{"id":810,"date":"2025-04-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:56:00","slug":"hands-on-metroid-prime-4-beyond-on-switch-2-is-staggering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/hands-on-metroid-prime-4-beyond-on-switch-2-is-staggering\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond On Switch 2 Is Staggering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beyond expectations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4_beyond\">Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a> being cross-gen was inevitable. After a near two-decade wait for a sequel and a handful of delays, including a return from series developer Retro Studios, the game needed to land with a bang. And boy did it when it re-emerged during the June 2024 Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen it twice since, and each time it&#8217;s impressed more and more. Yet the latest time, during the Switch 2 Direct, all the gloves were off despite little gameplay. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Switch 2 Edition<\/a>, 4K, 120fps in performance mode, and smooth 60fps in handheld? And then we got to play it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/previews\/hands-on-metroid-prime-4-beyond-on-switch-2-is-staggering\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond expectations. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond being cross-gen was inevitable. After a near two-decade wait for a sequel and a handful of delays, including a return from series developer Retro Studios, the game needed to land with a bang. And boy did it when it re-emerged during the June 2024 Nintendo Direct. We&#8217;ve seen it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}