Hello! I have a few clarifications I wanted to make. I was totally wrong about Metroid II being the first time Samus goes to Zebes, in that game she goes to the planet SR-388. I honestly don't know how I messed that one up as that game is literally called Samus Returns and this one is called Zero Mission. It's Super Metroid where Samus revisits Zebes. A few people called out my use of the term "Search-Action" and I don't blame them, that genre title is super boring. I just found the idea of referring to a Metroid game as a Metroidvania really redundant, like saying Metroid is a Metroid-like doesn't really mean anything. Although, after I made this video I saw someone refer to these games as being in the "Hunter Gatherer" genre and I think that's so much cooler than Search-Action. That's it for now. Thank you for watching!

Ridley has actually nothing to do with Ripley, the name comes from Ridley Scott, the director.

Actually, I'm pretty sure Ridley is homage to Alien's director Ridley Scott.

Metroid 2 is visiting the planet SR-388 the planet where the metroids were first created, zebes is the home world of the chozo who raised Samus. It’s Super Metroid that visits zebes a second time

The thing I find most beautiful about Zero Mission is how it's designed to be speedrunned. You know that blockage where you need the long beam to reach the next vertical shaft? There are some secret breakable blocks right on the top of the blockage, making the long beam skippable, if you want to. You know the cutscene with Mother Brain looking at you? If you find the Varia suit before entering Norfair, Samus will appear with that suit in the cutscene, meaning the devs intended for it to happen! The whole game is full of secret shafts, breakable walls and other nifty stuff to allow for sequence breaking and speedrunning to your heart's content.

You know you've hit it big when, they name an entire genre after you, and some other schmuck that did what you did, but with more edge lords.

Te narrator voice has an uncanny similarity to the one that said, "The last metroid is in captivity, the Galaxy Is at Peace" in super metroid xD

I think I fully spoiled myself the experience of zero mission, but idc, I'll still play it

20:30 You can use a Shinespark instead. Much easier imo.

AHHHH!! I’m not even done watching this one and I’m already entranced! EDIT: Aight, it’s time. This was beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Everything I think came together for this one, the ambiance, the footage, the writing, I think it all played a key part in giving this video its vibe. Incredibly well done man. Well, that’s all from me, safe travels.

Stumbled on this channel with all the Metroid algorithm hype. This is good stuff. Subscribed for more.

I'm really glad I got introduced to the series with this game

Was it just me or was motherbrain crazy difficult in this game

The opening music to Metroid zero mission is so beautiful

Seeing this is my subscription was an absolute delight. Keep up the great work!

Ah, yes, Samus's's's original weapon. The Dainty Beam.

I like how you give like 2 different names to the ice beam being freeze beam and ice ray

Guess there's a metroid bandwagon. Nice to see some videos that isn't falsely figuring out what to expect in Dread

great video, this makes me want to buy zero mission and fusion on my wii-u as i missed them on GBA back in the day. i love the prime trillogy and loved samus returns remake on my 3ds and am super excited for dread. keep up the awesome work

Awesome video man! I don't know how you don't have more subscribers!

Yes yes yes yes finally a metriod video

Bruh, the crumbling rocks after Kraid and Ridley are forshadowing for the rocks that foreshadowed to be opened before! :D

KZfaq recommendations finally doing its job

those last few minutes were great, talking abt emotions unique to video games and the comparisons to Alien. I’d love more of that instead of a beat for beat plot summary. good video:)

People say channels with 80,000 subscribers are underrated. No, you are underrated. It astounds me how llittle subscribers you have

20:38 who's gonna tell him you can just shinespark to the E Tank

Great video, I'm surprised it has only less than 3k views

Your channel so underrated man Keep doing you fam

12:21 That never happened to me, because I always hung from that thing with my hand while shooting at those critters who were chasing me

I remember in 1987 i was walking around my local Walmart, And when i turn the corner in electronics i see a Nintendo M82 Store Demo Unit that was playing metroid. This was the first time id have ever seen an nes and metroid was the first video game i ever played that day and was hooked for life.

Your vids are fantastic dude. So damn good. 1 suggestion I have for you is to make your titles more extreme, polarizing and provocative. You deserve waaaay more subs and the titles will facilitate that nicely. Thanks for the awesome Metroid content. I’m really enjoying it and surely not alone.

You start it off with one of the best music tracks in all of metroid The title of prime 1. Oh lord the nostalgia.

I'm glad you have these videos analyzing what makes video game franchises amazing, and this is literally one of my favorite videos of yours so far

Big fan of the line about ball technology. I feel like I'm going to be using that next time I talk to someone about Metroid

Your music selection in your videos is always on point, but this is by far the best. Doesn’t hurt Metroid has some of the best VGM of all time but still very good selection here!

Metroid is my favorite character he fights aliens and doesn't afraid of anything!

Can’t wait to see your Fusion video!

Amazing video befitting of one of if not the most underrated VideoGame Series of all time!! Let us Dread...

