Tag Archives: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

The best Metroid games want you to get lost for a little while. The Metroid series is a bit of an outlier in Nintendo’s portfolio, with its focus on solitary adventures and hostile alien worlds. From our introduction to bounty hunter Samus Aran on the Famicom Disk System to her …

Metroid (opens in new tab), every Metroid sequel (opens in new tab), every Metroid spinoff (opens in new tab), and even the much wished for Metroid NX; all of them are outliers and outcasts in the Nintendo pantheon. Samus Aran, from her humble origins as a bounty hunter to her …