Metroid Prime: Hunters Hints XII (DS)

Metroid Prime: Hunters is a first person shooter and adventure game created exclusively for the Nintendo DS and designed by NST (Nintendo Software Technology), a first-party developer for Nintendo, based in Redmond in North America, and released in 2006. Like its predecessor Metroid Prime, Nintendo dubbed it a first person adventure rather than a first person shooter due to the large amount of exploration elements in the game, classic to any Nintendo title.

The rather unusual focus on exploration and discovery has made Nintendo create a sub-genre in the first person shooter class, calling the Metroid Prime games first person adventure titles. The game features the same main character, the beautiful Samus Aran, who is under her heavy armor throughout the game. This armor, coupled with the unique weapons, permits Samus to transform into her trademark Morph Ball state, which allows her to rapidly take out many enemies in short time.

The game was warmly received, and enjoyed quite a lot of popularity with fans, largely due to the fact that the multiplayer mode, which harnessed the Wi-Fi capabilities of the Nintendo DS, was extremely well built and had a lot of options, including the one enabling voice chat, through the built-in microphone. Here are a couple of things that might help in the adventures of Samus versus the Metroids.

HINTS

Rankings

There are ranks in the game (Bounty Hunter, Super Hunter, and Elite Hunter) that appear near the Wi-Fi connection button on the multiplayer menu. While Bounty Hunter is the default ranking, Super Hunter requires you to get 40 points, while Elite Hunter requires you to get 140 points.

A simple way to get these points is to get two Nintendo DS units and do a multiplayer game from a single card (known as Single Card Play). Play any game and win a battle (Battle Mode is best because you can set the kills and time as low as you want). For winning a battle, you get one point (although, if you lose, you lose a point). This way, you can easily accumulate points to increase your character ranking.

Here's a video of this game: