Damn right it is :D

How do u shinespark so long? Is it a chain sequence?

@@edwardbrock3807 on the times where Samus hits an angled ramp with the shine spark (see first example in video) you have an opportunity to re ignite the shine spark once you get to the top. That first example uses three shine sparks👍🏼

@@edwardbrock3807 no, you can "reset" shinespark by shinesparking to a slope (Samus will have a run animation when you shinespark to a slope), then charge the shinespark again when running on a slope.

@@haykalhaykal920 ooooooh i seeee, cause it causes the run to have a treadmill effect

It would be perfect if you could use dpad.

@@sufamidan1006 - Dpad for this game would’ve ruined it imo, the controls are perfect.

Agreed, going back to the other 2D games, Super Metroid feels clunky by comparison to Dread.

@@10191927 shine spark drives me crazy with an analogue. Need more precision.

More like any 2d platformer.

I did most of these completely different from the video.

this right here is something i really liked, you can ultra skill these as you find them, or do a slightly less stressful version later when you have more abilities.

The flexibility of the Shinespark mechanics is the secret sauce. As long as you can build up and maintain the Shinespark you can start from anywhere. Fantastic set of mechanics.

the one at 1:13 can actually be done by literally running away from one of the enemies that suck you in to get speed boost, then running to the next room and walljump shine spark. fuckin adore this game.

@@yeaboy707 How I'm having hart time

I wonder if they add randomizer mode

@@okbVinyl As in fans making mods? I wouldn't be surprised. The actual devs? Highly unlikely if you ask me. I highly doubt they would add much to this game, especially since the level design is still highly centered around certain powerups. Plus, I feel like Sakamoto wouldn't want to add much to the game, and just continue on focusing on the series future. Although I may be talking nonsense, since I never play randomizers or know how well they work. Plus, who knows? We somehow got DLC for Luigi's Mansion 3, we might get some extra modes for Dread.

HK does also have some sequence breaks to spice up things even further. Things like getting the wings without the crystal dash.

Hollowknight does have some pretty good sequence breaks, like getting to the watcher knights and dreamer without the required mothwing cloak.

@@andrewcosmicanimations8709 highly highly unlikely they ever touch it again. It took MANY many years for Prime 4...AHEM... I mean Dread to come out already... Fans will make all sorts of mods for it though, as they have with SM. It is still the most popular game in the franchise, people speed running it daily.

I could swear the one door was stuck in one-way mode preventing me from doing it from the left like this video. Maybe I just didn't even try it 😂 Edit: maybe I just didn't try it from the left, I mean. I did get it by looping around from the right. Actually took me more tries than it should've as I didn't realize all of the blocks would break or stay broken and I was trying to make it more complicated than it already is.

Yeah I was just thinking it, I did it that way too XD. Never thought about doing it from the other door. Seems like every shinespark puzzle in this game has at least 2 ways of doing it

@@nameforcomments4092 you aren't wrong. It is a one way door. But looping back around isn't hard. The next room to the right has bomb blocks you can cross or power bomb through if you don't use the method shown

@@nameforcomments4092 I had the same experience. I'm not really sure how OP did it from below, but it seemed impossible for me because the door in Adam's room to go up there would lock up.

@@kik0le thats why he power bombs before starting the run, to open it from the other side as well as remove the bomb blocks

cant wait for this game to get modded. will probably finally get me to crack my switch

Honestly they could have included a puzzle mode and that might have potentially broadened the appeal of dread by a decent margin.

Someone should do this with Zero Mission, can also Shinespark with Morph Ball, and it’s better than in Super or Fusion.

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Part of me wishes these were mechanics were implemented in the core game to progress. Its super cool and you can easily miss/fail/skip these.

Most of the puzzles were difficult to overcome, _simply_ because I was unaware of what kind of tricks I could do...and unlike Super Metroid, the game doesn't tell you, either.

and the coolest thing is that they are also speedrunning tutorials. One of them (the first one in this video) actually teaches you a sequence break that allows you to get the gravity suit early

I think they could have designed a few of these puzzles to not be tedious, however. You can have incredible puzzles that are satisfying to overcome, but not be a matter of time devotion.

@@esmooth919 Dude what

@@esmooth919 I think you're misremembering. Super Metroid doesn't teach you crud.

