It's now been roughly three years since the elusive Prime sequel restarted development at Retro Studios, being handed over from Nintendo's previous in-house efforts. It's still in development (despite radio silence)Ī January 2022 job posting from developer Retro Studios reminded us that the game is indeed still in development. The added border at the top and bottom of the image might suggest we’re looking through another character’s visor, too. The architecture around her looks fairly alien, and the blue filter gives the impression she’s underground or within the gangway of a spaceship. The artwork features what looks to be a silhouette of Samus standing in the middle of an atmospheric corridor.
In February 2022, gaming tweeter Nibel, spotted that Retro Studios updated its Twitter banner to a new, previously unseen piece of concept art that appears to give us our first visual tease of Metroid Prime 4.
Develop high-quality environment assets ranging from hard surface to organic models." "Create compelling environments with an emphasis on environmental storytelling. Work closely with art direction and leads to capture desired goals of look and play space. Specifically, this looks for someone who can: According to a new job listing, it's now searching for a Senior Environment Artist to produce "various organic props" for the upcoming sequel. It appears Retro Studios isn't done hiring yet for Metroid Prime 4. It’s like that, like other Switch games, there will be optional motion controls with the Joy-Cons - we’re imagining aiming, firing, and environment scanning, for example. Given The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario franchises have embraced more open worlds, we wonder if this is something that Nintendo will bring into the Prime series, too. Coming in as a fresh start, there’s actually plenty of room for Metroid Prime 4 to innovate. Other than that, we can’t say what kind of gameplay changes will arise from either the new developer or the new Switch platform. One thing we can be fairly confident in is that, like other Prime games, Metroid Prime 4 is likely to be a first-person shooter. Though Samus went into hyperspace, giving the opportunity for a sequel to enter a new world or galaxy, we’d say the core story of the original trilogy is now closed.īack in 2015, Eurogamer interviewed series producer, Kensuke Tanabe, who stated that “the stories of Dark Samus and Phazon are done”, adding that any new games in the series would focus on other Prime-series elements.
What we will say is that Metroid Prime 3’s ending didn’t strike us as open enough for any kind of direct continuation. There’s so little Metroid Prime 4 information out there that piecing together the story is nigh impossible.
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