Correction: I mistakenly referred to Zeta Metroids as Gammas and vice versa. Just wanted to clear that up.

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I wouldn't want to go back to it, but back in the day this was my favorite gameboy game. I think it captures the sense of isolation and claustrophobia better than any in the series. I also like how the enemies diminish as you go further and further down into the planet. It's an extremely creepy game, made even creepier by the weird and repetitive sound tracks. It's not the best game in the series by any means, but it's the creepiest imo.

To be real, I liked Metroid II WAAAAAAY more than Metroid NES when i was a kid. I never finished metroid on the NES but i played havyly til the end metroid II. The fact that made me the even more emotional when playing AM2R

3:55 Hahahahaha yeah! The Federation it's like the Maverick Hunters of Megaman X, only Samus, X, and Zero are useful in those organizations. 4:46 Yeah, I truly love the references to Alien in this franchise. I mean, the larva metroid is basically a floating version of the facehugger.

This was not only my first Metroid game, but the very first game I ever chose for myself, and began a lifelong love of the series. Dude, firstly thank you for this. Secondly your channel and your videos are amazing and i've been going through them one by one. Please keep it up as and when another metroid game comes out, your channel deserves so much more recognition!

I used to play this on the original GB and it was my very first Metroid game. Honestly, I found this game extremely immersive - the non-existent color scheme, the music and the claustrophobic level design - a master piece imo what I can't say about Metroid 1 and 3.

Didn't have much of a problem with Metroid 2 quite a few years back. Didn't really need a guide either. Could be somewhat repetitive at times. When I tried playing the original however.... I just "noped" outta there pretty fast. Anyway, nice series of videos you got there. Very excited to see the next one.

I have to admit, I always had a soft spot for Metroid 2. My first Metroid game was Fusion, followed by Prime, and then Zero Mission. I think this was my 4th. I was probably around 14 or so, so I don't remember very well, but I think I remember being on a road trip with my family and we happened to stop at a random used game store. I saw Return of Samus in the cabinet and just had to have it. I picked it back up now and then over the years, and while I never finished it, I got down to like 4 or so Metroids left. Getting lost in the game was a little frustrating, but I really liked the more structured level layout as well as the idea of having to hunt down so many Metroids in one area before moving on to the next. I enjoyed Samus Returns a whole lot more, but I still was always one of the few to enjoy the original, and was thrilled when they announced an official remake.

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6:19 One thing to note about the goofy looking run, it does look odd when you emulate it and on GBC, but if you play it on the original green screen game boy hardware, the motion blur of the screen actually made that look pretty smooth.

My favourite metroid. It's one of the most immersive and fun but it's also suspenseful. Until we got a "remake" that failed to be anywhere near as good despite being modern

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One thing you forgot to mention: samus can now crouch & shoot during said crouch

Honestly, I think Metroid II is a masterpiece. Aside from Super Metroid, it’s my absolute favorite in the series.

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Lmao that pitch black room confused the shit out of me too I started messing around with emulator settings thinking it was broken. But yeah I don’t think the slower pace is a bad thing especially with it being on gameboy with the zoomed in screen it just gets egregious near the end of the game with those clearly padding sections and the game I think would be received a lot better had those 2 sections just been cut out or made optional for power ups or something. But yeah overall I agree with you I find myself playing metroid nes much more often then metroid 2

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This was my first Metroid I ever played and didn't have the chance to beat it cause it was my friend's game and played it like 20 min but enjoy it a lot, now I have it on the 3ds and finally beat it, I can say I have a lot of fun with it but it was pretty complicated to go further, the hard part for me was the metroids at the end and still beat the Queen, Love this game.

In 2011, I graduated high school and started college. I feel old now.

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At some level, I can understand playing these older games for the nostalgia, or to appreciate how game design has evolved. But for my part, I think 99% of gamers would be better off playing Zero Mission and Samus Returns, the remakes of the first two games, rather than the originals with their dated design. Great video!

8:00 I think it's acid, not lava. It's the yellow liquid used in Samus's stage in Smash Bros

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9:17 It is easy to explain why it isnt what re-releases use: it never actually came out.

Yeah, I'm with you... Metroid 2 does overstay its welcome. Considering Metroid: Samus Returns and AM2R exist, I don't see any reason to go back and play this one.

The plasma suffers the wave beam syndome of the first game. Best power up you'll never use. Spazer while weaker, is just better overall and it's what you'll use almost exclusively.

It was doubly disappointing back in the day - I got Metroid 2 for my original GameBoy (GameBoy Color was still years away) for Christmas the year it came out and I was expecting "Metroid, but better." Instead, I got "Metroid, but slow, easy, eye-straining and repetitive with little flashes of 'oh hey, cool' here and there". Even making my own map of SR-388 on pieces of graph paper taped together didn't feel as rewarding, since the game is basically just "find all dead ends in each (totally separate) area because each one has a power up or Metroid in it, then remember where the lava/acid was and fall down a lot, repeat 7 times, zzzzzzzz". A sad case of some solid ideas (particularly the new power-ups) that were really held back by the limitations of the GameBoy.

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I know it would be less of a game, but why not just bomb the place from orbit? Wouldn't that be much easier and safer? I mean, if you're not going to safe the science teams anyways...

If anyone every needed proof that Nintendo can often behave like they are out of their minds, look no further than them releasing the full follow up to Metroid on the fucking Gameboy. While everyone else was treating the Gameboy where you begrudgingly released water downed versions of console games, Nintendo went and thought “huh, we should make a sequel to that game that barely worked on the NES. How about we make it for our portable toaster oven”.

Dude, of course you didn't feel engaged by the game, you played with a map/guide. That's like chosing to do a paint-by-number and then saying you didn't feel creative enough. Maybe use fewer guides and play games as intended. You have no critical authority when you don't play the game the way it was designed to be played - handheld and guideless.