One thing I love about Metroid II and Samus Returns is that throughout the Metroid series we are told how dangerous Metroids are and how they are the ultimate bioweapon. But in most games we just see their larval form. These two are some of the few times we get to see just how incredibly powerful and dangerous they become when given time to metamorphize beyond the cute jellyfish stage. I mean a few Omega Metroids could probably lay waste to an entire army.
The problem is that only the larval state has the energy draining capabilities, which are the reason they’re so sought after: that attack kills extremely quickly and is extremely difficult to defend against or counter. The metroid mutations are strong but they don’t have that same deadly ability larval metroids have.
@@ASquared544 Friends on the evolutionary path they take. Hunter and Phazon metroids still have the energy drain ability The danger of Metroids is that they’re basically programmed to become the top predator of any biosphere they end up in
@@ASquared544 Are you sure about that? All of the Metroids you fight can drain multiple energy tanks with a single hit and faster than a larval Metroid can
Bro- We gotta thank Mercury for having portrayed Samus as this total badass since this game- The way she blasts the Diggernaut without even LOOKING at him- Jesus
Bro that's so true, I never get tired of that scene, she doesn't even look at that, just charges her beam and smash the head of that freaking diggernaut, it was indeed a pain in the butt in the game but just beating the crap out of him was so satisfying and this scene is just the cherry on the pie.
No kidding. I know Metroid are supposed to be a big threat to the galaxy but if this Metroid lived and grew up to Queen Metroid, would it be safe? We'll never know....
@@Gazing-09 yeah once metroids reach their first stage of evolution, they pretty much go out of control and go against anything that stands in it’s way, even their own creators were rejected by them and thus lead to another chozo tribe to take care of the situation. That didn’t go well…
In my opinion, mercurysteam saved Metroid as a whole. The previous two entries before Samus Returns were garbage, and it's possible that Metroid could've ended if Nintendo didn't do something to fix it. Samus Returns was the light that Metroid needed, and they've kept the series alive with SR and Dread.
@@x-celsius5905 And they hung in there with Retro studios to bring us Prime remastered, which, after Dread's resounding success, really made Metroid relevant again. And now we're getting Prime 4! Mercury did an awesome job
@@Rockacroc1928 oh absolutely!! I feel like, after the success of dread and the excitement around prime 4, Metroid could have a bright future as we go into a new console generation.
Makes me wonder if Mercury Steam should be asked to make a reimagining of Super Metroid or Metroid Fusion. Super Metroid might be one of the best games ever, but I wouldn't be averse to a game that reinvents it (and includes the original SNES game in the package as a side bonus).
@@darkdill Mercury steam remaking super metroid would be amazing. Honestly right now, I'm waiting for retro studios to remaster Metroid primes 2 and 3 for switch before prime 4 comes out next year, but a super Metroid remaster would probably excite a ton of fans.
Not enough can be said about how much Mercury Steam was able to characterize Samus with just body language in both this game and later Dread. All her qtes with the evolving metroids, her "oh just die already" to Diggernaut, her moment of hesitation with the hatchling, the sheer vitriol in every interaction with Ridley, even the hatchling in phase 2 just vibing by the ship going "yeah, kick his ass, Mom!", all just pure perfection.
Man I spent like an hour+ on Diggernaut, I didn't know you could use Spider to prevent being sucked in and that you could jump on the head when it's electrified as long as it's on the bomb openings. Couldn't figure out Queen Metroid either with the grapple mechanic, had no idea what the red orb meant, nor to use spider to stop from being pushed against the fire wall. FeelsBadMan.
I'll admit, my first thought was that you're supposed to use Phase Drift to avoid getting pushed into the wall. Kinda glad it's not like that, Aeion management takes enough mental energy as is LMAO
@@Bullboy_Adventures Yeah, let's just not use anything that someone bad also used because they have the power to turn anything they touch into something bad even if it's totally innocent, right? Or at least you're giving them that power. Pepe is still being used across twitch and gaming communities, and for the longest time I didn't even know about any supposed connotation. I assume many others don't either. Let it stay that way, and the good guys win.
The whole Ridley fight was just pure eye candy. Thank you Mercury Steam for picking up this franchise! If they so happen to remake Super Metroid, I am definitely onboard for it!
@@gamersupreme4504 He didn't die. Ridley has almost wolverine levels of regeneration. He's pretty much impossible to kill, unless you blow up the whole planet he's on, like Samus did in Super Metroid. He Just passed out. Then, once he woke up, he discarded his cybernetics, regenerated, and left to kidnap the baby metroid.
To be fair, Kraid was a joke because that was a much more experienced Samus who had already defeated Kraid twice Like, this game is BEFORE Super Metroid- where Samus defeats Kraid for the second time
Kraid was giant and bulky. Too gargantuan to barely move around. The original Kraid had some space but Samus used her agility to get around, over, and on his spikes he shoots along with his other attacks. And Kraid was easily agitated, opening his mouth when his face has been shot, leaving his open mouth vulnerable to attacks. Kraid despite his efforts was unable to stop Samus twice on Zebes. Whatever was left of him was also destroyed by the planet's destruction. His clone Kraid in Dread had one disadvantage. Being restrained while the rest of his lower body was deep in lava. Obviously, Raven Beak had his boys keep him chained down and have some way to eliminate him should he escape. That's my opinion anyhow. Kraid didn't get to move around much while Samus was thrashing him. His anger had being bested only got Kraid furious and broke out of his restraints, which was already bad enough because if his restraints were completely broken, he would be incinerated by the lava. Which is exactly what happened after his defeat. Samus already knew that as dangerous as Kraid was, he was restrained and literally is in lava which is a death trap on its own. All she had to do is make him undo the shackles and collar and the lava itself would finish him. Samus already defeated him twice, and she had to beat him down and let the once mighty Kraid survived by his clone on short time more or less take himself out.
