You actually do see the litle "four icon thing" on the inside of the canon. Samus has an idle animation where she flips it and messes with the buttons.
Great video. If you sit and wait for a while, Samus has an idle animation where she flips the side panel of her arm cannon around, revealing those beam-color buttons, and then flips it back. Regarding the "Morph Ball sized" environment artwork: in game development, a lot of times extra amounts of environment art are made and never used, and sometimes they later turn that unused artwork into decorations. That could be why the morphball "conveniently" fits into some of those assets that are just out of reach.
His name is in the rectangle because this is his video. On your videos, if you commented on them, your name would be in a rectangle. I believe one main function of it is to identify viewers who the video author is, should someone have their same name and icon. A quick, convenient way to let someone know that person is legit, and not some copycat faker.
cool stuff! I know way too much about this game, as I've played it nearly since it came out and have studied its internals pretty thoroughly as a programmer for a couple years, and still learned a couple things from this video (never knew about that Ridley animation on the Frigate)! So nicely done :P I think I can explain a couple things about the stuff you pointed out. 2:02 - The thing inside the arm cannon you showed off is used in one of the arm cannon's idle animations. Samus flips it over and starts tapping the buttons. 3:20 - During the battle with Ridley his heart is normally covered up by a metal plate, but about halfway through the ground phase of the fight you destroy the metal plate and from that point on you shoot at his heart directly until he dies. Very commonly missed detail! 4:48 - I don't think they scrapped anything, it's just this is the only hallway with an open ceiling that connects to such a large room. It'd be kind of odd to be coming from Arboretum and then look back the way you came + up through the ceiling and see nothing, so they added an exterior. It's some very nice attention to detail, for sure. 8:48 - There's geometry behind the hatches because the hatches open when you activate the statues and the water starts pouring out. It's not very highly detailed so I don't think there's much to see there. 9:12 - I'm pretty sure that ceiling is there to occlude environmental shadows. Most of the lighting/shadows the game uses are baked into lightmaps, but I believe it does do some basic shadowcasting so actors that are in shadow appear darker. If there was no ceiling then the light would just pass through the backfaces of the regular geometry and objects would always appear lit. There are a lot of other rooms in Chozo Ruins that have similar ceilings (like Main Plaza and Watery Hall) but most of them have flags toggled so they're only rendered for shadowcasting and for lightmap rendering, so they don't normally show up ingame. That one doesn't for some reason. There are actually quite a lot of spots where Retro missed doing this, so you can actually see that issue in action in a bunch of places in the game. The main one I can think of is Quarantine Cave in Phendrana. There are a bunch of spots in that room that appear lit even though there's no hole in the ceiling to let light through - the reason is because there isn't geometry covering the backside of some of the level so the light just goes straight through it. (If you go up and look at the top side of the ceiling in that room you can also see a giant circle of light from the spotlights they used as the "sun" light to render the lightmaps.) 10:35 - oh wow lol. The game has a couple different preset environmental effects (rain, snow, etc). There's one effect type that this room (and some of the other crashed Frigate rooms) uses, and is later shared with the lower part of Torvus in Prime 2. We couldn't tell what it did because we couldn't see any visible effect from turning it on. I guess you figured it out, and it only shows up out of bounds for some reason? That's a nice find :P 11:56 - Metroid Prime's essence actually isn't there in its entirety, it's just the front portion of his face/brain. No tentacles. It's there because part of it is visible when the "head" is raised up to show his eyes. 12:35 - The way cutscenes work in Prime 1 is they deactivate objects that are no longer relevant to the cutscene when the camera angle changes. This isn't an automated setup, they need to manually set up the deactivation for each individual object. So I think it's a lot more likely they just missed deactivating that one because it's not visible in the rest of the cinematic, and isn't an indication of any cut content. 13:00 - Fun fact - that isn't the regular Gravity Suit model, it's a Varia Suit model with a few of the textures recolored to purple/blue instead of orange. You can tell that from a bunch of little details that are off, mainly that it doesn't have the same shade of purple as the real Gravity Suit, and the visor and lights on the knees are green instead of blue. BTW, the environment disappearing depending on where Samus is is a pretty common technique called frustum culling. It helps performance a lot by not rendering things that aren't visible. There's an AR code you can use that disables it. Googled it real quick and I think this is it: 043451D0 38600001 043451D4 4E800020
You can also see the Sunchamber where you fight Flaahgra and later go back to get an artifact. It's the room with the little teeth things that doesn't connect to the room you're in.
One of the best atmospheric games ever made, and one of the best games ever too. I hate that we have to wait so long for this series continues (and no, that last one on Wii did not count).
I do not think the visor is huge, I think it's a composite Rendering. so the visor is rendered and "adjusted" based on the main rendering camera( at least this is what I would do, as a big object on screen in level would cause risk of clipping through other objects...) normally they do this also for guns in older games, this is why you see perspective aberrations in older games.
The first time I used the free camera mode in Dolphin on Metroid Prime, I was blown away. This game has some ingenious design. You _never_ would have known that the planet model is no larger than Samus's spaceship, but because it's rendered below everything else, it looks enormous. Or that her hud is a 3D model, which is simply rendered above everything else at all times, so nothing clips through it. Whoever came up with this method is fucking brilliant.
