I remember playing this game at 10 years of age and thinking that I did something wrong when Adam was scolding you after returning from the secret research area and being like "You made a big mistake. You ignored your orders." 😅
One of the scariest moments in the game. It was this moment that first showed the Galactic Federation as being untrustworthy. Since the destruction of the Space Pirates, they've become more expansionist, more power-hungry. Like all empires, they use the same methods as their enemies in the name of peace. Before Adam regains his consciousness and helps Samus, his limitations as an AI mean he is programmed to script everything the Federation says about their justification for cloning Metroids. Then, after defeating the X-Parasite Clone of Ridley, Adam again tells Samus that keeping the X Parasite as a weapon will be in the name of peace. If the X or the Metroids were cloned, the Federation and all galactic civilization would die. Even if the Federation could control the Metroids and the X, would they use it for peaceful applications? Likely not. They'd likely use them as weapons to subjugate anyone who opposes them. In Dread, we see clearly an alive Chozo. A little known bit of lore is that the Chozo created the Federation, and that the humans later took most power following the coup among the Chozo we see in the Memories in Samus Returns. I have a feeling this Chozo has been working with greedy individuals inside the federation to take more power using the Metroids and the X.
It seems like the series follows the theme of trying to throw off power balances by taking advantage of nature, only to have those very forces to fight back (and sometimes aid Samus in restoring that balance)
Actually both the events of Other M and Fusion were the work of a rogue faction in the Federation. The games localisation lead to a lot of mistranslation.
@@truegamer_007 tbh it was kinda a reach of a joke. But I was going for Metroid has a bad habit of galactic federation scientists doing crazy shit. Like Hojo was basically responsible for FF7. He wouod be the type to exoerienent on Metroids n stuff
though i know the powersuit samus has uses a mixture of biological technology, i find it kinda shocking to think the X managed to clone even the whole entire suit out of pure biomass they collect considering how complex it is, and still being able to replicate the stuff like the missiles and powerbombs. you would expect the SA-X to be more like a Samus clone wearing her old powersuit but no, its the whole thing consumed by the X.
I imagine Samus saw this and was immediately fighting back a cold fury. To know that the Federation, or at least a faction of warhawks within it, were cloning Metroids? Big time betrayal of her trust.
It really was a bold twist back then, especially for a Nintendo property. Rarely did they ever make you feel like your side might actually be in the ones in the wrong. Never saw Princess Peach or Zelda being questioned for running such lax monarchies, after all - CLiP
@@gameclipslibrary4348 on the other hand, the Shadow temple in OoT does reveal a dark history of the monarchy. Even so, it hardly represents the present Hylian monarchy.
Metroid grew up a little in this game. Before it was a pretty clear cut story of good versus evil, but now we have deceitful manipulation and evil intentions from what is supposed to be a peaceful governmental organization. They even go so far as to steal people's conciseness after death and trap them as AI constructs
they would literally have to change the entire map design for that. you can’t hide anywhere and the game would likely be unplayable if it stuck to this map layout.
I love that it tried to and still lost. Goes to show how superior the Metroids truly are, even with all of Samus' abilities, the X don't know how to fight off their nightmare. Also, big plus to the fact that the Metroids don't even HURT Samus on contact. They see her as a Metroid.
@@Hunter-pt4zy never thought of it that way about they see her as a Metroid, but why does the final boss attack you still? also very funny to see SA-X get clapped by metroids lmao
@@DarkMegamanEXE It could just be the case where maybe the more evolved forms are more intelligent and see that she is not a metroid by distinction? Or just maybe a fluke in the writing. Unsure on that.
@@Hunter-pt4zy imagine another ending where you’d find the Metroid sector and released all the metroids to destroy all the Xs, the only sector they couldnt get would be the icy area but thats be cool
There's a lot to pove about this scene. Other than the stuff others have mentioned, i remember being more taken a back when samus got her own text box. Made the realisation there ars more SA-Xs have more weight for me. I also love the sprites of the back of the SA-X, that shooting animation isnt seen anywhere else and it just looks clean
the X may be able to absorb knoledge and power but they cant mimick true consciousness, and are still heavily weighted by their hive-mind survival instinct, including how they face predators. even when they have weapons designed to destroy their predator they seemingly tunnel vision and panic too much when facing them, and instead get outmatched. also i believe they cant mimick too 1 to 1 all that is known by its victim, the SA-X even though it had all of Samus abilities and knoledge at its disposal didnt make use of them near the same effectiveness as samus did, so once samus was no longer outgunned and outresourced by its clones, it was able to dispose of it directly without too much trouble. even when face to face with an Omega Metroid and having the means to destroy it and knowing it, they didnt knew how to fight it nor how trully capable the Omega was, as it easily just swatted the SA-X into its core very easily.
