Nintendo shared a new gameplay and story trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, the latest entry in the popular third person take on the genre-defining series. Psychic abilities? A mysterious red and black suit? Tasty…
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is currently only confirmed for Nintendo Switch and a 2025 release.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond takes Samus to the planet Viewros, trapping her in a jungle with a giant tree at its heart. You’ll scan relics and statues to find the paths forward, while also running into hostile alien creatures that live in the gloom.
Samus naturally has her suit and weapons, which will be enhanced over the course of the game, but there’s also new psychic abilities that will be granted to Samus – she’s got a new story arc as a “chosen one” it seems, which is a bit generic. These could be used to manipulate energy balls and mechanisms in environment, but can also apply in combat, being used to guide the trajectory of weapons fire to hit the target.
Confirmed for release this year, there’s plenty speculation that Metroid Prime 4 will be a cross-gen launch game for the Nintendo Switch 2, especially with Nintendo still avoiding pinning an exact date on the game’s launch. Perhaps a second news drop will come next week at the Switch 2 Direct?
Metroid Prime 4 was first announced back at E3 2017 but the project did not progress as well as expected and was not meeting the company’s high standards in its initial form. As such, they taken the drastic measure of restarting the project in 2019 with series producer Kensuke Tanabe reuniting with Retro Studios, who had first revitalised the Metroid series with the original Metroid Prime game on GameCube.
While that has slowly but surely come together, there’s been the popular launch of Metroid Dread in 2022, as well as Metroid Prime Remastered in early 2023. Both wetted the appetite for more Metroid games for fans, and it’s great to see Metroid Prime 4’s development has come far enough for Nintendo to pin a release date on it. We can’t wait to see more, though.