This video is so well done and well written

The music during the foreshadowing is so eerie... I like it but it puts me on edge... you know what I mean. Nice analysis, love these! And I love Metroid!

I love how Metroid games are totally different playing them through the first time around vs playing them with some prior knowledge. If you know of the "secret tech" like shine sparks and wall jumps, you can find some crazy skips and almost get a different game from a blind playthrough. And then there's it fitting both a slow, methodical playthrough and a fast run through.

Great video! I just started getting into Metroid recently, and I appreciate these types of scripted videos that take a long time to make. You really deserve more attention, and I hope you get it soon!

Great video. Metroid is my favorite video game franchise if all time, and now my hype levels are through the solar system

Awesome Video! Thx a lot for so much work you put into it!

Bro I just stumbled upon this channel and a lot of the videos so far are bangers, looking forward to seeing more!

Great video! I can't wait to see more from this series!

Imo metroid dread will dip into the horror carnival genre that I feel has really been overlooked

great watch, this guy has some great videos, love the Kirby one

1:44 So the first metroid game came out 3 years earlier than my birth? My first two metroid game was Metroid Fusion and then Zero Mission using gameboy advance when I turned 15 years old. I miss the experience of playing that console. I cried when I bought one, because GBA SP came available a day after I purchased my Gameboy Advance.

I love how this video turned into an entire walkthrough for Zero Mission. This was a pretty well-done video nonetheless!

So glad I found your channel friend :) You have a new sub. This was a perfect video analysis on Metroid 1. As someone who has completed every Metroid game in the series and drawing Metroid fanart on my channel, I can't wait to see more videos like this. HOPEFULLY METOID FUSION, PRIME and Super Metroid :)

Hey ITOI, great video! I've been a Metroid fan for years and I just love hearing people as passionate as I am talk about the franchise. I'll be looking forward to the rest of the series! Subbed.

Amazing video. I just bought Zero Mission and Fusion to get ready to jump into this series. I had always been curious about Metroid as I love sci-if but I just never knew which game to jump into. Now I’m so excited and can’t wait for them games to come in the mail.

The most underrated channel

Metroid was one of the games I grew up on from the ages of around 6 through 10. At the time the game that I could most make an association with was Contra, and then later on Blaster Master. As a kid I saw a guy (or that's what I thought) running, jumping, and shooting baddies. It was like Contra or Megaman or something like that. But immediately you realize you can go backwards, and in fact you have to. Right when the game starts you run to the right, because of course you do. Then the game blocks you off and you're forced to go left, and then jump over a few platforms and get a morph ball. Rolling around, running, jumping, and kill enemies was fun. But the thing that kept driving me was this need to search doors and crevices and floors and walls in order to try and find that next upgrade that will help me advance, or at least make do badass things. Eventually you find your way into Kraids Lair or maybe Norfair. And all of the sudden the landscape, creatures, and music are all different, and they are ALL more alien and strange and creepy. This game gave me the creeps when I was a kid and I didn't even know if I was supposed to feel that way. After all it wasn't a "horror" game, so why was I so creeped out? The deeper you go into Zebes the stranger and more alien things become. Again; landscapes, enemies, and music changes into something stranger and stranger. Eventually you find your way into the strangest area of all, hidden in the core of this sick planet. Jelly fish looking things attack you in droves and try to suck your energy dry, and if you don't know exactly how to kill them they will. Finally there is a room where a complex machine is shooting you with bullets and what appears to be bubbles. A brain is sitting in a vat, doing absolutely nothing. She is the final boss of the game, and she literally does nothing but sit in a vat while blinking her eyes and moving her brain muscles, probably the ones controlling the machine that is trying to kill you. Once you blow her up with missiles, a timer goes off alerting you continuously that you must jump from this platform to that up a long vertical shaft, and that you must do it in time to get to your ship or you will blow up with the planet. Metroid had solid action for its day, though it was by no means groundbreaking and it was outdone by other side-scrolling shoots in years to come. What Metroid had that was extraordinary to me, was that it compelled me to want to go further and further into it's strange, alien, isolated world, inhabited only by hideous alien creatures that are driven to prey on you and kill you. I'll never forget how it didn't have levels. It was the only game I played back then that didn't have any levels, and yet it seemed like it kinda sorta did have levels. Going to down an elevator into a new place seemed like it was a different level. But it wasn't a level, it was a place. As I said, I had played nothing like that before (I didn't play Zelda back then). So those are some thoughts on growing up with Metroid. The atmosphere always made its imprint on me, and the level design of discovering a weapon/tool in order to access a new place or revisit an old one. Those two components, atmosphere and design, are what really set Metroid and the Metroid franchise apart for me. The movement and control of Samus got better and better with every release and became a strength in the series rather than a liability. Nonetheless, something much greater than mere action oriented gameplay makes Metroid special. Zero Mission, the remake of the original game that's discussed in this video, is one of my favorite games ever. The only 2d Metroid game I hold in higher esteem is Super.