@@Macadamian111hey no one cuestioned why was kraid theres assuming his defeat how end in that planet AND much important how he always survive what is the purple guy AND concluiding even dead ridley's body has no respect literally a space parasyte take his form
@@theoriginal____starwalker oh yeah absolutely, its an archivement by itself, atleast the community is active and aprecciate the franchise so thats really cool.
I still gotta say that the queen fight on the fan game felt epic unlike the single stage fight on the official and more appropriate as a final boss, plus having ridley show up literally out of nowhere is jarring
I've been stuck on the turtle looking boss for a good while, because I thought it was a Metroid form. Been blasting it with ice beams until I saw someone beat him with regular beams.
@@kezo1410it’s not at all. They are completely different. Zero Mission is a remake of the first game for the NES and Samus Returns is a remake of the second one for the GB. They don’t even resemble each other in any iteration.
Glad to see some comments giving ridley some love cause I see alot of the fanbase who think he overrated and he is use too much and Metroid need new threat even though he never was a final boss in any game before Samus returns and he usually have fun and memorable boss fights
He never should have been a final boss. He's just a random space pirate commander. He's nowhere near as powerful as his leader mother brain, or as a queen metroid, or as the SA-X, or as Raven Beak, and especially not as any form of Metroid Prime. His strongest incarnation was Omega Ridley from Corruption, and even then I doubt that he would as strong as a Queen Metroid, yet in this game he steals the finale for himself. It's nonsense.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 not as strong as mother brain? maybe in super but in zero mission she just shoots a laser that is not even that powerfull also in super he is the most difficult boss of the game
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Good job showing your complete lack of understanding about Ridley, going on about power levels and other garbage when it's his personal history with Samus that's important here.
Dear Nintendo I am so pleased with dread and have new found confidence in you making Metroid games but please make this available on the switch I'd love to play this game since I don't own a 3ds
If you want to cancel some of the Queen Metroid's attacks spiderball onto the wall, lay a power bomb with morph ball over and you will get launched into the Queen Metroid
Thanks, I try that. I can't beat it on hard mode. I keep dying on the attack with green balls, where the fire goes on the ceiling and back wall, and then on the floor, leaving nowhere to go.
@@richardchaney7295 also some attacks can be avoided if you morph ball under the queen metroid's head. Like she doesn't shoot the fire underneath her own head if I recall correctly
So i always wondered the baby metroid at the end of super metroid is giant but still in its first stage does that mean it could still turn into a queen?
I think it does not evolve into the next face because it was fed excessively or was experimented on. It just gets bigger and sucks more energy. It's called the "Super Metroid" (what gives the game its title, as well as being in the Super Nintendo)
I like how the Proteus Ridley themes are references to Super Metroid (Phase 1), Metroid Prime (Phase 2), and Metroid Fusion (Phase 3) but the Ridley there is just an X parasite
God, watching this after Dread having come out reminds me of all the QOL changes Dread makes, like a wider range of fire while running instead of just 3 directions and the Flash Shift allowing you to quickly dodge things. It just makes me ask how they didn't think of it sooner.
Just finished the game on emulator and almost broke my XBOX 360 controller (and my wrist) during Ridley fight. How can you spam beam shots so fast on original hardware - 3DS?
@@hugo9766 Yes, anyone who has played this game knows that, but it's very obvious he's playing on an emulator and without an analog stick. It's easy to tell, because whenever he's aiming, he's obviously standing in place (as you would with the L button), but he aims in either a perfect diagonal, or in a 30-degree angle. On actual hardware is almost impossible, due to how the Circle Pad works. If you have a 3DS, you know what I'm talking about. And also, as someone who has played this game on 3DS for hundreds of hours, to the point that I can beat every boss without taking a hit, I can tell you it's very evident he has no idea what he's doing (as if it's the first time he's played this game), and that his movement is extremely weird and erratic, to the point where he if he was playing on original hardware with that level of skill, he'd get hit non stop. I call save sates or slowed-down play speed. See, it's very evident that against the Alpha Metroid at 0:23, he shows he doesn't understand you can only hurt it with missiles, yet he avoids getting hit regardless. At 2:20 he doesn't recognize the extremely obvious floor electrify attack telegraph, to the point he's about to get hit, but manages to get a frame-perfect jump before the attack is executed, so he avoids it. After killing the Gamma Metroid, he stands in place, and aims perfectly diagonally up and shoots at the door. At 3:09, he performs a perfect turn-around in the air while fighting the Zeta Metroid, which is downright physically impossible to do with a Circle Pad. Not only that, but he keeps jump-firing the Zeta Metroid during the fight, because he can't aim at it, whereas any 3DS player would just stand in place and shoot at it, because the Circle Pad allows you to do this. This is not to mention yet again, that at 4:18, he fails to recognize the timing for the parry, misses it, and then performs, yet again, a frame-perfect jump to avoid getting hit. I could go on and on, but you get the point. Ngl, I was kinda hyped for this video, because it's always a delight to see masterfully skilled players pull off challenges such as this, but this guy is just an unskilled, cheating fraud lol.
