@Tono_lagos It's always possible for either the Space Pirates or even the Galactic Federation to build an entire artificial ecosystem based on SR388 in planet Zebes similar to the one in the BSL Station in order to allow "the Baby" to continue it's natural life cycle, becoming a Queen and kickstarting a new hive in the process. As long as you have the resources and technology Metroids can STILL grow into mindless killing monsters ANYWHERE in the Universe.
@Tono_lagos As proven by the BSL space station in Metroid Fusion the Federation did know about the effects SR388's environment had on the Metroid life cycle. Seeing as the Space Pirates had a giant, superintelligent monster brain at their side it might have been a matter of time before they figured out the secret to growing Metroids allowing them to create hives to their hearts content.
When I fought the queen it never occurred to me that I could go lay a bomb in her stomach in morph ball mode. Wish I could go back and fight her again. What a great game.
I didn’t know I could spider ball around the green fireballs. I was initially taking cover under her head, but had to switch it up because later in the battle she lowers her neck
Dude I hope they port this game to Switch so we can get the chance to play it with a Pro controller and a better quality, this game Totally deserve it.
It gets real interesting with AM2R. The ways people defeat bosses and complete the game are surprising. For example, I never knew you could role under the chozo statue's feet.
@The Clorox Addict lol omega fight is quite similar but more difficult than zeta metroid in am2r. I don't understand how zeta feel more difficult and better than omega. Even though omega has every technique which zeta had but more difficult. Yes both metroid fight has that hiding place in am2r through which you can cheese both metroid fights.
One thing I loved about this scene is that it shows that Samus is a super strong badass bounty hunter, and then it immediately shows how gentle she can be. Samus really is the best of both worlds
If only they had Google where you live... OH WAIT, THEY DO!!! In case you have YET to google it, a process quicker than posting "wat is this?" Other M is a 2d Metroid game for the Wii by a third party dev, same guys that did (new) Ninja Gaiden. It wasn't very popular.
Something kind of scary about Samus’ design in this game is how much it reminds me of Dark Samus. That visor shape just really throws me off. It looks great tho.
Yeah I loved it, I even got all of Samus' ending variants/poses in all the difficulties including Fusion mode. It is highly underrated, although I'm not sure that general perception will change much given how much of an improvement Dread is in some pretty big ways. If the game were to get rereleased as-is it would probably be kind of jarring to go back to after playing a lot of Dread.
@@BradTheDead I played through this game twice (Normal and Hard) for the first time and played Dread just a couple of days after I finished. I can say with all certainty that Dread is the superior game. It has access to more buttons which makes toggling between different weapons like the grapple more intuitive on the fly, much smoother movement, more variety of enemies that don't feel as cheap, and the exploration is top notch. I thought this game didn't let you discover much for yourself. You just use a pulse and get a readout of all hidden rooms and item locations. But I also don't like how earlier Metroid games required a guide to 100% without bombing everything. The new mechanics in Dread game helped me to 100% the game while still finding the secrets for myself or not realizing it when the game was guiding me about what to do or where to go.
@@jacobg8640 Yeah I totally agree that Dread is the superior game by some distance but it's great to see how some of the things from this game carried over to Dread (I can't imagine a 2d Metroid game without being able to parry enemies). I get the feeling this game was largely overlooked by all but the most dedicated fans but then that's probably true for most other games in the series! On a side note I've noticed on Ebay the price of this game has shot up since Metroid Dread's release, i bought a sealed copy of this around 18 months ago for £27, now sealed copies (at least here in the UK) are going for at least £80. Should have bought 2...
@@burtbackattack I borrowed it from a friend in preparation for Dread after I played the rest of the series on an emulator save Super on NSO. It's always been $40 here in the US with used copies being even more expensive. I've fallen in love with the series, but needed the money for Dread.
Jason Adjiwanou As long as you keep the baby Metroid away from Planet SR388 or any environments replicating it, it _should_ stay as a cute, friendly jellyfish.
Then again killing the baby Metroid Samus wouldnt have been in those situations. For example Ridley cant take the baby Metroid from the space facility in Super Metroid because there is no Metroid thus most likely preventing what happened. On Metroid Fusion the without the DNA of the baby metroid a facility wouldnt be constructed in SR388 to clone the Metroid. Then again im just high af right now and thinkin tooo hard about it haha
Not scary? Try playing it when those graphics were considered better than previous generation (minus color). The buildup of hearing what sounded like defenseless monster cries with ominous music playing and you enter the lair to see a gigantic monster bigger than the screen can display (almost inconceivable at the time) that hit hard, hit fast, and didn't want to go down despite dozens upon dozens of missiles. I may sound old, but back then, it was a Colossus.
Same! I did both playthroughs back to back, and I just thought I was taking advantage of her being knocked out to shoot Super Missiles down her throat. Go figure!🤣
For the green balls, and any fire breathing attack, you can morph ball between her two front claws and avoid all chance of damage. Definitely takes longer, but it made beating it in hard mode much simpler.
