I can tell the difference between how you talk about the Metroid Fusion and how you talk about Prime or the Super Metroid, and I can tell you have a lot of prejudice against it. I know you have your own opinion which I respect having freedom of opinion but you sitting here acting like this is fact is totally wrong. more importantly, hearing you talk about saying that Metroid Fusion doesn't have the same atmosphere, if not worse, than Super Metroid is biased for you to say. and totally really misleading and me sitting here having to listen to you trash this game is absolute cringe because I'm a Metroid Fusion fan because it wus ny frist Metroid game I ever played so of course I would have a closer attachment to it. and I can tell you right now that it has a better atmosphere if not extremely better than the Super Metroid atmosphere. and the way that you talk about Metroid Fusion is so downplays and totally devaluing the game as a whole is just disgusting. you do use strategic logic and facts within it you also infused your own prejudice and your own opinion with it if you're going to make a tire review over facts you need to keep your opinion to yourself. regardless to me Metroid Fusion deserves more love and attention than you ever given it and I think most people who are looking about more 2D Metroid reviews should just completely ignore your review despite that you speak logic and facts you have done everything you could to downplay the 2D Metroid games as a whole. besides Super Metroid because most people like it so so much because of the first the the debug menu which is one of the best and the factors in it and the overall story and the emotional atmosphere is triumph mixed with a little bit horror. More importantly, it was a lot of people's first Metroid game besides the other two . Metroid Fusion is very well-known for having a much better atmosphere. The Super Metroid is known as horror and intention and Fusion. also, having been one of the first metroid ever has dialogue and the way that you just talked about the SA-X how you downplay the qualities that makes this character so unique and so dangerous and get so intimidating it just triggering factoring that the SA-X is one of the most terrifying enemy Samus has and ever wi'll ever faced in the tire in the 2D series. but sitting here hearing you downplay constantly mocking metroid fusions atmosphere is just absolutely disgusting, and I think you have some issues you need to work out 2nd Metroid Prime series is Non Cannon to the 2D Metroid series.

Awesome that fusion is on switch now. Playing as I watch lol

Prime Remastered is basically the Switch version of Prime 1. Hopefully Nintendo makes a remaster of Prime 2, Prime 3, and maybe even Prime Hunters. 100-percented Prime, ran into difficulties against the Alpha Blogg in Prime 2, played the demo version of Prime Hunters, and have not played Prime 3.

@@corbinselanne7990 yeah I know - I’m playing through Prime Remastered right now myself. It’s REALLY solid, right down to the gyro control implementation. While I still think it’s a tad overpriced, I do think it is absolutely worth the money. I’m definitely up for playing Prime 2 and 3 again if they give them the same treatment too

Don't forget fusion on the 3ds ambassador program ;)

Thanks for watching 🍻

what's your job? just curious

@@Josuh I work in logistics, handling shipping containers at a delivery station, making sure all packages get to the customers.

@@Josuh i ride horses

To add to this, iirc, he didn't mention wall jumping learned from the Etecoons!

Yep just had to comment the same thing

@@AkaiAzul which you can also save

Also at 19:40 sounded like it said it was required to use the wall jump but when I was a kid, I beat Super Metroid without a single Wall Jump. I do love that animals teach you how to Speed Boost and Wall Jump! :D

@@mbwchampion How? Aren't there at least 2 places you have to use it?

Thanks!!!

@MarcTheCyborg I can tell the difference between how you talk about the Metroid Fusion and how you talk about Prime or the Super Metroid, and I can tell you have a lot of prejudice against it. I know you have your own opinion which I respect having freedom of opinion but you sitting here acting like this is fact is totally wrong. more importantly, hearing you talk about saying that Metroid Fusion doesn't have the same atmosphere, if not worse, than Super Metroid is biased for you to say. and totally really misleading and me sitting here having to listen to you trash this game is absolute cringe because I'm a Metroid Fusion fan because it wus ny frist Metroid game I ever played so of course I would have a closer attachment to it. and I can tell you right now that it has a better atmosphere if not extremely better than the Super Metroid atmosphere. and the way that you talk about Metroid Fusion is so downplays and totally devaluing the game as a whole is just disgusting. you do use strategic logic and facts within it you also infused your own prejudice and your own opinion with it if you're going to make a tire review over facts you need to keep your opinion to yourself. regardless to me Metroid Fusion deserves more love and attention than you ever given it and I think most people who are looking about more 2D Metroid reviews should just completely ignore your review despite that you speak logic and facts you have done everything you could to downplay the 2D Metroid games as a whole. besides Super Metroid because most people like it so so much because of the first the the debug menu which is one of the best and the factors in it and the overall story and the emotional atmosphere is triumph mixed with a little bit horror. More importantly, it was a lot of people's first Metroid game besides the other two . Metroid Fusion is very well-known for having a much better atmosphere. The Super Metroid is known as horror and intention and Fusion. also, having been one of the first metroid ever has dialogue and the way that you just talked about the SA-X how you downplay the qualities that makes this character so unique and so dangerous and get so intimidating it just triggering factoring that the SA-X is one of the most terrifying enemy Samus has and ever wi'll ever faced in the tire in the 2D series. but sitting here hearing you downplay constantly mocking metroid fusions atmosphere is just absolutely disgusting, and I think you have some issues you need to work out 2nd Metroid Prime series is Non Cannon to the 2D Metroid series.

It really was an excellent video.

@I'm a Friend of Sarah Connor in you're freaking dreams, yeah, but not in reality. Keep dreaming, Prime fan.

@@2musicSoundtrackfandom579 ? Prime is good, but there's a reason I own CIB Super Metroid Super Famicom and Metroid Zero Mission GBA, Dread Special Edition. Guess what that is jagoff? It's because I'm a huge fan of Classic Metroid. You should really take some classes on how to talk to strangers, you come off as a Jagoff.

Oh nice, thanks for the correction 🍻

​@@MarcTheCyborg I really think it zeb is .zebees sound like rabbies lol

Thanks you very much for the kind words 🍻

Legit, matticus you worded everything that is awesome about this video and his style perfectly! I'm excited for more videos like this

@@MarcTheCyborg Yoshio Sakamoto said that Other M's linearity was meant to make the game beginner friendly then the pervious games. The Wii remote control Scheme was also his idea, because he's not very experienced in 3d gaming until Dread.

Hey! If you hadn't already bought the games on Wii U, you should know that as of today, if you have a Nintendo Switch you'll have to link your Wii U's eShop account to your Switch's account. That'll be the only way you can add funds to your Wii U eShop wallet going forward, as your Wii U and Switch will share the same wallet once linked. Happy hunting!!

@@ToshisGarden It's also the only way to play Metroid Zero mission and Fusion.

I still miss her every day - but Rocky has definitely helped ease the pain 🙏

Actually it was confirmed that the suit became organic, meaning it was likely the suit DID fuse with her. The developers of Dread, upon being asked why her suit was a different color, answered by saying her suit was made organic in Fusion(also why she isn't as tanky in that game) while it's becoming inorganic in Dread again and that's what caused the yellow in the suit to become white.

@@hellzonefirebrigade3056 It wasn’t made organic, her suit always was organic. The organic layer of her suit as seen on the Fusion and Dread suit was always there just underneath the metal and polymer layers. Her suit was always organic that’s why the X could copy it in the first place and why it could be mutated by Phazon. The fusion part was incorrectly translated, her suit was always fused with her when in use, the regular power suit or rather it’s organic layer is fused to Samus nervous system, that’s why it isn’t a conventional suit and can only be taken off by dematerializing it. The suit and Samus are basically one being. The US Version of Fusion has this incorrectly translated alluding that her suit became fused with her unlike the Japanese and European versions stated it always was fused to her. Strangely enough, the Amercian Fusion Manual has this stated correctly “My heart rate and blood pressure dropped rapidly as I fell into a deep coma. The Onboard Medic Simulation predicted only a 0.873 % prognosis for survival. I was transported ot Galactic FederationHQ for emergency medical treatment. The fact that the P o w e r Suit contained biological components and was also integrally connected to my body seemed to worsen the matter. The Federation sur- geons were unable to remove the suit while I was unconscious.Their only choice was ot c u tand remove parts of the infected suit from my still-unconscious form; immediately after, they sent the suit parts ot the Biologic Space Labs researchstation for study” From the manual. Later games confirmes this, all chozo power suits come with and organic lauer connected to their users bodies and nervous systems

