Project Cafe/3DS Rumors - Rare on 3DS/Ports for Cafe/ Metroid future?

[Mr Khan]

Onyxmeth said:

Soleron said:

Pavolink said

- Nintendo may consider letting the Metroid series cool for awhile after support for the franchise seems to be waning

Incorrect Nintendo. If you released an actual Metroid game (as in, gameplay of Metroid I, Metroid II, Super Metroid or Metroid Prime 1) it would sell just fine. The waning is because people did not like Other M.

Right. Metroid Other M came from them likely having a lack of ideas for the direction of the franchise though. A cooling off period may give a team the proper inspiration to think up something as original as the transition from Super Metroid to Metroid Prime. The original inspiration for Prime very likely came from a lack of pressure to come out with a successor.

I wouldn't mind another Metroid Pinball for the 3DS though. Maybe mix it up with different Nintendo franchises like Pokemon Pinball and Mario Pinball too rolled into one big game.

I think Other M was a very good direction for the future of the Franchise from a pure gameplay perspective. They need to take a minimalist approach to storytelling and choose more interesting environments for Samus to explore (everything Other M had Fusion had done before), but as far as the controls and how Samus moved and fought, it worked out perfectly, sans fine-tuning a few bits (the broken dodge -> instant full charge mechanic, and getting rid of concentration in lieu of returning pickups, better controller layout)

Other M was a good idea with mediocre execution, but conceptually was an excellent step to bringing the feel of 2D Metroids into a 3D space