Metroid - Zero Mission Previewed

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."

Comments

I really hope..

[Inoshiro]

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.