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>>98155644
The Zebes Invasion Order is translated and implemented as a web game on Metroid Database. It's not an RPG, it's a gamebook like those Sonic ones that get posted every so often. They involve dice rolls, but are otherwise akin to the Choose Your Own Adventure books.
>https://metroiddatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/Metroid/Twinetroid/Twi netroid.html
Metroid could work as an RPG, by treating it as a (pulpy) sci-fi dungeon crawl, with a focus on megadungeons if you want to stick close to the games. Either way, you'd probably end up needing to do a lot of homebrewing regardless of what system you pick, and take some liberties with the setting so that more people have Power Suits or similar equipment.
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>>98155644
>object of the game is to explore an alien world, gaining powers and abilities along the way to aid in combat and exploration, to overthrow a larger evil and save the world/preserve the peace
It's a stretch, but I think it could be done.
Obviously the active platforming and combat would have to be given mechanics more suitable for tabletop games, but it'd be pretty easy, I think.
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>>98160420
The scan visor data from Metroid Prime games includes a large amount of worldbuilding details, but we've never really gotten a big picture on how things work on a macro-level. Metroid games normally aren't narrative-driven (the few times they've tried it's generally failed), so there's not much of a story given beyond "Space Pirates are fucking shit up, go stop them", and all the scan visor stuff in the Prime Games is diagetic so they're not going to explain things people in the setting wouldn't need explained, like how the Galactic Federation is structured and how much of the galaxy do they actually control.
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>>98160436
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metroid_media#Printed_media
Looks like the comics and manga would have to be the main source for background material.
What system would work? I don't think Traveller or Space Frontiers would support this kind of play, probably have to build something with Palladium, GURPS or D20 splatbooks for space, body horror and probably some cape or posthuman stuff for Samas' powers.
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>>98163987
Yeah, but it's fine tuned to duplicate Alien franchise's tropes, like the Panic rule to duplicate the Idiot Ball that all crews carry.
It does not have rules for turning into a ball, or parkouring through vertical mazes while raping jellyfish with your arm gun. I mean, that's Samas' life, I don't know how normal people live in that universe, how they work or do crime or wage war. Maybe you turn into a fucking ball to go to work.
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