I love how the SA-X begins by shooting the Metroids, but then it becomes blatantly evident that it is being eaten and the SA-X spends the next minute trying to tear the Metroids off of its body.
Adam is way cooler in fusion than he is in dread. In dread he got sidelined so hard that he basically just recaps everything you already know 90% of the time.
@@see.eye.2361 If you finished the game then you should know why "Adam" acts like that. If you still don't get it, here is a little hint: have you noted that after the intro with him speaking from the ship, "he" never says anymore in future conversations his trademark catchphrase "any objections lady?"
@@Giancarlonn dude I beat the game, I already know the twist. It doesn’t really change much, besides, we really don’t know the full extent of Raven Beak’s manipulation, or how much of what Adam said was actually Adam. He was the one who told Samus to hook up to a network terminal in the first place.
@@see.eye.2361 @SEE. EYE. Ok calm down. I did not try to make my comment sound condescending. I was just going to say that since Samus went down after losing connection, Adam called Samus by her name and not "Lady." We can assume anytime he does not call Samus "Lady," that is not the REAL adam from the ship
It's neat how it really doesn't look like the SA-X is aiming for the Metroids. It honestly looks like it's targeting the machinery itself, like it's smart enough to realize that destroying the equipment used to create its predator species is more important than killing the few offspring already made with it.
Something that I kinda wanted in Metroid Fusion was more from the SA-X. I felt like I wanted to be more feared by it than just those few encounters we already had, the thrill and danger of running or hiding from it was great and not to mention that Adam said there's no fewer than 10 of those mfs on board. So like, give me just a little more fun with that shit. Hopefully when I play Dread the story is just as good.
I just realized something... The SA-X clearly had the knowledge on how to kill a metroid, yet it chose to absolutely wreck the laboratory. It knew that damaging the laboratory would detach it and make it self-destruct. It went out of its way of killing nearly all the metroids including itself to ensure its species' survival. Where would the SA-X know that the laboratory does that? In Metroid Other M, Samus witnessed Adam destroy Sector 0 containing Metroids from the inside which also caused it to detach and self-destruct. Even before Other M's release, it looks like Nintendo went out of their way to retrace their breadcrumbs.
Oh, maybe I can help you in that! Just come back to the entrance of the Restricted Zone Lab. You know, the first cristal bridge/tunel in the video before you can see the larvae metroids. Its ceiling have some shinerspark blocks too, and you will know how to do it! Luck friend, and tell me if you have any problem or how it was. Have a nice day.
you can go back to the restricted lab afterwards and you will find yourself in the tunnel/hatch that leaded to the metroid holding cells except obviously closed cause the lab got jetsoned, from there its possible to build and store shinespark from the previous rooms and shinespark up from there. theres a powerbomb tank in the middle of the vacuum between these 2 hatches.
I still wonder how this space station can have an entire ecosystem and how some spots in dread have whole ass sunlight as it’s underground and such 10/10 nintendo
i think those areas are more like canyons or craters. its just that theyre far off from samus original landing point. the reason she just doesnt go to the ship from there might be because she doesnt want to simply leave but to find and face raven beak
To think... that Metroids that you tried so hard to eliminate... were the one thing that prevented the X-Parasites from taking over the universe. And you killed them all.
