17:03 Hello, musician here! I’d hate to be that guy, but Kraid’s lair is actually in 6/8 time signature, not 3/4. Yes, there’s a difference. With 3/4, you can distinctly count 3 beats in 1 measure. However, with 6/8, is comprised of 2 major beats with triplets in between, making up 6 beats. It’s all about feel. If you feel 3 beats, it’s 3/4, if it’s 2 (which feels more like a sway), it’s 6/8. Hope this clears things up!
Man, 11 year old me definitely felt some type of way when Samus took her suit off in this game. I'm embarrassed to admit I kept replaying the game just to see that scene over and over again
Fun fact: you can cheese the Ridley fight by just staying underneath him the entire fight and shooting missiles one at a time. Spamming shots of any kind is what sets him off into the tail attacks, so take it slow and methodically while staying underneath him. He’ll continually swoop down on you but as long as he doesn’t touch you with his hands you won’t take damage. Occasionally he’ll use the big five-fireball attack and that’s your opportunity to get some missile recharges and then get back to shooting him one at a time. This is literally the only method I found that worked for me on Hard Mode 15%. I was stuck with 2 super missiles and 2 regular missiles so it was a necessity!
18:05 oh my god I thought those were chicken legs the whole time, never saw the bird faces. Literally just saw it as a pair of disembodied chozo legs, because jumping real high with magic bird tech, it made sense.
The way metroids lore comes together is truly incredible especially for a nintendo franchise. The story of Samus is something so incredibly well built to be adapted into a film or tv show. The way everything comes together from metroid to metroid dread just feels perfect and ai can't help but love it.
Metroid Dread gets too much credit. It was a poorly told story but most people that play video games are not particularly well-versed in story-telling literature.
@@MaximumPayine literature by definition is a different medium of storytelling than videogames. And to that point there's probably not any videogame stories that compare to great works of literature. Which is why I said best storyline in gaming. (A medium where gameplay and experience come first). No need to try to get elitist.
@@booski1865 Using these ridiculous urban dictionary terms does not make you sound intelligent. And then claiming something as ignorant as, "literature by definition is a different medium of storytelling than videogames" just shows that you have no understanding of what you are talking about. You made a comparison between "great works" (whatever that means or what you are referencing, you didn't bother to expand upon) and video game stories, as if one just came out of thin air and doesn't exist from pre-established literary devices and culture that have roots in language. On top of which, you go on make a subjective claim about how it's the best storyline in gaming (whatever vague definition "best" is supposed to have). It just goes to show that you only pretend to be an academic and clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Have some humility. If you don't know, that's ok. Don't inflate your ego over trivial things. Not everyone will enjoy the same things you will.
That Proto-Zero suit from the old Nintendo comic looks like the uniforms SHIELD Agents wear in the 90s Spider-Man Animated Series, which just reminds me that we almost got Samus in the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance game, and I will never not be mad that they fumbled the ball on that. We were robbed.
@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 Oh yeah, Samus and Link were planned to be in MUA as a Nintendo exclusive, and were even fully playable at one point as shown in like a press release demo or something. But because that demo was running on a PS2 (like seriously, how did they screw that up??) Nintendo pulled the plug on that idea. Which side note: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is a Switch exclusive, why didn't they bring them back?? It would've been perfect! And if you recall how they almost put Samus in Fortnite, that makes it three times we nearly got a Marvel x Metroid crossover, and we've been denied every time
16:46 It's interesting you mention this because at least going by ear, not only does Zero Mission's soundfont use a lot of the same samples as the Prime games, namely the chanting sounds, albeit heavily compressed due to being on the GBA, Zero Mission actually uses leitmotifs that originated in Prime. That tune you hear every time you get a hint from a Chozo statue? That's the Hall of Elders theme from Prime 1. It's a touch I love that subtly reinforces the the 2D and Prime games being in the same continuity by making them at least a little musically consistent.
Right? I had so much fucking trouble with that fight. I was genuinely surprised to see Ridley being the difficulty complaint in this video and not Mother Brain.
@@Quaternality Yeah I've been playing through it recently via the Switch and Mother Brain has been an absolute wall for me. Ridley took me two tries. I plan to look up a guide as well and it's nice to see that I'm not the only one doing so. Excellent game, though.
