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There's something about this review that reminds me of old school Yahtzee. I don't know if it's his mic, his writing or his delivery, but it's like 2008 Yahtzee was transported forward in time to review a new Metroid game. Incredible.
You might be right, but for a different reason, the quality does sound lower than usual, the reason why that sounds like an older Yahtzee is because it doesn’t really seem like he’s changed over the years, besides incrementally improving audio quality and what games he reviews, to me his attitude towards AAA and indie games haven’t changed at all between then and now, whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to you. Personally I do like someone who will list out all of a game’s faults to no end, just in case there are any dealbreakers, then I go literally anywhere else to see what’s good about it.
"Accept your helplessness, Samus. Raven Beak's masterful plan knows no bounds. Also, I have discovered through the Galactic Federation's archive that Raven Beak is a hit with the ladies and only dates supermodels."
@@Paradox1012 Bird strenght and energy draining in the hands of a literal toddler - Metroid 6 will be a survival horror game from the fathers perspective.
Well, seeing that after fusion, she got fused to her armor, I think its hard to reach the important bits. Also, her being a gruff, (semi-)silent bountyhunter who loves her work more than anything, I'd give it a hard chance she's out clubbing on her days off...
I think the game does a pretty good job of showing Samus's character without having her talk or show her face (much). Like when Kraid shows up and she just stands her ground unflinching while he roars at her and then casually blasts him in the mouth.
I quite liked the way the last robot gets punked. “Subverting expectations” is kind of a dirty phrase these days for several very good reasons, but in this case I think it did it well. The way the robot gets taken out was more interesting for the game’s story the the standard stealth and super beam affair may have been at that point in the game. And that’s kind of the thing. You can do a plot twist, but it had better be more interesting than the way the plot was going before you twisted it.
To me it was meh because it was the last one. Plus the soldier fight that follows is laughably easy compared to sneaking past an EMMI. Considering it's pretty much end game at that point, it just feels like they wanted to close up shop and get it all over with. If it had been second to last then make the last one a much longer section or at least really hard, I think I would've been okay with it. I mean it is a major selling point of the game after all.
The purple one kinda maximised the pursuit element of those battles, having to run loops around the arena trying to get a decent lock on the bastard to take him out. I'm not sure there was a way to up that without just making it bullshit, so I was fine that they killed the last one in a cutscene. Plus, I'd hyped my brother up about the red one's difficulty so he got extra confused by the actual battle XD
Quiet Robe's exposition dump is a bit tedious, yeah, but I think Nintendo banked on Metroid fans just being way too excited that there's *an actual fucking live Chozo talking to you AND SAMUS TALKS BACK*. They were right! I'm not complaining the tiniest bit.
I’d be slightly more satisfied if Samus said more than one line. They were so fucking terrified of another Ridley PTSD scenario that they played it mega safe with her and left the long exposition to the bird people
Hearing Samus speak in chozo made me wonder, what if the reason she almost never speaks is because she is no longer fluent in languages other than chozo? She was barely more than a toddler when her parents were killed and she was raised by the chozo most of her life. Also the unusual circumstances of her upbringing may make it harder for her to socialize with others much like Master Chief.
@@euclidshield4932 if you take the manga into consideration, she goes back to being part of the Galactic Federation when she's 14 when she joins the military, so it would be hard to say that she doesn't speak whatever is the common tongue of the federation. I think it would be pretty cool if she canonically had a Chozo accent laced onto whatever languages she speaks, and I'm pretty sure she speaks more than just Chozo and whatever the basic language is for the Galactic Federation given her bounty hunting career.
"It'd probably stay in the news cycle longer than casting Chris Pratt as Mario did." 🤣 What a solid parting shot. This is what made me a fan of Yahtzee years ago.
It was funny, although totally untrue. People are still constantly talking about Chris Pratt being cast as Mario, which means that way more people are thinking about the Mario movie than would be otherwise.
Yeah the mysterious dashing rogue from the beginning sadly only shows up at the beginning and end. Though I bet he would've defeated Samus easily with his massive Arm cannon and cool cape
@@thepicswin SPOILER He's not actually gone. He talks to you the whole damn game, disguised quite cleverly as Adam. It doesn't really register until the final pre-boss cutscene where it's spelled out, but in the initial cutscenes, Adam never once refers to samus by name, while in the game he constantly does so. In the pre-game cutscenes he advises her to be extremely cautious, and mentions that communication would be difficult as she goes down.
SAMUS (parents are killed and eaten by Ridley) SHOULD (Chozo are all gone) SMILE (Destroyed the one planet she could call home) MORE (Ridley Everywhere System)
Metroid has had story elements, but mostly it’s very simple point A to Z because you have play the game to get everything necessary to reach the only objective you have ever had in the game.
And there's usually more story in the world and lore of the Metroid universe than Samus' actual mission. I love how blowing up planets is just a trope of Samus' missions following Super.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup that's mostly just in the Prime games though, the 2-D games don't nearly do as good of a job with the world building and atmosphere in my opinion.
@@BoardGamesBricksHobbies The work Retro Studios did on Prime's lore and "canonizing" of a lot of the Metroid universe's lore cannot be overstated, however, the side-scrollers did the best they could for the NES, SNES, and Gameboy - and Fusion, Zero Mission, Samus Returns, and Dread did really well in that aspect as well, especially considering three of them were exclusive to handhelds.
How to interpret Yahtzee reviews: understand he will always find something to criticize and focuses on the biggest issues the game has. Therefore if he complains only about the smallest of gripes, rest assured that the game is spectacular.
Metroid Dread is the worst kind of mediocre - boring. Which places it worse than a technically bad game that can be fun to experience because of how horribly bad it is. MercurySteam has a long history of making painfully boring games.
@@gamechannel1271 I mean its good as far as 2D metroid games go which is something a lot of people enjoy. The mechanics and movement are pretty fun, the combat and level exploration is pretty fun, and its got some pretty decent bosses even if some of them are reused a bit too much. The unique ones still stand out as pretty fun. The story is a bit meh and relies heavily on knowledge of the franchise to work, but I mean the primary pull of Metroid games has never really been the story anyways. Its more about the atmosphere than it is the story, and the atmosphere is nailed pretty well in dread. So the game hits all the main points it needs to. While it couldve been better, especially with a better story and more unique boss fights or power ups, it still is overall pretty fun to play. If you like Metroid or Metroidvania games, which given how popular the genre is is a lot of people, then youll probably like Dread. Which is also why reviews of the game were generally pretty positive and the game was overall well received. Maybe its not your thing, and thats fair, but I do think the game encapsulates the 2D metroid style well.
This is probably a *Spoiler* but... It's kind of odd that you mentioned the story in the beginning and end being separate. The ending revealed pretty clearly that the boss was the one sharing information with you the whole time rather than the AI Adam that it appeared to be. The entire situation is being controlled by Raven Beak so that he can use you.
@@roboarcado5552 I think he did... otherwise how would he have known that Ravenbeak only physically appears in front of Samus at the end of the game. Though I am annoyed that Yahtzee didn't take the opportunity to mention that Ravenbeak was stroking himself in front of Samus by pretending to be someone else just to try and intimidate her.
@@gingermcgingin4106 Raven Beak was able to take advantage of her because he was first able to incapacitate her (given that he's three times her size and wearing an actual Chozo-constructed Power Suit rather than a Federation knock-off), and then because having her regain her strength (something she would do anyway) was of use to him. Also, I mean... he "tricked" her into becoming powerful enough to absolutely wreck his ass, because he was ridiculously overconfident.
I thought only the last “adam” was raven beak and all of the others were still regular adam. do we have confirmation that it was raven beak the whole time?
