Metroid: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)
(Rescuing 3 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
||
Line 15:
The first game was [[Video Game Remake|remade]] for the Game Boy Advance a year later as ''Zero Mission''. The 3D installments have become a franchise in their own right, with ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' (GameCube), and ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' (Nintendo DS) continuing the in-between storyline, which was finally finished in 2007 with ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' (Wii), completing the Phazon Arc. Tropes belonging exclusively to this sub-series [[Metroid Prime|belong here]].
The latest game, ''[[Other M]]'' (Wii), was released at the end of August 2010, and combines elements from both series. It was worked on by the unusual combination of the inhouse team responsible for the Metroid series and none other than [[Dead or Alive|Team]] [[Ninja Gaiden|Ninja]]. [[Love It or Hate It|Whether or not the developer and gameplay shifts were a success or not depends greatly on who you ask.]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611121612/http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14354733/metroid-other-m/videos/metroid_trl_e3_otherm_060209.html Trailer can be seen here.] It [[Interquel|takes place between]] ''Super Metroid'' and ''Metroid Fusion'', making it the only game since ''Fusion'' to take place after ''Super''.
Across the entire franchise, a number of characteristic elements have persisted, such as the continuous string of upgrades which Samus acquires over the course of the game (the ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' games open with a scene in which Samus has the [[Taste of Power|advanced weapons]] of the previous game, [[Bag of Spilling|then]] [[Strictly Formula|loses them]]; this also happens during the opening narration to ''Metroid Fusion''), most notably the "Morph Ball" (or "Maru Mari", one of several translation oddities), which allows Samus to contort into the shape of a small ball, for better maneuverability in areas where this shape is more convenient.
| |||