{"id":132266,"date":"2023-03-06T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146074"},"modified":"2023-03-06T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:30:00","slug":"random-check-out-the-directors-cut-of-metroid-fusions-weird-live-action-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/random-check-out-the-directors-cut-of-metroid-fusions-weird-live-action-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Check Out The Director&#8217;s Cut Of Metroid Fusion&#8217;s Weird Live-Action Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cad70fd0146a5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cad70fd0146a5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cad70fd0146a5\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"96AFslvxSYI\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We are nearing the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/metroid_fusion\">Metroid Fusion<\/a> on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library on <strong>9th March<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s fair to say that we are all pretty excited. Nintendo published its own advert for the upcoming release just last week, but those after a real throwback might want to check out the game&#8217;s original commercial from 2002 \u2014 the director&#8217;s cut of which can be seen above in HD.<\/p>\n<p>They just don&#8217;t make ads like they used to, do they! Instead of focussing on unimportant things like, we don&#8217;t know, <em>gameplay<\/em> and <em>retail information<\/em> (*yawn*), this 20-year-old advert is all about pulpy vibes and we kinda love it.<\/p>\n<p>This version differs from the one that originally aired back in 2002, containing some extra shots of Samus powering up and with a slightly different voiceover amongst other little changes. It was recently shared in high definition by its director, Bruce Hunt, and stands today as a proper blast from the past \u2014 just look at those costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s cheesy as they come and tells us next to nothing about the game itself (notably, even the rating information is missing from the director&#8217;s cut), but if you asked us which Metroid Fusion trailer is the more memorable between this and the NSO one released last week, there would really be no competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/metroid\/related-articles:145976 @ 2023-03-06T23:35:17+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What are some of your favourite classic Nintendo commercials? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We are nearing the release of Metroid Fusion on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library on 9th March, and it&#8217;s fair to say that we are all pretty excited. Nintendo published its own advert for the upcoming release just last week, but those after a [&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-132266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132266","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=132266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}