"I get that Samus was raised by bird people and they gave her the power armour, what I don't get is why it's got the color scheme of a Christmas cracker" That's the sort of thing you write off as the bird people's culture or Samus' own taste and then don't think about it. At least that's what I do.
(Spoilers, I guess) The Chozo were considered to be extinct since day one of the Metroid franchise, but when Samus discovers a living breathing one that gives her a plot dump, she just shrugs and says “yeah sure, I’ll help.” Still like the game though.
To be fair, the Metroids and the X have been "extinct" so many fucking times, and Ridley and Kraid get killed and brought back so many times that I doubt she even cares anymore, lol
I mean, they were around as late as Samus’s childhood. It’s not like they were ancient precursors that died off generations ago. I’m not all *that* surprised that some Chozo tribes are still around in some capacity.
@@enlongjones2394 I'm so happy to finally see them though. They were never gone long, but it always felt like their presence on the worlds Samus visited was ancient history, but Mother Brain's betrayal, Tallon IV's corruption, Aether's fall, etc. all happened within the span of about 30 years. Even the genocide of the Thoha seems to have happened after Samus' adoption by the birbs.
In a sense I'm glad Nintendo games are treated as baby series that aren't taken as seriously because it sure sounds like the PS5 version of this game would generate nine million "hot take" articles on the EMMIS being a metaphor for sexual abuse
You know, I could never really tell if he liked the games he reviews when I watch these for the first time. Takes me like a few rewatched to figure it out. Or someone saying it later.
I think he likes Metroid enough as he's been playing for a while and sounded excited on it actually being a sequel. His review sounds more like critiques that bugged him.
This was actually the best critique I’ve heard from ANYONE. It feels like most of the “critical reviews” people push are missing the point or are disingenuous. “Too expensive, nintendo greedy”. “Hidden pathways, shit design.” It’s easy for me to forget, but I did actually have a problem with how the story is presented at the opening. It felt real clunky. I didn’t have issues with the rest if the story but as he points out things I see what he means. Yah, the emmi’s were all really similar. Yah, I guess Quiet Robe’s segment was a bit long and explainy. Not sure how to smooth it out but you probably could. I Did Really love how the story turned at the end and how the last emmi was defeated. The fact that it goes strait to the final boss who me I thought was amazing plus I loved the story beats... Yah, a lot of the issues I had with the game got forgotten by the time I finished the last boss. I may degrade my personal rating from a 9/10 to an 8/10 because the man had some good points. Obviously I loved the game though and I Really appreciate this review.
The one thing I'd say is probably not entirely accurate with his critique, is the point about the final boss not doing anything. Then again, saying he's there the entire way is technically a spoiler, even if it's a decently easy to see one ("Adam" only calls Samus "lady" at the beggining, when she's still in the ship)
I think a pretty easy way to tell is seeing how grave the complaints are. Yahtzee always complains, that's his thing, but when he likes a game he complains about less important things. If during his entire review he complains mostly about small things and gets into nitpicking department, he probably likes the game. If he's pointing fundamental flaws about the game, like the story of a visual novel being rubbish, then he probably didn't like it
@@RussJS I think one thing I would have done differently was take the scene where Samus views the Mawkin Mural and maybe put that in Dairon. This would give us more time to consider our adversary until we reach Ferenia (and for those who didn't play samus returns, they are left to chew on the knowledge that this being is responsible for some sort of massacre). Once we reach ferenia, then we get ambushed by the purple E.M.M.I and things go on from there.
I don't really care that the last EMMI got cutscene trashed. Their story significance was always functional, and were never portrayed as anything other than an obstacle/required for a story beat that didn't matter too much anymore.
I am a bit surprised Yahtzee didn't note that at the very least the last EMMI gets cutscene trashed by Samus as a contrast to Other M where every single problem is resolved in a cutscene or off screen by someone else.
The Metroid Fusion suit is colored so weird because its actually partially fused to Samus through Metroid DNA - Metroids being the natural predators of the X and the fusion having saved Samus's life when she got infected previous to the Metroid Fusion game. So her bio suit is not entirely suit anymore, tmu, and changed colors because it took on Metroid colors.
I did think Samus' armour was noticeably more figure-hugging this time around, but didn't know whether it was just me seeing things that weren't there.
The color scheme of the armor? Well, leaving aside that ALL the Chozo armors got that color scheme, birds are attracted primarily to colors in the spectrum from red to yellow. Basically, if you were a bird, that armor would look gorgeous. Heck, it probably looks even better in ultraviolet...
I do enjoy listening to this man shit all over something I love. Everyone is either heaping endless praise or excessively whining about little things like getting the morphball later because it's the first-ish upgrade in every other game in the franchise. Nice to hear someone talking about issues that the game actually has.
As a huge fan of Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion, I will say that this turned out to be a great sequel The only thing I didn't care for too much was the music, but the gameplay was incredibly smooth and fun I played three times already. I would highly recommend learning some speed running and boss strategies AFTER beating the game once on your own. It will make the second time around feel like a completely new experience
The music was a weak point for me too, but not so much I consider it "bad" just kinda forgettable, but like, that is about the only gripe I have honestly.
I remember Yahtzee going off on one of his rambling metaphors, then interrupting himself with "what am I on about?" I couldn't tell you which video that was, though.
There are a couple through the years, the worst outlier is in the review of the Suda 51 game were you play a girl that can break all her bones(?) and solve puzzles. "That is the worst line I've ever written" is about midway through
@@TheSimmusIIRC He was trying to drum up a story reason behind one of the main game mechanics which led to the metaphor of two ladies scissoring at that time of the month or something. The guy has a beautiful imagination.
I guess the Xenomorph and the EMMI share one thing in common. EDIT: Okay, for some answers. Metroid took a lot of inspiration from Alien and the EMMIs and Xenomorphs share a similar role in the sense that they are creepy killers that can fit in small vents. Also they have funny shaped heads.
Oh, I'll do you one better than that: You're going about your business, exploring abandoned planets for artifacts you can use, when you suddenly become aware of this... _creature_ hunting you down. It walks about on two legs much like yourself, adorned in metallic armour seemingly not unlike your own... but can contort its body into strange, unnatural shapes you can't even _try_ to replicate without shattering all your bones, and fit through passages too small for you to do anything but scoot or crawl through with ease. It can take anything you throw at it without flinching, chases you incessantly with intent to kill, and always has some bizarre new weapon you're not equipped to deal with; the only way you stand a chance of not dying is to run and hide, and hope that just _maybe_ you can find a weapon potent enough to shoot it down. If it gets close, you die. If you can't find anything, you die. If you can't hide, you die. And even then, even if you manage to hide from it successfully, to sneak around without it noticing you long enough to find a weapon that might, just _might_ , give you a hint of a chance to take it down... one wrong move and you _still_ die. Now, did I just describe Samus encountering an E.M.M.I. ...or a Space Pirate encountering the Hunter?
Did not expect a Metroid review to bring back horrific memories of being forced to do gym in my pants. But i guess were still partly in a pandemic so whats a little dread.
I've really enjoyed this game but, as usual, the critiques are fair. I found the EMMI chases more exciting than "fear-inducing," but I guess "Metroid: Adrenaline" sounds stranger in the series' lore.
To be fair, the spoilery bit was set up towards the beginning and paid off there. It's kind of a badass development too, canonically. Samus has the genetic makeup of three species now, and it's fucking cool that she's actively taking on behavioral traits of the last.
It’s also funny because, people have been calling Samus Metroid for years, and we all tried to correct them. But, little did we know, we shouldn’t have done that. Because, as the beginning of the game, kindly tells us, the word Metroid in the language of the Chozo, translates to ultimate warrior. So, the whole time people were calling her that, they were never wrong. Yeah, we kept correcting them like the dumbasses we were. Then again, it wasn’t really explained until this game, so, not really our fault, I guess. Now she’s a Metroid figuratively, and literally.
