![]() In those ways, their inclusion in the Metroid Prime sub-series makes a bit more sense. They’re also in the first-person, and were both made by western studios. They do include a heavier focus on bounty hunters and the Galactic Federation, which Metroid Prime 3 focused on as well. Neither Hunters nor Federation Force includes the character Metroid Prime or Phazon. Of course, Nintendo didn’t feel that maintaining the integrity of this highly cohesive Trilogy was worth not making more money off of, so they made a couple of the least liked games in the Metroid series: the actually pretty decent Metroid Prime Hunters, and the game that nobody asked for, Metroid Prime Federation Force. The Metroid Prime Trilogy, which was intrinsically tied to the presence of the creature known as Metroid Prime and the poisonous Phazon, tied up its loose ends wonderfully, and constituted a complete narrative arc that should have remained left alone. Furthermore, Phaaze, the living planet that generated Phazon, was destroyed, and the continued existence of Phazon disappeared along with it. It’s clear that she’s truly gone, because the Phazon that Dark Samus corrupted Samus with at the beginning of Metroid Prime 3 disappears upon Dark Samus’ death. At the end of Corruption, Samus once again defeats Dark Samus – this time destroying her for good. Dark Samus is defeated at the end of Echoes, but manages to reform itself using scattered Phazon particles. Metroid Prime thus becomes Dark Samus, the antagonist that Samus faces throughout Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Unbeknownst to Samus, what’s left of Metroid Prime manages to inhabit this suit, obtaining Samus’ powers and DNA in the process. This creature was known as Metroid Prime.Īfter defeating Metroid Prime, tentacles appear from the creature’s body and strip Samus of her Phazon suit. During Metroid Prime, Samus manages to unlock The Cradle and enter the Leviathan, facing and defeating this heavily mutated Metroid in the process. ![]() Somehow, a single Metroid escaped and managed to sneak past The Cradle and enter the Leviathan, slowly feeding on its Phazon from the inside and growing immensely in size and power in the process. Decades after these Chozo died out, Space Pirates came to Tallon IV in order to weaponize this Phazon, and they brought dangerous creatures known as Metroids with them as test subjects. They created “The Cradle,” a structure that was locked by 12 cyphers, in order to contain the seeping Phazon from the Leviathan. The Chozo, an ancient race that raised Samus after her parents were murdered by Space Pirates, lived on Tallon IV when the Leviathan crashed. The Leviathan was filled with Phazon, an extremely poisonous and mutagenic substance that soon began to transform the landscape of Tallon IV. In the first Metroid Prime game, a giant, living meteor known as a Leviathan crash-landed on the planet Tallon IV. ![]() Have you heard the good news? This thing is all sorts of dead. Because Metroid Prime is Deadįun fact: Metroid Prime is an actual character and she’s dead as a doorknob. Here are some of the reason why making Metroid Prime 4 doesn’t really make sense. Between finished narrative threads and the absence of Retro Studios, this upcoming game could go with a different title completely and would probably be all the better off for it. Don’t get us wrong, Hardcore Gamer wants another 3D Metroid game as much as the next fan, but the things that made Metroid Prime what it was have largely been wrapped up at the end of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The thing is, making Metroid Prime 4 doesn’t exactly make sense. With the Wii U having been completely devoid of a Metroid game, and the excellent Samus Returns for the 3DS being the only good game in the series since 2007, this announcement came as great news. It will play in the first-person, as all other Metroid Prime games have and we can assume that this talented new team is a western studio as every Metroid game with the Prime moniker has been made in North America. While we don’t know much about Metroid Prime 4, we do know that a “ talented new development team” that isn’t Retro Studios is working on it, and that longtime series producer Kensuke Tanabe is overlooking the project. ![]() Anyone who ever enjoyed the Metroid Prime Trilogy was sure to have been excited by this announcement – it has, after all, been over ten years since the last proper Metroid Prime game has been released. During their E3 2017 Spotlight video, Nintendo announced that Metroid Prime 4 was in development for Switch. ![]()
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