It's really funny how the X are so dangerous that the only way to actually counter them is to either develope a bioweapon specifically designed to be immune to them or just go nuclear and destroy the entire planet. There is no safer option, just two effectively seperate nuclear options.
@@MineNAdventurer Raven Beak's Lighting Armor for defense/beam for offense seemed to do the job as well, so there's the chance of using the option of an Aeion barrier, even though the sustainability of that'for a long period or big number of planets is questionable. Assuming you are about to die from X, there would be the option of vaccination even though the side effects would most likely turn species into different kind of Metroids which is something I think could happen in future titles.
90% of his issues is literally because he didn't read the instructions. A true American. :D Although the one time when Adam actually told something useful, he didn't listen.
how do you forget you have missiles? the game yeets so many packs at you it's hilarious, honestly the 2-per-pack is really annoying, should have kept it at 5 for basic packs and 10 for +packs
How missiles are utilized in this game is lot better than in older Metroid titles. It feels like this is first time using missiles is actually fluid mainly because of easier switching in between beam and missiles (I have not played Samus returns remake so i dont know about how it was there)
2:02:56 Lol that last part where Max tried to get that energy tank is hilarious. Sometimes we definitely tend to make things more complicated than it needs to be, which is amazing since it can also lead to those amazing discoveries that can sequence break the game by speedrunners.
That was me trying to get one of the shine spark puzzles. The one on the left entrance to feronia. Idk why but that room to the left, it never occurred to me to use it til I saw a friend of mine use it. I was trying to use the cross bombs to get over the fall blocks then bomb the bomb blocks before shine sparking up. I did it that way, took me like 20 tries though.
I remember getting the Hi Jump boots in Super before fighting Kraid. Made the fight 10000x easier. Lo and behold, I found the bombs and grappling beam before fighting him in this one to do the cool Indigestion Attack. Poor Kraid...always being on the business end of sequence breaks.
It boggles my mind that after almost two Metroid games he still doesn't know how Blocks work, trying to shinespark through walls he already bombed and shot with missiles ten times. o_O
Easily my game of the year. Sure it's a bit short compared to some other games, but the 6-20 hours you put into it will be some of the most fun, intense and memorable you've ever played. It's that damn good.
Mine so far as well. It's actually a bit longer than usual for a Metroid game, which is funny. I put a good 14-15 hours getting 100% items, 4-5 of those being deaths and racking my brain trying to figure stuff out I'm sure lmao. Definitely going back through on hard and speedruns, it's just too much fun!
@ Have you ever considered ... That many fans replay the game again and again? Like in hard mode? Or to get every ending in a certain amount of time? Just because your first playthrough was "short" the hours add up over time. People have spent dozens of hours on the time in the first week alone.
Yeah! I totally agree :) I played fusion when I was 5 and finished it in my teens. I kept the game and story close to my heart and the X reveal got me really nostalgic and happy (and terrified for the planet!)
I love watching Max scratch his head over these shinespark puzzles. Definitely takes me back to playing the GBA games and wondering how the heck do you speedbooster these tiny gaps and slopes.
Yeah, shoulder sparking into a slope is still very much a thing in this game, but if someone has never played Zero Mission they would never think to ever try it here in this game. There are definitely a handful of puzzles in this game that require that tech from Zero Mission to get the item.
I'm confident you've figured this out, but to Shinespark, Samus must be in a neutral state, either standing or falling, and when you press B, the stick must also be at neutral. As for the easiest way to mid-air Shinespark, you do a running jump, and then press the fire and jump buttons at the same time while the stick is in a neutral position, followed *immediately* by pushing the stick in the direction you wish Samus to move. This movement tech is vital to learn for the sake of 100% item collection, and additionally allows for some boss strategies that make certain encounters significantly faster, easier, or both.
One of the shinespark challenges is basically a long tutorial on both this mechanic and that shinesparking onto a slope lets you maintain superspeed to shinespark again.
Already got 100% before coming on here and learning the mid-air shinespark was a thing. It sounds like a really cool tech to use, but it's not required for any of the items
*Game clearly states the name of the X parasites, what they do when defeated, and that they can replenish resources when absorbed in a tutorial box thats hard to miss.* Max: I gUeSS I cAn aBsOrb thE eGG yOLk?
Yeah, but that's a Max thing. When they're any kind of motion and gameplay required, he doesn't read text while doing it. If that text showed up while nothing was happening, he probably would have seen it.
@@TheEndKing If thats the case, then by that logic, Max didn't pay attention AT ALL when the game forced you to read up about the X parisites on the recap at the very start of the game.
@@SparksterG40 And you think the average person, especially one not that familiar with Metroid, would remember that all the way down until the X reappear? Okay.
