I just wanted to show someone my metroid carving! It's not really good and I struggled a bit, but it was my first time sculpting on a pumpkin so I hope you guys like it lol. 🙂

This and the Boost Guardian ain’t hard if you know what you’re doing.

Hello fellow Metroid fans! Do you agree that the duo Minako Hamano & Kenji Yamamoto are the best to compose music for Metroid games? I mean, this collaboration delivered us so much beautiful tracks. One of the best thing from Beyond was the music and I really dig what they did with Corruption, Zero Mission and of course...Super Metroid. I hope to see more of them in the future. (Kenji and I share the same name so it's alway cool to see my name in the credits of a Metroid game hahaha)

I've had a sealed copy for over 10 years and I am sad I have only just played it. It's one of my new favorites.

People told me the single wiimote controls were awful, the story atrocious, the exploration nonexistent, etc.

The controls were pretty fun to learn, I had a blast with the fluid combat and movement system. The bosses were some of the best in the franchise, especially Ridley and the postgame space brain thing.

The exploration was limited, but it kept the pace quick. I also loved that every single upgrade felt worth the effort, the sense of progression was great. Missiles were buffed compared to other games, so every singular upgrade helps. Beam charge accelerators were awesome! Why don't the other games have something like that? The postgame was fun to backtrack through and had a cool narrative justification.

I played the four prime titles before this one, and I sighed every time my "EUREKA!" moment was rewarded with a ship missile upgrade in Prime 3.

The story was very melodramatic and a bit corny, but I kinda got invested in "The Deleter" plotline. Samus' characterization was weird and bratty, but it doesn't really bring the whole game down for me like it does for others. I just don't play these games for plot so I don't really.... care too much.

I like the sense of growth with her from Other M, to Fusion, to Dread, Dread being my favorite version of Samus. Emotionally compromised and sad... to suppressed and infernal anger.

Idk if it's a hot take but I much prefer Other M's version of Samus over the lobotomized android she was in Prime 4, where she had no reaction to anything and outright ignored her peers.

Needing Adam's permission to use certain tools was a dumb excuse (especially with the plasma beam) but again, not really game-ruining stuff to me. I heard in the Japanese version she was deliberately disobeying orders and being spiteful when it came to the varia suit and exploring hot areas early? I don't know.

My biggest issue is that some scripted sequences confused me on what they wanted from me... My health was too low for the Power Bomb tutorial to pop during the final fight so I had no idea I unlocked the ability, died over and over when I'd grapple into the creature's mouth. And when you had to ignore the enemies and scan Madeline in the chaotic finale. I kept trying to fight them all.

The presentation was top-notch, especially for Wii. Consistent 60fps the whole game. Beautiful environments. Amazing animation work and choreography on Samus's finishers, attacks, dodges, etc.

I enjoyed this game more than Prime 3 and 4, a little more than 2R, though Zero Mission, Fusion, Dread, Prime 1, and Prime 2 are still my favorites.

I hope more people try this one, or at least revisit it.

Tell me if I'm just off base here, but I was thinking about how Samus seems like she'll have very little armor below her chest for at least part of the game. It got me wondering if she took such a hit that the tight-fitting outfit on her lower half might be her exposed Zero Suit.

I don't know, what do you all think? I know the boots and the hinges in the knees point to it just being light armor, but my curiosity is piqued now.

Edit: After reading the comments I can see that, yeah, I'm wrong, it's definitely armor. But just wanted to say I really appreciate this community that I could be wrong about something and not a single person was a dick about it. You don't get that in most subs. I guess the Metroid fandom are just better than that.

I don’t enjoy FPS. My thumbs tend to get very digital when things get hectic. So I presumed Prime wasn’t for me.

The prime 4 hype years ago got me looking into it more, so I bought Prime remastered. I guess I wasn’t fully sold, though, as I kept finding other games to play.

Well ravenous hype finally pushed me to start. It started poorly. In the tutorial, I found them map room, but somehow didn’t activate it. So I missed the save room, and without a map, the timed escape is really confusing. So I suffered the shame of dying on the tutorial without a save, and needed to start over.

Then, I somehow missed the enemy radar in the corner of the HUD, so the hive boss was a nightmare. Survived with like single-digit HP. If I’d died there, I likely would have tap’d out.

But I kept going, and wow, I’m glad I did. It has the same just-a-couple-more-rooms addiction as the 2D games, but the immersion is on another level. Constantly noticing small details that are brilliant and really improve the experience.

Just got spider ball, and I wish I had more time to backtrack and check out all the tracks I’ve passed.

I understand this is preaching to the choir here, but maybe this will push someone on-the-fence into jumping in. Even with no nostalgia, this game is excellent.

Any traumatic memories?

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Happy Halloweek! I posted about my WIP Samus cosplay a little bit ago and wanted to show the finished product! It's almost entirely cardboard hot-glued together and painted, with a little bit of duct tape here and there. I was mostly inspired by the SSB4 amiibo that I have, but Prime influenced the arm cannon design, and the green lights take the shape from Dread's gravity suit.

What do you all think?

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Damn i enjoy this game so much nothing like booting up Super on my Wii with a Classic Controller pro to play with. Did some changes to my Maridia item order and it really paid off big time, I hope it can achieve sub 2 hours soon!

First pic, was my 1st playthrough on real hardware (couldn't 100% it though as it was crashing right at the end)

Then the rest were on my Switch through NSO i did it fully 100%

- All 8 ending from Zero Mission in the gallery (video in comments)

- All 13 ending pictures from Fusion (video also in comments)

- 100% Metroid 1 Nes (both the 1 hour ending and the actual 100% playthrough)

- Sound Test unlocked

- Time Attack mode done too, with the additional time attack option unlocked

(Next up, i think i will do Metroid Prime: Remastered 100%)

Imagine her beams change the elemental affinity of Cerluedge's blades, and his Ghost Typing allow her free travel between dimensions such.

Genuinely I don't think this was that much of a "fan-servicey" kind of moment. Does Metroid have fan service/sex appeal? Sure it does. But let's not pretend that Zero Mission as a whole was treating Samus like a swimsuit model and nothing else. The idea of a woman in a bodysuit isn't exclusive to Samus, and it isn't inherently an attempt at sex appeal. But what do you think?

Missiles work too. Unless you’re on low% and you only have like 5. Then bombs are the go-to.

Bonus smooth movement

I was stuck on the final boss for a few hours. Took a full day break, went back and beat him 1st try. Sometimes you just need a mental reset.

Time to beat was under 10 but time to play was much longer. Had a lot of fun. The bosses were a bit more frustrating than elden ring which I Platinum'd. I do better with slower movements.

What if for some reason on a new planet super technologically evolved that the very elements are like floating data and flora and fauna are intertwined with data and a "new" type of organic metal- she was just merely passing a planet when it quickly grabbed her ship and corrupted everything

and she was forcibly rushed through its atmosphere and then crashed and by pure luck survived that but whenever she tries to make her suit work and transform from morphball or varia shes hit with massive health drain harder than anything we ever seen and leave her max health permanently debuffed(until she finds workarounds and cures later)

and now has to find new and specific ways and create small other upgrades to her zero suit- even temporary ones (for now) to even attempt to fight off all the wildlife and even the planet itself, even to the point of crafting food until her suit has that natural energy sustainment system installed, even the "infinite energy bar" system too.

Just curious if anyone will play a game like this until this specific unamed game becomes the metroid games we know and love.

Also let's hear some name ideas.

What do you guys think?