Smashchu2 on 08 August 2010
4. Sakamoto explains that Metroid was conceived with a deep story from the beginning. But game development was very different when the game was first conceived. As technology and development has sophisticated, Sakamoto has been able to express the story himself and some of the original design team have encapsulated. This game in particular is a very "romantic" project for him, and something full of many ideas formed in the past years.
Seeing as Gunpei Yokoi is the creator of Metroid and did the first three games, I doubt the plan was to make a grand story.
Also, Mario Party has been in decline for a while. The games have not been as good as they use to be. Wii Party is like playing the old Mario games.
