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Exposition is a fickle instrument in the writers toolbox.

Too little, and your audience struggles to properly comprehend the scenes playing out before their eyes.

Metroid Prime Remastered

Too much, and they drown in a sea of information without the necessary emotional weight to ground it.

There are few video game series that so masterfully control the use of exposition as Metroid.

The immersion this choice creates cannot be overstated.

Samus using her visor to scan in a Metroid game

As we wait for Samus' next adventure, here’s everything we know aboutMetroid Prime 4

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Scan result for a “heavily injured” space pirate in a Metroid game

Metroid Prime 4 Switch 2 screenshot showing Samus with a new purple visor

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle screenshot of Indiana dressed as priest, looking over a book

Super Metroid

A screenshot of a pink-haired protagonist in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, surrounded by other BLADE soldiers and a Skell.

Possessor(s) screenshots showing Luca in conversation and combat

Avowed screenshot

Metroid Prime 4

Samus firing a beam in a screenshot from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

Hollow Knight

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond screenshot showing Samus� returning Power Armor in detail. A mysterious figure is reflected in her visor

Oblivion Remastered at night

Days Gone Remastered protagonist Deacon running from hundreds of zombies in the rain

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The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 screenshot of the Paintress painting the number 33 onto a distant pillar while Gustave and Sophie watch from the harbor port, framed by a circle of light

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2