If I remember correctly, the "interesting design" on the inside of the arm cannon at 2:05 will spin around to the outside and Samus will fiddle with it if you leave the controller idle for a while.
Awesome video for an awesome game. It's so cool to see that the detail in Prime isn't just skin-deep and that the developers went out of their way to really build the world outside of what would normally be seen by the player. Not sure if you know this, but that curious little coloured segment to the arm canon you showed in the beginning is actually part of an idle animation. If you leave Samus standing around and don't touch the controller, she'll eventually fiddle around with her arm canon and that segment rotates out and she presses the buttons on it. I love that it's in the game. Little things that show how her suit and weapons function. Damn I love me some Metroid :D
As far as the statues that pour water, I would say that no, that is not unnecessary detail for the inside of the reservoirs that open and let out the water. It wasn't some kind of scrapped idea, that's just necessary detail. Just like the detail inside Samus' ship entrance, technically you *can* mildly see it in cutscenes so you can't really say it's unnecessary or a scrapped idea. The roof shingles in that one area is a little odd though, but to be fair, I haven't played that game in a long time and again this might be necessary detail in a cutscene. If it is never shown in a game cutscene then it most likely was a scrapped cutscene.
That room has a half pipe. Maybe the developers thought you could jump so high you might get to see the edges of the roof. And instead of texturing the edges they textured the whole thing.
hey, i just came from Vinny's stream because you mentioned this is one of your least watched videos; thats crazy to me because this might be my favorite of your videos! so i just wanted to give you some extra love and appreciation here; i know how it feels when you put a ton of work into creating something that feels under-appreciated, and i appreciate the hell out of everything you do and this video especially. :)
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I really wish they had kept the more realistic look of Samus Aran from MP1 instead of the more 'anime doll' look from the later games (yes, I know she is depicted like that in the 2D games, Zero Mission and M: OM at least). I find it more fitting for her, especially as Samus Aran is more popular in the West than in Japan.
The reason for the change: Prime was developed by Retro Studios which is based in the USA....so they went with a most WESTERN depiction of her. The rest of the games were from Nintendo themselves, so they were more Japanese/Eastern in art. As for why she looks like she does in Prime 2 (Zero Suit and more Anime-ish) it's because Nintendo wanted Retro to make her look in-line with Zero Mission which had just come out around that time.
FYI there's AR codes in Dolphin VR to remove the culling when facing away from the direction of the character model. This is so headlook works in a VR headset while playing metroid, and I dunno but maybe you can find a way to use them to help with the culling problem when boundary breaking.
This channel is really motivating me to go back and beat all those GameCube and Wii games I bought as a kid but never got around to playing much of. Thanks!
It's awesome to see your channel growing so fast! And thank you so much for doing this game; I used to sequence break it all the time, and I've always appreciated the vast amount of detail they put into everything, especially in comparison to a lot of other Gamecube games. Also, while I may not have a preference for the next video, I do ask that, if you cover Prime 3, please showcase a lot of Phaaze, especially the parts with the alter Prime husks. I'm a little sad that the Prime series is over, but what it's left behind is still mind-blowing.
i may be alone here, but i would love to see some 1080p of Helmetless Samus at the end of Prime 1 from different angels instead of strictly her left.maybe a few front on, her right, etc.
You should really do a Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards. Its 2.5D but I always wondered what the levels looked like from Kirby's perspective. Also, maybe you linked it but how do you do this? Thanks! I'm hooked to your channel!
Whoa, the intro on this was so cool. I've only played Super Metroid and only a little bit of it (I do plan on beating it sometime soon though!), but you really nailed the intro sequence's tone and tied it into your show perfectly. Now, I really do need to play Metroid Prime, and this just made it clearer how much I need to play it... But first, I must beat Super Metroid! Great episode as usual!
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If you stand still long enough the design on the gun flips out because it's just part of the idle animations where she presses a few buttons before the visor indicators go off.
I remember using Action Replay to jump down into the crater to finally look at it for myself. Before then, I would just jump as high as I could to see what was below.
Hey that into was neat! A themed one for the game, though I'm not sure if it was the one you said was going to be animated or not. Perhaps we will see later on. Samus sits a bit in the uncanny valley in this game but I like her anyway, also I am often quite surprised by how the HUD displays function as being pasted to your camera view and clipping though things - who could have guessed that! Next video!
I went back to playing the game and today I realized that the part in the Chozo Ruins with the buildings outside is important. The reason it was placed there is because that hallway in specific leads to the Sunchamber which is relevant to you the player since you have to go there to kill Flaahgra and also get the Chozo Artifact from the same place. The only reason it's only done in this room is because the Sunchamber is the tallest protrusion from the ruins so it would only make sense for you to see it from afar.