It's one of those cases, where hearing a game being described as "Sequel: Another One" doesn't exactly sound that bad to me. It's one of those situations, where you kinda just feel glad that something is actually happening in a series. Between the 19 years since Fusion, we've only really had 2 slices of 2D Metroid action and both were really just remakes. On every other end, we had a small detour into 3D and a few quite terrible fumbles during that time, so Metroid Dread kinda had the blessing of having the stakes lowered by that. All it needed to do was show up and show that it still has the fundamentals down. Just a helping of what worked. If this actually sparks a want for follow-ups, it'd be the next game's job to show that the basics aren't all they have in store for Metroid.
"I get that Samus was raised by bird people and they gave her the power Armour, what I don't get is why it's got the color scheme of a Christmas cracker." You know what else I don't get? How does her power armor stays chrome clean despite harsh abuse it has to go through? Like where's the grim, scorch marks, and mud?
I still have my original Return of Samus cartridge. Definitely the game that I played the most as a kid. The back seat of the car on a road trip was one place where there were no limits on game time.
One thing I hope they delve into if they continue this series is whatever species Ridley was. He was never described as the last of his species, so there's more space lizard dragon things out there with more or less the same level of strength and intelligence. Not all of them would be horribly evil like him, but having something turn them would be interesting. It would also be cool to know how the Chozo dealt with them.
Hey this Metroid game is totally different! Instead of starting on the surface and fighting your way deeper into the planet, you START deep within the planet and have to fight your way UP instead!
This is definitely the kind of review you see Yahtzee do when he's expected to be mean to games because that's his thing, but he liked the game. Which is an odd way to look for positive criticism of a game, but there you go, probably going to go buy this now
I'm wouldn't be so sure Samus's more curvaceous looking armor has anything to do with the incidental factor that she's also a girl. As of Breath of the Wild, Link is also sporting some impressive hips that make him all the more convincing when he dress in drag to get into Gerudo town.
If anything, all it does is show that her armour still isn't fully recovered from its surgery back in _Fusion_ , so it's closer in shape to the underlying layers than its standard "skin" armour. Heck, it even seems to have a few tendons still exposed!
Please bring the subtitles back on. I always have a hard time understanding Yahtzee's jokes as a non-native English speaker and it is even more difficult without the subtitles
Love the skeksis reference . I never made the connection between the skeksis and chozo. What really ground my gears was for the whole series the chozo have been hidden/dead. Kind of like the dwemer from Elder Scrolls. So you spend the whole time thinking about them never actually seeing one. Then this game finally shows 2 living chozo which are then immediately killed. WTF!
Ngl, I loved the way the last EMMI got rekt. It made itself out to be this big threat, knocking Samus on her ass bc power bombs, but then oh shit, that Metroid DNA do be kicking in tho, and it gets drained. We kill the thing Adam says our normal abilities can't kill and that the game insists we need the Omega Cannon for, without a single shot of anything. Just grab the probe and sap the life out of it. Satisfying as all hell. The elite Chozo fight, however, was not. You need a counter *and* the grapple beam to yoink the shield this time? Wow, such innovation! So good, we never see it again. The repetitiveness of the minibosses is my main gripe with Dread. Fuck the Chozo bots, and the Chozo X soldiers were cool at first, but fuck, they got annoying
I never really bothered with dealing with the shields with those things I just charged storm missiles and dashed behind them until they ditched the shield
At what point is Samus going to have a backup plan for losing all her powers? For the greatest bounty hunter in the universe she sure keeps getting into the same situation over and over...
Got a point about about story presentation. Actually a bit disappointed it wasn't more Other Mish with voiced internal monologues and back-and-forths with Adam.
@@megagrey Not that different my ass. In Other M, they made Samus a pushover, and a wuss. At least in Fusion, she’s still a badass. Yes, she talked, but she didn’t act like a fucking scaredy cat.
@@BlindMelonLord Pushover my ass. This is the game where Samus first busted out sweet martial arts and acrobatics in a canon Metroid game, plus really showed how insanely strong she is. Had me going "Oh yeah, more of this!" when she did the same in Dread.
You know.... That's a fair point... Why doesn't Samus do anything different like.... Oh, I don't know.... Actually bounty hunting? All these metroid games and I'm not sure she ever actually collected any bounties... Jango Fett's game wasn't nearly as talked about and he still did more bounty hunting in that one game than Samus did in her entire franchise...
@@roboarcado5552 well... She might want to get a better contractor seeing how she constantly gets her suit disabled and stranded whenever she accepts the job.... XD
Like Robo said every game has been a federation contract. Going down the timeline Metroid I / Zero Mission - Is Samus being contracted to take out Space Pirates command (Kraid, Ridley and Mother Brain) on Zebes, as well as find out what the biological weapon the pirates are searching for (turns out its the Metroids) Metroid Prime - Samus is responding to an SOS of a Pirate attack and also tasked with stopping them from extracting a resource known as Phazon Prime 2 - Samus is sent to investigate a downed Federation ship. Shortly after finding the ship she gets mobbed by the Ing and instead goes about dealing with them. So this one is the least involved with the Federation. Prime 3 - Samus and 3 other bounty hunters are tasked with protecting some supercomputers and stopping Leviathans that Dark Samus and the Space pirates are launching at some planets. After Samus and the other bounty hunters are corrupted by Samus and being out of comission for a month. She's tasked by the federation to find out what happened to the other bounty hunters and stop the remaining leviathans. Metroid II / Samus Returns - Samus is tasked with eradicating the Metroids on SR388. Quite literally a bounty on the entire species lol. Game ends with Samus killing all the metroids except a newborn hatchling which she instead delivers to a research station. Super Metroid - Gets an SOS from the station she just left the baby and finds out Ridley just stole the hatchling. Its not clear if she got a bounty contract for this but considering its stopping the space pirates and preventing them from cloning metroids I'm sure the Federation essentially gave her a contract to deal with them. Skipping Other M Metroid Fusion - Samus is tasked to serve as body guard for some research team on SR388 when they all get attacked by some parasites (the X). Again no outright contract on this one but seeing how quickly the X are becoming a danger to the entire galaxy its safe to assume they wanted her to eradicate the parasite before they left the station. Metroid Dread - Federation learns that X parasite might be on another planet and try to get concrete proof (they send the robots from this game to investigate), after they lose contact with the robots, they contract Samus to investigate herself as to whether the X are there, if so get rid of them, and find out what happened with the robots.
5:01 I didn't know Yahtzee was fond of 80's synth pop. (That is if he's refering to the version by Taco and not the original, but given the "Aran" joke at the end, I'll take my chances with Taco )
I don't think I've seen a ZP credits scene with something animated going on (2 frames still being animation). Not surprised what that animation consisted of, course.
So, to address the credits comment: The armour looks like that because they're _bird_ people. It's Samus' plumage, since she's clearly a bit underdeveloped in the whole "bird feathers" regard!
it was my first Metroid game. I got it when my grandma used to work at hotels. I can’t remember if she was a housekeeper, or what, but she was looking through rooms, and she saw that someone left their white GBA there. She grabs it, gives it to me. And, had a copy of Metroid Fusion with it. Which was nice. So yeah… My first Metroid game. Then I played the others years later through emulation. now, (well, for a while now, but still), I have a copy of Metroid Dread sitting in a Nintendo Switch.
although, when I was in school, (me being the idiot that I was), I gave the game away to someone else for them to try, and never got it back. Still regret doing that.
