Super Metroid - Reverse Boss Order speedrun in
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This is a speedrun of one of the most difficult run forms in Super Metroid, aiming to beat the main bosses in reversed order, which forces to go through heated or water filled rooms without any of the suits for constant energy loss or greatly restricted movements. With an optimized route featuring new speed tricks and boss strategies exclusively developed for the unique conditions of this run, a completion time of 26 minutes is reached.
Enjoy!
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This is a tool-assisted speedrun. More info at TASvideos.org/
Samus got to Ridley's room faster than Ridley.
Indeed~
Samus is just siting there tapping her foot waiting for ridley
THis is impossible nobody can do this when it says tool assisted speedrun what the hell kind of tools are used here?
@@Andronicus87 The "tool" in tool assisted speedrun is not a tool. Rather it is a bot that bassicly does frame perfect imputs a human cannot do, well a human that isnt either peaque performance or otherwise.
What a rough fight! Damn that’s quite intense to go down to Norfair and beat Ridley without the varia suit 😱
When Adam doesn't authorize the use of Gravity suit:
just useframe perfect wall jumps instead lol
@@just-meesThe Space Jump is the one that makes you Spin Jump almost infinitely, the Gravity Suit is for surviving to lava and walking underwater
No animals were saved in the process of making this video.
WHAT?!? MY LORD
Were there any frames saved at least, though?
They shouldn't have been saved.
The Elemental Bois why
SAVE THE TURTLE BIRDS
Baby metroid is stolen by ridley, 40 minutes later it is enormous and dies
40... Try 20!
That's why it's so dangerous
They grow up so fast T^T
its all those hormones we put into food these days. its unnatural
FluffyZergling and GMOS in our food!
TAS are actually an amazing art. Just because they're not a live performing art like non-TAS or ballet doesn't make them something to scoff at. Lots of effort goes in to making these incredible sequences that complete incredible tasks. Remind you of another art form? Yeah, programming! Nobody scoffs at that, now, do they?!
God job. This is a masterpiece.
I mean TAS is a robot, unless of course i'm missing something. Which i very well might be, so if I am enlighten me.
Amen, brother.
This takes even more effort than some dances, you have to memorize every inch of the map and have pixel-perfect timing
@@6666-s4y no it's not. Tas means tool assisted.
@@6666-s4y TAS is not 100% robot. The person uses tools to play the game frame by frame and rewinds every mistake. Every working action is recorded and then played back in real time by AI.
The animals would have been killed anyway because the chozo statue was undefeated so it was waitting to Samus to appear again. The animals tried to escape and when they got to the room... the chozo statue... oh my god, it was horrible.
It was a traumatazing experience, i was there too :(
SpaiCrab but if you escaped maybe the animals did... or are you a ghost...?
@Seto Kaiba First of his name Bottle Torizo
Big White Duck The bomb dude
Jonathan Brum Bomb Torizo
Dat 9 health Ridley energy tank pick up.
Let alone that 4 health revocery shortly before that, at 23:54, from the energy spheres left by Ridley.
A split second later and Samus would have died mid-air reaching for them.
@@LinkEX no, she had reserve tank, she wouldn't die
It's a good thing energy tanks full restore her energy in all the games instead of only giving 100.
@@coolguy02536 yeah, truly a life saver
@@darx7684 she used the reserve tank in the room with the zebesians so no she didnt
>Reverse Boss Order
>Not defeating Mother Brain first
Smh.
John H Not actual reverse boss order. 0/10. Disliked, reported and flagged.
UH? How did this person get a shinespark under water right after he killed the fish boss? Impossible I call shenannigans beyond the tools used for the speedrun.
I mean getting to mother brains place is literally impossible without first killing the other main bosses no matter the trick used
And yes i know this is a joke don't crucify me
@@6666-s4y check out the category rambo
666666 666666 Not so. If you get the X-Ray scope you can X-Ray climb into Tourian. You can also X-Ray climb to get to a save spot during the escape after beating mother brain, save and reset, which then ends the escape counter. At that point you can then go beat the other bosses.
No wonder how SA-X knew how to move around!
Also the SA-X: What is a morphball???
