5 Legendary Nintendo Games We Want To See On The Switch – SlashGear

There are a lot of “Metroid” games available on the Switch right now, from the NES original to a remaster of Samus’ first-person outing on the Gamecube, plus the first new “Metroid” title in years by way of “Metroid Dread.” And yet, the “Super Metroid”-ified remake of the NES classic, the GBA’s “Metroid: Zero Mission” from 2004, is nowhere to be found.

“Zero Mission” is, by many accounts, one of the GBA’s biggest hits thanks to its refinement of not only the series’ 2D search-action formula, but its reworking of the 1987 original’s everything. This is, for all intents and purposes, the first “Metroid” all over again, but now with a bevy of improved graphics, some new gameplay mechanics, an expanded map of the planet Zebes, and an unexpected twist towards the game’s latter half that you should avoid spoiling for yourself if you can help it.

Playing “Zero Mission” on anything other than a GBA was a bit of a challenge for many for quite some time, too, because even though Nintendo did re-release it (kind of) as a digital download for early DS adopters, everyone else had to wait until 2016 for it to come to the Wii U Virtual Console. Though in fairness, there are rumblings that “Zero Mission” may just make its way to the Switch now that GBA games are part of Nintendo Switch Online.