Awesome video man, it totally lived up to the hype I had for it!! I'm so glad you decided to go into some of those morph ball sized holes, they always drove me crazy... That rooftop is so sick though, damn. Nice find! The visor being so huge is also hilarious. One of the things I love about seeing these videos is that it gives you a neat perspective on some of the tricks developers use to convey things using the simplest means, such as when Ridley is textured blue. Thanks as always for doing a good job! Hype for Echoes someday doe...?!?!?!
Morhpball sized holes were one of the things at the top of my list before starting the game. i had that same frustration back in the day. And absolutely, Echoes must happen some day!
Found your channel while looking for F-Zero GX videos. Man I love what you did. Sometimes I tend to do that too in some games I love, messing with the camera and get to see secret stuff by messing with the raw memory. But the whole process takes some time so having someone to do it for me is just awesome. Thank you so much. Love it =D
Thanks dude! You actually managed to discover me through my least viewed Boundary Break Episode too so that means something! Thanks for checking my stuff out :)
I was so disappointed when I played Other M. The Metroid Prime series showed just how well Nintendo could modernize a franchise, and the Other M basically takes away most of what made the new Metroid games so great, such as the mysterious, puzzling maps, great attention to detail, and somber vibe.
Metoid prime, the best 3d metroid, an one of the best games of the metroid franchise, rivaled only by super. Like you said, the detail is just awesome and that's why I like that game so much. Too bad not too many games are like this anymore. They focus on graphics, 4k resolution and nothing more.
Great video. If you ever do more with the Prime series, I'd recommend using the AR codes to disable view culling (I have to use them when playing in VR). Then you wouldn't have to move Samus around to get the perspectives you want.
How can I control the camera freely like that? I'd like to do it for artistic purposes (I'd like to capture some environments from the game moving around the camera to make a dope visual montage out of it). Is it on dolphin ? Please help
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There is a way to make everything render. I may assume you're using Dolphin (because of high res). There's an AR code to prevent the game from unloading off-screen polygons. It's widely used for widescreen and VR
Man I remember getting a gamecube for Christmas and getting this game with it with super smash bros melee. So much fun playing this game and i remember the graphics being amazing then.
Awesome video as usual :) I like the polls you do. It really gives a sense of user interaction. I recently watched through all your Boundary Break videos, and they're packed full of interesting never-before-seen footage. Do you stream every time you do some searching for Boundary Break? Or just sometimes?
Lately i havnt been because the original intention was to use the footage i found during the streams to work on the show. 2 birds, 1 stone in theory. But in practice it actually really slowed down production of the show so i stopped doing it specifically for upcoming boundary break episodes
The Prime team at Retro Studios put so much passion into the Prime series. They really cared about the Metroid series and it shows throughout the prime series. They were so impressive with the sheer amount of detail that they put into each game especially for being a series that started on the gamecube. Games with this much detail and care put into them were almost unheard of at the time besides the zelda games on the gamecube. And even they didn't have even close to this level of effort and detail in every single part of the game to the very last pixel.
I recently played through this on hypermode, it's one of the only games that I have played many, many times that I really never get bored with. It's got great replay value and I'm always trying to beat my completion time (I might have to do speed runs of it eventually). Excellent video as always, I found it funny that you're actually just controlling an arm the whole time lol.
I really wish Zero Suit Samus had kept her realistic portrayal from Prime 1, it would have been neat to have her be this everyday woman rather than the highly marketable design created for Zero Mission...
there's a way to look at the snow ridley before the cutscene starts. with freelook: get space jump early (helps with closing a door) get boost ball, then go back to Phendrana Shorelines, but stay close to the door you just went through, double jump to close the door and stop the Pulse Bombu noise, face the door and free look. without freelook: do some Out Of Bounds trick in a nearby big room (Chapel of the Elders or Phendrana Canyon) and then get back to Phendrana Shorelines staying OOB
I'm assuming you're talking about Boundary Break as the series? I find this series very interesting because the inner game developer inside of me always wonders what is going on outside of our view and what the game devs could be hiding. Its a great series, man! I know I don't have much to offer... but if you need any help with a video or something feel free to hit me up, and I'd be happy to see how I can assist you! And it looks like the people have spoken. Metroid Prime is a must play! What have I been missing?!
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Everytime I play Metroid Prime I'm amazed how much detail they got in this old game with their culling technique and those instanced corridors. Just a few more polygons and better textures, well mostly textures in high res with normals and you could sell it as a remaster.
The part where you could see the other colors inside the arm cannon that are to indicate other beams can actually be observed if you let Samus stand idly. The same can be observed in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, although the colors and details are different. As for that duct in the submerged Frigate Orpheon that you show, I recall when I was new to the game if there was anything in there. It wasn't up until I got 100% that I figured it was nothing.
I'm the biggest Metroid fan I know. The original game came out when I was 2 and I played it finally when I was 4. And have played all of them since then. I have written fan fiction and love the comics. This episode brought back some great playing memories.
+Shesez It's all good, because I highly doubt the vast majority of players would have even gotten to see that when playing through the game. At the very least, we get a better look at something that's pretty hard to see in the first place.
Am I the only one that sees the striking resemblance between MP Samus' face and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) from Alien? That's a great nod to the original inspiration!
