This was the only game that I have purchased a "collectors edition" for. I even got the metroid amiibo. Also one of the few games I actually played with 3d on, and one of the few that I was determined to beat on the hardest mode.

I really REALLY love how the game looks with the 3D slider turned all the way up. I seriously can’t bring myself to turn it off. It really just adds _so much_ atmosphere somehow. Also, in regards to “stop and go,” I found that you can counter at any time, you just have to be ready. You don’t have to be still to counter, but you will stop when you do. You can counter out of morph ball too. If you are ready for a charging enemy, you don’t have to stop and wait for them. You just have to adjust your timing to account for your approach.

Wow been waiting for this keep the great work up

This game gave me hope for the future of the series. And with Dread only being a few days away and having high hopes for it, I'm really glad Metroid is back.

Samus Returns is one of the best games on the 3DS in my opinion. I may not be as good as that fanmade game which I've never played, but I fail to see how it doesn't do the Metroid franchise justice in anyway.

Great stuff, man. I was shocked that this was a relatively new channel without a huge subscriber base. The editing's fantastic and it feels like you've been doing this for awhile. Thanks to Dread for floating this into my recommendations. Keep up the good work!!

Amazing marathon dude! Love what you made and I can’t wait for Dread, both the game and your video about it

The wait for this video was worth it, and in my heart I know that the wait for Dread will be as well. So glad I subscribed, and I can't wait to see what you do in the future.

Incredible Metroid retrospective! You deserve a lot more subs!

Great series of videos, I watched them all in a night. I’ll be waiting for your Dread review.

I kinda agree that it's weird Samus never expected another Ridley attack between this and super Metroid. However, maybe she thought she beat his ass bad enough that they didn't have to worry

Great video and I’ll definitely stick around. I jumped in after the super Metroid video and I’m curious which video games you’ll talk about next

Great video! Awesome to hear your detailed thoughts on this game, I'm glad you like it despite it's more controversial elements. This video series was such an amazing retrospective on all the 2D Metroid games, and I can't wait for the next chapter. Friday can't come soon enough!!

Love your content, I grew up with Metroid and I’m a huge fan of the franchise. I played pretty much every title. (Every titel besides federation force, but I will try it one day as well, because I just want to consume everything Metroid. The good the bad the ugly) But enough about me, I found your channel thanks to your retrospective videos. Love the production value and the content. During the first 3 videos, I thought that you probably have like 100k subs, but then I checked and I was shocked. So keep up the good content. You deserve way more subscribers.

This game is unfairly underrated

Frankly, once you get the Ice Beam, you don't actually need to keep maintaining a "stop&go" gameplay.

"There is no franchise quite like Metroid." Axiom Verge: *whistles innocently*

I played it on my New 3ds xl, and it worked great. But when I had to replace that, I got a new 2ds XL, and it it worked fabulously on that as well.

Great video once again. Do you plan on doing a similar retrospective marathon leading up to Prime 4? I'm curious on what your take is on Prime 2 echoes as it's my favorite game in the entire franchise and one of my favorite games of all time.

crucify me, but I honestly enjoy the 100% collect-a-thon. I dont know, it just happens to be something I enjoy. Not even just in SR, I enjoyed it in every single Metroid game.

I really enjoyed Samus Returns. Not my favourite, but still a lot of fun to play. I especially like how the Metroids at the end are actually a threat now, lol. Aside from having to charge your Ice-Beam, not only are they fast, but usually you could stand in a corner in earlier games and the Metroid on the platform above you would just hug the wall and be like: "duuuh, I can't get through". Not in Samus Return though. They actually seem somewhat intelligent.

The Metroid games (cept the one that we shall not say the name of) are pretty special. I think cause of the sci-fi aspect of it and how close it kinda is to the first few alien movies.

This was the game that got me into the Metroid series. I thoroughly enjoyed beating Samus Returns.

Took me 16 hours and I enjoyed it, my first metroid game and I will play it again

Meu metroid favorito. Com a exceção da serie prime nenhum outro metroid deu ênfase ao combate quase tanto esse jogo

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17:35 I think this is just coincidence, but I find it funny that the part where you're saying the fight is glitched and can't be completed also shows footage of "messing up" the final phase for lack of a better term. Blue notches on both rings need to be lined up and bombed for those curious.

