Did You Know Gaming? delves deep.
Metroid Prime is one of the crown jewels in the GameCube’s library as well as within the Metroid series. Prime combined exploration and first-person gunplay to expert effect, which was only possible due to Retro Studio’s involvement. While this game is (rightfully) highly regarded, it’s no secret that the development behind it — which forced Retro to crunch to finish the game — was fraught. But Metroid Prime was once a very different and very unusual game.
Did You Know Gaming? has delved into the history of the original Metroid Prime and spoken to multiple people who worked at Retro Studios at the time. The developer had to scrap multiple thousand-page design documents to create something Nintendo was willing to go ahead with. And Samus was originally never part of the picture.
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