The whole section at the end trying to get the tank, was PAIN. lol Did Max literally forget game mechanics? Stop hitting the same blocks when nothing is happening. He finally hit a different block he never hit before. Geezus. LOL
Varia Suit says it boosts your dash melee counter, and I didn't realize by how much until I did it to one of the little robot drones and it got one-shot. No missiles required.
I gotta say I do really love that Metroid managed to use 2 of the best alien films to make the monsters of this series. The Metroids are basically just like the Xenomorphs and the X-Parastyes are like the creature from John Carpenter's The Thing.
Seeing him trying to uncover destroyable blocks with beam instead of missiles constantly makes me want to rip my hair off. Especially since near the end of each stream he seems to have figured it, but then forgets it by the next.
What's more pain is watching him hit the same block over and over with a missile or a bomb that doesnt have a hidden destroyable block. The game literally tells you if there is a hidden destroyable block it will be uncovered when you hit with some kind of explosion. It's like SHOOT A DIFFERENT BLOCK, STOP SHOOTING THE SAME BLOCKS! Thank goodness he finally shot a different block at the end of the video. lol
@@jenniferhamels1176 That tank at the end of the video tho. Ffs stop trying to destroy solid blocks! If they don't show themselves as breakable blocks after bombs and missiles, you can't break them!!
Seriously I was like. “Max the ceiling to the left! It’s right there! No! Stop! I! Uuugghh!” I flipped out when I finally realized what he was supposed to do.
The energy part in Dairon with the chilly area is part of a sequence break to get super missiles early. Not the easiest thing to do, but Max has the right idea.
4:34 “Chat, I don’t know if you all played Super Metroid recently, that games trolls the shiiiiiit outta you. Aggressively.” “The Dark Souls before Dark Souls.” Can someone PLEASE recommend Salt and Sanctuary for Max to play??!!
0:24 “I don’t think it’s gonna be that much longer.” *as someone who streamed the game for over 18 hours and we’re only roughly six hours into this* Oh boy, a storm is brewing.
Is it just me, or does every RUclipsr/streamer who plays Metroid games invariably waste a ton of time in boss fights trying to do damage with ordinary beam shots while totally oblivious to the distinctive "tink tink" sound that means it's not causing any damage? That especially bugs me during the melee counter cinematics, when I find myself shouting at my screen, "just use missiles!"
You know, unless *spoilers for Samus Returns* when you're fighting Ridley at the end of 2 and he's immune to normal missiles. I usually save my super missiles for his third phase when he has a cinematic attack to blast his pterodactyl ass.
The thing is, not being able to figure something out is fine, but he called it "bad game design" and went on a tangent, though the best was the follow-up showing all these places you could go to, but actually couldn't since they were all blocked by something. lol
Max's approach to solving puzzles is so different to my own, but it's so fun to watch. He will always consider a puzzle solvable with his current abilities, and with this approach he gets so many more upgrades than I thought were possible at this early point, since I generally recognize that I don't have a necessary ability and move right along
I really appreciate watching these episodes of Dread. The fresh perspective gives watching this a fresh perspective I didn't experience myself when I played as having played many metroids throughout the years. I love seeing this from the PoV of someone who hasn't experienced too much of the series and is excited over even more of the little details than I was that I just came to expect when going into the game. It's very wholesome.
When you started messing with that puzzle at 3:00 I started laughing my ass off. Even before you figured it out I knew what was gonna happen to you cause I had the same reaction just yesterday.
The best part is how he doesn't test each new block by firing extra missiles, so every time he tries he runs into *another* missile block in there. That one definitely had me stumped, too, until I finished Ghavoran.
I just realized I've been following Max since 2013, almost 9 years from that, because I remember his reaction to Killer Instinct for XONE, then here I am, smiling at him for solving one of the best Shinespark puzzles I've ever done in my favorite franchise. He even played DOOM Eternal and enjoyed it. By far, one of the best people around RUclips I've got the honor to follow. Now he's the proud father of a beautiful baby... Holy sh*t, dood... Time flies.
I thought *I* was because I almost never use them on regular enemies, but damn. Haha. Love Max’s playthroughs because it lets me see completely different playstyles!
Built-In Spring/Jump Ball was such a QOL improvement. Almost felt like an apology for holding out on the Morph Ball for so long. They knew how bad we'd want it by then. Lol
daaamn the way Max solved that zig-zaggy speed booster block thingy looked SO SICK. I did it in an entirely different way and was way harder. it's really cool to see the different ways to approach and solve things in this game :D
You're a true Metroid player when, instead of taking the hint that you definitely shouldn't be here yet because it's trying to kill you, you start trying to do hell run item strats 😂
28:49 Played through twice now: I had absolutely *ZERO* idea you could shinespark diagonally downwards. Did this with a mid-air spark after a slide instead. I *love* how all of these more complicated shinespark puzzles seem to have multiple ways to beat them!
