New Poke Stadium/Metroid Info

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?a...em&id=4850'

Nintendo plans to ring in the new year with three of the video game industry's most popular franchises: Pokémon, Metroid and Final Fantasy. Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance enthusiasts are sure to start off 2004 with a bang.

Final Fantasy®: Crystal Chronicles™ launches exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube on February 9. This is the first multiplayer Final Fantasy game available on home consoles in the United States. Through cooperation and teamwork, four players can join with teammates to perform more powerful attacks. And for the first time, players can use a Game Boy Advance to control characters, manage data and view character information. To make this Game Boy Advance connectivity feature more accessible, Nintendo is offering a link cable with pre-sell orders through participating retailers.

Also debuting on February 9, Metroid®: Zero Mission for Game Boy Advance starts right where the original Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) left off. Based loosely on the original NES maps, Metroid: Zero Mission includes all of the weapons and environments that made the original a huge hit, and also provides a totally new experience for the series' many fans by adding new enhancements and delving deeper into aspects of the story that haven't been told.

On March 22, the next chapter of the Pokémon craze will offer 20 hours of 3-D role-playing game fun for the Nintendo GameCube when Pokémon Colosseum™ hits stores. Players can upload all 200 Pokémon® from their Game Boy Advance Pokémon® Ruby and Pokémon® Sapphire games to battle against their friends on the Nintendo GameCube. Pokémon Colosseum features Jirachi, a hidden character and star of the upcoming Pokémon movie. Jirachi wakes once every 1,000 years for seven days, during which it has the power to grant wishes. To date, the Pokémon franchise has sold more than 38 million video games in the United States and more than 110 million worldwide. Stay tuned for some exciting details on an upcoming pre-sell program.

Very interesting... especially the Metroid part. So its a sequel set immediately after... huh.

Oh, and they completely fail to clear up the Stadium confusion. Which leads me to believe that that RPG part isn't as big as implied in some places...

[Dark Jaguar]

Ya know, I had always assumed Samus just left Zebes right after the whole "total destruction of Torian" incident there. Interesting to see she actually stuck around for a bit afterwards for a WHOLE GAME'S WORTH of time. That makes TWO games squeezed in between M1 and M2.

Pokémon, now 20 hours in an RPG would make that shorter than most, the average being 40 hours long (or for me, over 99:59, since the clock stops there and I'm still not done doing what I do in RPGs, everything :D), but it's still a decent enough length to be a full game. Jirachi is interesting, but what's the limitations on this character's wish granting abilities? Certainly Nintendo wouldn't let ANY wish granting thing be more powerful than the
Triforce.

[The Former DMiller]

20 hours sounds more reasonable, but knowing game companies that probably means 10-15 hours. The game should be out in Japan soon (if it isn't out already) so I guess we might hear more based on import reviews.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, they always overestimate... 20 probably does mean less for most people. But they don't say how deep or anything that mode is... okay, its not as long as most RPGs, but lots of games are that short with story depth and stuff... what about this one? :)

And Metroid... well they have to fit it in somewhere, and unlike Mario they have continuity and unlike Zelda there's just one Samus... yes, its getting crowded, and the number of times the Metroids have come back is kind of silly... but what should they do, just abandon the series? I don't think so...

[OB1]

According to IGN, Metroid Zero Mission is pretty much just a remake of Metroid 1.

Based loosely on the original NES maps, Metroid: Zero Mission includes all of the weapons and environments from the original game, and also provides a totally new experience for the series' many fans by adding new enhancements and delving deeper into aspects of the story that haven't been told.

That makes more sense seeing as how there are a lot of the same bosses and locations from Metroid 1. PGC probably made a mistake.

February 9, woo! I can't wait!

[Great Rumbler]

They should have brought these games out THIS year!!

[OB1]

Well I'm glad that Zero Mission isn't coming out this year since there are around ten billion great GBA games coming out this holiday season.

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, but the GC could have used those two games.

[OB1]

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yeah.

[OB1]

Metroid box art! I love the very anime-like style that they're using for this game.

[Great Rumbler]

Cool box-art.

[A Black Falcon]

Cool,. the original Metropid logo...