Metroid Prime 4 fans are tired of the game's annoying companions.

After nearly a decade of waiting, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has officially arrived on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. This marks the end of a rather painful life for Metroid fans hungry for all kinds of content.

Unfortunately, a new type of pain has arrived. This is for your ears.

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Metroid Prime 4's review scores are much lower than those of the original trilogy.

Metroid Prime 4 is good, but it might not be as good as some of you are hoping.

That's because fans of the iconic Nintendo franchise absolutely can't stand the voices of their in-game companions. So they're actively looking for ways to mute these voices, and are even proposing paying Nintendo for the ability to remove them entirely.

While many people on Metroid's Reddit are praising the game's mechanics, there is also a vocal group who wish the side characters would shut up.

“I’m actually more annoyed with Myles than I expected,” one user wrote (thanks to GamesRadar for reporting this). “I figured if you left the area you met him in, he would stop giving you tutorials and hints. It was annoying at first, but only for a short period of time. But after three hours, he still reminded me to save the game (which I had just done) and every time I finished a puzzle, he would call and tell me that something had probably changed in the environment.”

“You have to drive the entire desert to collect the green crystals, and are punished by Miles chiming you every five minutes,” wrote another.

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One commenter shared that the content creator muted the voice acting in the game and no value was lost as a result.

It's probably a small Band-Aid, but what everyone is looking for, including this user who was willing to pay $10 for the ability to actually make Myles stop talking, is a generic mute button that could come as a patch if enough people complain.

A mute button was previously added to the game in response to fan backlash.

The mute button is surprisingly not unprecedented, which makes the possibility of it coming to Metroid Prime 4 much more believable. When Borderlands 4 launched earlier this year, it was given a button to specifically turn down Claptrap's volume. That means you can completely turn off that pesky yellow mascot.

Elsewhere, Dynasty Warriors Origins had a post-launch patch that denied NPCs the ability to make hollow noises. Otherwise called a “mute patch”. But that's not all. That's because God of War's PC release also includes the ability to mute Atreus and Freya, two of the biggest poster children for annoying companions.

That said, Metroid Prime 4 is just the latest example of countless recent games with companions that talk too much and spew out the same tired lines and hints, and people are frankly sick of it.