Kinda flies in the face of Metroid Prime Hunters, where every bounty hunter has a morph ball mode

@@IzzySarru The other hunters all have a morph ball equivalent -- a mode where they are smaller and more nimble, but they don't actually have a morph ball. Only Samus has that.

Science team wisely moved on.

Awesome. RoboCop 2 style tragic.

It's simple, Samus has very malleable bones due to her chozo DNA infusion. I'm guessing that since the chozo are bird people their bones are hollow and highly bendable.

Hahaha I love that lore entry from Metroid Prime where the pirates are talking about their failed morph ball experiments

solid Prime reference.

well in prime we see her turn into energy wit hthe ball keeping it contained

She’s flexible. Ponderously flexible.

I have a theory she straight is insanely flexible due to her Schozo Genetic Enhancements and basically can see her own butthole on a whim when out of the suit or clothes.

everywhere you looook, everywhere you gooo

You got it dude.

and I am only 21

You are not alone

especially since I hated it lol

Also pretty sure game theory did an episode on this, and turns out the ball is much more voluminous that you'd think, to the point that a person of Samus' stature and fitness could easily fit inside with room to move around. People, especially contortionists, have fit into tighter 'packages'. Think: suitcase.

That's what Prime shows but it's more believable that she fits in there. Prime lore says that morph ball passages are about 1m in height, so the morph ball is about 1m in diameter, a normal person can roll into that shape. At the same time, Zero Mission has Chozo lore that says rolling into a ball was a physical ability the Chozo developed, and since the DNA transfusion gave Samus many physical attributes of the chozo, her gaining the flexibility to roll into a ball is really believable. She rolls herself up and controls the movement of the ball through the suit.

I recall it being called The Meditation Morph Ball at some point; turns the user into energy so they can meditate on something without their nose itching.

@@heehee1661 1m?? Ok, but why don't she just crawl through those passages?

@@javierandresgalazjeria9428 Well, it'd just be awkward and slow to crawl down a tube like that, and some spaces can't realistically be crawled through.

A few years older here and feeling the same, brother.

I'm 38 and just watching it is bringing me out in panic sweats lol

Almost 40 myself. Cleared it on normal and hard. The bosses weren't too bad, but hoo boy did I struggle with those chozo robot soldiers. Definitely not as fast as I used to be, but I've still got it. Really enjoyed this game!

I feel at my prime at 40. Placed the highest ever on a bodybuilding competition. feels were to read peoole saying stuff like this

Sweeee memories, from the corners of my mind

Man, wasting all that time on Expirment Z-57 only to find out I heals itself in the one attack you thought you were supposed to just run

@@Zeldinion wait, it heals itself? Well that explains some things

Sounds like they took some inspiration from Soulsborne games.

@@ManateeMentality I mean, hard bosses weren't invented by the souls games but I see where you're coming from

@@ManateeMentality ever heard of nes or snes? Almost all games were like this back then. It's just that modern games suck and only soulsbourne games keep the tradition

Yeah. same. but due to only being around people with even worse action game reflexes than me, I was convinced I was amazing. One of the downsides of the internet., realizing how much you suck at something you thought you were good at.

My brother is sooooooo much better than me at any video game. Boy does that make me mad!!!!

Sorry to hear that , I kinda felt the same a while ago when playing Street Fighter 2 at higher difficulties . My reflexes become rusty , lol

I started a hard mode run and dunked corpus like a chump. It wasn't even fair

Sequence-break to get the screw attack before the storm missiles and Escue gets bodied like Robotnik in Sonic 1. It's not even fair, just fun.

@@sluttyMapleSyrup true

My switch stays docked so I'm more at risk of tossing my Pro controller instead. I'll be dammed if I damage a 300 dollar handheld over a video game.

@@jpowers55 very possible to throw the controller at the damn port.

That one cracked me up

Actually even more. 1 energy tank is 99hp. I had 2 tanks and 87 hp with gravity suit (that already reduces damage a lot, by its description) and boss 1 shotted me. On normal mode.

Dont play hardmode you have been worn

Yeah the health bar is just a pretty decal on hard mode it doesn't actually do anything

@@rumotu The Final Boss's brutal charge that smashes you into a wall that you should REALLY be parrying?

Just got through the second to last boss on hard. One hit was doing about 400+. Good times. Ofc on try 6 I manage to go perfect and take no damage so yeah, who needs energy tanks anyway.

@Brandon Quist Do you know that you can kill that boss with a shinespark?

