Reveal Trailer

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45 Minnutes of Gameplay

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• Developed by Spanish developer Mercury Steam along with Yoshio Sakamoto and Director Takehiko Hosokawa. Mercury Steam's involvement with Metroid dates back to 2015 when they pitched a 3D Prime-like title to Nintendo, which has not seen the light of day so far.
• The soundtrack is composed by 'Super Metroid' Composers, Kenji Yammamoto and Minako Hamano
• The game will release with a special edition which includes a sound, including music from across the Metroid series.
  
  
• •Metroid: Samus Returns also adds various new gameplay mechanics to the Metroid sandbox including:
  
       -The ability to free aim, as opposed to the 5 directional aiming introduced in 'Super Metroid'. A laser pointer
        shows when you are properly aimed at an enemy.
  
       -Counter Melee: which allows Samus to parry a charging enemy and counterattack with critical damage
  
       -Aeion abilities: A new set of armor upgrades which provide utility but come at a cost of being limited by a
        new resource called Aeion energy.
  
       -New Map features such as the ability to place pins and a "sonar" that indicates when Samus is approaching a
        Metroid encounter

Weapons and Equipment

Standard Eqipment and Upgrades:

Chozo Battle Suit Ver SA1-4468-VM6-P:
Otherwise know as the 'Power Suit'. This Chozo combat exoskeleton serves as Samus' main form of both offense and defense. The built-on Arm Cannon is equipped by default with the Power Beam. The suit supports a diverse array of upgrades which can be installed in seconds, ranging from Galactic Federation equipment to technological relics which Samus encounters throughout her journey.

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Offensive:

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• Power Beam:
  
  Default beam weapon. Can be aimed and fired in 360 degrees. All beams can open basic doors.

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• Charge Beam:
  
  Allows the beam to be charged up. Standard charge shots are slightly more powerful than default missiles

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• Spazer/Wide Beam:
  
  Beam now fires 3 slightly more powerful projectiles

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• Ice Beam:
  
  Beam freezes targets. Especially effective against Metroids

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• Plasma Beam
  

Beam damage is considerably increased and rounds are capable of traveling through multiple enemies.

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• Missile:
  
  More powerful than standard beam attacks, but limited by ammo. Missile stores can be expanded by 3 at a time by aquiring missile tanks. Opens red locks.

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• Super Missile
  A more powerful missile, with a larger blast radius. Has less ammo. Can open green and red locks.
  

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• Bombs:
  
  Main offensive ability of the Morph Ball mode. Explode shortly after being dropped. The blast can propel Samus upward, and well timed bombs can be used to preform an infinite chain of bomb jumps. Charging the beam before switching to Morph ball mode will cause Samus to drop five bombs at once.

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Defensive

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• Melee Counter
  The strength provided by Samus' power suit allows her to parry chaarging enemies, knocking them back, and leaving them open for counterattack. Counteratacking fast enough rewards Samus with a critical attack.

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• Varia Suit
  
  Upgrade that provides Samus immunity to atmospheric based dammage, and decreases overall dammage taken from all other souses

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• Gravity suit
  
  Negates movement encumberment due to environmental factors such as high gravity or moving through fluids such as water, acid or magma. Also negates damage from most extreme environments such as acid or magma, while also further reducing damage received from most sources.

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Other

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• Morph Ball:
  
  Samus' suit transforms into a compact sphere, allowing the traversal of extremely narrow passageways with mobily that crouching or going prone would not provide.

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• Spider Ball[/b]
  
  An upgrade to the morph ball which allows it to adhere to and climb walls and ceilings.

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• Spring Ball
  • Allows Samus to jump in Morph Ball form without the use of bombs.
    
    
    • Grapple Beam
      
      An energy based grapple hook that can be used to aid mobility, and also in an offensive manner as well, to pull or disrupt enemies like Zeta Metroids. The grapple beam automatically activates in place of the normal beam whenever Samus aims at an applicable target.

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Expansions

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• Energy Tanks

Samus' Armor relies on an energy reserve to remain active. By default the suit carries a maximum reserve of 99 energy units. Energy Tanks expand this reserve by a totall of 100 units per tank, increasing Samus' survivability

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• Missile Tank

Each one of these increases the maximum number of missiles Samus can carry by 3.
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Aeion Abilites
A set of upgrades and abilities entirely new to Metroid Return of Samus. These provde various utilities and augmentations to Samus' abilities, but are limited by consumption of a new resouse called Aeion. The exact method of replenishing Aeion is yet unknown but may come in the forms of drops from slain enemies, as do health and missile replenishment.

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• Scan Pulse
  Samus' Suit emits a radar-like sweep which maps some of the surrounding area and reveals intractable blocks. This upgrade effectvey takes the place of the Scan Visor and Power Bombs

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• Lightning Armor
  Envelops Samus' armor in an electrtic aura, which damages enemies on contact and depletes Aeion instead of HP. Damage is also added to the melee counter, and the Long Beam upgrade is negated.

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• Machine Gun (placeholder name)
  Holding down the fire button will cause Samus' beams and missiles to fire in fully automatic rapid fire, overriding the charge beam.

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• Phase Shift
  Activating this slows down time. Useful for traversing crumbling blocks.

do we know if this is gonna be a NEW New new 3DS game?

On why it’s on the 3DS and not the Switch…

Sakamoto: That was really my decision. One of the big reasons for that is the 2DS/3DS family have two screens. That lent itself so well to the map screen functionality that I’ve been wanting to put into the game that we hadn’t seen before, the ability to have the map screen always on. So it was a very obvious choice.
I wanted to be able to have that free-aiming mechanic, and the analog stick allowed for us to do that. And Metroid, that series, that world-building, that feeling of where you’re at… that level design, all those things combined really make great use of the glasses-free 3D functionality.
So if I take that: the 3D functionality, analog stick, second screen, put that all together, and the 3DS [is the best fit].

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On why it’s taken so long to make a new 2D Metroid game…

Sakamoto: I’m working on other titles outside of Metroid, of course. I’ve been fairly busy with stuff. There’s a lot of timing involved when all the pieces fall into place, and we have the ability to do some of these things we’ve been thinking about for a long time. I guess for us the timing was two years ago. Or now.

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On how criticism of Metroid: Other M has affected the depiction of Samus…
Sakamoto: To be honest, as far as wanting to change that depiction of Samus, I made what I wanted to make. It did give me some momentum, I guess, and the ability to look at Samus from a new viewpoint, and maybe reconsider what I wanted to show about her.

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On how 3D and 2D Metroid games are handled at Nintendo…

Sakamoto: There’s no close proximity to those things. We’re not really in communication. Obviously we talk about, ‘Hey what’re you guys doing, this is what we’re doing, let’s not release these [games] all at the same time, or hey maybe we should release these at the same time.’ There’s that level of communication.
Of course [veteran Nintendo producer Kensuke] Tanabe worked on the Metroid Prime series. And he comes and says, ‘Hey this is what we’re going to be doing,’ and lets us know what’s going on [with his team].

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Quote from: Chaos Metal Dragon on September 05, 2017, 06:04:12 PM

Quote from: Paul Andersen on June 13, 2017, 04:58:54 PM

Verb, go download the 3DS theme for Samus Returns

i like my zelda theme though

how does it look