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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is the second Nintendo GameCube installment in the Metroid series, developed by Retro Studios and released in 2004, and is the follow-up to Metroid Prime.
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Plot
Samus Aran has been sent by the Galactic Federation to the planet Aether in the Dasha region to assist a group of Federation marines that went missing several days ago. Her ship is damaged in a storm on entry, and soon after landing comes across the corpses of the marines she was sent to back up, as well as a biomass that starts to reanimate the corpses. Soon after that, Samus comes across a dark figure resembling herself, which heads into a portal to an unknown destination, which she quickly leaves when she finds herself overpowered and outnumbered.
In the Great Temple, Samus learns from a surviving Luminoth, who were inhabiting Aether, that, long ago, the planet Aether was struck by a meteorite carrying dark energy, which split the entire planet into a "light" half and a "dark" half, and the Ing on Dark Aether waged war with the Luminoth, stealing their planetary energy for Dark Aether. Samus has managed to retrieve the Energy Transfer Module, which allows her to control the planetary energy of Aether, and now must assist the Luminoth by restoring the planetary energy to Aether.
Gameplay
Much of the gameplay of Metroid Prime has been carried over into this game. The game is a first-person adventure set on the planet Aether, in which the player must explore a variety of locations to find upgrades and ultimately restore all of Aether's planetary energy. Samus's HUD displays her current health, her current location (the map can be expanded), and her current beam and visor (which can be switched with the C-stick and D-pad respectively. At a certain point in the game, the player will acquire the Dark Beam and the Light Beam, which are required for puzzles and have limited ammunition.
Throughout the game, the player will need to locate and enter portals leading to Dark Aether, a parallel version of Aether. Dark Aether's atmosphere is toxic, which constantly drains Samus's health, though crystals and balls of energy scattered throughout the planet provide save areas.
As with the previous game, the New Play Control! release of Metroid Prime 2 makes use of the updated pointer controls of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Technical details
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Other releases
| Title | Cover art | Platform | Release date(s) | Notes |
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| New Play Control! Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes | Wii | 2009 | An enhanced port of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for the Wii released exclusively in Japan, using several features from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption such as the pointer control scheme, the credit system, and the ability to take in-game screenshots. This version also reduces the difficulty from the original release.
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| Metroid Prime: Trilogy | Wii | 2009 | The New Play Control! version of the game, released outside of Japan for the rest of the world.
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| Metroid Prime: Trilogy | Wii U | 2015 | A port of Metroid Prime: Trilogy released as a digital download on the Wii U Nintendo eShop.
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Trivia
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is the only Nintendo GameCube game released by Nintendo in the PAL region to be incompatible with 50Hz televisions.
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