Metroid Prime Devs Share Secrets (EXCLUSIVE) 

ALWAYS gets the like.

Would you admit that I'm the best character from the first Mario Kart?

An open world Metroid game would be incredible. Seeing how a game series like Destiny contains a vast array of planets to explore. Curious if the Destiny dev team were inspired by Metroid as well. Can only dream. But Prime 4, no telling what kind of game it will be Retro Studios definitely know the series by heart. Bummer about the burnout they experienced with the series. But getting a chance to explore other series, definitely ideal to experiment, and come up with fresh ideas.

Curiously, no mention of Tommy Tallarico...

@@FrogTony noticed that as well, perhaps he or his representatives turned down the offer to chat. At the moment, things are complicated

I mean that girl has gone through a new ship in just about every game and they certainly don’t look cheep

Dread was made by Spaniards tho...

I imagine it's more like Sherlock Holmes who is a detective and gets paid for his work, but only really works on cases he finds interest in.

@@AngraMainiiu I think those spaniards actually nailed it by acknowledging that yes, she is a bounty hunter, but she takes missions more based on what she finds important rather than raw profitability.

@@AngraMainiiu I think they fuckin nailed it.

same, idk why but scanning the creatures and nature was so interesting

Most people who play games don't enjoy looking into the lore in a lot of games unless its spoonfed to them. So that's not a surprise. Now those who enjoyed the game enough to play it again, those who love the franchise or completionists, they'd def do all the scanning they can.

I was always super interested

It adds to the deepness of exploration, not only by discovering then yourself but knowing more about their backstory and behavior, it added to the feel of finding life out of this world

It was an amazing way to implement lore exploration in the game. It genuinely reminds me of how Dark Souls items has flavor text that adds tons of lore and explanation to a broken, dying world.

I think they just imagine her brining in relics, technology, and animals, rather than people.

It's not just Nintendo, most Japanese media tends to believe that bounty hunter means cowboy superhero.

Nintendo doesn't really care about the story. That is why their gameplay is 11/10

She was called a bounty hunter in Super Smash Bros. Melee too lol

If I had to stay with movie references, she's less like Boba Fett and more like Indiana Jones I guess.

It's right up with there "All your base all belong to us" lol.

TBH I find Nintendo's intent for Samus a bit less interesting for whatever reason.

@@GhabulousGhoti Probably because that's the exact mindset that gave us other m. lol

@@DatAsuna Other M is the result of bad writing, and a language barrier. Not Samus being less generic.

@@SakuraAvalon there's nothing more generic than trying to make a character 100% altruistic and kind and selfless and ''motherly'' lol.

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Pls no, it's a horrible name! Sounds like poor Samus has an eternal case of vaginal thrush.

After knowing what "thrush" (the disease) is I kinda feel gross knowing that's what it's called. Yuck.

TTE

It even works with the chozo, with a bird's name and a name implying great age.

Is that the canon Metroid Manga that tells Samus’s story during the time before the first Metroid game?

@@EMLtheViewer i think when its nintendo saying it, it's not sakamoto. As in nintendo as a whole didn't, even though sakamoto clearly did.

He didn't produced, he supervised it.

@@EMLtheViewer I'd say yes, it is that manga And even still, in it Samus chooses to do what she does so she can be a protector and help people. She chooses her own path and that just happens to be the way of a bounty hunter And yes, she does indeedly humor up price money during a serious situation. An important character is about to be assassinated, Samus arrives on the scene, says she'll handle it for X amount of money, to which Adam (yes, the actual Mr Malkovich) replies with it being way more than what they'd usually pay for such an operation & that the Galactic Federation can handle the situation on their own. But Samus has already taken care of things and proceeds to further make a joke by going "Too late, I've already finished the mission". But she is by no means cruel, the reason she helped in the first place was because she wants to protect people. The bit with the money seems more like a thing she did just because she could - and to maybe take a jab at the GF or Adam for old time's sake

@@emmareiman64 I remember that part. Honestly, considering how incredibly quickly she destroyed that monster, I think she deserves the extra cash for sheer efficiency.

jfc these replies lol

Wtf

That game would of been amazing as a Nintendo game. Maybe Nintendo could let Retro star that up again with the three female protags they originally planed.

The origin of older games is nearly always far out, and I prefer it to the modern method of IP + Game Template = Game.

It exists; it's called "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath" :P Everything he said, described exactly what that game is.