This has probably been said, but the 4 buttons on the inside of of her cannon? One of her idle animations has her lift up her cannon, flip the panel around, then press a button before her gun "vents" and then re-sizes to her hand, basically in her way of re-adjusting a glove. Just something to note.
with the whole duct thing you may want to look into the speedrun notes for this. there is a semi solid area outside of rooms but only goes down to about where a floor would normally be or some thing after which you get stuck or fall if you go down to far.
I'd definitely be interested in seeing Prime 2. Specifically if you could explore the Dark World version of that Federation outpost with the Dark Troopers. It seems like they hastily covered up a potential path towards that section in Accursed Lake with a few Ingclaws and we ended up visiting one room of that section in a cutscene (the one where Samus follows Dark Samus through the portal and the Ing Warriors steal all of her powerups). I have a theory that you were originally meant to progress past Accursed Lake and through the Dark World version of that section to find the Sky Temple key instead of finding it in Accursed Lake, but there's no real evidence confirming it. Seeing if there's anything more in that cutscene or behind the Ingclaws in Accursed Lake might provide some answers.
There's an idle animation where the panel @ 2:00 flips around and samus plays with the buttons Cool video, I kept my gamecube around til about 2012 for this game. major nostalgia spine tingle when that start menu theme drops. Spent infinite hours in this getting 100% reading and re-reading all the scannable lore and useless information, not too many games with that heart and attention to detail anymore. Prime and prime 2 are kinda my ocarina of time/ majora's mask.
I would love to see a boundary break for the first serious sam. There are so many secrets that CAN be found, I wonder what the hid from us. Plus a lot of the levels are huge! I used to give up on seeing how far out I could walk!
You actually do see the litle "four icon thing" on the inside of the canon. Samus has an idle animation where she flips it and messes with the buttons.
Great video. If you sit and wait for a while, Samus has an idle animation where she flips the side panel of her arm cannon around, revealing those beam-color buttons, and then flips it back.
Regarding the "Morph Ball sized" environment artwork: in game development, a lot of times extra amounts of environment art are made and never used, and sometimes they later turn that unused artwork into decorations. That could be why the morphball "conveniently" fits into some of those assets that are just out of reach.
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His name is in the rectangle because this is his video. On your videos, if you commented on them, your name would be in a rectangle. I believe one main function of it is to identify viewers who the video author is, should someone have their same name and icon. A quick, convenient way to let someone know that person is legit, and not some copycat faker.
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cool stuff! I know way too much about this game, as I've played it nearly since it came out and have studied its internals pretty thoroughly as a programmer for a couple years, and still learned a couple things from this video (never knew about that Ridley animation on the Frigate)! So nicely done :P I think I can explain a couple things about the stuff you pointed out.
2:02 - The thing inside the arm cannon you showed off is used in one of the arm cannon's idle animations. Samus flips it over and starts tapping the buttons.
3:20 - During the battle with Ridley his heart is normally covered up by a metal plate, but about halfway through the ground phase of the fight you destroy the metal plate and from that point on you shoot at his heart directly until he dies. Very commonly missed detail!
4:48 - I don't think they scrapped anything, it's just this is the only hallway with an open ceiling that connects to such a large room. It'd be kind of odd to be coming from Arboretum and then look back the way you came + up through the ceiling and see nothing, so they added an exterior. It's some very nice attention to detail, for sure.
8:48 - There's geometry behind the hatches because the hatches open when you activate the statues and the water starts pouring out. It's not very highly detailed so I don't think there's much to see there.
9:12 - I'm pretty sure that ceiling is there to occlude environmental shadows. Most of the lighting/shadows the game uses are baked into lightmaps, but I believe it does do some basic shadowcasting so actors that are in shadow appear darker. If there was no ceiling then the light would just pass through the backfaces of the regular geometry and objects would always appear lit. There are a lot of other rooms in Chozo Ruins that have similar ceilings (like Main Plaza and Watery Hall) but most of them have flags toggled so they're only rendered for shadowcasting and for lightmap rendering, so they don't normally show up ingame. That one doesn't for some reason.
There are actually quite a lot of spots where Retro missed doing this, so you can actually see that issue in action in a bunch of places in the game. The main one I can think of is Quarantine Cave in Phendrana. There are a bunch of spots in that room that appear lit even though there's no hole in the ceiling to let light through - the reason is because there isn't geometry covering the backside of some of the level so the light just goes straight through it. (If you go up and look at the top side of the ceiling in that room you can also see a giant circle of light from the spotlights they used as the "sun" light to render the lightmaps.)
10:35 - oh wow lol. The game has a couple different preset environmental effects (rain, snow, etc). There's one effect type that this room (and some of the other crashed Frigate rooms) uses, and is later shared with the lower part of Torvus in Prime 2. We couldn't tell what it did because we couldn't see any visible effect from turning it on. I guess you figured it out, and it only shows up out of bounds for some reason? That's a nice find :P
11:56 - Metroid Prime's essence actually isn't there in its entirety, it's just the front portion of his face/brain. No tentacles. It's there because part of it is visible when the "head" is raised up to show his eyes.
