Unseen64 is a great source of uncovering games that were abandoned and we had no idea they existed. Liam Robertson who is part of the site saw a 30 second promotional video for a cancelled 2.5D Metroid title that was cancelled back in 2012. Robertson says that the title was slightly more fast paced than than Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion. The cancelled Metroid game featured a slightly different art style to the one we’ve become accustomed to and Samus was a little bit thinner and more athletic looking. The thirty-second promotional video which we’ve yet to see showed Samus battling with enemies and then being confronted by a boss who is thought to be Kraid. Robertson says that the game was being produced by “a pretty popular western developer”.
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how hard can it be to make a game were we are going to the planet of the x while being hunted by the federation
Oh, God, this comment needs visibility.
You need the Echo Visor which Samus unfortunately lost in my Homeworld…
Seriously, I don’t know how comes everyone out there seems to have thought of Hunters 2 even for a second yet it’s way harder to read such a good idea as this of yours anywhere.
I’ve never really been able to get into Metroid, but I have to say, this series needs a new installment.
I’d love to try a new 2.5D Metroid, it’d be a great way to return the series to it’s roots.
Samus thinner?…
I’m glad it was never made, I don’t want an anorexic goddess as an enemy…
she is thin enough as it is xd
U are a idiot
2.5D !
If that cancelled game had Sylux in it I’d be highly pissed.
*Rundas
both
It’s okay, put some lemon to the open wound, no big deal.
Come on Nintendo, throw us a bone. This makes me hope that there will be a New Metroid game announced at this year’s E3 even more……..
Nintendo: *throws bone* We are pleased to announce a new installment in the Metroid series! We present to you… Metroid Fit U!
Fans: *gasps* MY CHIIIILDHOOOD!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
guys there will be a metroid just wait XD
As long as they can make a 2D Metroid as good/better than Fusion or Super Metroid, I’ll be happy. :)
As long as they don’t create another crime against humanity like Other M, I’LL be happy.
started playing the prime trilogy today! I’m hooked. I’d still be playing but with the wii mote controls I can’t play hours on end without my hand cramping up!, really wish it would allow classic controls.
Pretty Popular Western Studio? Most like Retro!
Retro wouldnt just scrap development on a metroid title, besides they were busy with donkey kong.
Next level games old news move on
I remember seeing artwork of cancelled metroid game by next level
Wii u bound.
So is Nintendo ever going to give us a traditional side scrolling Metroid or are they going to keep force feeding us Prime or evolving the franchise in incredibly shitty ways cough “Other M” cough.
It’s been ages since we had a side scrolling Metroid and continuation.
Prime IS the real Metroid series.
No it’s not Metroid NES, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, and Metroid Zero Mission are real Metroid Games. Prime games just a sub series set in its on canon; don’t compare.
I bet Nintendo is going to release another Prime game for Wii U and burn the traditional fans by giving us a Metroid 5 built off Other M’s engine since Other M was sadly considered a traditional Metroid by Reggie and Sakamoto in 2009 and because it is considered the next evolution to the 2d series.
I guess im the only person who liked Other M. Sure it was a bit cheesy and didn’t have the continuity that it should have, but honestly the game play was EXACTLY what the successor to Super Metroid should have been. My biggest gripe is that we should have seen this type of game play immediately after Snes, instead of 20 yrs later. Other M is what next gen games were supposed to be before we got sidetracked with a ridiculous amount of 1st person shooters that clogged the market and destroyed what traditional games used to be.
My thoughts exactly. We really should have gotten Other M gameplay after Super Metroid instead of the first person adventure that was Metroid Prime. With that said, I don’t regret the Metroid Prime Trilogy happened because they are great but it’s time to put Metroid back on it’s proper path.
I agree, if they make Other M without the shitty storyline, first-person and third-person mode, finding all of Samus’s abilities instead of an authorization system, make the hint system optional, and an open-ended world like the first three 2d Metroid games, then it could possibly be the greatest 3d Metroid game ever released. This can only happen if Nintendo stops making their games assessable for casual gamers.
