When Metroid Dread launched again in 2021, it is truthful to say that it utterly reignited followers’ ardour for the franchise. It turned the fastest-selling entry within the sequence within the UK, US, and Japan and presently stands because the best-selling Metroid recreation of all time.
Regardless of the robust important and business reception nevertheless, previous experiences have hinted at potential points inside developer MercurySteam throughout the venture, together with a very revealing piece from Anait Video games that highlights a mishandling of sources and a scarcity of belief from venture leads.
In a latest interview with Recreation Reactor, MercurySteam co-founder Enric Álvarez mentioned growth on the sport and performed down the concept the venture was “chaotic”, emphasising that the top outcome stood as proof of the group’s effectivity:
“I do not assume the event was chaotic. A chaotic growth doesn’t finish with among the finest video games within the franchise. It does not finish with a recreation that has offered greater than three million copies. It does not finish with a recreation that has received TGA awards. That is all I’ve to say about it.”
Álvarez additionally spoke about MercurySteam’s relationship with Nintendo throughout develpment on Dread, stating that working with the group in Japan was a “game-changing expertise”:
“It was a hell of an expertise working with the perfect and making an attempt to be as much as the duty of reaching the super-high requirements of Nintendo. It was heaven working with them. We labored very intently with the Japanese group, conferences each week and visits every now and then. It was unbelievable; a game-changing expertise for us.”
As for potential future Metroid video games from MercurySteam, Álvarez understandably avoided sharing something that may trace in the direction of new tasks, however when queried as as to if Jose Luis Márquez (Recreation Director – Metroid: Samus Returns, Metroid Dread) was nonetheless with the studio, he merely acknowledged “All I can say is that José Luis remains to be within the studio – interval”.
It is not loads to go on, granted, but it surely’s good to know that the inventive pressure behind the latest 2D Metroid video games remains to be working with MercurySteam.