How important have the capabilities of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk been in helping you to make the game all you wanted it to be? NoE: The game is generating a lot of excitement because of its unique control system. However, inside her body, some change is about to be brought about, slowly, but surely… Dark Samus implants Phazon into Samus’s body, but Samus still looks normal, and she accepts a new commission from the Galactic Federation. Dark Samus, who they thought was dead, is involved in the attack. Samus and her friends, who were called by the Galactic Federation, move to defend the Federation’s base from a sudden attack by Space Pirates.

The story of the game occurs in the period about six months after Metroid Prime 2. Does that sound like Japanese-style horror? I also wanted to provide some definitive information about the Phazon material that has appeared throughout the Prime Series. Personally, I wanted to create a feature that makes your blood freeze in the fear that you may become Dark Samus. Then we asked what would bring about this corruption before coming up with this final setting that mainly focuses on the theme of “corruption”. Then we started thinking about what “becoming Dark Samus” actually meant and decided it probably meant “gradually becoming evil”, or “being corrupted”. I thought this was a winning idea when I heard it, because Samus had always been a heroine and had never been evil. In the process of thinking about the game, a member of staff at Retro put forward an idea that ''Samus could turn into Dark Samus''. We had ideas for new activities in the game, but did not have the idea for the core theme of the game. We wanted something new for Prime 3, because we did not want to make it just like an advanced version of Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2. At first we were struggling to find an outstanding idea regarding what should make up the core of MP3. The idea of making Dark Samus a key feature came from a member of staff at Retro during a meeting we held with them at the early stages of development. Dark Samus is one of the key themes of this title.

Risa Tabata: 'Metroid Prime 3 begins with a scene where Samus wakes up after having a nightmare about the re-birth of Dark Samus. NoE: Can you set the scene for us – what is the starting point for the story that unfolds in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption? We put questions to some of the key players involved with the project to learn more about what lies ahead in the final part of the Metroid Prime trilogy.Īnswering our questions are Risa Tabata (assistant producer), Kensuke Tanabe (producer), Michael Kelbaugh (President and CEO Retro Studios), Mark Pacini (Game Director) and Bryan Walker (Senior Producer Retro Studios) The vast game world and revolutionary control system in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption bear testimony to the huge amounts of work that have gone into creating the game.

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