Video Games Issue 2021

Look: 10 stunning hand-drawn images from a new Metroid guide

Artist Philip Summers brings the classic Nintendo game back to life.

by Joseph Yaden
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Cover image of Samus from Metroid
Philip Summers

Nintendo

Philip Summers, the artist behind Hand-Drawn Game Guides is back, this time with a beautiful Metroid guide currently in production, announced on July 7.

Nintendo

Summers found success with full hand-drawn guides for Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and The Legend of Zelda. “I figured I'd see if I could get people to play through Metroid,” Summers tells Inverse.

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