46:46 Uhh, Samus? You're leaving Samus and Samus behind.
samus1&samus2: we will stay here project those animal
Zoltier853 everything you know is a lie, they are predators and so they turned invisible and activated their special arm bombs.
Hood Squigga Is that MatPat?
SlashTrike no, that's a reference to the movie predator, hince why he said they are predators
Samus within Samus within Samus within Samus...
Oi, but the way they disapeeared wasn't normal. They had a slight disappearance animation :0
Poor Kraid. He noped so hard.
I spent 10 minutes trying to find the Kraid fight. I don't know whether to be impressed or feel ripped off.
ChibiTails Lol 38:20. Sick run but that had to be the best part lol
OMG XD
that was so funny.
nope nope nope I'm outta here.
Kraid: “Hey Samus you wanna see how big I am now?”
Samus: “no”
WHO DARES DISTURB MY SLUMB-
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I like how, judging from another TAS on this channel, doing the bosses in reverse only adds 4 minutes.
Lol, that is odd to think.
I was laughing the whole time. TAS videos like this are utterly hilarious. Imagine if something like this is how Samus *actually* fights instead when there's no human player behind the controls...
Glad you had fun
Imagine a rom hack of fusion where you have lots of SA-X playing like this to reach you lol
That'd be scary, because if it's the Canon... I think Samus is the most powerful living being in the universe
@@Paulinho_66This is what I always see in all Metroid TAS Videos, but I understand it, they would be extremely hard to dodge
5:14 Skulls near the top of the elevator area are unlit.
5:26 Now they're glowing.
6:22 They turn to look at Samus as she goes up.
Never caught that before.
Altrunchen pretty spooky :o
Altrunchen makes you think everything on zebes is alive
that's pretty sOoPy
2, Super, and Fusion had amazing horror elements
That entire suitless norfair was a nail-biter. Making it to the refill room with 8 energy, holy shit
Whenever there is a hard mode build in a game there are always these fanatics wanting to create an impossible version of the game. Respect.
So you have seen super metroid impossible?
Lower Norfair is hard enough without your health constantly draining.
Plus the beer lava and I think that is the fastest way to die in this game.
It's acid. and i think it looks more like ginger ale
Gibson Schrauben the beer lava is acid.
I will never call it Acid again. Beer lave needs to be the amended term for that.
Beer lava. Good job guys... now I will always laugh when playing Lower Norfair
Incredible. I was cracking up laughing the whole time because I didn't know how else to react. I know theres some tool assistance but these skills are sick. Not to mention the time and energy it takes to know every room like the back of your hand and every essential power up worth the time getting. Plus the amount of times the health got down to like 10 when your about to spawn in a heat/enemy filled room and somehow survive is unreal.
who needs a Varia suit when YOU DA BOSS.
Assisted or not, still pretty fucking impressive
Rauuuur! I am Kraid! And... nevermind...
buchertm ikr? I was sitting there thinking okay, awesome, Kraid time! After all those other fights I bet this one will be---
*Kraid nopes out*
---done in four seconds.
When you put him like that... Kraid looks adorable xD
So, this is how Samus fights in canon?
She doesn't fight in canon. She fights in cannon.
Well considering, how she pretty much wiped out an entire species. Yeah.
Salt_ as A firing squad weapon the cannon that uses a cannon ball? Or official story line canon?
Joseph Mauricio Flores omg imagine if her arm cannon shot out cannon balls or even like morph balls that be hella funny.
46:45 Thank you, Team Samus, you have outdone yourselves this mission.
Whoa!!! I just noticed that those three little critters that teach you how to wall jump are actually singing the same music as when you pick up an item!! 14:18
WOW that was completely crazy... doing lower norfair without any suits... that is just insane... and awesomely good!!! Grats on that... really... wow :)
and i know how TAS speedruns works... i did a short 1min once... took about 10mins to record while playing in slow speed... was fun... but nothing close as being as amazing as this one... everything is just so perfect... :)
The celebration at 40:48 was my favorite part
I'm speechless... He made it to the depths of Norfair without the Varia Suit.
I almost felt sorry for Kraid towards the end there... Almost...
The Plasma beam practically 1-Hits him and Crocomire. It's almost worth the stress of having to get it early lol.
I cannot believe this. This game took me like 2 years to beat. That was incredible. I salute you, sir.
