{"id":131779,"date":"2023-02-12T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-145054"},"modified":"2023-02-12T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T04:15:00","slug":"metroid-prime-engineer-let-down-by-exclusion-of-original-credits-in-remaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/12\/metroid-prime-engineer-let-down-by-exclusion-of-original-credits-in-remaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroid Prime Engineer &#8220;Let Down&#8221; By Exclusion Of Original Credits In Remaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/42e84705fcce8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/42e84705fcce8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Metroid Prime Remastered\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/42e84705fcce8\/metroid-prime-remastered.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/42e84705fcce8\/metroid-prime-remastered.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Metroid Prime Remastered\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo surprised pretty much everyone earlier this week when it shadow-dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_remastered\">Metroid Prime Remastered<\/a> after years of ongoing rumours.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>most<\/em> people are satisfied, it seems not everyone out there is happy. Former Retro studios engineer Zoid Kirsch, who recently mentioned how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/02\/random-metroid-primes-og-engineer-isnt-happy-about-the-remastered-doors\">he wasn&#8217;t very impressed with the quality of the doors in the remaster<\/a>, has now voiced his frustration about the game&#8217;s credits &#8211; noting how it does not include the full original credits.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it&#8217;s a single screen, simply noting how the remaster is &#8220;based on the work of Metroid Prime development staff&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Zoid Kirsch (<a class=\"external\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_link\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@ZoidCTF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ZoidCTF<\/a>): &#8220;While many studios did amazing work on the remaster, I&#8217;m let down Metroid Prime&#8217;s Remaster does not include the full original game credits. I worked with so many amazing people on the game and everyone&#8217;s name should be included in the remaster, not just a single card like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/modernvintageg\/statuses\/1624487971390111745 @ 2023-02-12T05:08:31+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yeah im not a fan of this practice. In remasters I&#8217;ve worked on we&#8217;ve credited the original game. in some cases we put them before the remaster team. not cool<\/span>\u2014 MVG (@ModernVintageG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ModernVintageG\/status\/1624487971390111745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kirsch originally worked on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/metroid_prime\">Metroid Prime<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/metroid_prime_2_echoes\">Metroid Prime 2: Echoes<\/a> for GameCube as a senior gameplay engineer. This situation isn&#8217;t exactly an isolated one, either &#8211; with <em>other<\/em> original development teams also being excluded from the game credits of remasters and remakes nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>A similar story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pac-man_world_re-pac\">Pac-Man World Re-PAC<\/a> surfaced last year and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/bandai-namco-patches-pac-man-world-with-original-staff-credits-and-more\">Bandai Namco patched in the original staff credits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:144924,141221 @ 2023-02-12T06:44:48+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts about this? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Nintendo surprised pretty much everyone earlier this week when it shadow-dropped Metroid Prime Remastered after years of ongoing rumours. While most people are satisfied, it seems not everyone out there is happy. Former Retro studios engineer Zoid Kirsch, who recently mentioned how he wasn&#8217;t very impressed with the quality of the doors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}