


In Memoriam: The Metroid Prime Trilogy compilation is in memory of senior engineer Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, who died of pancreatic cancer over a year before the trilogy's re-release.Metroid: Samus Returns, a remake of the second game in the series, would even explicitly canonize the Prime titles by adding new story content in the form of Ridley transitioning from his cyborg-form Meta Ridley to his organic body from Super Metroid, better linking the two halves of the franchise together. But even then, Other M and subsequent Metroid games still feature continuity nods to some of Prime's worldbuilding. The belief that he hates the Prime games stems from him explaining he didn't specifically factor them into the story of Other M, which fans then proceeded to blow out of proportion.

In reality, he considers them to be great games and fully canonical (even being the one to decide that were canon), but regularly stresses that they are self-contained interquels taking place early in the series' chronology. God Never Said That: Thanks to the rather vehement Broken Base surrounding Metroid: Other M, it has been persistently reported ever since that Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto hates the Metroid Prime Trilogy due to his minimal involvement in their creation and views them as Canon Discontinuity.There were enough parallels that fans of both series wondered if the designers were taking notes of each other. It got weird later on as development for both series progressed. Metroid Prime 2 and 3 were released in the same years as Halo 2 and 3. Dueling Works: In its day, it had one with Halo (both were Sci-Fi First-Person Shooters that acted as flagship titles for their respective consoles).However, they actually made plans to ally with Dark Samus! The actual line comes from a Pirate Log in Corruption, in which the Space Pirates realize a violent Dark Samus has stowed away on one of their transports. Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The line "Surely, we are cursed" is frequently associated with a Pirate Log in Echoes in which the Space Pirates realize that there are two versions of Samus on Aether with them.For the Trivia pages of its individual games, see here: This is the Trivia page for the entire Metroid Prime Trilogy.
