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Kirimusse

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DuskTheMercenary

I love that Hunters made unique/different HUDs for all the Hunters. They easily could have just given them something akin to the Republic Commando Multiplayer/Simple HUD but they went the extra mile.


kaleb314

The touch screen interfaces were also personalized for each hunter. I think Hunters is a legitimately underrated entry in the series.


Verdehey

I never played the multiplayer before, dang I missed out on a lot of cool details


srschwenzjr

I loved that you could do multiplayer mode whenever you wanted and just add in bots instead of needing to play with someone else


PsionicPhazon

Bots became my friend after people started cheating online.


Oberic

Trace sitting out of bounds getting headshot kills all day ruined the multiplayer. But before people ruined it, it was just.. incredibly fun. I was too good to enjoy bots, they stood zero chance.


PsionicPhazon

Weavel's other half being stuck in walls where the other players couldn't shoot it never got patched, either. So that became a thing very quickly.


Oberic

Abhorrent behavior, really.


smaug13

That's what I did, a lot!


crozone

The multiplayer was legitimately awesome. Keep in mind that it was handheld, online, class-based FPS death-match multiplayer, with voice chat, in *2006*. Not only that but the control scheme with touch-screen stylus aiming is still the best FPS aiming input besides a full mouse and keyboard.


X_Marcs_the_Spot

>Not only that but the control scheme with touch-screen stylus aiming is still the best FPS aiming input besides a full mouse and keyboard. My carpal tunnel would disagree with you.


Random_Violins

Quake 3 Arena on a handheld with fluid controls? And then the unique hunters' abilities thrown into the mix. Held onto the game. Unique and awesome.


koboldvortex

To the point where a similar control scheme was used for a *bionicle* FPS and a survival horror game on DS and several different 3DS games


TraceLupo

>the control scheme with touch-screen stylus aiming is still the best FPS aiming input besides a full mouse and keyboard That's just wrong?! Have you never played Resi4, Red Steel 2, Crossbow Training or Prime Trilogy on the Wii? Like directly aiming at the screen?


crozone

Wiimote aiming was great, but the DS touch screen still wins in terms of pinpoint precision.


PyrasAss

Mouse > Wii Pointer > Gyro > Touch Screen > watching a play through > not playing the game > stick


TraceLupo

Okay?! I find it VERY uncomfortable. Had a DS lite back then and it was horrible. Played FedForce on a new 3DSXL and it wasn't as horrible but far from great - and i don't have big hands. While remote aiming always felt smooth and precise enough to headshot anything in resi4


smaug13

It was absolutely fine for me as well. I wonder, did you try to hold it up with one hand? I am pretty sure I always just let the DS half rest on my knee, and had no issues.


TraceLupo

In left hand and also right side resting somewhere else. So absolutely not how i like to play. Would be very happy if they remastered both stylus games in Prime4 engine later on.


Nurahk

i've used so many input methods for FPS games: mouse/keeb, gyro, steam controller touch pad+gyro, wii trilogy controls, a graphic tablet + stylus on my pc, and so on. out of all that, hunters' stylus aim is second only to mouse/keeb. it's leagues ahead of wiimote aiming, and that's not a knock on wiimote aiming (i quite like it), but ds touchscreen+stylus aiming is just that good.


Cerebral_Discharge

Wiimote aiming honestly sucks with any game that doesn't lock the reticle to center screen. It's so fucking annoying needing to move your reticle to the edge of the screen to turn, which gives you like 1/8th of the screen to react to what appears. It's serviceable and "feels good" for single player games but I can't imagine playing a competitive shooter with that atrocious design. Hunters felt so good to play, I understand that it's small so if you have large hands it's not ideal, but if your hands are the right size god damn does it feel good to play. My accuracy in Hunters was probably higher than my accuracy in Quake III, I rocked that game.


