Metroid: Other M Deveoper Interview – Nate Bihldorff
WorthPlaying posted an interview with Nintendo’s Nate Bihldorff, the localization producer at Nintendo of America who is overseeing the US release of the game.
"WP: Metroid: Other M is a little bit of a throwback because it ties in as a sequel after Super Metroid rather than the Metroid Prime games. How do the Metroid Prime games relate? Do they happen after this, or do they belong in a separate timeline altogether?
NB: I think the Metroid Prime games exist on their own timeline. This game is very clearly married to the 2-D Metroid timeline. It starts out with a flash back to the end of Super Metroid, which, of course, continued the plot of the original Metroid and Metroid 2. Some indeterminate amount of time passes, and then we have the events in this game. It’s set between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, specifically because in Metroid Fusion, you basically hear about Adam Malkovich’s death and Adam Malkovich is alive in this game, so it’s somewhere in that time period between the two."
