“A space adventurer with a heart of gold”.
Earlier today, we shared a brand new Did You Know Gaming? video (see below) that discussed the development history behind the original Metroid Prime. From its start as a three protagonist-lead fight against eugenics to its eventual shift to a first-person Samus Aran-starring game, it’s safe to say the creation process behind one of Nintendo’s best games was complicated, for lack of a better word.
One amusing little nugget to come out of this video is a rather unusual revelation. Samus Aran is commonly referred to as a ‘space bounty hunter’, implying she’s a kind of Boba Fett-type character. This is exactly how Retro Studios, the developer behind the Prime series, saw Samus, but at the time, Nintendo had a totally different understanding of who Samus was, and what a bounty hunter was.
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