It's a shame the encounters with the unkillable robot weren't spooky because running from the SA-X in Fusion was absolutely nerve racking and the payoff when you finally defeat it was amazing
I'm still waiting for a remake of the original Metroid where we see Samus violently rip a space pirate in half(in Metroid prime hunters there is a character named Weavel who was a space pirate Samus ripped in half during her first mission)
The EMMI fights feel so gimmicky and forgettable after the game is said and done that the final one being immediately nixed by Samus' awakening is a brilliant touch.
I actually had to explain what a GBA is to someone because they pointed out that they were born just after it was introduced. You ain't the only old man in the room man.
@@ChipChapChop Just because their stories aren't _that_ deep doesn't mean that there can't be one that's _offensively_ bad (making the rest seem like Shakespeare by comparison).
@@ChipChapChop Other M was marketed as a more story-heavy and story-rich Metroid game, and it sacrificed a lot of the normal Metroid gameplay in service to that story. So the story being garbage was a big deal.
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Why isn't there any captions for this Zero Punctuation? It's the third time in a row now.
@@duyvuongquang5264 The person that did them got another job, working on getting a new person to do them.
@@theescapist a shame, good luck!
@@duyvuongquang5264 b
🎶Couldn't get away🎶
There's something about this review that reminds me of old school Yahtzee. I don't know if it's his mic, his writing or his delivery, but it's like 2008 Yahtzee was transported forward in time to review a new Metroid game. Incredible.
LOL I totally thought the same thing. Probably the mic or way or maybe he has a cold.
I feel like he hasn't changed much at all in the past decade, he's still hilarious, and he still carries escapist on his back
@@ermacn.cheese726 He was sick a few days ago when he didn't join the slightly something else, so its probably that.
The mic does sound off. What if he switched mics in case of spreading snot? Could make senseif its a nice enough mic and a bad enough runny nose.
You might be right, but for a different reason, the quality does sound lower than usual, the reason why that sounds like an older Yahtzee is because it doesn’t really seem like he’s changed over the years, besides incrementally improving audio quality and what games he reviews, to me his attitude towards AAA and indie games haven’t changed at all between then and now, whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to you. Personally I do like someone who will list out all of a game’s faults to no end, just in case there are any dealbreakers, then I go literally anywhere else to see what’s good about it.
Wait, knowing what a GBA is means im old?
Well shit
Man I loved that system - Advance Wars, Golden Sun, and my first introduction to Fire Emblem.
Wait. I'm old? I'm barely legal!
either that or you watch Scot the Woz at 3am when you should be sleeping
@@thehelpfulwalnut7440 I OWN one. It was my first handheld!
@@16BitGamerCat wait I’m old?! I’m not even legal!
Oh hey he barely mentioned the core gameplay or the level design, he must have liked this one!
Right? Now we have to wait for him to heavily reference like BOTW in other reviews to confirm it
Nice copium
He kinda did, in that it's exactly like every other Metroid, citing Nintendo's "if it ain't broke don't fix it" philosophy.
Yahtzee talks about games?
@@WhatTheAlva no, he critics them
Sounds like a solid contender for Game that Yahtzee Reviewed in 2021.
Definitely going to show up in his "Every Zero Punctuation of 2021" end of the year compilation!
I have no idea how you reached that conclusion
Probably a top number 5 best with his only remarks as “if you like 2D Metroid, youll most likely enjoy this too, that’s it that’s my commentary”
@@tarekmoneimsaid You sure? I don't believe it, myself.
No.
ADAM: "Samus, remember you are entirely helpless against the highly trained, strong, intelligent, very cool and well endowed Raven Beak."
"Accept your helplessness, Samus. Raven Beak's masterful plan knows no bounds. Also, I have discovered through the Galactic Federation's archive that Raven Beak is a hit with the ladies and only dates supermodels."
@@Darth1Marik That would in fact be the joke.
"Raven Beak is a dumb name."
"YOU TAKE THAT- *ahem* No, it is a very cool and sexy name."
Having a Chozo named Raven Beak is like having person called Human Lip
@@niclaswa5408 Have you never heard of Moist Von Lipvig?
"I wonder if Samus has ever thought of settling down and giving birth to something horrifying."
There are answers… on DeviantArt.
considering her canon dna structure at this juncture I think its safe to pray she never procreates.
@@nobodyspecial690 you mean 1 part human 2 parts bird, 1 part metroid, half a part Ebola cancer mutation dissase? With the triple dad combo of course.
@@Paradox1012
Bird strenght and energy draining in the hands of a literal toddler - Metroid 6 will be a survival horror game from the fathers perspective.
@Caleb Chaney
NO!! CEASE TO EXIST! noone needs those mental scars and therapist visits.
bad youtube commenter. >:(
Well, seeing that after fusion, she got fused to her armor, I think its hard to reach the important bits. Also, her being a gruff, (semi-)silent bountyhunter who loves her work more than anything, I'd give it a hard chance she's out clubbing on her days off...
I think the game does a pretty good job of showing Samus's character without having her talk or show her face (much). Like when Kraid shows up and she just stands her ground unflinching while he roars at her and then casually blasts him in the mouth.
those moments also have the double purpose of communicating to the player "here's the weakness" which is a nice touch
I quite liked the way the last robot gets punked. “Subverting expectations” is kind of a dirty phrase these days for several very good reasons, but in this case I think it did it well. The way the robot gets taken out was more interesting for the game’s story the the standard stealth and super beam affair may have been at that point in the game.
And that’s kind of the thing. You can do a plot twist, but it had better be more interesting than the way the plot was going before you twisted it.
Plis there's no way a power bomb armed emmi would be both fair to fight and lore-consistent.
To me it was meh because it was the last one. Plus the soldier fight that follows is laughably easy compared to sneaking past an EMMI. Considering it's pretty much end game at that point, it just feels like they wanted to close up shop and get it all over with. If it had been second to last then make the last one a much longer section or at least really hard, I think I would've been okay with it. I mean it is a major selling point of the game after all.
Some excellent points, though, as a writer, that last sentence speaks to me personally, and if you don't mind I am gonna steal it.
@@ethanhinton4549 You do survive at least one power bomb from the SA-X in Fusion, but I don't know how a robot spamming it against you would go.
The purple one kinda maximised the pursuit element of those battles, having to run loops around the arena trying to get a decent lock on the bastard to take him out. I'm not sure there was a way to up that without just making it bullshit, so I was fine that they killed the last one in a cutscene. Plus, I'd hyped my brother up about the red one's difficulty so he got extra confused by the actual battle XD
Quiet Robe's exposition dump is a bit tedious, yeah, but I think Nintendo banked on Metroid fans just being way too excited that there's *an actual fucking live Chozo talking to you AND SAMUS TALKS BACK*. They were right! I'm not complaining the tiniest bit.
I’d be slightly more satisfied if Samus said more than one line. They were so fucking terrified of another Ridley PTSD scenario that they played it mega safe with her and left the long exposition to the bird people
if they wanted to keep Samus silent, they could have slightly tweaked Quiet Robe's line, but it is cool that they had Samus speak here
Hearing Samus speak in chozo made me wonder, what if the reason she almost never speaks is because she is no longer fluent in languages other than chozo? She was barely more than a toddler when her parents were killed and she was raised by the chozo most of her life. Also the unusual circumstances of her upbringing may make it harder for her to socialize with others much like Master Chief.
I mean she fluently speaks English in Other M, which even tho its horrible, is still canon.
@@euclidshield4932 if you take the manga into consideration, she goes back to being part of the Galactic Federation when she's 14 when she joins the military, so it would be hard to say that she doesn't speak whatever is the common tongue of the federation. I think it would be pretty cool if she canonically had a Chozo accent laced onto whatever languages she speaks, and I'm pretty sure she speaks more than just Chozo and whatever the basic language is for the Galactic Federation given her bounty hunting career.
