Showing some true 1up-manship, Jeremy Parish has updated his blog with tantalizing non-details about a secret, pre-E3 Nintendo DS press event. Like all of the attending journalists, Parish was allowed to experience some new DS titles ("pretty cool surprises") at the cost of having to keep his opinions bottled up until Nintendo yanks the cork out. Expect the yanking to occur as soon as E3 is upon us.Parish does share one minor detail, though. There wasn't a single new Metroid game. If you had any dreams of playing a traditional, 2D Metroid game on the DS, consider them decisively stomped to teeny, unrecognizable smithereens. At least for now. It's not that I don't like Hunters--it's just that I tend to prefer exploring an intricate network of ancient ruins to repeatedly shooting menacing bounty hunters in the face. Chalk that up to a deranged childhood, if you want.
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4-20-2006 @ 5:59PM
Michael Ray said...
its ok, a new Metroid game JUST came out
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4-20-2006 @ 7:41PM
aureulis said...
well if they released Phantom Hourglass and a new Metroid game within the same year, my head would explode.
so thank you Nintendo, for saving my life.
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4-20-2006 @ 7:45PM
amiga_tone said...
It's a shame really I was really looking forward to a new 2D GBA compat Metroid. It never has to be 3D to enjoy metroid as long as it's not 8 or 16 bit ;)
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4-21-2006 @ 3:05AM
Traid said...
I'm definitely going to purchase the import of that game this Friday (payday!).
I wonder if Stage Debut will resurface.
And Dread would be SWEET.
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4-21-2006 @ 7:18AM
Louis S. said...
It took them about 2 years to make the first DS Metroid, did you honestly think they would get another one out in less then a year?
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4-21-2006 @ 7:20AM
Louis S. said...
Also, aureulis, I'd hate to end your life, but technecily Zelda DS is coming out at the end of 2006. And the metroid game was released in '06.
You lose.
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4-21-2006 @ 11:46AM
Loban said...
While I'm not suprised or upset that a new metroid game won't come out within the year (does anyone honestly expect this???), I would love to see a 2D metroid on the DS eventually. It could even be a hybrid 2D/3D view like NSMB. A sidescroller using fully 3D modeled objects and characters, that would rock.
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