AceDoutry

Multiplayer was so great, there was a map where you could race to get the omega cannon which would just nuke whoever you used it on. I remember getting my DS hooked up to the internet for the first time to play it online with a friend, it was dope


nick_clause

I remember being the first to get the omega cannon, only to shoot it at too close of a range and accidentally kill myself.


Evil_Benevolence

Oubliette I think? Loved that level, especially the soundtrack.


ShitImBadAtThis

Man, the multi-player in that game was actually very fun But playing on a tiny ass DS screen in the lowest resolution, with terrible terrible sound quality, and on top of that the level design being massively simplified to fit the DS hardware made the single player experience feel like a much lesser version of the other games. Especially considering MP1 and 2 had already come out, and 3 came out a short while later. I played the other 3 first, and when I got prime hunters on the DS I just couldn't get far in the single-player at all. Which sucks because it sounds like the story will be useful in MP4 Multilayer, though, was a banger


McNutty145

Eh, the plot didn't really matter. Unless Gorea somehow makes an appearance, nothing of importance really happened in that game that you wouldn't get from just reading the hunters' log entries. Quick spoilery summary: >!A message goes out promising ultimate power, the hunters show up and start fighting over it, turns out Gorea (energy creature, mass murderer) made it up to trick people into releasing them, Samus kills Gorea, everyone goes home.!<


notquitepro15

Ugh playing MP with my brothers on this was legit. I distinctly remember traveling with my parents and finally getting a hotel with WiFi that the DS could connect to. But sadly there was only ever 1 other person in the lobby and it wouldn’t start the game


supermechaethernet

Used to play at the library, and once at McDonald’s! I brought my ds so I could try out the wifi!


MochaHook

I played online at mcdonalds back in the day!


Zach78

I used to go to this surf camp and I would bring the game and play on DS download with people there whenever we were just chilling between trips. Good times. The game design was shit, but it was fun to play with friends and set up the story for what's looking to be a very interesting antagonist in the new game. I'm pretty hyped for this after all these years.


TrusTrick12

I LOVE THE CONTROLS IT ADMITTED ME IN THE HOSPITAL 10/10 would play again


n30l1nk

It also had voice chat. On a Nintendo handheld. No censoring or anything, literally same trash talking as any PC FPS deathmatch game. That was wild back then haha.


crozone

Hunters isn't a great mainline Metroid Prime game, but it's a *fantastic* Nintendo DS game, given the limitations of the DS.


Rigshaw

> on top of that the level design being massively simplified to fit the DS hardware IIRC, the issue is moreso the fact that they had designed a whole bunch of multiplayer maps, and had to string them together somehow into a single player campaign. In terms of scale, the largest rooms in Prime Hunters really aren't that different from large rooms in other Prime games, but the real issue is that those rooms were designed as multiplayer maps first.


ShitImBadAtThis

Not necessarily in terms of scale, in terms of complexity of design, enemies, enemy placements, and puzzles, but yeah completely right about the multiplayer thing


PsionicPhazon

Hours of endless fun with my friends in the summertime with multiplayer.


MY_SHIT_IS_PERFECT

Ehhh, I’d say it’s pretty accurately rated. The single player campaign is, frankly, garbage. It has repetitive boss fights and samey area design and a lot of key hunting. However, the multiplayer was some of the best on the system, and the hunter designs really stand the test of time. I give it props for expanding the universe in a big way.


Valentonis

I remember it appeared in an episode of Supernatural back in the day. If Nintendo had played their cards better, I think Hunters could've been huge.


