Seeing Metroid Dread, a game rumored to exist since 2005, suddenly appear during this week’s Nintendo Direct was quite a surprise. Equally surprising was a comment made by series co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto in a follow-up video about the game’s long development history. “The series has chronicled the relationship between Metroids and the heroine Samus,” he said, “but this game will mark an end to that story arc.”
Does that mean this would chronologically be the last game in the Metroid series?
IGN dialed up Sakamoto and asked him for clarification. “Regarding the end of the Metroid saga and the five-part saga,” he told them. “the Metroid story until this point has dealt with Samus’ strange fate that’s been intertwined around this being called the Metroid. And until now that has been the focus of the series, but what [Metroid Dread] represents is a bit of a pause or kind of a new start to...