10 Video Games Everyone Hated (Until They Played Them)
6. Metroid Prime
Metroid fans' excitement for a long-awaited new entry into the franchise was almost immediately quashed when Nintendo revealed Metroid Prime to be a first-person shooter, a shift from the third-person perspective of the prior titles.
This immediately led many fans to believe that Prime would stray from the design ethos of the earlier games, with the backlash prompting Nintendo to market it as a "first-person adventure" rather than a first-person shooter.
On top of this, development was being headed by a new, wholly untested outfit, Retro Studios, and so many were left convinced that Nintendo was about to lay a big, fat goose egg with one of their most beloved franchises.
But Metroid Prime was basically the exact opposite of what most fans expected - a worthy successor to Super Metroid which took the series in a bold new direction while still impressively staying true to what made it popular.
Prime ultimately went on to win numerous Game of the Year awards and, over 20 years later, is commonly heralded as one of the greatest video games of all time. What a turnaround.