Am I the only one who doesn't feel like this has anything in common with the classic Metroid series?
Take Super Metroid as an example: it was a game dominated mood, the strange inhuman landscapes, the long strained silences punctuated by bizarre creatures and the ruins of an impossibly ancient civilization. It's a masterpiece of pace and atmosphere. And while it's a platformer in terms of gameplay, and Samus does indeed become a well-armed tank, these facts don't make a Metroid game. We already have lots of well-warmed heroes and antiheroes. Super Metroid specifically shares much in common with a horror story, and a hero's tale, and dystopian science fiction.
The Prime series, if nothing else, understood that mood and atmosphere are central to Metroid. It's what made the classics great. For that matter, it's what makes the Prime games great. I don't see anything in this trailer except for guns and explosions. Often in slow-motion. People talking earnestly saying nothing in particular. Badass? Maybe. And yeah, Team Ninja in the Metroid universe probably WILL be fun. But I fail to see how it's closer to classic Metroid unless in some very superficial sense.
For one, it probably wouldn't be full-frame (FX), unless Nikon wanted to effectively invalidate pretty much every camera but it.
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