How a canceled game called Metaforce gave rise to the Metroid Prime we know

Today we bring you an extremely interesting story. In the video that you can see below, the boys from Did You Know Gaming? have interviewed several former members of Retro Studios to talk about the birth of the first Metroid Prime

and everything they had to go through to carry out the development of the title.

In this documentary, we are told that the first-person adventure that we all know from the beginning was something very different: a third-person game called Metaforce

with three female protagonists and three villains the sea of ​​​​various. For different reasons, which are touched on in the video, the development was changing until becoming, through Shigeru Miyamoto’s influence, Metroid Prime a great game that would start a fantastic trilogy of which we are now waiting for its fourth installment.

If you want to soak up the bottom of this matter, we leave you with the full video about:

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