Many of you will be wondering exactly where the recently released Metroid Prime 4 fits in the series timeline and thankfully Nintendo has told Famitsu the answer. Metroid Prime 4 is set after Super Metroid and before Metroid Fusion. Due to Samus ending up in another dimension in Metroid Prime 4, Nintendo says it “wanted to be able to create a free and original setting for Metroid Prime without affecting the 2D Metroid series.”
Thanks to Greatsong1 for sending in the news tip!
Rip metroid series. flop game
Stay off drugs.
Thanks for your opinion.
It probably is though. 2D Metroid might be ok but Prime series probably done
I agree with you….this user just shifts his name constantly. He’s a known troll. Sometimes he’s right though. Wish he would just stick with one username and layoff the insults.
Apparently the director of Prime 1-3 left years ago he and others from Retro founded a new studio Armature they made ReCore for Xbox and are owned by Meta/Facebook. Explains a lot and this game was made by mostly ex-343 staff the bad Halo games devs.
Just give me Metroid Prime 2 Remaster. Mich better game.
This game will never be as good as Super Metroid.
It seems like they do care about the lore after all. What about the Mario franchise?
I didn’t expect it to fall between Super and Fusion. I’m actually not that far into the game yet (I’m usually very busy around the holidays) so I’m wondering if the game explains/someone in the game points out how Sylux has Metroids when, as of Super, they’re supposed to be extinct and this is before we as the players are supposed to know that the Federation is illegally cloning them. I know WE know how Sylux could have Metroids because of the secret ending from Federation Farce, but not the characters in the game’s universe.
I am about half way through the game and it is so much fun. The story has me hooked. I can’t wait for the next Metroid game.
This game has to fall before metroid 2, otherwise the quick succession of 2, Super and fusion doesnt make sense. after super there is only 1 metroid left, which is cloned by the federation in the setup for fusion.
This makes no sense. Metroids are extinct (since this is after Metroid 2), yet there are NOW suddently a few??
I hate when Nintendo says things like this, because people will take it as Cannon. This can not take place after Super. They have been doing similar things with the Zelda Timeline. Metroid Has been the only Nintendo franchise with a consistent timeline. Guess thats out the window.
The answer to the question: why does Sylux possess Metroids? is given in the game, so before saying just anything here..
It’s actually funny that they say this, when they also said the same thing about Other M.
Looks like this is another game they want to sweep under the rug, just like with Other M.
The 2D metroids clearly tell a coherent story and the chronologic sequence of those games matters. It also matters to Other M that it takes place between Super and Fusion; that game’s story very intentionally places it there in the timeline.
The first three Prime games also tell a coherent story; relative to each other, the chronology of those games also matter.
However, the 2D metroids and the Prime games have never really interwoven their stories in any meaningful way. All that really matters is that Prime takes place some time after Metroid 1, so that we know Prime isn’t the first time Samus had tangled with the metroids, ridley, and the space pirates. Otherwise, the placement of the Prime games within the 2D series is an afterthought; an attempt to make sure the stories of the two series don’t directly contradict each other, but not to interweave the stories in any meaningful way or to fill out details that either series left unexplored.
Prime 4 is basically a clean slate; not only does it not really reference the 2D metroid games, it doesn’t really reference the Prime games either, except for Sylux, who himself is barely a character in Prime 1-3, only in the portable games. And in Prime 4, you’ll quickly find that he could easily have been a new character and filled the same role, because they don’t bother to connect him to the previous games in any real way.
To sum up, if you really want to try to fit the Prime games, including Prime 4, into the chronology of the 2D games, you are welcome to, but it doesn’t really matter. You can think of it as a completely separate canon and it won’t affect anything whatsoever.
All I meant was that it was just funny that Nintendo said this. Because Other M went ignored within the Metroid Series after it’s release and Nintendo also said it took place after Super Metroid.
Given that Prime 4 is such a non-entity to Metroid, even previous Prime games other than one character showing back up, it likely COULD mean that Nintendo will likely ignore Prime 4 in the future. And given what they allowed Retro to do, that might be a good thing.
The people in the comments Karen screaming about “THE TIMELINE DOSEN’T FIT CAUS HOW DOSE STYLUX HAVE METROIDS WHEN THEY DEAD” have now declared to the public that they’re not real Metroid fans after Nintendo has been bonus storying that plot for a DECADE now.
Except, if you have to play another, kinda bad, no longer available game to know why Sylux has Metroids with him despite them being extinct now, that is the mark of bad story-telling.