{"id":135424,"date":"2025-12-26T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195727"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:30:00","slug":"nintendo-suggests-metroid-prime-4s-tortured-development-meant-it-was-divorced-from-the-changing-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/26\/nintendo-suggests-metroid-prime-4s-tortured-development-meant-it-was-divorced-from-the-changing-of-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Suggests Metroid Prime 4&#8217;s Tortured Development Meant It Was &#8220;Divorced From The Changing Of Times&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a355c79d7a30\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a355c79d7a30\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We resolved to move forward with our original vision&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll know if you&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">read our review<\/a>, we adored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/metroid-prime-4-beyond-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>, and consider it to be one of the highlights of the Switch 2&#8217;s library.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/metroid-prime-4-beyond\/\">with a Metacritic rating of 79 at the time of writing<\/a>, it&#8217;s clear that Samus&#8217; latest adventure didn&#8217;t strike the same chord with many players.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/nintendo-suggests-metroid-prime-4s-tortured-development-meant-it-was-divorced-from-the-changing-of-times\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We resolved to move forward with our original vision&#8221;. As you&#8217;ll know if you&#8217;ve read our review, we adored Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and consider it to be one of the highlights of the Switch 2&#8217;s library. However, with a Metacritic rating of 79 at the time of writing, it&#8217;s clear that Samus&#8217; latest adventure [&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-135424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135424","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=135424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}