MercurySteam, the award winning independent development studio behind the multi-million selling Castlevania: Lords of Shadow series has been announced as the team, in collaboration with Nintendo, working on the latest Metroid game for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
“Metroid is one of the most recognized Nintendo franchises and we are so honored to collaborate with them on the latest game in the saga of space-faring bounty hunter Samus Aran,” said Enric Alvarez, Head of Studio at MercurySteam. “Our collaboration with Nintendo will give gamers around the world the chance to play this fantastic adventure in a completely new way not seen before”.
“The development of this Metroid game with Mercury Steam has gone very smoothly and more than anything, it has been very exciting,” said Yoshio Sakamoto, senior officer of Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning & Development Department, and the producer of the overall Metroid franchise. “Metroid: Samus Returns is based on the GameBoy classic Metroid II: Return of Samus, and we are very confident that this collaboration with Mercury Steam is the reason we have been able to successfully pull together various features like actions never seen before in the Metroid series, a stunning recreation of the planet SR388 and classical Metroid gameplay elements into a single powerful package.”
The game is also getting a pair of amiibo figures: one that features Samus in a pose from the original Game Boy box art and the other of a Metroid that broke out of its containment tube. The game will also support the current Samus amiibo that are currently out in the market in some manner.
Metroid: Samus Returns launches exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems on Sept. 15, 2017.
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