@@hfc2x I've made a mistake. I thought he was being aggressive, and I overeacted. I finished this game for the first time à week ago, and was a bit salty, since I sucked at it. I honestly was amazed by the skill of the player, and I misunderstood the comment. My bad. (Didn't know you have emulator for 3ds, ty for that)
The life cycle of Metroids is weird. It goes from a jellyfish looking thing, to a beetle, to a armadillo, to a spider, to a more believable metamorphosis of lizards. After that they stay pretty reptilian (even if they aren’t) looking like dragons and dinosaurs. The Queen Metroid looks like the Biolizard from Sonic Adventure 2 lol. Really the only thing “Metroid” about each form is their jelly bellies. Their mouths too I guess. They always have those teeth and shape. These aren’t even the only kinds of Metroids. There are mutant variants in the Prime games. Which weirdly come before this in the canon. But explains why Samus spared the baby Metroid. The new Ridley boss kinda bridges the gaps. Showing he’s going from Meta Ridley back to his original body. Since in canon it goes 1 then the Prime games. Kinda like if Darth Vader’s suit healed him over time. And in ROTJ he has less of his suit because he doesn’t need all of it now. So by the time Super Metroid happens, Ridley is back to his old self and ready to fight. Probably should have kept the cybernetics tho.
If you are referring to the one that looks like a velociraptor that's a Zeta Metroid, Omega are the ones that look like buffed up Zetas with the big mouth
Because sure. Let's give the local version of the Xenomorph Godzilla's breath attack. Not like they weren't dangerous enough already. ...This just makes me realize how _dangerous_ the X actually *are* if something like *these* are the only sane solution.
@@syweb2 they *were* an accident. It's been stated that the Chozo did not account for the Metroids to undergo metamorphosis and turn violent against them
This is before the fight on Zebes in Super. The fight in Fusion, kind of makes Other M cannon... as that is a clone of ridley that got turned to stone and put in cryo only for an X parasite to infect it.
To me, Arachnus seems to be a special metroid. His body looks like a mutated version with the shell's color and his mouth. Edit: oh and body disintegration. Edit 2: Guess who forgot the fusion boss fight.
I don't see the resemblance as the fights feel completely different. The only thing they have in common is that they are difficult robot bosses guarding an upgrade.
These are easily the best boss fights in the series…Metroid Dread has some good boss fights too, but other than Dreads final boss I prefer the Samus Returns bosses…..idk which overall gameplay style I like better when it comes to, well, the overall games, but when it comes to bosses the new 2.5D style wins for me hands down
Other the fact that both AM2R and Samus Returns are remakes of Return of Samus I don't even know why people are even comparing them to each other, they look practically nothing like each other excluding the fact that there both side scrollers.
@@anwenlokier2292 No, this baby Metroid is the same one that died at the end of Super Metroid, Samus was turned into a Metroid because of the Metroid vaccine she got to fight off the X-parasites in Fusion.
While you are correct, this is not the full story. Basically, after the Baby Metroid dies at the end of Super, Samus went back to SR388 and got infected by an X Parasite. In response, the Galactic Federation used remains from the baby Metroid to create a vaccine, which in turn made Samus herself part Metroid.
I wish they added serris into the game somewhere to give some context for why he appears in fusion (and by appear i mean act as a nice looking skeleton decoration in a fish tank). AM2R did that and I thought it was pretty cool
That's one of the few complaints I have with this Metroid game, and it is that they didn't thought of giving continuity to Metroid Fusion. It's a great remake, but what would've made it perfect for me was to add details like the ones AM2R did. At a point in the game I thought there were too much Alpha Metroids, the developers could've easily cut down a few and use that time and resources to make bosses of Metroid Fusion, since they're supposed to be creatures fron SR388, what the heck, they could've made them regular enemies but a little tougher than the rest so they'd seem like actual part of the ecosystem.
Well its seems like Ridley will really get Ridley out of Samus for good at the end Samus got Ridley out of Ridley (shouldve waited for Dread to come out and showed up but oh well heres the reason why they didnt add Ridley in Dread)
Ridley canonically died in Super Metroid. He was only in Fusion because the X found his corpse. Even then it wasn't him, but the X that reanimated his body.
One thing I love about Metroid II and Samus Returns is that throughout the Metroid series we are told how dangerous Metroids are and how they are the ultimate bioweapon. But in most games we just see their larval form. These two are some of the few times we get to see just how incredibly powerful and dangerous they become when given time to metamorphize beyond the cute jellyfish stage. I mean a few Omega Metroids could probably lay waste to an entire army.
The problem is that only the larval state has the energy draining capabilities, which are the reason they’re so sought after: that attack kills extremely quickly and is extremely difficult to defend against or counter. The metroid mutations are strong but they don’t have that same deadly ability larval metroids have.
Metroid prime would like to argue otherwise
So would am2r Ωs. One of ‘em took out the rescue team.
