#METROID PRIME 4 PRODUCERS SERIES#

And, of course, others treated the reveal a little more lightly, jokingly pointing (opens in new tab) out it’s been five years since the game’s initial reveal, and all we've got to see is a single piece of concept art. Others have been a little more conservative in their speculation, with one Reddit user noting (opens in new tab) that Samus’s bulky armor design doesn’t appear to have significantly changed from the previous Metroid Prime Games. Maybe they will go back to the creepy nature of the original Metroid.”

Phazon played a big part in the second game, creating its chief antagonist Dark Samus, and appeared back in the third to create a new breed of mutated Metroids.Ī poster on Reset Era (opens in new tab) suggested the image looked like an abandoned duct, and might hint at the “that the game will be more dark and desolate than previous titles. Some users pointed out (opens in new tab) the image’s blue tinge is similar in color to the Phazon energy (opens in new tab) that cropped up throughout the original Metroid Prime trilogy before being destroyed in its climax. Social media banners wouldn't usually stir much excitement, but this is the long-quiet Metroid Prime 4 so fans made the most of opportunity with some speculation (opens in new tab). It’s like that, like other Switch games, there will be optional motion controls with the Joy-Cons - we’re imagining aiming, firing, and environment scanning, for example. Given The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario franchises have embraced more open worlds, we wonder if this is something that Nintendo will want to bring into the Prime series, too. Other than that we can’t say what kind of gameplay changes will arise from either the new developer or the new Switch platform.Ĭoming in as a fresh start, there’s actually plenty of room for Metroid Prime 4 to innovate. Gameplay One thing we can be fairly confident in is that, like other Prime games, Metroid Prime 4 is likely to be a first-person shooter.

#METROID PRIME 4 PRODUCERS SERIES#

Though Samus went into hyperspace, giving the opportunity for a sequel to enter a new world or galaxy, we’d say the core story of the original trilogy is now closed.īack in 2015, Eurogamer (opens in new tab) interviewed series producer, Kensuke Tanabe, who stated that “the stories of Dark Samus and Phazon are done” adding that any new games in the series would focus on other Prime-series elements. What we will say is that Metroid Prime 3’s ending didn’t strike us as open enough for any kind of direct continuation. Ultimate.There’s so little Metroid Prime 4 information out there that piecing together the story is nigh impossible.

It really depends on the game, it depends on the type of development that it's going through, and it depends on how we feel the consumer is going to respond to the particular message.' Fils-Aime also said there's little incentive for Nintendo to announce a release date now when it could take away attention from its holiday 2018 releases, like Super Smash Bros. We were messaging a new Zelda experience back during the days of the Wii U.

'We did that years and years ago with Zelda. 'Typically six months to maybe a year out is what we like to do, but there are times for strategic reasons that we believe it's important to message that a game is coming,' he said.

Fils-Aime admitted this was an exception to the company's general rule of announcing games closer to their release date, but Metroid Prime 4 isn't exactly the only exception to that rule. If the release window is still so far out following its announcement, many fans have wondered why Nintendo revealed the sequel so early.

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