Metroid Prime 4 is real! It’s absense has been the source of disappointment and cope for many a Metroid fan since its first announcement at E3 2017. The face of “development hell” has had it out of the limelight. Yet living rent free in many people’s headspace until the June 2024 Nintendo Direct.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
The return to Retro Studios’ beloved take on the Metroid franchise has the previous team back at the helm. They took it back from the reported initial developers at Bandai Namco Studios, showing a return to form and return to focus.
Slated for 2025, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is expected to release on the current Nintendo Switch hardware.
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Despite this being the tail end of the Switch’s lifespan. Gamers should rest easy knowing that Retro have already proven they can take the Prime games onto the console. The remakes for the Nintendo Switch were rebuilt from the ground up, and uses the same engine that Beyond appears to be running on. So a stable frame rate should be maintained for the game’s full run time.
Who is developing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond?
Retro Studios are reprising their role as developers for the Prime series. Producer Kensuke Tanabe has also returned to his role for the game, that is set to release in 2025. Right now, we don’t have much on the details of Prime 4, but we know that the series 1st person shooting, scanning and 3D platforming will return once more.
We’ve already seen the morph ball, and a host of aliens besieging a human occupied base with Metroids in to. Previous Retro job advertisements for storyboard artists looking to work on “emotional, interesting and innoovative scenes that elevate the narrative” can already be felt in the last shot of the trailer. A luscious, living, sprawling forest environment greets Samus as she leaves a cave. This might be her biggest Prime adventure yet.
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