What’s Next for Metroid After Prime 4? - NVC 797

Nintendo Voice Chat

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Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

After nearly a decade of coverage, it’s time to close the book on Metroid Prime 4. Join Logan Plant and Peer Scheider as they break down everything that worked and everything that didn’t in Prime 4: Beyond. We’re talking full spoilers, so that includes details on the ending, our favorite bosses and moments, final thoughts on controversial elements like the desert and the NPCs, and more. And it’s all contextualized by some fascinating stories from the development of Prime 4 straight from folks at Nintendo and Retro Studios. FInally, we wrap up the show discussing where the Metroid series goes from here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.5	This week on Nintendo Voice Chat, we're finally closing the book on Metroid Prime
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0:37.3	After nearly a decade of coverage, we're going to the book on Metroid Prime 4. After nearly a decade
0:38.6	of coverage, we're going to talk about what worked, what didn't, and some very fascinating
0:42.7	behind-the-scenes stories from Nintendo about Prime 4's trouble development. NBC starts right now.
1:01.7	You've switched to Nintendo voice chat for the week of January 26, 2026. I'm your host, Logan Plan.
1:05.3	Join today just by Pair Schneider. Hi, Per. I'm all alone. What happened?
1:09.4	Yeah, we were supposed to have Brian Altano here. He had some tech difficulties this morning.
1:48.1	So it's just the two of us here to deliver our Metroid Prime 4 beyond spoiler cast. This whole show is going to be about Metroid. There's a lot going on right now with Nintendo. I know we have a Tomodachi Life Direct this week, but we had to record on Monday. So we're doing kind of this evergreen episode to wrap up prime four. Last year, we had Per and Brian in here to do aive on the trilogy, so we thought we'd follow it up here with the spoiler cast. This is your full spoiler warning. We're going to talk about everything in Prime 4. So if you're planning to finish Prime 4 and haven't yet, come back when you have this episode. We'll be here waiting for you. And Perra, I want to get started with you because you have not talked about this game on the show yet. So just overall, what did you think of Metroid Prime 4 after such a long wait? First of all, big shocker that Samus is a girl. I know. Who would have guessed? No. So I had high hopes and high expectations
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