On that note (I'm the guy who wrote this video btw), when I talked to Bryan Walker it was like a week after Dread came out. He said he'd bought it but hadn't time to play it just yet. When he was talking about the Bounty Hunter stuff, I started to say the exact same thing you just said about the opening cutscene. Bryan literally covered his ears and went "No spoilers, NO SPOILERS!"

Hahah, what an experience. Hope he enjoyed that scene as much as I did :)

This remindes me of the whole "Genocide City Zone" in Sonic Adventure 2.

@@jovenintensa Genocide City was Sonic 2, not Sonic Aventure 2.

I always thought that If they had just translated it as 'mercenary' it would be less inaccurate, if more vague. Edit: Specifically as reference to her actual source of income. It's in the same sense that JRPG and D&d characters are also both often called "Adventurers" doing the right thing, but they both also go around doing a bunch of shit for money, but they don't necessarily hunt bounties.

I would find myself reflecting on the fact that she's a bounty hunter and think of bounty hunters and she really didn't seem to fit in. I never got to a point where I felt like this conflict resolved and now I know why lol

There's a very good reason Nintendo of America's translators turned her into a bounty hunter: it sounded cool. I guess space hunter sounded too vague and mercenary might have sounded too sketchy and give the wrong impression, though that didn't stop Nintendo from later making Star Fox a bunch of mercenaries.

Man, and I just thought she was a freelancer recruited by the Federation!

The funny thing is it becomes a cube once you put the Game Boy Player underneath the Gamecube.

I mean it DOES look like a cube for the most part. Have no idea what he's whining about.

@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 Exactly, the add-on was an integral part of the look. :P

He's a afraid, that Nintendo was gonna pull a Sega Saturn.

Maybe he and the Star Wars writers (or possibly George Lucas) had the same idea: name a craft after a bird (since the craft flies) and then add another word to make it sound cooler.

@@foxymetroid Did you watch this video? Or Star Wars for that matter? 🤣 Sorry, it’s just…it clearly pre-dates Metroid…AND the guy even openly admits the Millenium Falcon influence in this very video before later reframing his reasoning for the name.

Dread (the original concept) was most likely being developed in Japan so it’s unlikely we’ll ever hear anything more than “yes it existed at one point”

@@okapi_q I feel like I once saw a developer build of a 3d model of samus with no animations sliding across a flat room. Samus had the same patriotic color scheme she did in the final game.

Definitely seems like the main advantage of being a bounty hunter: not being bound to dedicate years of your life to one specific government, or be restricted by their rules when it comes to travel or other things. Moreso just roaming around and getting to solve whatever problems people either approach with, or are otherwise encountered through one's travels.

Dread's intro definitely supports this theory

@@norrecvizharan1177 but bounty hunters always go to where is paid more and she does not care about money, i gues samus is a bounty hunter only because there is no one like her

@@lonewolf3314 I believe it's mostly so that she can maintain independence from the federation, but still be on like a priority list for them to call upon if they really need the backup. Such connections definitely help her when it comes to maintaining her ship and gear, along with gaining new info on events throughout the galaxy.

@@norrecvizharan1177 That makes her more like a privateer. Which, ironically, is not so different from being a pirate. A privateer is basically a pirate being paid by a government.

I've known the Metroid series since I was a kid. I wasn't ready for such a dark, mature series 'til I turned 15 when Prime 1 was released even though I loved playing as Samus in the first 2 Super Smash Bros games. Like you, the 1st Prime is my 1st Metroid game and WOW, what an incredible experience that was way ahead of its time. It also features my most favorite Ridley boss battle. I've died so many times in my 1st playthrough. Gotta say, it aged gracefully for a near 20 year old game. I still have it along with Echoes in my GameCube. Not giving away such treasures until I'm dust. 😎

My first Metroid game was _Metroid II - Return of Samus_ though the first Metroid I completed was _Super Metroid._ My third Metroid game was _Metroid Prime,_ and I loved every minute of it.

Yeah and FPS controls were still not very standardized back then.

@@illustriouschin I don't think they meant standard for back then, though.

Control mapping in early FPS games was largely derived from vehicular games, i.e. one joystick = forward/backward and steering/pivot. If a game supported strafing at all it was either mapped to separate buttons or you had to hold down a modifier to engage it.

@@Stratelier Again, the narrator didn't say "standard *for the time*". What you're describing is also very different from what was called "standard FPS controls" in the video.

@@jedimasterpickle3 That's splitting hairs when you're talking about a statement made from the perspective of the time and development occurring at that time.