Thomas Reid You’ll have to roll out from under there quickly when the coast is clear; once she’s finished attacking, the Queen will notice you’re under her and will prepare to charge forward.
I had absolutely no idea you could just roll inside the Metroid Queen and drop a power bomb right next to her heart. I’m now more prepared for this fight when I get there. Already defeated the Diggernaut, so she should be next.
I swear I didn't know this, either! I played on normal and then hard, back to back, and I swear I killed her by thinking I was taking advantage of the opening to unload as many Super Missiles into her mouth as possible after yanking her head down.
Not killing the baby Metroid was the smartest decision Samus ever made and will ever make. Because even if she makes smarter decisions, she wouldn’t have been alive to make them if she didn’t spare the Metroid
Yeah, it's a nod to the original. Though AM2R made it more of an Easter egg, since you got a fantastically gory kill if you opted to kill her with a power bomb.
I recently bought Metroid samus returns last week, I’ve completed it now and it was a blast…. But I NEVER REALISED YOU COULD MORPH BALL INSIDE THE Queen Metroid, that’s so cool.
When she spits out the green balls there is a space next to her chest that you can sit in with the morphball that is completely safe until they go away. You can't do damage while you wait. But its great if you are having trouble dodging the balls and the lasers.
It's three times. First against Ridley while trying to escape SR388. Second against Mother Brain in Super Metroid. Third time when it's cells were used in the vaccine that saved Samus' life against the X parasites in Fusion,
I know I'm gonna get slack for this but in the style of Other M, I could see this when Samus meets the baby Metroid. "(5:10) I had my cannon raised and the Ice Beam fully charged...I was ready to pull the trigger. But...something was telling me that this was wrong. The newly hatched Metroid...it wasn't trying to hurt me, in fact, it's mannerisms were acting as if I was more to it. (5:27) Then it hit me, most newborn species feel the first thing they see as it's mother...and this baby Metroid...I was the first thing it saw after it hatched in front of me. (5:38) I couldn't do it. Not to such a defenseless creature. (5:42) I knew what I had to do now, I needed to bring this baby to safety. I'll return to my ship and leave this planet for good. And maybe...just maybe, there may be hope for the Metroids yet with this baby."
Tip: For the phase where she uses the Green Plasma attack, going under her neck is a safe zone and will cause the AI to initiate a charge attack, just roll away while in morph ball form and you'll get away unharmed.
Why is everyone so surprised that you could crawl into the Queen Metroid and bomb her from the inside? You were able to do that in the original Game Boy version too.
Well when I played the original, I tried to, but I never got past her mouth (I wasn’t willing to risk it further because of how quickly it drained my health) When I played through this fight for the time, I completely forgot you could do so, especially with the Thunder Shield Also, not everyone’s played the original Metroid 2. It’s a bit of a hidden gem in the Gameboy’s library Even still, I think it’s a cool nod to the original fight
Ah, I'm about to hit this very point now in the game, and based off of what I've seen "It should be a breeze" it's the one after this one that concerns me lol.
Man, good fight. I never really got the gist on how to avoid the second fire attack that starts from the upper part of the screen. Thus, I finished the fight with 30 energy and my heart beating at 120 bpm 😂😂
I hate it when she uses her fire breath on the ceiling FIRST and then on the ground, as well as launching those green balls. What am I supposed to do to avoid this attack?! Ground first, then ceiling is fine, just spiderball onto the wall and jump off when the ground fire extinguishes. But I can't avoid the attack the other way around! And I can't space jump to avoid because of those damn green balls!
i dodged by spider ball jumping to the ceilling with a power bomb the first time out of reflex. the green blob can't hit you during the propulsion either so thats nice.
Shit me too, was looking for this comment, I can never avoid when she does that pattern first, what I did my four time playing this game as soon as she shoots the greens balls I quickly turn to morph ball and start climbing the ceiling, all three times she shot down first, not sure if I just got lucky but that's what I did, but yeah fuck that attack lol.
The Queen Metroid is essentially a big Dodongo from the Zelda series, you kill it in pretty much the same fashion by bombing its insides. I’m also surprised at how many people didn’t realize you could roll in her mouth, that was the optimal strategy back in the original Metroid II and you have to do it in Other M
Wow, just think...Samus was sent to SR388 by the Galactic Federation to exterminate all Metroids...but after defeating the Queen Metroid, she went against protocol and decided to adopt the Baby! Goes to show that even intergalactic bounty hunters have a soft side!
I was wondering before why people would not try to find a way to get inside the Queen on this version of the game, or if Nintendo had removed the action. One of the surprises in the original Metroid 2 GB game was that it was quicker and easier to enter the paralyzed Queen's mouth when she froze right in front of you and deposit as many morphball bombs as possible till she died instead of laying 200+ rockets on her and almost dying in the long process. I remember doing that by accident and then it became my preferred way of killing her. Then watching other people's game play on this version really made me think that Nintendo wouldn't or couldn't have erased that option and I am glad now that I saw that they didn't.