Uss Shutter Island how? Lol, its really short
Wheatley, o tijolo noob bridge :p
The tension kills me at 23:50
+SaturnTAS, how do you did 38:20?
Plasma beam is overpowered
@@oldschoolgames2589 Shoot a charged plasma shot, switch to missile, switch back to normal beam all in a very short time frame!
Ridley: well... now that I got the Metroid. Samus won’t get to me for a few hours. I guess I’ll just chill out and rela-
Samus: Hello Ridley.
Ridley: FU- (Gets face blown off)
31:20 That fight against Draygon blew my mind! This glitch... Maaan, you're awesome!
In all my life of playing Super Metroid, I have NEVER seen ANYONE perform that wave beam crossfire attack!
it was a bot
@@Gr33kChief yeah but its still possible by players, just charge your beam with the wavebeam only and powerbombs selected, almost every individual beam has one of these
OMG! This is one of the MOST INCREDIBLE THINGS I've ever seen in the world of games! Every jump, every shot and everything was planned and perfectly executed! NO MISTAKES!!! You're definitly a Jedi... Congrats!
Actually, from what I understand this is a TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun). It's been played at super slow rates. In other words the guy was using some kind of mod to play this game so slow that you'd have everything perfectly executed haha
I could be wrong but that's just the info I'm getting
+Julian Cruz it's still impressive even if it's TAS
+globaltrance86 Never said it wasn't impressive. It just shows how a perfect speedrun would look like for speedrunners to practice
+globaltrance86 So yes, it is indeed impressive. Very impressive. But it would be super awesome if someone actually pulls this off without flaw just like this TAS run
Goes to fight Ridley at 20:20. Before that it's collecting items to survive the trip.
+rareroe305 Rid Lee MingLee
rareroe305 we watched the same video nice
You got a nice amount of likes...don't mind if I take that away?
Thank you
My mind was more blown than mother brain!
Of course... ... Mother brain's... brain (kek lol xD) didn't blow. It disintegrated to dust. Even my mind was more blown than hers, and I wasn't even Impressed ;D
So much for the animals. #SadFace
and a girlfriend #sadfaceblueballs
Collect item is 29%
@@treeratrecordings the time traveller
The beauty of Tool Assisted Speedruns. I'm impressed.
This is one of the most impressive things I've seen.
My God, that Ridley fight.
This must be really hard to think through.
Ridley i dont understand how he was actually damaging Ridley by shooting away from him though. Really kinda confused me honestly...
Seth Kauffman It's a simple beam combo. Charge up wave beam while power bombs are equipped and 4 wave particles come from off-screen toward Samus in the shape of an X. You can see power bombs decreasing every time he does one.
Ridley no this guy is so good it was no challenge
That guy Is an Insane fool!
... Jk, but still, yes, that guy Is Insane :l
This is a tool-assisted speed run. Saturn just coded samus’s movements for every frame of the game
I'm such a fan of this kind of material.
Great work.
Thank you for sharing this video. [:
Dude! Truly the most badass run I’ve ever seen amazing!
You just cut down the biggest Pterodactyl in the universe with a herring!!!
I've been playing this hahahahahaha game for years you're the best player I've ever seen in my life for 35 years wow excellent respects for this player and the amazing super metroid game
Back when I was in my super metroid prime, I attempted a reverse boss run. I'm really proud to say I made it about halfway through lower norfair before I got stuck and gave up. I'm commenting pre-video and I'm REALLY psyched up to see this run!
Super Metroid Prime doesn't exist. Oh, you think every game of Metroid is Metroid Prime, right? Well, they aren't. Samus Returns' creators are stupid by trying to make Metroid 2 a Prime
@David2073 Dude, what? Back when I was in my prime "super metroid" running form. I remember back when I was a cringy gatekeeper. Grow past it, and you'll enjoy life more. This was a seven year old comment! XD
It's been quite some time since I've seen a speed run with as much risk taken as you've shown. I lost count on the number of times you'd almost died, well done.
"Heat ? Water ? What is it ? I need a "varia suit" and a "gravity suit" you say ? I don't care, I just wanna go fast."
"Oh my god ! A huge metroid want's to suck my brain ! Wast of time ! I wanna go fast !"