2:00:00 - If bombs or missiles don't reveal special blocks (e.g., speed boost blocks), then you're looking in the wrong place for how to get through to an item.
The game almost does this a little too well, especially in the 1st half. It tends to direct you foward in a abstract linear style. If youre a competent gamer, youl feel youre rushing through the game with alot less * AHA * moments. Except for the ridiculous items to get 100% some of those shinespark puzzles are insane
Half of his problems and confusion would be solved if HE READ THE DESCRIPTION OF THE UPGRADES HE GETS. LITERALLY 15 SECONDS. IS IT SO HARD? 2:03:10 Yeah the problem with “your” way is that BOMBING WOULDVE REVEALED THEIR STATUS AS SPEED BOOSTER BLOCKS, WHICH YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU R E A D
I am impressed what Mercury Steam did with the Metroid franchise. Metroid Dread has shown us how the Spanish studio has improved since their Castlevania Lords of Shadow days.
you can 100% shinespark in mid air, you gotta hit free-aim during the spin jump to cancel the spin and then you can hit jump and aim wherever you need. can't do midair ballspark tho, that one has to be grounded
Finding items in the Metroid games is like that E-Tank in the ceiling but if you didn't have something telling you there was an item there. There were items in some of the GBA games I probably would of never found on my own without literally bombing every section of every wall and floor and ceiling.
Max, I must be repeating myself for a thousandth time, but still, I'm really happy you're a metroid fan now :D I really hope you get around to the other 2d titles, Symphony of the Night so you've played the two iconic games that make the genre's name and some amazing modern metroidvanias like Hollow Knight, the Ori series, Blasphemous and The Messenger, cheers!
Wow, that item obtained at 37:02 is not at all how I did it. Really awesome though. I came from the top, had to ramp boost extend so I would keep it while my bombs broke those blocks, and had to use a cross bomb jump to get the angle to boost ball diagonal.
1:20:30 Getting that took me longer than beating Raven Beak. I think. Didn't help that i'd already destoryed that wall. Will have to remember to grab it as soon as I can.
Yeah lol, i was already laughing since before since i knew what was coming, and worst part is that he doesn't know that the Morph ball is so much easier to use but he is using it like back in Super Metroid. (In dread you don't need to jump with bombs to reach high, you can just jump yourself or morph+bomb in the middle of a regular jump)
My algo has been filled with your vids since the announcement of the Capcom Fighting collection 2 and thats' been my introduction to your content. I've really been enjoying it and now I wanna play this again. Great videos.
I hope max knows he can reveal blocks by now, and that to shinespark mid air u have to neatrul fall and be unmorphed, via the morphball button... Also that he can dash more than once, up to three times actually..
I've come at a spending crisis where I can't decide whether to get Dread now because of how much I love Metroid or if I save up for my SMT V steelbook pre-order because that game is literally why I got a Switch 4 years ago lol
I made the mistake of remembering powerups from other Metroids and thought there would be a shine spark/speed boost specifically for the morph ball. So it wasn't until the end of the game that I found out that you can do all this crazy acrobatic s**t with the spark. Max may not have figured out that he can use missiles during counter attacks, but he sure figured some other s*t out faster than me.
Man, I was hoping Max knew that it's better to use rockets do try to see if a block is a secret or not! He's always using the normal cannon shots or the bomb.
Dread was fucking incredible. I needed more Metroid when it was finished so I replayed Super Metroid and fuck that game is *rough* it's a masterpiece of its time but fuck it's aged like milk. The controls mainly. Though a large portion was just getting used to Snes controls again. I don't know how I beat it as a kid. I remembered jack shit, it took me as long as dread to finish! I really wanna replay fusion aswell. As that was my favourite before dread. But it looks like absolute ass on the tv which is what the cpu is connected to lately. Bought the castlevania advance collection to itch the spot in the meantime.
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Samus sees the X-Parasite
"Well, here I go blowing up Planets again"
Literally the “kill it with fire” meme
We must Is nuke the entire facility from space it's the only way to make sure
It's really funny how the X are so dangerous that the only way to actually counter them is to either develope a bioweapon specifically designed to be immune to them or just go nuclear and destroy the entire planet. There is no safer option, just two effectively seperate nuclear options.
@@MineNAdventurer Raven Beak's Lighting Armor for defense/beam for offense seemed to do the job as well, so there's the chance of using the option of an Aeion barrier, even though the sustainability of that'for a long period or big number of planets is questionable.
Assuming you are about to die from X, there would be the option of vaccination even though the side effects would most likely turn species into different kind of Metroids which is something I think could happen in future titles.
@@t-real7088 well at least all the fan art of metroid samus that rolls around every now and then now has something more to work with lmao
As soon as the X Parasites showed up, you just knew this planet wasn’t making it out of this game in one piece lmao
Wouldn't be Metroid without an ending self-destruct sequence lol
My literal first thought was “GUESS WE AIN’T SAVING THE ANIMALS THIS TIME”
Samus saw the x parasite escaping and thought:
"Aww sh*t, here we go again."