And this kids is how metroid fusion came into play, all she had to do is murder the last metroid. 5:23 The metroid saga would have came to a final close, no super metroid and beyond. Then again if samus went to zebes and tried to take on mother brain with no help. It would be the best blood bath samus has yet to see in her lifetime.
Metroid Fusion happened because Metroid II/ Samus Returns happened. The X Parasites were all but extinct on SR388 because of the Metroids hunting them. Since Samus killed them all, they repopulated and infiltrated the BSL. If Samus had just killed the baby, maybe she would've survived Zebes and maybe she would've defeated mother brain and the pirates without the baby's help. But there would be nothing to save her from an X parasite infection, thus no one to fight them and destroy them all. The Chozo's original fear of the X would've come true
@@SparkerZed Exactly. 👌 In the end it was for the best that Samus spared the baby Metroid despite all the death that would eventually ensue in Super Metroid 3 and Other M. Had she not done so the X would have infected the entire galaxy killing everybody.
I guess many people don't know this, but you can slam into her by spider balling onto the wall and using a power bomb to propel yourself. It interrupts her attacks and does good damage, so you can use it when she's in a phase you don't like. I used it whenever she'd spit the green blobs.
It works but it's hard to pull of after the second powerbomb to the queens heart. Because she starts to shoot her beam on the ceiling and I run into the beam before her head
ShadowNinjaGrump Game or melee counter and shoot? There's auto lock on after the melee too so you don't have to aim. It's a lot faster. Then again, the stupid snail things can't be melee countered, I guess ice would work on them
Gameplay and variety wise I say this is better than the AM2R version of the queen, the idea of using the spiderball during the boss fight was brilliant, sadly the presentation is not nearly as good as AM2R, specially the music, the remix of the classic theme carries so much more tension and drama than this new one.
Just finished this game today and of course i didn't knew you could enter her. Saw that you could do that in the gameboy version and thought "wait, what if..."
I have never once made it past the second stage of this fight. My hands physically cramp up and I can no longer work the controls. The 3DS is just too damn small, it wasn't meant for adult hands.
Can anyone tell me how the grapple works? Samus just latches on and stands there. I don't get it I don't remember being told how to use the grapple on enemies. I had the same problem with the Zeta metroids
Aim at the Glowing Red Grapple Spot, Hold L(Or switch to grapple beam) and Aim, when the light turns Light Blue, Shoot and HOLD the Shoot Button, then While holding the Button move the Analog stick back as though your trying to Pull on the enemy.
Both games have their merits; for a fan game made almost entirely by one guy over the course of a decade, AM2R is a damn impressive accomplishment for being as good as it is. But I absolutely prefer the Metroid fights in Samus Returns.
Goddamn! I didn't know you could go inside. I just used super missiles. Also, where you used ice beam, I used regular missiles to soften her up. I'm trying to get the under 4 hour finish time...and you've helped "bigly". Thanks.
MercurySteam's boss designers clearly recognized that the most natural thing for a territorial space lizard to do is fill the room with a maze of energy balls and then coat the walls with fire. Truly immersive boss design. The power bomb sequence is executed perfectly here though.
The Queen Metroid is as intimidating as always. I wonder how Samus would handle the Basilisk from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? I mean, would she know not to look the Basilisk in the eye, and that it has very potent venom? Then again, she probably would just shoot the Basilisk in the eyes with her eyes closed, considering she shot the Diggernaut in the face with incredible accuracy without looking at it.
You could destroy those green orbs with the Screwattack the entire time!?!?!?!?!?! And I was dodging them like Catherine Zeta-Jones dodged laserbeams lol
It’s actually really neat how the metroid counter not only let’s you know how close you are to completing your goal, but also serves a narrative element. When the number suddenly starts going up it tells the player that the metroids are either duplicating themselves or *something* is making more. Adds such a cool bit of mystery and stress as your progress starts regressing with every new metroid that appears
There’s a lot of people that didn’t think to use the spiderball for the wind pushing attack didn’t diggernaut teach y guys ?i sure as hell frustratingly learned
I have to say, I don't really like the bosses in this game. Either they repeat way too often (regular Metroids) or it feels like you have to crack some kind of secret code to figure out how to be even able to beat them and/or be some screw attack savant.
Most of these comments are saying that they didnt think to crawl into the queen metroids mouth. Correct me if I'm wrong, BUT ISNT THAT how you killed her in the original?
this game is impossible to play on keyboard, i'm trying to kill this boss on computer, using citra emulator, and only my keyboard and i cannot properly aim during the whole game is nightmare.
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Why the Baby Metroid is so freakin' adorable?? Look how cute this thing is, and how happy it behaves around Samus.
