


In the years since, we have heard very little about the game's progress, though we do know it was essentially restarted back in 2019 as development moved from one studio to another. However, Metroid Prime 4 was announced in 2017, instantly becoming one of the Nintendo Switch's most anticipated games despite fans only knowing the name and the logo. Of course, being a Metroid game you can also safely assume that you'll accumulate new powers and upgrades throughout the game, to get access to new areas and to help you get past obstacles you might have noticed hours before.It has been more than 15 years since the Nintendo Wii got Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, bringing a supposed end to Samus Aran's first-person adventures. Hopefully, Prime 4 will involve plenty of hopping between planets, like in previous games, and puzzle-solving to go with the combat, something to break up the pace nicely. This would chime with the default control scheme in Metroid Prime Remastered, too. We'll therefore be interested to see whether Nintendo persists with motion controls, or simply makes a standard first-person shooter that you control much as you would Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, for example. However, the way the Joy-Cons work on the Switch is a little different to the Wii's remote, in particular with no light sensor for consistently accurate placement. The Wii-era trilogy of Prime games all came with motion controls that were revolutionary for the time and still hold up surprisingly well if you can get hold of them now. We would very much assume that Metroid Prime 4 will also be a shooter, therefore, since anything else could just be rebranded to something like Metroid Dread.