Lol how many planets do in this series?
Saw that scene and I was just, “Aw shit. Aw, geez. Everything’s fucked now!”
It was great
It's hilarious how far Max is into this game and he still can't tell when a boss is immune to basic cannon shots.
tink tink tink tink haunts me in my sleep
Its also hilarious he doesnt know he can use missiles in the parry cinematics.
lmfao!!!!! I was saying that too. Cracks me up. then rapid fires it.
and that he can just jump in morphball, or instamorph in the air, or press jump into a 1wide opening to automorph
90% of his issues is literally because he didn't read the instructions. A true American. :D
Although the one time when Adam actually told something useful, he didn't listen.
Max is a chronic "I forget I have missiles" player lmao
It drives me crazy, yo
how do you forget you have missiles? the game yeets so many packs at you it's hilarious, honestly the 2-per-pack is really annoying, should have kept it at 5 for basic packs and 10 for +packs
Omg and the fact he can jump in Morph Ball too lol
@@thehumanstunlock7588
That would have been great tbh. 2 per small pack was meh. Even Samus Returns had 3 per pack for small packs.
How missiles are utilized in this game is lot better than in older Metroid titles. It feels like this is first time using missiles is actually fluid mainly because of easier switching in between beam and missiles (I have not played Samus returns remake so i dont know about how it was there)
If Max doesn't learn to use MISSLES IN BOSS FIGHT CUTSCENES ILL SCREAM FOR GOD'S SAKE
IKR
If there's one thing I've learned from two decades of playing metroid, it's to always spam boss with missiles
@@GreatWhiteElf Yes, but how often do you have playable cutscenes?
@@sinteleon I don't know, I just know I'm always spamming missiles
@@GreatWhiteElf spamming missiles is easier when you constantly stop to get all the missile packs you can find after every ability upgrade/ :V
26:36 - "Y plus B? Ok..." *proceeds to slide around and morph ball* This is what happens when you don't use a Switch controller, I guess.
2:02:56 Lol that last part where Max tried to get that energy tank is hilarious. Sometimes we definitely tend to make things more complicated than it needs to be, which is amazing since it can also lead to those amazing discoveries that can sequence break the game by speedrunners.
That was me trying to get one of the shine spark puzzles. The one on the left entrance to feronia. Idk why but that room to the left, it never occurred to me to use it til I saw a friend of mine use it. I was trying to use the cross bombs to get over the fall blocks then bomb the bomb blocks before shine sparking up. I did it that way, took me like 20 tries though.
now imagine him trying the one missile tank next room on the left... xD
I remember getting the Hi Jump boots in Super before fighting Kraid. Made the fight 10000x easier. Lo and behold, I found the bombs and grappling beam before fighting him in this one to do the cool Indigestion Attack. Poor Kraid...always being on the business end of sequence breaks.
It boggles my mind that after almost two Metroid games he still doesn't know how Blocks work, trying to shinespark through walls he already bombed and shot with missiles ten times. o_O
@@rickyricardo4331 Getting the high jump boots before Kraid isn't a sequence break, it's how most people do it their first playthroughs
55:46 I love how after the fight with this giant alien barnacle thing, we get a shot of Samus just staring at it like “what, no second phase?”
"crazy space butthole"
Thoha and ADAM show and say to go straight to Burenia.
Max: Where do we gotta go now? Let's just head to Ferenia.
Easily my game of the year. Sure it's a bit short compared to some other games, but the 6-20 hours you put into it will be some of the most fun, intense and memorable you've ever played. It's that damn good.
That's really true. I'm not a platforming fan, but this is the only one I've beaten. Game is amazing.
Mine so far as well. It's actually a bit longer than usual for a Metroid game, which is funny. I put a good 14-15 hours getting 100% items, 4-5 of those being deaths and racking my brain trying to figure stuff out I'm sure lmao. Definitely going back through on hard and speedruns, it's just too much fun!
I like the length honestly. The game is an absolute blast for multiple play throughs.
20? How? I completed 98% in 10 hours. It is good but too short.
@
Have you ever considered ... That many fans replay the game again and again? Like in hard mode? Or to get every ending in a certain amount of time? Just because your first playthrough was "short" the hours add up over time. People have spent dozens of hours on the time in the first week alone.
Whoever’s doing the fanart for the thumbnails is amazing!
Its kainonaut. Their twitter is in the description
I mean it’s not fanart if he uses it for the thumbnail
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Uh, yeah, it’s still fanart. Just because the person it was drawn for uses it doesn’t make it not fanart anymore.
@@imortal333 Max actually commissioned the person to do these thumbnails so I don't think it qualifies as fan art
@@SPACECOWBOY705 it actually does consider it as fan art. Max had to be a fan of kainonut's work in order to want his art. So fanart.
