Metroid is experiencing one thing of a renaissance on Nintendo Swap. The sequence has gotten the pleasant Metroid Dread and the wonderful Metroid Prime Remastered on the system, and nearly all of Samus’s 2D adventures are on the platform… save for one. That’s about to vary when Recreation Boy Advance Traditional Metroid Fusion hits Nintendo Swap On-line + Growth Pack on March 9:
Nintendo is pushing this concept that followers can expertise all of Samus’s 2D storyline on Swap as soon as Fusion drops. Right here’s a bit from Nintendo’s advertising and marketing group:
As soon as Metroid Fusion arrives, if you wish to get pleasure from the primary Metroid sequence so as, you may play Metroid on the NES – Nintendo Swap On-line library, Metroid II – Return of Samus on the Recreation Boy – Nintendo Swap On-line library, Tremendous Metroid on the Tremendous NES – Nintendo Swap On-line library, Metroid Fusion after which conclude with the most recent installment on Nintendo Swap, Metroid Dread.
Now, to be honest, Nintendo is qualifying this a wee bit by saying you may get pleasure from the entire important Metroid sequence. Metroid: Zero Mission was the second GBA installment and was an astounding remake of the unique Metroid. In the meantime on Nintendo 3DS there was Metroid: Samus Returns, itself a remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus on Recreation Boy. So, from a narrative perspective sure, followers will get the total factor on Swap, however each of these remakes are a should for sequence diehards to play. As for the 3D outings, Metroid: Different M, Metroid Prime 2, and Metroid Prime 3 are all presently confined to both Wii or GameCube, so there’s a methods to go earlier than Swap is the last word Metroid platform.
If you happen to’re curious what Metroid Fusion is, it’s canonically thought-about Metroid IV, or the fourth mainline entry within the sequence. It follows the occasions of Tremendous Metroid the place, after Samus has eradicated the specter of Metroids from the galaxy, she faces a brand new problem: the X parasites. With Metroids now extinct, the X are with out their solely pure predator and might now run amok unchecked. After affected by a lethal an infection of X that leaves Samus’s physique radically altered and saved solely by an infusion of Metroid DNA, Fusion sees her tackle an evil doppelgänger of herself dubbed the SA-X.
Fusion will get some warmth from longtime followers for being a extra directed expertise, however general it’s an distinctive installment within the sequence. Boasting inventive enemy designs and the tight, compelling motion that the sequence is understood for, it is a gem that ought to have everybody excited to play this Thursday.
Supply: Nintendo of America Press Launch
