Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
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Kenji Yamamoto | |
Series | Metroid |
Platform(s) | Wii |
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Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a 2007 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The seventh main installment in the Metroid series, it was released in North America and Europe in 2007 and in Japan the following year.
Corruption is set six months after the events of
The player controls Samus using the
Like the previous Prime games, the game received critical acclaim, with reviews praising its gameplay, graphics and music, though some were divided on the controls. More than one million copies were sold in 2007. It was re-released in August 2009 as part of the compilation Metroid Prime: Trilogy. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is scheduled for 2025 for the Nintendo Switch.
Gameplay
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a
Corruption is a large,
The game's
Synopsis
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Setting
The events in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption take place six months after
The Space Pirates' operation was left in disarray following defeat in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
Plot
Fleet Admiral Castor Dane, the commander of the Galactic Federation flagship GFS Olympus, calls for a meeting with Samus Aran and three other bounty hunters—Rundas, Ghor, and Gandrayda. The bounty hunters receive orders to clear a virus from several organic supercomputers called "Aurora Units", located throughout the galaxy. The meeting ends abruptly when Space Pirates attack the Federation fleet. Samus and the other bounty hunters are deployed to the planet Norion, where the Space Pirates are concentrating an attack on the main Federation base. While suppressing the attack, Samus learns that a Phazon meteoroid, called a Leviathan Seed, will soon collide into Norion. Samus and the other bounty hunters attempt to activate the base's defense systems, when they are suddenly attacked by Dark Samus. With the other bounty hunters knocked out, a severely wounded Samus manages to activate the system just in time to destroy the Leviathan Seed before she falls unconscious.[15][16]
A month later, Samus awakens aboard Olympus, where she learns that Dark Samus' Phazon-based attacks have corrupted her. The Federation equips her suit with a Phazon Enhancement Device (PED) that enables her to harness the Phazon energy within herself. She is informed that her fellow bounty hunters, also corrupted with Phazon and equipped with PEDs, have gone missing during their missions to investigate several planets embedded with Leviathan Seeds. Samus is first sent to the planet Bryyo and later Elysia to determine what happened to her missing comrades. She soon discovers that both planets and their inhabitants are slowly being corrupted by the Leviathan Seeds and that she must destroy the seeds to reverse this. Samus encounters heavy resistance from the Space Pirates, Phazon-corrupted monstrosities, and her fellow bounty hunters who have been corrupted by Dark Samus.[15][16]
Throughout her mission, which eventually takes her to the Space Pirate homeworld, Samus slowly becomes further corrupted by Phazon. She manages to stop the Space Pirate assault with the assistance of the Federation troops. After stealing a Leviathan battleship, Samus and the Federation fleet use it to create a wormhole that leads to the planet Phaaze, the origin of all Phazon. Samus travels to the planet's core, where she finally defeats Dark Samus and then the corrupted Aurora Unit 313.[15][16] As a result, Dark Samus is obliterated, and Phaaze explodes, possibly rendering all Phazon in the galaxy inert. The Federation fleet escapes Phaaze's destruction, but loses contact with Samus in the process. Samus eventually appears in her gunship,[17] and reports that the mission is accomplished before flying off into space.[18]
Samus returns to Elysia, where she mourns the loss of her fellow bounty hunters.
Development
Game director Mark Pacini stated that the biggest concern Retro had during production was the controls, which had "too many functions for the amount of buttons".
The soundtrack for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption was composed by
Release
The game was first shown to the public at the
Casamassina initially criticized Nintendo for its minimal
Re-release
Metroid Prime 3 was re-released on August 24, 2009 in North America and Europe, alongside Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, as a single-disc compilation, Metroid Prime: Trilogy. Prime and Echoes feature the motion controls and achievement systems introduced in Corruption.[49] The compilation was later re-released on the Wii U's Nintendo eShop on January 29, 2015.[50][51]
Reception
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption received critical acclaim.
Shane Satterfield from
Sequels
A spin-off,
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Logbook – "Special Forces": As we continue to observe the development of Project Helix's Elite Pirates, it becomes increasingly obvious that these warriors will usher in a new era of Space Pirate dominance.
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Logbook – "Our Mission": Phazon was discovered two stellar years ago, and since that moment, Command has been driven to control it all. Two operations have been established, at tremendous cost. Both have failed, thanks to the accursed Hunter, Samus Aran. Her Federation allies now move to secure what little Phazon remains on the planet Aether.
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Phazon Enhancement Device - GF DF PX013: The Phazon Enhancement Device is based on captured Space Pirate technology. It is being tested by a GF Marine battalion based in the Norion system. Marines can initiate an energy siphon from the supplied Phazon carried in a backpack into their armorsuits. This allows them to temporarily enhance the exoskeletal and weapon systems of their armorsuits. To date, no Marines have displayed signs of Phazon Sickness, common in subjects who use the Space Pirate's version of the system.
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Logbook – "First Disciples": Our struggles have ended. She has shown us the error of our ways. The way is now clear. All previous vows of fealty have been forsworn: we now pledge sole allegiance to our liberator, the great one, Dark Samus.
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Logbook – "The Leviathan": Our leader provided us with great wisdom on many subjects, including the improvement of our mighty battleship, Colossus. We followed her teachings, and turned our vessel into a ship without peer.
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Logbook – "Vanguard": Three worlds will be attacked, each important to the Federation. We shall destroy the spy base at Elysia, the fuel production of Bryyo, and the naval station at Norion. Each of those wretched worlds will become as Phaaze…each a foothold into the territory of the hated Federation.
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田邊: それで思い出したんですが難易度の選択というのもありますよね。 アメリカ版では、時間の関係もあって、基本的に自分で選べるようにしたのですが、日本版では、任天堂らしい味付けをしようと、銀河連邦からのアンケートに答えるような仕組みにしました。 連邦のアンケートに答えるって言うのは、レトロスタジオのアイディアなんですが・・・その質問に答えると、「あなたのオススメの難易度はこれです」と教えてくれるようになっています。
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