I'm very thankful she was nice enough to help 🙂

@@MarcTheCyborg I did make mention of this on Chrissie Mayrs Simpcast yesterday, forgetting Chrissie isn't a gamer. Oops.

@@cesariojpn haha, it was appreciated anyway, even if it just brought one Simpcast viewer over here 🍻

👍🏻😁

Harleys in the chat

Haha, thanks man - maybe I’ll get there someday 😂

Thanks man! A History of a Legendary Franchise on Castlevania is certainly in the cards - not specifically in the works at this moment, but it’s a solid candidate for one of these

I definitely subscribed and went straight to the playlists, and I will be watching the God of War video next. You mentioned your love of jrpgs... is there a series in that genre you might consider making a similar video about?

@@eyes2shatter559 I did have a plan to do a video on the Trails series, as I absolutely loved Trails in the Sky 1-3 and the fan translation of the Crossbell duology (which are releasing in the west officially soon and are AWESOME)- but it may be a bit too ambitious to put a reasonable timeline on. I might have something Final Fantasy related in the works, but it’ll be a different approach from Metroid - I just haven’t 100% figured it out yet.

@@MarcTheCyborg Nice! Final Fantasy is my favorite series, but I could see how any Jrpg series videos would be quite an undertaking. I'm currently working my way through the Suikoden games and I am really enjoying them. Well, take care, great video, and can't wait for more! Cheers!

@@eyes2shatter559 Suikoden 2 is a lot of fun 🍻

Thanks dude 🍻

I second this, the single player was in the multi players shadow... 4 people could play off 1 game cart and provide more entertainment than you'd know what to do with

Many sleepless nights to hunters. Top 10 game in my memories

Haha, I didn’t put the smash bros games in there either - just games with Metroid in the title 🫡

Hah your just a unit @baddragonite. Just a single number. 1 isn't a major loss and anyways your missing out on spectacular content. Too bad for you I Guess

Thank you good sir 🍻

It really is phenomenal

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to play that mod/hack/homebrew on something besides a PC? Like, has anyone ever ported it to Vita or 3DS or…. I don’t know, Wii U? Again, I’m talking through alternative channels.

@@leeartlee915 AM2R can be played on Android

Crazy, I’ll look that up for sure - might even get me to replay Zero Mission to try it 😂

Harley will live forever in my heart ❤️ thanks for watching!

Bullshit. Metroid has enough games. Great ones too. Games don't need to be spammed like Call of Duty every year.

Thank you!!

@@MarcTheCyborg You’re very welcome

This view count is definitely atypical for my channel, but I’m hoping to keep growing if I can! Thanks for watching 🍻

I will absolutely admit that I either didn’t find them, or if it’s subtle, I didn’t notice they were trying to teach me something. Consider this a correction and thanks for the feedback 🍻

@@MarcTheCyborg its also the same animals that you find in Fusion that help fly the ship

@@_Teej_264 I don’t know what to say, I spotted them in Fusion but missed them in Super 😕

@@MarcTheCyborg I hope I don't come across as negative, I just wanna help with some extra context. Bonus fun facts is the animals will sing out the item acquisition jingle around when they demonstrate the technique and that popular charity runs of Super will have the audience bid on whether the runner should "save the animals" since they actually are trapped on a tangent route during the escape sequence.

@@_Teej_264 no worries man - I appreciate the info - just stating my case, which is true: I flat out just didn’t see them and when I did my second lap to find super missiles, I tried to consult as few secondary sources as possible

Thanks man! It’s always nice to see you in here - you’re one of my OG supporters, back when my big claim to fame was “Papa Gundam tweeted one of my videos” 😂 Every single view you’ve given my small channel is appreciated 🙏

I'm glad to hear it, man. You do good quality work and it shows in every upload.