12:35 - The way cutscenes work in Prime 1 is they deactivate objects that are no longer relevant to the cutscene when the camera angle changes. This isn't an automated setup, they need to manually set up the deactivation for each individual object. So I think it's a lot more likely they just missed deactivating that one because it's not visible in the rest of the cinematic, and isn't an indication of any cut content.
13:00 - Fun fact - that isn't the regular Gravity Suit model, it's a Varia Suit model with a few of the textures recolored to purple/blue instead of orange. You can tell that from a bunch of little details that are off, mainly that it doesn't have the same shade of purple as the real Gravity Suit, and the visor and lights on the knees are green instead of blue.
BTW, the environment disappearing depending on where Samus is is a pretty common technique called frustum culling. It helps performance a lot by not rendering things that aren't visible. There's an AR code you can use that disables it. Googled it real quick and I think this is it:
043451D0 38600001
043451D4 4E800020
You can also see the Sunchamber where you fight Flaahgra and later go back to get an artifact. It's the room with the little teeth things that doesn't connect to the room you're in.
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I remember the four beams things in idle animations, first thing I thought of lol.
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Damn straight. Prime Samus wouldn't waste so much as two words whining about Adam.
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Can't agree more!!!
She literally is following orders in Prime 3...
Other M is non canon as far as I am concerned. Never happened!
One of the best atmospheric games ever made, and one of the best games ever too. I hate that we have to wait so long for this series continues (and no, that last one on Wii did not count).
Well what about Federation Farce! Oh boy! A chibi spin-off with faceless grunts, and space soccer!
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I do not think the visor is huge, I think it's a composite Rendering. so the visor is rendered and "adjusted" based on the main rendering camera( at least this is what I would do, as a big object on screen in level would cause risk of clipping through other objects...)
normally they do this also for guns in older games, this is why you see perspective aberrations in older games.
The first time I used the free camera mode in Dolphin on Metroid Prime, I was blown away. This game has some ingenious design. You _never_ would have known that the planet model is no larger than Samus's spaceship, but because it's rendered below everything else, it looks enormous. Or that her hud is a 3D model, which is simply rendered above everything else at all times, so nothing clips through it. Whoever came up with this method is fucking brilliant.
Oh my god I loved that intro. Seriously that was a beautiful nod to Super Metroid.
Thanks man!
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Man, I freaking love these videos. Such a nostalgia hit, although Prime is one of those games that I go back to every few years.
If I remember correctly, the "interesting design" on the inside of the arm cannon at 2:05 will spin around to the outside and Samus will fiddle with it if you leave the controller idle for a while.
Seeing her original face design before the zero suit design became solidified from all those different angles is so cool.
Awesome video for an awesome game. It's so cool to see that the detail in Prime isn't just skin-deep and that the developers went out of their way to really build the world outside of what would normally be seen by the player.
Not sure if you know this, but that curious little coloured segment to the arm canon you showed in the beginning is actually part of an idle animation. If you leave Samus standing around and don't touch the controller, she'll eventually fiddle around with her arm canon and that segment rotates out and she presses the buttons on it. I love that it's in the game. Little things that show how her suit and weapons function. Damn I love me some Metroid :D
As far as the statues that pour water, I would say that no, that is not unnecessary detail for the inside of the reservoirs that open and let out the water. It wasn't some kind of scrapped idea, that's just necessary detail. Just like the detail inside Samus' ship entrance, technically you *can* mildly see it in cutscenes so you can't really say it's unnecessary or a scrapped idea. The roof shingles in that one area is a little odd though, but to be fair, I haven't played that game in a long time and again this might be necessary detail in a cutscene. If it is never shown in a game cutscene then it most likely was a scrapped cutscene.
That room has a half pipe. Maybe the developers thought you could jump so high you might get to see the edges of the roof. And instead of texturing the edges they textured the whole thing.
hey, i just came from Vinny's stream because you mentioned this is one of your least watched videos; thats crazy to me because this might be my favorite of your videos! so i just wanted to give you some extra love and appreciation here; i know how it feels when you put a ton of work into creating something that feels under-appreciated, and i appreciate the hell out of everything you do and this video especially. :)
2:01 That control panel flips out during an idle animation where Samus fiddles with it.
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I really wish they had kept the more realistic look of Samus Aran from MP1 instead of the more 'anime doll' look from the later games (yes, I know she is depicted like that in the 2D games, Zero Mission and M: OM at least).
I find it more fitting for her, especially as Samus Aran is more popular in the West than in Japan.
The reason for the change: Prime was developed by Retro Studios which is based in the USA....so they went with a most WESTERN depiction of her. The rest of the games were from Nintendo themselves, so they were more Japanese/Eastern in art. As for why she looks like she does in Prime 2 (Zero Suit and more Anime-ish) it's because Nintendo wanted Retro to make her look in-line with Zero Mission which had just come out around that time.
FYI there's AR codes in Dolphin VR to remove the culling when facing away from the direction of the character model. This is so headlook works in a VR headset while playing metroid, and I dunno but maybe you can find a way to use them to help with the culling problem when boundary breaking.
