Piggyback, the company behind the official guides for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, has announced that it is once again teaming up with Nintendo on another release. But this is no guide. It's a Metroid Prime art book.
'Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective' launches in Summer 2025, bringing a celebration of the series' artwork to coffee tables around the world. Inside, we can expect to find all manner of drawings and illustrations from Prime, Echoes and Corruption, printed on premium sheet paper with a gorgeous metallic foil hardcover. Oof.
Alongside all of this wonderful art, the 212-page visual retrospective goes behind the scenes on the series' development with a foreword by Metroid Prime producer Kensuke Tanabe, written introductions from Retro Studios and producer notes on how the designs came to be. Once again, oof.
Here's a rundown of the book's key features from the Piggyback website:
- Covers Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and Metroid Prime Remastered
- Includes a foreword by Metroid Prime producer Kensuke Tanabe
- Features a vast array of high-quality art and sketches from the developers
- Comes with exclusive Retro Studios-penned introductions to each game
- Dozens of Producer’s Notes offer commentaries, insights and anecdotes on the featured artwork
- Stitch-bound, with a lavish cloth hardcover featuring an etched Samus metallic foil, and printed on high-quality art paper
We still don't have a precise release date on this one just yet outside of "Summer 2025", but we do know that the art book will retail at £39.99 / €44.99. Hey, if last year's Tears of the Kingdom guide is anything to go by, we'd wager that it will be quite the beauty.
If only we could play through Prime 2 and 3 on Switch before this book is released. *Nudge, nudge* Eh, Nintendo?
What do you make of this art book? Will you be picking one up next year? Let us know in the comments.
[source piggyback.com, via x.com]
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I wonder if it covers Metroid Prime 2 Remastered and Metroid Prime 3 Remastered...
Poor Other M.
Ooo, looking at that tweet, the way they just state '...and Remastered' really leaves the door open... I was just joking initially, but now I'm unjustifiably hyped and expectant.
Finally, some good news
Yes, please.
Gonna need a bigger bookshelf.
That reminds me, I still need to pick up the last of the Hyrule Historia book set...and finish the first one. Really cool read, but I was trying not to blow through it all at once and ended up forgetting about it instead.
@gcunit other m isn’t a prime game. It takes place in the regular/main Metroid series and is set after super Metroid but before fusion I believe
This would look great alongside a release of the full trilogy on current hardware as part of a collectors edition. Hint hint.
This I want asap.
Love me some Metroid!
"£39.99" suggests a UK release to me, so that's great. Will be getting this instantly.
Also, samushunter on X recently correctly leaked the Xenoblade Chronicles X DE announcement, and they're now saying Metroid Prime 2 Remastered should arrive around February 2025, having apparently been pushed into Q1 2025 from this year.
@gcunit Why would an artbook cover games that don't exist?
Anyways, this looks great. I hope we get more Nintendo artbooks down the line. They did great ones for Odyssey and the Splatoon games and I'd love to see more like those.
Ooh, definitely interested in getting this as soon as I can when it comes out!
This pretty much confirms to me that we're getting Metroid Prime 2 and 3 early next year before the release of Prime 4. SamusHunter on Twitter/X is also saying this is the case.
SamusHunter used to not have a great track record, but they called Xenoblade X and the Donkey Kong Universal Direct, so whoever their source is now, I think they're legit.
SamusHunter has also teased the idea of Silksong news soon as well. Maybe we'll get a Silksong release date trailer as well as a Metroid Prime 2 & 3 Remastered trailer at The Game Awards. Would be funny since Metroid Prime Trilogy was rumored to be at The Game Awards back in like 2018.
Would be a pretty good venue for both announcements. Metroidvania fans gonna be eating good, methinks.
I was looking for a Metroid Prime artbook for Christmas so while this is obviously late for that, it should make a great birthday present next year instead!
Oh wow. I need this now.
"I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it.......I NEED IT!"
I want this, and I haven't even played a Metroid game!
I will buy this in a nano second!
My wallet gonna hate me...
So happy it covers the entire trilogy instead of focusing entirely on the first game. Corruption, my beloved. Echoes, your time to shine again will soon come.
This looks absolutely magnificent.
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