@@QuaternalityMe when I fight Ridley: Ha Ha Missile go brrr Me when I fight Mother brain: WHY WON'T YOU FUCKING DIE, I HATE THESE STUPID SPAGHETTI-O THINGS
I know some people take issue with it, but I think the Zero Suit armor is brilliantly design. The Power Suit is large, powerful, and complex, so to contrast it, Samus' Zero Suit is sleek, unremarkable, and simple. I also think it adds to the practicality of the Power Suit since it make it super easy to move in rather than standard clothes. I'm totally not saying all this to hide the fact that I love plug suits and think Samus slays in it.
17:38 Thank you for saying this. So many UA-camrs see some small detail as a remote resemblance or coincidence, and they ASSUME one is definitely the predecessor to the other.
After everything I think I'd still call Zero Mission my favorite 2D Metroid and a contender for my favorite in the series. Happy to see it get some love on the channel.
Fun fact: when I first played Zero Mission, I didn;t know you were suppposed to back to Norfair from Ridley, & I somehow managed to get into main section of Ridley via the way your supposed to exit the main section
Metroid Zero Mission is the best way to start the Metroid franchise, bearing that if you only beat the game. Completing the game is very tedious and exhausting, and the final boss gets stronger if you get everything. I also think Metroid Fusion is a great second game to play afterwards.
So Trav, Zero mission was based on the Famicom Disk System original, which did not have that Kid Icarus sounding bit in the Escape Theme. That portion was specifically added for the NES port for reason I've forgotten, but it is faithful to the original release.
Trav you are an absolute mind reading, time predicting wizard. Literally 2 hours ago I was talking with my girlfriend about getting sleep masks because my room gets really bright in the morning. Imagine my Surprise when I discovered this video was sponsored by a sleep mask company. You mad genius, you've done it again
it was only after the "shortest video on zero mission youll ever see in your life" did i check to see the video was an hour long. this is gonna be a good one
Man, I’m still waiting for the day you cover Metroid Dread. I know from this series how much you care for the series and i really want to hear your thoughts on it, and also on Raven Beak who is personality my favorite “Antagonist” of the series
The Carl's Walnut Brain reference is good., "Hehe-Hey Bird Chick, hey, you think that metal suit is hard? I got something harder than that right here! Yeah-hah! Aint that friggin' somethin'?"
Zero Mission is still my favorite game in the series, even though I bought it on accident. After having not played a Metroid game in years, I went to a Best Buy to get "the new one." Couldn't remember the name "Fusion" so when I saw Zero Mission, I bought it instead, not realizing it was a remake of the first game. I can see why people might have an issue with the last act, but, I definitely remember having my mind blown when I was running around in the Zero Suit my first ever play through. That, and the feel of getting your power suit back (combined with the music change) just made that whole section amazing to me. It's definitely not as special on repeat play throughs, but that first moment was special. Content like that being added into remakes is pretty rare now a days. kridly
13:51 Fun Fact! If you sequence break with a few tricky bomb jumps to get Varia early this cutscene actually shows the suit change. I find it cool how the devs either intended it or knew about the sequence break and added that as a little suprise
I love that with every 2d game up to this point, the space pirate grunts have more and more clear design inspirations off of the Alien Baltans from Ultraman.
@@someguyyouprobablyneverheardof same! Love house, love Metroid, it always bugged me a bit that they used the morph ball animation as samus' death in the show What a bizarre detail to see in a video how ever many years later 😄
Wonderful video; I feel you covered the scope of the game's themes really well, on top of giving the feel of the gameplay. The coverage of the manga was really appreciated, I'm long overdue to revisit it as an adult! Just to clarify around 51:30, the scene in Other M isn't a callback to PTSD, it's a panic attack related to the events of that game that Ridley happens to trigger. Samus is -supposed- to be reacting differently to him than she normally would. The English version rewrote her struggle to be more focused on pleasing Adam, whereas in Japanese she's got a whole arc about repressing her feelings and trauma going on. I really think you'd get a lot from checking out the fansub
Growing up I didn't know the final boss of mecha ridley is being built during the game and has multiple versions based on your percentage. These kinds of tidbits is why I watch reviews and retrospectives of my childhood favorites I no longer own (for some reason I lost all my favorite Gameboy games, except one: Metroid 2 RIP Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, Wario World 2 and 3, Megaman Battle Network 2, 3, 4 and Megaman Zero 1, 2, 3).