Me: "I wonder if Yahtzee likes Metroid Dread."
(Watches video)
Me: "I wonder if Yahtzee likes Metroid Dread."
He liked the previus games so propably...
He didn't chafe at the core gameplay or level design, so I'd say he at least liked the game overall even if the story didn't grab him.
Yes he did
"And Aran, Aran so far away." Thanks, Yahtzee, now that song is in my head.
I know the lyrics but can never remember the tune.
Couldn’t get away
@John Aldrich In my heeead, in my heeead, zombie, zombie-eh-eh
whats the song?
@@alex.g7317 I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls
"It'd probably stay in the news cycle longer than casting Chris Pratt as Mario did." 🤣 What a solid parting shot. This is what made me a fan of Yahtzee years ago.
It was funny, although totally untrue. People are still constantly talking about Chris Pratt being cast as Mario, which means that way more people are thinking about the Mario movie than would be otherwise.
Nope, no one cared.
@@Mastermind4life actually, people did care, they just needed to be reminded what Chris Pratt sounds like
@@NotASovietSpy1
I like your name, but nah.
I am the most correct.
:D good day
Yeah the mysterious dashing rogue from the beginning sadly only shows up at the beginning and end. Though I bet he would've defeated Samus easily with his massive Arm cannon and cool cape
She clearly has no chance against his superior combat prowess. She should just accept her helplessness.
@@geneericname7138 If you phrase it like that, Raven Beak is a lot like Berdly.
Surely even at full power she just wouldn’t have been a worthy adversary for his majestic brawn and dashing looks
SPOILER
At least I can accept his reason for being absent until the end. He's literally a father.
@@thepicswin
SPOILER
He's not actually gone. He talks to you the whole damn game, disguised quite cleverly as Adam. It doesn't really register until the final pre-boss cutscene where it's spelled out, but in the initial cutscenes, Adam never once refers to samus by name, while in the game he constantly does so. In the pre-game cutscenes he advises her to be extremely cautious, and mentions that communication would be difficult as she goes down.
Say what you will about Metroid’s themed levels, it’s one of the only sci-fi franchises that regularly has worlds with more than one biome
Can I just point out the brilliance of representing raven beak as darth Vader?
and quiet robe as a little helpless pigeon
it's a pretty obvious comparison
"I am your father, Metroid."
@@Guy811 but only if you know the ending
@@OmniGundam777 ok but how is that brilliant then if we all thought that
Before I was even able to watch this. I had to watch a non skippable ad for this game. Found it funny.
Me too. Quite humorous.
That's pretty funny 😁😂
Lucky, I keep getting Ads for mobile games.
What's an ad?
- "Adblock Plus" gang
@@igorthelight Thing is, I have Adblock, but every time I update my computer, it doesn't work for about an hour or so.
Using Darth Vader to represent Raven Beak was pure genius!
He makes the joke about an ending dance routine, but let's face it, the turret tribute in the end of portal 2 was fantastic.
*talking about the GBA as though its a console nobody watching would remember*
well now i feel old
The GBA is older now than the SNES was when Zero Punctuation first started
Evil robots are metaphor for sexual abuse. Also, "Samus should smile more."
I hope this is a joke or a meme I’m just not privy to
@@tc2241 It's partly a joke. The second half is loosely from an article, though.
SAMUS (parents are killed and eaten by Ridley) SHOULD (Chozo are all gone) SMILE (Destroyed the one planet she could call home) MORE (Ridley Everywhere System)
Don't worry she's smiling whenever she kills something I bet
Glory to me, the 100th thumb up.
Metroid has had story elements, but mostly it’s very simple point A to Z because you have play the game to get everything necessary to reach the only objective you have ever had in the game.
And there's usually more story in the world and lore of the Metroid universe than Samus' actual mission.
I love how blowing up planets is just a trope of Samus' missions following Super.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup that's mostly just in the Prime games though, the 2-D games don't nearly do as good of a job with the world building and atmosphere in my opinion.
@@BoardGamesBricksHobbies The work Retro Studios did on Prime's lore and "canonizing" of a lot of the Metroid universe's lore cannot be overstated, however, the side-scrollers did the best they could for the NES, SNES, and Gameboy - and Fusion, Zero Mission, Samus Returns, and Dread did really well in that aspect as well, especially considering three of them were exclusive to handhelds.
How to interpret Yahtzee reviews: understand he will always find something to criticize and focuses on the biggest issues the game has. Therefore if he complains only about the smallest of gripes, rest assured that the game is spectacular.
Spectacular is a bit hyperbolic. If he doesn't shit on a game then it's probably mediocre at worst.
I did not get that from this review...
Metroid Dread is the worst kind of mediocre - boring. Which places it worse than a technically bad game that can be fun to experience because of how horribly bad it is. MercurySteam has a long history of making painfully boring games.
@@gamechannel1271 I'll disagree but I don't doubt you have your reasons for thinking this way.
@@gamechannel1271 I mean its good as far as 2D metroid games go which is something a lot of people enjoy.
The mechanics and movement are pretty fun, the combat and level exploration is pretty fun, and its got some pretty decent bosses even if some of them are reused a bit too much. The unique ones still stand out as pretty fun.
The story is a bit meh and relies heavily on knowledge of the franchise to work, but I mean the primary pull of Metroid games has never really been the story anyways. Its more about the atmosphere than it is the story, and the atmosphere is nailed pretty well in dread.
So the game hits all the main points it needs to. While it couldve been better, especially with a better story and more unique boss fights or power ups, it still is overall pretty fun to play. If you like Metroid or Metroidvania games, which given how popular the genre is is a lot of people, then youll probably like Dread. Which is also why reviews of the game were generally pretty positive and the game was overall well received.
Maybe its not your thing, and thats fair, but I do think the game encapsulates the 2D metroid style well.
I think the best part was when ADAM said that Samus had become a Metroid. It comes full circle from when people thought that Samus' name was Metroid
“Link, you are now a Zelda”
"Woke as a sloth on nitrous oxide."
I'm stealing that.
sloathe
Real clever portraying “the dude who knicks Samus’ armor at the start of the game” as Darth Vader
This is probably a *Spoiler* but...
It's kind of odd that you mentioned the story in the beginning and end being separate. The ending revealed pretty clearly that the boss was the one sharing information with you the whole time rather than the AI Adam that it appeared to be. The entire situation is being controlled by Raven Beak so that he can use you.
He didn't get that far. He never does.
@@roboarcado5552 I think he did... otherwise how would he have known that Ravenbeak only physically appears in front of Samus at the end of the game.
Though I am annoyed that Yahtzee didn't take the opportunity to mention that Ravenbeak was stroking himself in front of Samus by pretending to be someone else just to try and intimidate her.
You'd think it'd be harder than that to trick Samus, otherwise why didn't the Space Pirates try it?
@@gingermcgingin4106 Raven Beak was able to take advantage of her because he was first able to incapacitate her (given that he's three times her size and wearing an actual Chozo-constructed Power Suit rather than a Federation knock-off), and then because having her regain her strength (something she would do anyway) was of use to him.
Also, I mean... he "tricked" her into becoming powerful enough to absolutely wreck his ass, because he was ridiculously overconfident.
I thought only the last “adam” was raven beak and all of the others were still regular adam. do we have confirmation that it was raven beak the whole time?
So then, Yahtzee, can we both agree that Fire Emblem the Musical is what Nintendo really needs to be working on?
youuuu're still the ocean's grey waves....
still tryna find... life beyond... the shore...
still out of reach...
"Babies Other Babies" cracked me up
"I get that Samus was raised by bird people and they gave her the power armour, what I don't get is why it's got the color scheme of a Christmas cracker"
That's the sort of thing you write off as the bird people's culture or Samus' own taste and then don't think about it. At least that's what I do.