I think it was zero mission that had a puzzle where you had to do like 4 consecutive cancels

how is shinespark an exploit lol

No, these are just normal shinespark puzzles

@@xanious3759 because when you are doing shinespark not only are you capable of breaking shinespark blocks but you bassically have the space jump early so you can acces certain places early

@@juliamxd9614 thats not an exploit, thats just intended behavior

It's one of my complaints about Metroid, and how Hollow Knight and others do it better. Maybe the next Metroid will take this into account and add some Charm equivalents. Bigger missile AoE, faster missile fire rate, faster charge beam charge...there are things they could do.

Wait, you mean this wasn't the intended way?

@@lucariotrainer16 I think there were many intended ways.There's only a few I could genuinely think is "unintended"

@PSI Wind At this point, it's very hard to say for sure. 🥴

@@lucariotrainer16 there's alot of these in the video I did completely different. That's the cool thing about dread, there's multiple ways of solving a puzzle

It seems like Dread's devs took a similar approach to level design that BOTW's devs did; "If you can do it, that's intended" :)

It's a bit more finicky with timing but so damn cool to pull off.

So many of these have ridiculously tight timing to do them in some approaches!

This puzzle stumped me for a while cause I was trying to do it before finding cross bombs and I was like “man this is impossible, I can’t store a shinespark while sliding and why is there this random useless room?” Then I put 2 and 2 together and realized that useless room was exactly what I needed to solve the puzzle. Devs knew exactly what they were doing for sure

@@snoozbuster i actually wasn't really able to do this *with* cross bombs, so i ended up doing the funny mini speedbooster run on that lil platform instead of going a ways away, did the wall jump, did the slide, and with really tight timing, i hit the bomb, speed boostered through those blocks, and got me that darn tootin missile expansion. it was pretty sweet.

This is actually my method of doing it

Yeahhh, so that's what the nook was for lol

I didnt even see the nook, I came from the room underneath lol

I just looked it up lol

I respect it, but I also refuse to do it lol

That contributes to being a good 2d metroid

@@ThatFletcherGuy. why? It's so fun

@@StevoDesign just not personally skilled enough, I’ve finished normal and gotten to 91% completion and am happy with that. I didn’t think I would have made it this far in general lol.

@@ThatFletcherGuy. right on, that's respectable. And 91% is pretty good! Ok yeah, just play until you stop having fun.

It was easy for me took me like 5 tries at least, the one that sucked for me was the Ferenia puzzle with the cross bombs to boost up, came to find out there was an easier way to do it from the completely opposite side haha

A very brave statement.

What about dogde offset

I kind a hate it ngl, it's an cool concept of an ability but man it's just annoying as hell with certain puzzles haha

@@hunt7533 Bet you didn't know that shinespark can be used to finish a boss early if you pull it off. Experiment No. Z-57.

@@BlueEyes274 I know it does but I prefer another cheese strat for quick DPS, that ability is an option, you have to waste time to activate it so I don't really do it at all. You can kill an boss quickly without that but hey, we play differently.

I think this is the first Metroid game that allows you to boost straight down.

Imagine if they intergrate the speed booster in Prim 4 somehow. It would require a switch to third person of course, but that's already the case for the morph ball and the screw attack, so why not?

Used your method just by chance in that room, storing the spark at the end is tricky to nail! Heh

I have no shame that my first playthrough is over 23 hours as I try to 100%, I can always go for faster times later!

No shame needed. Congrats :) And I agree with MrSlendy aswell :)

Huh. Nice tip. That might even be simpler to do.

@@okbVinyl You can also slide under the rocks and charge on the other side after the first ramp. Probably not all that important comparatively, but for people who may not have their movement down, it might help.

You also don't have to use the second ramp at all. I just flash shifted over and dropped down.

Exactly what I did because I couldn't nail the timing on the mid-air shine spark reliably, then just ran, slid under the obstacle, stored the shine spark, jumped and flash-shifted to the wall, and let loose to get the item. still took a few attempts even knowing what I wanted to do because I kept fumbling my controls, had to switch to my Pro-controller just so my cumbersome clumsy fingers could nail the puzzle XD

This is how I did it! I knew it was definitely possible and didn't want to wait for cross bombs to get it

@@Hexagonaldonut It's actually easier to pull off without using the cross bombs

@@timgilbert9572 agreed, I had cross bombs but still preferred the slide method, its tricky to nail the spark-store in that little room but I was having poor luck timing the cross-bombs. Having a pro-controller for some of these deffinitly makes it easier to get the button inputs correctly when I can't afford to bump the wrong button with my clumsy fingers XD

They've called them twice already. I'm sure they'll be called again. Hopefully for a Fusion remake.