"He want's to give me a new weapon ? NO ! He's back to kill me with Mother Brain ! And look, I kill her without new weapon, faster than wait the end of a cutscene !"
Samus: GOTTA GO FAST
SquarD4RYC I loled more than i should.
I don't think Samus even needs that power suit at this rate, she just needs something to help her go faster. Shit, she makes ninjas look like child's play.
I was around when the game 1st came out. And I was the best in the neighbourhood. But you my friend, wow I've never seen anything like this. And I go on record saying you're the best I've ever seen at this game. Outstanding work it was an honor and a privilege to behold such amazing skills. God bless you and keep up the great work.
Demetrius dougar you do know it’s a Tool assisted speedrun right. As in, an AI did this.
Imagine adding all the tricks speedrunners have learned since like moon fall, mock ball, arm pumping, ect.
This man somehow managed to make Maridia seem not as sadistic-disgustingly-awfully-piece of crap painful as it is,
I admire you!
omg, everytime the TAS got hit and fell through the next door, i thought that it was a fail, but in fact it was all purpose to get even faster^^
Dude. You rocked this game's shit so hard... I was literally in awe the entire time. Hats off to you, sir.
The last Metroid is in captivity, the galaxy is at peace.
espectroshadow2 until some rampant asshole in a space suit comes out of nowhere and starts blowing shit to bits
the las metroid is in captivity... (0:26 mins later) -> the galaxy, is at peace
digga, Respekt liebe dieses Spiel.
du bist ja sehr Detail verliebt! Daumen hoch, und eine Freude dir zu zuschauen ;)
17:57 never thought I'd see Samus take damage in an item room
I think this is the best TAS I've ever seen.
And this whole time I thought you needed a silly thing like the varia suit!
that TAS was MONSTER DX you did it awesome take this hadouken to show my respect
I know this is a TAS, but it still felt so tense after the Ridley fight as you just waited for the door to open, just barely getting enough health pickups to make it to the Energy Tank.
Crazy that this is even possible, even if doing it in a reasonable time definitely seems to not be humanly possible.
I remember about 5-6 years ago or something, you had a preview of this reverse boss run.. I am so glad I found you completed it. I miss the music though you had lol. Thanks for your hard work and dedication Saturn =]
31:24 how!?!?!? Shine spark underwater w. no suit????
Craziest run I've ever seen man. Fantastic work!
sweet merciful jesus
I'm astonished!!! Fast and perfect! CONGRATS!
It's crazy that this is even possible. You need to use so many of the hidden secrets that were purposefully put into the game by the developers to even stand a chance with this
There's like one purposefully included secret in this (Crystal Flash). The rest is just necessary consequences, glitches, and design oversights in a monstrously complicated and open-ended game.
There's also the power beam combos.
Both of those were in the manual so are either actually secrets?
Jesus christ that 08 HP after running thru lava w/out a suit. Well done.
Rest in spaghetti Zebes, Never forgetti :v
No spaghetti,maximun regretti.
That was SO INSANE! Just how a human is capable of doing this?!! The person who made that speedrun is so talented at Super Metroid WOW!
Tsunami 67 Sarcasm? Or...?
Because this guy IS pretty damn talented, but still, TAS....
That wasn't sarcasm :) I really thought that
Tsunami 67 Tool assisted run, I'd assume.
actual run starts at 2:25
EDIT: Zebes starts at 4:25
Thank you
Mike Navarro
yw
You are ultra sharp with Samus man. Impressive!
This makes me realise just how badly I understand the controls after the dozens of playthroughs...
It's hard to believe this is an actual person because this is so Flippin accurate. This would have practiced every area 1000x to be able to do this in one shot like this
You see, when move faster than heat, no need for heat suit.
That was the fastest end-sequence completion I've ever seen.
Technically, it ain't reverse boss order if you still fight Mother Brain last, right?
Richard Dong It would be impossible to do MB first since you need to defeat the other bosses to get to Tourian. Also, killing MB activates the self destruct, so you couldn't defeat the other bosses
I'm going to end up on r/woooosh aren't I?
Doc McMoth
Yes, i think so, here is (preferd drink) to ease the pain..
Richard Dong 😞
There's a heavily glitched true reverse order, where you kill MB first and kill all the way backwards to Bomb Torizo. The self destruct is avoided with the x-ray glitch.
