The Metroid franchise has a sprawling timeline that weaves its sci-fi saga across 11 mainline games. But how does everything tie together? ByAdam MasononOctober 5, 2021 at 8:00AM PDT Metroid Dread marks the conclusion of a story arc dating back 35 years, which takes in the original Metro...
Metroid Prime Remastered was launched as a surprise yesterday during the February 2023 Nintendo Direct. However, for all the good the developers have done bringing the game’s visuals and mechanics up to par with current releases, one of the game’s original developers has noticed a...
Another classic in the series,Super Metroidis a game worth remembering due to its emotional storyline and its vast, exploration-worthy map. It was launched on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System almost three decades ago but remains one of the bestMetroidgames of all time. Metroid Fusion(Clas...
All of that brings us toMetroid Fusion(GBA), the most recent game in the series’ timeline. It begins with Samus once again visiting SR388, this time to accompany a team of scientists from the Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL). There, the crew and Samus are attacked by a parasite, but ...
Metroid Dread is a culmination of a storyline that began with the original game back in 1986, and provides some insight into Samus Aran's true origins. Although the threat of the Metroids begins in the original Metroid, and continues in Metroid II: Return of Samus and Super Metroid, Samus...
)(or their respective remakes,Metroid: Zero Mission (2004)andMetroid: Samus Returns (2017)). Although series creatorYoshio Sakamotoinitially called the Prime series 'gaiden' (sidestory) games, they are considered to be a "contained subsaga" and a canon (official) part of the Metroid timeline...
Metroid: Other M (Wii Game) first released 31st Aug 2010, developed by Nintendo and published by Nintendo.
The only Metroid game on Game Boy, Metroid II: Return of Samus picks things up after the events of the first game (and also after the events of the Metroid Prime series – more on that in our complete timeline below). After a successful mission on Planet Zebes, it's decided that Metro...
which came out in 2010, but was a prequel toFusion, taking place just before it on the series' timeline. ADAM and Adam's game appearances are explored below, in their order of release, with massive spoilers for all three titles (including end game spoilers for the recently releasedMetroid ...
The Story ofMetroid The original game states that the first title in the series takes place in "20X5 AD". For the sake of discussion, we're going to use real years here. Based on basic supposition, with a general starting year of 2075 and then, each year following featuring a new adv...