14 Facts About Metroid Fusion

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Metroid Fusion is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2002.

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Metroid Fusion was acclaimed for its tight gameplay, controls, graphics and music, though its shorter length and greater linearity received some criticism.

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Metroid Fusion is an action-adventure game in which the player controls Samus Aran.

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In Metroid: Zero Mission, players can connect to Fusion using the Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable to unlock a Fusion picture gallery, which includes its ending images.

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Metroid Fusion is attacked by parasitic organisms known as X On the way back to the BSL station, Samus loses consciousness and her ship crashes.

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Metroid Fusion discovers a restricted lab containing Metroids, and the SA-X sets off the labs' auto-destruct sequence while attacking the released Metroids, who devour the SA-X.

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Metroid Fusion's ship arrives, piloted by creatures Samus rescued from the station's Habitation Deck, and they escape before the station crashes into the planet, destroying it.

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Metroid Fusion is the first 2D Metroid game with animated cutscenes; the story is revealed through text and close-ups.

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Metroid Fusion offers a more direct, almost mission-based structure that supports the player to explore areas.

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The system director, Takehiko Hosokawa, states that while parts of old Metroid gameplay remain in Fusion, the developers introduced new elements.

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Metroid Fusion was released worldwide on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in December 2011 as part of the "3DS Ambassadors" program, one of ten Game Boy Advance games for those who purchased their 3DS consoles before a price drop.

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Metroid Fusion was among the first three Game Boy Advance games to be released on the Wii U Virtual Console in April 2014.

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Metroid Fusion received "universal acclaim" according to review aggregator Metacritic.

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Sequel, Metroid Fusion Dread, was released in 2021 for the Nintendo Switch, developed by Nintendo and MercurySteam.

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