Just you wait until it grows into adulthood and kills everything in sight.
@@javiervasquez8995 still baby
headcannon: the baby metroid would be considered the runt of the litter compared to other Metroids
@Tono_lagos It's always possible for either the Space Pirates or even the Galactic Federation to build an entire artificial ecosystem based on SR388 in planet Zebes similar to the one in the BSL Station in order to allow "the Baby" to continue it's natural life cycle, becoming a Queen and kickstarting a new hive in the process. As long as you have the resources and technology Metroids can STILL grow into mindless killing monsters ANYWHERE in the Universe.
@Tono_lagos As proven by the BSL space station in Metroid Fusion the Federation did know about the effects SR388's environment had on the Metroid life cycle. Seeing as the Space Pirates had a giant, superintelligent monster brain at their side it might have been a matter of time before they figured out the secret to growing Metroids allowing them to create hives to their hearts content.
I love how she sets a wall on fire then shouts you into it lol
When I fought the queen it never occurred to me that I could go lay a bomb in her stomach in morph ball mode. Wish I could go back and fight her again. What a great game.
I didn’t know I could spider ball around the green fireballs. I was initially taking cover under her head, but had to switch it up because later in the battle she lowers her neck
I did not know you could parry her and go inside to bomb her LOL. Wow.
Same
I hope the baby Metroid is back in MP4!
Also, I 00% this game :D Am happy
This queen Metroid video takes 6 minutes mine makes two
I'd rather AM2R
My hands hurt just watching this.
lmao
My hands were numb by the time I defeated her. It was worth it though.
My left thumb was destroyed by the time I finished, but I loved the game.
It really isn't that bad. Honestly the only awkward part was the floor is lava sweep
Dude I hope they port this game to Switch so we can get the chance to play it with a Pro controller and a better quality, this game Totally deserve it.
It's cool to see how other people's strategies for this fight differed from my own.
It gets real interesting with AM2R. The ways people defeat bosses and complete the game are surprising. For example, I never knew you could role under the chozo statue's feet.
Harris : Same, I went and watched every boss battle to see if there were strategies I haven't tried.
The Clorox Addict you dont have to counter ridley at all
@The Clorox Addict lol omega fight is quite similar but more difficult than zeta metroid in am2r. I don't understand how zeta feel more difficult and better than omega. Even though omega has every technique which zeta had but more difficult. Yes both metroid fight has that hiding place in am2r through which you can cheese both metroid fights.
@@huntergman8338 You can do that in Super Metroid too.
Took me a few tries before realizing I could just use spiderball to not get destroyed by the wind attack.
OF COURSE!!! damn I was looking at it all wrong
LOL DERP (i killed her without doing that....somehow)
KunioFox the
(beat) D'oh!
Me too
One thing I loved about this scene is that it shows that Samus is a super strong badass bounty hunter, and then it immediately shows how gentle she can be. Samus really is the best of both worlds
I think the Queen Metroid design in this game looks awesome.
Metroid Prime better than other m
poke maniac What is this "Other M" you speak of?
If only they had Google where you live... OH WAIT, THEY DO!!!
In case you have YET to google it, a process quicker than posting "wat is this?" Other M is a 2d Metroid game for the Wii by a third party dev, same guys that did (new) Ninja Gaiden. It wasn't very popular.
Cornelius Agrippa He was clearly being sarcastic...
You know "other M"the one that inspired the counter system in this game and made samus seem more badass in her fights in this game.
Something kind of scary about Samus’ design in this game is how much it reminds me of Dark Samus. That visor shape just really throws me off. It looks great tho.
I felt the same way ! And I think the shape doesn't match at all the moment in First Person when she sees the larva. It's always weird to me.
Imagine if Prime 4 ended with Samus' armor looking more similar to the armor here in Samus Returns?
@@Mr.Foxhatwell we need the game to actually release so we can see
@@CrasherX2000 lmao, good news
MY BOY AT THE END
I really hope this game gets a bit more love after the success of Metroid Dread. I've spent hundreds of hours playing it. Kind of underrated imo.
Yeah I loved it, I even got all of Samus' ending variants/poses in all the difficulties including Fusion mode. It is highly underrated, although I'm not sure that general perception will change much given how much of an improvement Dread is in some pretty big ways. If the game were to get rereleased as-is it would probably be kind of jarring to go back to after playing a lot of Dread.
@@BradTheDead I played through this game twice (Normal and Hard) for the first time and played Dread just a couple of days after I finished. I can say with all certainty that Dread is the superior game. It has access to more buttons which makes toggling between different weapons like the grapple more intuitive on the fly, much smoother movement, more variety of enemies that don't feel as cheap, and the exploration is top notch. I thought this game didn't let you discover much for yourself. You just use a pulse and get a readout of all hidden rooms and item locations. But I also don't like how earlier Metroid games required a guide to 100% without bombing everything. The new mechanics in Dread game helped me to 100% the game while still finding the secrets for myself or not realizing it when the game was guiding me about what to do or where to go.