I love how Max's initial reaction to any block he isn't prepared to deal with is to just scream.
Damn not playing fusion before this must make the reveal just whatever
fr having fusion be a childhood game makes that shit insane feeling
I got goosebumps seeing the X fly out of Elun, after what went down in Fusion I knew it gonna be a crazy ride from there on out
@@Otaku_Sama I stated having P TSD of SAX.
Yeah! I totally agree :)
I played fusion when I was 5 and finished it in my teens. I kept the game and story close to my heart and the X reveal got me really nostalgic and happy (and terrified for the planet!)
It does help to know the context of Fusion. I never played it, but I know its story beats, and seeing so many X fly out the door I thought, “Oh no...”
Oh man, the “I feel like I’m being trolled” -> falling through pitfall blocks was amazing
I can't believe that throughout the whole playthrough the chat didn't tell him that misiles reveal hiden brakeable terrain boxes...
The game even tells you that during loading screens (after death or when loading a save file)
It tells you that at the very beginning of the game.
@@conspiracyspider the game tells you when you get the misiles and then you go to ADAM and he tells you again :T
They told him last video. Max forgets a lot during playthroughs.
@@OranGate1 he also forgot that u can flash shift 3 times in a row
I love watching Max scratch his head over these shinespark puzzles. Definitely takes me back to playing the GBA games and wondering how the heck do you speedbooster these tiny gaps and slopes.
Yeah, shoulder sparking into a slope is still very much a thing in this game, but if someone has never played Zero Mission they would never think to ever try it here in this game. There are definitely a handful of puzzles in this game that require that tech from Zero Mission to get the item.
I'm confident you've figured this out, but to Shinespark, Samus must be in a neutral state, either standing or falling, and when you press B, the stick must also be at neutral. As for the easiest way to mid-air Shinespark, you do a running jump, and then press the fire and jump buttons at the same time while the stick is in a neutral position, followed *immediately* by pushing the stick in the direction you wish Samus to move. This movement tech is vital to learn for the sake of 100% item collection, and additionally allows for some boss strategies that make certain encounters significantly faster, easier, or both.
One of the shinespark challenges is basically a long tutorial on both this mechanic and that shinesparking onto a slope lets you maintain superspeed to shinespark again.
max pls read
Max sucks lol
@@FabulousJejmaze Is useless to give tips here, Max already played through the game.
Already got 100% before coming on here and learning the mid-air shinespark was a thing. It sounds like a really cool tech to use, but it's not required for any of the items
Watching Max NOT use missiles when he’s supposed to during boss fights is extremely frustrating! 😅
Yeah, I thought he was going for a special challenge or something when he was using charge shots instead of missiles on parries. LOL.
*Game clearly states the name of the X parasites, what they do when defeated, and that they can replenish resources when absorbed in a tutorial box thats hard to miss.*
Max: I gUeSS I cAn aBsOrb thE eGG yOLk?
Yeah, but that's a Max thing. When they're any kind of motion and gameplay required, he doesn't read text while doing it. If that text showed up while nothing was happening, he probably would have seen it.
@@TheEndKing If thats the case, then by that logic, Max didn't pay attention AT ALL when the game forced you to read up about the X parisites on the recap at the very start of the game.
@@SparksterG40 And you think the average person, especially one not that familiar with Metroid, would remember that all the way down until the X reappear?
Okay.
@@NuiYabuko i'd think they'd notice the text box on screen saying it when the X appeared.
The whole section at the end trying to get the tank, was PAIN. lol Did Max literally forget game mechanics? Stop hitting the same blocks when nothing is happening. He finally hit a different block he never hit before. Geezus. LOL
Varia Suit says it boosts your dash melee counter, and I didn't realize by how much until I did it to one of the little robot drones and it got one-shot. No missiles required.
Yeah, and that air-mine that floats and blow up when you are near it? Just dash melee that thing. One hit ko
Honest question. When does Max learn you can use rockets in the cinematic attacks....
the answer is no
@@FabulousJejmaze Does he ever figure out that he can use missiles to expose the weakness of breakable blocks (that one's in the tutorial)?
@@JonSmith-hk1bq the answer is... maybe? he does it in like every other puzzle when he gets desperate but doesn't remember it for the next one
he figured it out for the final boss, at least
I gotta say I do really love that Metroid managed to use 2 of the best alien films to make the monsters of this series. The Metroids are basically just like the Xenomorphs and the X-Parastyes are like the creature from John Carpenter's The Thing.
19:20 I bet Max forgets he needs bombs *or* missiles to reveal hidden blocks again right after this.
No he remembered. Just kept using them in the wrong spots.
@@vinesickle3383 he eventually remembered, no doubt after the live stream commentators constantly screaming at him about it.