Am I going insane? Because I thought that there was a glitch in the past that triggered an early ending by talking to Adam twice after the restriction zone incident and triggering dialogue that gives Samus different orders and skips part of the game. I can't find anyone who did it but I swear I made it happen on my copy. I can't really explain what I mean lol
You know what’s absolutely wild about this? I’ve played fusion HUNDREDS OF TIMES, even tried searching through the code, But I distinctly remember when I first played it as a kid, doing the self destruct of the bsl early, and crash Landing on sr388 but the planet doesn’t explode, and instead it cuts to a sequence of samus exploring it but with the sa-x all roaming the planet etc, then it cuts to black basically signaling a sequel, But I have no idea how It happened, I even read about it on a guide website activating the self destruct earlier than intended but it never worked in game, even with cheats, and when I replayed it after being prime 2 in 2008 it was completely different and I searched for hours into what I did differently and found nothing. I’ve come to the conclusion now that it might’ve been a dream, but the problem with that is fusion was the first game I ever played of Metroid, back in 2006, so I would have never seen sr388. I still have no idea what happened. And idk how I knew about sr388 or anything tbh.
@@skeyeblight Well, they do talk about SR388 in the intro, and show you a small portion of it when Samus gets infected. You probably did dream it; I know I used to (and still occasionally do) have dreams about games I had been playing a lot. It's just what the brain does when you seem to be particularly invested in something, like avoiding the SA-X.
P.A. System Voice: "Warning: No entry without authorization." Me: "Yeah yeah, I know." P.A. System Voice: "Warning: No entry without authorization." Me: "Well, that's just as fascinating as the first 89 times you told me that." P.A. System Voice: "Warning: No entry without authorization." Me: "(imitating Johnny Lawrence in Cobra Kai) QUIET!" Also, when it's revealed that there's more than 1 SA-X... That was a huge surprise. Here you spent the entire game thinking the SA-X quickly got from area to area (I know I did), but now you find you've been encountering different ones in every area. Very interesting turn of events.
Ok, I know Other M was nowhere NEAR close to being a thing when this game first released, but did the Galactic Federation forget about their last attempt at cloning Metroids? Did the Bottle Ship getting FUBARed teach them nothing?
But if you read the instruction manual, you know this planet and all that we’re not in a planet on in the game we’re on top of a building yes, you heard me right Nintendo‘s are all manual says that all of this happened on top of a building, and not on a planet to matter what the game says
@@Phoenix-lq9bm yeah but that was more of a recap. This gave her a personality and shows more of Samus’s human traits I feel like other then the opening monologue of Super Metroid this was the first real instance of Samus having serious character development
2:26 THE moment when shit got real in this game. You really get the sense you just walked into something you weren't supposed to see.
I remember playing this game at 10 years of age and thinking that I did something wrong when Adam was scolding you after returning from the secret research area and being like "You made a big mistake. You ignored your orders." 😅
One of the scariest moments in the game. It was this moment that first showed the Galactic Federation as being untrustworthy. Since the destruction of the Space Pirates, they've become more expansionist, more power-hungry. Like all empires, they use the same methods as their enemies in the name of peace.
Before Adam regains his consciousness and helps Samus, his limitations as an AI mean he is programmed to script everything the Federation says about their justification for cloning Metroids. Then, after defeating the X-Parasite Clone of Ridley, Adam again tells Samus that keeping the X Parasite as a weapon will be in the name of peace.
If the X or the Metroids were cloned, the Federation and all galactic civilization would die. Even if the Federation could control the Metroids and the X, would they use it for peaceful applications? Likely not. They'd likely use them as weapons to subjugate anyone who opposes them.
In Dread, we see clearly an alive Chozo. A little known bit of lore is that the Chozo created the Federation, and that the humans later took most power following the coup among the Chozo we see in the Memories in Samus Returns. I have a feeling this Chozo has been working with greedy individuals inside the federation to take more power using the Metroids and the X.
It seems like the series follows the theme of trying to throw off power balances by taking advantage of nature, only to have those very forces to fight back (and sometimes aid Samus in restoring that balance)
Actually both the events of Other M and Fusion were the work of a rogue faction in the Federation. The games localisation lead to a lot of mistranslation.
@@truegamer_007 Hojo be like mako, Metroid, it's all the same haha
@@JuicemanGravy I didn't understand
@@truegamer_007 tbh it was kinda a reach of a joke.
But I was going for Metroid has a bad habit of galactic federation scientists doing crazy shit. Like Hojo was basically responsible for FF7. He wouod be the type to exoerienent on Metroids n stuff
Adam: "By the way there are 10 SA-Xs on board the station."
