Certain gaming franchises can reinvent themselves time and again and find new avenues to excite fans. The Super Mario Bros. series, for example, has over a dozen different permutations and keeps on going. Other series tend to have to hew closely to the original in tone, style, or gameplay to find acceptance among players. The more rabid the fanbase, generally, the more the games fall into the latter category. Metroid has never been Nintendo’s most popular title, but those who love it really love it. Which is why the latest look at Metroid Prime 4: Beyond ahead of its December release has people so confused and perturbed.
Why? Well, it appears Samus Aran has an annoying comedy sidekick who looks like Rick Moranis.
Nintendo dropped a seven-minute overview trailer for the game, the first Metroid Prime title in 18 years. While the first-person gameplay and traversal, exploration, combat, and power-ups all feel very in keeping with the previous games, the segment showcasing Samus aiding Galactic Federation troopers gave many on the internet pause. The Metroid games are usually a solo experience. Samus is a lone bounty hunter, often taking on alien threats in complete silence. So now knowing you’ll have chatty allies isn’t super inviting.
But maybe even people who say things like “I can’t wait to see my family again” so that we feel bad when they die are okay. A comedy sidekick? Much less so. As many, including Video Games Chronicle noted with longer gameplay, the character Miles MacKenzie is not what people want from the franchise.
“I was slightly aghast,” said VGC‘s Andy Robinson, “when Metroid Prime 4: Beyond’s opening hour introduced Samus’s new bumbling, slapstick sidekick, Miles MacKenzie, who wisecracked his way through my remaining play time, stripping away at any trace of atmosphere or tension with his comedic quips and exclamations, even often outright noting when I’d missed important items.”
He wasn’t alone either.
One of the hallmarks of Metroid is challenging, puzzle box-style exploration. The best games in the series allow the player to look around, get lost, and find their own way to the intended path. To have a goofy nerd outright telling the player they missed something important defeats what is, to many, the draw of Metroid. Even those, like Eurogamer, who enjoyed the hands-on demo felt that Miles and other such characters will detract from the experience.
You can decide for yourself. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will be available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch regular on December 4.
Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.
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