Metroid Prime Remastered is certainly good news, and Nintendo fans are rightfully elated. Metroid Dread, a new 2D installment not tied to the Prime series, released in 2021, but that was put together by MercurySteam, the talented developers behind Metroid II remake Samus Returns.

There’s no doubt Metroid Prime 4 was affected by this global crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic shut down virtually every office on the planet, forcing game studios to work remotely and pushing back release dates.

With safer hands working on the project, it seemed like Metroid Prime 4 was finally on track, but that’s become increasingly harder to tell when we’ve not heard anything new about the project since 2019. Originally, development was delegated to Bandai Namco Studios, who worked on the title until at least 2019, when Nintendo revealed that the project had restarted in-house, with Retro Studios back at the helm of the series it first spearheaded in 2002. Years of silence and at least one false start in development later and Nintendo still hasn’t delivered the game. The first entry since Metroid Prime 3: Corruption wrapped the original trilogy in 2007, part four had been a long time coming and couldn’t get here soon enough. At last, we’d get a continuation of the GameCube series that introduced an entire generation of gamers to Samus Aran and her dangerous sci-fi world.

Nintendo brought down the house during its E3 2017 Direct presentation with the announcement that Metroid Prime 4 was on the way.

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