To clarify what I mean by third-person mode, no Resident Evil camera, only Mario, Zelda, etc. type of can where can see Samus’s whole body those this will aid in platforming like in Other m actual gameplay sections.
No, I really liked other m (not better than prime)
The Metroid Prime Trilogy is perfect in every regard. Nintendo would do well to keep the Metroid series in the hands of western developers, more specifically, in the hands of Retro Studios. Unfortunately, today’s Japanese developers don’t understand what the Metroid series is about and instead turned Samus into an emotional wreck… with a beauty mark. Let Retro restore Samus to the powerful, silent warrior she once was.
Japanese don’t understand what Metroid is? They created the damn franchise! Retro doesn’t even know anything about the main series; they just make their own variation of Metroid which is different from traditional Metroid games. Every single side scrolling Metroid is better then the Prime games; better yet the worst 2d Metroid is better than any Prime game. If Nintendo believe another Prime game will even hope to save the Wii U then they can try and see what happens I guaranteed it will not save the system, it may even sale worse than previous Prime games. I advise them to release a traditional Metroid on 3ds if they 1 want to truly save the franchise and 2 hurt the series even more than the already did.
I mean boost the sales of the 3ds more. Also Sakamoto just lost his touch at directing if he just produce the games and somebody else in his developing team directs then the next Metroid should be better since the reception for Other M guarantees that we will never get a heavy story centric Metroid again.
I have played all of the Metroid games, 2D and 3D, with the exception of the one on gameboy. And while all are perfect in their own regard, I can say without any uncertainty that Metroid Prime is on par with Super Metroid. Metroid Prime felt just like Super Metroid and featured much of the same weapons. It felt a lot more like Super Metroid than Other M did. Other M was japanese developers’ attempt to bring Metroid back to its roots and they failed miserably. I know it was Japanese developers that created it, but the last time we let them near our beloved franchise, they gave us an insecure Samus on her menstrual cycle.
I agree with you the first Prime was the best Prime game because it felt the closest to a 2d Metroid game than any other 3d Metroid. But I believe they should make a Prime game for Wii U and since they don’t want to make a 2.5d Metroid on 3ds, Nintendo can pull a Mario 3d world and a Zelda U and make a Metroid game for the 3ds based on that Metroid Blast game in Nintendo Land since Miyamoto did say that Metroid Blast was an idea for a traditional Metroid game. If that is true I see Sakamoto’s dev team working with Mario and Zelda’s EAD teams to make a proper 3d Metroid that perfectly translate 2d into 3d like Super Mario 3d World and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
The main thing the Other M haters seem to forget is that Samus was the way she was in the game because her life was saved by the last Metroid, a species she herself carried out genocide toward, who dies in the process of saving her life. I’d be shocked if her conscious didn’t make her question herself after such an event. That’s like David Tennant’s Doctor wiping out every Dalek, save one, getting saved by the Dalek he spared, & not having some regret in his actions for wiping out the Daleks. If a single Dalek saved his life, it raises the question of whether wiping out the entire race was really worth it if there is even a remote chance some Daleks can be changed for the betterment of the universe. *activates flame barrier, flame fort, flame tower of fort, flame highest room in tower, flame shield, flame armor, & flame chainmail* If all that fails, I got my trusty teleporter ready for emergencies. lmao
The problem was Sakamoto created an unnecessary event that was never in any 2d Metroid game. In Metroid ii Samus didn’t kill the Metroid because it reminded her of herself when Ridly destroyed her homeworld. In Super she willingly gave the Metroid away for experimentation only trying to save it to not allow the Space Pirates to repeat their original plans for Galactic dominance. In Fusion she only says it saved her life twice over. So she may have been thankful for it saving her but she did not have some weird mother child bound with the thing; it only cared for Samus that way.
I do remember at e3 Takahashi confirming both 2d traditional and 3d Metroid Prime-like Metroid games were in development. With Prime starting I believe early last year and 2d being worked on by Nintendo themselves in 2013. So I hope we hear about the 2d Metroid soon.