The excellent Metroid Fusion is joining Nintendo Switch Online next week
The next addition to the Nintendo Switch Online: Expansion Pack library of Game Boy Advance games will be the excellent Metroid Fusion, coming next week on 9th March.
Metroid Fusion was a continuation of the original Metroid series storyline – Metroid Prime games live in their own narrative bubble – with Samus investigating the surface of planet SR388 when she is attacked by a new parasitic organism known as X. The only way to save her is to infuse her with Metroid DNA, giving her the ability to battle the X parasite and a clone of herself on a now desolate space station, but making her newly vulnerable to cold.
It’s a fantastic example of the Metroidvania, and one of my personal favourite Game Boy Advance games.
While the original game on Game Boy Advance had some quirky interconnectivity with Metroid Prime on GameCube – you could unlock the Fusion Suit as a cosmetic for the console game – there’s seemingly none of that connectivity in this release to the newly released (and excellent) Metroid Prime Remastered.
This is the first addition to the Game Boy Advance library that is a part of Nintendo Switch Online: Expansion Pack. Nintendo debuted a selection of their handheld games to the subscription service last month, with Game Boy games within Switch Online, and Game Boy Advance locked behind the higher-priced Expansion Pack.
From 9th March, the library of Game Boy Advance games will then be:
Confirmed for the future are the following games:
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