Here’s A Metroid Prime Trilogy Dev’s Take On Why Metroid Prime 4′s Bike Sections Sucked

Metroid Prime 4 is an incredible game when it’s focused on Samus exploring themed biomes, solving puzzles, and shooting the shit out of alien enemies. It’s a far worse game when she’s stuck on a bike popping wheelies over sand dunes. In our review , Zack Zwiezen called the desert, known as Sol Valley in the game, “the most baffling part of Prime 4 ,” annoyed that the desolate area seemed disconnected both mechanically and narratively from the much cooler parts of the game.