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parallaxscroll
06-03-2009, 04:28 PM
Don't gets your hopes up. This isn't so much about the release of Metroid Dread, only apparent confirmation that it wasn't just a rumor....



Nintendo: New Metroid Is NOT Metroid Dread

Longtime Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto acknowledged that the long-rumored Metroid Dread is real and may some day be released.

During a Metroid interview yesterday with series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja producer Yousuke Hayashi, we slipped in a question that was not about the newly announced Metroid: Other M.

Well, we thought it might be related.

For a few years, there have been rumors that Nintendo was working on a new side-scrolling Metroid game called Metroid Dread. There was even an easter egg reference to entities known as "Metroid Dreads" tucked into Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

So, we wondered, could the long-incubating Metroid: Other M, which we learned was conceived in 2006, be the Dread project?

"He's very familiar with that [game,]" Sakamoto's translator said after posing our question to him. "No, this is different."

We pressed for details on what Dread is. Sakamoto's response: "The day may come when Dread hits the stores, but this one is something that's completely different. This is other M."


http://kotaku.com/5277377/nintendo-new-metroid-is-not-metroid-dread


From what I recall, Metroid 'Dread' is the long-rumored 2D side-scrolling Metroid sequel for DS. It dates back to at least 2005, and was hinted at in a hidden message in Prime 3 in 2007, but never surfaced.

MrMatthews
06-03-2009, 05:01 PM
Next gen, at best.


Edit: unless they plan to release two Metroid games at once, like they did for Prime and Fusion.

jesus.arnold
06-03-2009, 05:58 PM
It seems quite strange to me that Ninty haven't made any 2D Metroid games for DS when they must've seen how successful the Castlevania games have been :S