Metroid Prime is an amazing game series. Lot of people have played it so yur definitely not alone. I'm currently trying to beat MP3. After that I will have played through the whole series. Then I will 100% MP1, I will also 100% MP3 if I don't already. I am trying to 100% it the first time through and I did it with MP2 so I think I can do it with MP3.
what i don´t like of the 100% run of mp1 is that in every room seems to be some kind of miny boss after half the game, seriously, tallon is filled with fliying space pirates, chozo ruins with the darned ghost, phendrana had the sheegoths and magmoor had fliying pirates too.
the first time i played i had to go 4 times to the phazon mines.....it was not pretty but i had to for the artifacts and some upgrades i left there, also when i already was at 100% and saved at the gunship before the meta ridley boss battle guess what happened? my memory card got corrupted and lost the data of every game i had in it.....
metroid prime 1
prime 2
mario sunshine
smash bros melee
meta gear solid
pikmin 2
mario party 7
pokemon colosseum
and majora´s mask (from collectors disc)
oooh and wind waker too...
all lost....i raged to no end and rage quited video games for like 6 months lol