I would love a port of Samus Returns for the Switch. If coupled with a port of Zero Mission and Super Metroid we'd only be missing the Prime trilogy to have all of the mainline Metroid series on the console which would do great for the franchise.

@@CouchSpud91 You missed Fusion.

@@CouchSpud91 You missed Other M, Hunters, and Federation Force. (Yes, those are canon.)

​@@amso7169 Other M needs a remake bad. It has good ideas all botched by an unfocused script, horrendous translation (Sakamoto insisted on doing the English translation himself... even though he doesn't speak English at all), level design problems, and some of the worst control ever (A DPAD IN A 3D GAME IN 2010). Refocus the script (I'd say cut Ridley entirely, not because "hurr durr why PTSD", but because that subplot has no relevance at all. Focus the story on Samus and Adam, at that re-do Adam's entire characterization, cut out all the other stuff that doesn't fit. OM had too many subplots and different thematic focuses all competing for attention, just focus on one), get an actual English-speaker to translate, give it better controls, and make the level design less obnoxiously linear. Keep the general story and style of gameplay the same.

I've seen many different solutions. I think it's pretty cool that game gives you some freedom in solving the puzzles.

That's what makes the puzzle fun.

Dread is not pulling punches tho, it's challenging but fair.

I mean. It’s a little unfair they expect you to just know these Speed Booster/Shinespark tricks. But it’s fair once you do.

@@FenrirEX Funny fact, they did it since the Snes came out.

I’ve been playing since Fusion, and I think this is the first game I collected 100% items. It’s certainly the first one I did so in around 10 hours. Still died a ton on many of the bosses, but yeah. I’ve had much more difficulty on some of the older games’ puzzles

i'm pretty sure literally the only metroid game that hinted that shinespark was a thing was in Super, and it was a completly optional, out of the way room with that alien Birb that showed it off. if you missed that room, you had to figure out how to shinespark for yourself

Снимем шляпы перед человеком высокой культуры. ;)

Metroid is one of those games where aside from character development, the player improves a lot too. That's one of the reasons I love metroidvania genre.

I agree with some fans have said about the Zero Mission Shinespark puzzles being harder. the ones here are difficult, but they only take a handful of tries to accomplish.

@@CouchSpud91 That one e-tank in ZM...

Went for a diagonal shine-spark from the blocks instead, slide under the overhang, store the spark, jump and flash shift to the wall, then fired the Shine-spark, the timing was much easier for my poor reaction time and clumsy fingers to manage, still a tough AF puzzle. Oh, and I had to switch to my Pro controller because I was getting frustrated with hitting the wrong face-buttons in my frantic attempts to beat the puzzle, bigger buttons help a ton

I'm actually not sure super bomb opens doors, I've been shooting both of them anyway, since wave beam passes walls. Bomb was more for the bomb blocks up top.

Oh duh! Maybe they did in fusion and I just thought they did here too. For some reason wave beaming that door didn’t occur to me and I did it the sucky way from the bottom room to the left of the lab entrance

I guess I'm neither noob nor Chad. I mostly enjoyed Dread, with Shinespark being the only reason for me including "mostly" in this statement.

@@RemyWillard so your the average metroid enjoyer

@@RemyWillard so your the average metroid enjoyer

Dread Normies: Cool to do, but not necessary to enjoy the game.

Right! There's place for both Mario 2d and 3d, Metroid can have two "main" series too.

I respect that, but now that 2d metroids have gotten both a remake and a brand new game...I'd really like Prime 4. I'm super curious where they will take that serie.

Yeah, I'm not sure this works in earlier games, but if you land on a slope, your speed is high enough to store it again. And you keep momentum after a wall jump. These two discoveries were pretty mind blowing

@@okbVinyl shinespark converts into run when hitting a slope in the previous games, specifically the GBAtroids (zero mission/fusion). preserving speed boost off of a walljump is new though

Metroid Dread has an equivalent to Fusion’s secret message: using bombs on Kraid. It’s a difficult sequence break, but they reward the player with an instant kill for managing the feat. The only difference is that there are a few ways to get bombs early.

@@dracoerrarus4834 oh yeah, i saw that, really cool for sure

I recommend metroid 3, aka Super Metroid. Easiest (and the most legal) way to play it now would be with Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Don't play the special edition though, it's a hack for those who already played it before.

yeah. These are basically the first solutions I came up with (only got a hint to the first one). Now that I saw different solutions, I have better options :D.

The real question is, what's harder