@@ASquared544
Friends on the evolutionary path they take. Hunter and Phazon metroids still have the energy drain ability
The danger of Metroids is that they’re basically programmed to become the top predator of any biosphere they end up in
@@ASquared544 Are you sure about that? All of the Metroids you fight can drain multiple energy tanks with a single hit and faster than a larval Metroid can
Bro- We gotta thank Mercury for having portrayed Samus as this total badass since this game- The way she blasts the Diggernaut without even LOOKING at him- Jesus
Makes me want to see their interpretation of Super Metroid. I have confidence they'd do it proper justice
@@alpharabbit2353 after what we saw in dread
Hell yeah
@@alpharabbit2353 A Super Metroid with Aeion abilities and actually good controls? Sign me the hell up.
Having been harassed by that robot for half the game, she’d totally be done with that thing’s bullshit
Bro that's so true, I never get tired of that scene, she doesn't even look at that, just charges her beam and smash the head of that freaking diggernaut, it was indeed a pain in the butt in the game but just beating the crap out of him was so satisfying and this scene is just the cherry on the pie.
Seeing how cute the baby Metroid acts here makes it's death in super Metroid that more devastating. 😭
No kidding.
I know Metroid are supposed to be a big threat to the galaxy but if this Metroid lived and grew up to Queen Metroid, would it be safe? We'll never know....
On 18:10 the baby Metroid was like "Get off my mommy!!!!"
@@Gazing-09 yeah once metroids reach their first stage of evolution, they pretty much go out of control and go against anything that stands in it’s way, even their own creators were rejected by them and thus lead to another chozo tribe to take care of the situation. That didn’t go well…
@@Gazing-09 and
I would have never given it away and tried to prevent it's Evolution
I’m so damn glad Nintendo was satisfied enough with Samus Returns to allow Mercury Steam to develop Dread.
In my opinion, mercurysteam saved Metroid as a whole. The previous two entries before Samus Returns were garbage, and it's possible that Metroid could've ended if Nintendo didn't do something to fix it. Samus Returns was the light that Metroid needed, and they've kept the series alive with SR and Dread.
@@x-celsius5905 And they hung in there with Retro studios to bring us Prime remastered, which, after Dread's resounding success, really made Metroid relevant again. And now we're getting Prime 4! Mercury did an awesome job
@@Rockacroc1928 oh absolutely!! I feel like, after the success of dread and the excitement around prime 4, Metroid could have a bright future as we go into a new console generation.
Makes me wonder if Mercury Steam should be asked to make a reimagining of Super Metroid or Metroid Fusion.
Super Metroid might be one of the best games ever, but I wouldn't be averse to a game that reinvents it (and includes the original SNES game in the package as a side bonus).
@@darkdill Mercury steam remaking super metroid would be amazing. Honestly right now, I'm waiting for retro studios to remaster Metroid primes 2 and 3 for switch before prime 4 comes out next year, but a super Metroid remaster would probably excite a ton of fans.
Not enough can be said about how much Mercury Steam was able to characterize Samus with just body language in both this game and later Dread. All her qtes with the evolving metroids, her "oh just die already" to Diggernaut, her moment of hesitation with the hatchling, the sheer vitriol in every interaction with Ridley, even the hatchling in phase 2 just vibing by the ship going "yeah, kick his ass, Mom!", all just pure perfection.
Man I spent like an hour+ on Diggernaut, I didn't know you could use Spider to prevent being sucked in and that you could jump on the head when it's electrified as long as it's on the bomb openings. Couldn't figure out Queen Metroid either with the grapple mechanic, had no idea what the red orb meant, nor to use spider to stop from being pushed against the fire wall. FeelsBadMan.
Awe, the feelsbadman meme. Brings back memories before the alt right made pepe the frog a symbol of hate
Gives more merit to you for winning without those mechanics. I feel the same way today 😅, and that's what I'm telling myself.
I'll admit, my first thought was that you're supposed to use Phase Drift to avoid getting pushed into the wall. Kinda glad it's not like that, Aeion management takes enough mental energy as is LMAO
@@Bullboy_Adventures Yeah, let's just not use anything that someone bad also used because they have the power to turn anything they touch into something bad even if it's totally innocent, right? Or at least you're giving them that power. Pepe is still being used across twitch and gaming communities, and for the longest time I didn't even know about any supposed connotation. I assume many others don't either. Let it stay that way, and the good guys win.
You spent an hour? I spent a day
0:47, 1:31, 11:11 Loved how it uses the same sounds from the Prime series. Kinda shows how far these portable consoles have progressed.
Can't wait to see your take on Metroid Dread's bosses!
I absolutely ADORE the shot at 17:09 recreating the main art for Super Metroid. It's absolutely AMAZING
Didn't noticed !
I still remember how i felt when seeing Ridley as the final boss, never been happier to go into a game blind
The whole Ridley fight was just pure eye candy. Thank you Mercury Steam for picking up this franchise! If they so happen to remake Super Metroid, I am definitely onboard for it!
It also explains why Ridley knew that station had the baby there in Metroid 3.
@@trisertricordoh2127 but i thought super was right after this game so if ridley just died how is he on zebes. i think its another clone of him
@@gamersupreme4504 He played possum.