Thank you very much 🙏

Thanks! We have a delightful little family

Thanks Classy V

@@MarcTheCyborg Absolutely. Excited to hopefully meet you at Vegas!

@@ClassyVigilante I will be there 🍻

Thanks man! 🍻

Both Ori games are works of art

I think there was a mistranslation. There is a line in the intro about her being melded with her suit (or something like that) but I think they meant that metaphorically she needed to stay in the suit for the time being since she was so immunocompromised.

Actually it was confirmed that suit became organic in Fusion meaning it like WAS fused to her body. The Developers on Dread, upon being asked about the new color of her said, informed the people asking, that it was due to the suit changing from being organic back to being inorganic

You, me and all Nintendo fans who don't delude themselves into thinking that Nintendo preventing you from playing their games is part of some 4D Chess master plan

@@MarcTheCyborg so…. What is it then?

@@cidfacetious3722 in my opinion, the same brand of hubris which Disney has

Thanks Nick! And for anyone coming across this comment, Nick helped me out on the Wolfenstein Youngblood review

Thank you very much for watching! And yeah, I mention that a lot of people I’ve talked to cite Metroid Prime 2 as their favourite - and while I prefer Prime 1 personally, I can absolutely understand the argument for Prime 2. Thanks for watching 🍻

based echoes enjoyer

@@meta9492 it’s definitely got a lot going for it

In the last 30 years, there is one game which has made me bust out a notebook: The Witness. My ex found it and thought I was schizophrenic- if you’ve played the game you’ll understand… I drew a lot of lines man 😐

To add to this, the manual for the original NES version encourages you to draw a map so you don't get lost. Metroid II didn't really need a map because you were basically always headed down. And why does nobody ever mention Crystal Flash in Super Metroid? The game shows this technique and others if you don't do anything at the title screen for a little bit.

No problem! Check out the video description for the download link for AM2R, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it as big fan of the original Metroid 2

Hey man! Thanks for watching! Prime 2D shall never be forgotten 🫡

That’s fair - I just think it might be a baby-with-the-bathwater situation. There are certainly a lot of innovations which have made the industry worse - but things like legacy game support is amazing on platforms like Steam and even Xbox. PlayStation and especially Nintendo have a lot to improve on in that regard

@@MarcTheCyborg I’m with yah. Indie gaming is where the real creativity is happening, anyway. Nintendo is just the “least worst” of the AAA

When they do adopt they adopt in the worst possible way

Anna is an absolute gem 🍻 thanks for visiting!

Thank you very much! 🍻

Harley was the best of us 🙏

Sus

Ah fair enough, thanks for the correction 🍻

Hahaha, thanks man - I just do my best to play the games thoroughly and carefully draft my script - even then, I do make mistakes (ZDR is the name of the planet in Dread, while I keep calling it ZBR for example)

@@MarcTheCyborg Also, at 35: 19... what game is that?? That looks like you!!

@@krystofthepolishguytalksan310 yeah that’s from the G+G Cancel Catastrophe game. T Rev the Game Dev made both myself and Xray Girl playable characters! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hricm8SJt9WUf40.html

Oh the music is very strong across the whole series - but you’re right, I probably could’ve put some more time in talking about music and sound design

@@MarcTheCyborg The video was great, i just love the original prime soundtrack. It's something I still listen to on a fairly regular basis. Also, I agree with you that retro should move past the phazon arch in prime 4, but I think they'll do something like going to the phazon origin planet and destroy it.

Ah fair enough, thanks for the input 🍻

Now imagine if Nintendo allowed their normie fans who don’t want to mess around with emulators and mods have that arc 😂 Happy to hear I’m not the only one 🍻

I grew up playing those too and found Prime really natural still. It was something very different but it made sense for the game it was. It wasn't a straight FPS like those games were.