This channel is really motivating me to go back and beat all those GameCube and Wii games I bought as a kid but never got around to playing much of. Thanks!
This was an excellent video, I loved the way you presented everything, it really felt like an awesome guided tour!
Thanks Jonks!
"the wall penetrates you through both sides" heheheheheheheh
It's awesome to see your channel growing so fast!
And thank you so much for doing this game; I used to sequence break it all the time, and I've always appreciated the vast amount of detail they put into everything, especially in comparison to a lot of other Gamecube games.
Also, while I may not have a preference for the next video, I do ask that, if you cover Prime 3, please showcase a lot of Phaaze, especially the parts with the alter Prime husks.
I'm a little sad that the Prime series is over, but what it's left behind is still mind-blowing.
You got it man. See you next mission
i may be alone here, but i would love to see some 1080p of Helmetless Samus at the end of Prime 1 from different angels instead of strictly her left.maybe a few front on, her right, etc.
You should really do a Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards. Its 2.5D but I always wondered what the levels looked like from Kirby's perspective. Also, maybe you linked it but how do you do this? Thanks! I'm hooked to your channel!
Whoa, the intro on this was so cool. I've only played Super Metroid and only a little bit of it (I do plan on beating it sometime soon though!), but you really nailed the intro sequence's tone and tied it into your show perfectly. Now, I really do need to play Metroid Prime, and this just made it clearer how much I need to play it... But first, I must beat Super Metroid! Great episode as usual!
Im really glad the episode renergized your interest in Metroid! Goodluck! And let me know if you get through SM!
I think it would have been so dang epic if Nintendo actually used your intro for Metroid Prime. I have the GameCube version.
Damien Crane that was an awesome intro!
way to go Shesez!
I guess you're trolling with that gamecube comment, gamecube ones better tbh.
Damien Crane
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With metal case and everything!
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Damien Crane I have Metroid prime trilogy on Wii u. Never played any of them before getting it. I've beaten Metroid Prime today and started Metroid prime 2, limited in when I play it since I'm streaming it.
If you stand still long enough the design on the gun flips out because it's just part of the idle animations where she presses a few buttons before the visor indicators go off.
I remember using Action Replay to jump down into the crater to finally look at it for myself. Before then, I would just jump as high as I could to see what was below.
Hey that into was neat! A themed one for the game, though I'm not sure if it was the one you said was going to be animated or not. Perhaps we will see later on. Samus sits a bit in the uncanny valley in this game but I like her anyway, also I am often quite surprised by how the HUD displays function as being pasted to your camera view and clipping though things - who could have guessed that! Next video!
love these play by play comments. keep it up!
"But he reminds me of the only commander who ever truly understoo-...."
You son of a-....
*-glitch-*
I went back to playing the game and today I realized that the part in the Chozo Ruins with the buildings outside is important. The reason it was placed there is because that hallway in specific leads to the Sunchamber which is relevant to you the player since you have to go there to kill Flaahgra and also get the Chozo Artifact from the same place.
The only reason it's only done in this room is because the Sunchamber is the tallest protrusion from the ruins so it would only make sense for you to see it from afar.
This series just keeps getting better and better. Keep up the good work dude!
this shits rad as hell definitely worth more attention than it gets. Ill be sure to share boundary break around. You sir have earned yourself a fan
Awesome video man, it totally lived up to the hype I had for it!! I'm so glad you decided to go into some of those morph ball sized holes, they always drove me crazy... That rooftop is so sick though, damn. Nice find! The visor being so huge is also hilarious.
One of the things I love about seeing these videos is that it gives you a neat perspective on some of the tricks developers use to convey things using the simplest means, such as when Ridley is textured blue. Thanks as always for doing a good job!
Hype for Echoes someday doe...?!?!?!
Morhpball sized holes were one of the things at the top of my list before starting the game. i had that same frustration back in the day.
And absolutely, Echoes must happen some day!
I really enjoy your enthusiasm when you're commentating, you have a real passion for this and it shows, keep up the great work man.
Found your channel while looking for F-Zero GX videos. Man I love what you did. Sometimes I tend to do that too in some games I love, messing with the camera and get to see secret stuff by messing with the raw memory. But the whole process takes some time so having someone to do it for me is just awesome. Thank you so much. Love it =D
Thanks dude! You actually managed to discover me through my least viewed Boundary Break Episode too so that means something! Thanks for checking my stuff out :)
I didn't think I could love this channel more and then I go back to watch older vids and find Metroid Prime. What a lovely day indeed.
I hope you get around to Prime 2 and 3 (and maybe Other M and Hunters) someday
Absolutely!
Shesez I'm hyped
Let's....not get around to Other M. In fact, let's forget Other M even exists. There hasn't been a Metroid Game since Prime 3.
I was so disappointed when I played Other M. The Metroid Prime series showed just how well Nintendo could modernize a franchise, and the Other M basically takes away most of what made the new Metroid games so great, such as the mysterious, puzzling maps, great attention to detail, and somber vibe.