The cool part about seeing Ripley is that both her name and so much about Samus were inspired by the movie Alien =D
Ridley and he.
Seeing him trying to uncover destroyable blocks with beam instead of missiles constantly makes me want to rip my hair off.
Especially since near the end of each stream he seems to have figured it, but then forgets it by the next.
What's more pain is watching him hit the same block over and over with a missile or a bomb that doesnt have a hidden destroyable block. The game literally tells you if there is a hidden destroyable block it will be uncovered when you hit with some kind of explosion. It's like SHOOT A DIFFERENT BLOCK, STOP SHOOTING THE SAME BLOCKS! Thank goodness he finally shot a different block at the end of the video. lol
@@jenniferhamels1176
That tank at the end of the video tho. Ffs stop trying to destroy solid blocks! If they don't show themselves as breakable blocks after bombs and missiles, you can't break them!!
@@OtakuJuanma2 Let's morph ball bomb the same area like 100 times. Something is going to change, right? xD
@@jenniferhamels1176
Something something the definition of insanity
Seriously I was like. “Max the ceiling to the left! It’s right there! No! Stop! I! Uuugghh!” I flipped out when I finally realized what he was supposed to do.
2:02:29 oh my god xD That face of absolute betrayal. And the eye close when he picked it up after. GOLD
Max during that bossfight: Tink tink tink tink.
Also Max: "Wait I didn't do any damage".
The parries where he doesn't instantly spam missiles hurts my soul...
It’s always so hype to see max enjoy this especially after watching his super Metroid playthrough. I live to watch first time experiences
Yes dude. METROID FOR LIFE
The energy part in Dairon with the chilly area is part of a sequence break to get super missiles early. Not the easiest thing to do, but Max has the right idea.
Just beat this game today! Such a fun experience
He already beat the game about a week ago...
@@raptros he's not talking about max
Watching other people play and miss the most obvious clues is so frustrating sometimes
4:34 “Chat, I don’t know if you all played Super Metroid recently, that games trolls the shiiiiiit outta you. Aggressively.”
“The Dark Souls before Dark Souls.”
Can someone PLEASE recommend Salt and Sanctuary for Max to play??!!
i would love to see him rage quit in mal's castle.
0:24 “I don’t think it’s gonna be that much longer.”
*as someone who streamed the game for over 18 hours and we’re only roughly six hours into this*
Oh boy, a storm is brewing.
Is it just me, or does every RUclipsr/streamer who plays Metroid games invariably waste a ton of time in boss fights trying to do damage with ordinary beam shots while totally oblivious to the distinctive "tink tink" sound that means it's not causing any damage? That especially bugs me during the melee counter cinematics, when I find myself shouting at my screen, "just use missiles!"
You know, unless
*spoilers for Samus Returns*
when you're fighting Ridley at the end of 2 and he's immune to normal missiles. I usually save my super missiles for his third phase when he has a cinematic attack to blast his pterodactyl ass.
It’s not just you. It’s all I notice too. Drives me bonkers.
Oh my gosh, preach it lol
It is like in the movies when the people are shooting at the monster which is clearly not working so the solutions is......shoot more!
@@Zikkar Eh, maybe the monster is just really tanky and will die if you just shoot it enough times?
I can picture Jaffe quitting in any of this puzzles
He wouldn't, since he wouldn't be able to figure out how to get there without the game telling him.
@@djpegao "WDYM I CAN CLIMB THIS LEDGE??? IT'S NOT EVEN PAINTED WHITE"
The thing is, not being able to figure something out is fine, but he called it "bad game design" and went on a tangent, though the best was the follow-up showing all these places you could go to, but actually couldn't since they were all blocked by something. lol
Max's approach to solving puzzles is so different to my own, but it's so fun to watch. He will always consider a puzzle solvable with his current abilities, and with this approach he gets so many more upgrades than I thought were possible at this early point, since I generally recognize that I don't have a necessary ability and move right along
I really appreciate watching these episodes of Dread. The fresh perspective gives watching this a fresh perspective I didn't experience myself when I played as having played many metroids throughout the years. I love seeing this from the PoV of someone who hasn't experienced too much of the series and is excited over even more of the little details than I was that I just came to expect when going into the game. It's very wholesome.
I couldn’t help but smile when Max gave his child the controller
Time code ?
1:05:20
Dude, she's fucking adorable, and Max seems like a very chill loving dad, kudos for him
When you started messing with that puzzle at 3:00 I started laughing my ass off. Even before you figured it out I knew what was gonna happen to you cause I had the same reaction just yesterday.
The best part is how he doesn't test each new block by firing extra missiles, so every time he tries he runs into *another* missile block in there. That one definitely had me stumped, too, until I finished Ghavoran.
That was priceless when you figured out how to get that tank at the end, and it was so simple
37:02
Me: "he'll be here for ages, it took me forever to get this missile tank"
Gets it almost straight away...
