Edit: Fusion and Metroid Prime 1 are now on Switch! Edit #2: Metroid Prime Remastered is amazing and you should buy it. Edit #3: Zero Mission is on Switch and Prime 4 is set for a 2025 release!
I can tell the difference between how you talk about the Metroid Fusion and how you talk about Prime or the Super Metroid, and I can tell you have a lot of prejudice against it. I know you have your own opinion which I respect having freedom of opinion but you sitting here acting like this is fact is totally wrong. more importantly, hearing you talk about saying that Metroid Fusion doesn't have the same atmosphere, if not worse, than Super Metroid is biased for you to say. and totally really misleading and me sitting here having to listen to you trash this game is absolute cringe because I'm a Metroid Fusion fan because it wus ny frist Metroid game I ever played so of course I would have a closer attachment to it. and I can tell you right now that it has a better atmosphere if not extremely better than the Super Metroid atmosphere. and the way that you talk about Metroid Fusion is so downplays and totally devaluing the game as a whole is just disgusting. you do use strategic logic and facts within it you also infused your own prejudice and your own opinion with it if you're going to make a tire review over facts you need to keep your opinion to yourself. regardless to me Metroid Fusion deserves more love and attention than you ever given it and I think most people who are looking about more 2D Metroid reviews should just completely ignore your review despite that you speak logic and facts you have done everything you could to downplay the 2D Metroid games as a whole. besides Super Metroid because most people like it so so much because of the first the the debug menu which is one of the best and the factors in it and the overall story and the emotional atmosphere is triumph mixed with a little bit horror. More importantly, it was a lot of people's first Metroid game besides the other two . Metroid Fusion is very well-known for having a much better atmosphere. The Super Metroid is known as horror and intention and Fusion. also, having been one of the first metroid ever has dialogue and the way that you just talked about the SA-X how you downplay the qualities that makes this character so unique and so dangerous and get so intimidating it just triggering factoring that the SA-X is one of the most terrifying enemy Samus has and ever wi'll ever faced in the tire in the 2D series. but sitting here hearing you downplay constantly mocking metroid fusions atmosphere is just absolutely disgusting, and I think you have some issues you need to work out 2nd Metroid Prime series is Non Cannon to the 2D Metroid series.
Prime Remastered is basically the Switch version of Prime 1. Hopefully Nintendo makes a remaster of Prime 2, Prime 3, and maybe even Prime Hunters. 100-percented Prime, ran into difficulties against the Alpha Blogg in Prime 2, played the demo version of Prime Hunters, and have not played Prime 3.
@@corbinselanne7990 yeah I know - I’m playing through Prime Remastered right now myself. It’s REALLY solid, right down to the gyro control implementation. While I still think it’s a tad overpriced, I do think it is absolutely worth the money. I’m definitely up for playing Prime 2 and 3 again if they give them the same treatment too
Metroid 2 will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first video game my 9 year old self ever played from start to finish and lay the foundations for the passionate gamer I am today. Currently playing through Metroid Prime Remastered on the switch….Metroid is the GOAT! Thanks for this awesome retrospective!
I work 4 days a week, 10:30 hour shifts, today is my "Friday", I'm now home and was finally able to watch the video in its entirety; while I knew Harley had passed, I had no idea it happened while you were making this video. That is so sad, but memories are forever, and now Harley is immortalized in this fantastic video! Rest in peace sweet doggo!
Wow dude this was an incredible piece of work. I know you've been working on it for a while and man I watched every minute of it and I was completely engaged. You have a great narrative style and the footage was supremely high quality and I even learned a lot about the series cuz I've always been kind of a casual fan so I didn't really even know about most of these games in detail so you've given me a reason to go back and play some of these and considering I have a Wii U I have the ability to get quite a few of these digitally so thanks for the comprehensive education on Metroid and keep up the great work!!
@@MarcTheCyborg Yoshio Sakamoto said that Other M's linearity was meant to make the game beginner friendly then the pervious games. The Wii remote control Scheme was also his idea, because he's not very experienced in 3d gaming until Dread.
Hey! If you hadn't already bought the games on Wii U, you should know that as of today, if you have a Nintendo Switch you'll have to link your Wii U's eShop account to your Switch's account. That'll be the only way you can add funds to your Wii U eShop wallet going forward, as your Wii U and Switch will share the same wallet once linked. Happy hunting!!
@MarcTheCyborg I can tell the difference between how you talk about the Metroid Fusion and how you talk about Prime or the Super Metroid, and I can tell you have a lot of prejudice against it. I know you have your own opinion which I respect having freedom of opinion but you sitting here acting like this is fact is totally wrong. more importantly, hearing you talk about saying that Metroid Fusion doesn't have the same atmosphere, if not worse, than Super Metroid is biased for you to say. and totally really misleading and me sitting here having to listen to you trash this game is absolute cringe because I'm a Metroid Fusion fan because it wus ny frist Metroid game I ever played so of course I would have a closer attachment to it. and I can tell you right now that it has a better atmosphere if not extremely better than the Super Metroid atmosphere. and the way that you talk about Metroid Fusion is so downplays and totally devaluing the game as a whole is just disgusting. you do use strategic logic and facts within it you also infused your own prejudice and your own opinion with it if you're going to make a tire review over facts you need to keep your opinion to yourself. regardless to me Metroid Fusion deserves more love and attention than you ever given it and I think most people who are looking about more 2D Metroid reviews should just completely ignore your review despite that you speak logic and facts you have done everything you could to downplay the 2D Metroid games as a whole. besides Super Metroid because most people like it so so much because of the first the the debug menu which is one of the best and the factors in it and the overall story and the emotional atmosphere is triumph mixed with a little bit horror. More importantly, it was a lot of people's first Metroid game besides the other two . Metroid Fusion is very well-known for having a much better atmosphere. The Super Metroid is known as horror and intention and Fusion. also, having been one of the first metroid ever has dialogue and the way that you just talked about the SA-X how you downplay the qualities that makes this character so unique and so dangerous and get so intimidating it just triggering factoring that the SA-X is one of the most terrifying enemy Samus has and ever wi'll ever faced in the tire in the 2D series. but sitting here hearing you downplay constantly mocking metroid fusions atmosphere is just absolutely disgusting, and I think you have some issues you need to work out 2nd Metroid Prime series is Non Cannon to the 2D Metroid series.
@@2musicSoundtrackfandom579 ? Prime is good, but there's a reason I own CIB Super Metroid Super Famicom and Metroid Zero Mission GBA, Dread Special Edition. Guess what that is jagoff? It's because I'm a huge fan of Classic Metroid. You should really take some classes on how to talk to strangers, you come off as a Jagoff.
Also at 19:40 sounded like it said it was required to use the wall jump but when I was a kid, I beat Super Metroid without a single Wall Jump. I do love that animals teach you how to Speed Boost and Wall Jump! :D
This guy deserves more subs. WAY more. After watching the whole video, I was shocked to see this channel under 1 million subs.... Keep up the good work dude 👌
fusion's story is somewhat lost in translation. the english ver tells us the whole federation is behind the bad deeds and acts we see but the japanese version states its a rogue faction of it. this is why in dread the federation isnt after her and they seem to be in good relations Edit: it's also worth noting Samus having chozo DNA has been a thing since zero mission. However her having raven beak's was a thread introduced in dread.
Thanks dude so much both for this history of Metroid AND letting me know about the PrimeHack. Playing MP1 again with PC controls is a blast. This is the vid that put your channel on my radar. Subbed with great appreciation.
Wow this was amazing... I haven't found any videos that breakdown a series this extensively and NOT sound boring until I saw your video. I'd definitely listen to one of these on castlevania and Koji Igarashi legacy. Also, signing up on the membership cuz this kinda content is TOTALLY worth supporting. Thanks for uploading this masterpiece!
Thanks man! A History of a Legendary Franchise on Castlevania is certainly in the cards - not specifically in the works at this moment, but it’s a solid candidate for one of these
I definitely subscribed and went straight to the playlists, and I will be watching the God of War video next. You mentioned your love of jrpgs... is there a series in that genre you might consider making a similar video about?
@@eyes2shatter559 I did have a plan to do a video on the Trails series, as I absolutely loved Trails in the Sky 1-3 and the fan translation of the Crossbell duology (which are releasing in the west officially soon and are AWESOME)- but it may be a bit too ambitious to put a reasonable timeline on. I might have something Final Fantasy related in the works, but it’ll be a different approach from Metroid - I just haven’t 100% figured it out yet.
@@MarcTheCyborg Nice! Final Fantasy is my favorite series, but I could see how any Jrpg series videos would be quite an undertaking. I'm currently working my way through the Suikoden games and I am really enjoying them. Well, take care, great video, and can't wait for more! Cheers!
This is quite possibly the best explanation and perspective of Metroid I’ve ever watched. Every point and narrative was perfect and spot on. The passion is unbelievable making it clear your hard work paid off. Very Well done.
I say this who is someone who enjoys Metroid as much as you do, but this was one of the greatest pieces of content I have ever watched. Thank you for taking the time to play all of the games and talk about them individually and shedding light on each of them. I appreciated this more than you know
Great video. only slight correction from the Metroid Fusion stuff. The suit isn't fused to her body. That was a temporary issue; it was surgically removed from her body and the new suit was reconstructed into the Fusion Suit. But at the end of Fusion, the X basically recreates her original suit, so she's still able to take it off.
Actually it was confirmed that the suit became organic, meaning it was likely the suit DID fuse with her. The developers of Dread, upon being asked why her suit was a different color, answered by saying her suit was made organic in Fusion(also why she isn't as tanky in that game) while it's becoming inorganic in Dread again and that's what caused the yellow in the suit to become white.
@@hellzonefirebrigade3056 It wasn’t made organic, her suit always was organic. The organic layer of her suit as seen on the Fusion and Dread suit was always there just underneath the metal and polymer layers. Her suit was always organic that’s why the X could copy it in the first place and why it could be mutated by Phazon. The fusion part was incorrectly translated, her suit was always fused with her when in use, the regular power suit or rather it’s organic layer is fused to Samus nervous system, that’s why it isn’t a conventional suit and can only be taken off by dematerializing it. The suit and Samus are basically one being. The US Version of Fusion has this incorrectly translated alluding that her suit became fused with her unlike the Japanese and European versions stated it always was fused to her. Strangely enough, the Amercian Fusion Manual has this stated correctly “My heart rate and blood pressure dropped rapidly as I fell into a deep coma. The Onboard Medic Simulation predicted only a 0.873 % prognosis for survival. I was transported ot Galactic FederationHQ for emergency medical treatment. The fact that the P o w e r Suit contained biological components and was also integrally connected to my body seemed to worsen the matter. The Federation sur- geons were unable to remove the suit while I was unconscious.Their only choice was ot c u tand remove parts of the infected suit from my still-unconscious form; immediately after, they sent the suit parts ot the Biologic Space Labs researchstation for study” From the manual. Later games confirmes this, all chozo power suits come with and organic lauer connected to their users bodies and nervous systems
Really good video. Don't agree with how the relationship between an IP holder and a fan made project is presented here but AM2R was free and shouldn't be presented with the hostile attitude Nintendo presented them with. Also bless Harley.
Awesome documentary, Marc! It was really worth the wait. I've only played about half of the Metroid series so it was nice getting to relive some of my favorites and see the titles that I missed out on.
Thanks man! It’s always nice to see you in here - you’re one of my OG supporters, back when my big claim to fame was “Papa Gundam tweeted one of my videos” 😂 Every single view you’ve given my small channel is appreciated 🙏
i started watching this very lengthy video when it has 3k likes, and by the time i finished it i was like : Damn this guy is serious business. Hopefully since then the number of view has nicely increase despite being so long and on a niche subject. Nice job man, cant wait to see what you come up next :)
In the prime games, you aren't meant to just manually strafe while locked on. the jump button becomes a dash button when the movement stick is pushed either right or left if lock on is active. Spamming the jump button to do dash strafing is how prime was meant to be played originally.
Very nice series retrospective you've given us, Marc! Always interesting to hear another player's take(s) on contentious series entries like *Other M* and the spinoffs. RIP Harley.
Thanks for making me cry at the end. Great video dude. I hope your channel grows, your production quality is awesome, even before your new mic setup. Rest In Peace to your lovely puppy man.
Thank you for such an awesome project. I was entertained the entired time, and was happy that you didn't straight up hate any of the games or called them the worst thing to exist and rather have them as a fun thing to check out if you want to. Metroid is my favorite video game franchise, Metroid Prime 2 is personally my favorite game of all time. I hold this franchise in high regard because I have no nostalgic connection to it at all. I only got into the series 5 years ago and it has rised above every other franchise to be my favorite. And I love that there are other people who share the same passion for the series as I do so I adore videos like this. Thanks a lot for your work man!
Thank you very much for watching! And yeah, I mention that a lot of people I’ve talked to cite Metroid Prime 2 as their favourite - and while I prefer Prime 1 personally, I can absolutely understand the argument for Prime 2. Thanks for watching 🍻
Due to busy life, I put this in my watch later and only recently got around to watching it. It's got the same charm as the Days Gone review, which is what made me sub to your channel. To someone who has little to no familiarity with the Metroid franchise, this video was both informative and entertaining. Never felt like you were going on for too long, jokes felt appropriately used (not too many of them, not overdoing them, not undercutting the adequate tone of a given segment). As of the time of writing this comment, this video is close to 100k views. Which I think are more than well deserved and I hope they help motivate you to keep making more videos of this style. Part of what made this video so enjoyable to watch is feeling how much fun you had making it in every second. Edit: It also felt very on brand that every section would end with the term "legally acquired", seeing how this is about a Nintendo franchise.
Yay! You finally finished it! Only about 45 mins in so far and FANTASTIC job, as always. Can’t wait to finish the rest of the video tonight. 3:55 R.I.P. Harley 😢 1:09:50 I appreciated your pinball joke 🤣 1:12:25 YES MARC! Ori Will of the Wisps is my FAVORITE Metroidvania games ever! Couldn’t agree more!
I can't remember the last time I saw someone on RUclips be so patient about being told things they've since already learned several times, even when they're being less than hospitable about telling you. I very much like your attitude toward your audience and I wish you much success. By the way: You can beat Ridley in the Super Metroid intro if you shoot him enough, and also the etecoons and dachoras teach you the shinespark and wall jumps. I don't know if anyone has told you that half a dozen times yet.
Haha, thanks man - you can’t expect people to “do the reading” in a RUclips comment section to make sure no one has made their point yet, that’d be unreasonable on the part of the content creator if you ask me. The only one which gets me is people telling me about Metroid Prime remastered, but only because that’s my PINNED comment 😂
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to play that mod/hack/homebrew on something besides a PC? Like, has anyone ever ported it to Vita or 3DS or…. I don’t know, Wii U? Again, I’m talking through alternative channels.
I just found your channel (naturally as a Matroid fan) and thought that your video was amazing... so I checked your other videos just to see what your channel was about and found that this is a first for you. Congratulations!! You did an incredible job, keep it up.
As a lifelong fan of Metroid, I listened to this whole thing at work, enjoying what you had to say. Then I got to 1:44 and I hear X-ray Girl. And now all I can think is "Darn-it you LUCKY dog! lol You are truly blessed.
Where Metroid Hunters was phenomenal was in the multiplayer mode. People could select a bounty hunter, all of whom had special abilities which offered plenty of variety in death matches against your friends. Great memories from middle school.
I second this, the single player was in the multi players shadow... 4 people could play off 1 game cart and provide more entertainment than you'd know what to do with
That was a blast, gobsmacked how much details are packed. You did an amazing video of a truly legendary franchise. Even though for me personally Super Metroid is the peak, I do know the franchise deserves all the games in many styles and directions. I just wonder why they haven't kicked off a movie or two.
I watched this while I totally should have been sleeping. It was really well done. As someone who played the first couple of metroids, this was really great. I'm very sorry to hear about your pup.
You missed one tiny but amazing detail in Metroid: Dread, after you wake up, ADAM stops calling you Lady, and calling your Samus instead, hinting right from the start that ADAM wasn't what it seemed
RIP Harley. Great video, I love well made long-form content. It's so odd to think that Metroid is such an un-loved series by both fans globally and by Nintendo. We've had to endure a lot.
30:05 actually, the only time you're forced to be spotted is the very first space pirate (technically you can avoid that one too, but it requires frame-perfect movement). I'd recommend looking into a perfect stealth video if you're interested.
Thank you so much for this huge video of my favourite video game franchise ever. I discover Metroid on NES long time ago with a friend during summer vacations. We took 2 mouths to finish it. The experience so immersive and magic that I can close my eyes and remember moments of our quest. BIG FAN Sorry for my poor english !
@@MarcTheCyborg Thank you for taking time to read and answer me : ) I really enjoy eating your work talking about Metroid \(^,^)/ and that's cool that you ve discover the first one for this video ! Very good job and again THANK YOU for your kindness and for sharing us these nostalgic masterpiece that made us
I will absolutely admit that I either didn’t find them, or if it’s subtle, I didn’t notice they were trying to teach me something. Consider this a correction and thanks for the feedback 🍻
@@MarcTheCyborg I hope I don't come across as negative, I just wanna help with some extra context. Bonus fun facts is the animals will sing out the item acquisition jingle around when they demonstrate the technique and that popular charity runs of Super will have the audience bid on whether the runner should "save the animals" since they actually are trapped on a tangent route during the escape sequence.
@@_Teej_264 no worries man - I appreciate the info - just stating my case, which is true: I flat out just didn’t see them and when I did my second lap to find super missiles, I tried to consult as few secondary sources as possible
AMAZING VIDEO Marc! I still own original Super Nintendo and GBA, and while I do already own Super Metroid, I also ordered Fusion now! You are such a video game expert!
Hahaha, thanks man - I just do my best to play the games thoroughly and carefully draft my script - even then, I do make mistakes (ZDR is the name of the planet in Dread, while I keep calling it ZBR for example)
@@krystofthepolishguytalksan310 yeah that’s from the G+G Cancel Catastrophe game. T Rev the Game Dev made both myself and Xray Girl playable characters! ruclips.net/video/PRlhaXRo0OY/видео.html
Great video essay! Metroid is my favorite game series, possibly my favorite franchise period, and the most important to me as a gamer. Super Metroid was the first game I ever owned and the second I'd ever played, and Metroid Prime blew me away so hard at release that even 20 years later I've yet to capture the same high I got playing it. I'm very excited for Prime 4 and I hope we get news for it soon, but at the very least Metroid Dread is a truly fantastic game and the best conclusion to the Metroid saga (though not necessarily the franchise) I could have asked for.
1:20:40 You misunderstand the canon of Metroid. The 2D series and the Prime games take place in the same universe. The timeline is: Metroid, the entire Prime Trilogy, Metroid 2, and then Super, Other M, Fusion, and finally Dread. Ridley was revived as a cyborg in Prime 1 following his defeat in the first game, his body, however, is capable of full regeneration, so over time his entire organic body regrew, so by the of Metroid 2 he's lost a lot of his cybernetics, and shed the last of them in the brief time between Metroid 2 and Super Metroid. ALSO, you NEED to read the official Metroid Manga, everything up to the final chapter, which abridges the events of Metroid 1, are 100% canon and have been referenced repeatedly throughout the series. Do note that the manga was released as a companion piece to Zero Mission, being published around that game's release, it builds off of and retells Samus's backstory as it was loosely established in manuals and Nintendo Power comics that came out around Metroid 1 and Super Metroid's releases. Just to make the canonicity of the manga clear, the chozo seen in the flashback in Zero Mission is a character _from_ the manga, and the drawing Samus leaves on the mural depicts her, that same chozo, and one other chozo from the manga. The naming scheme for the chozo also originates in the manga, the two new chozo introduced in Dread follow the same structure with their names. Raven Beak's second phase is also a _direct_ reference to information about the Chozo touched on in the manga, it encapsulates his desire for the Chozo to return to what he considers their peak of greatness.
Playing in the 80s part of the fun was drawing your own map as you went. Being able to compare maps with friends to see what secrets each of you found was a big part of what made it such a favorite I think. Not many other games were exciting to talk about the same way.
In the last 30 years, there is one game which has made me bust out a notebook: The Witness. My ex found it and thought I was schizophrenic- if you’ve played the game you’ll understand… I drew a lot of lines man 😐
To add to this, the manual for the original NES version encourages you to draw a map so you don't get lost. Metroid II didn't really need a map because you were basically always headed down. And why does nobody ever mention Crystal Flash in Super Metroid? The game shows this technique and others if you don't do anything at the title screen for a little bit.
Awesome breakdown, haven't seen many gaming channels take on the full Metroid franchise in a dedicated video like this! Thank Anna (TSWG) for a new subrsciber!
Just Beat Metroid dread yesterday on Switch Lite and this is the first metroid game Ive beat in the series. That game was amazing and so was this review.
You, me and all Nintendo fans who don't delude themselves into thinking that Nintendo preventing you from playing their games is part of some 4D Chess master plan
Great video, Man. My brother and I got NES Metroid for Christmas one year. It was such a big and complex game for the time. We started drawing are own maps. We had a note book full of them. That's how we were able to beat the game. It wasn't long when other kids started asking for copies of the maps. You always hear about Zelda, but Metroid changed gaming forever to.
yeaaa buddy i got it xmas of '88 and because there was nothing to compare it to, metroid seemed larger than life. i remember putting a clothes pin on the B button trying to bomb ball my way up a wall.
Hah your just a unit @baddragonite. Just a single number. 1 isn't a major loss and anyways your missing out on spectacular content. Too bad for you I Guess
I used to play Metroid II all the time. I want to say my best time was 1:37 but sub 2 hours was the norm. Never played the others as a kid. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
One correction I feel needs to be pointed out (though I haven't finished yet, maybe you correct later) in Fusion, Samus is NOT fused to her Power Suit. Metroid DNA yes, joining her human and Chozo DNA, but she isn't a cyborg, and you see her without the Power Suit at the end of this very game if you get the best endings.
I think there was a mistranslation. There is a line in the intro about her being melded with her suit (or something like that) but I think they meant that metaphorically she needed to stay in the suit for the time being since she was so immunocompromised.
Actually it was confirmed that suit became organic in Fusion meaning it like WAS fused to her body. The Developers on Dread, upon being asked about the new color of her said, informed the people asking, that it was due to the suit changing from being organic back to being inorganic
You seem to be under the impression that AM2R hasn't already had the banhammer applied to it, because it can still be downloaded. Nintendo already hit the original team with a lot of legal threats, but the finished product was already in players' hands and they proceeded to make a million mirrors of it to spite Nintendo. As far as Nintendo's concerned, they've already done due diligence smashing the project and the fact that its still available is simply something they can't control.
Thank you very much! I may have bumped the Elden Ring video due to its scale (I feel like we might get a DLC announcement soon too), but I’m working on a follow up to the Cyberpunk review I did for G+G right now. It’ll be a smaller scale video, but done in a relatively quick timeframe
10/10. If I ever had to show folks a great retrospective of the Metroid franchise, this would easily be it. I've seen other folks that have done some things well and other things not so well or they just trash talked Other M too much. This was very informational and you delved just far enough into each game to really whet someone's appetite if they haven't played them. Metroid is my favorite series of all time, especially the 2D entries. I said I wouldn't buy a Switch until Prime 4 came out, but then lo and behold, they announced Dread. I immediately preordered the OLED Switch and the game. My roommates went away the weekend it came out, and barring sleep, that's pretty much all I did for about 2 days straight. Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time, and I still think it's overall better than Dread, but man does Dread get a LOT right. I really hope it's not the end of Samus' adventures. I get that this is supposed to be the end of the Metroids and the X, and I guess the Chozo, but she's always been my favorite game character, so I really want them to do a new series with her as the protag. Again, very well done and know that your hard work paid off. I'm glad you got to play the games you didn't previously and enjoyed them. And thank you for being relatively objective when it came to Other M. I didn't actually hate the game and was just excited to have a new Metroid game. It's not the best, that's for sure, but it could have been a lot worse.
Exact same situation for me with Prime. I grew up playing Quake III Arena and Halo CE, so the controls for Prime didn't make sense to me as a kid. I only just played Prime all the way through for my first time a couple months ago, and it quickly became one of my all time favorites.
Now imagine if Nintendo allowed their normie fans who don’t want to mess around with emulators and mods have that arc 😂 Happy to hear I’m not the only one 🍻
I grew up playing those too and found Prime really natural still. It was something very different but it made sense for the game it was. It wasn't a straight FPS like those games were.
I agree with your assessment of how Nintendo treats their older properties and the fan games, however on the other hand they are also late adapters to everything I hate about modern gaming- online connectivity, online multiplayer, loot boxes, microtransactions, making online profiles to play games, etc.
That’s fair - I just think it might be a baby-with-the-bathwater situation. There are certainly a lot of innovations which have made the industry worse - but things like legacy game support is amazing on platforms like Steam and even Xbox. PlayStation and especially Nintendo have a lot to improve on in that regard
Amazing video about my favorite games series. I just subscribed and will check out more of your videos. Small point to bring up, I loved your opinions on Other M. I completely agree. I don't think it's the best but it doesn't deserve the hate it gets. I thought gameplay wise it was a lot of fun.
@@MarcTheCyborg The video was great, i just love the original prime soundtrack. It's something I still listen to on a fairly regular basis. Also, I agree with you that retro should move past the phazon arch in prime 4, but I think they'll do something like going to the phazon origin planet and destroy it.
Trust me when i say this, the way you did this video was reason enough to subscribe + Like and soon ... share this vid as it was quite informative on many levels including the fact that you are satisfying to listen to... In Metroid fashion i say this in hopes to pay respects .........[ Harley :- Mission Started in 2009 Mission Ended in 2022...See you Next Mission ] Metroid Fan Master Xai Sends her Respects to your Trooper...you fought well.
Wow, thank you so much! This video was awesome. As a middle-aged male, I can relate to a lot of your thoughts about Mario and Nintendo in general. The NES with Super Mario was my first game, and I agree with many who say that Super Metroid was the best Metroid ever. However, Dread was awesome. I just wish it was longer and hope they make more. I think Metroid Prime 4 will be released in December. That is what Amazon is claiming and they are doing pre-orders now. I didn't realize that there were any other good Metroid games that I hadn't played yet, but thanks to you I am now playing AM2R for the first time. A few hours in and loving it! Thanks again. Liked and subscribed
Yeah AM2R is incredible - as for Metroid Prime 4, I wouldn’t put too much stock in an Amazon listing, as publishers will often give distributors a list of their possible releases, and if no firm release date is given, the default is the 31st of December for that year. With that said, Retro did come back to MP4 about a year and a half ago, so the likelihood of it being done, is going to be dependent on how much usable material the previous developer had waiting for them. Regardless, I’ll be playing it whenever it does launch! Thanks for watching 🍻
Mostly because I find double jumping to be more fun- at least as a traversal mechanic in a game. Flight would be more useful, but double jumping would be a riot
@@MarcTheCyborg To each their own. You know I’m just messing with you buddy. 😁Although I imagine that you could in theory still do double jumping if you’re able to fly (when you’re in the air levitating, you would bend your knees, flex them out quickly for appearances, and use your flight power to just levitate higher, to pretend and make it look like you’re jumping), but I guess we don’t have the capability to test such a thing. At least not yet. Stupid reality.
Glad to hear people are still getting mileage from my upscale pack. I got a lot of flack on the MP mods forum for it being ONLY an upscale pack XD. Was honestly surprised to hear my username out of the blue on this, kind of made my day XD
@@Malkierian thanks for making it! It really helped bring my experience, and in turn my footage, to another level when I found it 🍻 As a person who knows nothing at all about coding, but loves tinkering with old games to see how far the mod community has brought them, people like you are my hero. As for my weapon and visor setup, I use Q for visors, E for weapons and toggle the “enable [beam/visor] menu” in the options. I then hold me of those keys and use the mouse as a Wii remote to hover the cursor over the one I want, then let go of the key. It ends up feeling similar to a weapon wheel in a console shooter and consider each has 3 options at maximum, it’s very easy to do quickly.
@@MarcTheCyborg Ah, that makes sense. I guess I had just gotten too used to the Wii controls and hadn't thought that's what they meant by the menus in the settings. Thanks, I'll give that another go the next time I play through them in like 6 months XD. How was your performance with it, especially with MP2? Not too much stuttering? Yeah, I had plans to try to actually redraw textures in the pack, but never got past the text and a few key textures because of that negative feedback (especially because I'm NOT an artist, lol). I may have to try revisiting it again sometime in the future. Oh, and a great video overall. Totally agreed with basically every point you made (except a bit about Other M), especially about AM2R being the definitive Metroid II experience. I'm going to be speedrunning Metroid 2D perspective games soon, starting with Zero Mission, then to AM2R and Fusion. I hope we might be able to get AM2R a ubiquitous existence so Nintendo can't squash it any more than it already has. Also, I was reminded of the mod that exists for Other M that apparently improves the story enough to be not as offensive and enables missiles in 3rd person mode. I haven't actually played it because I had some errant settings in Dolphin I didn't realize until last night. If you like, I'll update you on how it is later.
@@Malkierian thank you very much! I certainly have enough issues with Other M that I’d be at the very least, curious to see what’s improved - but there’s a few threads on here where I go to the mattresses about it (which my wife ordered me to ignore, seeing that it was frustrating me 😂) - so we can just agree to disagree without going into a full blown debate. Keep me posted on that mod though, it’d be cool to play around with. I’m CyborgMarc on Twitter if you want to DM me. As for performance, my editing rig is not a good universal benchmark tool, as it’s a Ryzen 9 3950x with an RTX 3090 and 64gb of RAM - but I was getting 144fps pretty much the entire time I was playing all three games at 4K. No stuttering beyond a bit of shader compiling, but even then, it was rarely noticeable once I had been playing for a long time and built up that cache. Finally, I would encourage you to not let negative feedback stop you from doing your work- at most, let it offer you perspective, which you can then choose to use for improvement. Your work is incredible, I appreciated it greatly and I think it’d be a shame if you stopped for any reason other than you wanting to pursue other endeavours 🍻
@@MarcTheCyborg LOL, people do have some... passionate opinions about Other M. My biggest issue was just the way they had her processing her grief. I find it hard to believe, after everything she'd been through up to that point, that she'd just suddenly develop PTSD over it and freeze at the idea of Ridley. Anger management issues, that I could believe. Otherwise, I could see your points and appreciate the added perspective concerning the reluctant teamwork aspect of it. I guess, considering everything we knew about Adam up to that point, his characterization in Other M was more out of place than Samus's.
This is the one that got away for me. I remember as a kid (must have been 6 or 7 or so) that I got Metroid for the NES. I didn't like it at first, so I had my parents trade it in. Can't even remember what I got instead, it may have been the Turtles game, which ofcourse isn't bad at all either. In hindsight I wish I kept Metroid aswell, because I really like the premis of the game now and it would have been cool to grow up with all the different games. Now I just never got into it. I bought Metroid Prime on the GameCube a little while after it came out, but since I was in my World of Warcraft phase at the time I really never played much of that either. Thanks for making this very comprehensive video of all the games. Despite never really having played much of it, it is definitelly one of my favourite Nintendo franchises aswell.
Thanks man! It’s never too late to try old games either (which is why it would be nice if Nintendo made it easier to play 80% of these games without having to resort to emulation, but alas… emulation exists)
Great job on this video. I hope Nintendo takes more of an interest into this franchise and pumps out more games though with the same passion, dedication, and quality as with Dread. With the success of Dread, that is most likely going to happen. Now will your next Metroid project going to be to speed run some of these games like Dread or SM? Lol
Hahaha, no speed running for me - I might put in the effort to be as legit as I possibly can be, but I’m much closer to gaming journalist than MLG speed runner 😂
Edit: Fusion and Metroid Prime 1 are now on Switch!
Edit #2: Metroid Prime Remastered is amazing and you should buy it.
Edit #3: Zero Mission is on Switch and Prime 4 is set for a 2025 release!
I can tell the difference between how you talk about the Metroid Fusion and how you talk about Prime or the Super Metroid, and I can tell you have a lot of prejudice against it. I know you have your own opinion which I respect having freedom of opinion but you sitting here acting like this is fact is totally wrong.
more importantly, hearing you talk about saying that Metroid Fusion doesn't have the same atmosphere, if not worse, than Super Metroid is biased for you to say.
and totally really misleading and me sitting here having to listen to you trash this game is absolute cringe because I'm a Metroid Fusion fan because it wus ny frist Metroid game I ever played so of course I would have a closer attachment to it. and I can tell you right now that it has a better atmosphere if not extremely better than the Super Metroid atmosphere.
and the way that you talk about Metroid Fusion is so downplays and totally devaluing the game as a whole is just disgusting.
you do use strategic logic and facts within it you also infused your own prejudice and your own opinion with it if you're going to make a tire review over facts you need to keep your opinion to yourself.
regardless to me Metroid Fusion deserves more love and attention than you ever given it and I think most people who are looking about more 2D Metroid reviews should just completely ignore your review despite that you speak logic and facts you have done everything you could to downplay the 2D Metroid games as a whole.
besides Super Metroid because most people like it so so much because of the first the the debug menu which is one of the best and the factors in it and the overall story and the emotional atmosphere is triumph mixed with a little bit horror.
More importantly, it was a lot of people's first Metroid game besides the other two . Metroid Fusion is very well-known for having a much better atmosphere. The Super Metroid is known as horror and intention and Fusion. also, having been one of the first metroid ever has dialogue and the way that you just talked about the SA-X how you downplay the qualities that makes this character so unique and so dangerous and get so intimidating it just triggering factoring that the SA-X is one of the most terrifying enemy Samus has and ever wi'll ever faced in the tire in the 2D series.
but sitting here hearing you downplay constantly mocking metroid fusions atmosphere is just absolutely disgusting, and I think you have some issues you need to work out
2nd Metroid Prime series is Non Cannon to the 2D Metroid series.
Awesome that fusion is on switch now. Playing as I watch lol
Prime Remastered is basically the Switch version of Prime 1. Hopefully Nintendo makes a remaster of Prime 2, Prime 3, and maybe even Prime Hunters. 100-percented Prime, ran into difficulties against the Alpha Blogg in Prime 2, played the demo version of Prime Hunters, and have not played Prime 3.
@@corbinselanne7990 yeah I know - I’m playing through Prime Remastered right now myself. It’s REALLY solid, right down to the gyro control implementation. While I still think it’s a tad overpriced, I do think it is absolutely worth the money.
I’m definitely up for playing Prime 2 and 3 again if they give them the same treatment too
Don't forget fusion on the 3ds ambassador program ;)
Metroid 2 will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first video game my 9 year old self ever played from start to finish and lay the foundations for the passionate gamer I am today. Currently playing through Metroid Prime Remastered on the switch….Metroid is the GOAT! Thanks for this awesome retrospective!
Thanks for watching 🍻
I work 4 days a week, 10:30 hour shifts, today is my "Friday", I'm now home and was finally able to watch the video in its entirety; while I knew Harley had passed, I had no idea it happened while you were making this video. That is so sad, but memories are forever, and now Harley is immortalized in this fantastic video!
Rest in peace sweet doggo!
what's your job? just curious
@@Josuh I work in logistics, handling shipping containers at a delivery station, making sure all packages get to the customers.
@@Josuh i ride horses
Wow dude this was an incredible piece of work. I know you've been working on it for a while and man I watched every minute of it and I was completely engaged. You have a great narrative style and the footage was supremely high quality and I even learned a lot about the series cuz I've always been kind of a casual fan so I didn't really even know about most of these games in detail so you've given me a reason to go back and play some of these and considering I have a Wii U I have the ability to get quite a few of these digitally so thanks for the comprehensive education on Metroid and keep up the great work!!
Thanks you very much for the kind words 🍻
Legit, matticus you worded everything that is awesome about this video and his style perfectly! I'm excited for more videos like this
@@MarcTheCyborg Yoshio Sakamoto said that Other M's linearity was meant to make the game beginner friendly then the pervious games. The Wii remote control Scheme was also his idea, because he's not very experienced in 3d gaming until Dread.
Hey! If you hadn't already bought the games on Wii U, you should know that as of today, if you have a Nintendo Switch you'll have to link your Wii U's eShop account to your Switch's account. That'll be the only way you can add funds to your Wii U eShop wallet going forward, as your Wii U and Switch will share the same wallet once linked. Happy hunting!!
@@ToshisGarden It's also the only way to play Metroid Zero mission and Fusion.
As a massive fan of metroid since the inception of the franchise, this video was incredible and thank you for making this insanely huge project.
Thanks!!!
@MarcTheCyborg I can tell the difference between how you talk about the Metroid Fusion and how you talk about Prime or the Super Metroid, and I can tell you have a lot of prejudice against it. I know you have your own opinion which I respect having freedom of opinion but you sitting here acting like this is fact is totally wrong.
more importantly, hearing you talk about saying that Metroid Fusion doesn't have the same atmosphere, if not worse, than Super Metroid is biased for you to say.
and totally really misleading and me sitting here having to listen to you trash this game is absolute cringe because I'm a Metroid Fusion fan because it wus ny frist Metroid game I ever played so of course I would have a closer attachment to it. and I can tell you right now that it has a better atmosphere if not extremely better than the Super Metroid atmosphere.
and the way that you talk about Metroid Fusion is so downplays and totally devaluing the game as a whole is just disgusting.
you do use strategic logic and facts within it you also infused your own prejudice and your own opinion with it if you're going to make a tire review over facts you need to keep your opinion to yourself.
regardless to me Metroid Fusion deserves more love and attention than you ever given it and I think most people who are looking about more 2D Metroid reviews should just completely ignore your review despite that you speak logic and facts you have done everything you could to downplay the 2D Metroid games as a whole.
besides Super Metroid because most people like it so so much because of the first the the debug menu which is one of the best and the factors in it and the overall story and the emotional atmosphere is triumph mixed with a little bit horror.
More importantly, it was a lot of people's first Metroid game besides the other two . Metroid Fusion is very well-known for having a much better atmosphere. The Super Metroid is known as horror and intention and Fusion. also, having been one of the first metroid ever has dialogue and the way that you just talked about the SA-X how you downplay the qualities that makes this character so unique and so dangerous and get so intimidating it just triggering factoring that the SA-X is one of the most terrifying enemy Samus has and ever wi'll ever faced in the tire in the 2D series.
but sitting here hearing you downplay constantly mocking metroid fusions atmosphere is just absolutely disgusting, and I think you have some issues you need to work out
2nd Metroid Prime series is Non Cannon to the 2D Metroid series.
It really was an excellent video.
@I'm a Friend of Sarah Connor in you're freaking dreams, yeah, but not in reality. Keep dreaming, Prime fan.
@@2musicSoundtrackfandom579 ? Prime is good, but there's a reason I own CIB Super Metroid Super Famicom and Metroid Zero Mission GBA, Dread Special Edition. Guess what that is jagoff? It's because I'm a huge fan of Classic Metroid.
You should really take some classes on how to talk to strangers, you come off as a Jagoff.
19:25 small correction: you actually learn the shinespark from some friendly animals you can stumble upon shortly after getting the speed booster!
To add to this, iirc, he didn't mention wall jumping learned from the Etecoons!
Yep just had to comment the same thing
@@AkaiAzul which you can also save
Also at 19:40 sounded like it said it was required to use the wall jump but when I was a kid, I beat Super Metroid without a single Wall Jump. I do love that animals teach you how to Speed Boost and Wall Jump! :D
@@mbwchampion How? Aren't there at least 2 places you have to use it?
OH HI MARC! Anna sent me here lol good video 👌
Thanks for including the tribute to Harley, that was an unexpected but sweet way to wrap up the video! ❤
I still miss her every day - but Rocky has definitely helped ease the pain 🙏
This guy deserves more subs. WAY more. After watching the whole video, I was shocked to see this channel under 1 million subs.... Keep up the good work dude 👌
Haha, thanks man - maybe I’ll get there someday 😂
fusion's story is somewhat lost in translation. the english ver tells us the whole federation is behind the bad deeds and acts we see but the japanese version states its a rogue faction of it. this is why in dread the federation isnt after her and they seem to be in good relations
Edit: it's also worth noting Samus having chozo DNA has been a thing since zero mission. However her having raven beak's was a thread introduced in dread.
Oh nice, thanks for the correction 🍻
@@MarcTheCyborg I really think it zeb is .zebees sound like rabbies lol
Thanks dude so much both for this history of Metroid AND letting me know about the PrimeHack. Playing MP1 again with PC controls is a blast. This is the vid that put your channel on my radar. Subbed with great appreciation.
A quality video there @MarcTheCyborg, thanks for taking the time to review and present!
This was a blast to watch! I’ve been an enormous Metroid fan since I was 6 years old, and RIP to Harley💜
Harleys in the chat
Wow this was amazing... I haven't found any videos that breakdown a series this extensively and NOT sound boring until I saw your video. I'd definitely listen to one of these on castlevania and Koji Igarashi legacy. Also, signing up on the membership cuz this kinda content is TOTALLY worth supporting. Thanks for uploading this masterpiece!
Thanks man! A History of a Legendary Franchise on Castlevania is certainly in the cards - not specifically in the works at this moment, but it’s a solid candidate for one of these
I definitely subscribed and went straight to the playlists, and I will be watching the God of War video next.
You mentioned your love of jrpgs... is there a series in that genre you might consider making a similar video about?
@@eyes2shatter559 I did have a plan to do a video on the Trails series, as I absolutely loved Trails in the Sky 1-3 and the fan translation of the Crossbell duology (which are releasing in the west officially soon and are AWESOME)- but it may be a bit too ambitious to put a reasonable timeline on.
I might have something Final Fantasy related in the works, but it’ll be a different approach from Metroid - I just haven’t 100% figured it out yet.
@@MarcTheCyborg Nice! Final Fantasy is my favorite series, but I could see how any Jrpg series videos would be quite an undertaking.
I'm currently working my way through the Suikoden games and I am really enjoying them.
Well, take care, great video, and can't wait for more! Cheers!
@@eyes2shatter559 Suikoden 2 is a lot of fun 🍻
This is quite possibly the best explanation and perspective of Metroid I’ve ever watched. Every point and narrative was perfect and spot on. The passion is unbelievable making it clear your hard work paid off. Very Well done.
Thank you!!
@@MarcTheCyborg You’re very welcome
I say this who is someone who enjoys Metroid as much as you do, but this was one of the greatest pieces of content I have ever watched. Thank you for taking the time to play all of the games and talk about them individually and shedding light on each of them. I appreciated this more than you know
Great video. only slight correction from the Metroid Fusion stuff. The suit isn't fused to her body. That was a temporary issue; it was surgically removed from her body and the new suit was reconstructed into the Fusion Suit. But at the end of Fusion, the X basically recreates her original suit, so she's still able to take it off.
Actually it was confirmed that the suit became organic, meaning it was likely the suit DID fuse with her. The developers of Dread, upon being asked why her suit was a different color, answered by saying her suit was made organic in Fusion(also why she isn't as tanky in that game) while it's becoming inorganic in Dread again and that's what caused the yellow in the suit to become white.
@@hellzonefirebrigade3056 It wasn’t made organic, her suit always was organic. The organic layer of her suit as seen on the Fusion and Dread suit was always there just underneath the metal and polymer layers. Her suit was always organic that’s why the X could copy it in the first place and why it could be mutated by Phazon.
The fusion part was incorrectly translated, her suit was always fused with her when in use, the regular power suit or rather it’s organic layer is fused to Samus nervous system, that’s why it isn’t a conventional suit and can only be taken off by dematerializing it. The suit and Samus are basically one being. The US Version of Fusion has this incorrectly translated alluding that her suit became fused with her unlike the Japanese and European versions stated it always was fused to her.
Strangely enough, the Amercian Fusion Manual has this stated correctly
“My heart rate and blood pressure dropped rapidly as I fell into a deep coma. The Onboard Medic Simulation predicted only a 0.873 % prognosis for survival. I was transported ot Galactic FederationHQ for emergency medical treatment.
The fact that the P o w e r Suit contained biological components and was also integrally connected to my body seemed to worsen the matter. The Federation sur- geons were unable to remove the suit while I was unconscious.Their only choice was ot c u tand remove parts of the infected suit from my still-unconscious form; immediately after, they sent the suit parts
ot the Biologic Space Labs researchstation for study”
From the manual. Later games confirmes this, all chozo power suits come with and organic lauer connected to their users bodies and nervous systems
the passion shines all the way through this video . great work
Thanks dude 🍻
Really good video. Don't agree with how the relationship between an IP holder and a fan made project is presented here but AM2R was free and shouldn't be presented with the hostile attitude Nintendo presented them with. Also bless Harley.
I’m a newer Metroid fan and this was an awesome video. Very informative and went into depth very well. Thank you so much. Appreciated.
Awesome documentary, Marc! It was really worth the wait. I've only played about half of the Metroid series so it was nice getting to relive some of my favorites and see the titles that I missed out on.
Thanks man! It’s always nice to see you in here - you’re one of my OG supporters, back when my big claim to fame was “Papa Gundam tweeted one of my videos” 😂
Every single view you’ve given my small channel is appreciated 🙏
I'm glad to hear it, man. You do good quality work and it shows in every upload.
Hey Marc, just wanted to salute this wonderful labour of love you have created here, thoroughly enjoyed that :)
Thank you very much! 🍻
i started watching this very lengthy video when it has 3k likes, and by the time i finished it i was like : Damn this guy is serious business.
Hopefully since then the number of view has nicely increase despite being so long and on a niche subject.
Nice job man, cant wait to see what you come up next :)
This view count is definitely atypical for my channel, but I’m hoping to keep growing if I can! Thanks for watching 🍻
In the prime games, you aren't meant to just manually strafe while locked on.
the jump button becomes a dash button when the movement stick is pushed either right or left if lock on is active.
Spamming the jump button to do dash strafing is how prime was meant to be played originally.
Marc makes unbelievable videos. I haven't seen this entire one yet but I'm looking forward to it!
Thank you good sir 🍻
Very nice series retrospective you've given us, Marc! Always interesting to hear another player's take(s) on contentious series entries like *Other M* and the spinoffs.
RIP Harley.
Thank you very much 🙏
Thus spake the One True GigaChad. This was an amazing tour of the Metroid game series. I love your long-form vids, bro! Cheers!
Thanks man! 🍻
Thanks for making me cry at the end. Great video dude. I hope your channel grows, your production quality is awesome, even before your new mic setup. Rest In Peace to your lovely puppy man.
Harley was the best of us 🙏
Thank you for such an awesome project. I was entertained the entired time, and was happy that you didn't straight up hate any of the games or called them the worst thing to exist and rather have them as a fun thing to check out if you want to.
Metroid is my favorite video game franchise, Metroid Prime 2 is personally my favorite game of all time. I hold this franchise in high regard because I have no nostalgic connection to it at all. I only got into the series 5 years ago and it has rised above every other franchise to be my favorite. And I love that there are other people who share the same passion for the series as I do so I adore videos like this. Thanks a lot for your work man!
Thank you very much for watching! And yeah, I mention that a lot of people I’ve talked to cite Metroid Prime 2 as their favourite - and while I prefer Prime 1 personally, I can absolutely understand the argument for Prime 2. Thanks for watching 🍻
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@@meta9492 it’s definitely got a lot going for it
Due to busy life, I put this in my watch later and only recently got around to watching it. It's got the same charm as the Days Gone review, which is what made me sub to your channel.
To someone who has little to no familiarity with the Metroid franchise, this video was both informative and entertaining. Never felt like you were going on for too long, jokes felt appropriately used (not too many of them, not overdoing them, not undercutting the adequate tone of a given segment).
As of the time of writing this comment, this video is close to 100k views. Which I think are more than well deserved and I hope they help motivate you to keep making more videos of this style. Part of what made this video so enjoyable to watch is feeling how much fun you had making it in every second.
Edit: It also felt very on brand that every section would end with the term "legally acquired", seeing how this is about a Nintendo franchise.
Nice! It's finally here. Hopefully the time and effort pays off for you. I know you've been working on this for a while.
Thanks Classy V
@@MarcTheCyborg Absolutely. Excited to hopefully meet you at Vegas!
@@ClassyVigilante I will be there 🍻
Thanks for including our little fangame in your video!
Hey man! Thanks for watching! Prime 2D shall never be forgotten 🫡
Yay! You finally finished it! Only about 45 mins in so far and FANTASTIC job, as always. Can’t wait to finish the rest of the video tonight. 3:55 R.I.P. Harley 😢 1:09:50 I appreciated your pinball joke 🤣 1:12:25 YES MARC! Ori Will of the Wisps is my FAVORITE Metroidvania games ever! Couldn’t agree more!
Both Ori games are works of art
I can't remember the last time I saw someone on RUclips be so patient about being told things they've since already learned several times, even when they're being less than hospitable about telling you. I very much like your attitude toward your audience and I wish you much success.
By the way: You can beat Ridley in the Super Metroid intro if you shoot him enough, and also the etecoons and dachoras teach you the shinespark and wall jumps. I don't know if anyone has told you that half a dozen times yet.
Haha, thanks man - you can’t expect people to “do the reading” in a RUclips comment section to make sure no one has made their point yet, that’d be unreasonable on the part of the content creator if you ask me.
The only one which gets me is people telling me about Metroid Prime remastered, but only because that’s my PINNED comment 😂
I am glad you made sure to include AM2R in here.
It really is phenomenal
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to play that mod/hack/homebrew on something besides a PC? Like, has anyone ever ported it to Vita or 3DS or…. I don’t know, Wii U? Again, I’m talking through alternative channels.
@@leeartlee915 AM2R can be played on Android
I just found your channel (naturally as a Matroid fan) and thought that your video was amazing... so I checked your other videos just to see what your channel was about and found that this is a first for you. Congratulations!! You did an incredible job, keep it up.
As a lifelong fan of Metroid, I listened to this whole thing at work, enjoying what you had to say. Then I got to 1:44 and I hear X-ray Girl. And now all I can think is "Darn-it you LUCKY dog! lol
You are truly blessed.
Thanks! We have a delightful little family
Thank you - this was absolutely terrific.
Thank you very much for watching 🍻
Where Metroid Hunters was phenomenal was in the multiplayer mode. People could select a bounty hunter, all of whom had special abilities which offered plenty of variety in death matches against your friends. Great memories from middle school.
I second this, the single player was in the multi players shadow... 4 people could play off 1 game cart and provide more entertainment than you'd know what to do with
Many sleepless nights to hunters. Top 10 game in my memories
Excellent takes! It was cool starting this video yesterday morning and then running into you.
Thanks dude! It was an awesome night 🍻
29:43 Anna/ThatStarWarsGirl cameo.
I'm very thankful she was nice enough to help 🙂
@@MarcTheCyborg I did make mention of this on Chrissie Mayrs Simpcast yesterday, forgetting Chrissie isn't a gamer. Oops.
@@cesariojpn haha, it was appreciated anyway, even if it just brought one Simpcast viewer over here 🍻
👍🏻😁
That was a blast, gobsmacked how much details are packed. You did an amazing video of a truly legendary franchise. Even though for me personally Super Metroid is the peak, I do know the franchise deserves all the games in many styles and directions. I just wonder why they haven't kicked off a movie or two.
I watched this while I totally should have been sleeping. It was really well done. As someone who played the first couple of metroids, this was really great. I'm very sorry to hear about your pup.
Thanks man, she was 13 and had a great life with Xray Girl, and a few amazing years with me - she was very loved
You missed one tiny but amazing detail in Metroid: Dread, after you wake up, ADAM stops calling you Lady, and calling your Samus instead, hinting right from the start that ADAM wasn't what it seemed
Jesus, thanks for that one - good pull!
RIP Harley. Great video, I love well made long-form content. It's so odd to think that Metroid is such an un-loved series by both fans globally and by Nintendo. We've had to endure a lot.
Harley will live forever in my heart ❤️ thanks for watching!
Bullshit. Metroid has enough games. Great ones too. Games don't need to be spammed like Call of Duty every year.
Love this video! Metroid is absolutely my favorite series of all time! I enjoyed watching a ton. Great work and I’m looking forward to future content.
Thanks man! I’ve got some things in the works 😏
30:05 actually, the only time you're forced to be spotted is the very first space pirate (technically you can avoid that one too, but it requires frame-perfect movement). I'd recommend looking into a perfect stealth video if you're interested.
Crazy, I’ll look that up for sure - might even get me to replay Zero Mission to try it 😂
Thank you so much for this huge video of my favourite video game franchise ever. I discover Metroid on NES long time ago with a friend during summer vacations. We took 2 mouths to finish it. The experience so immersive and magic that I can close my eyes and remember moments of our quest.
BIG FAN
Sorry for my poor english !
Perfectly understandable English, don’t worry at all - thank you for the kind words 🙏
@@MarcTheCyborg Thank you for taking time to read and answer me : ) I really enjoy eating your work talking about Metroid \(^,^)/ and that's cool that you ve discover the first one for this video ! Very good job and again THANK YOU for your kindness and for sharing us these nostalgic masterpiece that made us
19:00 The Dachora and Etecoon creatuers in Brinstar teach you how to shinespark and walljump respectively if you can find them.
I will absolutely admit that I either didn’t find them, or if it’s subtle, I didn’t notice they were trying to teach me something. Consider this a correction and thanks for the feedback 🍻
@@MarcTheCyborg its also the same animals that you find in Fusion that help fly the ship
@@_Teej_264 I don’t know what to say, I spotted them in Fusion but missed them in Super 😕
@@MarcTheCyborg I hope I don't come across as negative, I just wanna help with some extra context. Bonus fun facts is the animals will sing out the item acquisition jingle around when they demonstrate the technique and that popular charity runs of Super will have the audience bid on whether the runner should "save the animals" since they actually are trapped on a tangent route during the escape sequence.
@@_Teej_264 no worries man - I appreciate the info - just stating my case, which is true: I flat out just didn’t see them and when I did my second lap to find super missiles, I tried to consult as few secondary sources as possible
Awesome video. I hope you are doing good. I had a great time doing that video with you years ago. Take care.
Thanks Nick! And for anyone coming across this comment, Nick helped me out on the Wolfenstein Youngblood review
AMAZING VIDEO Marc! I still own original Super Nintendo and GBA, and while I do already own Super Metroid, I also ordered Fusion now! You are such a video game expert!
Hahaha, thanks man - I just do my best to play the games thoroughly and carefully draft my script - even then, I do make mistakes (ZDR is the name of the planet in Dread, while I keep calling it ZBR for example)
@@MarcTheCyborg Also, at 35: 19... what game is that?? That looks like you!!
@@krystofthepolishguytalksan310 yeah that’s from the G+G Cancel Catastrophe game. T Rev the Game Dev made both myself and Xray Girl playable characters!
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Great video essay! Metroid is my favorite game series, possibly my favorite franchise period, and the most important to me as a gamer. Super Metroid was the first game I ever owned and the second I'd ever played, and Metroid Prime blew me away so hard at release that even 20 years later I've yet to capture the same high I got playing it. I'm very excited for Prime 4 and I hope we get news for it soon, but at the very least Metroid Dread is a truly fantastic game and the best conclusion to the Metroid saga (though not necessarily the franchise) I could have asked for.
Thank you very much, I'm happy you enjoyed it!
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You misunderstand the canon of Metroid.
The 2D series and the Prime games take place in the same universe.
The timeline is: Metroid, the entire Prime Trilogy, Metroid 2, and then Super, Other M, Fusion, and finally Dread.
Ridley was revived as a cyborg in Prime 1 following his defeat in the first game, his body, however, is capable of full regeneration, so over time his entire organic body regrew, so by the of Metroid 2 he's lost a lot of his cybernetics, and shed the last of them in the brief time between Metroid 2 and Super Metroid.
ALSO, you NEED to read the official Metroid Manga, everything up to the final chapter, which abridges the events of Metroid 1, are 100% canon and have been referenced repeatedly throughout the series. Do note that the manga was released as a companion piece to Zero Mission, being published around that game's release, it builds off of and retells Samus's backstory as it was loosely established in manuals and Nintendo Power comics that came out around Metroid 1 and Super Metroid's releases.
Just to make the canonicity of the manga clear, the chozo seen in the flashback in Zero Mission is a character _from_ the manga, and the drawing Samus leaves on the mural depicts her, that same chozo, and one other chozo from the manga.
The naming scheme for the chozo also originates in the manga, the two new chozo introduced in Dread follow the same structure with their names.
Raven Beak's second phase is also a _direct_ reference to information about the Chozo touched on in the manga, it encapsulates his desire for the Chozo to return to what he considers their peak of greatness.
Playing in the 80s part of the fun was drawing your own map as you went. Being able to compare maps with friends to see what secrets each of you found was a big part of what made it such a favorite I think. Not many other games were exciting to talk about the same way.
In the last 30 years, there is one game which has made me bust out a notebook: The Witness. My ex found it and thought I was schizophrenic- if you’ve played the game you’ll understand… I drew a lot of lines man 😐
To add to this, the manual for the original NES version encourages you to draw a map so you don't get lost. Metroid II didn't really need a map because you were basically always headed down. And why does nobody ever mention Crystal Flash in Super Metroid? The game shows this technique and others if you don't do anything at the title screen for a little bit.
Awesome breakdown, haven't seen many gaming channels take on the full Metroid franchise in a dedicated video like this! Thank Anna (TSWG) for a new subrsciber!
Anna is an absolute gem 🍻 thanks for visiting!
Just Beat Metroid dread yesterday on Switch Lite and this is the first metroid game Ive beat in the series. That game was amazing and so was this review.
Very well done, Marc. I really hope in the near future Nintendo will port all past Metroid games to the Switch.
You, me and all Nintendo fans who don't delude themselves into thinking that Nintendo preventing you from playing their games is part of some 4D Chess master plan
@@MarcTheCyborg so…. What is it then?
@@cidfacetious3722 in my opinion, the same brand of hubris which Disney has
Love this video! Watched it multiple times and keep coming back to it. Please make more Metroid videos, subbed!!
Metroid through its faults made me super interested in samus story and it would be great to see her continue to succeed.
Great video, Man. My brother and I got NES Metroid for Christmas one year. It was such a big and complex game for the time. We started drawing are own maps. We had a note book full of them. That's how we were able to beat the game. It wasn't long when other kids started asking for copies of the maps. You always hear about Zelda, but Metroid changed gaming forever to.
yeaaa buddy i got it xmas of '88 and because there was nothing to compare it to, metroid seemed larger than life. i remember putting a clothes pin on the B button trying to bomb ball my way up a wall.
No review of Galactic Pinball on the Virtual Boy with the Samus cameo?? Dislike unsubscribe cancelled 0/10
Haha, I didn’t put the smash bros games in there either - just games with Metroid in the title 🫡
Hah your just a unit @baddragonite. Just a single number. 1 isn't a major loss and anyways your missing out on spectacular content. Too bad for you I Guess
Great video ! Live metroid and loved this video . Well put together
I used to play Metroid II all the time. I want to say my best time was 1:37 but sub 2 hours was the norm. Never played the others as a kid. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
No problem! Check out the video description for the download link for AM2R, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it as big fan of the original Metroid 2
Watched this video in one sitting at work, wow. This was really well done
Thank you very much! 🍻
One correction I feel needs to be pointed out (though I haven't finished yet, maybe you correct later) in Fusion, Samus is NOT fused to her Power Suit. Metroid DNA yes, joining her human and Chozo DNA, but she isn't a cyborg, and you see her without the Power Suit at the end of this very game if you get the best endings.
I think there was a mistranslation. There is a line in the intro about her being melded with her suit (or something like that) but I think they meant that metaphorically she needed to stay in the suit for the time being since she was so immunocompromised.
Actually it was confirmed that suit became organic in Fusion meaning it like WAS fused to her body. The Developers on Dread, upon being asked about the new color of her said, informed the people asking, that it was due to the suit changing from being organic back to being inorganic
Awesome retrospective, got me inspired to finally play all these games myself
Enjoy
You seem to be under the impression that AM2R hasn't already had the banhammer applied to it, because it can still be downloaded.
Nintendo already hit the original team with a lot of legal threats, but the finished product was already in players' hands and they proceeded to make a million mirrors of it to spite Nintendo.
As far as Nintendo's concerned, they've already done due diligence smashing the project and the fact that its still available is simply something they can't control.
Banger video bro keep up the good work
Thank you very much! I may have bumped the Elden Ring video due to its scale (I feel like we might get a DLC announcement soon too), but I’m working on a follow up to the Cyberpunk review I did for G+G right now. It’ll be a smaller scale video, but done in a relatively quick timeframe
10/10. If I ever had to show folks a great retrospective of the Metroid franchise, this would easily be it. I've seen other folks that have done some things well and other things not so well or they just trash talked Other M too much.
This was very informational and you delved just far enough into each game to really whet someone's appetite if they haven't played them.
Metroid is my favorite series of all time, especially the 2D entries. I said I wouldn't buy a Switch until Prime 4 came out, but then lo and behold, they announced Dread. I immediately preordered the OLED Switch and the game. My roommates went away the weekend it came out, and barring sleep, that's pretty much all I did for about 2 days straight. Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time, and I still think it's overall better than Dread, but man does Dread get a LOT right. I really hope it's not the end of Samus' adventures. I get that this is supposed to be the end of the Metroids and the X, and I guess the Chozo, but she's always been my favorite game character, so I really want them to do a new series with her as the protag.
Again, very well done and know that your hard work paid off. I'm glad you got to play the games you didn't previously and enjoyed them. And thank you for being relatively objective when it came to Other M. I didn't actually hate the game and was just excited to have a new Metroid game. It's not the best, that's for sure, but it could have been a lot worse.
I’m happy you enjoyed it Bill 🍻
Dread is only the end of the story arc of metroid 1-5 so there will be more thankfully.
Always welcome Metroid content!! Amazing video!! Awesome work!
Thank you sir 🍻
Exact same situation for me with Prime. I grew up playing Quake III Arena and Halo CE, so the controls for Prime didn't make sense to me as a kid. I only just played Prime all the way through for my first time a couple months ago, and it quickly became one of my all time favorites.
Now imagine if Nintendo allowed their normie fans who don’t want to mess around with emulators and mods have that arc 😂
Happy to hear I’m not the only one 🍻
I grew up playing those too and found Prime really natural still. It was something very different but it made sense for the game it was. It wasn't a straight FPS like those games were.
Goddamn, Marc! A STRONG START with this one!
Thanks Charza 🍻
1:43:04 Nintendo has been around since the late 19th century.
Amazing video. You put great effort on making it, and it’s shown! Congratulations!
I agree with your assessment of how Nintendo treats their older properties and the fan games, however on the other hand they are also late adapters to everything I hate about modern gaming- online connectivity, online multiplayer, loot boxes, microtransactions, making online profiles to play games, etc.
That’s fair - I just think it might be a baby-with-the-bathwater situation.
There are certainly a lot of innovations which have made the industry worse - but things like legacy game support is amazing on platforms like Steam and even Xbox. PlayStation and especially Nintendo have a lot to improve on in that regard
@@MarcTheCyborg I’m with yah. Indie gaming is where the real creativity is happening, anyway. Nintendo is just the “least worst” of the AAA
When they do adopt they adopt in the worst possible way
This was such a great video. I enjoyed each second. Amazing work 💯
Amazing video about my favorite games series. I just subscribed and will check out more of your videos.
Small point to bring up, I loved your opinions on Other M. I completely agree. I don't think it's the best but it doesn't deserve the hate it gets. I thought gameplay wise it was a lot of fun.
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You forgot to mention the best part of Metroid Prime, the absolute banger soundtrack!
Oh the music is very strong across the whole series - but you’re right, I probably could’ve put some more time in talking about music and sound design
@@MarcTheCyborg The video was great, i just love the original prime soundtrack. It's something I still listen to on a fairly regular basis. Also, I agree with you that retro should move past the phazon arch in prime 4, but I think they'll do something like going to the phazon origin planet and destroy it.
omfg the "legally aquired rom" bit made me want to go play in traffic. enough is enough lol
Don’t go kitty
orrr you could emulate traffic by playing with a legally obtained rom... legally obligated to say this eksdee
nice. I miss this type of reviews. :)
Might be a while before the next series retrospective (though I do have an idea for one), but there is a massive Elden Ring review coming up next!
@@MarcTheCyborg awesome :) keep up the good work
@@GeekHazu Try this channel: ruclips.net/user/Gggmanlivesvideos
He does a few full game series reviews and has similar humor.
@@Bubba__Sawyer thanks, looks good :)
Great job Marc, really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next video!
Trust me when i say this, the way you did this video was reason enough to subscribe + Like and soon ... share this vid as it was quite informative on many levels including the fact that you are satisfying to listen to... In Metroid fashion i say this in hopes to pay respects .........[ Harley :- Mission Started in 2009 Mission Ended in 2022...See you Next Mission ] Metroid Fan Master Xai Sends her Respects to your Trooper...you fought well.
Thank you very much for the kind words 🙏
bro be putting out absolute quality content right here
I know this guy… and steal his leg often!
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Wonderful video, one of my favorite franchises since the original. Very sorry for the loss of your fur baby.
Thank you very much 🙏 Harley was a wonderful doggie
Nintendo please put all the Metroid on the switch please.
Super Metroid captured me a year ago. Was my first Metroid, and man how it holds up 💟
RIP Harley
Wow, thank you so much! This video was awesome. As a middle-aged male, I can relate to a lot of your thoughts about Mario and Nintendo in general. The NES with Super Mario was my first game, and I agree with many who say that Super Metroid was the best Metroid ever. However, Dread was awesome. I just wish it was longer and hope they make more. I think Metroid Prime 4 will be released in December. That is what Amazon is claiming and they are doing pre-orders now. I didn't realize that there were any other good Metroid games that I hadn't played yet, but thanks to you I am now playing AM2R for the first time. A few hours in and loving it! Thanks again. Liked and subscribed
Yeah AM2R is incredible - as for Metroid Prime 4, I wouldn’t put too much stock in an Amazon listing, as publishers will often give distributors a list of their possible releases, and if no firm release date is given, the default is the 31st of December for that year.
With that said, Retro did come back to MP4 about a year and a half ago, so the likelihood of it being done, is going to be dependent on how much usable material the previous developer had waiting for them.
Regardless, I’ll be playing it whenever it does launch! Thanks for watching 🍻
Good video, Marc. Although I do have one criticism for it . . .
Why wish to do double jumping in real life when you could just wish to fly? 😂
Mostly because I find double jumping to be more fun- at least as a traversal mechanic in a game. Flight would be more useful, but double jumping would be a riot
@@MarcTheCyborg To each their own. You know I’m just messing with you buddy. 😁Although I imagine that you could in theory still do double jumping if you’re able to fly (when you’re in the air levitating, you would bend your knees, flex them out quickly for appearances, and use your flight power to just levitate higher, to pretend and make it look like you’re jumping), but I guess we don’t have the capability to test such a thing. At least not yet. Stupid reality.
@@Andrea_Gabrielli yeah reality is the worst
@@MarcTheCyborg If you could be in any video game world, which one would it be? I’m gonna guess that you would pick something like Monster Hunter.
Glad to hear people are still getting mileage from my upscale pack. I got a lot of flack on the MP mods forum for it being ONLY an upscale pack XD. Was honestly surprised to hear my username out of the blue on this, kind of made my day XD
Also, how did you set up the control scheme to handle the visor and weapon selectors for PrimeHack? I've never managed to find a playable layout.
@@Malkierian thanks for making it! It really helped bring my experience, and in turn my footage, to another level when I found it 🍻
As a person who knows nothing at all about coding, but loves tinkering with old games to see how far the mod community has brought them, people like you are my hero.
As for my weapon and visor setup, I use Q for visors, E for weapons and toggle the “enable [beam/visor] menu” in the options. I then hold me of those keys and use the mouse as a Wii remote to hover the cursor over the one I want, then let go of the key. It ends up feeling similar to a weapon wheel in a console shooter and consider each has 3 options at maximum, it’s very easy to do quickly.
@@MarcTheCyborg Ah, that makes sense. I guess I had just gotten too used to the Wii controls and hadn't thought that's what they meant by the menus in the settings. Thanks, I'll give that another go the next time I play through them in like 6 months XD. How was your performance with it, especially with MP2? Not too much stuttering?
Yeah, I had plans to try to actually redraw textures in the pack, but never got past the text and a few key textures because of that negative feedback (especially because I'm NOT an artist, lol). I may have to try revisiting it again sometime in the future.
Oh, and a great video overall. Totally agreed with basically every point you made (except a bit about Other M), especially about AM2R being the definitive Metroid II experience. I'm going to be speedrunning Metroid 2D perspective games soon, starting with Zero Mission, then to AM2R and Fusion. I hope we might be able to get AM2R a ubiquitous existence so Nintendo can't squash it any more than it already has. Also, I was reminded of the mod that exists for Other M that apparently improves the story enough to be not as offensive and enables missiles in 3rd person mode. I haven't actually played it because I had some errant settings in Dolphin I didn't realize until last night. If you like, I'll update you on how it is later.
@@Malkierian thank you very much! I certainly have enough issues with Other M that I’d be at the very least, curious to see what’s improved - but there’s a few threads on here where I go to the mattresses about it (which my wife ordered me to ignore, seeing that it was frustrating me 😂) - so we can just agree to disagree without going into a full blown debate. Keep me posted on that mod though, it’d be cool to play around with. I’m CyborgMarc on Twitter if you want to DM me.
As for performance, my editing rig is not a good universal benchmark tool, as it’s a Ryzen 9 3950x with an RTX 3090 and 64gb of RAM - but I was getting 144fps pretty much the entire time I was playing all three games at 4K. No stuttering beyond a bit of shader compiling, but even then, it was rarely noticeable once I had been playing for a long time and built up that cache.
Finally, I would encourage you to not let negative feedback stop you from doing your work- at most, let it offer you perspective, which you can then choose to use for improvement. Your work is incredible, I appreciated it greatly and I think it’d be a shame if you stopped for any reason other than you wanting to pursue other endeavours 🍻
@@MarcTheCyborg LOL, people do have some... passionate opinions about Other M. My biggest issue was just the way they had her processing her grief. I find it hard to believe, after everything she'd been through up to that point, that she'd just suddenly develop PTSD over it and freeze at the idea of Ridley. Anger management issues, that I could believe. Otherwise, I could see your points and appreciate the added perspective concerning the reluctant teamwork aspect of it. I guess, considering everything we knew about Adam up to that point, his characterization in Other M was more out of place than Samus's.
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This is the one that got away for me. I remember as a kid (must have been 6 or 7 or so) that I got Metroid for the NES. I didn't like it at first, so I had my parents trade it in. Can't even remember what I got instead, it may have been the Turtles game, which ofcourse isn't bad at all either. In hindsight I wish I kept Metroid aswell, because I really like the premis of the game now and it would have been cool to grow up with all the different games. Now I just never got into it. I bought Metroid Prime on the GameCube a little while after it came out, but since I was in my World of Warcraft phase at the time I really never played much of that either.
Thanks for making this very comprehensive video of all the games. Despite never really having played much of it, it is definitelly one of my favourite Nintendo franchises aswell.
Thanks man! It’s never too late to try old games either (which is why it would be nice if Nintendo made it easier to play 80% of these games without having to resort to emulation, but alas… emulation exists)
you think nintendo shuts down fan projects because they are worried they will outdo them? ya ok
I mean look at AM2R 😂 it was better than the one Nintendo did make 🤔
Project M too lmao
Amazing video, super interesting to hear and watch
Thank you!!
Great job on this video. I hope Nintendo takes more of an interest into this franchise and pumps out more games though with the same passion, dedication, and quality as with Dread. With the success of Dread, that is most likely going to happen. Now will your next Metroid project going to be to speed run some of these games like Dread or SM? Lol
Hahaha, no speed running for me - I might put in the effort to be as legit as I possibly can be, but I’m much closer to gaming journalist than MLG speed runner 😂
Great work! This video was outstanding. Thanks for this.
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Hey man!! Just wanted to say sorry for your loss and this was a great video. RIP Hardly 🐶🐶🐶