Return of the King! I wanna say Zero Mission was either the second or third Metroid I ever played because I can’t remember if I played Fusion before it or not. The Zero Suit sequence gave me so much trouble during my first playthrough, if you don’t know what you’re doing the pirates can really mess you up. I did not.
Something I'm surprised you didn't bring up is the chozo seen in game with Samus is named Old Bird with his being one of the chozo sages. His Samus's bird grandpa and the one who decided to adopt her.
Omg its the funny Trav guy who’s also the funny Metroid guy who’s also the funny quake guy who’s also the funny Ultrakill guy who’s also the funny Doom review guy who’s also the funny mario guy who’s also the funny Fashion police squad guy who’s also the funny BPM: Bullets per minute guy who’s also the funny roboquest guy who’s also the funny fist parade guy who’s also the funny Dread templar guy who isn’t one of the funny warhammer guys who is further also not a funny Halo guy who actually might be a halo guy who is also the funny Transformers guy who is also the funny Hrot guy who’s also the funny viscerafest guy! I love this guy! He’s funni
YOOOO I literally JUST got finished 100%ing Zero Mission with all 8 endings yesterday, amazing fucking timing for this Edit: just because I just got to the part where you mentioned the game being hard to 100%… yeah, I agree. The shinespark puzzles can get pretty brutal and the Hard mode endings (100% under 2 hours and the 15% run) are some of the absolute most difficult challenges I’ve overcome in a video game, but damn if it wasn’t the most satisfying experience mastering this game top to bottom. I’ve beaten it 10 times now, and I’m still raring to go back in for more. Surprisingly, by my last 100% playthrough (100% Hard Mode under 2 hours), I was able to pull off almost every single shinespark puzzle on the first attempt and my route had become so optimized that I beat the game in 1:42:18, shaving off 20 entire minutes from my failed 100% Hard Mode run (I barely missed it, getting 2:02:25). I’ve never had this much fun speedrunning a game before and it is absolutely amazing to me just how much replay value this game has with its plethora of sequence breaks and ways to abuse its systems. Bomb jumping, both vertically and diagonally are pretty damn easy to pull off, and by the end I even had horizontal bomb jumping down okay (even if I never really had to use it for much). My favorite moments were when I got neck deep into absolutely sequence breaking the fuck out of the game that I was trapped deep in Ridley’s Lair and I didn’t have the necessary items to get out, so I had to abuse Bomb jumping and wall jumping (which I didn’t even KNOW was in the game until I was trying to get out of a shaft and muscle memory from Super Metroid kicked in and I figured it out LOL) to get my way back out of there. This game has left such an incredible impression on me, it meshes perfectly with what I look for in a video game and I honestly don’t think I’ll ever truly forget the 100% route now. Edit: huh. I’m surprised you didn’t really like the Zero Suit segment all that much. It’s probably my favorite part of the game. I love how it does the “Samus loses all her abilities” shtick but in the middle of the game rather than just at the beginning, and running for dear life from the Space Pirates is so exhilarating. By my last couple playthroughs I had the entire segment down like the back of my hand but even then I was *still* finding new shortcuts through the maze of Chozodia and the Mother Ship. Oh, and doing this segment on a 15% Hard Mode run where I had literally 1 full energy tank max? Such a satisfying challenge to overcome.
Before Dread, Zero Mission was my favorite Metroid game, and it's still one of my favorites. So much so that along with Dread, I have beaten the game on Hard mode 100%. I haven't done anything else worthy of a CG, but I still love ZM to my core, and I thank it for helping me get into Metroid.
1:05:41 OH NO TRAV, NO! I know EXACTLY why it crashed here and it's EXTREMELY stupid but also extremely easy to fix in game. So normally during the Tourian segment in NEStroid you're expected to have missiles for basically every missile door you've come across, as well as the Metroids themselves. Ordinarily when you kill a Metroid it's hard coded to give you at least one missile ammo pickup, however if you use the debug password WITHOUT grabbing at least one missile expansion (Because why would you ordinarily? you have infinite missiles even without actual missiles.) the game doesn't know what to do and will crash trying to place a missile ammo pickup without you having missiles. Extremely stupid but easily fixable: Pick up one single missile expansion before Tourian if you do a NARPASSWORD run.
I rechecked the release date of this video when you made the (2nd) HellDivers joke and wondered how long you'd been working on this. The effort and time spent is appreciated.