Me: "There are WHAT!?"
though i know the powersuit samus has uses a mixture of biological technology, i find it kinda shocking to think the X managed to clone even the whole entire suit out of pure biomass they collect considering how complex it is, and still being able to replicate the stuff like the missiles and powerbombs. you would expect the SA-X to be more like a Samus clone wearing her old powersuit but no, its the whole thing consumed by the X.
I imagine Samus saw this and was immediately fighting back a cold fury. To know that the Federation, or at least a faction of warhawks within it, were cloning Metroids? Big time betrayal of her trust.
It really was a bold twist back then, especially for a Nintendo property. Rarely did they ever make you feel like your side might actually be in the ones in the wrong. Never saw Princess Peach or Zelda being questioned for running such lax monarchies, after all - CLiP
@@gameclipslibrary4348 I think Peach always kept that castle door open for Bowser.
@@gameclipslibrary4348 on the other hand, the Shadow temple in OoT does reveal a dark history of the monarchy. Even so, it hardly represents the present Hylian monarchy.
And then, they take a step further and want to experiment with the X too...
Idiots from other M (says in dumb voice) Let’s remake mother brain and make Metroid have no weakness and also clone the space pirates
Metroid grew up a little in this game. Before it was a pretty clear cut story of good versus evil, but now we have deceitful manipulation and evil intentions from what is supposed to be a peaceful governmental organization. They even go so far as to steal people's conciseness after death and trap them as AI constructs
north atlantic treaty organisation 🤭
I kinda wish we had a fusion remake where S-AX encounters could happen at any time.
Metroid Dread basically has this with the EMMI robots
Check out X-Fusion it’s not done yet tho
I really hope we see a sa-x in dread. Maybe they're not all dead.
they would literally have to change the entire map design for that. you can’t hide anywhere and the game would likely be unplayable if it stuck to this map layout.
@@lemontea1037 dam your no fun.
I loved seeing that SA-X take its revenge against the Metroid now that they’re powerful
I love that it tried to and still lost. Goes to show how superior the Metroids truly are, even with all of Samus' abilities, the X don't know how to fight off their nightmare.
Also, big plus to the fact that the Metroids don't even HURT Samus on contact. They see her as a Metroid.
@@Hunter-pt4zy never thought of it that way about they see her as a Metroid, but why does the final boss attack you still? also very funny to see SA-X get clapped by metroids lmao
@@DarkMegamanEXE It could just be the case where maybe the more evolved forms are more intelligent and see that she is not a metroid by distinction? Or just maybe a fluke in the writing. Unsure on that.
@@Hunter-pt4zy imagine another ending where you’d find the Metroid sector and released all the metroids to destroy all the Xs, the only sector they couldnt get would be the icy area but thats be cool
@@Hunter-pt4zy It could be that the omega is challenging her to be alpha.
There's a lot to pove about this scene. Other than the stuff others have mentioned, i remember being more taken a back when samus got her own text box. Made the realisation there ars more SA-Xs have more weight for me. I also love the sprites of the back of the SA-X, that shooting animation isnt seen anywhere else and it just looks clean
"For peaceful application only, of course. Please understand."
Right, and my life draining beast is only meant for cuddling.
I mean, i certainly would have wanted metroids for those kinds of purposes, too. It would be awesome, you know?
@@boymancinder2000 Fair enough, don't think the Federation was thinking of it though.
from 7:34 to 7:43 is how i also reacted (like Samus).. knowing there were multiple SA-X on board was beyond terrifying
"The real Adam would've said the same thing but nicer :/"
I found it hilarious that the sa-x here died to three baby metroids despite having the tools and knowledge to kill them quite easily
It's still an X parasite, the prey of the metroids
the X may be able to absorb knoledge and power but they cant mimick true consciousness, and are still heavily weighted by their hive-mind survival instinct, including how they face predators. even when they have weapons designed to destroy their predator they seemingly tunnel vision and panic too much when facing them, and instead get outmatched.
also i believe they cant mimick too 1 to 1 all that is known by its victim, the SA-X even though it had all of Samus abilities and knoledge at its disposal didnt make use of them near the same effectiveness as samus did, so once samus was no longer outgunned and outresourced by its clones, it was able to dispose of it directly without too much trouble. even when face to face with an Omega Metroid and having the means to destroy it and knowing it, they didnt knew how to fight it nor how trully capable the Omega was, as it easily just swatted the SA-X into its core very easily.
