Yep, pretty much.
On a scale, FROM as a developer would be much closer to matching the core tenants of 3D Metroid games than someone like Team Ninja, at the very least.
Yeah, there's literally no overlap between what makes Metroid special and what Team Ninja usually does.
Level design is an afterthought for games like Ninja Gaiden while enemy design is what bring the game together...And of course because enemy design is not exactly mechanically interesting in the usual 2D Metroid they couldn't really try to make something worthwhile without making something utterly different from Metroid.
They don't have to reassure people at all, people should be smart enough to know what Metroid prime 4, a nom spinoff game should entail, FF Was a spinoff with a Artstyle that usually accommodates small handheld titles
People should have freaked out over a spinoff to begin with. People are dumb, expect the worst of them, every time.
And WORLD BUILDING. They are tops in the industry when it comes to that. And that is part of why the Prime games and Retro are so revered, and they would be the perfect ones to have the torch be handed to them.
The issue is that they're pretty heavily invested in network play and that's a horrible fit for Metroid. Otherwise they're indeed really close as to understanding what makes this type of games work.
I mean, their art is really good but it's typically dark fantasy and not sci-fi. Bloodborne might be closer but it's also much grosser and unpleasant than what Metroid goes for. I don't really see it. If you're just saying they have good artists then Platinum has good artists. Heck, Bayonetta also encourages exploration so you can find collectibles and challenge rooms. AND Platinum already has an existing relationship with Nintendo.
So I guess what I'm saying is that Platinum is almost certainly making Metroid Prime 4.
From is more than just Souls games.
Another of their long running franchise is Armored Core after all.
As far as design if you're looking at their products and try to pick what would fit in a Metroid game, you could fit Bloodborne and Armored Core together.
They have a great range on what they can do as well, I mean they did that Monhun chibi game on 3DS after all.
Platinium is usually prioritizing gameplay over everything else.
Then again anything is possible, I mean we're praising a series of games made by the people who were doing sports, racing games as well as a not that interesting looking rpg game because they reinvented what we expected from Metroid.
I don't think you could find a big dev house which wouldn't be capable of making a great Metroid Prime with the proper supervision... That includes HVS.