Before Next Level Games started work on Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, the studio was working on “a completely different project for Nintendo”. This is known thanks to an Iwata Asks interview published last year. Perhaps the project in question was a new Metroid game. Concept art was recently uncovered from the profile of a former Next Level Games employee, which includes shots of an apparent Metroid prototype. Since the staffer left Next Level in late 2009, it’s possible that this was the prototype the studio was working on prior to Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. Sadly, we may never know the full story!

Read more at http://nintendoeverything.com/rumor-next-level-games-worked-on-a-metroid-prototype-before-luigis-mansion-dark-moon/

Interesting.

If there was any secret I would want to know, it would be all of Nintendo canceled projects or ideas for projects.

At least they have new teams trying the genre via prototypes even if the main office are unlikely to let them do it.

I've been suspecting since Dark Moon wrapped up that their next project would be a 3DS Metroid title. This only strengthens that theory.

That's very interesting indeed! I would be happy if their next title would be a 2D Metroid game!

Does everyone remember when we first saw the Dark Moon box art???
Remember when everyone thought it looked like Samus was in the background???
I can't help but wonder how coincidental that really was...

Wish it were metroid instead.. Dark moon was a joke compared to the original cult classic on gc.