Visors

Since the game was shown from Samus' perspective, a new feature of Metroid Prime (though inspired by a feature of Super Metroid) was the inclusion of different visors, which showed the world in different ways. The most important of these was the Scan Visor, which could be used on practically every item of interest in the environment, and stored many different text entries, like creature morphologies and progress reports of your enemy. This returns to the new game, and has been streamlined by highlighting all scannable objects with different colors to indicate scanning status. The other two unique visors are new to this game: the Dark Visor, which reveals and highlights interdimensional objects, and the Echo Visor, which creates a visual representation of sound. Both of these are used in inventive puzzles.