)
Dragon Quest XI - 8.19 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy VI - 8.19 (43 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 8.19 (43 votes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 - 8.16 (22 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies - 8.15 (17 votes)
Wolfenstein: The New Order - 8.14 (7 votes)
The Last of Us - 8.13 (35 votes)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses - 8.12 (14 votes)
Conkers Bad Fur Day - 8.11 (9 votes)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - 8.11 (9 votes)
The Wolf Among Us - 8.11 (15 votes)
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 8.06 (18 votes)
Silent Hill - 8.04 (14 votes)
Portal - 8 (26 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - 8 (18 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles - 7.98 (28 votes)
Hades - 7.96 (22 votes)
Tsukihime - 7.94 (7 votes)
Persona 5 - 7.92 (27 votes)
Life is Strange - 7.92 (32 votes)
Spec Ops: The Line - 7.9 (17 votes)
Bloodborne - 7.88 (20 votes)
Kid Icarus: Uprising - 7.86 (13 votes)
Psychonauts - 7.79 (7 votes)
Deadly Premonition - 7.77 (11 votes)
Final Fantasy IX - 7.77 (26 votes)
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - 7.75 (14 votes)
Mario & Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story - 7.75 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 3 - 7.75 (8 votes)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - 7.75 (6 votes)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 7.75 (4 votes)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 7.73 (32 votes)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor - 7.73 (11 votes)
The Sexy Brutale - 7.7 (5 votes)
Bioshock - 7.65 (24 votes)
Skies of Arcadia - 7.63 (15 votes)
Paper Mario: The Origami King - 7.63 (6 votes)
Doki Doki Literature Club - 7.61 (28 votes)
Celeste - 7.56 (26 votes)
Half-Life 2 - 7.55 (10 votes)
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 7.51 (31 votes)
The Last Story - 7.47 (6 votes)
Mortal Kombat (2011) - 7.46 (13 votes)
Marvels Spider-Man - 7.43 (16 votes)
Tales of Symphonia - 7.42 (30 votes)
Dragon Age: Origins - 7.4 (10 votes)
Phantasy Star IV - 7.37 (6 votes)
Earthbound - 7.37 (20 votes)
Ghost of Tsushima - 7.36 (7 votes)
Mass Effect - 7.33 (29 votes)
Batman: Arkham Asylum - 7.33 (23 votes)
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma - 7.27 (20 votes)
Tales of the Abyss - 7.25 (29 votes)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - 7.25 (12 votes)
Red Dead Redemption - 7.23 (11 votes)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 7.21 (30 votes)
Devil May Cry 3: Dantes Awakening - 7.21 (12 votes)
Resident Evil 4 - 7.19 (25 votes)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 7.17 (25 votes)
Mass Effect 3 - 7.16 (21 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 7.11 (23 votes)
The Stanley Parable - 7.11 (14 votes)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 7.1 (30 votes)
Broken Age - 7.1 (5 votes)
The Last of Us Part II - 7.09 (16 votes)
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal - 7.08 (6 votes)
To the Moon - 7.07 (7 votes)
INSIDE - 7.06 (16 votes)
Warcraft III (overall) - 7.06 (8 votes)
Assassins Creed II - 7.04 (13 votes)
Final Fantasy VIII - 7.01 (31 votes)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - 7 (6 votes)

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Nominate Elite Beat Agents

8.5/10

Best Metroid story.

5.5

2.5

I don't really remember it.

Kinda didn't like the zelda-esque Dark vs Light theme in a sci fi setting either.

5

6

Would be interested in hearing explanations for the high ratings. Good world building for Aether, but I feel like Prime 1 tells a more interesting story through its scans (especially the Chozo Lore) than anything here. The Luminoth were cool though.

3.5/10

Like a notch above Metroid: Other M's story but, that's it.

4/10

I don't really remember this game having much of a story, even compared to other Metroid games. It was fun to watch the space pirate logs go from "oh shit, Samus is here" to "oh shit, TWO Samuses are here" though

8/10.

Okay, Ill give context to the high ratings. I think the story in this game slaps, you just need to look for it.

First off, the initial act of this game has some of the best storytelling of its entire generation. The stories of the doomed federation expedition are not only genuinely chilling, but like SOMA after it you get a real sense of who everybody was and exactly what happened to them. I think you can identify every body in that game which is incredible. The level of detail they put into the world is really impressive and far greater than Prime 1. And the logs themselves are great, capturing the mix of military sci-fi and horror that Aliens does so well.

After that you get a great look at the world and what Luminoth society was, and its far more thoughtful than the Chozo in Prime 1, especially in how it ties in to your equipment. For instance, the sound visor is revealed to have been a tool for blind Luminoth during the war. They do a lot more storytelling around why you are finding all this equipment and it helps to give a much more natural feeling world.

Then you have the Pirate logs and the slow build of Dark Samus and that stuff is less intricate but quite entertaining. The late game stuff is whatever, but everything up to and including Sanctuary Fortress is terrific.

So as a counter Id like to know why the low ratings!

Lightning Strikes posted...

8/10.

Okay, Ill give context to the high ratings. I think the story in this game slaps, you just need to look for it.

First off, the initial act of this game has some of the best storytelling of its entire generation. The stories of the doomed federation expedition are not only genuinely chilling, but like SOMA after it you get a real sense of who everybody was and exactly what happened to them. I think you can identify every body in that game which is incredible. The level of detail they put into the world is really impressive and far greater than Prime 1. And the logs themselves are great, capturing the mix of military sci-fi and horror that Aliens does so well.

After that you get a great look at the world and what Luminoth society was, and its far more thoughtful than the Chozo in Prime 1, especially in how it ties in to your equipment. For instance, the sound visor is revealed to have been a tool for blind Luminoth during the war. They do a lot more storytelling around why you are finding all this equipment and it helps to give a much more natural feeling world.

Then you have the Pirate logs and the slow build of Dark Samus and that stuff is less intricate but quite entertaining. The late game stuff is whatever, but everything up to and including Sanctuary Fortress is terrific.

So as a counter Id like to know why the low ratings!

Nailed it. Prime 2 has a fantastic setup, intricate lore and worldbuilding, a creepy light/dark parallel world concept, and a relentlessly terrifying antagonist. I also loved being caught up in a war between the Luminoth and the Ing (light/dark alien races) while trying to survive series' overarching war between Samus and Dark Samus.

Prime 1 is a great game. Prime 2 is a great experience. The story elevates it.

StartTheMachine posted...

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Would be interested in hearing explanations for the high ratings. Good world building for Aether, but I feel like Prime 1 tells a more interesting story through its scans (especially the Chozo Lore) than anything here. The Luminoth were cool though.

I'm revoking my rating and only quoting this message to give Lightning Strikes some context. It's been like 9 years since I last played Prime 2 and I don't think I remember the story well enough to rate fairly after reading that.

You're not going to convince me the Luminoth logs are better than Prime 1's Chozo logs though! They wrote some fuckin' poetry for Prime 1.

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