Given most else about their culture, it makes sense. I think originally it was just a way to better differentiate the suits' sprites.
The real answer's probably something more mundane, like "The coloration looked good on the original 8-bit system."
@@hibber25 doylist vs watsonian approach
bird people percieve the world in shrimp colors
@@murrfeeling right
(Spoilers, I guess)
The Chozo were considered to be extinct since day one of the Metroid franchise, but when Samus discovers a living breathing one that gives her a plot dump, she just shrugs and says “yeah sure, I’ll help.”
Still like the game though.
To be fair, the Metroids and the X have been "extinct" so many fucking times, and Ridley and Kraid get killed and brought back so many times that I doubt she even cares anymore, lol
they were never considdered extinct. the were always just hiding, since their civilization had fallen so far from grace.
I mean, they were around as late as Samus’s childhood. It’s not like they were ancient precursors that died off generations ago. I’m not all *that* surprised that some Chozo tribes are still around in some capacity.
@@enlongjones2394 I'm so happy to finally see them though. They were never gone long, but it always felt like their presence on the worlds Samus visited was ancient history, but Mother Brain's betrayal, Tallon IV's corruption, Aether's fall, etc. all happened within the span of about 30 years. Even the genocide of the Thoha seems to have happened after Samus' adoption by the birbs.
Samus is a stoic character and should remain as such. Remember what happened the last time.
In a sense I'm glad Nintendo games are treated as baby series that aren't taken as seriously because it sure sounds like the PS5 version of this game would generate nine million "hot take" articles on the EMMIS being a metaphor for sexual abuse
Except for when Kotaku writers want Samus to “smile more”…
@@theescapist godDAMN
As well as being another linear “cinematic experience” that is actually just walking down hallways while listening to a kid blubber on about Jack shit
Needs more green moss and over the shoulder camera angles
Nintendo games a “baby” series?! Please, elaborate…
You know, I could never really tell if he liked the games he reviews when I watch these for the first time. Takes me like a few rewatched to figure it out. Or someone saying it later.
I think he likes Metroid enough as he's been playing for a while and sounded excited on it actually being a sequel. His review sounds more like critiques that bugged him.
This was actually the best critique I’ve heard from ANYONE. It feels like most of the “critical reviews” people push are missing the point or are disingenuous. “Too expensive, nintendo greedy”. “Hidden pathways, shit design.”
It’s easy for me to forget, but I did actually have a problem with how the story is presented at the opening. It felt real clunky. I didn’t have issues with the rest if the story but as he points out things I see what he means. Yah, the emmi’s were all really similar. Yah, I guess Quiet Robe’s segment was a bit long and explainy. Not sure how to smooth it out but you probably could. I Did Really love how the story turned at the end and how the last emmi was defeated. The fact that it goes strait to the final boss who me I thought was amazing plus I loved the story beats...
Yah, a lot of the issues I had with the game got forgotten by the time I finished the last boss. I may degrade my personal rating from a 9/10 to an 8/10 because the man had some good points. Obviously I loved the game though and I Really appreciate this review.
The one thing I'd say is probably not entirely accurate with his critique, is the point about the final boss not doing anything. Then again, saying he's there the entire way is technically a spoiler, even if it's a decently easy to see one ("Adam" only calls Samus "lady" at the beggining, when she's still in the ship)
I think a pretty easy way to tell is seeing how grave the complaints are. Yahtzee always complains, that's his thing, but when he likes a game he complains about less important things. If during his entire review he complains mostly about small things and gets into nitpicking department, he probably likes the game. If he's pointing fundamental flaws about the game, like the story of a visual novel being rubbish, then he probably didn't like it
@@RussJS I think one thing I would have done differently was take the scene where Samus views the Mawkin Mural and maybe put that in Dairon. This would give us more time to consider our adversary until we reach Ferenia (and for those who didn't play samus returns, they are left to chew on the knowledge that this being is responsible for some sort of massacre). Once we reach ferenia, then we get ambushed by the purple E.M.M.I and things go on from there.
I don't really care that the last EMMI got cutscene trashed. Their story significance was always functional, and were never portrayed as anything other than an obstacle/required for a story beat that didn't matter too much anymore.
I am a bit surprised Yahtzee didn't note that at the very least the last EMMI gets cutscene trashed by Samus as a contrast to Other M where every single problem is resolved in a cutscene or off screen by someone else.
"Explore the map - Shoot the things" needs to be a tshirt 👌
The Metroid Fusion suit is colored so weird because its actually partially fused to Samus through Metroid DNA - Metroids being the natural predators of the X and the fusion having saved Samus's life when she got infected previous to the Metroid Fusion game. So her bio suit is not entirely suit anymore, tmu, and changed colors because it took on Metroid colors.
And then it took on Metroid Colors...
So does that mean Samus doesn't bathe ever?
@@SuperWHIIITE after fusion, probably not.
Just take her out back and get her with the space hose.
@@SuperWHIIITE No reason not to bathe, just no point in taking the suit off I suppose.
I did think Samus' armour was noticeably more figure-hugging this time around, but didn't know whether it was just me seeing things that weren't there.
It's missing a lot of the outer layer, so it's essentially her armour's underwear. ;P
The color scheme of the armor? Well, leaving aside that ALL the Chozo armors got that color scheme, birds are attracted primarily to colors in the spectrum from red to yellow. Basically, if you were a bird, that armor would look gorgeous. Heck, it probably looks even better in ultraviolet...
I do enjoy listening to this man shit all over something I love. Everyone is either heaping endless praise or excessively whining about little things like getting the morphball later because it's the first-ish upgrade in every other game in the franchise.
Nice to hear someone talking about issues that the game actually has.
Seeing the D in "Licensed Labyrinthine Planet Exploder" crossed out to say "Explorer" got a good laugh out of me
As a huge fan of Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion, I will say that this turned out to be a great sequel
The only thing I didn't care for too much was the music, but the gameplay was incredibly smooth and fun
I played three times already. I would highly recommend learning some speed running and boss strategies AFTER beating the game once on your own. It will make the second time around feel like a completely new experience
The music was a weak point for me too, but not so much I consider it "bad" just kinda forgettable, but like, that is about the only gripe I have honestly.
@@Fulldre Same, the reused track "remixes" were good. But the area music was boring, only bad thing about the game IMO
The first time you muddle your way through it.
The second is where the precognitive run pays off and you look like an unstoppable force.
The 4th wall break with the script was beautiful.
"W-what are you doing, Robot-Chan..."
Slayed me
"Jesus Christ when did I write that"
It's always funny to me when someone acknowledges their own batshit insane script in the middle of recording it
You can tell he enjoyed it because he found like three nitpicks in five minutes and the rest was just the usual Yahtzee sass
I think after Metroid Fusion, Samus is the Metroid now
Samus' DNA as of Fusion: Human, birb, eldritch horror from beyond the stars.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Thank you, sluttyMapleSyrup.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup eldritch horror made by the birbs
@@donovandelozier7156 Also yes
@@sluttyMapleSyrup don't forget birb.
Is this the first time we've seen Yahtzee question his own writing?
Perhaps after some truck simulator is when you wrote it, Yahtz
Been listening to the man for 10 years and I'm pretty sure it's a first
He did refer to Saints Row 2 as "more fun than a swimming pool filled with disembodied breasts" once.
I remember Yahtzee going off on one of his rambling metaphors, then interrupting himself with "what am I on about?" I couldn't tell you which video that was, though.
There are a couple through the years, the worst outlier is in the review of the Suda 51 game were you play a girl that can break all her bones(?) and solve puzzles.
