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The SA-X was designed to mimic Samus' movements and actions, with designer Yoshio Sakamoto identifying such a concept as unsettling. The concept of being chased by the SA-X was reused in the video game Metroid Dread with the antagonists, the EMMI, as Sakamoto wanted to reproduce that tension.
The SA-X is defeated by the Metroid, allowing Samus to absorb SA-X's Core-X, which includes Samus' Ice Beam, and gives her Fusion Suit the same coloration as her Power Suit. These enhancements allow Samus to defeat the Omega Metroid and escape the B.S.L., which then crashes into SR388, destroying both and therefore killing all the X Parasites ...
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.
The title Metroid Dread first appeared on a 2005 internal Nintendo software list of "key DS games set to be announced in the future", [11] triggering expectation that it would appear at the E3 convention in 2005 or 2006. [12] [13] [14] In late 2005, rumors spread that Metroid Dread had been canceled or was in development hell.
Metroid Dread continues where Fusion left off, with the Federation dispatching a squadron of advanced automatons known as E.M.M.I. to investigate the planet ZDR, where X parasites have been sighted. Samus is sent to the planet herself after contact is lost, coming into conflict with the X and a Chozo war criminal named Raven Beak, stopping both ...
In Metroid Dread, the Galactic Federation receives a video from an unknown source showing an X Parasite alive in the wild on planet ZDR. To investigate, they send 7 EMMI (Extraplanetary Multiform Mobile Identifier) units, but after losing contact with the units, they hire Samus once again as she is the only being in the universe immune to the X.
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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]