A mystery surrounding the first game of Metroid Prime made by Retro Studios has just been resolved. For those who didn’t know, the electronic music duo Autechre is in the credits of Metroid Prime and it was not known why, but Sean Booth has just told the story behind that credit.
Autechre is an electronic music duo made up of Rob Brown and Sean Boothwho appear in the credits of Metroid Prime for the Nintendo Gamecube, the Retro Studios game that came out in 2002. This week Booth held an AMA (Ask me Anything) on Twitch, where he finally solved the mystery.
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According to Sean Booth, he’s actually breaking a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by answering why he and Rob Brown are credited for Metroid Prime, but he still answered the question. Apparently Autechre were going to be the composers for Metroid Prime before Nintendo stepped in to assign Kenji Yamamoto.
As Booth explains, Retro Studios had asked Autechre to do the Metroid Prime soundtrack and everyone was very excited, “because it’s the fucking Metroid… the best game of all timeBooth said. However, the plans fell apart because of Nintendo, because “for some reason they wanted their guy to do it”, which gave us the soundtrack by Kenji Yamamoto.
Booth says he doesn’t know if Retro Studios intended to make the soundtrack similar in style to Autechre, as he’s heard that opinion in the past, but feels the Metroid Prime soundtrack doesn’t sound like anything they’ve done. “But it’s subjective, really.”, was the last thing that Booth said on the subject.
Rumors have been circulating for months that Nintendo is preparing a remake of Metroid Prime for Nintendo Switch. In fact, in November of last year, Emily Rogers had said that the remake of Metroid Prime had recently finished development, so Nintendo would be postponing its release.