Trav, i gotta say, looking back at the first video i saw you make (ultrakill) to THIS!? yea thats a testament to Quality over Quantity. keep up the amazing work man.
No jokes here just. Beautiful video man. I have a deep adoration for the Metroid series as a whole (second favorite series) and this was a fantastic love letter to it. And I'd say OG Metroid is fine to return to....... When nothing else is available.
Zero Mission was my very first 'real' Metroid game years and years back and it hooked me hard. I can't not do a few playthroughs during the year, especially randomizers. My brain putting the bits together to realize that I could grab the super missiles at the 32:00 mark is what really sealed it for me and turned me into a fan. But for that super missile tank, did no one tell Trav that that floor can be bombed to make the shine spark easier?
Lovely video. I adored this game. Still more into Fusion but when I played it the zero suit part was a complete surprise and as someone who never played the original, zero mission was a gem.
The Zero Mission tie in manga is something I really want to read because that moment is so amazingly dark, and it makes Ridley out to be a character I actually cared about killing every time he showed up. Still one of my favorite dragons tho
i played Zero Mission so many times in a time where i had no internet for like two months (i can't recall why), it was my first Metroid and i still love it to this day
First time viewer, and I absolutely loved this! I laughed over and over and had a good time down memory lane. Thanks, new friend, and you’ve got a new subscriber!
I think this is one of my favourite games to attempt speedruns. I love Metroid Dread for the fact that it exists and it's really fucking good, but the amount of things you can do in this game is so fun.
can’t believe zero mission invented women
Leon: pff.
Women.☕️
@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32HAHAHAHAHAHA
_siiiiiippp_
I’m truly grateful
It was such a revolutionary invention
So revolutionary they made them in real life
"The game that invented speed running, worms, & women." Already hooked, lets go.
wait didn't super metroid invent speed running?
RAID AND KRIDLY MY BELOVED
You say that as if it’s a ship name and I don’t like it… but I’ll still like the comment
13:15 just another -2 years before that prime video! Can't wait!
Trav is just operating on the proper Prime release schedule 🤷🏻♂️
17:03
Hello, musician here! I’d hate to be that guy, but Kraid’s lair is actually in 6/8 time signature, not 3/4. Yes, there’s a difference. With 3/4, you can distinctly count 3 beats in 1 measure. However, with 6/8, is comprised of 2 major beats with triplets in between, making up 6 beats. It’s all about feel. If you feel 3 beats, it’s 3/4, if it’s 2 (which feels more like a sway), it’s 6/8. Hope this clears things up!
Man, 11 year old me definitely felt some type of way when Samus took her suit off in this game. I'm embarrassed to admit I kept replaying the game just to see that scene over and over again
Guess you started out early, eh?
Midriffs have that power. Enough said.
Samus is the OG beautiful badass after all!
1:03:00 Clever girl, incorporating that infamous NES Metroid password into the script.
Fun fact: you can cheese the Ridley fight by just staying underneath him the entire fight and shooting missiles one at a time. Spamming shots of any kind is what sets him off into the tail attacks, so take it slow and methodically while staying underneath him. He’ll continually swoop down on you but as long as he doesn’t touch you with his hands you won’t take damage. Occasionally he’ll use the big five-fireball attack and that’s your opportunity to get some missile recharges and then get back to shooting him one at a time.
This is literally the only method I found that worked for me on Hard Mode 15%. I was stuck with 2 super missiles and 2 regular missiles so it was a necessity!
33:54
Trav: it's freaking hot this time of the year
Also Trav: *sleeps under a monstrous blanket*
18:05 oh my god I thought those were chicken legs the whole time, never saw the bird faces.
Literally just saw it as a pair of disembodied chozo legs, because jumping real high with magic bird tech, it made sense.
The way metroids lore comes together is truly incredible especially for a nintendo franchise. The story of Samus is something so incredibly well built to be adapted into a film or tv show. The way everything comes together from metroid to metroid dread just feels perfect and ai can't help but love it.
Best ongoing storyline in gaming
Metroid Dread gets too much credit. It was a poorly told story but most people that play video games are not particularly well-versed in story-telling literature.
@@MaximumPayine literature by definition is a different medium of storytelling than videogames. And to that point there's probably not any videogame stories that compare to great works of literature. Which is why I said best storyline in gaming. (A medium where gameplay and experience come first). No need to try to get elitist.
