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Metroid retrospective: Part 5 -- Timeline squished in a morph ball
GameTrailers finishes off their Metroid retrospective by quickly going over the retelling of the original Metroid in Zero Mission and then setting up the chronology of the series. From Metroid (Zero Mission) to Metroid Fusion, they go over the 10 games, which have sold over 13 million units and bundle up the series in a nice morph ballAlthough the games bounce back and forth in the Metroid timeline, it's nice to know that there's an actual cohesive story in there compared to the debatable Legend of Zelda timeline. And now we look forward to this week when we finally get our hands on Corruption. Samus will be playable again in the near future with Smash Bros. Brawl, but we'll have to wait and see if the next full Metroid game takes place after Fusion, or if Nintendo squeezes another chapter out of the Prime series.
Metroid retrospective: Part 4 -- DS games and Corruption
GameTrailers continues their Metroid retrospective focusing on the DS titles and the soon-to-be-released Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Metroid Prime: Hunters may not have been friendly in avoiding cramps for adult hands, but it was still a solid 3D handheld shooter game. Maybe not exactly the Metroid experience genre fans were looking for, but it was something for the road. As for Metroid Pinball -- well, you either liked it or not.We understand now why GameTrailers took forever to get this episode out the door this week. Turns out that they were adding a bunch of little snippets from this week's release of the Metroid Channel on the Wii. They take a nice plasma shot at putting the basic information we know about Corruption into this retrospective. The series concludes next week with a look at all the games mixed together in one gelatinous Metroid glob.See also: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Metroid retrospective: Part 3 - Metroid Prime
Metroid goes 3D as GameTrailers' Metroid retrospective heads into the Prime years. Although Super Metroid is the darling of the series, if you skipped out on buying a Gamecube, the Metroid Prime games are definitely a reason to get yourself a Wavebird controller for your Wii. Plus, you can use the Wavebird when Brawl eventually comes out. Hopefully the Wii iteration of Metroid Prime will bring fans to the Prime series, as long as that control scheme works properly. Please let those controls work properly.See also: Part 1, Part 2
Metroid retrospective: Part 2 - Super Metroid and Fusion
The second part of GameTrailers' Metroid retrospective covers the long gap between Metroid II and, arguably the best game in the series, Super Metroid. The game of speed-run junkies everywhere, Super Metroid was the power bomb back in the day. Adding almost every element we've come to expect from a Metroid game today exists in Super Metroid -- except for that whole pesky 3D thing.This episode also covers Samus' "final mission" in Metroid Fusion on the Game Boy Advance. The title is chronologically the last mission we experience with the intergalactic bounty hunter. What happens to Samus Aran after Metroid Fusion? Guess we'll have to wait until something not Metroid Prime to find out.See also: Part I