"That is the worst line I've ever written" is about midway through
@@TheSimmusIIRC He was trying to drum up a story reason behind one of the main game mechanics which led to the metaphor of two ladies scissoring at that time of the month or something. The guy has a beautiful imagination.
And the extra kick in the junk is casting Chris Pratt as Mario... damn, hold nothing back yatzhee
I guess the Xenomorph and the EMMI share one thing in common.
EDIT: Okay, for some answers. Metroid took a lot of inspiration from Alien and the EMMIs and Xenomorphs share a similar role in the sense that they are creepy killers that can fit in small vents. Also they have funny shaped heads.
Funny shaped heads?
Oh shit I just realized how similar the EMMIs' crawl is to Xenomorphs'.
Sus
Oh, I'll do you one better than that: You're going about your business, exploring abandoned planets for artifacts you can use, when you suddenly become aware of this... _creature_ hunting you down. It walks about on two legs much like yourself, adorned in metallic armour seemingly not unlike your own... but can contort its body into strange, unnatural shapes you can't even _try_ to replicate without shattering all your bones, and fit through passages too small for you to do anything but scoot or crawl through with ease. It can take anything you throw at it without flinching, chases you incessantly with intent to kill, and always has some bizarre new weapon you're not equipped to deal with; the only way you stand a chance of not dying is to run and hide, and hope that just _maybe_ you can find a weapon potent enough to shoot it down. If it gets close, you die. If you can't find anything, you die. If you can't hide, you die. And even then, even if you manage to hide from it successfully, to sneak around without it noticing you long enough to find a weapon that might, just _might_ , give you a hint of a chance to take it down... one wrong move and you _still_ die.
Now, did I just describe Samus encountering an E.M.M.I. ...or a Space Pirate encountering the Hunter?
Did not expect a Metroid review to bring back horrific memories of being forced to do gym in my pants. But i guess were still partly in a pandemic so whats a little dread.
Wait that’s a real thing? What the fuck?
I'm not sure if I understand: British pants or American pants?
@@rasterbate87 yep very much so!
@@scienceface8884 British, i doubt it would fly these days but going too a C of E school im not surprised they did it.
I've really enjoyed this game but, as usual, the critiques are fair. I found the EMMI chases more exciting than "fear-inducing," but I guess "Metroid: Adrenaline" sounds stranger in the series' lore.
actually, “metroid adrenaline” sounds like it could be a solid spinoff based on speedrunning techniques. maybe not lore-consistent, but still badass
To be fair, the spoilery bit was set up towards the beginning and paid off there. It's kind of a badass development too, canonically. Samus has the genetic makeup of three species now, and it's fucking cool that she's actively taking on behavioral traits of the last.
It’s also funny because, people have been calling Samus Metroid for years, and we all tried to correct them. But, little did we know, we shouldn’t have done that. Because, as the beginning of the game, kindly tells us, the word Metroid in the language of the Chozo, translates to ultimate warrior. So, the whole time people were calling her that, they were never wrong. Yeah, we kept correcting them like the dumbasses we were. Then again, it wasn’t really explained until this game, so, not really our fault, I guess. Now she’s a Metroid figuratively, and literally.
Yahtzee’s Editor: But Nintendo Fanboys already hate you.
Yahtzee: You don’t understand… I want to see how far the rabbit hole goes.
Exposition Q. Dumpington. Thanks for making the BBEG in my d&d campaign
2021: The year of the comebacks
'From the space region of space' aahahhaha
So. You made this whole review for the explicit purpose of bashing the Mario movie's casting decisions. Makes sense.
It's one of those cases, where hearing a game being described as "Sequel: Another One" doesn't exactly sound that bad to me. It's one of those situations, where you kinda just feel glad that something is actually happening in a series. Between the 19 years since Fusion, we've only really had 2 slices of 2D Metroid action and both were really just remakes. On every other end, we had a small detour into 3D and a few quite terrible fumbles during that time, so Metroid Dread kinda had the blessing of having the stakes lowered by that. All it needed to do was show up and show that it still has the fundamentals down. Just a helping of what worked. If this actually sparks a want for follow-ups, it'd be the next game's job to show that the basics aren't all they have in store for Metroid.
The developers of Star Fox would be very confused by this post.
"I get that Samus was raised by bird people and they gave her the power Armour, what I don't get is why it's got the color scheme of a Christmas cracker."
You know what else I don't get? How does her power armor stays chrome clean despite harsh abuse it has to go through? Like where's the grim, scorch marks, and mud?
Birb magic
Probably because since it's a 2D game, the details wouldn't be very appreciable.
I mean considering metroid fusion it got quite goo'd up.
Maybe she sends it to the dry cleaners in between missions
It's made out of energy and materializes from thin air. It's not like traditional armor.
These puns are top notch, really gave me a proper chuckle again. You've still got it Yahtz
I still have my original Return of Samus cartridge. Definitely the game that I played the most as a kid. The back seat of the car on a road trip was one place where there were no limits on game time.
I still have my Game Boy Advance from when I was 7.
I'm glad you didn't reveal the actual big spoiler. But at least Nintendo doesn't have to change the name of the series now.
I suddenly want dancing EMMI robots.
i know it does not make sense to have him in the game, still i missed Ridley or at least his iconic theme.
We did get Ridley in Samus Returns and throughout the Prime series though, so I'm glad Kraid finally got another round post-Super.
I don't think he's gone for good.
same, i guess were in the minority. since the majority of people seem to be glad he's not in the game.
One thing I hope they delve into if they continue this series is whatever species Ridley was. He was never described as the last of his species, so there's more space lizard dragon things out there with more or less the same level of strength and intelligence.
Not all of them would be horribly evil like him, but having something turn them would be interesting. It would also be cool to know how the Chozo dealt with them.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup fun fact: Ridley's appearance in Samus Returns (as partially mechanical) actually confirms the Prime games are canon
Seeing the X parasite with cute anime cat smiles wanting to assimilate us all, is giving me flashbacks of the 'Changed' game.
Hey this Metroid game is totally different! Instead of starting on the surface and fighting your way deeper into the planet, you START deep within the planet and have to fight your way UP instead!
This is definitely the kind of review you see Yahtzee do when he's expected to be mean to games because that's his thing, but he liked the game.
Which is an odd way to look for positive criticism of a game, but there you go, probably going to go buy this now
I'm wouldn't be so sure Samus's more curvaceous looking armor has anything to do with the incidental factor that she's also a girl. As of Breath of the Wild, Link is also sporting some impressive hips that make him all the more convincing when he dress in drag to get into Gerudo town.
It should be a rule that every main hero should flaunt around great curvature. My favorite example being Old Snake in MGS4, of course.
If anything, all it does is show that her armour still isn't fully recovered from its surgery back in _Fusion_ , so it's closer in shape to the underlying layers than its standard "skin" armour. Heck, it even seems to have a few tendons still exposed!
My wife had the exact same thought when she saw me playing this. "Oh it's just another Metroidvania...oh wait...this is just Metroid. Neat!"
1:19 I appreciate the Eddie Izzard reference. Who knew the whole planet was made of Widdley Wee?
4:13 why is man sitting in a Dalek skirt?
He's gonna complain about the morph ball not being available immediately isn't he?
Edit: That's weird.....
To be fair, the Slide Tackle was a sort of pseudo morph-ball.
Please bring the subtitles back on. I always have a hard time understanding Yahtzee's jokes as a non-native English speaker and it is even more difficult without the subtitles
Day by day, Yahtzee is slowly turning into the Roger Ebert of video games but he actually knows what he’s talking about.
More like the Chris Farley, Xanax addiction and all.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais is the man to watch if you want Vidya Ebert.
