Nintendo didn't want an open world Metroid Prime 3 because it didn't know what bounty hunting was
Metroid Prime 3 was once an open world game, but it fell through because Nintendo didn’t understand what a bounty hunter is.
News of an open world Metroid game surfaced last year when Bryan Walker, senior producer on Metroid Prime 2 and 3, mentioned the idea on the Kiwi Talkz podcast, as previously reported.
However, speaking to YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming, new details have surfaced.
Metroid Prime 3 was planned to involve open world bounty hunting, but Walker has now set the record straight on what exactly that would have entailed.
“We were not proposing in any way, shape, or form – even in our wildest dreams – that we would have like Metroid Prime Skyrim… we were not talking about 200 hour side quests or anything like that,” he told DidYouKnowGaming.