@@MaximumPayine What part was poorly told exactly? Just curious on your outlook here
@@booski1865 Using these ridiculous urban dictionary terms does not make you sound intelligent.
And then claiming something as ignorant as, "literature by definition is a different medium of storytelling than videogames" just shows that you have no understanding of what you are talking about. You made a comparison between "great works" (whatever that means or what you are referencing, you didn't bother to expand upon) and video game stories, as if one just came out of thin air and doesn't exist from pre-established literary devices and culture that have roots in language.
On top of which, you go on make a subjective claim about how it's the best storyline in gaming (whatever vague definition "best" is supposed to have). It just goes to show that you only pretend to be an academic and clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
Have some humility. If you don't know, that's ok. Don't inflate your ego over trivial things. Not everyone will enjoy the same things you will.
That Proto-Zero suit from the old Nintendo comic looks like the uniforms SHIELD Agents wear in the 90s Spider-Man Animated Series, which just reminds me that we almost got Samus in the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance game, and I will never not be mad that they fumbled the ball on that. We were robbed.
WE ALMOST GOT WHAT NOW?!
@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 Oh yeah, Samus and Link were planned to be in MUA as a Nintendo exclusive, and were even fully playable at one point as shown in like a press release demo or something. But because that demo was running on a PS2 (like seriously, how did they screw that up??) Nintendo pulled the plug on that idea.
Which side note: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is a Switch exclusive, why didn't they bring them back?? It would've been perfect! And if you recall how they almost put Samus in Fortnite, that makes it three times we nearly got a Marvel x Metroid crossover, and we've been denied every time
@@SpiderGoblin2012In the words of Matt McMuscles:
"[Nintendo]! FUCK EM!" (Only sometimes)
16:46 It's interesting you mention this because at least going by ear, not only does Zero Mission's soundfont use a lot of the same samples as the Prime games, namely the chanting sounds, albeit heavily compressed due to being on the GBA, Zero Mission actually uses leitmotifs that originated in Prime. That tune you hear every time you get a hint from a Chozo statue? That's the Hall of Elders theme from Prime 1. It's a touch I love that subtly reinforces the the 2D and Prime games being in the same continuity by making them at least a little musically consistent.
Playing Mother Brain: I must be doing it wrong it can't be this bullshit
Checks walkthrough: oh ok
Right? I had so much fucking trouble with that fight. I was genuinely surprised to see Ridley being the difficulty complaint in this video and not Mother Brain.
@@Quaternality Ridley eking out as Trav's hardest boss here wouldn't happen if the run weren't on Hard mode, I suspect.
@@Quaternality Yeah I've been playing through it recently via the Switch and Mother Brain has been an absolute wall for me. Ridley took me two tries. I plan to look up a guide as well and it's nice to see that I'm not the only one doing so. Excellent game, though.
@@QuaternalityMe when I fight Ridley: Ha Ha Missile go brrr
Me when I fight Mother brain: WHY WON'T YOU FUCKING DIE, I HATE THESE STUPID SPAGHETTI-O THINGS
Ridley is piss easy, even on hard mode, mother brain is the real challenge.
Finally, we’re back on the metroid track
@@hgmd3284 gotta be my fav trav videos other than maybe the X videos😮
@@jimdaizel463sameeeeeee 🙌
I will forever love Samus canonically owns a pet rabbit-like alien in Pyonchi.
I know some people take issue with it, but I think the Zero Suit armor is brilliantly design. The Power Suit is large, powerful, and complex, so to contrast it, Samus' Zero Suit is sleek, unremarkable, and simple. I also think it adds to the practicality of the Power Suit since it make it super easy to move in rather than standard clothes.
I'm totally not saying all this to hide the fact that I love plug suits and think Samus slays in it.
17:38 Thank you for saying this.
So many UA-camrs see some small detail as a remote resemblance or coincidence, and they ASSUME one is definitely the predecessor to the other.
After everything I think I'd still call Zero Mission my favorite 2D Metroid and a contender for my favorite in the series. Happy to see it get some love on the channel.
