oh, apparently this is already quite publicly admitted (says wiki) --noiseredux wrote:y'know, I had never thought about it as I'm a very casual fan of the Metroid series really. But I'd be willing to be that the movie Alien was certainly an inspiration for the atmosphere of Metroid. I mean, female killing aliens in a super claustrophobic environment?
Part way through development, one of the developers asked the others, "Hey, wouldn't that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman?", an idea which was incorporated into the game.[14] Ridley Scott's 1979 horror film Alien was described by Sakamoto as a "huge influence" on Metroid after the game's world had been created. The development staff was affected by the work of the film's creature designer H. R. Giger, and found his creations to be fitting for the Metroid universe.[15]