How dare you cheat. You talk about about the amazing music but you sneak in one of Brinstar’s Super Metroid themes. I see you. It is a freakin banger tho. Joking aside Metroid music is amazing, atmospheric and really helps with that sense of isolation. I know you focused on zero mission but the original is super famous for how Samus was revealed to be a woman. Everyone though Samus was a man and you only found out if you got one of the better endings … it shocked everyone … she’s pretty much the original badass female video game character and is still relevant today. Nice vid… can’t wait for Dread.

Space jumping through to the E tank is the hard way though also more fun if you're not speedrunning. You can also do it with a Shinespark dash, in case you didnt know 😉

Excellent video, loved the acknowledgement to Alien.

Metroid is the coolest character ever he even can turn to a ball

This video is really well made. Zero Mission is by far my favorite Metroid. Also, what's that art on the thumbnail? It's absolutely gorgeous.

Great video! I'm excited to see more

I like the new suit of Metroid, it fits him soo wel

Awesome video! not much kore to add to that, i just enjoyed it!

Oh boy, I was waiting for a new video from you

Man you just made me want to play this even more than I already did before Dread 😂

Would be wonderful to be able to play this on the Switch.

This video turned me onto this series. Never realized I was missing out on these games.

I love the Metroid series. My favorite Metroid-related video game of all time is Metroid Prime: Pinball.

20:55 What you're supposed to do is shinespark to it. but that works too i guess

Uhh Metroid 2 is the first time you visit zebes...? That game is not a prequel nor does it take place on zebes...

Fun fact: The Sheegoth enemies in Metroid prime were based loosely one the appearance of the Xenomorphs at least in the face shape.

I love how this is just an unorthadox super-basic walkthrough.

7:05 That's how a game is made fun I think. This constant dynamism of setting expectations then shattering them.

Great video! Please consider doing Fusion!

Love how you use luminists synth music.

I grew up on the original Metroid so I have a special place in my heart for Zero Mission. I think it's a perfect re-imaging of the original and a criminally underrated game. It's the closest thing that exists to Super Metroid which is the high point of the series imo.

Awesome vid! Just fyi though, ridley isn't a robot (not including mecha-ridley)

Finally played zero mission so I could finally watch this video, great game and great video

Amogus reference 😳 Tho you gotta talk about dread when it comes out I like your way of expressing videos

I can see you trying to work the system in your favor with your titles. Good luck. You got that professional youtuber voice, so hopefully one day

lmao you're really getting into telling that story xD love it

[10:00] ICE 2 meet you

Glad to see this genre defining game is getting the attention it deserves.

11:50 nice Doors reference ;)

Absolutely amazing video, you have my subscribe

3:11 Metroid 2 takes place on SR-388, so I don't know what you're talking about here.

Great video! Are you gonna be doing the next video on am2r or samus returns? Imo samus returns is not a very good meteor game but here we all are

10:00 Aw, man! If there was one thing I disliked about Zero Mission it's these bubbly parts. It's hard to tell the destroyable and indestructible blocks apart, it's hard to find the blocks that let you fall through them and it's easy to get lost or run around in circles. oof Same with the parts around 11:10.

to be fair, there is a lot they improved on the original, but there's so much that they changed and added, it's hard to say it's a remake of the original. when i played it first, i couldn't recognize it from the original Metroid in parts.

This was a good video I decided to watch while I waited for Mario Golf: Super Rush to download.

Your presentation is spectacular absolutely spectacular. However you shouldve polished the script a bit more.

Samus Aran- suffering from amnesia since 1986.

"Bird bois" lmao

Metroid is my favorite video game franchise!

So overall, fantastic video! Buuuuuut you COMPLETELY left out a MAJOR part of the original Metroid's development and specifically HOW they were able to so DRASTICALLY expand the game's scope compared to the initial "black box" NES games!!! Namely the MASSIVELY IMPORTANT, night & day fucking GAME CHANGING introduction of the "MMC1" ("Memory Management Controller 1") in-cart support chip! That MMC1 chip was such a GARGANTUAN fucking breakthrough for the NES as it allowed "bank switching", which essentially made it possible to make NES games larger than a mere 32KB in size (which is what all the "black box" games were limited to), which until this, was the hard limit for a NES game. The introduction of the MMC1 chip allowed Nintendo's famous R&D1 to COMPLETELY revolutionize games & game development REPEATEDLY. Without it, we'd have neither The Legend of Zelda OR Metroid.

Ah the wave beam. The best weapon you'll never use in Metroid. The ice beam was too useful even though it was weak, and while the wave beam was nicely powerful when compared to the long beam/ice beam, you needed the ice beam to make platforms throughout the game, and needed it for the metroids.. So that the wave beam didn't stack with the ice beam made it useless. I wonder if the developers understood that?

Where did that elevator footage in the very beginning come from. I don't recognize it from any of the games

Nice, enjoyable script btw!

4:00 Yeah, Nintendo is amazing at this. Throwing small, controlled, more streamlined versions of the core gameplay loop at players early as a tutorial.

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