IGN recently got the chance to sit down with the director behind the latest entry in the Metroid franchise. Yoshio Sakamoto has worked on Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, the GBA Metroid, and the original Metroid game which started it all. He discusses how the cooperative project with Team Ninja came to be as well as other details regarding the game. He states that the game will be heavily intensive on plot and action along with the character development of Samus Aran. It is set to take place between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion and Sakamoto is touting it to be "the ultimate Metroid experience."

He also dropped hints regarding the confusion behind the gameplay perspective that's been boggling everybody's minds since the trailer was revealed. Oh, and he also mentions Metroid Dread. Read the interview to find out more.

IGN: Metroid: Other M was a huge surprise for us at E3 2009 and we're really excited for it. We're wondering how the partnership with Team Ninja came about.

Yoshio Sakamoto: I've been working on Metroid games for quite awhile, but in 2006, having seen the Wii, its capabilities and the features available through it, I wanted to challenge myself to see what I could produce for that particular system and it was at that point that I started mulling other concepts. My team and myself have had experience working on Metroid game, but it's all been in the handheld realm and it's all been in 2D, so we lacked both the experience and the manpower to create a 3D Metroid experience. It was at that time that I realized I needed to find a partner help me realize my concept.

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