The Development of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — Interview

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curl-6 said:

CaptainExplosion said:

I'd like the desert sections if there was more going on out there, and I'd also like if it was scarier like Prime 2 and Dread. Thought fusing with Metroids would result in certain characters displaying more body horror, like at least close to David Cronenberg's The Fly.

There's only so much body horror you can pull off while retaining a Teen rating; Metroid is niche enough without limiting its audience even further with an adult rating.

I know, but so far I haven't found anything as scary as, say, Draygon from Super Metroid or Nightmare from Metroid Fusion.

Yes it's upsetting and disturbing when you realize Carvex's situation after killing it, but would've been scarier if it tried to communicate with what little humanity (in a sense) it had left post Metroid infection, saying something like "Help me...".