I a remember right that SA-X was only one copy without the Ice Beam
_"Warning! No entry without authorisation!"_
I love how the SA-X begins by shooting the Metroids, but then it becomes blatantly evident that it is being eaten and the SA-X spends the next minute trying to tear the Metroids off of its body.
Adam is way cooler in fusion than he is in dread. In dread he got sidelined so hard that he basically just recaps everything you already know 90% of the time.
Have you finished the game?
@@MagnaGuy yes I did, several times actually. I wouldn’t have commented if I hadn’t
@@see.eye.2361 If you finished the game then you should know why "Adam" acts like that. If you still don't get it, here is a little hint: have you noted that after the intro with him speaking from the ship, "he" never says anymore in future conversations his trademark catchphrase "any objections lady?"
@@Giancarlonn dude I beat the game, I already know the twist. It doesn’t really change much, besides, we really don’t know the full extent of Raven Beak’s manipulation, or how much of what Adam said was actually Adam. He was the one who told Samus to hook up to a network terminal in the first place.
@@see.eye.2361 @SEE. EYE. Ok calm down. I did not try to make my comment sound condescending. I was just going to say that since Samus went down after losing connection, Adam called Samus by her name and not "Lady." We can assume anytime he does not call Samus "Lady," that is not the REAL adam from the ship
It's neat how it really doesn't look like the SA-X is aiming for the Metroids. It honestly looks like it's targeting the machinery itself, like it's smart enough to realize that destroying the equipment used to create its predator species is more important than killing the few offspring already made with it.
Something that I kinda wanted in Metroid Fusion was more from the SA-X. I felt like I wanted to be more feared by it than just those few encounters we already had, the thrill and danger of running or hiding from it was great and not to mention that Adam said there's no fewer than 10 of those mfs on board. So like, give me just a little more fun with that shit. Hopefully when I play Dread the story is just as good.
3:25 SA-X: RIP and TEAR
I just realized something...
The SA-X clearly had the knowledge on how to kill a metroid, yet it chose to absolutely wreck the laboratory.
It knew that damaging the laboratory would detach it and make it self-destruct. It went out of its way of killing nearly all the metroids including itself to ensure its species' survival.
Where would the SA-X know that the laboratory does that? In Metroid Other M, Samus witnessed Adam destroy Sector 0 containing Metroids from the inside which also caused it to detach and self-destruct. Even before Other M's release, it looks like Nintendo went out of their way to retrace their breadcrumbs.
Warning, WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO FLY
4:51 METROID DREAD COMING NOT SO SOON!
What still bugs me to this day, in this room 4:22 there are shinespark blocks, but I never could destroy them since there's a lack of speed build up.
Oh, maybe I can help you in that! Just come back to the entrance of the Restricted Zone Lab. You know, the first cristal bridge/tunel in the video before you can see the larvae metroids. Its ceiling have some shinerspark blocks too, and you will know how to do it!
Luck friend, and tell me if you have any problem or how it was.
Have a nice day.
you can go back to the restricted lab afterwards and you will find yourself in the tunnel/hatch that leaded to the metroid holding cells except obviously closed cause the lab got jetsoned, from there its possible to build and store shinespark from the previous rooms and shinespark up from there. theres a powerbomb tank in the middle of the vacuum between these 2 hatches.
I still wonder how this space station can have an entire ecosystem and how some spots in dread have whole ass sunlight as it’s underground and such 10/10 nintendo
i think those areas are more like canyons or craters. its just that theyre far off from samus original landing point. the reason she just doesnt go to the ship from there might be because she doesnt want to simply leave but to find and face raven beak
Damn it’s weird seeing all those energy tanks. My dumb ass had about half of those as a child
You know for a fact the SA-X was scared sh*tless. It was firing missiles everywhere instead of freezing them first then missile.
