Were you surprised by Metroid: Other M on Tuesday? So were we. With everyone expecting Zelda, Mario, and Pikmin, all on top of the fact that we were already getting a Metroid Prime compilation from Retro, no one saw a joint Metroid project from Nintendo and Tecmo’s Team Ninja coming. In fact, Koei, the company that merged with Tecmo, didn’t even know about it.

Team Ninja was already knee-deep in Metroid when the merger began, and Nintendo was so protective of the project that Tecmo couldn’t disclose the project to Koei. There are roughly 100 members of Team Ninja… talk about being stealthy!

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