Metroid: Samus Returns

And, uh-

But it's gonna feel like Samus Returns, which is, you know, taking a classic Game Boy game, which I loved Metroid II.

I had it as a kid.

Oh, yeah.

And, um, it was awesome, but, like, I never really played through Samus Returns 'cause I was kinda not playing the 3DS at that point.

Yeah.

Yeah, same.

MercurySteam has developed in the last 10 years.

Do you have any stories associated with Samus Returns on 3DS? It has the sad fate of launching on 3DS six months after the Switch launched and reportedly didn't sell well.

Despite that, we've gotten two additional games.

I love Samus Returns.

Yeah, it's a good game.

It's a really good game.

Yeah, definitely.

Um, this was one that I was always like, "When is it coming to Switch?" Like, are they gonna remake it for Switch somehow, or is there gonna be some kind of, like, MercurySteam...

We were in Discord, so let's there return.

This question is from Harkyman, "If Metroid Ravenous is a commercial hit, could you see Nintendo asking MercurySteam to work on and release a remastered Nintendo Switch 2 version of Samus Returns?"

[laughs] I, I, I-

You know what?

I, I feel like, so here's the thing, if Raven- I, I feel like at this point, like, you know, MercurySteam is pretty much, like, locked in for, like, 2D Metroid.

And so I, I th- I think Metroid 7's a lock definitely if Metroid Ravenous is a hit.

Um, I feel like Metroid Samus Returns should have already happened by now.

I would imagine, I, I would imagine if they do it, it probably wouldn't be MercurySteam.

Producer Yoshio Sakamoto later clarified that the technical limitations of the DS prevented his vision of the antagonistic EMMI robot from being implemented properly, that they would only retry if technology and popular demand were sufficient.

After Nintendo collaborated with MercurySteam for Metroid: Samus Returns, see our previous podcast, in 2017, Sakamoto was very impressed with their work and allowed them to finally develop Metroid Dread into a Switch title.

Obviously published by Nintendo, that much is obvious.

Yoshio Sakamoto, longtime producer, remains, uh, a key figure in the development.

He worked on the original Metroid as a character designer.

Uh, the creative director for MercurySteam is José Luis Márquez Arroyo, who had started out working on the American McGee Presents games, um, but had moved on to MercurySteam.

And of course, uh, we know they made Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, which we've covered, and the follow-ups to that game before making Samus Returns, which was what got them this gig, obviously.

And I guess it was probably the Castlevania Metroidvania-ish game that they did that got them that gig.

And before, it gets a little bit busier now, but I'm playing some Castlevania Symphony of the Night right now.

And Metroid Samus Returns on the 3DS right now.

So I'm having a great

time.

Yeah.

Awesome.

And I'm having a great time with Samus Returns and Symphony of the Night's awesome.

Yeah.

we had such a big gap between uh prime free and uh He had Other M, which was Other M, and then you had Federation Horse, and then we had Dread, and it's like, there's a gap between those things.

Yeah, even Samus Returns before it.

Yeah, okay,

yeah, Samus Returns,

that was a remake, but it was honestly big enough that it wasn't.

That's a topic for today.

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I think when, like, you know, you, you, you've been, you've been playing Samus Returns.

I replayed it a couple months ago.

That's a, you know, that's a, that's a 3DS game.

I think Prime 5 is definitely what they're gonna do next.

But I'm also a 2D Metroid guy first and foremost.

Uh, you mentioned Samus Returns.

I just have been so hyped on Metroid since this.

Um, anyways, uh, so I went through all of them.

I'm going in order from Metroid one to Metroid Sa-- Metroid two, Metroid: Samus Returns, which will be the last one I play.

Uh, and obviously first one was nineteen eighty-six.

I've heard some not good things about the game.