3:23 I remember when I first saw this I was like "Holy Sh*t" then thinking what if our missiles were actually this accurate.
Can we actually fire that fast?
To think... that Metroids that you tried so hard to eliminate... were the one thing that prevented the X-Parasites from taking over the universe. And you killed them all.
Am I going insane? Because I thought that there was a glitch in the past that triggered an early ending by talking to Adam twice after the restriction zone incident and triggering dialogue that gives Samus different orders and skips part of the game. I can't find anyone who did it but I swear I made it happen on my copy. I can't really explain what I mean lol
You may be thinking of the shinespark exploit that can be used in the aquatic area?
You know what’s absolutely wild about this? I’ve played fusion HUNDREDS OF TIMES, even tried searching through the code,
But I distinctly remember when I first played it as a kid, doing the self destruct of the bsl early, and crash Landing on sr388 but the planet doesn’t explode, and instead it cuts to a sequence of samus exploring it but with the sa-x all roaming the planet etc, then it cuts to black basically signaling a sequel,
But I have no idea how It happened, I even read about it on a guide website activating the self destruct earlier than intended but it never worked in game, even with cheats, and when I replayed it after being prime 2 in 2008 it was completely different and I searched for hours into what I did differently and found nothing.
I’ve come to the conclusion now that it might’ve been a dream, but the problem with that is fusion was the first game I ever played of Metroid, back in 2006, so I would have never seen sr388. I still have no idea what happened. And idk how I knew about sr388 or anything tbh.
@@skeyeblight Well, they do talk about SR388 in the intro, and show you a small portion of it when Samus gets infected.
You probably did dream it; I know I used to (and still occasionally do) have dreams about games I had been playing a lot. It's just what the brain does when you seem to be particularly invested in something, like avoiding the SA-X.
I wonder if there is a warning about no entry without authorization in this clip
I couldn't possibly tell.
P.A. System Voice: "Warning: No entry without authorization."
Me: "Yeah yeah, I know."
P.A. System Voice: "Warning: No entry without authorization."
Me: "Well, that's just as fascinating as the first 89 times you told me that."
P.A. System Voice: "Warning: No entry without authorization."
Me: "(imitating Johnny Lawrence in Cobra Kai) QUIET!"
Also, when it's revealed that there's more than 1 SA-X...
That was a huge surprise.
Here you spent the entire game thinking the SA-X quickly got from area to area (I know I did), but now you find you've been encountering different ones in every area.
Very interesting turn of events.
Hmm, I wonder if you can enter without authorisation.
This was my favorite part of the game, and yet I always seem to forget it happened xD
This game is amazing
WaRnInG, nO eNtRy WiThOuT aUtHoRiSaTiOn.
Tell me I'm not the only one who was getting annoyed by that.
HEY GUYS, DO YOU THINK WE CAN’T ENTER WITHOUT AUTHORISATION? I’M NOT SURE!
@@kirbyfan087 lol
i can see how they got the idea of E.M.M.I. from the SA-X
Ok, I know Other M was nowhere NEAR close to being a thing when this game first released, but did the Galactic Federation forget about their last attempt at cloning Metroids? Did the Bottle Ship getting FUBARed teach them nothing?
But if you read the instruction manual, you know this planet and all that we’re not in a planet on in the game we’re on top of a building yes, you heard me right Nintendo‘s are all manual says that all of this happened on top of a building, and not on a planet to matter what the game says
Was this the first Metroid game to give Samus dialogue 🤔
She has an opening monologue in Super Metroid
@@Phoenix-lq9bm yeah but that was more of a recap. This gave her a personality and shows more of Samus’s human traits I feel like other then the opening monologue of Super Metroid this was the first real instance of Samus having serious character development
@@SeanSolomon11287 Wasn't the first to give her dialogue, but definitely the first to show a little bit of her personality
@@SeanSolomon11287 a call back to the 2 part Manga
I always ask, why the enter of the zone its with morfing ball
Just curious: what happens if you skip the restricted zone? Is it possible?
Nope
Why would you make THAT pic the thumbnail? Automatic spoiler! 👎
Oh stop, the game is nearly 20 years old. We’re long past spoilers.
@@robstefani9853 ignore him he’s just begging for attention