The thing is she is very much depicted as a gun-for-hire who even price gouges in the official manga put out from 2002-2004 and supervised by Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto. So...maybe the people who Retro spoke to didn't think of her that way. But Sakamoto, her creator, does.

@@erimgard3128 That just means the House of Metroid was not entirely and internally on the same page then. Which would be itself disconcerting, really.

@@CyberDragon10K Is it that shocking? You should hear the stories of how much the Mass Effect writing team kept flip flopping on their own character writing from game to game.

@@erimgard3128 Sakamoto did not create Metroid he at the time of creation was a simple assistant, and after the real creators left he took the helm from fusion onwards and f(cked up metroid ever since, he hates Metroid Prime, and has no idea what metroid should be about.

She is actually a space hunter not a bounty hunter

I feel like this video goes into into exactly how it *wasn't* Miyamoto that did all the work. It was a bunch of skilled people working together

Judging by this video, they will not. Someone had to convince Nintendo to put all 3 games into one package for the price of one game. Even if someone managed to convince them, it'll probably be timed like Mario Allstars because reasons.

From what it seems like, miyamoto just did whatever

It wouldn't control as well on the Switch without a sensor bar, though.

yeah when you really think about it miyamoto was kind of a dickhead, thankfully some things are too good to die.

I like to think Samus thought a Kaiju sized Ridley, with Samus in a mechsuit.

Metroid Prime 4 isn't cancelled, what are you talking about?

@@paragonyoshi4237 development for prime 4 was scrapped and restarted in 2019

@@paragonyoshi4237 It partially was, it restarted development.

@@mikechartofilis that was under Bandai-Namco, not Retro; Retro only took over after the restart

LOL no they didn't rip "any one" off at all.

On pc? Emulation?

@Jakson1936 you don't actually disbelieve me, you're just being contrarian!

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Well it's definitely gone the other way so many times with English speakers using Japanese terms that have very specific meanings and contexts.

It's because they speak another language. lol

Not like Lara Croft raids many tombs these days, either...

Its because in japan, a bounty hunter is thematically different compared to the rest of the world

It's more like bounty = adventure hunter = seeker

Bounty = Mother Hunter = Dababy

Yup, multiple things they are saying conflict with already known facts.

The trilogy of it on the Wii was a godsend compared to the cube.

@@JGreen-le8xx my absolute favorite way to play it.

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No kidding. He is a creep.

I'd imagine they wanted upgrade pathing and efficient combat to be the crux of speedrunning in their game and not exploits.

Ive always hoped that concept comes back, its such a cool idea

@@meta9492 Metroid fans aren't going to like to hear this, but story-wise, that's essentially Melissa Bergman in Other M. She changes her personality to manipulate Samus throughout the game, starting off as a frightened damsel in distress ("the Child") to becoming a cold automaton trying to destroy everything ("the Killer") because she felt betrayed by her creator ("the Martyr"). She was also originally designed to be "the Mother" for the Metroid Warriors Project.

Yeah, the system looked and played great

You know, as much as I am not really a fan of this channel I will say this: They do research. You have any to back your claims up?

@@worsel555 I literally posted that Jack Mathews confirmed that in a interview with Kiwi Talkz, not sure what else you want from me...

@@The_Ostrich Link? Failing that an episode number or time stamp? You know, something people can jump to and go "Oh, wow, that's cool." and help verify and correct the record vs saying they are spreading bad info? Can this guys claim be backed up by more than one person or was it just that one guy trying to remember something from 21 yrs ago? Proof is good, back it up.

@@worsel555 Look it up yourself, I've got others things to do than scrolling through that video. Its got time stamps anyway.

Kiwi talks is a few comments below yours and literally calls this a great video and thanked dykg for referencing thier channel. So seems like you're just getting defensive for no reason. Also, when someone makes a claim the burden of proof is on them, not on somebody else to verify or find it

A plumber is a Brooklyn man with a heart of gold, yes?

@@patu8010 He's not unclogging toilets for the money. He's like a father figure to all dumps across mushroom kingdom.

They know what video game developers are though. Case in point: Warioware.

Mario and Luigi did work in the sewers in the Mario Bros. arcade game. I'm guessing that's after a plumbing job that went horribly, horribly wrong. They probably quit plumbing after that job gave them PTSD.

We are on the same page, Prime 1 and 2 basically shaped my tastes in games, I love them to pieces.