Same. I even did it in an unintended way that required almost frame perfect precision, which has never really been my strong suit.
I just realized I've been following Max since 2013, almost 9 years from that, because I remember his reaction to Killer Instinct for XONE, then here I am, smiling at him for solving one of the best Shinespark puzzles I've ever done in my favorite franchise. He even played DOOM Eternal and enjoyed it. By far, one of the best people around RUclips I've got the honor to follow. Now he's the proud father of a beautiful baby... Holy sh*t, dood... Time flies.
I love Max, but he's so stingy with missiles
I thought *I* was because I almost never use them on regular enemies, but damn. Haha. Love Max’s playthroughs because it lets me see completely different playstyles!
It just bugs me that Max never learned that you can just jump in morph ball mode haha
Built-In Spring/Jump Ball was such a QOL improvement. Almost felt like an apology for holding out on the Morph Ball for so long. They knew how bad we'd want it by then. Lol
Also that he never seemed to have learned that he can use missiles, not just bombs, to reveal hidden blocks.
daaamn the way Max solved that zig-zaggy speed booster block thingy looked SO SICK. I did it in an entirely different way and was way harder. it's really cool to see the different ways to approach and solve things in this game :D
You're a true Metroid player when, instead of taking the hint that you definitely shouldn't be here yet because it's trying to kill you, you start trying to do hell run item strats 😂
28:49 Played through twice now: I had absolutely *ZERO* idea you could shinespark diagonally downwards. Did this with a mid-air spark after a slide instead.
I *love* how all of these more complicated shinespark puzzles seem to have multiple ways to beat them!
That speedboost jump was awesome, this game looks legit fun as hell ngl!
Max always forgot to use Rocket when it matters, I'm laughing my ass off.
2:00:00 - If bombs or missiles don't reveal special blocks (e.g., speed boost blocks), then you're looking in the wrong place for how to get through to an item.
Who’s gonna tell max you can jump in the morph ball without bombs?
2:02:30 you know, sometimes the simplest solutions make the hardest of puzzles
Love the artwork in the thumbnails!
I feel I completely stumbled my way through everything in this game untill the very end where I was like shit I better go 100% these areas lol
The game almost does this a little too well, especially in the 1st half. It tends to direct you foward in a abstract linear style. If youre a competent gamer, youl feel youre rushing through the game with alot less * AHA * moments. Except for the ridiculous items to get 100% some of those shinespark puzzles are insane
2:02:28 I FUCKING DIED LAUGHING! 🤣🤣🤣
When Max figured out the energy tank at the end I was full on belly laughing.
After Max finishes this game he should watch a speedrun of this game. Speedruns are already so bonkers
I died when he tried so hard with Shinespark for getting that Energy Tank while it was super easy. His face told everything... HAHAHA!
Half of his problems and confusion would be solved if HE READ THE DESCRIPTION OF THE UPGRADES HE GETS. LITERALLY 15 SECONDS. IS IT SO HARD?
2:03:10
Yeah the problem with “your” way is that BOMBING WOULDVE REVEALED THEIR STATUS AS SPEED BOOSTER BLOCKS, WHICH YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU R E A D
Omg, him persistently using his beam against bosses is driving me crazy.
I am impressed what Mercury Steam did with the Metroid franchise.
Metroid Dread has shown us how the Spanish studio has improved since their Castlevania Lords of Shadow days.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Days, sounds like a weird "slice of life" - anime
@@CaptainTitforce Oh sorry, I misspell the nama of the game. It's just " Castlevania: Lords of Shadow"
@@fernandozavaletabustos205 Oh I know :D it was just a dumb joke, I did understand what you meant, np man
4:05 "I feel like Im getting trolled here" **falls through floor seconds later** this made me cackle
"I'm gonna return the game"
Coming from the guy who played Dirge of Cerberus 😂
Just finished this game today (100%) and oh man, as soon as you get Spin Attack, you're OP against 99% of enemies. Love this game!
More Metroid goodness. Love it.
you can 100% shinespark in mid air, you gotta hit free-aim during the spin jump to cancel the spin and then you can hit jump and aim wherever you need. can't do midair ballspark tho, that one has to be grounded
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@@daddyyank2940 he's using a PS4 controller so the inputs would be different for him. Also both free aim and shooting work to cancel the spin jump
1:04:12 "The Baby"... Samus approves
59:59 and 1:00:19 for the actual quote.
1:44:21 “Imma plant me a DUMBASS tree!”
Finding items in the Metroid games is like that E-Tank in the ceiling but if you didn't have something telling you there was an item there. There were items in some of the GBA games I probably would of never found on my own without literally bombing every section of every wall and floor and ceiling.
The difficulty in this game is very refreshing coming from Nintendo.