Love the skeksis reference . I never made the connection between the skeksis and chozo. What really ground my gears was for the whole series the chozo have been hidden/dead. Kind of like the dwemer from Elder Scrolls. So you spend the whole time thinking about them never actually seeing one. Then this game finally shows 2 living chozo which are then immediately killed. WTF!
I love the part about the baseline armor just being for painting projects.
Ngl, I loved the way the last EMMI got rekt. It made itself out to be this big threat, knocking Samus on her ass bc power bombs, but then oh shit, that Metroid DNA do be kicking in tho, and it gets drained. We kill the thing Adam says our normal abilities can't kill and that the game insists we need the Omega Cannon for, without a single shot of anything. Just grab the probe and sap the life out of it. Satisfying as all hell. The elite Chozo fight, however, was not. You need a counter *and* the grapple beam to yoink the shield this time? Wow, such innovation! So good, we never see it again. The repetitiveness of the minibosses is my main gripe with Dread. Fuck the Chozo bots, and the Chozo X soldiers were cool at first, but fuck, they got annoying
I never really bothered with dealing with the shields with those things
I just charged storm missiles and dashed behind them until they ditched the shield
I loved the joke about power armor only for painting
At what point is Samus going to have a backup plan for losing all her powers? For the greatest bounty hunter in the universe she sure keeps getting into the same situation over and over...
Her backup plan seems to basically be "welp, looks like the planet's gotta go", and it's been working out pretty well for her. ;P
I can't believe he is still making these videos. I remember watching them like well over 10 years ago
0:44 I understand the significance, sadly none of my peers have never even heard of metroid
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Got a point about about story presentation. Actually a bit disappointed it wasn't more Other Mish with voiced internal monologues and back-and-forths with Adam.
i’m not. Do you remember how horrible the dialogue was written in Other M?
@@BlindMelonLord Wasn't any different from Samus's own in Fusion, so I don't see the big deal.
@@megagrey Not that different my ass. In Other M, they made Samus a pushover, and a wuss. At least in Fusion, she’s still a badass. Yes, she talked, but she didn’t act like a fucking scaredy cat.
@@BlindMelonLord Pushover my ass. This is the game where Samus first busted out sweet martial arts and acrobatics in a canon Metroid game, plus really showed how insanely strong she is. Had me going "Oh yeah, more of this!" when she did the same in Dread.
You know.... That's a fair point... Why doesn't Samus do anything different like.... Oh, I don't know.... Actually bounty hunting? All these metroid games and I'm not sure she ever actually collected any bounties... Jango Fett's game wasn't nearly as talked about and he still did more bounty hunting in that one game than Samus did in her entire franchise...
Every game is about her going bounty hunting on a federation contract.
@@roboarcado5552 well... She might want to get a better contractor seeing how she constantly gets her suit disabled and stranded whenever she accepts the job.... XD
@@L0stR0gue She somehow always ends up with cooler stuff and jets the job done in an hour or so, so it might not be that big of a deal to her.
Like Robo said every game has been a federation contract.
Going down the timeline
Metroid I / Zero Mission - Is Samus being contracted to take out Space Pirates command (Kraid, Ridley and Mother Brain) on Zebes, as well as find out what the biological weapon the pirates are searching for (turns out its the Metroids)
Metroid Prime - Samus is responding to an SOS of a Pirate attack and also tasked with stopping them from extracting a resource known as Phazon
Prime 2 - Samus is sent to investigate a downed Federation ship. Shortly after finding the ship she gets mobbed by the Ing and instead goes about dealing with them. So this one is the least involved with the Federation.
Prime 3 - Samus and 3 other bounty hunters are tasked with protecting some supercomputers and stopping Leviathans that Dark Samus and the Space pirates are launching at some planets. After Samus and the other bounty hunters are corrupted by Samus and being out of comission for a month. She's tasked by the federation to find out what happened to the other bounty hunters and stop the remaining leviathans.
Metroid II / Samus Returns - Samus is tasked with eradicating the Metroids on SR388. Quite literally a bounty on the entire species lol. Game ends with Samus killing all the metroids except a newborn hatchling which she instead delivers to a research station.
Super Metroid - Gets an SOS from the station she just left the baby and finds out Ridley just stole the hatchling. Its not clear if she got a bounty contract for this but considering its stopping the space pirates and preventing them from cloning metroids I'm sure the Federation essentially gave her a contract to deal with them.
Skipping Other M
Metroid Fusion - Samus is tasked to serve as body guard for some research team on SR388 when they all get attacked by some parasites (the X). Again no outright contract on this one but seeing how quickly the X are becoming a danger to the entire galaxy its safe to assume they wanted her to eradicate the parasite before they left the station.
Metroid Dread - Federation learns that X parasite might be on another planet and try to get concrete proof (they send the robots from this game to investigate), after they lose contact with the robots, they contract Samus to investigate herself as to whether the X are there, if so get rid of them, and find out what happened with the robots.
@@jlev1028 Apparently, Samus is not really a Bounty Hunter
At least, not in Japanese
Wonderful use of Monty Python at 4:24
5:01 I didn't know Yahtzee was fond of 80's synth pop. (That is if he's refering to the version by Taco and not the original, but given the "Aran" joke at the end, I'll take my chances with Taco )
I personally think the A Flock of Seagulls original is more well known, though I prefer the Bowling for Soup cover.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Those are the only two versions I knew of until reading the OP 😆
*Edit:* I think Savlonic has a great cover of it as well.
It was only today that the “sparkling double jump” finally clicked.
I expected him to go with "Metroid dread, yes I certainly am"
I don't think I've seen a ZP credits scene with something animated going on (2 frames still being animation). Not surprised what that animation consisted of, course.
1:33 It's really been that long huh
So, to address the credits comment: The armour looks like that because they're _bird_ people. It's Samus' plumage, since she's clearly a bit underdeveloped in the whole "bird feathers" regard!
Metroid Fusion is one of my most played games. It is why I was excited for Dread.
it was my first Metroid game. I got it when my grandma used to work at hotels. I can’t remember if she was a housekeeper, or what, but she was looking through rooms, and she saw that someone left their white GBA there. She grabs it, gives it to me. And, had a copy of Metroid Fusion with it. Which was nice. So yeah… My first Metroid game. Then I played the others years later through emulation. now, (well, for a while now, but still), I have a copy of Metroid Dread sitting in a Nintendo Switch.
although, when I was in school, (me being the idiot that I was), I gave the game away to someone else for them to try, and never got it back. Still regret doing that.
It's a shame the encounters with the unkillable robot weren't spooky because running from the SA-X in Fusion was absolutely nerve racking and the payoff when you finally defeat it was amazing
Omg, I now have to play Metroid and while listening to Reggae. XD
Metroid Dub
@@midwesternspectre
I'm still waiting for a remake of the original Metroid where we see Samus violently rip a space pirate in half(in Metroid prime hunters there is a character named Weavel who was a space pirate Samus ripped in half during her first mission)
I loved this as fusion is one of my favourite games of all time and it is a continuation of the story
Joke’s on you Yahtzee. She had a daughter. A Baby Metroid I have dubbed Mary the Metroid.
The EMMI fights feel so gimmicky and forgettable after the game is said and done that the final one being immediately nixed by Samus' awakening is a brilliant touch.
I actually had to explain what a GBA is to someone because they pointed out that they were born just after it was introduced.
You ain't the only old man in the room man.
I love how Yahtzee, literally, roasted Other M out of existence!
As _everyone_ should.
Other M's story was atrocious.
@@ChipChapChop
Just because their stories aren't _that_ deep doesn't mean that there can't be one that's _offensively_ bad (making the rest seem like Shakespeare by comparison).
@@ChipChapChop Other M was marketed as a more story-heavy and story-rich Metroid game, and it sacrificed a lot of the normal Metroid gameplay in service to that story. So the story being garbage was a big deal.