I'm getting married tomorrow, you really went above and beyond through the window and out the door with this gift!

You’re not done yet Josh. You still have Hunters, Federation Force, and most importantly Pinball

Stay strong bladder, we’re not moving till sunset

"10 Hours of Metroid" Don't you THREATEN me with a good time!

Oh boy time to rewatch the single greatest series in yt for the 20th time

One major thing to keep in mind with Metroid Fusion is it was a portable game in an era where we couldnt put the console to sleep. Gameboy games sometimes followed this mentality but sometimes didnt (Metroid2 did not). By the GBA era Nintendo especially was deliberately designing the game in a way to be bite-sized play times, hence the mass of save stations. The whole reason the Gameboy exists is because one of the designers saw a guy playing with a calculator on a train, its meant to be played in transit not necessarily played like a normal game. If the game was too vast between save points, people would be less likely to want it because their trip they want it for would make playing it a chore. Metroid Fusion rarely lasts more than 10m before you bump into a save station, so it fits the "im on a train for 10-15m..." mentality

Time to rewatch this series for the 20th time, now in one nonstop session!

Ten hours of Metroid to fall asleep to! Please note that the delivery of lines in the Metroid Other M cutscenes will likely induce you sleep quicker than anything else.

I will forever adore the fact that the Varia suit, perhaps Samus' best known piece of equipment, was supposed to be named the "barrier suit". Eh, close enough!😂😂

You spoil me. Now I can re-binge watch your metroid series for the 100th time and all at one go while I'm working on the cars, projects on the house or mowing the lawn. Thanks, Josh.

THIS is a compilation of one of the best Metroid Essays on this plattform (and yes, I remember the Prime1 Drama) and your approach to it is almost an arc to itself. Thanks for your fabolous work over the years

YESSSS I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN 3RD GRADE AND I WATCHED ALL OF THESE VIDEOS OVER AND OVER AGAIN NOSTALGIA REALLY IS A SPECIAL FEELING

Thanks! Love the videos and so happy you made all the metroid vids together

I remember watching these after I finished high school and now I’m in my mid 20s @__@ time flies but it’s definitely fun to revisit :] I’m excited to watch them again with fresh eyes especially now that I’ve gotten to play a good chunk of the series (and I’m extremely looking forward to seeing the redux videos!) Those years are a blur to me now but I owe it to you for fueling so much of my growing love for Metroid back then Thank you to the many years of excellent videos!

Bless you Geek Critique. Something to do during prep

These video's got me into Metroid, thank you for the good memories!

This is awesome!! Got my popcorn ready for my favourite Geek Critique video compilation!

It has been so nice to watch/listen to these again, perfect to dip in and out of!

Guess I'm gonna watch all these again

Just what I needed for work today. Thank you!!!!!!!

I've always loved these videos. I've rewatched them multiple times but I keep coming back anyway. So thanks for saving me a few clicks now! 😆

This series is my ultimate comfort watch. Thank you for editing it all together

This is probably as close as we're going to get to an official "TGC Movie" isn't it? Oh well I'll take it! Will probably watch this one day but...yeah 10 hours is a lot! Great idea to get you more watch time though! lol :P

Ik im a bit late but every single time I get back into my Metroid phase I watch your series usually while playing a Metroid game (usually either zero mission super or dread due to them being my favorites and the ones I find easiest to pick up and play) and I wanted to say thank you for an awesome series and way for entertainment

Your editing and the clips you use are so perfect

God, I love this series. Third time I'm watching this, that's how awesome it is! Really scratches that Metroid itch I constantly have.

One of my favorite video playlist on the entirety of KZfaq now in a single video, this couldn't be better!

Oh! I've seen all of these! I'm all for watching them again!

I'm pretty sure the bit about "absorbing any enemy's power" in the NES Metroid manual is meant to be an in-universe explanation for health pickups.

Super Metroid Tip: If you are in the top room of the wrecked ship. Kill all the monsters and then open all the doors. You only have to clear the room once. If you leave, any doors you didn't open will stay gray. I don't think it will help in a speed run, but it's less annoying for casuals. Just clear to the right, back track to the left and open the door. Turn around and head back to the right, shoot the center hatch that you entered from after you pass it and then finally shoot and enter the room to the far right that has the item in it.

I did the exact same thing in Dread lol it must be an old head problem. At some point half way through the game it clicked that I should just stick in the area I was in until I found the path forward instead of trying to backtrack and it felt AMAZING! I was a snowball rolling down a mountain that turned into an avalanche.

Bro you’re the best! Love this

I loved hearing your hype and enjoyment the first time, I enjoy it even more 10 hours in a row.