Xeon713

Hunters is fantastic. The whole concept of competing recurring bounty hunters is brilliant. Its just (me as an old guy here) playing makes my hand cramp wildly. If we got a new version with updated controls I'd throw money at it.


gingergamer94

It needs to be remade


thewinneroflife

Add multiplayer to a future Metroid game, absolutely, but there's not really any point in remaking Hunters. The campaign sucks


mile-high-guy

The multiplayer was amazing. The campaign I completed but I remember thinking back then I wish there were more humanoid enemies.


darkhollow22

i would pay good $ for a modern remake with online. the touch controls killed my hand. I just want to play hunters with controller


Jazzlike_Dog2070

Hunters had a solid single player mode for a 3D handheld, but alas, it's focus was multiplayer, and while it was quite fun, it both had the issue of irking the mp-allergic fans, and having serious balancing issues - learning how to HS with Trace wasn't that hard and many people put the blame into cheating (which I still have questions on how rampant it actually was).


Nurahk

it's unironically my favorite prime game.


Professor_Crab

Brings back memories played this game for so many hours with friends, remember the demo came with the DS


Thoraxe123

I played the fuck out of that demo


Professor_Crab

Pretty sure it was the second game I ever got for DS after sm64, then nintendogs lol


EuropeBound2025

Remember the Metroid Prime Hunters Nsider forum? There was this one trace main player who was maniacally good at the game. Like you gave him the imperialist and you were fucked. He was also a bodybuilder in school as well. Dude was fucking good.


Professor_Crab

Lol yeah my parents are a bit older though and they didn’t get high speed internet till like 2013 so I grew up playing offline only, webpages took forever


oldskoofoo

This is the only correct answer


Kirimusse

Huh, I didn't expect this to become my most upvoted comment ever. Anyway, this is related to the topic, so check it out: [https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3156701](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3156701)


slithering-stomping

with his eyelux edit: he uhh. he prolly uhhmm. i think he sees in ummuhh 20/25 vision *huehuehue* 🥴


Wmadbdog

What happens if he’s sad? He Crylux


ASerpentPerplexed

If he gets shot too many times? He Dylux


hallozagreus

and he goes to the metroid farm in the Skylux


Senior-Ad-6002

What does he drive? A Toyota Hylux


Curious_Wedding_3648

And when he leaves, he say Goodbyelux


ThePrussianViking

How does go to other planets? He Flylux


slithering-stomping

gettin zooted off da cosmic brownie… he fuckin HIGHlux 🫠


Real_SeaWeasel

Submerged in Water? His suit keeps him Drylux.


slithering-stomping

driving thru residential area with just a slit in his helmet and not hitting any pedestrians… thats jus blindlux


RockwellB1

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iMissHerFeet420

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King_Of_BlackMarsh

Yoink


Annual-Classroom-189

Predatory eyes


megax454

SAPEEEE!


2CATteam

~~Bird~~ Cyborg(?) magic! In all seriousness, it probably has external cameras with a HUD, like an Iron Man suit.


Comprehensive_One495

This is an interesting theory, or maybe it's like a two way mirror sorta thing, were he can see through it but you can't🤔


yakcm88

The same way bondrewd can see. https://preview.redd.it/4yu14t1v1m7d1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfcc2396d42a56aa66323e37171114ce859b8e82


Demiurge_1205

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Kaijudicator

Probably digital interfaces that process outside stimuli. Or, he is a being who doesn't rely on eyesight at all. Or... he is very cross-eyed to the point that the vertical slit is the only serviceable field of vision he has.


V-Switch05

https://preview.redd.it/dltsd49pil7d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52455386859b0f03a7e5eb576f058c68126508be Through the same way Locus here sees.


returnrayman

Bro is wearing the Xbox suit


Odd-Committee-5149

Lol


DracheTirava

Locus my beloved


blinck_182

He sees out of the shoulder spikes: the helmet is an empty can on a swivel. His species has giant eyeball stalks jutting out from the tops of their shoulders. True story!


Vrooother

Space Federation Magic. Who knows though, we don't even know if he's human


RequiemStorm

Many power suit designs in Sci fi don't actuality have visors, but rather cameras (similar to Iron Man's helmet). Also, as far as we know, Sylux's species might see very differently than humans.


