So, super late reply and all, but just to be clear, I did enjoy playing the Metroid Prime games and all, (mostly the first two in particular, never much liked waggle,) they were definitely very good games. I just had to enjoy them partially in spite of the art direction is all. Which unfortunately can be said of far too many games I've enjoyed over the past several years. The world of modern gaming is a bleak one if you don't enjoy grey realism or retro cheap/simple art direction, very little in the way of stylized colorful art direction and high production values in the same package.