Metroid Marathon Starts Today – 9pm CST
Starting today, we’ll be playing through all of the 2D games every night on our Twitch channel. Rue, Lillith, and myself will all be playing as a lead up to Metroid Dread. Once I get the game I will definitely be streaming the whole playthrough. So come on out and enjoy some Metroid nostalgia with us!
https://www.twitch.tv/metroiddatabase
Metroid Dread – Overview Trailer
This is a big ‘un, lasting nearly 5 minutes long. Nintendo’s really pulling out all the stops this time around.
Kiwi Talks – Interview with Mike Wikan
A new, fantastic interview with the lead designer of the Metroid Prime Trilogy, Mike Wikan, has been released by Australian tech podcaster, Kiwi Talks. The interview is pretty detailed, and Mike talks about the intricacies of the game’s history, talks about game design and working in development, as well as sheds some details into his personal life. It’s definitely worth a watch/listen for all Prime fans.
Chozo Warrior Renders – Japanese Dread Site
Here’s some art of the Chozo warriors taken from the Japanese Dread site, which is obviously way more well made and better looking than anything us lowly Americans get. (Once again if you decide to go, there are HUGE spoilers!)
A few have speculated that these may be Torizo and not living, breathing Chozo, but take a look at their hands and feet – those are very organic looking. I believe they are indeed living Chozo that Samus must battle in the game!
Dread Report Vol. 6 and Bad News
The good news first. Metroid Dread Report Vol. 6 has released today and HOOOO BOY it is more mind-blowing and spoilery than ANYTHING they’ve released thus far. If this doesn’t get you excited for Dread, nothing will.
Ready? Watch this absolutely mind-blowing trailer, which includes an old, familiar face:
Read the Dread Report here:
- Nintendo of America version
- Nintendo of Japan version (Can be translated automatically to English in Chrome)
And now, the bad news.
We’ve gotten word that Prime 2D, the Metroid Prime-inspired 2D remake, has been canceled and is no longer available for download, along with the soundtrack. Here’s the final words from Troid92, the game’s director, which was posted on Reddit and is now deleted:
This comes as no surprise, seeing how Nintendo treated AM2R, and while we are deeply saddened and disappointed, let’s hope the team goes on to create something amazing. Prime 2D’s engine, graphics and sound, and design is proof that there was a lot of talent behind this fangame. I wish the whole team the best of luck on their future endeavors.
New Stickers are LIVE!
That’s right folks, we’ve just released some new merch for our store, found over at https://metroiddatabase.storenvy.com.
There’s 10 in all. Each sticker was made with loving care and is waterproof, and able to be used indoors or outdoors. Two of them are sweet holographic ones, inspired by the upcoming Metroid Dread. If these are popular enough, we will definitely be having more made.
Pick up a set today, and as always, thank you for your continued support of our website!
Well what are you waiting for? GO GRAB ‘EM!
(Stickers were designed by @spotartstation.)
Psst… I may have found a secret.
Metroid Dread Report Vol. 5
Another Metroid Dread Report was released today! In it includes a breakdown of Samus’s abilities which we’ve all come to know and love, as well as a new trailer (embedded below) which seems to be an exerpt of the game’s intro sequence. Nintendo is also promising a new trailer in the next report, due out on August 27th!
HYPE.
Check it out here:
Potential spoilers if you are trying to go in dark! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Chozo Memories added – HD + SD
Just mentioning that I added a slideshow of the Chozo Memories. The most recent update to the Dread website (Vol 4) offered super clean, HD images of four Chozo Memories from Samus Returns (1, 5, 6, and 9). The rest, unfortunately, have not been made available to us through normal promotional materials. Thus, they were screenshotted from an emulator and then upscaled and cleaned in Photoshop. The art isn’t as good as I’d like it but it’s better than nothing. Go check out our Chozo Memories slideshow here.
(P.S. if the URL above doesn’t work, go to the Metroid Samus Returns section from the primary menu above, then go to Media > Chozo Memories)
Metroid Dread Report Vol. 4
With impeccable timing, Nintendo has dropped Volume 4 of their Metroid Dread coverage. This one focuses on the four 2D games in the series (once again, completely ignoring Other M), and explains a little overview of each game’s story, as well as complementing each section with some old concept artwork. In any case, we actually recommend going to the JAPANESE VERSION instead if you’re going to read through it, because it looks like the US one just takes the scraps and cobbles it together.
But the REAL meat of the story is this new Dread teaser trailer at the very end! It’s really good and it’ll hype you right up. BEWARE though, there are POTENTIAL SPOILERS so you may not even want to watch it! Watch it here: