I remember beating this game at a display inside a Walmart back in the day with a crowd of about 20 onlookers rooting me on. Probably the best day I had as a thirteen year old.
I remember getting to this boss fight when I was a kid... late at night, dark outside, eerily silent. This boss fight scared the everloving SHIT out of me. The sound of that laser beam hitting Samus damn near made me turn my console off - I was terrified! LOVE this game.
@@keiko3520 The sound and music is sooo good on that one, true enough, it's just such a crying shame that the game only played one tune at a time no matter where you went in the game, which also really downplayed the replay value when searching for all the items... What a shame... Still though, an excellent game :)
This battle is one of the best silent narrative ever to a video game. Without a single word, we can feel at the final shots with the Hyper Beam that Samus Aran is furious at Mother Brain, who cannot fight her as powerful as she is anymore. Such an epic moment, one of the greatest moments in gaming. Ever.
+Neto B That excellent cut of sound when the Metroid dies. Just a single screech followed by its death, and the glow on Samus' suit. Fucking fantastic. Even the way Mother Brain's head is violently swung around as it cries from the insane force of the shots... absolutely incredible.
Exactly. This game gets so much atmosphere across with no dialogue in the boss fight. As far as atmosphere in a video game, Super Metroid is pretty much king.
+Juliano Griszewski You can kind of bug it out. If you disable the gravity and varia suit for the hyberbeam phase you take increased dmg and at a certain amount when youre supposed to not be able to stand up anymore (which summons the baby metroid) you can use your energy tanks to get past the required amount of health to stay up (or something like that, i cant remember the exact method) but the baby metroid still gets summoned. You can even attack motherbrain while the metroid is healing you as you can walk around, shoot etc. So with already increased health the baby metroid needs to heal less as the energy tanks regardless of amount get filled instantly (maybe 0.1sec), it still dies regardless. I doubt you can pull the required amount of dmg needed to kill motherbrain at that stage before the baby is "done" as the dmg difference between the plasma and the hyper beam is enormous.
@@chumchuumm Actually, as long as you start hitting Mother Brain with charged P+W+I shots right after she turns gray, you can drain her until you only need a few hyper beam shots to kill her, but you must let her kill the baby metroid. If you don't, the cutscene never ends, and Mother Brain's health never reaches zero.
The once-baby metroid bursting out of nowhere to stop Mother Brain from finishing Samus off is still the only moment in my video game playing experience that made me literally drop the controller and jump back. Absolutely shocking!
I get chills every time I watch the metroid come out of nowhere just in time, latch onto Mother Brain's skull and proceed to suck her dry. And I've seen it for 20+ years now. You can almost feel the metroid saying "You hurt my mommy! I hate you! I'll save you, mommy!"
Joshua Vargason you can also feel the emotion when, back in that sandy room, said metroid came out of nowhere and nearly sucked Samus dry before realizing who she was.
I remember watching my older brother playing this all the way through. The Mother Brain gave me freaking nightmares. Then FINALLY he gets passed the hyper beams and we both flipped when the baby Metroid came to defend mama Samus. I think I even teared up seeing baby sacrifice itself. This is how you tell a story without speaking. An incredible moment in video game history.
That Mother Brain was the most terrifying monster I'd seen ever in video games at that point. A Metroid movie - even if it's icky instead of gory - would be a trip. Oh, and all Wallmasters and Floormasters are spawn of Phantoon.
AwayAWAY Be careful, they tried too hard with some movies that ended up " wtf no " and some like Final Fantasy related were Jaw dropping.. You're gambling 50/50 chance of it being good. A lot of computer work, a lot of money being put into it, and years for perfection.. We might all be dead in this generation before we're able to set eyes on a legitimate movie such as metroid. It's just too powerful..
Rob Stefani in the movie (if they make one)they should have a seen were ridley randomly appears and fights mother brain cuase ridley is the only one who wants to take down samus and then mother brain finished off ridley with the beam from her eye burning him but them the metroid comes and u get the point
Honestly, I don't think that a movie can do Metroid justice. Maybe the first two games but not Super Metroid. You would probably need a 4-hour movie just to get all the boss battles into it. Trying to condense it down to a 2 and a half-hour movie would take out a lot of content and would leave us disappointed. A Netflix series would be a lot better because all the content could be broken up over several episodes and would leave nothing out.
I remember this first time I fought this fight. I had never in my entire life felt a greater need for vengeance than when after Mother Brain killed the hatchling. I was on the verge of tears the entire time.
For me it was a scene in a little hidden gem called Crystalis, where you come back to the secret refugee hideout to find a boss has murdered everyone. I fought that battle with tears rolling down my face.
I've thought a lot about this scene over the years, and I think the reason it made me so personally feel so furious and hurt wasn't simply the murder of Baby, or the loss of maternal bond it formed with Samus. It is that the game never gave us a chance to save the child. As a kid, I was watching in abject horror and helplessness as Baby continued to heal Samus while Mother Brain was gleefully attacking. I recall my (very young and stupid) train of thought going something like this: "What? NO! Stop it! I don't need to be at full health! Let's take that thing down together. Just give me back Samus so I can save the baby!" Of course, that didn't happen. And just as everybody else in this thread did, as soon as Samus got up and glowed with the power of the Hyper Beam, I roared back into the fight with flames in my brain and the desire for vengeance. But even when I'd dusted Mother Brain and escaped, I just couldn't help but be a little resentful that in those crucial few moments, I couldn't do anything. To my memory, helplessness wasn't a common feeling for a gamer in 1994. Most games had an optimistic resolution and gameplay feel, and even the tragedies of that era somehow felt like they weren't preventable. This did not. This game ingeniously plays upon an innate feeling that lives in us, the feeling that we could have - and SHOULD have - saved Baby if we'd just had the chance, and it is absolutely artful.
Some of the coolest cinematic sequences in any game ever, yet there weren't any pre-rendered cutscenes, quicktime events, or even any dialogue. This game was an absolute masterpiece. Two of my favorite moments in videogames will always be this sequence here and the part where you first see the baby metroid in Tourian, watch it attack and devour an enemy, and then come after you as well. It still gets to me after all these years, I was playing it the other day on the virtual console.
This boss fight freaked me out so much when I was little. I remember how much I freaked whenever you start losing and can't fight back, and then the baby metroid comes back and saves you. Had me going crazy lol
Terrifying. She gave me nightmares as a kid and now holds a spot in my top 10 video game bosses. Brilliant design and excellent battle sequence. In my opinion, Super Nintendo was the best overall console. True, N64 had a horde of awesome games, but dat controller doe. :E The Legend of Zelda and Metroid will always hold special places in my heart as the first games I've ever played, beaten and obsessed over.
This second form of Mother Brain is one of the most nightmare inducing things I've seen. The brain part with its eye and jagged teeth was bad enough, but perch it on top of a T-Rex sized dinosaur body thing and it's perfectly hideous. Its bloodcurdling shrieks and the creepy background music complete the package. Nintendo did a great job of drawing this much atmosphere out of a 2D game with limited graphics capabilities back then.
16 bit horror like this is actually scary. This mother brain is terrifying because it's half alive and half machine and the music makes it all the much more scary. Few things actually scare me but this does the trick.
I've always thought the Metroid franchise as whole was one of the creepiest franchises in gaming. So called "horror games" like Resident Evil are child's play compared to the existential dread, isolation, alienation, and otherness that Metroid games convey.
The noises that Mother Brain makes.. Jesus. It's fucking screaming, literally.. every time that hyper beam passes through it's skull its actually screaming. We get to understand how bad it hurts... and that's what it gets for killing the baby.
Man...this takes me back to 8th grade. I remembered being so stoked when metroid saved me from motherbrain as i whooped and hollered "Omg it saved me!!"
Why do I always weep when playing through this part or watching it? Always a heartbreaking, but awesome final battle. Rest in peace, sweet alien child of Samus.
The moment when the giant metroid came in to the rescue is so bittersweet. It was able to recognize samus and done something that no other metroid have done, it gave her the strength and energy to continue on. Although sacrificing itself in the process. It as if the metroid realized that and accept his fate. Staying alongside his mother until the very end.
About 30 years later and that music still strikes fear into me. I don't know why but this was the scariest moment in and video game in my life. This game had a creepy vibe to it but this section made me hide under my blanket that night. She's so goofy looking too 😂
I've read and heard so much about Super Metroid over the years and particularly this battle...I've never really played any of the Metroid games, but this battle is just as epic and surprising as it was made out to be! Favorited.
It’s astounding to me how an 8-bit adventure game from the 90s can easily be regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. This game is and was an absolute gem.
That baby Metroid was so confused when it saw Samus. Although she was ordered to kill every one of them, she decided to spare the baby. Although I was shocked when I saw that monster fly out of nowhere and sap Mother Brain like an oil well....XD
Missiles: Mother Brain no-sells the hit. Super Missiles: Mother Brain no-sells the hit. Power Bomb/Charge Beam combos: Mother Brain no-sells the hit. And _then_ she gets hit with the Hyper Beam and her head bounces off the freakin' ceiling.
I've never played Super Metroid specifically, but seeing how such simple sounds and sprite animations can create such a compelling story makes me want to replay most of my Metroid games once summer break begins. Particularly Other M and Metroid II.
Greatest ending to maybe the greatest game ever. The way this battle and thew whole narrative is set up is flawless. You're doing everything right but somehow can't get out of the Motherbrain's beam and you know you're about to die, and then a Metroid comes out of nowhere to save you. But then the Metroid starts coming to you and you think it might be killing you, but then you realize your health is going up, and you realize it's the Metroid that you just encountered like 15 minutes ago that nearly killed you but decided not to (the one from the end of Metroid II). Then your friend who just saves your life is killed protecting you. The music changes from the excellent, intimating, war-like track into the the triumphant one that plays in the area your spaceship is located in, and now you have the power to blast that vile, evil bitch straight to hell with each shot as she becomes more and more decimated until her body is obliterated and all that's left is her dead skull lying on the floor. And all of this is done without a single word said. The amount of love and care that went into this game at every level is truly something else. Imo it's literally a perfect game and whenever I play it over it NEVER ages even in the slightest.
That shriek of the Metroid larva dying is such a stab to the heart, but followed up by the music swelling into a heroic tune and then the absolute curb-stomp you deliver on Motherbrain while she screeches in pain with every hit is absolutely deserved.
Mother Brain getting hit by Samus' regular weapons: "Stings a bit, but nothing I can't handle." Mother Brain getting hit by Hyper Beam: "HOLY SSSSHHHH-"
One of my favorite things about this fight is when Samus is about to die and the baby Metroid comes in, Samus looks up. It's a small detail but really adds to the scene. Beyond epic.
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3:18 That scene reminds me of Mothra sacrificing herself for Godzilla and then giving her her own power to fight King Ghidora in Godzilla King of the Monsters
Very fascinating scene. I've never even played this game yet the designers did an indescribably good job at showing the emotional investment of that green thing. I don't know its backstory but it's clear that it is not too strong, but it cares greatly for samus and given what comes following it's death samus (and I assume the player) cares for it as well. And all this conveyed with blurry 2D graphics. Amazing. Simply amazing.
The cruelty of Metroid bosses is what differentiated this series from all the other games I was playing as a kid. Was one of the first things I really noticed, is how easy it was to screw up and die. A lot of other games had a lighter vibe or seemed to offer more help. I remember the first encounter I had with Crocomire and I was shocked at how hard everything was in Metroid, and how much it took to win battles.
Born in 1996 here, Super Metroid was one of the last Metroid game I played, and it is the best. Sometimes I think too hard of that larva and cry alone... Even Metroid II makes me cry, when I get that cute music and the larva following me around
i dont think ive ever felt as power playing as a character in a video game as this fight.. the way MB's head knocks back hitting her with the hyper beam... i knew she was effed as soon as I saw that as a kid. Super Metroid is still my favorite game of all time.
They are interesting sound effects. Before those effects were used in Super Metroid I remember hearing the exact same sounds used in a traveling robot dinosaur exhibit.
Anybody still watching this in 2024? At last Super Metroid turns 30! Before there was Resident Evil this was one of my favorite games as a kid. The mother brain is one of the most terrifying bosses that I've ever fought first time playing. 30 years later this game is a true masterpiece!
I’ve never realized until 3 decades later that technically, you can’t lose this battle unless you die on purpose or just really suck that much. Once the Metroid comes in and saves you it’s over. This experience is really only authentic the first time playing through without knowing what’s gonna happen, because you’re genuinely made to feel like you’re getting your ass kicked and think you’re completely fucked and you just didn’t try hard enough, up until that Metroid comes in and surprises you as you’re still confused on what’s going on.
The little details of mother brain shooting her measly shots at you while watching you suffer.. without even any explanation you can see how much she despises you and wants to see you in pain before ending your life. It’s incredible how much emotion they were able to evoke in this boss battle!
I remember beating this game at a display inside a Walmart back in the day with a crowd of about 20 onlookers rooting me on. Probably the best day I had as a thirteen year old.
Damn awesome lol
You're a legend bro 💯
I remember winning a smash tournament at a epic con at a mall and there where people cheering.
@@anonymoustroll2432 ok
Neat
I remember getting to this boss fight when I was a kid... late at night, dark outside, eerily silent. This boss fight scared the everloving SHIT out of me. The sound of that laser beam hitting Samus damn near made me turn my console off - I was terrified!
LOVE this game.
AJR 1986 it's even scarier, because i have actually gotten KILLED by that lazer before
I know the feeling
I would love to hear a remake of the MB music blaring on a church organ >:D
When I was little metroid fusion scared the shit out of me because the sound design was awesome
@@keiko3520 The sound and music is sooo good on that one, true enough, it's just such a crying shame that the game only played one tune at a time no matter where you went in the game, which also really downplayed the replay value when searching for all the items... What a shame... Still though, an excellent game :)
This battle is one of the best silent narrative ever to a video game. Without a single word, we can feel at the final shots with the Hyper Beam that Samus Aran is furious at Mother Brain, who cannot fight her as powerful as she is anymore. Such an epic moment, one of the greatest moments in gaming. Ever.
+Neto B That excellent cut of sound when the Metroid dies. Just a single screech followed by its death, and the glow on Samus' suit.
Fucking fantastic.
Even the way Mother Brain's head is violently swung around as it cries from the insane force of the shots... absolutely incredible.
indeed.😄
Exactly. This game gets so much atmosphere across with no dialogue in the boss fight. As far as atmosphere in a video game, Super Metroid is pretty much king.
the best final boss battle
i hope nintendo bring back that atmosphere. isolation...loneliness...i miss that
When I first saw this fight, I was like,
"THE BABY!! YOU KILLED THE BABY METROID! NOOOOO!!!"
My reaction: I WILL UNMAKE YOU!!!
Little did you realise that you'd just written the entire script for Other M.
😢😢😢😢
DABABY?!
@@GoodfellaZeta4873 or me
Y Y YOU KILLED MY BABY I AM NOW ANGRY HRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH
I WILL DESTROY YOU
Mother Brain's screech always sends a chill down my spine...
TheDARKYOSHI64 Lemme guess, your pfp is Flutterbat.
TheDARKYOSHI64
Sounds oddly familiar too.
Mario G Hernandez it is mothra’s call
Our shared childhood trauma
For I second I thought this said speech and I thought “What speech?”
3:23 - Hello. My name is Samus Aran. You killed my child.
*_Prepare to die._*
Baby Metroid would not have died if Samus didn't have so many energy tanks to refill.
+Juliano Griszewski You can kind of bug it out. If you disable the gravity and varia suit for the hyberbeam phase you take increased dmg and at a certain amount when youre supposed to not be able to stand up anymore (which summons the baby metroid) you can use your energy tanks to get past the required amount of health to stay up (or something like that, i cant remember the exact method) but the baby metroid still gets summoned. You can even attack motherbrain while the metroid is healing you as you can walk around, shoot etc. So with already increased health the baby metroid needs to heal less as the energy tanks regardless of amount get filled instantly (maybe 0.1sec), it still dies regardless. I doubt you can pull the required amount of dmg needed to kill motherbrain at that stage before the baby is "done" as the dmg difference between the plasma and the hyper beam is enormous.
+Kretias lol I had no idea you could do that
Lol...imagine if you make it ti the end with four tanks or less it survives.
@@chumchuumm Actually, as long as you start hitting Mother Brain with charged P+W+I shots right after she turns gray, you can drain her until you only need a few hyper beam shots to kill her, but you must let her kill the baby metroid. If you don't, the cutscene never ends, and Mother Brain's health never reaches zero.
@@GoodfellaZeta4873 it would be cool as hell but the less energy tanks you have, the faster mother brain regenerates :(
25 years later, Mother Brain's screams and roars still give me the chills...
And nightmares
The once-baby metroid bursting out of nowhere to stop Mother Brain from finishing Samus off is still the only moment in my video game playing experience that made me literally drop the controller and jump back. Absolutely shocking!
I get chills every time I watch the metroid come out of nowhere just in time, latch onto Mother Brain's skull and proceed to suck her dry. And I've seen it for 20+ years now. You can almost feel the metroid saying "You hurt my mommy! I hate you! I'll save you, mommy!"
Joshua Vargason you can also feel the emotion when, back in that sandy room, said metroid came out of nowhere and nearly sucked Samus dry before realizing who she was.
@@esmooth919 "Mamma...?" That's how I imagine it when the Metroid stops and then squees lightly.
*sobs uncontrollably
*short circuts the controller
Did you have to say suck her dry.
2 and a half decades later and this still holds up as one of the most powerful moments in gaming history
I remember coming home and seeing my older brother playing this and a I ran into my moms room and started to cry ahh those were the old times
😂😂😂
Mysterious Maximus love your Jontron icon! XD it totally fits with most people's reactions to this boss! XD
Lmaooooooo wtf why did you cry lol
@@ladistar it scared the shit outta me
@@ladistar Because she killed Samus's baby.
This boss fight may have been surprisingly easy, but it's still one of my favorites.
Holy Narwhale87 the only reason this boss fight is easy is because it's scripted
I mean if you don't have enough health you won't survive the laser beam
True. I think you can't die.
@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 yes you can die if you don't have enough health
I heard baby metroid's dying screech in my dreams for years 🤣
Poor baby metroid.... RIP.
Not just any baby Metroid
The super Metroid.
RIP
Mother brains scream is just creepy T_T
Funny fact: Mother brains roar is actually a recycled angurius roar from godzilla
@@Astrallyic43 It wasn't Mothra's roar?
When I first played this game I was 7, a lot of the game kind of freaked me out but this fight had me shaking lol
@@adyn8811 for mother brain it is Mothra’s roar. He got it mixed up with Ridley’s roar. Ridley’s roar is the pitched down Angirus one.
I remember watching my older brother playing this all the way through. The Mother Brain gave me freaking nightmares. Then FINALLY he gets passed the hyper beams and we both flipped when the baby Metroid came to defend mama Samus. I think I even teared up seeing baby sacrifice itself.
This is how you tell a story without speaking. An incredible moment in video game history.
That Mother Brain was the most terrifying monster I'd seen ever in video games at that point.
A Metroid movie - even if it's icky instead of gory - would be a trip.
Oh, and all Wallmasters and Floormasters are spawn of Phantoon.
Yeah a Metroid movie doesn't need to be explicitly graphic but it should make you a bit uneasy
AwayAWAY
Be careful, they tried too hard with some movies that ended up " wtf no " and some like Final Fantasy related were Jaw dropping.. You're gambling 50/50 chance of it being good.
A lot of computer work, a lot of money being put into it, and years for perfection.. We might all be dead in this generation before we're able to set eyes on a legitimate movie such as metroid.
It's just too powerful..
Rob Stefani in the movie (if they make one)they should have a seen were ridley randomly appears and fights mother brain cuase ridley is the only one who wants to take down samus and then mother brain finished off ridley with the beam from her eye burning him but them the metroid comes and u get the point
Honestly, I don't think that a movie can do Metroid justice. Maybe the first two games but not Super Metroid. You would probably need a 4-hour movie just to get all the boss battles into it. Trying to condense it down to a 2 and a half-hour movie would take out a lot of content and would leave us disappointed. A Netflix series would be a lot better because all the content could be broken up over several episodes and would leave nothing out.
@@forkshifter This. Game-movies never turn out quite right. An anime would be better, but too much dialogue would break even that.
4:05 Brain: I don't feel so good...
L
Damn lol
Samus was there when the Metroid was hatched. The Metroid kind of thought of Samus as it's mother.
I remember this first time I fought this fight. I had never in my entire life felt a greater need for vengeance than when after Mother Brain killed the hatchling. I was on the verge of tears the entire time.
For me it was a scene in a little hidden gem called Crystalis, where you come back to the secret refugee hideout to find a boss has murdered everyone. I fought that battle with tears rolling down my face.
Indeed. Mother Brain deserved to die & burn for that.
Nep me!
This boss battle freaked me out the first time I did it. A giant skull with a brain on the body of a T-rex.
i thought it was a chicken body lol
3:25 Samus: You..killed..my..BABYYYY!!!! *Boss mode activate*
I've thought a lot about this scene over the years, and I think the reason it made me so personally feel so furious and hurt wasn't simply the murder of Baby, or the loss of maternal bond it formed with Samus.
It is that the game never gave us a chance to save the child.
As a kid, I was watching in abject horror and helplessness as Baby continued to heal Samus while Mother Brain was gleefully attacking. I recall my (very young and stupid) train of thought going something like this:
"What? NO! Stop it! I don't need to be at full health! Let's take that thing down together. Just give me back Samus so I can save the baby!"
Of course, that didn't happen. And just as everybody else in this thread did, as soon as Samus got up and glowed with the power of the Hyper Beam, I roared back into the fight with flames in my brain and the desire for vengeance. But even when I'd dusted Mother Brain and escaped, I just couldn't help but be a little resentful that in those crucial few moments, I couldn't do anything.
To my memory, helplessness wasn't a common feeling for a gamer in 1994. Most games had an optimistic resolution and gameplay feel, and even the tragedies of that era somehow felt like they weren't preventable. This did not. This game ingeniously plays upon an innate feeling that lives in us, the feeling that we could have - and SHOULD have - saved Baby if we'd just had the chance, and it is absolutely artful.
You said “I can’t save the baby Metroid it’s so enid coleslover”
The song used during this fight is still the best I've ever heard for a final boss 100%
One of the most epic boss fight sequence in videogame history, imo.
The song so accurately represents fighting something truly horrible, that could never lose.
This freaked me out as a kid. Is it bad that it still kinda creeps me out?
Creeps me out either :D
I once drew a picture of this fight in pencil when I was ten, GREATEST DRAWING EVER!
I wish it was somewhere around the house...........
Some of the coolest cinematic sequences in any game ever, yet there weren't any pre-rendered cutscenes, quicktime events, or even any dialogue. This game was an absolute masterpiece.
Two of my favorite moments in videogames will always be this sequence here and the part where you first see the baby metroid in Tourian, watch it attack and devour an enemy, and then come after you as well. It still gets to me after all these years, I was playing it the other day on the virtual console.
Few games had me on edge like this. And I played like in 1999 ... this game is a true classic: time can't ruin it.
This boss fight freaked me out so much when I was little. I remember how much I freaked whenever you start losing and can't fight back, and then the baby metroid comes back and saves you. Had me going crazy lol
Terrifying. She gave me nightmares as a kid and now holds a spot in my top 10 video game bosses. Brilliant design and excellent battle sequence. In my opinion, Super Nintendo was the best overall console. True, N64 had a horde of awesome games, but dat controller doe. :E
The Legend of Zelda and Metroid will always hold special places in my heart as the first games I've ever played, beaten and obsessed over.
@@mysteriousmaximus4863 Reminds me of the nihilanth from half life
This game gave me nightmares.
Well, it's inspired by the sci-fi horror movie series called Alien.
NightNinja don't feel bad. the original Metroid scared me as a child, too
@Orangefish XD
The two others before it.
Then Metroid Fusion came along and gave us Nightmare.
best scene in gaming. period. and no voice work needed. it's THAT good
Mother Brain's roars still creep me out o_o
This second form of Mother Brain is one of the most nightmare inducing things I've seen. The brain part with its eye and jagged teeth was bad enough, but perch it on top of a T-Rex sized dinosaur body thing and it's perfectly hideous. Its bloodcurdling shrieks and the creepy background music complete the package. Nintendo did a great job of drawing this much atmosphere out of a 2D game with limited graphics capabilities back then.
16 bit horror like this is actually scary. This mother brain is terrifying because it's half alive and half machine and the music makes it all the much more scary. Few things actually scare me but this does the trick.
I've always thought the Metroid franchise as whole was one of the creepiest franchises in gaming. So called "horror games" like Resident Evil are child's play compared to the existential dread, isolation, alienation, and otherness that Metroid games convey.
The noises that Mother Brain makes.. Jesus. It's fucking screaming, literally.. every time that hyper beam passes through it's skull its actually screaming. We get to understand how bad it hurts... and that's what it gets for killing the baby.
Man...this takes me back to 8th grade. I remembered being so stoked when metroid saved me from motherbrain as i whooped and hollered "Omg it saved me!!"
Most disturbing Boss Music for 8 year old me
Truer words have never been spoken.
Why do I always weep when playing through this part or watching it? Always a heartbreaking, but awesome final battle.
Rest in peace, sweet alien child of Samus.
I love the sound its arm cannon makes. It tickles my ears in all the right ways.
the ending of this game was one of the most epic times of my childhood
The moment when the giant metroid came in to the rescue is so bittersweet. It was able to recognize samus and done something that no other metroid have done, it gave her the strength and energy to continue on. Although sacrificing itself in the process. It as if the metroid realized that and accept his fate. Staying alongside his mother until the very end.
Ah, memories, personally i played the first metroid first so i was expecting mb to just sit there not turn into a freaking t rex, that was disturbing!
About 30 years later and that music still strikes fear into me. I don't know why but this was the scariest moment in and video game in my life. This game had a creepy vibe to it but this section made me hide under my blanket that night. She's so goofy looking too 😂
I've read and heard so much about Super Metroid over the years and particularly this battle...I've never really played any of the Metroid games, but this battle is just as epic and surprising as it was made out to be! Favorited.
It’s astounding to me how an 8-bit adventure game from the 90s can easily be regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. This game is and was an absolute gem.
ikr
not to sound like a nerd, but 16-bit.
That baby Metroid was so confused when it saw Samus. Although she was ordered to kill every one of them, she decided to spare the baby.
Although I was shocked when I saw that monster fly out of nowhere and sap Mother Brain like an oil well....XD
3:04
Samus: Gah! Squishy, stop! 😧 You don't have to do this! Run away!
Hatchling: Ow! 😖I...love you...Mama! 😢 *self-sacrifice*
:((
he cant run he floats
1:43 is where I was screaming "GODDAMIT WHY CANT I MOVE"
Same here
Missiles: Mother Brain no-sells the hit.
Super Missiles: Mother Brain no-sells the hit.
Power Bomb/Charge Beam combos: Mother Brain no-sells the hit.
And _then_ she gets hit with the Hyper Beam and her head bounces off the freakin' ceiling.
Notice to? Afterwards she's also SPORADICALLY trying to kill you..... meaning yeah. She's SCARED OF YOU.
Well, that was Mother Brain's own attack being thrown back at her.
2:25 it sounds like the metroid is saying he'll no
They really need to remake this game with a high budget, it was so awesome.
Well there is the 2021 fan remake.
Perfection doesn’t need a remake
This game had one of the highest budgets from it's era at the time. I believe it was around 3 mill.
The music in this was EPIC! My brother and I were screaming at the screen when we played this for the first time.
For how short this boss fight is, it just might be the most epic fight I've ever played 30+ times. The music alone makes me scared.
Mother Brain: _Kills Baby Metroid_
Samus: *You shouldn't have done that*
I've never played Super Metroid specifically, but seeing how such simple sounds and sprite animations can create such a compelling story makes me want to replay most of my Metroid games once summer break begins. Particularly Other M and Metroid II.
Greatest ending to maybe the greatest game ever. The way this battle and thew whole narrative is set up is flawless. You're doing everything right but somehow can't get out of the Motherbrain's beam and you know you're about to die, and then a Metroid comes out of nowhere to save you. But then the Metroid starts coming to you and you think it might be killing you, but then you realize your health is going up, and you realize it's the Metroid that you just encountered like 15 minutes ago that nearly killed you but decided not to (the one from the end of Metroid II). Then your friend who just saves your life is killed protecting you. The music changes from the excellent, intimating, war-like track into the the triumphant one that plays in the area your spaceship is located in, and now you have the power to blast that vile, evil bitch straight to hell with each shot as she becomes more and more decimated until her body is obliterated and all that's left is her dead skull lying on the floor. And all of this is done without a single word said. The amount of love and care that went into this game at every level is truly something else. Imo it's literally a perfect game and whenever I play it over it NEVER ages even in the slightest.
That shriek of the Metroid larva dying is such a stab to the heart, but followed up by the music swelling into a heroic tune and then the absolute curb-stomp you deliver on Motherbrain while she screeches in pain with every hit is absolutely deserved.
Easily one off the best video game endings of all time. I cried so hard watching the last Metroid die.
Mother Brain getting hit by Samus' regular weapons:
"Stings a bit, but nothing I can't handle."
Mother Brain getting hit by Hyper Beam: "HOLY SSSSHHHH-"
16yrs ago?! Good on you RUclips for saving neat relics of videos for this long!
One of my favorite things about this fight is when Samus is about to die and the baby Metroid comes in, Samus looks up. It's a small detail but really adds to the scene. Beyond epic.
3:33 the scream the virus makes when it's getting deleted off your phone
0:10 Mothra, Anguirus is that you!?
Still playing this game, 1994 to now!
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As a kid who loves Metroid and has almost beaten the game this thing gives me the chills all the time and the music with it’s weird looks…
3:18 That scene reminds me of Mothra sacrificing herself for Godzilla and then giving her her own power to fight King Ghidora in Godzilla King of the Monsters
Very fascinating scene. I've never even played this game yet the designers did an indescribably good job at showing the emotional investment of that green thing. I don't know its backstory but it's clear that it is not too strong, but it cares greatly for samus and given what comes following it's death samus (and I assume the player) cares for it as well. And all this conveyed with blurry 2D graphics. Amazing. Simply amazing.
I know this was 4 years ago but I love that you know who Samus is yet call the Metriod "that green thing."
For most people it's the other way around 😂
The cruelty of Metroid bosses is what differentiated this series from all the other games I was playing as a kid. Was one of the first things I really noticed, is how easy it was to screw up and die. A lot of other games had a lighter vibe or seemed to offer more help.
I remember the first encounter I had with Crocomire and I was shocked at how hard everything was in Metroid, and how much it took to win battles.
Tobey: Uhhhhh Stacey...
Heart Harp: Oh Fiona, What your Brother do you? Your forms are hurting please Fiona
Cat(2ND form): RAAWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
"Oh my god ! She killed the baby !"
Anyone else reminded of Ripley from Aliens?
"Get away from her you BITCH!" XD
Indeed
+Morgan Mailhiot Mother's brain's new body reminds me of the alien queen actually
+Morgan Mailhiot Mother's brain's new body reminds me of the alien queen actually
***** good point
Reila Nimu Ridley the boss in like the entire metroid series name was based on Ridley Scott who created aliens
That fucking hand laser she uses, that sound is honestly one of the most impressive things I’ve heard, to have been made on just the SNES...good lord.
This ending brings tears to your eyes. Absolute perfection
One of the most epic battle/scene from my entire 'gamer' lifetime.
Born in 1996 here, Super Metroid was one of the last Metroid game I played, and it is the best. Sometimes I think too hard of that larva and cry alone...
Even Metroid II makes me cry, when I get that cute music and the larva following me around
i dont think ive ever felt as power playing as a character in a video game as this fight.. the way MB's head knocks back hitting her with the hyper beam... i knew she was effed as soon as I saw that as a kid. Super Metroid is still my favorite game of all time.
Ive played this game so many times and even though i have I still love playing through it again really awesome game =D
When her theme came on after getting super charged you knew it was on lol
Meteroids Mother Brain battles music and noise never fail to unsettle me man 😰
The way Mother Brain moves is terrifying. Reminds me of the stop motion used for the original King Kong movie.
They are interesting sound effects. Before those effects were used in Super Metroid I remember hearing the exact same sounds used in a traveling robot dinosaur exhibit.
First time I played and I saw that mb killed my baby Metroid I was like aw hell nah u gon die for that
I love it how Mother Brain's head snaps back hard at the end when Samus fucks it up!
Anybody still watching this in 2024? At last Super Metroid turns 30! Before there was Resident Evil this was one of my favorite games as a kid. The mother brain is one of the most terrifying bosses that I've ever fought first time playing. 30 years later this game is a true masterpiece!
One of the greatest endings to a game ever.
I’ve never realized until 3 decades later that technically, you can’t lose this battle unless you die on purpose or just really suck that much. Once the Metroid comes in and saves you it’s over. This experience is really only authentic the first time playing through without knowing what’s gonna happen, because you’re genuinely made to feel like you’re getting your ass kicked and think you’re completely fucked and you just didn’t try hard enough, up until that Metroid comes in and surprises you as you’re still confused on what’s going on.
They made the Metroid's death scene so much more gruesome in Other M
@handsomebrick I just watched this on youtube, and it WAS nothing short of phenomenal, I agree 100%... I may have to go back and play Other M.
Did the baby Metroid absorb the Hyper Beam out of the Mother Brain and gave it to you once it died?
I don't know, but I applaud you for loving the masterpiece that is Super Metroid.
3:30 this is what I'm going to do when I finally defeat Bixby off my S9
@Vomitore old gamers: Gameplay, Music, Level Design
new gamers: graphics, Graphics, GRAPHICS
The Mother Brain roar sounds a like Anguirus roar
I hope to play it on my pc one day. It was one of
those games that made me appreciate long
tough quests in games that followed.
The little details of mother brain shooting her measly shots at you while watching you suffer.. without even any explanation you can see how much she despises you and wants to see you in pain before ending your life. It’s incredible how much emotion they were able to evoke in this boss battle!
the crateria surface theme playing once the super metroid sacrifices itself is such a potent, emotional moment.