@@gamersupreme4504 He didn't die. Ridley has almost wolverine levels of regeneration. He's pretty much impossible to kill, unless you blow up the whole planet he's on, like Samus did in Super Metroid. He Just passed out. Then, once he woke up, he discarded his cybernetics, regenerated, and left to kidnap the baby metroid.
4:19 The reaction time for that dodge immediately after failing the melee counter was incredible!
This game really respected Ridley. He felt aggressive and powerful. Look at Kraid in Dread. He was a joke to Samus. But Ridley here was out for blood
To be fair, Kraid was a joke because that was a much more experienced Samus who had already defeated Kraid twice
Like, this game is BEFORE Super Metroid- where Samus defeats Kraid for the second time
@@impartialknockbacknot to mention that unlike ridley kraid doesnt have agility on his side with that size
@@gabigote1439Kraid is a joke compared to Ridley
Kraid was giant and bulky. Too gargantuan to barely move around. The original Kraid had some space but Samus used her agility to get around, over, and on his spikes he shoots along with his other attacks. And Kraid was easily agitated, opening his mouth when his face has been shot, leaving his open mouth vulnerable to attacks. Kraid despite his efforts was unable to stop Samus twice on Zebes. Whatever was left of him was also destroyed by the planet's destruction.
His clone Kraid in Dread had one disadvantage. Being restrained while the rest of his lower body was deep in lava. Obviously, Raven Beak had his boys keep him chained down and have some way to eliminate him should he escape. That's my opinion anyhow. Kraid didn't get to move around much while Samus was thrashing him. His anger had being bested only got Kraid furious and broke out of his restraints, which was already bad enough because if his restraints were completely broken, he would be incinerated by the lava. Which is exactly what happened after his defeat. Samus already knew that as dangerous as Kraid was, he was restrained and literally is in lava which is a death trap on its own. All she had to do is make him undo the shackles and collar and the lava itself would finish him. Samus already defeated him twice, and she had to beat him down and let the once mighty Kraid survived by his clone on short time more or less take himself out.
@@Macadamian111hey no one cuestioned why was kraid theres assuming his defeat how end in that planet AND much important how he always survive what is the purple guy AND concluiding even dead ridley's body has no respect literally a space parasyte take his form
Best no damage compilations, keep going bro.
Can we just appreciate how the Omegas look similar to T-rexes.
I think they look like a Metroid version of Godzilla but shrunken down lol
@@kamakuragaming hey me kinda too
To me they look like Xenomorphs minus the second jaw.
I think metroids and xenomorphs are related they have evolution and a queen
@@Kaiju_TongThe entire Metroid series takes inspiration from Alien.
Power Bombs instantly destroy the Omega Metroid's case over it's weakspot
Thanks, that’ll come in handy!
The first one you fight (the one shown here) is before Diggernaut and as such, before Power Bombs
19:06 anyone else hearing a little pop when the baby Metroid goes onto Ridleys snout to drain some life outta him?
Yeah
I love how the 3 mega tornadoes at the end of the game on Planet SR388 look like the Metroid's inner tri-cores or nuclei.
Samus shooting the diggernaut without even looking at it is one of her most BA moments in all of Metroid.
11:03
D: im still ali-
Samus: shut up upgraded tester now give me my power bombs
One of the best moments in the game.
WHY DO BABY METROIDS HAVE TO BE SO CUTE!!!!!😭😭😭
Waou, that was incredible, a perfect no damage compilations¡
I've always found it odd that arachnus looks like an evolved metroid as well. With the same color scheme and similar shells
Maybe the Chozo used Arachnus DNA as the base for the Metroid
@@paulhemebert496 or perhaps the other way around as well
When I first saw this game I thought he WAS the form in-between gamma and zeta
Maybe the Space Pirates modified a Metroid thus, creating Arachnus
@@Just_Ants If I remeber correctly, the space pirates have not visitided SR388
How you got no damage during diggernaut I'll never know lol I hated that thing but loved it at the same time..that and the Metroid queen
3:01 I think Ridley Scott's gonna sue somebody.
Samus has incredible trigger discipline.
17:08 Super Metroid's portrait
I forgot how much of a banger the music was for these bosses.
Great work, someone who actually gets it
I love AM2R, but I gotta say the bosses in this game look much better-designed. The Proteus Ridly fight especially looks awesome.
I think that diggernaut's head looks like the tester's
Well yeah, am2r is just a silly fangame, nowhere near an official metroid game.
@@dippking4638 Although it did a great job with its concepts for being a fangame.
@@theoriginal____starwalker oh yeah absolutely, its an archivement by itself, atleast the community is active and aprecciate the franchise so thats really cool.
I still gotta say that the queen fight on the fan game felt epic unlike the single stage fight on the official and more appropriate as a final boss,
plus having ridley show up literally out of nowhere is jarring
I've been stuck on the turtle looking boss for a good while, because I thought it was a Metroid form. Been blasting it with ice beams until I saw someone beat him with regular beams.
Which boss?
@@sizzle5775 The one that looks like a turtle. Didn't realize I didn't put a timestamp in my comment
@@TheMarionick Arachnus?
@@sizzle5775 Idk what his name was but he turned into a ball and jumped around
@@TheMarionick yeah that's arachnus. I'm assuming this is your first 2D Metroid game as he is a re-occuring boss in the series.
these are such cool bosses I hope I'll get to fight some of them one day. I own the game but before I could get to the gamma Metroids my 3ds broke.