I mean look at AM2R 😂 it was better than the one Nintendo did make 🤔

Project M too lmao

Interesting - do you happen to have a source on this? I’m not disagreeing really, I just found that researching Nintendo stuff in particular, involved wading through a lot of fan speculation/head canon, until I could find actual interview transcripts (with even those being translated from Japanese, so there may be a bit of an error margin there). I also do mention at the beginning of the video that Metroid was created by Satoru Okada, who left after the first game (finding a picture of him was tough, the best I could get was a 480x360 thumbnail, which I had to blow up to 4K 😂)

@@MarcTheCyborg I confess that a lot of what I said are more things that I felt when I saw his statements than something that I really have concrete proof, but nowadays that is irrelevant.

Haha, thanks man - you can’t expect people to “do the reading” in a KZfaq comment section to make sure no one has made their point yet, that’d be unreasonable on the part of the content creator if you ask me. The only one which gets me is people telling me about Metroid Prime remastered, but only because that’s my PINNED comment 😂

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Solid idea! It could work really well in gameplay if that’s the only way to heal too. Sort of like Bloodborne’s Rally mechanic

I’m happy you enjoyed it Bill 🍻

Dread is only the end of the story arc of metroid 1-5 so there will be more thankfully.

Thanks man! Happy you liked it 🍻

Nice! I’ll keep that in mind next time I go through it - thanks for the tip 🫡

Thank you very much for the kind words 🙏

Mostly because I find double jumping to be more fun- at least as a traversal mechanic in a game. Flight would be more useful, but double jumping would be a riot

@@MarcTheCyborg To each their own. You know I’m just messing with you buddy. 😁Although I imagine that you could in theory still do double jumping if you’re able to fly (when you’re in the air levitating, you would bend your knees, flex them out quickly for appearances, and use your flight power to just levitate higher, to pretend and make it look like you’re jumping), but I guess we don’t have the capability to test such a thing. At least not yet. Stupid reality.

@@Andrea_Gabrielli yeah reality is the worst

@@MarcTheCyborg If you could be in any video game world, which one would it be? I’m gonna guess that you would pick something like Monster Hunter.

I had to do that for The Witness a few years ago, my ex found the notebook and thought I had developed schizophrenia 😂

Might be a while before the next series retrospective (though I do have an idea for one), but there is a massive Elden Ring review coming up next!

@@MarcTheCyborg awesome :) keep up the good work

@@GeekHazu Try this channel: kzfaq.infovideos He does a few full game series reviews and has similar humor.

@@Bubba__Sawyer thanks, looks good :)

Hahaha, no speed running for me - I might put in the effort to be as legit as I possibly can be, but I’m much closer to gaming journalist than MLG speed runner 😂

AND Anna 😏

Cheese Boi Minesweeper retrospective when?

@@MarcTheCyborg Must include section on the history of competitive meta techniques

Thanks Charza 🍻

That’s absolutely possible - in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if the Prime Hack devs end up adding VR support

I was thinking the same thing. Mad JK Rowling vibes, idk

Yah, I just can't shake it. Same feeling from pretty much everything this guy posts. I can't quite put my finger on it, but yeah. Just yeah.

WTF does that mean? This is a video about Metroid by my favorite youtuber.

@@TehInternetScum sounds like a fanboy.

@@amandabelmont8803 Agreed. I personally feel like this was a pretentious attempt to gain viewership

Also, how did you set up the control scheme to handle the visor and weapon selectors for PrimeHack? I've never managed to find a playable layout.

@@Malkierian thanks for making it! It really helped bring my experience, and in turn my footage, to another level when I found it 🍻 As a person who knows nothing at all about coding, but loves tinkering with old games to see how far the mod community has brought them, people like you are my hero. As for my weapon and visor setup, I use Q for visors, E for weapons and toggle the “enable [beam/visor] menu” in the options. I then hold me of those keys and use the mouse as a Wii remote to hover the cursor over the one I want, then let go of the key. It ends up feeling similar to a weapon wheel in a console shooter and consider each has 3 options at maximum, it’s very easy to do quickly.