@@jacobg8640 Yeah I totally agree that Dread is the superior game by some distance but it's great to see how some of the things from this game carried over to Dread (I can't imagine a 2d Metroid game without being able to parry enemies). I get the feeling this game was largely overlooked by all but the most dedicated fans but then that's probably true for most other games in the series! On a side note I've noticed on Ebay the price of this game has shot up since Metroid Dread's release, i bought a sealed copy of this around 18 months ago for £27, now sealed copies (at least here in the UK) are going for at least £80. Should have bought 2...
@@burtbackattack I borrowed it from a friend in preparation for Dread after I played the rest of the series on an emulator save Super on NSO. It's always been $40 here in the US with used copies being even more expensive. I've fallen in love with the series, but needed the money for Dread.
Since I don't have a 3DS, I hope this game gets ported to the Switch before its EoL.
5:10 ok that was simply beautiful
I know! It's the same sound effect even!
JamesOhGoodie ?
I want a Baby Metroid now
@@hi3209YT... As cute as may looks now, it'd be very troublesome when maturing.
Jason Adjiwanou As long as you keep the baby Metroid away from Planet SR388 or any environments replicating it, it _should_ stay as a cute, friendly jellyfish.
Samus, you big softie
Clueless King not to mention at this point in the timeline, she blew up 2 entire planets (one of them being a false dimension)
by not killing the baby metroid it saved Samus at the end of super metroid
ARAM And again (albeit indirectly) in Metroid Fusion.
(Spoilers!)
And in this game's Ridley fight
Then again killing the baby Metroid Samus wouldnt have been in those situations. For example Ridley cant take the baby Metroid from the space facility in Super Metroid because there is no Metroid thus most likely preventing what happened. On Metroid Fusion the without the DNA of the baby metroid a facility wouldnt be constructed in SR388 to clone the Metroid. Then again im just high af right now and thinkin tooo hard about it haha
Fyro_ J Year old comment but: Adam also wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself to destroy the Metroid breeding lab on the Bottle Ship 🤭
@@fyro_j8961 she would have been dead in fusion though
Metroid 2 Metroid Queen: Not so scary
Samus Returns Metroid Queen: God save us all.
Not scary? Try playing it when those graphics were considered better than previous generation (minus color). The buildup of hearing what sounded like defenseless monster cries with ominous music playing and you enter the lair to see a gigantic monster bigger than the screen can display (almost inconceivable at the time) that hit hard, hit fast, and didn't want to go down despite dozens upon dozens of missiles. I may sound old, but back then, it was a Colossus.
She used to creep me out when I was a kid. I was only 4 when I first met her...
Metroid Other M Metroid Queen: Well, this is needlessly complicated... Oh, and I suddenly can use Power Bombs now? Thanks, I guess
GB Metroid Queen looks way scarier. It sort of reminds me of the jump from Diablo 2 graphics to Diablo 3 graphics.
Look at the AM2R one
I like how the Baby Metroid is literally the last item you get in this game
You need the baby Metroid to get the remaining items lol..
@@dirtface1274 well yeah but I mean that she’s the last upgrade you get as far as items go
Beat this on normal and fusion difficulty. Great game. DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD ROLL INTO ITS MOUTH AS MORPH BALL LIKE THAT. So COOL
Same! I did both playthroughs back to back, and I just thought I was taking advantage of her being knocked out to shoot Super Missiles down her throat. Go figure!🤣
For the green balls, and any fire breathing attack, you can morph ball between her two front claws and avoid all chance of damage. Definitely takes longer, but it made beating it in hard mode much simpler.
Thomas Reid
You’ll have to roll out from under there quickly when the coast is clear; once she’s finished attacking, the Queen will notice you’re under her and will prepare to charge forward.
I know 4 years later but thanks so much. Worked a dream for fusion mode
I had absolutely no idea you could just roll inside the Metroid Queen and drop a power bomb right next to her heart. I’m now more prepared for this fight when I get there. Already defeated the Diggernaut, so she should be next.
I swear I didn't know this, either! I played on normal and then hard, back to back, and I swear I killed her by thinking I was taking advantage of the opening to unload as many Super Missiles into her mouth as possible after yanking her head down.
Not killing the baby Metroid was the smartest decision Samus ever made and will ever make. Because even if she makes smarter decisions, she wouldn’t have been alive to make them if she didn’t spare the Metroid
OMG!!! I'M A STUPID!!! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD CRAWL IN IT'S MOUTH AND PLACE A POWER BOMB IN IT!!!
I was hoping it would be a thing when AM2R let us do that. The one reference to Other M we actually love.
It's not a reference to Other M. The original Metroid II that this game is based off was the game that introduced it.
Yeah, it's a nod to the original. Though AM2R made it more of an Easter egg, since you got a fantastically gory kill if you opted to kill her with a power bomb.
