Team Ninja Wants To Work With Nintendo On Another Metroid Game

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

Roma said:

well the guy that directed the game was the guy that directed the game at Retro as well isn't he? I'm pretty sure its the same guy.

the thing is people wanted a story so he gave them one. the bad thing about Other M is that it had too long cut-scenes and they where boring other than that the game play is a solid 8 for me so if team ninja makes a new one the director of Metroid should just do what he did on Metroid prime but do it in TP stile. but if Retro did it i would be way more happy of course!

No, Sakamoto had absolutely nothing to do with Metroid Prime, and his games very pointedly ignore the Prime games and their place in the continuity.

We've been over this before, but there was nothing to ignore. Metroid canon seems to distinguish between the Zebesian Space Pirates (who lack autonomy and are more insectoid) and Space Pirates proper (who seem to be more reptilian and have a degree of free will). Prime 3 neatly established the fall of the latter breed of Pirates, who had their homeworld occupied by the end of the game (and were likely devastated by the fall of Phaaze). Phazon was gone, the only thing that Prime does is fill the gaps between Metroid and Metroid II

Similarly, Other M does little to overarching canon, except filling the gap between Super and Fusion.