It took me like a week to fully watch this video, thank you

Omg I can’t believe I’m actually going to watch this whole video

it's about time you did this. thank you.

Awesome stuff dude

Finally! A video to listen to at work!

No youtuber's outro has ever stuck with me like The Geek Critique's one, I say it every time I hear it.

I liked your review of Fusion a lot better. I love your take on Samus herself feeling limited and underpowered, with SA-X being able to sequence break and have all her most powerful and iconic abilities. It was really cool seeing Samus sort of the way a space pirate would, I try to channel that SA-X attitude into my own gameplay when I start feeling too much anxiety haha

Finally, the best video on youtube has dropped

this was an awesome video thank you.

WORK IS GONNA BE SO LIT WITH THIS IN MY EAR

8:18:07 If it makes you feel any better, my nephew had the same experience as you. They shot the bottom block but not any other parts of the wall and got stuck. They asked me for help, but I hadn't played Dread for a long time and I also hadn't seen them shoot the bottom block of that wall, so it didn't occur to me that the game wanted you to shoot more of the wall any time soon. It took us a very long time to figure it out.

Ngl thanks for making it into one video. I listen to when I do my research and this helps! Also random game drop, if you have never played gun star heroes I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

Oh, now this is freakin' awesome

Ive watched this videos before (besides prime) several times each :) one of my favorite series

For me, my timeline of Metroid was Zero Mission Fusion Super Dread Samus Returns And I'm in the middle of Prime Remastered and AM2R. I love Metroid a lot, because it got me into the Metroidvania type series along with Aria/Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin. Whenever i played Zelda, i always had a primal need to explore the areas and dungeons more, to unlock all the collectables in a game, and Metroid did exactly that for me. It's become a favorite series of mine, and I can't wait to experience more of it in the future.

I absolutely love the DBZA quotes littered throughout!

Yoooo thanks for this

Other M got me into this series and now I play through the whole series every August. Other M remains in my top 3 favorites of the series. I will die on that hill it is a fantastic game.

It’s such a cool milestone when a channel can put out the 10 hour compilation video *and* have an excited response for it. I’ve watched your Metroid playlists a bunch, and I’ll for sure do the same for this!

I refuse to acknowledge that it was 8 years ago! Your videos was with me through my last job 2015-2024. Sadly I am without any right now. Yesterday youtube showed me your Dread video, it was a pleasure to watch it. I have forgotten about TGCfor a while ;) I have come back to reading SF, do you have some favorite sf books? Keep the good work, I would watch anything done by you and your friends.

I love the « Make that 2 40 »!

My dude, the way you described us 2D Fans waiting for most of our lives for Dread is so so accurate. Seeting Metroid 5 was just...the best thing in the world. SO glad you also enjoy this series. ^..^ See you Next Mission

It’s my sleepover and I get to pick the movie!

AHH, seeing your say so much good things about Prime 3 makes my heart so so happy. I t really is fun. Each one has flaws and thats ok but damn, this series is amazing.

It's just... So peak.

The dream came true, it's all here in one video!!!

This is so great

Hell yeah

Revisiting your critique of this series, it made me realize how much I would love to see you critique the Dark Souls series. I think it would play directly to your tastes

THIS IS PERFECT :D you know how many times i've used this series to clean the bathroom or repaint the porch? :)

This will be my evening ASMR from now on.

Funny thing is, you can actually drive Ridley off when you face him in Ceres. So if you manage it, Ridley retreats and the implication is that Samus was like, "I'm not done with you."

Great Stuff.

4K is my era, im still in it

Imagine if in metroid prime, the scan visor overlayed a missile logo over destructible spots after you scanned them.

4:48:04 Not even mentioning her actual father that raised her until she was about 8, when her entire planet got genocided by Ridley's space pirates 4:51:10 To be fair to Adam, he didn't want Samus there. He was well aware that the station was built by a rogue federation military group that was experimenting on and cloning Metroids. Which is the whole reason he went there. He didn't want Samus getting caught up in the mess though This rogue group is also behind the BSL station in Metroid Fusion, as well as (theoretically) uploading Adam's mind to a computer and using his surviving vague personality to manipulate Samus. 5:17:17 Nightmare was a gravity manipulating bio-weapon being developed by the rogue military group I mentioned earlier. Given how both the Bottleship and BSL station were acting as secret research labs for them, it makes sense there was a Nightmare weapon on both. Or perhaps Nightmare was recovered from the debris and later taken to the BSL for repairs, where the X got it 5:19:35 It can be explained easily and is even shown in-game. Not all of the Metroids have been altered. Otherwise, you could never beat the Queen. The Metroid Adam shot was one of the normal ones. But there are a lot of modified Metroids in Sector 0, which Samus wouldn't be able to beat. That said, if a powerbomb can eliminate the Queen, it should be able to kill the modified Metroids anyway. Only reason against that would be damaging the Bottleship, but Adam has Sector 0 Jettisoned anyway, and Samus can survive the vacuum of space, temporarily. In the time, she could just call her ship. Basically, it is explained that she can't beat them with ice weapons. But she can still beat them and there's no reason for her not to, so Adam shooting her has no good excuse. I guess he just overreacted. 5:23:25 I died like 7 times, until I noticed the charge bar going up. Then I realised, powerbombs. It was probably meant to be a bit of a meta moment, where the player has completely taken back their agency, no need to be told you can do it, you just do it. But by this point, you're too trained on seeing the unlock screen. Maybe if there was a cutscene earlier where Samus was forced to use a powerbomb to eliminate a bunch of Metroids swarming her, before the fight, it would have been ok.