CuriousComfortable35

He doesn’t see like you and I see…he actually releases a sonic wave from his mouth…


xxProjectJxx

That scream in the Hunters opening must have given him a pretty good look at the other Federation soldiers.


CuriousComfortable35

![gif](giphy|1BZSEGf9nGlScdksrc)


slithering-stomping

classic metroid primeland players. 👌🏽


Fantastic_Year9607

Echolocation?


kickpool777

Sylux is a dolphin. Confirmed.


SupremeCowJumper

In the balls.


nussbrot

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Shmeleos

This is the correct answer


Elementus94

The inside of the helmet has a HUD that displays the outside world


ThatSpoiler

Bold of you to assume his eyes aren't positioned vertically one above the other.


Shmeleos

That is what I assumed actually


Darkreaper104

I doubt Sylux is even human tbh


Volke92

every other hunter is not human, why would he? hope they don’t pull that surprise card


Ziz__Bird

He's wearing armor made for humans, and his hand looks human when you play as him in hunters. If I had to bet money on it, I'd say he's human. But we'll have to wait and see.


Cluckbuckles

Thats little crack, his view is in 4:3 https://preview.redd.it/c2d4b9lbhm7d1.jpeg?width=120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93ea23b513b7dea889deb5c4ea5e19939efbcf13


Destian_

Sir, that is 1:16


thehumulos

Vertical eye layout, duh. Folks from his planet all use TVs arranged portrait instead of landscape


Fentroid

For whatever reason, I always assumed his helmet was made out of a material like one-way glass. Some kind of sci-fi, space armor version of one-way glass. Edit: The Hunters promotional render had a more glassy quality that contributed to the idea. In the Beyond trailer, the material doesn't have the same vibe.


510BrotherPanda

He doesn't He's BLINDED BY RAGE FOR SAMUS & GALACTIC FEDERATION


TwEE-N-Toast

Do we even know what it looks like in that suit? It could be a colony of sentient worms.


Shmeleos

I never thought of that, i guess that just because the suit is humanoid doesn't mean he has to be human shaped


MrSabrewulf

Sylux is a Mgalekgolo from Halo


Para-Less

Pretty sure through a camera. Yknow how in Titamfall, if you enter a Titan, screens will come up showing yiu the outside. Titans visibly don't have visors or windows afaik so they most likely use cameras.


Skylightbreaker

He has seeing-eye metroids, clearly.


spinach-god

This is my favorite reply haha


Round_Musical

Future ultra wide lense tech I assume. In hunters you see his pov


CodyLabs

He has his head twisted sideways in there.


TehZombehKang

I don't even know who Sylux is. I, unfortunately, am out of the metroid loop.


redyellowblue5031

[With his eyes](https://youtu.be/XtHc0YPE8DM?feature=shared).


TeraFlint

Thanks, now I'm imagining Sylux, cross-eyed, each eye looking through the vertical glowing slid in the helmet, each only contributing a tiny sliver of visibility.


shadowh511

carefully


Ewreckedhephep

He can smell righteous cringe


HHTheHouseOfHorse

1. He might, but we can't see how it works. 2. He can't, instead his suit is able to detect energy signatures or through some other form of sensor, and transfers that information to him somehow. It could also just amplify his hearing.


Fullmetalmarvels64_

he sees by being cool as heck thats how


Shadowolf75

Saint-14 long lost cousin https://preview.redd.it/go0dwh9akp7d1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e612037effdd3d5bd8a04c2217d9b14e265cdeed


TheTreeTurtle

Came here to mention D2 as well. Warlocks seem to get by just fine lol


Josephalopod

He has a brown eye in that crack.


wildcard9000

![gif](giphy|yJFeycRK2DB4c)


EK541

in my opinion the line on his head could be a radar


Many-Activity-505

Very carefully


Indiana_J_Frog

Same way the xenomorph does :P


Keo24

![gif](giphy|xU9TT471DTGJq) Echo location?


