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The 2D Metroid games are side-scrollers, and the 3D Metroid Prime series gives the player a first-person perspective, [1] while Other M is a third-person shooter with the ability to switch to first-person view. [2] Metroid is one of Nintendo's most successful franchises, with over 17 million copies sold by September 2012. [3]
[2] Sakamoto created characters for Metroid (under the alias 'Shikamoto'), and was a game designer on Kid Icarus. [3] [4] [5] He also directed Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid: Other M, and was the producer for Metroid: Samus Returns and Metroid Dread.
In the events of the first Metroid, bounty hunter Samus Aran foiled the Space Pirates' plans to use the newly discovered lifeform known as Metroids. Some time later, the Galactic Federation, concerned by the events that transpired, resolved to ensure that the Metroids' power could never again be used by the Pirates, and sent several teams to the Metroid's home planet SR388 to destroy the ...
Kensuke Tanabe (田邊 賢輔, Tanabe Kensuke, born January 26, 1963) [2] is a Japanese video game producer and designer working for Nintendo, where he currently is Senior Officer at Nintendo EPD. After he had graduated from the Visual Concept Planning Department of Osaka University of Arts , he decided to enter the video game industry, and ...
Metroid differed in its atmosphere of solitude and foreboding. [3] Metroid was also one of the first video games to feature an exploration to the left as well as the right, and backtracking to already explored areas to search for secret items and paths. [5] Since the late 1990s, the term "Metroidvania" has been applied to this format.
The gameplay of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and its 2D successors is often compared in the gaming press with the popular series Metroid, with both Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid seen as pioneers in the genre, [h] leading to the coinage of the term "Metroidvania" (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), used to ...
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Super Metroid [a] [b] is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.It is the third installment in the Metroid series, following the events of the Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991).