Metroid Prime fans have been waiting 18 years for Beyond but it doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Sure, blasting aliens and exploring sci-fi ruins is as thrilling as ever – but zipping about the deserted world of Viewros on your new motorbike is nowhere near as fun as it should be. A lot of the puzzles are similarly underdeveloped. There are flickers of greatness during this perilous mission of survival but more often than not, it all feels a bit pedestrian. It’s not really what anybody wanted from swaggering intergalactic hero Samus Aran’s grand return.
