Metroid Prime collection producer Kensuke Tanabe says he’d like extra gamers to have the ability to expertise the second sport’s multiplayer mode.
Though there’s been no official announcement, Swap Remasters of the second and third GameCube entries within the Metroid Prime trilogy have been anticipated ever since Nintendo shadow-dropped Metroid Prime Remastered in 2023, particularly with Metroid Prime 4 on the horizon.
In a brand new artbook, Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visible Retrospective, Tanabe alludes to the potential of a Metroid Prime 2 rerelease, in a bit commenting on the sport’s native multiplayer mode.
“Retro completed the multiplayer mode with out compromising on high quality even beneath such difficult circumstances,” he wrote. “Being of its time, it was designed for native play, so the variety of gamers who truly skilled it won’t have been very massive. Whether it is remade, I’d be delighted for extra individuals to have the prospect to expertise it.”
Within the guide, Tanabe additionally reveals {that a} full Metroid Prime multiplayer sport was initially pitched because the follow-up to the unique Prime, partly because of the fast turnaround mandated for a sequel.
“After ending Metroid Prime, Nintendo directed Retro Studios to finish the following venture in as brief a time as attainable,” he wrote.
“Initially, there was a proposal to develop a multiplayer-focused Metroid Prime ‘1.5’ (and finally, multiplayer was realised in Metroid Prime 2). Nevertheless, Retro expressed a need to create a strong, standalone sequel in Metroid Prime 2.”
Tanabe explains that the event of Metroid Prime 2 befell “beneath circumstances the place schedule extensions weren’t permitted”, so within the sport’s closing three to 4 months of growth, it needed to make selections at “an unimaginable tempo”.
On some days, Nintendo would have a number of translators learn completely different sections of Retro’s English design supplies without delay, in order that it may perceive them as shortly as attainable and make selections, he stated.
Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visible Retrospective is accessible to buy from Tuesday, October 28.
