In case you forgot, and it’d be understandable if you did, Hitman makers Io Interactive bought the right and… haven’t give a clue as to what it’ll be like. With the new Bond film out this month I wonder when we’ll hear the first details on the game. I don’t know how well Metroid Dread is going to do but I hope it’s better than expected and we can start to see new games more often and not just once every other generation. I’ll admit, I just want Metroid to become a big name franchise. A remake using the tech of Metroid Prime 4, perhaps as some sort of early test, sounds great to me, but I have no idea how feasible it is. Or is the idea that maybe the Metroid Prime 1 game is a remake? Lots of people, even games companies, seem to get the two words mixed up so I’m not sure we can trust these rumours on whether it’s one or the other. Wasn’t the rumour that the whole thing was done ages ago and delayed when Metroid Prime 4 was restarted? How much work can it involve, considering there was already a trilogy compilation on the Wii and Nintendo are famously lazy about this sort of thing. I’m not sure I understand why the talk is now of Metroid Prime 1 only getting a remaster, instead of the whole trilogy. Next generation facial technology in all its glory. It’s really funny his whole face is off somehow and those eyes are just mesmerising. I’m just reading today’s GC and I haven’t been able to stop laughing every time I see the image for the article about eFootball, which I assume is supposed to be Lionel Messi. Given what’s happened with eFootball it’s pretty hard to imagine that the same company is somehow going to turn out a new modern classic as their next game.
What I’m most interested in is a new Castlevania (can’t see the point of Metal Gear without Kojima) and whether they’ll make it a 2D game like the new Metroid or try some kind of Dark Souls style 3D game. If they’re making them themselves it’s less likely that details would leak, although the rumours claims they’re using other companies and I can’t believe if that was true we wouldn’t have got something a bit more substantial by now. It’s like Nintendo in that every time it sounds plausible and logical and then… it just doesn’t happen. I feel like we’ve been hearing rumours about Konami getting back into gaming, with new Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Silent Hill games for years now. Will I be right? Probably not, but those are my guesses! I could even be someone from Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, so it doesn’t have to be a brand new franchise. New Nintendo character for a game not yet announced also makes sense, in an attempt to kind of future proof Smash for a few more years.