update [Tue 14th Feb, 2023 02:30 GMT]: Jack Matthews, technical lead engineer for the original Metroid Prime, calls his thoughts “a farce.”
Here’s what he had to say about the remaster distrusting the original developer in his message. Axios:
“When my son first played Metroid Prime on Switch, the fact that he didn’t watch [my] And my colleague’s name in the credits as the original creator is pissed off. ”
Original work [Sun 12th Feb, 2023 04:15 GMT]: Nintendo surprised most people earlier this week when it shadowdropped the long-rumored Metroid Prime Remastered.
in the meantime many People are happy, but not everyone seems happy. Recently, ex-Retro studio and his engineer Zoid Kirsch, who said he wasn’t overly impressed with the quality of the remastered doors, voiced his displeasure about the game’s credits.
Instead, it’s a single screen, just to note that the remaster is “based on the work of the Metroid Prime development staff.”
Zoid Kirsch (@Zoids CTF): “Many studios have done a great job with their remasters, but I’m disappointed that Metroid Prime’s remasters don’t include the full original game credits. We worked with great people, but we need to include everyone’s names in the remaster, not just a single card like this.”
Kirsch originally worked on Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on the GameCube as a Senior Gameplay Engineer. This situation is also not strictly isolated. other The original development team has also been left out of the game credits for recent remasters and remakes.
A similar story about Pac-Man World Re-PAC surfaced last year, with Bandai Namco patching the original staff credits.
