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The ''Metroid'' franchise settled into a more regular release schedule following ''Prime'' and ''Fusion''. ''Metroid: Zero Mission'', for the Game Boy Advance in February 2004, was a retelling of the original ''Metroid'' in yet another new title structured in the design style introduced by ''Super Metroid'', while ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'', for the GameCube in November 2004, was a ''Prime'' follow-up that changed several concepts and was tuned to a much higher level of difficulty. ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' was an ambitious effort to present the graphically intensive ''Metroid Prime'' first-person formula on the restrictive hardware of the Nintendo DS in March 2006. The ''Metroid Prime'' subseries concluded with the August 2007 release of ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' for the Wii. | The ''Metroid'' franchise settled into a more regular release schedule following ''Prime'' and ''Fusion''. ''Metroid: Zero Mission'', for the Game Boy Advance in February 2004, was a retelling of the original ''Metroid'' in yet another new title structured in the design style introduced by ''Super Metroid'', while ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'', for the GameCube in November 2004, was a ''Prime'' follow-up that changed several concepts and was tuned to a much higher level of difficulty. ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' was an ambitious effort to present the graphically intensive ''Metroid Prime'' first-person formula on the restrictive hardware of the Nintendo DS in March 2006. The ''Metroid Prime'' subseries concluded with the August 2007 release of ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' for the Wii. | ||
After the conclusion of the original ''Prime'' trilogy, ''Metroid: Other M'' was introduced for the Wii, developed by Team Ninja of ''Ninja Gaiden'' fame and released in August 2010, and its new-for-the-series third-person action-adventure gameplay aspects were critically acclaimed. However, it garnered a high degree of controversy and fan backlash over its approach to characterizing Samus and its methods of telling a cutscene-heavy story. Even so, Samus herself - who has long been a regular in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series - is featured in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', both in her Power Suit and Zero Suit, with many design elements from ''Other M'', albeit retaining her voice and characterization from ''Brawl'' rather than changing them to reflect the new entry. | After the conclusion of the original ''Prime'' trilogy, ''Metroid: Other M'' was introduced for the Wii, developed by Team Ninja of ''Ninja Gaiden'' fame and released in August 2010, and its new-for-the-series third-person action-adventure gameplay aspects were critically acclaimed. However, it garnered a high degree of controversy and fan backlash over its approach to characterizing Samus and its methods of telling a cutscene-heavy story, and sold significantly less than most previous console entries in the series outside of Japan. Even so, Samus herself - who has long been a regular in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series - is featured in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', both in her Power Suit and Zero Suit, with many design elements from ''Other M'', albeit retaining her voice and characterization from ''Brawl'' rather than changing them to reflect the new entry. | ||
During the Nintendo Digital Event at E3 2015, a new game in the series, ''Metroid Prime: Federation Force'', was announced for the Nintendo 3DS and is a spin-off of the Metroid Prime series, with a 2016 release. The game is a co-op first person shooter, where the player assumes the role of a Galactic Federation Marine, featuring gameplay elements similar to that of Metroid Prime Hunters. Upon the unveiling of the game and its trailer, both became subject to overwhelmingly negative backlash by fans, with criticism aimed towards the game's graphics, the absence of the Metroid series' main protagonist Samus Aran, focus on FPS combat over exploration and a lack of a single player mode, as well as for the fact that it bears very little resemblance to a Metroid game. Further criticism was aimed at Nintendo for not developing a main-series Metroid game. It was later announced that the game does have a single player mode and that Samus Aran will make an appearance. | During the Nintendo Digital Event at E3 2015, a new game in the series, ''Metroid Prime: Federation Force'', was announced for the Nintendo 3DS and is a spin-off of the Metroid Prime series, with a 2016 release. The game is a co-op first person shooter, where the player assumes the role of a Galactic Federation Marine, featuring gameplay elements similar to that of Metroid Prime Hunters. Upon the unveiling of the game and its trailer, both became subject to overwhelmingly negative backlash by fans, with criticism aimed towards the game's graphics, the absence of the Metroid series' main protagonist Samus Aran, focus on FPS combat over exploration and a lack of a single player mode, as well as for the fact that it bears very little resemblance to a Metroid game. Further criticism was aimed at Nintendo for not developing a main-series Metroid game, particularly after the franchise's 5-year hibernation since ''Other M'' had broken its streak of universal acclaim and high sales. It was later announced that the game does have a single player mode and that Samus Aran will make an appearance. | ||
The ''Metroid'' series stars Samus Aran, a hardened, one-of-a-kind professional bounty hunter raised by a now-extinct race of bird-like humanoids named the Chozo and sporting a powered suit imbued with fantastic Chozo technology. With an arm-grafted cannon that can shoot a variety of projectiles seemingly without limit, and a suit function that affords Samus the seemingly superhuman ability to transform into a perfectly spherical metal ball that can self-navigate tight quarters, Samus is regularly called upon by the primary known sovereign government of the ''Metroid'' setting, the Galactic Federation, to go on infiltration missions into planets and compounds occupied by races of alien Space Pirates. The series' namesake is a floating, jellyfish-like lifeform called a Metroid, which has the seemingly supernatural ability to siphon life energy out of its victims; Space Pirates seek to breed and harness these creatures, so it is up to Samus, seemingly the only individual with the upgradeable weaponry capable of killing them, to explore Space Pirate-occupied worlds and destroy their operations down to the core. Each primary ''Metroid'' title adds to a chronology of canonical games, which is laid out below: | The ''Metroid'' series stars Samus Aran, a hardened, one-of-a-kind professional bounty hunter raised by a now-extinct race of bird-like humanoids named the Chozo and sporting a powered suit imbued with fantastic Chozo technology. With an arm-grafted cannon that can shoot a variety of projectiles seemingly without limit, and a suit function that affords Samus the seemingly superhuman ability to transform into a perfectly spherical metal ball that can self-navigate tight quarters, Samus is regularly called upon by the primary known sovereign government of the ''Metroid'' setting, the Galactic Federation, to go on infiltration missions into planets and compounds occupied by races of alien Space Pirates. The series' namesake is a floating, jellyfish-like lifeform called a Metroid, which has the seemingly supernatural ability to siphon life energy out of its victims; Space Pirates seek to breed and harness these creatures, so it is up to Samus, seemingly the only individual with the upgradeable weaponry capable of killing them, to explore Space Pirate-occupied worlds and destroy their operations down to the core. Each primary ''Metroid'' title adds to a chronology of canonical games, which is laid out below: | ||