Sponsor of today's video: Raid and Kridley
Trav you promised to put zero suit samus on the thumbnail
Fun fact: when I first played Zero Mission, I didn;t know you were suppposed to back to Norfair from Ridley, & I somehow managed to get into main section of Ridley via the way your supposed to exit the main section
Metroid Zero Mission is the best way to start the Metroid franchise, bearing that if you only beat the game. Completing the game is very tedious and exhausting, and the final boss gets stronger if you get everything. I also think Metroid Fusion is a great second game to play afterwards.
4:07 HEY I'M THE #1 CROCOMIRE FAN HERE, GET IT RIGHT.
Great vid, always love me some Metroid content
So Trav, Zero mission was based on the Famicom Disk System original, which did not have that Kid Icarus sounding bit in the Escape Theme. That portion was specifically added for the NES port for reason I've forgotten, but it is faithful to the original release.
28:37 And here I used to hear a portion of the Mother 3 Love Theme. (This is such a cool catch that I can't believe I never got before)
Trav you are an absolute mind reading, time predicting wizard. Literally 2 hours ago I was talking with my girlfriend about getting sleep masks because my room gets really bright in the morning. Imagine my Surprise when I discovered this video was sponsored by a sleep mask company. You mad genius, you've done it again
Really, really enjoyed this video. Informative, respectful, hilarious, and introspective
9/10 Best movie I've watched this month
Thanks!
12:39 Funnily enough the 5-bomb charge combo did in fact come back in Other M of all games.
I never knew that mecha Ridley gets stronger with the more items you've collected, neat detail
it was only after the "shortest video on zero mission youll ever see in your life" did i check to see the video was an hour long. this is gonna be a good one
1:02:59 ah yes a reference to the beloved code that never works
Babe, wake up, new trav guy metroid video.
You sure are a man of your word, Trav... Nice job!
Man, I’m still waiting for the day you cover Metroid Dread. I know from this series how much you care for the series and i really want to hear your thoughts on it, and also on Raven Beak who is personality my favorite “Antagonist” of the series
The Carl's Walnut Brain reference is good.,
"Hehe-Hey Bird Chick, hey, you think that metal suit is hard? I got something harder than that right here! Yeah-hah! Aint that friggin' somethin'?"
I can't believe zero missions made speedrunning and women
Also zero mission my beloved finally got a trav video
Let’s go! I loved your other Metroid videos. Glad you’re covering them again
Ive been waiting for this, so excited! Rewatching all the metroid vids and replaying the games myself since the prime 4 hipe is real
we are so fucking back, Trav!
You have no clue how hyped I've been for this video
16:14
“What’s in door #2?”
_weird mix of laughter and screaming i guess? trav were you okay from that_
34:38
here too
8:15
I can’t believe this is how I found out you could super missile those robot things to make them go faster
Zero Mission is still my favorite game in the series, even though I bought it on accident. After having not played a Metroid game in years, I went to a Best Buy to get "the new one." Couldn't remember the name "Fusion" so when I saw Zero Mission, I bought it instead, not realizing it was a remake of the first game.
I can see why people might have an issue with the last act, but, I definitely remember having my mind blown when I was running around in the Zero Suit my first ever play through. That, and the feel of getting your power suit back (combined with the music change) just made that whole section amazing to me. It's definitely not as special on repeat play throughs, but that first moment was special. Content like that being added into remakes is pretty rare now a days.
kridly
13:51 Fun Fact! If you sequence break with a few tricky bomb jumps to get Varia early this cutscene actually shows the suit change. I find it cool how the devs either intended it or knew about the sequence break and added that as a little suprise
Back on that Metroid grindset
33:00 Dude the Popcorn felt like a callout because I already wanted some when you said it. Thank you for telling me to fulfill my dreams.
I love that with every 2d game up to this point, the space pirate grunts have more and more clear design inspirations off of the Alien Baltans from Ultraman.
i was not ready for that hyper specific house reference
btw video slaps thank you travis guy for the sustenance
@@someguyyouprobablyneverheardof same! Love house, love Metroid, it always bugged me a bit that they used the morph ball animation as samus' death in the show
What a bizarre detail to see in a video how ever many years later 😄
I love the consistent theme in your Metroid videos where you mispronounce Zebes on purpose most of the time.
This was my favorite game in the series. I'm glad you made a video on it.
Wonderful video; I feel you covered the scope of the game's themes really well, on top of giving the feel of the gameplay. The coverage of the manga was really appreciated, I'm long overdue to revisit it as an adult!
