While waiting for Metroid Prime 4, the remaster of the first opus is becoming clearer

The journalist Jeff Grubb asserted during the latest episode of his podcast dedicated to the summer period, The Game Mess, than a remaster of the first Metroid Prime should go out to the end of the year 2022.

A re-release of the Metroid Prime trilogy on Switch has been looming for a few years, but nintendo has so far never given any clues that could go in this direction. But the information held by Grubb seems to say that things are accelerating behind the scenes:

In the past, I had heard that it was something that was going on [avec ce jeu]. Now I’ve been told that their plans are to release this game during the holiday season – I almost certainly think they’ll line up with the 20th anniversary in November.

Eh yes, Metroid Prime from Retro Studios turns 20 this year. Flagship title of the Gamecube, this spin-off of the Metroid saga has become a major license in its own right in the Nintendo universe, and has proven that you can brilliantly combine metroidvania and first person shoot.

We can hear your sighs from here: “pfff, what? Another remaster? » Technically, with the output from Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii, this is a second remaster for Metroid Prime. But with a Metroid Prime 4 who is struggling to show the end of his cannon arm after a late return home RetroStudiosIt is necessary make the fans wait one way or another.

However, corroborated by other credible rumors lying around on ResetEraGrubb asserts that the remaster would be particularly ambitious, and would almost from the remake. The game structure will be identical, but all assets and art direction would be recreated from scratch, to suit modern standards.

RetroStudios would be at work on this remaster for a few years, long before Nintendo decided to repatriate the development of Metroid Prime 4 in the Texas studio. The same treatment should have been reserved for the following opuses, but if Jeff Grubb believes that they will also end up being re-released on Switchwe would then have to be satisfied more classic remasters.

Good than a Nintendo Direct Mini is scheduled for today, we are still without news of a real Live which is supposed to reveal the major titles to be released on Switch for the second half of 2022. For Grubb, it would not be necessary to wait any longer than mid-July.