Shesez *internal screaming*
Metoid prime, the best 3d metroid, an one of the best games of the metroid franchise, rivaled only by super. Like you said, the detail is just awesome and that's why I like that game so much. Too bad not too many games are like this anymore. They focus on graphics, 4k resolution and nothing more.
Zero mission was awesome
One thing you missed, when you use X-Ray you can see her hand inside the canon doing gestures as she changes weapon modes.
I always wanted to explore this game more. It has some of the most beautiful, atmospheric, mysterious shit ever. The Metroid aesthetic just works.
"The wall penetrates you from both sides"
Great video. If you ever do more with the Prime series, I'd recommend using the AR codes to disable view culling (I have to use them when playing in VR). Then you wouldn't have to move Samus around to get the perspectives you want.
Thank you sir! i will do that!
Your theming was on point. lol I'm starting to get addicted to these videos, subbed!
How can I control the camera freely like that? I'd like to do it for artistic purposes (I'd like to capture some environments from the game moving around the camera to make a dope visual montage out of it). Is it on dolphin ? Please help
bro you deserve more subs and viewers for all your hard work! what your doing is very unique I've never seen any RUclipsr make a series like this! keep up the amazing work buddy ima help you get some subs and views you deserve. Ill support ya!!
There is a way to make everything render. I may assume you're using Dolphin (because of high res). There's an AR code to prevent the game from unloading off-screen polygons. It's widely used for widescreen and VR
Man I remember getting a gamecube for Christmas and getting this game with it with super smash bros melee. So much fun playing this game and i remember the graphics being amazing then.
Awesome video as usual :) I like the polls you do. It really gives a sense of user interaction. I recently watched through all your Boundary Break videos, and they're packed full of interesting never-before-seen footage. Do you stream every time you do some searching for Boundary Break? Or just sometimes?
Lately i havnt been because the original intention was to use the footage i found during the streams to work on the show. 2 birds, 1 stone in theory. But in practice it actually really slowed down production of the show so i stopped doing it specifically for upcoming boundary break episodes
Every episode gets better and better man. This is a golden series
The Prime team at Retro Studios put so much passion into the Prime series. They really cared about the Metroid series and it shows throughout the prime series. They were so impressive with the sheer amount of detail that they put into each game especially for being a series that started on the gamecube. Games with this much detail and care put into them were almost unheard of at the time besides the zelda games on the gamecube. And even they didn't have even close to this level of effort and detail in every single part of the game to the very last pixel.
I recently played through this on hypermode, it's one of the only games that I have played many, many times that I really never get bored with. It's got great replay value and I'm always trying to beat my completion time (I might have to do speed runs of it eventually). Excellent video as always, I found it funny that you're actually just controlling an arm the whole time lol.
i would love to see follow up videos of both the other Prime games. I'm sure they have tonnes of hidden content aswell
Paper Mario for 64
Also, i am always exited when you upload a new video ! It´s like nostalgia from a really new perspective
Damn that prologue was Incredible!
I really wish Zero Suit Samus had kept her realistic portrayal from Prime 1, it would have been neat to have her be this everyday woman rather than the highly marketable design created for Zero Mission...
This was one of the best BB episodes. So well done and based on a very atmospheric game.
Seeing Samus' reflection in that helmet visor was one of the most immersive gaming moments I've ever experienced, and I don't fully know why.
Most creative intro so far. An intro I actually got invested in and didn't skip. Simply, awesome. More Metroid Prime please! Paper Mario please.
Got the approval of my greatest intro critic! Today is an achievement :)
Samus sometimes plays with that little pad with buttons on the arm cannon when idle.
Paper Mario! it's my favorite N64 game, the music is phenomenal and I'd love to see all the crazy tricks they used!
there's a way to look at the snow ridley before the cutscene starts.
with freelook:
get space jump early (helps with closing a door)
get boost ball, then go back to Phendrana Shorelines, but stay close to the door you just went through, double jump to close the door and stop the Pulse Bombu noise, face the door and free look.
without freelook:
do some Out Of Bounds trick in a nearby big room (Chapel of the Elders or Phendrana Canyon) and then get back to Phendrana Shorelines staying OOB
Shesez, I almost missed this video because it wasn't in your boundary break playlist!
Your intro sequence for this video has my approval
I've never actually played any of the Metroid Prime games... but this was still really interesting to watch! Good job, man!
I like this comment especially because it means ive sparked some level of interest towards a great series. Thank you so much for watching man
Oh trust me. I was a day one investor of the Prime Trilogy
I'm assuming you're talking about Boundary Break as the series? I find this series very interesting because the inner game developer inside of me always wonders what is going on outside of our view and what the game devs could be hiding. Its a great series, man! I know I don't have much to offer... but if you need any help with a video or something feel free to hit me up, and I'd be happy to see how I can assist you!
And it looks like the people have spoken. Metroid Prime is a must play! What have I been missing?!
i never clicked on a video so fast
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+Cosmic Cosmo this is every first comment : first first first first second second third third fourth fourth fourth fourth
Gosh your voice is so damn adorable since you're so so pure haha I love all your videos man I wish the best for you and all success ❤️ keep up the great work . You inspire me to be a RUclipsr 😊
Hehe! Love the intro here, especially Samus’ monologue!