Use an emulator on pc.
@@pk6700 I use Mac
@@spaceman6753 It works on Macs that don't use M1 chipsets
@@internetguy7319Also why play an emulator when you got the real thing.
12:14 my favorite pary
The existence of samus returns gives me hope of a super metroid remake, and maybe even a fusion one
Samus returns is essentially a mission zero remake
So maybe we will se a fusion remake
@@kezo1410it’s not at all. They are completely different. Zero Mission is a remake of the first game for the NES and Samus Returns is a remake of the second one for the GB. They don’t even resemble each other in any iteration.
@@michaelasaro2885I think they meant that Samus returns is for Metroid II what Zero mission is for Metroid 1
You think super needs a remake???
@@theycallmejpj imagine super in dread style
Glad to see some comments giving ridley some love cause I see alot of the fanbase who think he overrated and he is use too much and Metroid need new threat even though he never was a final boss in any game before Samus returns and he usually have fun and memorable boss fights
He never should have been a final boss. He's just a random space pirate commander. He's nowhere near as powerful as his leader mother brain, or as a queen metroid, or as the SA-X, or as Raven Beak, and especially not as any form of Metroid Prime.
His strongest incarnation was Omega Ridley from Corruption, and even then I doubt that he would as strong as a Queen Metroid, yet in this game he steals the finale for himself. It's nonsense.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 not as strong as mother brain? maybe in super but in zero mission she just shoots a laser that is not even that powerfull also in super he is the most difficult boss of the game
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Good job showing your complete lack of understanding about Ridley, going on about power levels and other garbage when it's his personal history with Samus that's important here.
@@MoonstruckMelody The ''personal history'' that only exists in fucking Other M and mangas.
ive beaten the game without knowing i could have gone inside of the queen metroids mouth
Dear Nintendo I am so pleased with dread and have new found confidence in you making Metroid games but please make this available on the switch I'd love to play this game since I don't own a 3ds
Who knows they might just do it or not who knows.
Buy a 2ds they are like 30$/bones in my area
you know i like how this game in it's own violent way shows the life cycle of a metroid
4:44 always loved the omega Metroid’s entrance, reminds me of the jock guy getting his car repoed. “YO! YOU AIN’T TAKING MY SHIT!”
The Metroids are really starting to remind me of the Xenomorphs here.
It's the zetas isn't it?
@@mr.mothly oh yeah the zetas do kinda look like xenomorphs
Funfact that's because metroid is inspired by aliens
Ridley, my boy! Stepped since she's days
If you want to cancel some of the Queen Metroid's attacks spiderball onto the wall, lay a power bomb with morph ball over and you will get launched into the Queen Metroid
Thanks, I try that. I can't beat it on hard mode. I keep dying on the attack with green balls, where the fire goes on the ceiling and back wall, and then on the floor, leaving nowhere to go.
@@richardchaney7295 ok. I don't know which attacks it can cancel but I'm sure glad this could help you a lot :)
@@richardchaney7295 also some attacks can be avoided if you morph ball under the queen metroid's head. Like she doesn't shoot the fire underneath her own head if I recall correctly
@@CreamDollYT Thanks, I beat it on hard mode. Now it's just Ridley left.
@@richardchaney7295 ok I'm glad I could help.
So i always wondered the baby metroid at the end of super metroid is giant but still in its first stage does that mean it could still turn into a queen?
Theoretically, it could have. But because of what happens at the end of Super Metroid, that wouldn't ever happen
I think it does not evolve into the next face because it was fed excessively or was experimented on. It just gets bigger and sucks more energy. It's called the "Super Metroid" (what gives the game its title, as well as being in the Super Nintendo)
@@aetherinfuse I think the name was a happy accident tbh. Because for the SNES lots of titles had Super in it.
I like how the Proteus Ridley themes are references to Super Metroid (Phase 1), Metroid Prime (Phase 2), and Metroid Fusion (Phase 3) but the Ridley there is just an X parasite
God, watching this after Dread having come out reminds me of all the QOL changes Dread makes, like a wider range of fire while running instead of just 3 directions and the Flash Shift allowing you to quickly dodge things. It just makes me ask how they didn't think of it sooner.
Just finished the game on emulator and almost broke my XBOX 360 controller (and my wrist) during Ridley fight. How can you spam beam shots so fast on original hardware - 3DS?
20:05 don't ever talk to me or my son again
All the time thinking that I need to plant bombs and then jump over the air flow when the Diggernaut does the air suction attack!
That Ridley fight has to be one of the best in the series alongside the Super Metroid one
I don't know how my dumbass never thought to use the spider grip to avoid getting sucked into diggernauts mouth, that's amazing
Gratuitous tornado in the background vs. Meta Ridley XD
This game would have been so cool on Switch...
4:08 emulator issue, analog only has 8 directions
You can stop Samus and aim freely just by pressing R on 3ds.
He just aimed wrongly this second.
@@hugo9766 Yes, anyone who has played this game knows that, but it's very obvious he's playing on an emulator and without an analog stick. It's easy to tell, because whenever he's aiming, he's obviously standing in place (as you would with the L button), but he aims in either a perfect diagonal, or in a 30-degree angle. On actual hardware is almost impossible, due to how the Circle Pad works. If you have a 3DS, you know what I'm talking about.
