Whether you actually loveMetroidor you just like to fap to Samus, you’ll dig these brand-new screenshots fromMetroid Prime 3: Corruption. Though, for those severely patience-disabled, it might make it harder to wait therecently-announcedextra week’s delay (OH GOD A WHOLE WEEK) until the new August 27th release date.

I imagine the week’s delay is so that they can add the quintessential “Samus gets naked when she’s dead” feature. In next-gen graphics (or whatever Wii’s graphics are). That’s gotta be it. Right? …Oh, just leave me alone, leave me to the twisted, symbiotic embrace of my own romantic imagination.

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Speaking of romance, peopleseriously lovetheir Samus. So in the spirit of anticipation, with the aim of killing an extra week’s time, I have a proposition. Hit the jump…

I propose we compose Samus-devoted Metroid haiku. Let’s see who can do the best one. The winner gets either a fabulous prize, or my undying admiration, whichever one’s better (and guess which that is). If you want, y’know… information, you cango read this fab interviewwith Retro Studios over at Play. But the for truly enlightened, the tender aesthetes: Five-seven-five, guys, GO! …YEAH!!!

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