Everytime I play Metroid Prime I'm amazed how much detail they got in this old game with their culling technique and those instanced corridors. Just a few more polygons and better textures, well mostly textures in high res with normals and you could sell it as a remaster.
Ah, the birds flying above Chozo ruins. Such tranquility. But you always had to make one or two of them explode.
I was hoping to see what happens when you change the visors. Does the hud change? Or does the entire environment change to match your visor?
The part where you could see the other colors inside the arm cannon that are to indicate other beams can actually be observed if you let Samus stand idly. The same can be observed in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, although the colors and details are different. As for that duct in the submerged Frigate Orpheon that you show, I recall when I was new to the game if there was anything in there. It wasn't up until I got 100% that I figured it was nothing.
Great video, the way you're talking and kind of laughing once in a while really made me enjoy the video more. Good charisma I guess? :P
What software do you use to do the free cam/boundary breaking thingy?
i think dolphin emulator has something like that in the graphics options
Hey Shesez, what's the music you use for your outro? I was a little disappointed to not see it in the description.
It belongs to an under appreciated 8-bit classic called Kickle Cubicle. Its the ending theme :)
Love this series; you learn so much from it!
Will you do a Kirby video at any point, though? Our cute, pink puffball needs love.
Came here from the 100th episode? In 2016, wasn't that the time RUclips wasn't notifying viewers as well?
That intro is movie worthy.
I got ASMR with the typing sounds of the intro hahahaha I wasn't expecting that
I'm the biggest Metroid fan I know.
The original game came out when I was 2 and I played it finally when I was 4. And have played all of them since then.
I have written fan fiction and love the comics.
This episode brought back some great playing memories.
As Samus fell through the void she eventually stopped thinking
2:05 that panal actually shows on one of samus' idle animations though its not too easy to see
Was just about to say this!
Dangit!! Hate when I actually put in something you can normally see.. Thanks for letting me know dude!
Shesez
no prob, its still cool to see it up close
+Shesez It's all good, because I highly doubt the vast majority of players would have even gotten to see that when playing through the game. At the very least, we get a better look at something that's pretty hard to see in the first place.
Linktothe_Awesome
exactly
Am I the only one that sees the striking resemblance between MP Samus' face and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) from Alien? That's a great nod to the original inspiration!
Great episode! I love the detail in the Prime series.
Used to have an action replay that did most of the boundary breaks he does. Really cool back in the day.
This has probably been said, but the 4 buttons on the inside of of her cannon? One of her idle animations has her lift up her cannon, flip the panel around, then press a button before her gun "vents" and then re-sizes to her hand, basically in her way of re-adjusting a glove. Just something to note.
This game has an insane amount of detail for being released in 2002.
You should really do a Metroid Prime 2 Boundary Break, imagine all the gorgeous zoom-outs in Sanctuary Fortress.
"To all you future pioneers out there..."
Nice Macross Plus reference!
"The wall penetrates you from both sides."
I'm just gonna leave this here.
12:29 The shushing motion is what gets me.
What program are you using to do that?
zomeister There is a "free camera" option in a certain GameCube emulator
with the whole duct thing you may want to look into the speedrun notes for this. there is a semi solid area outside of rooms but only goes down to about where a floor would normally be or some thing after which you get stuck or fall if you go down to far.
I know this is probably a bit of a stretch but could you do something similar for the Metroid prime 2 bonus disc?
I'd definitely be interested in seeing Prime 2. Specifically if you could explore the Dark World version of that Federation outpost with the Dark Troopers. It seems like they hastily covered up a potential path towards that section in Accursed Lake with a few Ingclaws and we ended up visiting one room of that section in a cutscene (the one where Samus follows Dark Samus through the portal and the Ing Warriors steal all of her powerups). I have a theory that you were originally meant to progress past Accursed Lake and through the Dark World version of that section to find the Sky Temple key instead of finding it in Accursed Lake, but there's no real evidence confirming it. Seeing if there's anything more in that cutscene or behind the Ingclaws in Accursed Lake might provide some answers.
i was really hoping you would check the title screen out. is THAT fully rendered?
it is!
so its not animated images? huh.
would had liked to see that...
OH! misread. No no its a prerendered cutscene
Shesez oh. damn.
If you're gonna do one for prime 2 or 3 you should get a closer look of the samus model. Maybe inside the helmet?
you got it homie!
There's an idle animation where the panel @ 2:00 flips around and samus plays with the buttons
Cool video, I kept my gamecube around til about 2012 for this game. major nostalgia spine tingle when that start menu theme drops. Spent infinite hours in this getting 100% reading and re-reading all the scannable lore and useless information, not too many games with that heart and attention to detail anymore.
Prime and prime 2 are kinda my ocarina of time/ majora's mask.
I would love to see a boundary break for the first serious sam. There are so many secrets that CAN be found, I wonder what the hid from us. Plus a lot of the levels are huge! I used to give up on seeing how far out I could walk!
STOP CONFUSING TEV OR SHADER EFFECTS FOR TEXTURES - THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. Also, it's room, not rum.