The Development of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — Interview

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curl-6 said:

CaptainExplosion said:

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.

True.

Ironically one of the scariest things in Metroid Dread was Samus herself when she tapped into the Metroid DNA within her, grabbed onto Raven Beak's face, screaming with rage as she drained almost all his life force. Now Samus is the very creature she had hunted for years; a Metroid. A Metroid with a conscious, but still scary seeing her go through that.

Leynos said:

curl-6 said:

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.

Xenoblade 2 Torna would disagree

^THIS!! And of course, Draygon, whom I mentioned earlier.

Yes, those are very likely screaming human faces in her exoskeleton.