As of writing this I'm a few hours in and so far I'm loving it, although I still feel like I'm an extended tutorial of sorts, which isn't helped by Myles telling me how to play the game like a Sony game companion. Speaking of Myles, he hasn't ruined the game so far per se, but the atmosphere has kind of fell off a cliff since he joined me, it feels like the strong art direction and honestly beautiful visuals (I will try to take some nice screenshots) are the main reasons the game still has any sort of Metroid feel to it right now.
Regrettably my TV can't handle 120 fps mode for some reason, but I'll settle for a slightly nicer looking game at 60fps I guess, control wise I can't seem to find a way to have turning and moving on the left stick alone so I'm using the 'pointer' mode and it's more than decent when you manage to centre the pointer, no mouse mode yet until I find a better way than putting the joycon on my desk and turning my body 90 degrees to the side to see. So while it's sad I don't get to feel smooth 120fps still but I've done a boss fight and some minor combat parts and the game is smooth as butter.
Not got the bike yet and hearing the desert is a Hyrule Field hub sounds really unecessary, so that sounds like the first part of the game I might end up finding really questionable. Because so far this is really nice. Also I'm really digging Psychic Samus ((( 
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I physically recoiled at that photo.
This is my Christmas Day game, so I'm sure I'll leave my thoughts in a few weeks…
So far the Desert is fucking awful and I can't believe it's in the game…but then you drive to an actual biome and it gets pretty good again. Myles is still periodically talking over my comms, I don't think he's an awful character but he has no place in a Metroid game IMO, worse still I got the Fire shot upgrade and I had to come back to him, driving across a desert expanse, to get him to install it. Am I going to have to do that for the other upgrades?
This should be screaming GOTY right now, instead it's a mixed bag. I haven't played Prime 3 and I know it'd got a mixed recption but I can't imagine it's worse than this.
Doing the Fire Dungeon right now and most of it so far has me fighting alongside an NPC soldier (who I need to revive if he gets downed). I fully expect him to set up base somewhere and let me do my own thing but man, the Halo comparisons are starting to make sense.
EDIT - Can't wait for the people who hated Myles to realize he's nowhere near as close to obnoxious as the squealing Samus fangirl
I have more negative things to say but I will say this, the boss fights are fantastic. Although Sylux makes me want to run through Metroid Prime Hunters and I assume Corruption after this because whilst his fights are fun and remind me a lot of Dark Samus I have no fucking clue why he's trying to kill me…
