Metroid Prime 4 Past is extra mature than your common Nintendo-published first-party recreation. So gamers have been anticipating some violence, sci-fi monsters, and weapons. What they won’t have been anticipating was for thus most of the puzzle recreation’s doorways to appear like, umm, nicely…
As with previous Metroid video games from Nintendo, lots of Prime 4‘s presentation is impressed by H.R. Giger’s designs from the basic sci-fi film Alien. That is particularly evident in Metroid Prime 4‘s first giant stage, Volt Forge, which incorporates lots of Giger-esque structure and environmental particulars. However different elements of Prime 4, just like the well-known artist, appear impressed by different elements of human anatomy, like vaginas. What I’m making an attempt to say is there are lots of doorways on this recreation that may make your extra prudish grandparents uncomfortable.
“Lotta vaginas on this recreation,” bluntly, however precisely, declared critic Aidan Moher on Bluesky. And he’s proper! Within the early parts of Prime 4‘s marketing campaign, you’ll encounter a couple of totally different doorways that appear impressed by vulvas. Followers on-line are actually sharing screenshots of doorways that look very vaginal on-line. Some are giant, and a few are small. One in every of these doorways even popped up on a subreddit devoted to highlighting objects and places that look a bit like vaginas.
Why is all of the discourse on Metroid Prime 4 about Miles and never how all of the doorways are extraordinarily vaginal? Simply curious. pic.twitter.com/rLRXbypR92
— TwoTonTunic (Randyman Machosaveage) (@TwoTonTunic) December 4, 2025
MY GAWD #MetroidPrime4 Graphics are completely BREATHTAKING 😍
A Masterclass in Visuals at 4K 60fps! Probably the greatest-looking video games at the moment on Any Console #NintendoSwitch2 pic.twitter.com/KLiccDb3hf
— NintenGOD (@AesirMalos) December 4, 2025
Metroid 4 has vagina doorways pic.twitter.com/3GhrYvWaTx
— THANKFUL DAVE 🍔 (@thankfuldave29) December 4, 2025
thanks vagina temple
pleased to see that prime 4 is constant the custom of metroid doing the pg13 model of alien’s sexual hr giger biomechanica pic.twitter.com/k6zxRsveXj
— Sam (@Spainkiller) December 5, 2025
Additionally the yonic imagery is fairly attention-grabbing. Virtually like an inverse of Alien’s entire factor, which is cool to me since Metroid does take inspiration from that collection + Samus’ entire factor pic.twitter.com/bPrJvK7XJh
— Nachtflugel Fatali (@Verumleonhart) December 4, 2025
There are even some doorways that function small bumps on the high that Samus should pull down utilizing her psychic powers to open them.
It’s all fairly exhausting to unsee as soon as it’s been identified to you. And truthfully, I believe most individuals will choose up on the vagina doorways with none assist. I’d pay some huge cash to be within the boardroom with some stuffy Nintendo execs if they’re ever sat down and advised why, all of the sudden, vagina door and Prime 4 are trending on social media and Reddit.