Hah I beat the queen today and I didn't know either. I just shot super missle into her mouth
JeromyTG2 excuse me CRAWL!??
1:51 So THATS how you roll into the Metroid Queen
*DAMN NINTENDO YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING WITH THE FAN SERVICE*
And can we talk about how detailed her insides are?
I recently bought Metroid samus returns last week, I’ve completed it now and it was a blast…. But I NEVER REALISED YOU COULD MORPH BALL INSIDE THE Queen Metroid, that’s so cool.
When she spits out the green balls there is a space next to her chest that you can sit in with the morphball that is completely safe until they go away. You can't do damage while you wait. But its great if you are having trouble dodging the balls and the lasers.
That was a great tip! It helped me immensely!
so, rely on the Spider ball in order to not get pulverized
Kevin Broderick And you'll still get pulverized anyway lol.
I. Can't. Beat. This. Goddamn. Boss. ;__;
The game literally gives you invincibility as a powerup. Use it if you're not going to bother dodging.
JustAnotherPest I beat it lol.
piousaugustus84 Saaaaaame.
Very limited invincibility against the end bosses.
JustAnotherPest that saves you three hits and the most lol. it doesn't help much as you think it does.
The AEION SHIELD! I got her without it, but damn it was so obvious I could use it to avoid the damage inside her...
That baby has saved Samus life more times than it can count.
Kinda hard to count when you’re dead.
It's three times. First against Ridley while trying to escape SR388. Second against Mother Brain in Super Metroid. Third time when it's cells were used in the vaccine that saved Samus' life against the X parasites in Fusion,
@@LMVStudios hence the comment, considering that it was a baby and probably can't count to 3.
I want a Deluxe version in HD for Nintendo Switch!
Would be great but I don’t know how you’d manage things like the map and bean being on the touch screen, maybe an entire hud redesign?
3ds only for a reason my dude
well...Miitopia will be re-released on Switch,so....at this point,any Top 3ds game could be on Switch!!
@@pabloCJ1405 Is true, I hope Nintendo announce this game next time!
We got something even better.
I know I'm gonna get slack for this but in the style of Other M, I could see this when Samus meets the baby Metroid.
"(5:10) I had my cannon raised and the Ice Beam fully charged...I was ready to pull the trigger. But...something was telling me that this was wrong. The newly hatched Metroid...it wasn't trying to hurt me, in fact, it's mannerisms were acting as if I was more to it. (5:27) Then it hit me, most newborn species feel the first thing they see as it's mother...and this baby Metroid...I was the first thing it saw after it hatched in front of me. (5:38) I couldn't do it. Not to such a defenseless creature. (5:42) I knew what I had to do now, I needed to bring this baby to safety. I'll return to my ship and leave this planet for good. And maybe...just maybe, there may be hope for the Metroids yet with this baby."
n it saved her in the end of super metroid against mother brain by killing itself n gave Samus new power
THE BABY
and again in fusion by using it's DNA to cure her of the X-parasite.
That actually isn't too bad.
This game is like a remake of Metroid 2, right? Isn't this just that same scene?
Tip: For the phase where she uses the Green Plasma attack, going under her neck is a safe zone and will cause the AI to initiate a charge attack, just roll away while in morph ball form and you'll get away unharmed.
Why is everyone so surprised that you could crawl into the Queen Metroid and bomb her from the inside? You were able to do that in the original Game Boy version too.
Well when I played the original, I tried to, but I never got past her mouth (I wasn’t willing to risk it further because of how quickly it drained my health)
When I played through this fight for the time, I completely forgot you could do so, especially with the Thunder Shield
Also, not everyone’s played the original Metroid 2. It’s a bit of a hidden gem in the Gameboy’s library
Even still, I think it’s a cool nod to the original fight
Shit at this rate I rather just go back and fight Omega Metroids
Ah, I'm about to hit this very point now in the game, and based off of what I've seen "It should be a breeze" it's the one after this one that concerns me lol.
Anybody else think the Queen looks cooler with a red shell?
Man, good fight. I never really got the gist on how to avoid the second fire attack that starts from the upper part of the screen. Thus, I finished the fight with 30 energy and my heart beating at 120 bpm 😂😂
Is it bad that I want a cute baby Metroid plushie????
Renza Lightning no. I want one too.
No
Not at all.
I hate it when she uses her fire breath on the ceiling FIRST and then on the ground, as well as launching those green balls. What am I supposed to do to avoid this attack?! Ground first, then ceiling is fine, just spiderball onto the wall and jump off when the ground fire extinguishes. But I can't avoid the attack the other way around! And I can't space jump to avoid because of those damn green balls!
one time she managed to light all three sides while having those green balls. i was simply fucked.
Go under her.
after a week i can say i've fought her so many times and gotten 5 no damaged runs in a row because i love fighter queen metroid so much.
i dodged by spider ball jumping to the ceilling with a power bomb the first time out of reflex. the green blob can't hit you during the propulsion either so thats nice.