I love the zero mission ost I appreciate the achievements of the composers despite hardware limitations

1:07:46 "The mother of all alien tech, the hyper beam." 1:20:10 There is one, but it has a very complex set of moves to do when doing so, then after you do it you're rewarded for doing so by the AI. 1:35:25 "you wouldn't download a car would ya" 1:38:12 I kind of see where you're coming from, but at the same time that took some years off my life.

how did u make the custom Dan Owsen clips?

5:20:57 Easy fix. Metroid not freezing plus Samus’s usual overconfidence leads to it latching onto her, and genetic mods making it drain faster or w/e only for Adam to hit it and incidentally her which knocks her out of commission. That, or have Samus try to go in after Adam destroys the Metroid only for Adam to freeze her in place, even with the Varia Suit. Only reason they didn’t I assume is because it takes away the twist that it wasn’t “The Deleter”trying to /kill/ Samus, it was Adam, “saving” her.

I agree with the criticism that fusion hid mandatory routes vs secret items, but at the core of it is fun and I rank it high for fun on the metroid games. It is my most replayed, perhaps because I have so many ways to play it and the design is so pleasing to the eye. I guess I have a proud guilty pleasure love for fusion. Cheers to the vid and to you, I'll sit down and keep watching, carry on...

im pretty sure the core x who fell in the lava would have give some kind of hyper beam beam

Aw man, i just finished the last review yesterday xD

Damn. 9 to 10 hour long retrospectives are becoming a very common occurrence these days.

Don't know if you're plannig on doing it, but I'd love to see you going over the DKC games again, including the Land series

It's... Beautiful...

Hahahaha I just did this myself the other day to re-celebrate the Dread review. Looks like we're doing it again lol

Man, too long, too long I have been watching these videos

2:50 Where does that song come from??

My headcanon about the scan visor is that samus modifies entries on her own. This seems likely to me, what with her notes.

Now that you've done the Metroid series. I hope you'll do other Metroidvanias I know Hollow Knight is one you'll love, very gameplay focused, it's the dark souls of Metroidvanias.

In the time it took me to watch this video, I could've almost beat Zero Mission 10 times.

This is simply self-indulgent

Actually, I think where Metroid could go from here is a game where you gain and lose powerups throughout the game. It'd /technically/ be new for the series, or any game really, but it was there in the first game to a degree. I just think it'd be neat.

Are we sure the federation aren't the real space pirates/bad guys of this series?

Metroid fusion getting some new Randomizer stuff going, then this? It’s a good time to be a Metroid fan.

Eyy, this is honestly really convenient, as I have been meaning to re-watch the old ones! However, you've yet to do a standalone video on Metroid Prime Pinball, so it can't *exactly* be called "complete". :v

Hey

I can't wait to play these games myself, one day. Wanna play em with my partners. That'll be fun, I think.

I am halfway through my third viewing...

59:39 "just a poor imitation of the real thing", KZfaq cuts to an ad for Star Trek Discovery before Federation Force logo shows up. Got a good chuckle, KZfaq stealing the set for its own Punchline, lol

I'm sure it was already addressed, but i found it odd that Josh never covered Prime Remastered, even if not much changed actually between the 2

Great:)

you should give metroid planets a try. the original NES metroid, but with many of the quality of life improvements that have come along since. I would also recommend the super metroid ROM hack project base, as well as ancient chozo and hyper metroid, both built off of project base.

2:34:17 What did you mean by "I see what they did there?" I feel like I'm missing out on something. Also, I hope at some point you go on to talk about Metroid Prime Hunters, as a shorter video or something (since there isn't too much in the way of single player content). And maybe Federation Force too (but I'm not pushing for that one).

ayo Left Hand Manual and Dread in the same vid!!!!!

Yay! 😊