Picture somebody recreating the interaction of doors, maps, enemies, and everything that is not a texture, sound, effect, or a 3D model.
Partial emulation may be a solution, as it happened with Skyward Sword (more on that later).Īn alternative would be to license an engine, like Unreal Engine, Unity, CryEngine, Godot, or anything that allows the team to start recreating the game and porting the assets to the game if these are still available in their original form. Long story short, Retro Studios, or anybody up to the task, will have to create the tools to re-create Metroid Prime from the ground up - hopefully platform-agnostic. That, or these are no longer available commercially. These tools may have their licence expired, or tightly coupled to Gekko/Broadway architecture, meaning they’re useless unless code compilation is adjusted to target ARM (Tegra X1). The biggest issue is no longer has functional editor tools to work with the Prime code base, so everything has to be “brute force” hard coded. Michael doesn’t specify if is the only the first game, but it makes sense that he refers to all three. The biggest most immediate problem is the tools used to create Metroid Prime are no longer functional. One of the big pretext on why was Trilogy possible is the architecture, Wii’s Broadway CPU was backward compatible with the Gekko (Gamecube) architecture, so porting was possible in a timely manner. On 2009 the Metroid Prime Trilogy was released with all the games on Wii and motion-control compatibility. Only the third game, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, launched exclusively on Wii, three years later. We know Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes where launched on Gamecube on 20, respectively. Taking the words of the former Lead Designer of all three games, Michael Wikan, into consideration, we may be really far from a port to happen. The problem is on how much time, if Nintendo hasn’t moved a finger to port the games to their new platform. What does take for Nintendo to port these games to the Switch? If you look how Super Mario Sunshine came to happen, the task is possible. It’s up to Nintendo to check if the money they put into porting the first game in a timely manner makes sense. It’s not about when, but how and how much.
Kind of a bummer when you consider the Metroid Prime series is highly praised games that nobody should pass out, and that hold very well up to this time. It could be that the series is very different from a 2D Metroid, hence why the conversation turned around Fusion, Zero Mission, Samus Returns, and even Super Metroid, but that doesn’t mean much when the Prime games are practically not available anymore. The spin-off series didn’t receive too much attention. Metroid Prime is big absent of this party. After the incredible reception of Metroid Dread, the fifth installment on the mainline Metroid series, it was normal that the expectation translated into more sales of Metroid-related stuff, and some controversies along the way.
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