Shit me too, was looking for this comment, I can never avoid when she does that pattern first, what I did my four time playing this game as soon as she shoots the greens balls I quickly turn to morph ball and start climbing the ceiling, all three times she shot down first, not sure if I just got lucky but that's what I did, but yeah fuck that attack lol.
The Queen Metroid is essentially a big Dodongo from the Zelda series, you kill it in pretty much the same fashion by bombing its insides. I’m also surprised at how many people didn’t realize you could roll in her mouth, that was the optimal strategy back in the original Metroid II and you have to do it in Other M
This game would of been great for switch with higher graphics
You could play it with the Citra 3ds emulator. It allows you to use a real controller and set the graphics to HD!
Queen Metroid: YOU KILLED MY BABIES!
Samus: Your majesty! How are the little bastards?
Queen Metroid:...really?
Samus: LET ME COPE!
Wow, just think...Samus was sent to SR388 by the Galactic Federation to exterminate all Metroids...but after defeating the Queen Metroid, she went against protocol and decided to adopt the Baby!
Goes to show that even intergalactic bounty hunters have a soft side!
I was wondering before why people would not try to find a way to get inside the Queen on this version of the game, or if Nintendo had removed the action. One of the surprises in the original Metroid 2 GB game was that it was quicker and easier to enter the paralyzed Queen's mouth when she froze right in front of you and deposit as many morphball bombs as possible till she died instead of laying 200+ rockets on her and almost dying in the long process. I remember doing that by accident and then it became my preferred way of killing her. Then watching other people's game play on this version really made me think that Nintendo wouldn't or couldn't have erased that option and I am glad now that I saw that they didn't.
And this kids is how metroid fusion came into play, all she had to do is murder the last metroid. 5:23
The metroid saga would have came to a final close, no super metroid and beyond.
Then again if samus went to zebes and tried to take on mother brain with no help.
It would be the best blood bath samus has yet to see in her lifetime.
She went to zebes to try and save the baby metroid from the space pirates, if they hadn't kidnapped it she probably would've nuked them from space.
Metroid Fusion happened because Metroid II/ Samus Returns happened. The X Parasites were all but extinct on SR388 because of the Metroids hunting them. Since Samus killed them all, they repopulated and infiltrated the BSL. If Samus had just killed the baby, maybe she would've survived Zebes and maybe she would've defeated mother brain and the pirates without the baby's help. But there would be nothing to save her from an X parasite infection, thus no one to fight them and destroy them all. The Chozo's original fear of the X would've come true
@@SparkerZed Exactly. 👌 In the end it was for the best that Samus spared the baby Metroid despite all the death that would eventually ensue in Super Metroid 3 and Other M. Had she not done so the X would have infected the entire galaxy killing everybody.
They even used the snes Metroid sounds for the baby Metroid!
And samus' death scream
I guess many people don't know this, but you can slam into her by spider balling onto the wall and using a power bomb to propel yourself. It interrupts her attacks and does good damage, so you can use it when she's in a phase you don't like. I used it whenever she'd spit the green blobs.
I tried a few time, it never did anything... Maybe I used the wrong timing.
I will try this
It works but it's hard to pull of after the second powerbomb to the queens heart. Because she starts to shoot her beam on the ceiling and I run into the beam before her head
Ok I just held down my super missiles and power bomb wall jump every time she uses those green orbs and it went by quick and I killed her. Thanks
You can Simply roll und er her Body while she attacks with the green Bubbles und the fire and sit the Situation out
I did not even use the ice beam the entire game just to get that Metroid you need it for after that I never even used it again.
ice beam only makes metroids easier to fight other then that its not very good in this game
Is it just too evil of a weapon to you?
Cato no I just forgot about.
You didn't even use it against the larva metroids before this fight? Ouch
ShadowNinjaGrump Game or melee counter and shoot? There's auto lock on after the melee too so you don't have to aim. It's a lot faster. Then again, the stupid snail things can't be melee countered, I guess ice would work on them
HOLY F*$& I didn't know you could just morph ball inside! How the hell did I not try this!!
AMAZING and 3D in this game is SUPER!
Gameplay and variety wise I say this is better than the AM2R version of the queen, the idea of using the spiderball during the boss fight was brilliant, sadly the presentation is not nearly as good as AM2R, specially the music, the remix of the classic theme carries so much more tension and drama than this new one.
My first run, I didn't know you could roll into the Queen and use the bombs. Still won anyway
Just finished this game today and of course i didn't knew you could enter her. Saw that you could do that in the gameboy version and thought "wait, what if..."
I love this scene with the baby metroid! And that first person shot really sells me
Oh geez, I had no idea you could roll inside of her. Good to know for next time.
I almost forgot that the Ice Beam is effective too!