So, DKC: Tropical Freeze and BotW were easy? The latter having a Master Mode that makes the game even harder?
@@annieme-tions To be fair they said "coming from Nintendo" and the examples he provided fall under that category
@@annieme-tions From Nintendo, I didn't quote easy
@@annieme-tions although the original poster said that it was refreshing. Implying that it hasn't happened in a while.
@@CarbyGuuGuu type of dude who assumes you hate oranges when you say you like apples
Max, I must be repeating myself for a thousandth time, but still, I'm really happy you're a metroid fan now :D I really hope you get around to the other 2d titles, Symphony of the Night so you've played the two iconic games that make the genre's name and some amazing modern metroidvanias like Hollow Knight, the Ori series, Blasphemous and The Messenger, cheers!
That would have been an excellent shine spark puzzle at the end there.
That last energy tank puzzle is such a troll, its so good
Wow, that item obtained at 37:02 is not at all how I did it.
Really awesome though.
I came from the top, had to ramp boost extend so I would keep it while my bombs broke those blocks, and had to use a cross bomb jump to get the angle to boost ball diagonal.
When is kid come in and he holds her is when I liked and subscribed. What a wholesome dude.
1:20:30
Getting that took me longer than beating Raven Beak. I think.
Didn't help that i'd already destoryed that wall.
Will have to remember to grab it as soon as I can.
They first put the ability to Shinespark in the Morph Ball in Metroid: Zero Mission. Fun thing to do!
3:56 I almost died of laughter with that XD
Yeah lol, i was already laughing since before since i knew what was coming, and worst part is that he doesn't know that the Morph ball is so much easier to use but he is using it like back in Super Metroid. (In dread you don't need to jump with bombs to reach high, you can just jump yourself or morph+bomb in the middle of a regular jump)
My algo has been filled with your vids since the announcement of the Capcom Fighting collection 2 and thats' been my introduction to your content. I've really been enjoying it and now I wanna play this again. Great videos.
I’d love to see max play the 3ds Samus returns! It’s a great game, and has a lot of great boss fights!
I hope max knows he can reveal blocks by now, and that to shinespark mid air u have to neatrul fall and be unmorphed, via the morphball button... Also that he can dash more than once, up to three times actually..
Max's stunned silence at that last energy tank is everything. XD
God I can't wait to see how he does when he gets the scan.
You mean like in Prime? Or like the item scan ability in Dread?
I've come at a spending crisis where I can't decide whether to get Dread now because of how much I love Metroid or if I save up for my SMT V steelbook pre-order because that game is literally why I got a Switch 4 years ago lol
Wait for SMT, metroid is a great game but you will be done with it really quickly and wishing you had bought the other and waited till later for dread
I recommend you by Dread on sale. SMT is gonna give you way more content to hold over until then
@@ItsYuhBoyyyy what is smt
@@SmurfedXD Shin Megami Tensei
Id defo say save up for the steelbook and get Dread down the line
I fucking DIED LAUGHING near the end of the video with the energy tank! XD
I made the mistake of remembering powerups from other Metroids and thought there would be a shine spark/speed boost specifically for the morph ball. So it wasn't until the end of the game that I found out that you can do all this crazy acrobatic s**t with the spark. Max may not have figured out that he can use missiles during counter attacks, but he sure figured some other s*t out faster than me.
I cant wait to see Max's mind be blown when he gets the pulse radar :)
Man, I was hoping Max knew that it's better to use rockets do try to see if a block is a secret or not! He's always using the normal cannon shots or the bomb.
I'm new to this channel and really enjoying your play through of this.
Finally ! Didn’t want to watch the twitch stream so I could enjoy this little bit little. Keep ‘em coming Max!
At this point in my life, I think Max just ignores obvious paths, ignores clues and doesn't use missiles just to get on my nerves...
Dread was fucking incredible. I needed more Metroid when it was finished so I replayed Super Metroid and fuck that game is *rough* it's a masterpiece of its time but fuck it's aged like milk. The controls mainly. Though a large portion was just getting used to Snes controls again. I don't know how I beat it as a kid. I remembered jack shit, it took me as long as dread to finish!
I really wanna replay fusion aswell. As that was my favourite before dread. But it looks like absolute ass on the tv which is what the cpu is connected to lately.
Bought the castlevania advance collection to itch the spot in the meantime.
In Samus universe, there is a universal self destruct button for each and every planet lol
Me literally screaming MISSLES MISSLES watching you fight the underwater monster shooting the core. UGGGGHHHHHHH
To be fair, there's another upgrade which uses Max's idea for an upgrade zoop challenge, except with even more steps inbetween. :P
It's always fun to see other people getting trolled by the troll puzzle room at the beginning.
Will Max ever start using the missiles to uncover hidden blocks in the ceiling instead of bombs?
watching max go out of his way to avoid the healing stations and then die actually hurt me ;-;