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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.
Metroid Dread is an action-adventure game in which players control bounty hunter Samus Aran as she explores the planet ZDR. It retains the side-scrolling gameplay of previous Metroid games, alongside the free aim and melee attacks added in Samus Returns (2017).
In Metroid Zero Mission, Samus is able to enter the Chozo Ruins. In Metroid Dread, the social structure of the Chozo is explored, revealing they are split into two tribes: the peaceful Thoha, who left their warrior traditions behind to become scientists, and the Mawkin, who retained a warrior culture. The Thoha initially colonized SR388 and ...
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.
Samus Aran (Japanese: サムス・アラン, Hepburn: Samusu Aran) is the protagonist of the video game series Metroid by Nintendo.She was created by the Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano and introduced in the first Metroid (1986) for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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]
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: Comic Bom Bom: July 2005–January 2006 Notes: Adaptation of the game, released across seven issues of the magazine. [72] Written by Hisashi Matsumoto. Samus and Joey: Comic Bom Bom: Notes: 5-part manga involving the adventures of Samus Aran and a boy called Joey from a frontier planet. [73]
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 ]