I ran this on citra emulator, and it was on an android phone with 4 GB of RAM. It ran really smoothly and I never had any glitches. Yeah I had to turn down the resolution and increase the sharpness but it made it worth it. There really wasn't that much of a noticeable downgrade in graphics. But I grew up with Zero Mission was my introduction to the series which I feel was the right time. Of course I then had to play Super Metroid and I played the GBA edition ROM hack. But prior to that I played Fusion around when it came out and had the opportunity to play some of the Prime Trilogy at the displays in Walmart/target/Kmart despite having a Gamecube and a Wii. It was until recently that I played Zero mission again, then AM2R, then the ROM hack for Super Metroid GBA edition, Fusion, and finally got my hands on a digital copy of Dread and am currently playing that. In retrospect I absolutely agree with your assertions on where these titles would land on a tier list. I think any respective Metroid fan would as well given the introduction of modernized versions of the first two games. Yes I consider AM2R be just as much Canon as Samus returns even though Samus returns is an official Nintendo title I would just place AM2R in another universe if not just a slight retelling of the same story. But I would have to say that when I did play AM2R I was just as blown away as you were. The fact that it was a fan made title just showed me how much love was poured into this project and I felt compelled and honored to be able to finish that game.

Interacting so you get more views. Love your vids man

Call me crazy, but I prefer Metroid: Samus Returns's ending of all the Metroid 2s. While I do believe that Samus has a kind side to her in regards to the infant Metroid--especially considering her own history--I believe even she would know that the Metroids are still a dangerous species, given her role as a bounty hunter. With the inclusion of the Ridley fight, you can see the bond between them strengthen... especially when the Metroid saves her from Ridley. Those events, in addition to the Metroid helping Samus escape the Queen's nest, really did their relationship justice... especially after... the game we shall not speak of.

They made the freeze ray not stack so that you could have a powerful beam that would one-shot enemy while still having the possibility to rely on an Ice-beam that can kill enemies without destroying them at once, for platforming.

The amiibo problem is pretty bad but there are so many nfc clone tags that it's *almost* irrelevant. If you don't care about the figures and just want the functionality you can get amiibos dirt cheap. Seriously, I got all the Zelda amiibos as tiny nfc cards for about $15 and I plan on doing the same with the Metroid amiibo once the cards for the Dread figures are made. (Unless I can find the actual figures in stores. I want that Dread Suit on my shelf)

My body is ready for dread.

THE BABY!!!

4:47 Wait, just HOW bad is your PC? AM2R runs like butter even on my cheap general grade computer, that gets slowed down by _background_ processes, gamemaker is usually an incredibly adaptive engine, able to run on anything almost as well as Doom can.

It just hit me!? [Spoiler Alert]just incase) The Diggernaut could be a precursor of Emmi's in Dread? I'm not the only one that thinks this am I?

You nailed most of my problem with the game. Sub'

I used Citra for much of the game, including the Queen Metroid fight, and I experienced no glitches. What version of Citra were you using?

I STILL love this game

Heck yeah! Citra for the win!

Let’s go

I don't like to defend Nintendo AT ALL, but I think that putting their official remake on the 3DS was to keep the "official" Metroid 2 a hand-held exclusive as it had always been...

Time to play Turrican...

Strange. I have the game for MY 2DS, and I've never seen it studer.

Based.

The disrespect for the original metroid 2 in this video is insane. Still a joy to watch though.

Oh god, playing with those big ass hands on a normal N3DS must be a real pain. I guess having small hands have it's advantages.

Damn, that's a bummer you didn't enjoy the original Metroid II. It's pure kino.

Note that the 360 aiming is not 360 but just eight directions instead. You can't aim to anywhere you want because the missile or beam will go only to a certain place on those eight positions and that's it. I think they fixed this in Dread as far as I've seen the trailers, it seems you can fine-tune where you're aiming way better there. But we'll see. What annoys me is the fact that certain core elements are touch only, they wanted to put way many commands in the game where there are not enough buttons to accommodate that, I hate that I need to touch the screen to change beams especially since this is an action game, and sometimes I won't be fast enough to touch where I need without doing a mess. XD I mean, it's ironic that the best way to play a Nintendo game is on unofficial Nintendo emulations, even if you have the game and the hardware, just because you can fucking MAP those "touches" to the rest of the buttons on a gamepad. It's infuriating how Nintendo loves to makes everything that moved in your hand a necessary thing to play a game. Are you playing on wii? you have to SHAKE, and TURN 146º the controller so the character can JUMP, are you playing on 3DS? You need to touch on that little screen because LOOK, IT'S A TOUCH SCREEN, HOW COOL TO TOUCH IT TO CHANGE YOUR MISSILE OR BEAM TYPE! I'm sure players won't die at least seven or eight times in a Metroid fight because Dying resets the Beam type and you need to change it on the fly while a sphere is murdering you! :D Also I hate when developers blame gamers for not going to a dead platform to play their release especially if those developers are also the people who make the new hardware, for the game not selling well and then they punish us because of it. Every single issue about this "bad sales" could literally be fixed if they ported the game to Switch, with at least 720p. Just saying, Nintendo sometimes loves to do the dumb choices XD