In her defense, she only has one hand. Which I guess is like trying to play Samus Returns with 2 😂

And killed.

*THUH BAYBEEs we met along the way

THE BABY

No, it's Samus herself.

You are a Metroid

Yep. Kirby, Dragon Age, Civilization... These guys gotta stop chasing the latest title.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...!! "Nintendo's cannibal". xD xD xD

They'll do a trailer for Kirby's Post-apocalypse Seattle Adventure, I'm sure

I’ve always wanted Kirby Superstar.

I do love some Kirby

Even after four playthroughs getting noticed by those things puts the fear of God in me 😆

@@sluttyMapleSyrup picked up the game again yesterday to stream it to some friends on discord and the “beep beep boop beep beep” gave me ‘nam flashbacks and my friends roasted me until they seen it chase me to the ends of the earth haha

Oh, my heart.. it hurts.

👏🤣

Throw Kid Icarus in there, too. I'm sure Pit is confused and terrified!

punch out and pikmin are also looking to go there soon since the latest punch out game was on the wii and there hasn't actually been a new, real pikmin game in years

@@dazcarrr I know people don't like Hey! Pikmin and don't count Pikmin -GrOw- Bloom because it's a mobile game but they exist regardless.

Fake news

*Doomslayer-esque sounds intensify*

Should i tell em, or you?

@@Smokey1419 No...no...let them find out...it's funnier that way.

@@theoddronin1 SPOILERS I mean... samus been a metorid since Fusion.....

Oh man same. I'd say I'm slightly over halfway through the main game.

Basic game for basic gamers.

All you have to know is that the phrase "nothing about metroid anymore" is kind of out of place ;D just reach the end xD

Plot?

Trust me, they missed an obvious spoiler-joke. You'll learn what I mean later.

Didnyou beat it yet because that ending was ahhhhhhhhh ^^

Same here, kinda wanna watch Dark Crystal again now lol

True, nice to see a Dark Crystal reference. They are very rare.

@@Nekomancer1983 The prophecy didn't say anything about this!! :P

im 25 and i feel called out XD

Hey, I picked up DMC at _30_ and I'm managing pretty well. Practice can overcome that sort of slowdown, just keep at it.

I'm old enough that I watched the Munsters when it aired on Nick at Night. I'm also old enough that I owned a NES and Metroid... man I'm old...

Practice can teach you to parry everything but the EMMIs. They seem deliberately unfair, and the only reliable way I could parry them is to not get caught in the first place. With everything else, this is the rare hard game where you feel your skills progress with each boss attempt. That and generous checkpoints helps keep the frustration in check.

Yeah, it took me like an entire playthrough or two to really get the parry down.

lol, end of the vid o.o

Make an honest trailer on Mind Jack

Throw in Rise of the Dark Spark too...

Seemed like dark crystal and the muppets segment called pigs in space

@@FoxUnitNell still bums me out, a Henson company Metroid film still has not happened. It would be epic

@@kadosho02 Yeah, all Nintendo needs to do is just ring up Brian Henson and ask him to make a Farscape-like Metroid movie.

@@Popcultureguy3000 it would be epic, I never give up hoping it is possible

If you want to see Skeksis in space, watch the Farscape episode, "Out of Their Minds"

We only need one

Samus: The Metroids are gone? Fine... I'll do it myself. *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

Next, Zelda will become the hero of time.

First game: "Whaaat? Metroid is a girl?" Latest game: "Whaaat? Girl is a Metroid?"

The Last Metroid isn't in captivity. The Galaxy is at peace.

to be even more accurate, she didn't actually wreck her ship....this time.

@@knuckles543 actually, come to think of it, she usually doesn't. Usually she just can't leave until the job is done

What's wrong with calling it a metroidvania anyway?

@@ZenoDLC The best logic that I have heard for why not calling a Metroidvania game a Metroidvania game is that the young might not know what a Metroid or Castlevania game is. They often prefer bland and uninteresting description for the genre as “Platform-Adventure”. However to me, Metroidvania describes the genre and awards honor to the most famous members of the genre: Metroid and Castlevania. So Metroidvania Forever!

The reason is because the genre is named after it so the name should say enough. It's like calling Rogue a roguelike. It makes no sense.

The Vania part is extremely important. Samus doesn't have heavy customization, non-necessary upgrades, and RPG based mechanics and narrative. Which new-age Castlevania games like Symphony of The Night being the progenitor started. So it'd be like calling Doom a Doom-Life when Doom has no sci fi thriller elements, right down to Doomguy/slayer shoving and punching the exposition.

