The Development of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — Interview

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CaptainExplosion said:

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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...".

I mean the Prime series has never been as horror-oriented as some of the stuff in the 2D series.

Prime 1-3 had their moments of darkness like the experiments on the Orpheon in Prime 1 or the GFS Olympus in Prime 3, but they were always a bit more understated, Prime 4 simply continues with this trend.