Just to clarify around 51:30, the scene in Other M isn't a callback to PTSD, it's a panic attack related to the events of that game that Ridley happens to trigger. Samus is -supposed- to be reacting differently to him than she normally would. The English version rewrote her struggle to be more focused on pleasing Adam, whereas in Japanese she's got a whole arc about repressing her feelings and trauma going on. I really think you'd get a lot from checking out the fansub
I just finished Zero Mission as my first Metroid game recently!
Been waiting for this one for what feels like forever!! Mad respect for always coming back around to continue this series!!
Just in time for my Metroid marathon, can’t wait
Growing up I didn't know the final boss of mecha ridley is being built during the game and has multiple versions based on your percentage. These kinds of tidbits is why I watch reviews and retrospectives of my childhood favorites I no longer own (for some reason I lost all my favorite Gameboy games, except one: Metroid 2 RIP Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, Wario World 2 and 3, Megaman Battle Network 2, 3, 4 and Megaman Zero 1, 2, 3).
Return of the King!
I wanna say Zero Mission was either the second or third Metroid I ever played because I can’t remember if I played Fusion before it or not. The Zero Suit sequence gave me so much trouble during my first playthrough, if you don’t know what you’re doing the pirates can really mess you up. I did not.
Something I'm surprised you didn't bring up is the chozo seen in game with Samus is named Old Bird with his being one of the chozo sages. His Samus's bird grandpa and the one who decided to adopt her.
Aw hell yeah I've been waiting for this!
Omg its the funny Trav guy who’s also the funny Metroid guy who’s also the funny quake guy who’s also the funny Ultrakill guy who’s also the funny Doom review guy who’s also the funny mario guy who’s also the funny Fashion police squad guy who’s also the funny BPM: Bullets per minute guy who’s also the funny roboquest guy who’s also the funny fist parade guy who’s also the funny Dread templar guy who isn’t one of the funny warhammer guys who is further also not a funny Halo guy who actually might be a halo guy who is also the funny Transformers guy who is also the funny Hrot guy who’s also the funny viscerafest guy! I love this guy! He’s funni
FUNNY! MEGA MAN X! GUY!
It's finally here!
YOOOO I literally JUST got finished 100%ing Zero Mission with all 8 endings yesterday, amazing fucking timing for this
Edit: just because I just got to the part where you mentioned the game being hard to 100%… yeah, I agree. The shinespark puzzles can get pretty brutal and the Hard mode endings (100% under 2 hours and the 15% run) are some of the absolute most difficult challenges I’ve overcome in a video game, but damn if it wasn’t the most satisfying experience mastering this game top to bottom. I’ve beaten it 10 times now, and I’m still raring to go back in for more. Surprisingly, by my last 100% playthrough (100% Hard Mode under 2 hours), I was able to pull off almost every single shinespark puzzle on the first attempt and my route had become so optimized that I beat the game in 1:42:18, shaving off 20 entire minutes from my failed 100% Hard Mode run (I barely missed it, getting 2:02:25).
I’ve never had this much fun speedrunning a game before and it is absolutely amazing to me just how much replay value this game has with its plethora of sequence breaks and ways to abuse its systems. Bomb jumping, both vertically and diagonally are pretty damn easy to pull off, and by the end I even had horizontal bomb jumping down okay (even if I never really had to use it for much). My favorite moments were when I got neck deep into absolutely sequence breaking the fuck out of the game that I was trapped deep in Ridley’s Lair and I didn’t have the necessary items to get out, so I had to abuse Bomb jumping and wall jumping (which I didn’t even KNOW was in the game until I was trying to get out of a shaft and muscle memory from Super Metroid kicked in and I figured it out LOL) to get my way back out of there.
This game has left such an incredible impression on me, it meshes perfectly with what I look for in a video game and I honestly don’t think I’ll ever truly forget the 100% route now.
Edit: huh. I’m surprised you didn’t really like the Zero Suit segment all that much. It’s probably my favorite part of the game. I love how it does the “Samus loses all her abilities” shtick but in the middle of the game rather than just at the beginning, and running for dear life from the Space Pirates is so exhilarating. By my last couple playthroughs I had the entire segment down like the back of my hand but even then I was *still* finding new shortcuts through the maze of Chozodia and the Mother Ship. Oh, and doing this segment on a 15% Hard Mode run where I had literally 1 full energy tank max? Such a satisfying challenge to overcome.
loving the outtakes you kept in
Before Dread, Zero Mission was my favorite Metroid game, and it's still one of my favorites. So much so that along with Dread, I have beaten the game on Hard mode 100%. I haven't done anything else worthy of a CG, but I still love ZM to my core, and I thank it for helping me get into Metroid.