@@countofarcadia The reason is more that you don't call Rogue a roguelike, and you don't call Dark Souls a soulslike game. The term is there to compare other games with the original inspiration. But for the larger point though, the reason games like roguelike and Metroidvania sometimes get pushbacks is that it forever puts the original games on a pedestal. For example all Metroidvania games are forever compared to Metroid / Castlevania, and it could limit what we could think of as valid games in the genre and limits innovations. For example, if we just called all FPS games as "Doomlike", then it would be kind of weird because the genre had since evolved to be much richer and varied than just the original Doom. It would be weird if all new FPS games still have to compared to the original Doom. I think we see this problem with "soulslike" games sometimes because it's still a new thing and there are a lot of confusions as to what actually constitutes a soulslike game other than "it plays like Dark Souls". But then it's not like we have found good names for roguelike, Metroidvania, etc, so that's the term we still use.

sssssh!

38 here, and the only brain fart I had while playing was the gap in the water where you get the spin jump. The item said you couldn't gain height while in water, so I took way too long to realize it still worked as a long jump. Didn't make the same mistake twice once I got the space jump.

bro my dad is 50 and i swear he can nail the emmi parry more than i can and im 24

The biggest hints were the blue fireflies. You see them you know you're on the right track.

Well that's a shift from the older titles.

@@austinpatterson7212 maybe hardmode, makes it like that

Original Metroid sent you all the way back to the start every time didnt it?

@@jemiebridges3197 yeah but it gave youa code to start at a elevator

@@pnguinkillr3091 But no map until the third title, so I was lost half the time on 1 and 2.

thats the beauty of it , metroid parime use to give me headaches, after and hour of looking were to go

That’s one of the things I found frustrating about it. It’s too linear, there’s not enough opportunities to use your new items to go back and do stuff you couldn’t before, you basically just forge ahead and get forced back to where you need to be to progress.

SPAMus Gun-hand is too good to pass up.

@@flashrogue4376 Well I will admit it is funny.

What if metroid was a grill?

@@skillcollector9800 I mean...

Theres a demo on the Switch EShop currently

bro you are missing out. such a great game! either as good as super or maybe better (im on the better end but thats just cause i dont really like super controls. i grew up with fusion)

I see what you did there... sneaky ;)

i can't believe metroid was bakugan this entire time

Metroid Dread, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, and Luigi's Mansion 3 make getting a Switch worthwhile on their own, and those are just the major Nintendo titles. EDIT: for non-Nintendo titles: Crash, Spyro, Lucky, Starlink, Shantae, and Shovel Knight. You can also get titles for more mature gaming like the Bioshock and Borderland collections, Doom, Wolfenstein, and both South Park games (stick of truth and fractured but whole)

@@CouchSpud91 you don't even mention smash bros

For what is worth they are trivially easy to emulate, too. Metroid Dread at 1440p and 165 fps on Yuzu is a treat.

It's real, with real Soccer-style "injuries," too.

I'd been playing AM2R a couple months prior to this (as my first Metroid game), and kinda learned what to expect, still getting my butt kicked a lot, but I understand why and slowly learn how to fumble my way threw, it's more fun than I ever would have expected honestly

I played Samus Returns on 3DS when it came out which has similar gameplay mechanics and still getting my butt kicked in this game. So satisfying to finally have a hard metroid game.

Moba and fps? Damn you've hit the third rock bottom

Amen 🤣

Until she actually sees that it's just Kraid, and instantly relaxes.

@@BaufenBeast “Oh Kraid, it’s just you. I thought it was somebody important.”

It's really not that bad.

*Cough cough David Jaffe Anyone? Cough cough*

Same

Ya, everyone seems to dismiss that game because it is a "remake" but it felt more like a brand new game, even more so than Zero Mission.

AM2R was amazing

@@thalanoth AM2R is the goat!

What i inderstand is that the last new entry is over 10 years ( metroid fusion)

@@gabrielrasilva you mean other m? Fusion was 2002 lol

There's a reason it's called 'Metroid' and not 'Metroids'.

I only get to play the first game, but yeah! Do it!

use an emulator, do Super Metroid. It's an order !

C&C is a Dune II clone!

That 'C&C style Dune game' is what led to C&C lol! It came first, not the other way around.

I never fails to make me laugh when Ghandi says that.