I had a hard time with this one. after 10 hours of playtime I finally came to the conclusion my time with Metroid Prime felt more like a chore than something to look forward to. I don't need to spend my free time to arbitrarily complete this game and this game doesn't deserve that either. Because I can kind of understand why people would praise Metroid Prime. But the gameplay loop didn't do anything for me. It's hard to say if this was a personal headspace thing, because I've loved some of the metroidvanias I've played in the past. But the backtracking/exploration rarely felt adequately rewarding to me and the combat didn't supplement this frustration in anyway like hollow knight or the first dark souls game did. I'll likely come back to this at some point. It's a game worth re-evaluating. But I definitely need some time away from it.