Samus Aran, a bounty hunter with a cannon on her arm, is Nintendo's somewhat undersung heroine. You don't see her as much as Princess Zelda, even though that character is usually the damsel in distress rather than the playable protagonist.

Still, the Metroid games that star Samus have a reputation of being more mature than Nintendo's other kid-friendly franchises — sci-fi action-adventures with an atmospheric, often claustrophobic feel of exploring strange alien worlds.

And yet early previews of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond worried some fans. Journalists wrote that a slice of the game they played at a preview event featured a chatty, bumbling sidekick named Myles. VGC's Andy Robinson was "slightly aghast" at this player guide and comic relief side character, for "stripping away at any t

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