It's more than a five-minute job, but it's inconsequential. Original team member Clark Wen (who was the sound designer on Metroid Prime) was also brought back as a contractor for the remaster.Īccording to Mathews, this proves there were people working on staff who "actually do care about the legacy" as well as the original team who contributed to the game - acknowledging how it's "unfortunate that at the top decisions got made in that way". Many other team members also had work "directly" and "indirectly" represented in the Switch version. He also noted how some of the original Metroid Prime team members (Mark Haigh-Hutchinson and Andy O'Neil) who have passed away had their work "directly represented" in the remaster, but were obviously not credited. ![]() One other theory is their producer "actually stood up for their team". Mathews further noted how the credits in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD did include "original staff" credits, but believes it could be because many of these employees are still at Nintendo. but just because you call it staff credits doesn't mean that it's credits and there are very many people at Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Japan that had nothing to do with the game that are listed in the staff credits. The way Nintendo appears to be doing credits right now, it's intentionally called staff credits which means that they're basically just trying to put the names of the people that were in the seats at the time the game was made. that's a piece of art that even if it was remade was made from the artist's mind that built that bridge, not that concept artist, not necessarily the designer but the person who actually made that the first time, and the remastered version is largely getting it traced over you know - so why is that original artist not credited, you know? It sort of goes pretty deep. You look at the Talon overworld, right near the beginning the game that large vertical tunnel where you have the X-Ray visor things at the top, you know that cool wooden bridge, it's a bridge that looks like giant tree branches. This isn't a thing where they built art just on concepts alone or just on designs alone, they built it based on their own thoughts. let's take all the design, scripting, AI code, UI code even, like almost all that code is wholesale exactly as it was, then you have all the artwork which is ultimately artwork that is based on original artwork by the original artists on the game. ![]() Not crediting the people who did that is petty and ridiculous. Here's what he had to say in relation to the remaster's credits not listing the original staff while calling out Nintendo and the leaders "at the top" making these decisions: You might recall how members of the original Retro Studios development team voiced their frustrations about the game's credits excluding their names, and now co-technical lead engineer Jack Mathews has elaborated on this during an interview with YouTube podcast Kiwi Talkz, hosted by Reece Reilly. As amazing as Metroid Prime Remastered is, not everyone is entirely happy about the state of the Switch release.
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