You forgot Galactic Pinball on the Virtual Boy. You actually get to fly the ship and shoot.

That, and two buttons that raise the shields and activates the weapons respectively.

You can collect more ship missiles but all you ever need is one. You can tell it was going to have a bigger part but they ran out of time.

Even withiut that, Prime 3 is a great game

@@ilimatroid8619 We don't know if those segments would have been any good so for all we know they might have dragged the game down.

@@Stuntmachine14 It must be interesting

Sorry for this noob question, but how did she end up with this purple ship? What happened to the classic yellow one?

@@johnny-mnemonic13 crashed into an asteroid belt when she got taken over by the X parasites. They gave her a new ship in exchange to investigate the B.S.L. while following the AI commander in it.

@@andreaquadrati cool. Did this happen in fusion game?

@@johnny-mnemonic13 Yeah, this is from the Fusion starting scene

@@andreaquadrati thanks!

Also “leave the entrance and exit at the top of the ship because why not”.

@@haihuynh8772 If you think about it, not many people other than Samus can jump that high.

You know if one day nintendo decides to devolop her charachter more it would be fun if they make her a sort of spaceshift nerd as neat little quirk of her personality.

Well, she did unintentionally crash one of them!

​@@haihuynh8772 Not in Fusion tho. You get beamed up to enter & beamed down to exit that ship.

Prime 3?

@@junojun722 Metroid 2: Return of Samus GB (Gameboy)

@@nicmendz Yes, i know that one, but you can do this in prime 3 too

@@junojun722 welp i have never played any of the prime games, sorry

@@bredoffender oops

shit really damn maybe i shiuld actually play it

How do you know prime 4 isn't even a thing yet

@@stormy2049 cause hes a genius

@@stormy2049 considering the events of Federation Force and how it ties into Prime 3, as well as the presumed villain in Sylux, it's pretty much guaranteed Prime 4 takes place directly after Federation Force. And ofc we all know the prime series as a whole takes place between Zero Mission and Samus Returns

@@TheXtremeBoltGuy why samus doesnt use the ped suit in samus returns then

Hell, the purple ship was given to her as a gift basically

Aren’t the round ship and the first Prime ship the same? I always assumed they were, just with different designs

@@davidmedina8136: That might have been the intent in the first Prime, but even if so, it seems they changed there mind with Prime 2, which clearly uses a design much more like the main games.

@@EmeralBookwise still, you can argue that they’re supposed to be the same ship. Why’d she switch to a different one for Prime 3 though? And since it returned for Federation Force, we know she canonically only uses that new ship for two missions (that we know of) then switches back to her Metroid 2/Prime 1&2/Super/Other M ship.

@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged: I don't think so. If it we just Prime 1, the maybe the difference in design could be hand waved as the same ship rendered in different art styles. It's not just Prime 1, however, the Prime 2 ship looks nothing like the Prime 1, and because the Prime 2 ship looks like the Returns/Super ship it makes it very clear that the Prime 1 ship can't be the same.

It also remixes a lot of other music from previous metroid games.

I think that's one reason I liked Samus Returns so much. It took the some of the small but best parts of previous games and implemented them into itself. Small subtle things that add to the experience.

It played it safe since it was the first 2d metroid in 13 years.

I'd have preferred all that to not be the case, honestly.

And the theme that plays when Samus is shown inside her Gunship is a remix of the theme that plays when she is in her Gunship in Metroid Prime 3!

Never thought of that but now that you mention it, that is pretty clever symbolism

Prime 3 in really cool roo

i think fusion's is ugly honestly

i still find it funny how the space pirates have sperm shaped ships and samus immediately ditched it after the one emergency use

​@@brandonwithnell612 given Space Pirate disregard for safety, I don't blame her. The thing probably made a TIE fighter look safe and well engineered.

The total amount of use of the ship is on par with the one from Fusion.

@@KesorodaBlk what about hunters

Makes sense. They all have a unique design when compared with the ships of the Federation. I wouldn't be surprised if all of these are Thoha Chozo designs, or at least heavily influenced by them.

I second that

Jup it’s the same ship she uses in Prime 2, Samus Returns, Super, Other M and the intro of Fusion. It sadly met it’s end in Fusions opening

So, basically kingdom hearts gummi ship segments

@@rexstocephirxiii4263 Not inaccurate.

The magic of scalable sprites on GBA and SNES

Here you go :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebJnbK9qxMW1knU.html

Dread is more like Fusion

@ Ik, but you can make out the details better in Dread because it's 3 dimensional and HD I'm not saying Fusion looks bad, I'm saying you can really only see the ship in Fusion from one or two different angles because it's a 2D sprite

@@ViolaDragon621 Amazing point.

