Dec 27, 2025
I don’t think the Sol Valley hub should even be in Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, but in general, broadly speaking, can we stop making desert on other planets generic? Look at what the Earth has to offer!
Even keeping the basis of a yellow sand dune desert, some deep green pockets where the killer rain hit hardest would have been really evocative. Or an open cave system you can drive through with sand falling down, the interplay of light and shadow, the occasional one second of utter darkness as you ride. Yellow sandstone ridges with green circles bored through them at an angle, snaking trails of green glass sand that glitters in the sunlight, ruins that are starkly deep green and weather worn on one side… Live a little!