Nintendo Comments On Metroid Prime 4’s Placement In The Metroid Timeline

Like different iconic Nintendo collection, Metroid has a timeline documenting Samus’ house adventures from previous to current. Though the latest outing Metroid Prime 4: Past may be very a lot its personal factor, it’s nonetheless a part of the Prime collection as a brand new chapter.

Outdoors of the first-person entries, it is now apparently been talked about by Nintendo how this sport matches throughout the total historical past of the Metroid collection. Chatting with Famitsu not too long ago, Nintendo’s growth crew reportedly informed the well-known Japanese gaming outlet how the most recent Swap and Swap 2 outing is ready after Tremendous Metroid on the Tremendous Nintendo and earlier than Metroid Fusion on the Recreation Boy Advance (thanks, Nintendo Every thing).

In saying this, it is reiterated how the brand new entry takes place in “one other dimension”, which means there isn’t any want to fret in regards to the timeline or attainable impacts on the 2D Metroid collection. Because of this, gamers can leap into this new journey with none prior information and benefit from the authentic setting. It has been an 18-year wait between this sport and Corruption, in spite of everything.

In our evaluation of Metroid Prime 4 right here on Nintendo Life, we additionally talked about how newcomers would have the ability to get pleasure from this new journey with out having to know the historical past of the collection. If Nintendo, Retro Studios or a outstanding Nintendo determine says the rest about how precisely Past matches throughout the Metroid timeline, we’ll present an replace.