I've been playing Metroid since 2002 with Prime and Fusion, and been replaying most main games regularly since. This game is so weird to me. As much as I want to like it, I can't seem to enjoy playing it for more than a few minutes at this point. The gameplay feels really bloated with options, which explains their resort to touch screen controls after running out of space with the 3DS buttons. In my first playthrough I was often stuck either because of the high difficulty, or because I didn't know what to use or try to continue (which is on my end, but I don't recall such a thing ever happening on any other Metroid games). The melee counter was poorly implemented imo, being WAY too strong in early-mid game, making the regular gameplay feel extremely weak in comparison. Also I think that the ambiance is sub-par compared to other entries in the series. Visually it's pretty bland (mostly in the first zones), with game-y stuff absolutely everywhere (yellow goo, random wind currents) which took me out of the experience way more than their 2D sprites counterparts. I think going with 3D models was a mistake for such a console, I don't think anything from it will age as well as the previous 2D ones. As for sound design, the music was fine (except for the pushy Norfair remix that blasts everytime there's enough red on the screen), but is shadowed by the loud ass sound effects that felt more generic than before. Despite this I'm really looking forward to Dread, since most of these issues will probably be gone: normal control scheme on a normal controller, more freedom on their part for the story and progression, and better hardware for graphic and sound design. Anyways, good video and nice series. Cheers :)

As of 12/31/23, still no word on wtf happened with Prime 4.

11:40 This is honestly what I hate about modern metroid, as sequence breaking and exploration are my favourite parts of the genre, and the new ones are devoid of that (Dread's "Sequence Breaks" are moreso heavily curated bonus objectives like getting the z-saber in MegaMan X3, they aren't actually breaking the sequence)

Which emulator doe?

well the whole thing about ppl not wanting to play on an as chu put it old systems just NOTZ 100% true AT ALL becuz im full blown proof of tat! as up untill the point TAT i 1st heard they made samus returns the down right 1ST thingy i DIDS was went out and baught BOTH the SP.E samus returns 3DSXL & the SP.E of samus returns infact i PURPOSLY went out a got the 3DS ONLY becuz samus returns came out as metroids my #1 fav. game series of all time & b4 then i didnt even bother ta have myself a reson too own a 3DS 😄 + my mom also insisted and forcefully baught meh sonic raceing transformed for the 3DS becuz i told her i only got the system for 1 game only soo chyea 😄 just felt i needed ta point tat outs LOLZ

when you tlak about the aeon abilities, i cant help but remember a lie nintendo said when they got some backlash initially about the scan pulse, "the aeon abilities are not required but they will be useful and help you" but you HAVE to use all but the scan pulse at points. as to the ending, no this game just fucking butchers it. in the original and AM2R, the ending isnt meant to be peaceful but contenplative, you are headin back to your ship with the last of an entire species, you just camitted genocide, and that walk back with the baby is you taking time to think about what you did, was killing an entire species the right choice or not? is saving this baby right or should you have killed it? this game...its ending, while the ridley fight and all the cutscenes in it kick ass, just fuck this game's ending. it treats the baby as just one more powerup, the messaging that was so amazing at the ending of the original and AM2R is tossed out the window, and...yeah its just worst for it, also only fights over all i feel this game handled better then AM2R was the omega metroids cause we can actually go between their legs to get out of corners and theres no, knocking you out of the room to restart the fight bullshit

Just goes to show that MAYBE Nintendo DOES care about their fans after all.

Cyborg Ridley is not from the Prime games so there you go cyborg really doesn't make it Canon there is no even reference that he is it's just a bonus boss with a little creativity and if I'm not sure I believe in 2023 review of Sakamoto he stated that once again the Prime games are not canon I do not know why these Prime fans can not take the hint and for me I'm glad prime games are not cannon and they their own continuity that tells its own story. For me I'm glad that the 2D Metroid games thats tells its own story and it's own continuity. And besides I'm not a big fan of the Prime games terrible storytelling that would completely defeat the purpose of Metroid Fusion and contradicts the 2d Metroid games.

You're putting the "100% completion" task upon yourself and critizing the game for it. That's not why the game was for, nor why peoplep play it. Literally every single friend I know would never ever go for 100% completion in a game, let alone in a Metroid game, specially one that is beginner-friendly and linear as this, which actually made some of my friends actually try it out and play it while not feeling completely lost. You're beating that dead horse way too much. Most people don't do this, I wish you stopped focusing on that on every game because of it.

AM2R > Returns

Other M is a better Metroid game than Samus Returns. Change my mind.