Fans have discovered an unexpected source of even more Metroid Prime 4: Beyond footage.
As reported by NintendoLife, Nintendo has set up a new website for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. And the website has some small video clips that seem to come directly from the game.
The clip that’s on the website gives us a better look at the biome that Samus finds herself in. We have seen her explore a variety of settings in the different Metroid Prime games through the years, including ancient Chozo ruins and deep underground caves.
This time, we get to see some lush jungle vegetation. It’s actually the kind of environment that you would expect Donkey Kong in his buddies to live in, but the tropical colors have been deeply muted, as the realistic look also adds a pervasive darkness to the whole thing. That could mean it’s somewhat closer to a swamp than a simple jungle.
The little we have seen from the first trailer of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has shown us the return of Sylux, an antagonist introduced in the Nintendo DS game, Metroid Prime Hunters. As Kensuke Tanabe had explained that he had shelved production on Metroid Prime 4 for a few years, he also dropped small hints about Sylux being a future antagonist.
Sylux appeared in the Special Endings of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Metroid Prime: Federation Force, with a clear intention of setting him up to be the main villain in a future game. In spite of all this set up, we have yet to see Sylux remove their mask, and really, there isn’t that much well known about the character.
We do know that Sylux is a bounty hunter with a fierce hate against the Federation, to the point that he has switched sides to join the Space Pirates. No word if other Space Pirate bosses who should have died in prior games, will find a way to be resurrected, or maybe cloned, for this game.
But it’s clear that Metroid fans will be very satisfied with the upcoming round of teasers and spoilers Nintendo sets up in the lead up to the game’s release. That trailer was so impressive that some fans even questioned if it was really running on the Nintendo Switch. Obviously, if you’ve played the best that the Switch has in its library, you know that it’s more than capable, but maybe it really is impressive that Nintendo can pull off an aesthetic that convincingly looks like it runs on more powerful hardware.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will be releasing exclusively on the Nintendo Switch in 2025.