Good to see that you finally finished it. Well done!
15:21 so that two arm cannon Samus amiibo wasn't inaccurate after all...
Damn, the Norfair section is physically hard to watch
Weird that the game calls it a 26 minute clear when the video is 50 minutes long.
that's because the game only counts time when samus is active on the screen, going through doors does not count and since samus is going so fast between screens there isn't enough time to be counted in game.
also you need to take into account that the cutscenes are not skipped, there are at least 7 minutes between the intro, the ending and the credits.
Urban_Shadow_001
Still inaccurate by speedrunning measurements. Very few games use the in-game timer for speedrunning - the classic Sonic trilogy being the most notable of them all. 99.9% of TAS runs still use real time for the end amount.
Edit: Thanks for clearing that up though, I was also confused about the description vs video length
Didn't save the animals, that monster.
What is that attack Samus does in the Ridley fight? Her power bombs decrease but she isn't planting any? It looks like a crossfire homing shot?
Crystal Flash. Look it up.
YashumGod Pi I already know Crystal Flash and it isn't an attack, but nvm I figured it out.
Its called X-Factor bartdude82
Have Power Bombs selected and charge either Spazer, Wave, Ice, or Plasma beam on their own. It uses up a Power Bomb, pretty cool little trick.
That attack is in the user manual for Super Metroid. :D
Dude, im blown away, that was fantastic.
What? You can skip torizo??
this run is one of the sickest things i've ever seen
Can the E-tank at 6:03 be acquired that early by regular means or can it only be done through TAS?
It can.
Bomb jump
Absolutely breathtaking. Fantastic video!
hmmmmmmm rip Kraid :o
Bruh I have never seen anything like this. You are the best gamer ever
7:15 - Mmmhhh??? SOMEONE TOOK MY PRECIOUS BOMBS!! WHO WAS IT? I DIDNT SEE. nevermind. Lets take another thousand years of napping
Jeez...I can't even imagine how difficult this must have been, especially that first part. There's a reason you don't go into Lower Norfair or Maridia without the Gravity Suit...
Also, I'm guessing Botwoon, Crocomire, Spore Spawn, and both Torizo statues count as sub-bosses and don't count toward the reverse order.
The amount of absurdity showcased in this video.... satisfied me
Bae: Come over.
Me: Can't, playing Metroid.
Her: My parents aren't home...
Me: 38:16 - 40:33
It's nice to see that you didn't take the bait and instead opted to finish your speedrun. You have my respect.
@@yerman0564 I don't get it dude, she broke up with me saying I'm too quick or something but this is my career I don't‐-
I would love to see an updated version of this TAS. :)
I may have found someone with less of a life than me.
I love how you style on Phantoon before and after the fight
I thought I was good at this game. I was wrong.. lol
This was a tool assisted speedrun, so somebody played this game frame by frame to get all the RNG in the world and the best possible inputs, although.... RBO is still absolutely mad in terms of difficulty. I just started a run with savestates on an emulator, and leaving the room with the screw attack without space jump is driving me nuts. And I already opened the green door from the wrong side -.-
+Paintrain I know he's using TAS but still impressive none the less
You can't compare yourself to a TAS run. It's like comparing yourself to a god, as In comparing a non-perfect being to a perfect... deity?
Yeah same
You are aware that this was a tool assisted speedrun, right... Right?
I can imagine myself (super Metroid noob) attempting to do this, and getting myself stuck in some Marília room that you’re expected to use the gravity suit, and hearing the sad sounding Maridia theme
You couldn't have saved the Dachola and the Eticoons?
SquarD4RYC i think they are
SquarD4RYC yes
He couldn't save the Etecoons and the Dachoras because they are located in the Torizo statue Room.
If Samus were to enter there, the Boss Fight Would Trigger, Even during the escape sequence after Mother Brain.
So he would've had to have fought the Torizo Statue to save them.
This is so satisfying to watch
He killed the animals...
+AnnEXE frames are more important in a tas run
Then they try do a run of Metroid Fusion. Game over!
Gibson Schrauben I forgot i even commented that..
Why should he care about some animals he didn't even see? Or did you see them in this run? ;p
14:15 n,n