It's good to have you back Trav Guy
Nice to see you upload Trav. The bit with Samus's past and the manga was really interesting. She's such a mysterious character.
I absolutely adore this channel, been watching for a few years now!!
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OH NO TRAV, NO! I know EXACTLY why it crashed here and it's EXTREMELY stupid but also extremely easy to fix in game.
So normally during the Tourian segment in NEStroid you're expected to have missiles for basically every missile door you've come across, as well as the Metroids themselves.
Ordinarily when you kill a Metroid it's hard coded to give you at least one missile ammo pickup, however if you use the debug password WITHOUT grabbing at least one missile expansion (Because why would you ordinarily? you have infinite missiles even without actual missiles.) the game doesn't know what to do and will crash trying to place a missile ammo pickup without you having missiles.
Extremely stupid but easily fixable: Pick up one single missile expansion before Tourian if you do a NARPASSWORD run.
New Trav Guy metroid video!!! hell yeah!!!
I rechecked the release date of this video when you made the (2nd) HellDivers joke and wondered how long you'd been working on this. The effort and time spent is appreciated.
Trav, i gotta say, looking back at the first video i saw you make (ultrakill) to THIS!? yea thats a testament to Quality over Quantity. keep up the amazing work man.
Huh, y'know? I think this is actually the first of your Metroid reviews that I've watched on release day 😅
Glad to be here though!
No jokes here just. Beautiful video man. I have a deep adoration for the Metroid series as a whole (second favorite series) and this was a fantastic love letter to it. And I'd say OG Metroid is fine to return to....... When nothing else is available.
the start was amazing
Zero Mission was my very first 'real' Metroid game years and years back and it hooked me hard. I can't not do a few playthroughs during the year, especially randomizers. My brain putting the bits together to realize that I could grab the super missiles at the 32:00 mark is what really sealed it for me and turned me into a fan. But for that super missile tank, did no one tell Trav that that floor can be bombed to make the shine spark easier?
Lovely video. I adored this game. Still more into Fusion but when I played it the zero suit part was a complete surprise and as someone who never played the original, zero mission was a gem.
Really good some of your best work yet Mr. Guy❤
The Zero Mission tie in manga is something I really want to read because that moment is so amazingly dark, and it makes Ridley out to be a character I actually cared about killing every time he showed up. Still one of my favorite dragons tho
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Been a Metroid fan since the original released. All of your hard work paid off, because this was a great video. Thank you
Man, I started the series with Fusion, but Zero Mission turned me into a Metroid fan for life.
Trav guy you're being added to the people i rewatch when nothing hits
Please do not resist
i played Zero Mission so many times in a time where i had no internet for like two months (i can't recall why), it was my first Metroid and i still love it to this day
I just finished the game for the first time and wanted to watch some reviews of it and I loved your video, thanks for creating it!
First time viewer, and I absolutely loved this! I laughed over and over and had a good time down memory lane. Thanks, new friend, and you’ve got a new subscriber!
Im really liking the drunk style of video editing
My 3rd favorite Metroid, jut behind Super and Prime. Excellent video, Prime 2 next?
Bro It feels like I've been waiting YEARS for this and it's been well worth the wait.
I love the fact that the reason that gave you the extra push you needed for this was Metroid Prime 4 news dropping.
I will be calling him Hello Maxwell from now on, thank you.
55:54 why does Samus look like the gigachad meme?
New Travis guy video
Trav guy is one of the few youtubers that can make a 1 hour video feel like a 15-20 minute video
I always thought the whole youtube unsubbing you from channels thing was a myth, i was wondering why I hadn't seen these in a while.
I think this is one of my favourite games to attempt speedruns. I love Metroid Dread for the fact that it exists and it's really fucking good, but the amount of things you can do in this game is so fun.
Man I was really excited for this video for the past month or so since this is my favorite Metroid game and this video really did it justice
40:10 Trav, what did you mean by that?
Don't worry about it
Glad to see ya back Trav!
Zero Mission my beloved.
38:20 This escape theme is also in Prime 2