Thursday, February 9, 2023

Metroid Prime Remastered: No Fusion Suit?

Samus in her normal Power Suit from the beginning of the game

There may be one thing that is missing in Metroid Prime Remastered and that is the infamous Fusion Suit. Originally, this was obtained from linking the game with Metroid Fusion via a GameCube to Game Boy Advance cable and beating Metroid Prime. In the Metroid Prime Trilogy release it could be obtained via the Credit system.

People have already completed Metroid Prime Remastered, of course, but beating the game only unlocks Hard Mode. The Credit system from the Metroid Prime Trilogy is gone, instead it simply unlocks things in the art gallery automatically again. And I have yet to find any evidence that the Fusion Suit is actually available in the remaster.

Quite the opposite, according to the speed running community, it is in the game's code, but it's currently hard coded to FALSE, so there is no way of unlocking it (source). It might be that Nintendo will make it available at a later point, maybe something that involves actually playing Metroid Fusion via the Nintendo Switch Online service Expansion Pack. They could possibly also add amiibo support and make you scan the Fusion Suit Samus from Metroid Dread... Simply something scammy.

The former is probably more likely, since there is nothing stopping them from already supporting amiibo, while Metroid Fusion is not yet part of the Game Boy Advance library. Well, I don't know, but it's a bit disappointing that this is gone for now. I personally liked to use it during Hard Mode, to make it a "Fusion Mode" so to speak, like in Samus Returns.

1 comment:

Raul said...

If they did a free update would love to see Samus' Smash alt colors too like the green and pink and maybe even Helmetless Samus playable (even if it doesn't make sense in-universe with the ui being helmet based)