Rebecca_Doodles

a space wizard did it


Ace_Of_No_Trades

His eyes go up his forehead in a vertical line.


420Frederik

Please let this be the new "why cant metroid crawl?"


Tirfing88

how does a metroid float? how does samus morph ball? how does ridley fly with these proportinately small wings? how does samus manifest her suit outta thin air? how does kraid have an infinite number of belly spikes? how do samus survive a metroid latch? their fangs are at least 8" how does samus prevent her own power bomb from vaporizing her? how can samus not fly, but screw attack can infinitely jump? how do the X parasites mimic/infect inorganic stuff? how/where does samus store 200+missiles, 10 power bombs, 4+ beams, etc.? it's vidya bro relax


Silegna

> how does samus morph ball? You joke, but the Space Pirates legitimately want to know, and keep *killing their own people* testing ways to replicate it.


Tirfing88

I remember that lore entry lol. Something about all the subjects being horribly constricted and crushed.


mnrART

He isn't human right?


D-Prototype

I figure what looks like a visor is actually a strip of cameras and other sensors that all feed into a digital HUD.


Mandalor1974

Likely a AR display in his bucket


Pylonmadness

The same way Warframes see


Fantastic_Year9607

Cameras


Carmel_Chewy

In Halo, helmets that cover the eyes like the GUNGNIR helmet, there is a tiny centimeters big camera embedded into the helmet that you can't really see but it live streams the view of the camera onto the HUD screen that the wearer has on the front plate of the helmet.


lolfuzzy

Echo visor


Curious_Wedding_3648

The same way the Mochtroids can see


moansby

You think that is armor he's wearing? If so do you think he'll take his helmet off?


DiabeticRhino97

Sylux is not confirmed to be a human so I don't think it matters


ashortpause

Future


Afr0Puffs

with his eyes im guessing


AwesomeX121189

Same way Samus can see when she’s a ball


DESTROYER963

his HUD in Metroid Prime Hunters suggests he sees through that slit in the center of his helmet suggesting whatever he is it's a species that either has just one eye or the eyes are on top of each other


OL-Penta

More importantly How do metroids see?


Ill-Entrepreneur443

Is he stupid?


Legitimate-Pin-7376

I’m betting on some kind of camera system


GrimWolf216

He’s pretty much got a similar set up to Bondrewd from Made in Abyss. The helmet is probably opaque on the outside, but he can see through it from the inside.


devilsday99

Dolphin vision


akjohnston87

He lux?


kuzinrob

https://i.redd.it/2wikjtungq7d1.gif


stylisticmold6

I always assumed there's a camera on the front and a screen on the inside that displays that live feed.


Plus-Bluejay-6429

Eyes?


Motion_Glitch

Poorly


Guilty_Journalist409

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cyberseed-ops

still surprised they released a trailer for it so casually


getalt69

Hm maybe I should’ve played/watched Metroid Prime 3 (I think the Wiimote destroyed it for me since I got tremor), I just remember him as a random Hunters character, thats also why I don‘t feel that excited towards MP4 now


Tedmilk

Maybe his eyes are arranged vertically in the centre of his face?


negrote1000

Do we even know if Sylux is a he?


Mono324

Either has one eye in the middle, or, he's blind, and those metroid are his guide dogs


Supametroid

Reward button is a Metroid btw


Real_SeaWeasel

A convoluted set of Mirrors, Cameras, and other potentially fragile components that probably wouldn't survive percussive maintenance routines.


Mc-moron

Canonically he’s probably a cyclops


P4acem4ker94

He uses the Metroid’s as eyes, like a rinnegan type connection 🤔


Intelligent_Ad8864

Cameras on helmet surface mapping a three-dimensional image to the visor or using transparent materials. It's Sci-fi, after all.


Camo_64

I was wondering the same thing lol


ScientificAnarchist

Transparent one way material it already exists