Where do you go after making both a Metroid and a Castlevania? It's a question that Madrid-based developer Mercury Steam are in the unique position of pondering. "We are the only true Metroidvania developer, the only developer that can really say that,"jokes Enric Alvarez, Co-founder of MercurySteam.
After reviving the long-dormant Castlevania on Xbox 360 with the Lords of Shadow duology, MercurySteam reunited gamers with Samus Arun in 2017's Samus Returns and 2023's Metroid Dread. Naturally, speculation has been rife about what comes next from the Madrid maestros. Yet for Alvarez and his MercurySteam co-founders, their next project was obvious – it was time to finish what they started in 2001.