And also, as someone who has played this game on 3DS for hundreds of hours, to the point that I can beat every boss without taking a hit, I can tell you it's very evident he has no idea what he's doing (as if it's the first time he's played this game), and that his movement is extremely weird and erratic, to the point where he if he was playing on original hardware with that level of skill, he'd get hit non stop. I call save sates or slowed-down play speed.
See, it's very evident that against the Alpha Metroid at 0:23, he shows he doesn't understand you can only hurt it with missiles, yet he avoids getting hit regardless. At 2:20 he doesn't recognize the extremely obvious floor electrify attack telegraph, to the point he's about to get hit, but manages to get a frame-perfect jump before the attack is executed, so he avoids it. After killing the Gamma Metroid, he stands in place, and aims perfectly diagonally up and shoots at the door. At 3:09, he performs a perfect turn-around in the air while fighting the Zeta Metroid, which is downright physically impossible to do with a Circle Pad. Not only that, but he keeps jump-firing the Zeta Metroid during the fight, because he can't aim at it, whereas any 3DS player would just stand in place and shoot at it, because the Circle Pad allows you to do this. This is not to mention yet again, that at 4:18, he fails to recognize the timing for the parry, misses it, and then performs, yet again, a frame-perfect jump to avoid getting hit.
I could go on and on, but you get the point.
Ngl, I was kinda hyped for this video, because it's always a delight to see masterfully skilled players pull off challenges such as this, but this guy is just an unskilled, cheating fraud lol.
@@hfc2x I've made a mistake. I thought he was being aggressive, and I overeacted.
I finished this game for the first time à week ago, and was a bit salty, since I sucked at it.
I honestly was amazed by the skill of the player, and I misunderstood the comment.
My bad.
(Didn't know you have emulator for 3ds, ty for that)
I understood you wrongly, sorry for that.
The life cycle of Metroids is weird. It goes from a jellyfish looking thing, to a beetle, to a armadillo, to a spider, to a more believable metamorphosis of lizards. After that they stay pretty reptilian (even if they aren’t) looking like dragons and dinosaurs. The Queen Metroid looks like the Biolizard from Sonic Adventure 2 lol.
Really the only thing “Metroid” about each form is their jelly bellies. Their mouths too I guess. They always have those teeth and shape.
These aren’t even the only kinds of Metroids. There are mutant variants in the Prime games. Which weirdly come before this in the canon. But explains why Samus spared the baby Metroid.
The new Ridley boss kinda bridges the gaps. Showing he’s going from Meta Ridley back to his original body. Since in canon it goes 1 then the Prime games.
Kinda like if Darth Vader’s suit healed him over time. And in ROTJ he has less of his suit because he doesn’t need all of it now.
So by the time Super Metroid happens, Ridley is back to his old self and ready to fight. Probably should have kept the cybernetics tho.
I never thought I'd say this, but after this game, I miss the traditional Metroids, I'm glad they appear at the end of the game
friendly reminder that 3DS games always look better when looking at them on an actual 3DS screen
Omega Metroid, oh lawd he comin’! :D
Oh one more thing my favorite lava is magoor caverns on Metroid Samus returns on 3ds.
The parry alone makes the Metroid fights honestly much better than in AM2R
The Omega Metroid looks like a dinosaur
Looks more like a giant rat with a ton of eyes
If you are referring to the one that looks like a velociraptor that's a Zeta Metroid, Omega are the ones that look like buffed up Zetas with the big mouth
Nice work
Because sure. Let's give the local version of the Xenomorph Godzilla's breath attack. Not like they weren't dangerous enough already.
...This just makes me realize how _dangerous_ the X actually *are* if something like *these* are the only sane solution.
It's possible the evolved forms were an accident, as the larval Metroids were dealing with the X with little issue.
@@syweb2 they *were* an accident. It's been stated that the Chozo did not account for the Metroids to undergo metamorphosis and turn violent against them
Bruh give my man ridley some rest. They can't keep ressurrecting and killing him like this lmaoo
This explains how a frozen corpse of Ridley ended up on SR388 after Samus killed him, (counts fingers) 6-8 times after that.
This is before the fight on Zebes in Super. The fight in Fusion, kind of makes Other M cannon... as that is a clone of ridley that got turned to stone and put in cryo only for an X parasite to infect it.
To me, Arachnus seems to be a special metroid. His body looks like a mutated version with the shell's color and his mouth.
Edit: oh and body disintegration.
Edit 2: Guess who forgot the fusion boss fight.
_Every_ enemy's body disintegrates in this game, with the exception of Diggernaut because it's a huge robot.
@@syweb2 yeah, but are the majority of the metroids. Ridley also does not disintegrate.
Edit: I mean the planet's biggest population is metroids.
@@yokai59loi36 Ridley doesn't disintegrate because he's not dead.
Also arachnus gets infected by the x
@@finnvaneekelen4966 thanks for reminding me. Yeah that disproved my theory.
Bro the Samus and baby metroid tag team!!!!
Oh ok so dread was NOT the first to introduce the melee counter interesting
Also free aim.
What The! The boss comes back as a stronger evolved boss!
“I took this job just to kill Metroids like you!”
