Given The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario franchises have embraced more open worlds, we wonder if this is something that Nintendo will bring into the Prime series, too. Coming in as a fresh start, there’s actually plenty of room for Metroid Prime 4 to innovate. Other than that, we can’t say what kind of gameplay changes will arise from either the new developer or the new Switch platform. One thing we can be fairly confident in is that, like other Prime games, Metroid Prime 4 is likely to be a first-person shooter. Though Samus went into hyperspace, giving the opportunity for a sequel to enter a new world or galaxy, we’d say the core story of the original trilogy is now closed.īack in 2015, Eurogamer interviewed series producer, Kensuke Tanabe, who stated that “the stories of Dark Samus and Phazon are done”, adding that any new games in the series would focus on other Prime-series elements. What we will say is that Metroid Prime 3’s ending didn’t strike us as open enough for any kind of direct continuation. Of course, being a Metroid game you can also safely assume that you'll accumulate new powers and upgrades throughout the game, to get access to new areas and to help you get past obstacles you might have noticed hours before.There’s so little Metroid Prime 4 information out there that piecing together the story is nigh impossible. Hopefully, Prime 4 will involve plenty of hopping between planets, like in previous games, and puzzle-solving to go with the combat, something to break up the pace nicely. This would chime with the default control scheme in Metroid Prime Remastered, too. We'll therefore be interested to see whether Nintendo persists with motion controls, or simply makes a standard first-person shooter that you control much as you would Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, for example. However, the way the Joy-Cons work on the Switch is a little different to the Wii's remote, in particular with no light sensor for consistently accurate placement. The Wii-era trilogy of Prime games all came with motion controls that were revolutionary for the time and still hold up surprisingly well if you can get hold of them now. We would very much assume that Metroid Prime 4 will also be a shooter, therefore, since anything else could just be rebranded to something like Metroid Dread.
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