I want you to try this in hard mode and fusion mode please trust me it's fun and more of a challenge
This is legit the hardest boss in the whole game! Facts!
Ohhh I didn’t notice the mother brain music before
I did not know you were supposed to go inside it
Your video really helped me win this fight. Thanks a lot.
The theme of Queen Metroid is like a mix between Flaahgra and Mother-Brain Rex
I'd love for this to be re-released at 60fps
The baby metroid's so cute
I love how the battle theme calls back to mother brains 2nd phase in super metroid but it also sounds like the prime series
No sabia que se podia entrar a su estomago xD no recuerdo haberla matado de esa forma
I don't know how to game apparently
The biggest pain to defeat.
I have never once made it past the second stage of this fight. My hands physically cramp up and I can no longer work the controls. The 3DS is just too damn small, it wasn't meant for adult hands.
Can anyone tell me how the grapple works?
Samus just latches on and stands there. I don't get it I don't remember being told how to use the grapple on enemies. I had the same problem with the Zeta metroids
Aim at the grapple spot holding L, then shoot. You'll know if you're aiming at the right spot because the laser sight will turn blue before you fire.
Aim at the Glowing Red Grapple Spot, Hold L(Or switch to grapple beam) and Aim, when the light turns Light Blue, Shoot and HOLD the Shoot Button, then While holding the Button move the Analog stick back as though your trying to Pull on the enemy.
Richard The Lionheart you gotta pull on them lol, it's like with the red glowy blocks. They don't ever tell you this, you just gotta rely on thinking
Waitttt...you could grapple the zetas? Wowwww
3:29 how did you do that?
Instant morph ball is by touching the bottom screen
Samus Returns wins over AM2R.
Both games have their merits; for a fan game made almost entirely by one guy over the course of a decade, AM2R is a damn impressive accomplishment for being as good as it is. But I absolutely prefer the Metroid fights in Samus Returns.
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Still can’t understand why some people hate this game
Because there salty about AM2Rs takedown.
Goddamn! I didn't know you could go inside. I just used super missiles. Also, where you used ice beam, I used regular missiles to soften her up. I'm trying to get the under 4 hour finish time...and you've helped "bigly". Thanks.
Dang this is hard but I'm gonna beat it tonight
This epic. I just love how music fits with Samus movements in the opening cutscene.
MercurySteam's boss designers clearly recognized that the most natural thing for a territorial space lizard to do is fill the room with a maze of energy balls and then coat the walls with fire. Truly immersive boss design.
The power bomb sequence is executed perfectly here though.
It’s not exactly the most interesting boss ever in the original game.
I had no idea you could crawl into that bitch
The music for this fight sounds AMAZING
The Queen Metroid is as intimidating as always. I wonder how Samus would handle the Basilisk from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? I mean, would she know not to look the Basilisk in the eye, and that it has very potent venom? Then again, she probably would just shoot the Basilisk in the eyes with her eyes closed, considering she shot the Diggernaut in the face with incredible accuracy without looking at it.
Will Ridley ever learn? He has to be seriously overconfident to get his butt kicked almost every game and still returns to try again
You could destroy those green orbs with the Screwattack the entire time!?!?!?!?!?! And I was dodging them like Catherine Zeta-Jones dodged laserbeams lol
It’s actually really neat how the metroid counter not only let’s you know how close you are to completing your goal, but also serves a narrative element. When the number suddenly starts going up it tells the player that the metroids are either duplicating themselves or *something* is making more. Adds such a cool bit of mystery and stress as your progress starts regressing with every new metroid that appears
I keep on forgetting that the spider ball is even a thing.
1:52 I didn't even know you could go in the stomach
Anyone noticing that the Queen Metroid’s boss in this game gives off Mother Brain vibes from Super Metroid.
There’s a lot of people that didn’t think to use the spiderball for the wind pushing attack didn’t diggernaut teach y guys ?i sure as hell frustratingly learned
How is it possible to show her emotion without ever seeing her face?
Chrisls Actions speak a lot more than words and expressions.
Nintendo magic
The magic of subtext. Her hesitation was enough to convey doubt.
I have to say, I don't really like the bosses in this game. Either they repeat way too often (regular Metroids) or it feels like you have to crack some kind of secret code to figure out how to be even able to beat them and/or be some screw attack savant.
This video game is great, but I prefer a thousand times AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake).
PEGI 7 seems pretty low for a game where 4:33 happens
It’s rated E-10 in my country.
Damned green floating ball attack
I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy 😊
Most of these comments are saying that they didnt think to crawl into the queen metroids mouth. Correct me if I'm wrong, BUT ISNT THAT how you killed her in the original?
It was one way to kill her.
this game is impossible to play on keyboard, i'm trying to kill this boss on computer, using citra emulator, and only my keyboard and i cannot properly aim during the whole game is nightmare.
It's almost like it wasn't made to be played on a keyboard.
You're supposed to grapple beam the red thing?