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Metroid Dread [a] is a 2021 action-adventure game developed by MercurySteam and Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It was released on October 8, 2021. It was released on October 8, 2021.
Metroid Prime appears in Metroid Prime as the final boss, and after its defeat, reforms itself by stealing Samus' Phazon Suit to become Dark Samus, a black-colored doppelgänger of Samus. Metroid Prime was formed when a Phazon meteor known as a Leviathan impacted on Tallon IV, released its living core, and enticed and fused with a Metroid ...
The SA-X is the main antagonist of the video game Metroid Fusion. She is a parasite that originally infected the protagonist, Samus Aran, as well as her Power Suit, before Samus was cured by injecting Metroid DNA into her. The SA-X later appears, having replicated her Power Suit, including all of her most powerful weapons from Super Metroid ...
After MercurySteam pitched a remake of the 2002 game Metroid Fusion to Nintendo, the producer, Yoshio Sakamoto, hired them to create a remake of Metroid II instead. [3] MercurySteam collaborated with Nintendo again to develop a new game, Metroid Dread , for the Nintendo Switch . [ 4 ]
After another hiatus, MercurySteam developed a remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid: Samus Returns (2017) for the handheld Nintendo 3DS, followed by Metroid Dread (2021) for the Nintendo Switch. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is scheduled for 2025. As of September 2012, the Metroid series had sold over 17.44 million copies. [2]
In Metroid: Other M, the Zero Suit is capable of materializing the Power Suit from within itself. [21] She is 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) and 90 kilograms (200 lb) while wearing the Power Suit. [22] The Super Metroid Nintendo's Player's Guide describes Samus as 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighs 198 pounds (90 kg) without her Power Suit. [23]
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 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]