A former developer at Retro Studios expresses his disappointment with one aspect of the recently released Metroid Prime Remastered, commenting on the lack of credit for the original developers. The remaster was shadowdropped digitally earlier this month, where it was featured in the February 2023 Nintendo Direct before announcing its release the same day after the presentation concluded. This remaster garnered a lot of praise, not only for updating one of the most beloved games in Metroid's history but also for making it better than just a visual update. That said, a former developer of the game has criticized some aspects of Metroid Prime Remastered.These criticisms come from Zoid Kirsch, a programmer and senior gameplay engineer at Retro Studios for the first two Metroid Prime games. He left the studio when the third game was in development, and retired from the industry in 2021. Nowadays, he shares stories about the development of games he worked on, such as when he completed a speedrun of the game after it went gold. He also commented on the recent Metroid Prime Remastered, expressing his disappointment regarding the practice of excluding him and the original developers in the end credits.In a tweet posted by Kirsch, he stated while he appreciated the number of studios that helped remaster Metroid Prime, he was "let down" that the remaster didn't include the game's full original credits. He noted that he had worked with so many people to make the game what it was, and they all deserved to be in the sequence. He felt it should be more than just the single credits card that briefly described that it was based on the work of the original.
A fellow developer at Nightdive Studios, ModernVintageGamer, also expressed his disappointment at this as well. He notes that with remasters that he had worked on at Nightdive, he includes those who had originally worked on the game in the sequence, with some cases having the original team appear before the remastered team. He ends with the idea of excluding the developers from the credits of the game as a bad practice.
This practice has been a prevalent issue in various remasters released over the years. Last year, Bandai Namco's release of Pac-Man World Re-PAC also excluded the original developers from the credits, which was criticized by one of the game's original staff members. This did end up seeing a patch for Pac-Man World Re-PAC that added the original credits back into the game. It seems fans wish for Nintendo to follow the same courtesy for Metroid Prime Remastered and patch the original credits into the game.
Metroid Prime Remastered is available on Nintendo Switch.
Source: Nintendo Life
