I agree, I don’t think that Nintendo would’ve made a “New Character: Zero Suit Samus” thing if she wasn’t another character… But then again, they did have to advertise somehow, so it’s possible.
*The greatest enhance of this game compared to the last two is the interaction with the starship, now samus can use it (not to free flight yet)
but to change worlds,to be used as a plataform to reach higher places or even as a graple point, all this will be comanded by the new visor module “Starship”
The hiper mode is something familiar to metroid players,but now the player will be able to use it during the game and not only on the ending as the other times, ofcourse , shoot with hiper-phazonbeams will have its disadvantages… as energy consuming and a short period of reconstruction of arm-cannon internal circuits where the player will not be able to shoot.