The world may currently be wrapped up in its excitement for Team Ninja's Metroid: Other M, but original Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto has said he'd encourage Retro Studios to have another crack at the less traditional Metroid Prime series.
"With regards to the Prime series, if the team at Retro comes up with an idea that does bring a sequel to the series to fruition, I by all means encourage them to do that," he states. "But I'm not directly involved with the Prime games. In terms of the Metroid series stories that I've told, the games that I've been involved in, I started with the NES Metroid and took it through Fusion.
"I'm hoping to tie the Super Metroid and Fusion stories together, and until I do that I can't think about what happens after Fusion, but if the concept does come to me I'd like to continue the story and see how far it can go. One of my goals is to present Samus as an appealing human character, and that involves explaining a little bit about what happened in her past as well as the characters that influenced her. The story will play a big part."
It's cool to see so much Metroid talk going on. It's long been one of Nintendo's more forgotten franchises, despite its strong cult following. Here's hoping Other M gives the series a firm shove into the spotlight.
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7:40 PM on 06.17.2009
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Probably a blue bikine with her nipples appearing.
For a while I thought Prime 2 and 3 were disappointments compared to the original. Having replayed them recently they are actually fun, well-made games. Retro really did put their all into the series, even if it was kinda obvious that they were getting tired going into Prime 2 and 3. If they want to take another shot at a Metroid game, after a well-deserved break, they have my full support.
My only hope is that Other M doesn't go the Fusion Route. While that is a well-made game I couldn't get into it because of the hand-holding. Also, to be perfectly honest, the story was nowhere near good enough for me to give up the freedom that earlier titles offered. Here's hoping for the best.
The fact that R&D1 is working on it just as much as Team Ninja means it's going to be straight up Metroid. No offense to the Prime games, but I'm with Dyson; they didn't feel like the Metroid I loved in the 2D games.
The only ones I have liked are Metroid Fusion and Super Metroid.
I really hope Team Ninja does good on this to give me another metroid game to like.
Im still sad that we never got that rumored Metorid Dread or whatever it was that would have been supposedly 2D
Nothing against the series producer, but I don't think Metroid works with a storyline in the middle of the gameplay. Prime (and to a lesser extent Super) did it best by having a well-developed storyline that was there if you wanted it. If you read the lores and logs you got a great story but if you just wanted a fun game then you had that too. Every player took away what they from the game.
I'm not saying that Other M won't make it work. I'm just saying that Fusion and Prime 3 didn't (this one to a lesser extent).
That would actually be kind of sad if that was the only reason they made the game. To explain how Ridley ended up there. I would have much rather had a 5th game considering all they have to play around with due to the events in Fusion. Samus is now part-Metroid (maybe she starts getting certain urges), she is likely being hunted down by the Federation for disobeying orders, I doubt the Pirates wouldn't be involved. There is too much they could and should do with that. Hopefully Dread isn't far off.
Nintendo owns Retro Studios. Some of the people from Retro left and founded their own studio, but Retro, and many of the people responsible for the Prime trilogy, remain with Nintendo.
I just assumed that that was his respawn point. He doesn't seem to ever die no matter what.
Actually, I don't think he was dead until the X got to him.
@DarkSaint76
The Prime Series would be better if you could decide which perspective of it you wanted to play in.
P.S. Don't mention the Elder Scrolls. The battle system in those games sucks. It doesn't matter what perspective you play since your hero will still swing his arm in the same left/right or up/down motion. The combat engine in those games weren't nearly as much of a focus as the leveling, classes, environments, dialogue, ect.
Second, you get to see one in a flashback near the end of ZM as well as during the entire Manga. Don't forget the Chozo Ghost's in Prime 1 as well.
Third, it's kinda the point not to see them. The games trump them up as a mystical and powerful race. They are shrouded in mystery. To see a live one would ruin that feeling.