I can’t unsee it

They are not

@@raphaeltouron9149 I mean beside the color difference and some minor things. They both have wings and the same front shape

@UCg_OImlYP5CVxnMh0S1McUw ah ok so it’s just a design choice

Well that design is dead since they essentially wanted a new look for Samus as a whole in Fusion. Because they grew bored of the Varia. Thus settling for destruction of her ship and the surgical removal of the power suit

@@theakiwar9118 The Metroid Prime series proves you wrong...no matter how you look at it, the Fusion Suit design is inferior to the original & is *UGLY* as sin.

Maybe Samus was lent or designed a new ship from the Federation that was either requisitioned back or destroyed. So she went back to using her previous gunship for Samus Returns.

Prime 1 and Hunters (and Pinball) were already using a different ship. Could just be that Samus has many. We don't know anything about her lifestyle outside missions.

@@TheWrathOfDraco Yeah, but those actually resemble the shape language of her original ship, so it could just be marked off as a design variation rather than a completely separate ship.

@@TheWrathOfDraco I always read Prime 1/Hunters' gunship as an early version of the Metroid II/Super Metroid gunship.

I'm pretty sure this video is only for official games.

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Why do you need AA on a screen that has the same resolution as the output. That’s like putting AA on a Super Nintendo while playing on a Super Nintendo

@@theakiwar9118 In the case of a SNES, AA wasn't necessary because of the way the image was projected onto a CRT screen: it smoothed out anyway. Because an LCD screen works differently, you need a way to smooth the image rendered on that screen. AA is what does this, but for the DS it was something that had to be implemented by the developper; it wasn't a standard thing. I personally found 3D games pretty harsh on a DS because a lot of them didn't properly had AA implemented. If we compare Ocarina of Time N64 on a CRT to the 3DS port, there's a noticable difference in rendering. That same difference becomes less when rendering both games on an LCD, because the original didn't have that need.

That or Prime 2. She lost her first ship in Zero Mission and so has a new ship in Prime which she continues to use in Hunters. For whatever reason she is then using a third ship in Echos, which appears to also be the same ship she will later use again in Returns and Super. Then for yet more unkown reasons she switches to a forth ship in Corruption which she continues to use Federation Force. Echos is really the odd game out, as ignoring that one game alone, the ships would otherwise transition in an entirely linear progression. Changing that single instance to either the Prime or Corruption ship would fix things.

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Have you not seen her samus returns concept art?

I think they changed Samus in Zero Mission and Fusion to convey that she's a nimbler character. I don't know if making her shorter was needed for that, though. That being said, both Returns and Dread have hit a better balance. She's still nimble but her overall appearance is closer to Super's. Either way, at the end of the day, what makes her a badass is not how she looks, but rather what she does. She's remained pretty damn consistent in most of the games on that front. I will admit that her ship looks a bit lame in Zero Mission. Too basic, maybe a result of the more comic-book like artstyle that Nintendo chose?

@@zappandy the zero mission ship is just there to show how she starts but it is intended to be destroyed. She then spends a whole trilogy and then some with a new ship and upgrading that. How she goes from her 3 design to her super design i'm unsure. But maybe we'll see in prime 4?

@@voltrainer That's right! I completely forgot that Samus crash landed her ship after being ambushed by the space pirates. I still don't like it haha I've also thought that Retro will develop a game explaining how she ended up with her Returns/Super ship.

Dreads ship is literally Fusions ship lol

I disagree immensely XD

@@theakiwar9118 yes, but the hues in Dread are darker. To be fair, in the GBA, they used more distinct colors to highlight the system's capabilities. @Carnivius Dread does actually have some distinct sections here and there. Nintendo did not show them off in videos as consistently, though. I think it's more a matter of the color palette they went with rather than being generic looking. I will admit that all of the EMMI sections in the game are pretty bland, but they are a small portion of the overall experience.

@@zappandy Uh. I have played through Dread. I got a (2nd hand) Switch pretty much for it. Bought it , completed it, sold it. So you don't need to talk to me like I never played it. I waited about 15 years for that disappointing experience. Jeez. And no it's not just Dread's colour palette that makes it look generic. in Super, Fusion and Zero I was constantly interested in exploring more and seeing each distinct location, heck even after multiple replays I still enjoy going to each section. I got nothing of that in Dread. The whole game felt like a slog to get through (and the EMMI sections are annnoying just like random battles in turn based RPGs. They feel more like a frustrating nuisance than intimidating) and I only did it so I could sell it and get most of my money back because holy crap it is so not worth it's retail price. Sorry if I seem a lil aggressive. Haven't slept. And yeah I really feel hugely disappointed with Dread. It's just not that good. The others I mentioned I have enjoyed time and time again. I can't imagine myself ever wanting to play Dread again.

@@theakiwar9118 and? It looks crap in both but worse in Dread.