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Metroid - Zero Mission Previewed

Posted by simoniker on from the samus-in-pyjamas dept.

Thanks to Nintendojo for posting a preview of the forthcoming GBA title, Metroid: Zero Mission. This game, which the site says is rumored to be either a prequel, or more likely, a partial remake of the NES Metroid, was shown only in video form at E3. The Metroid Database comes to similar conclusions about the game, saying "..it looks as though we will be taken back to Zebes for Samus' first encounter with Mother Brain, but this time our girl will have all the abilities and weapons she's gained in all her adventures since then."

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  1. I really hope.. by Inoshiro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that it's just a remake, and not a prequel. Up until Metroid 4 (Fusion), the Metroid timeline was fairly easy to take seriously. Samus killed Space pirates, then killed the rest of the Metroids, then killed the last of the Metroids.

    Then they added Prime and Fusion. Oh, look, more Metroids secretly bred by the scientists. Oh, look, the Space Pirates have more metroids in between 1 and 2.

    Kinda like how in Mega Man 3, the robots "went evil" by themselves -- but it turned out to be Dr. Wily. Then in MM4, the evil Dr. Cossak was causing trouble -- because of Dr. Wily. And so on until Mega Man 8. Wily was a cool foe, but then he became overused and became a parody of himself.

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    1. Re:I really hope.. by nicksthings · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Admittedly, the story is getting a bit convoluted, but come on - you're hoping for another remake and not an entirely new adventure? I wouldn't complain about a remake since it's been some 10+ since I played through Metroid, but I'd definitely take a brand new adventure, no matter how many kinks it throws into the Metroid/Samus universe, anyday.

  2. Yipee! Whatever it is, it should be good, probably by SamBC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The look of the graphics looks to me like an attempt to recover as much, stylistically speaking, from the original NES game as possible.

    However, ignoring timelines for a moment, Super Metroid on the SNES rather struck me as an extended remake of the original Metroid anyway - how much scope is there to do this again?

    Looking back to timelines, then it strikes me that this could go either way - it could sort out the minor hiccups in the timeline, *or* it could confuse it more. Just have to wait and see.