@@MarcTheCyborg Ah, that makes sense. I guess I had just gotten too used to the Wii controls and hadn't thought that's what they meant by the menus in the settings. Thanks, I'll give that another go the next time I play through them in like 6 months XD. How was your performance with it, especially with MP2? Not too much stuttering? Yeah, I had plans to try to actually redraw textures in the pack, but never got past the text and a few key textures because of that negative feedback (especially because I'm NOT an artist, lol). I may have to try revisiting it again sometime in the future. Oh, and a great video overall. Totally agreed with basically every point you made (except a bit about Other M), especially about AM2R being the definitive Metroid II experience. I'm going to be speedrunning Metroid 2D perspective games soon, starting with Zero Mission, then to AM2R and Fusion. I hope we might be able to get AM2R a ubiquitous existence so Nintendo can't squash it any more than it already has. Also, I was reminded of the mod that exists for Other M that apparently improves the story enough to be not as offensive and enables missiles in 3rd person mode. I haven't actually played it because I had some errant settings in Dolphin I didn't realize until last night. If you like, I'll update you on how it is later.

@@Malkierian thank you very much! I certainly have enough issues with Other M that I’d be at the very least, curious to see what’s improved - but there’s a few threads on here where I go to the mattresses about it (which my wife ordered me to ignore, seeing that it was frustrating me 😂) - so we can just agree to disagree without going into a full blown debate. Keep me posted on that mod though, it’d be cool to play around with. I’m CyborgMarc on Twitter if you want to DM me. As for performance, my editing rig is not a good universal benchmark tool, as it’s a Ryzen 9 3950x with an RTX 3090 and 64gb of RAM - but I was getting 144fps pretty much the entire time I was playing all three games at 4K. No stuttering beyond a bit of shader compiling, but even then, it was rarely noticeable once I had been playing for a long time and built up that cache. Finally, I would encourage you to not let negative feedback stop you from doing your work- at most, let it offer you perspective, which you can then choose to use for improvement. Your work is incredible, I appreciated it greatly and I think it’d be a shame if you stopped for any reason other than you wanting to pursue other endeavours 🍻

@@MarcTheCyborg LOL, people do have some... passionate opinions about Other M. My biggest issue was just the way they had her processing her grief. I find it hard to believe, after everything she'd been through up to that point, that she'd just suddenly develop PTSD over it and freeze at the idea of Ridley. Anger management issues, that I could believe. Otherwise, I could see your points and appreciate the added perspective concerning the reluctant teamwork aspect of it. I guess, considering everything we knew about Adam up to that point, his characterization in Other M was more out of place than Samus's.

Jesus, thanks for that one - good pull!

Enjoy

Yeah AM2R is incredible - as for Metroid Prime 4, I wouldn’t put too much stock in an Amazon listing, as publishers will often give distributors a list of their possible releases, and if no firm release date is given, the default is the 31st of December for that year. With that said, Retro did come back to MP4 about a year and a half ago, so the likelihood of it being done, is going to be dependent on how much usable material the previous developer had waiting for them. Regardless, I’ll be playing it whenever it does launch! Thanks for watching 🍻

Don’t go kitty

orrr you could emulate traffic by playing with a legally obtained rom... legally obligated to say this eksdee

Thanks dude! It was an awesome night 🍻

Hahaha, fair enough - I counted all of the SA-X as one evil clone 😂 You’re right though

@@MarcTheCyborg We see the SA-X in fusion seven times, but at least the last two are the same one (the boss fight and then the one that fights the omega Metroid, it’s the same goopy one that fled after we beat it) and the one in the secret area is a different one from the one we fight because it is destroyed when the secret lab detaches and self destructs. So at least two different ones there, and the four other times for potentially different ones, but there’s no further evidence to support them being the same or different from either of the ones we can confirm are different. I personally feel the first time we see it(the face zoom in) is the same one as the last two times. But it could be a different one due to the nature of the X.

You’re doing your part by commenting! Thanks for watching 🍻

Thank you very much for watching 🍻

^ this guy gets it 🍻

Based.