I know ridley is supposed to be an homage to xenomorph but the metroids themselves couldn't be more accurate
Now I always think that could Raven Beak kill the metroids including the Queen. If he wanted to do it ????
easily
@@sasook I Think Rave beak arm cannon is not compatible to Ice Beam
@@thenoob_artist0586 He has a built-in hyper beam
I didn't know you could hold on to the ground while the Diggernaut is trying to suck you in.
It's kinda obvious in hindsight, as always.
I wonder what it would be like to see the baby Metroid become a omega Metroid and still be with samus
Not cute
Ridley out of nowhere.
Oh shut up, do you ever get sick of b&@ching about this game? Most of us actually like Samus Returns.
RETURN TO SAMUS SHOULD BE RELEASED ON THE SWITCH COME ON NINTENDO
It should have been the Switch to begin with.
Im was really sad when this game ended. I would love it to be longer.
Diggernaut’s theme sounds a lot like berserker lord from prime 3
being a dread player, you can tell that they really upped the anti
This game has done justice to the original
So, this is the first game where Ridley is the final boss?
The Diggernaut's head and beam attack left me a feeling that MercurySteam took some inspiration from AM2R. It looks like the Tester.
It's kind of generic; I can easily see it being compared to a Touhou attack.
@@syweb2 yeah it does
I don't see the resemblance as the fights feel completely different. The only thing they have in common is that they are difficult robot bosses guarding an upgrade.
I love this game I’m so happy got 3ds in 2023 I hope they Remake this game on Nintendo switch
Diggernaught was the hardest boss in the game for me.
without this guide I wouldn't have killed him at all
These are easily the best boss fights in the series…Metroid Dread has some good boss fights too, but other than Dreads final boss I prefer the Samus Returns bosses…..idk which overall gameplay style I like better when it comes to, well, the overall games, but when it comes to bosses the new 2.5D style wins for me hands down
Dreads is better?
Oh man i would love for Metroid 2 Samus Returns to come to Switch.
As much as I miss AM2R, in hindsight, this game represents the thought that maybe Nintendo DOES care about their fans after all.
Other the fact that both AM2R and Samus Returns are remakes of Return of Samus I don't even know why people are even comparing them to each other, they look practically nothing like each other excluding the fact that there both side scrollers.
Nintendo doesn't care. Recognition should be going to the developers at Mercury Steam.
@samq1004
Whatever. You know what I mean.
I need to hear a mashup of alpha metroid theme and supporting me
Wait I just fought of a theroy what if that baby metroid was responsible for changing samus into a metroid in metroid dread
thanks for the spoiler
@@crybaby3150 🤦♂️
@@anwenlokier2292 No, this baby Metroid is the same one that died at the end of Super Metroid, Samus was turned into a Metroid because of the Metroid vaccine she got to fight off the X-parasites in Fusion.
While you are correct, this is not the full story. Basically, after the Baby Metroid dies at the end of Super, Samus went back to SR388 and got infected by an X Parasite. In response, the Galactic Federation used remains from the baby Metroid to create a vaccine, which in turn made Samus herself part Metroid.
The Final Boss is hard to Defeat it
I wish they added serris into the game somewhere to give some context for why he appears in fusion (and by appear i mean act as a nice looking skeleton decoration in a fish tank). AM2R did that and I thought it was pretty cool
That's one of the few complaints I have with this Metroid game, and it is that they didn't thought of giving continuity to Metroid Fusion. It's a great remake, but what would've made it perfect for me was to add details like the ones AM2R did. At a point in the game I thought there were too much Alpha Metroids, the developers could've easily cut down a few and use that time and resources to make bosses of Metroid Fusion, since they're supposed to be creatures fron SR388, what the heck, they could've made them regular enemies but a little tougher than the rest so they'd seem like actual part of the ecosystem.
AM2R is overrated.
He isn't an SR388 native, only the first zone in Fusion was a SR388 clone
This game is very good. My only issue is that it's on the 3DS. I hope it ports to the Switch or Switch 2 someday.
I am not a Metroid fanatic by any standards.
I'm barely a Metrod casual.
But this?
**Oh I'd play this.**
Techically Samus should take damage from Ridley, but you did perfectly!
I call a break on Canon! Samus didn't blow the planet to smithereens at the end of the game!
Guest Starring: Proteus Ridley
I would imagine if they remake samus returns 3ds again, this time using the same new again as Metroid dread.
Great vid m8
Haven't played this game but watching this is making me think it's better than dread
It isn’t, but it’s still very good. Dread wouldn’t exist without this game.
@@sasook Or well, it prolly would, just not with the mechanics that SR gave us
I think this one is still solid, but Dread is the better game as they refined the controls and the bosses are more intuitive.
You shouldn’t have done this. It was a mistake. Now the X parasite will consume everything!
They never knew it wasn't like the Chozo ever told anyone about the X parasite.
Well its seems like Ridley will really get Ridley out of Samus for good at the end Samus got Ridley out of Ridley (shouldve waited for Dread to come out and showed up but oh well heres the reason why they didnt add Ridley in Dread)
bc this ridley was time on last metroid so timeline has to be super metroid
Ridley canonically died in Super Metroid. He was only in Fusion because the X found his corpse. Even then it wasn't him, but the X that reanimated his body.
@@zackwoods5077 true