Launching on December 4, Metroid Prime 4 is Nintendo's last big game of 2025 and has a lot of hype and hope surrounding it. Fans have been wanting an entire console generation. So when previews last month featured an overly talkative sidekick, a big departure from the often atmospheric and empty worlds of past Prime games, people were nervous. Would players quickly grow tired of some bumbling sidekick?
In the 2000s and early 2010s, Rockstar Games actually lived up to its name. Between its crown jewel franchise, Grand Theft Auto, captivating one-offs like Bully and The Warriors, and even its weirder offshoots like Manhunt and Table Tennis, Rockstar was one of gaming's most interesting developers once upon a time. But among the many Rockstar titles that made it to store shelves, there was one project that never saw the light of day.
So, for example, it's hard to imagine that any other Sony game has been looking at a bunch of samurai films with revenge [themes] and decided that it was something that they were inspired by. But I could imagine that the second reason, we were going for a game that was going to be very open, a lot of freedom.