Metroid Prime Could Continue On DS

By Ishaan . November 17, 2009 . 8:57am

Metroid Prime Could Continue On DS

Nintendo SPD Production Group 3′s Kensuke Tanabe — producer on overseas projects such as Metroid Prime, Excitebots and Punch-out!! — believes there’s room for another game in the Metroid Prime series.

 

“We are always planning to make new games in the Metroid Prime series. Depending on the timing and the situation, we cannot deny the possibility of realising it on DS or DSi,” Tanabe said to Official Nintendo Magazine in an interview .

 

Do we really need another Metroid Prime game now that Dark Samus is finally dead? I tend to think of “Prime” as a single incident (albeit an important incident) in Samus’s career. It doesn’t seem like there would be any good reason to re-visit it, unless by “Prime” Tanabe simply means another first-person game… or another multiplayer game similar to Hunters.


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  • http://www.younganimal.com/berserk Mr_Qoo

    I'd love for them to take a shot at something Super Metroid/Metroid Fusion-esque on the DS. It would make a very happy Samus fan.

  • malek86

    2D please. Hunters just didn't work all that well.

  • MisterNiwa

    I'd love a Metroid like the Castlevania's for the DS, oldschool Metroidvania games. 8(

    I loved Fusion~

  • kylehyde

    Even that prime hunters was a really good game (nice graphics, nice controls) the shooters are not my cup of tea, I want a classic 2d metroid.

  • MadMirko

    Thirded.

    And after New Super Metroid, they can do a New Super Metroid Wii. :)

    It sounds like he wants it to be a 3D title, by calling it a Metroid “Prime”. I wouldn't mind that either, but I'd hope for a more single-player oriented title than Hunters was. In 3D there is more potential for exploration and secrets, although also more potential for control and camera issues.

    I guess he will follow Other M's fate closely, THEN decide what kind of game the next Metroid should be.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    Haha, maybe Metroid Dread will turn out to be a Prime spin-off for DS where you get to play as Dark Samus and see her hostile takeover of the space pirates in 2D.

    (It'll never happen. ;_;)

  • MadMirko

    Hm, to be honest, I'd be a bit disappointed should that (against all odds) turn out to be true. Dark Samus got on my nerves, I find the “evil twin” device a bit cheap, but I admit it was well executed in the three Primes.

    On the other hand, I have no real idea what I would want. As Spencer said, Prime seems like a completed story arc and “all is said”. It's unlikely (IMHO) that we'll see a Metroid game that is NOT starring Samus. If I could wish for anything, I'd probably go for a dungeon crawling RPG. That would be the flop of the century and the end of Metroid altogether, but hey…

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    Haha, did you know she was going to be in Marvel Ultimate Alliance? I remember seeing screenshots of a prototype build with Samus in it that Activision presented to Nintendo. It was promptly shot down. :P

  • EvilAkito

    I sure hope they do not go that route. I'd love to see a 2D Metroid on the DS, but I'm not at all interested in seeing another game in the style of Prime Hunters. The core Prime series was good, but I've grown a little bored with it. I'd rather see Retro Studios focus their attention on an entirely new IP (maybe something with the play-style and art direction of the Metroid Prime series) while Yoshio Sakamoto and his crew take full control of the Metroid series.

    I don't know about everyone else, but I'm honestly feeling very optimistic about Metroid: Other M. I'm more excited about it than any other upcoming game.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    What I find ironic though, is that Sakamoto and Co. don't have the ability to develop a functional 3D Metroid by themselves. Not trying to sound demeaning or anything — I love SPD1 to death — but it is kind of funny that they needed external developers to actually make the game. I'm very excited for it, too. I think Team Ninja will help balance out Nintendo's typically conservative nature.

    Prime Hunters was made by NST if I remember correctly. It wasn't BAD (loved the multiplayer and it kicked off the FPS trend on DS) but yea, single-player sucked like everyone says. I wouldn't mind another Hunters type game but with a 2D single-player mode that unlocks items for multiplayer use.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    What I find ironic though, is that Sakamoto and Co. don't have the ability to develop a functional 3D Metroid by themselves. Not trying to sound demeaning or anything — I love SPD1 to death — but it is kind of funny that they needed external developers to actually make the game. I'm very excited for it, too. I think Team Ninja will help balance out Nintendo's typically conservative nature.

    Prime Hunters was made by NST if I remember correctly. It wasn't BAD (loved the multiplayer and it kicked off the FPS trend on DS) but yea, single-player sucked like everyone says. I wouldn't mind another Hunters type game but with a 2D single-player mode that unlocks items for multiplayer use.

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