A look through Samus' armors

what the heck socks look behind you [Music] somebody's gonna pay for all this I know it's tradition at this point that Samus starts off most of her ventures with none of her previous power-ups but from all the explanation given to us in the games this is definitely the silliest one in echos her gears somehow gets stolen by the engine fusion basically forces Samus to switch into a new Armour because of parasites and in other M she just doesn't feel like using any of her weapons what but in the first prime game the one game that basically introduced me into the franchise has samus lose all of her cool weapons after an explosion knocks her against the wall and whoops there goes my morph ball and my ten year old self stared at the screen and went oh okay I guess we gotta chase that dragon yay the Metroid series has introduced us to some very creative power-ups that change the way we traverse through the planets we explored and how we engage with its environments such as the ice beam that turns enemies into convenient platforms or the iconic Marvel to get around narrow passages but obviously the most noticeable of all these items has to be samus's ever so iconic of various suits I mean after all it's what we see in nearly every cover of the games and even on the ad campaigns as well it basically established itself as a default look for the character so much so that once armor less Samus was added into the russer Super Smash Brothers they had to give it a different name just so that players had a way to distinguish between the two you know besides having them look completely different from each other so as we looked through the extensive collections of armors used by the hunter in her many journeys I think the best place to start is with well Rosie Rosie as I mentioned in the past dis look first to get it back in metroid zero mission and became the standard outfit for Samus to wear underneath her armor alongside an emergency paralyzed her pistol that can stun enemies for a brief moment well it doesn't ground her any special abilities the suit features three distinctive Oso symbols and make it feel attached in some way with the alien race but the zero suits most distinct function is that is actually connected to her power suit allowing Samus on will as seen in Metroid Other M the Power Suit essentially is the base form of samus's armor with no additional upgrades which was given to her by the chozo on planet service during her training at an early age this armor is usually the default suit that sama starts off her adventures in and has been present in every game of the franchise with the exception of a prime series where it's only really featured during the first installment of the main trilogy the power suits main function is to protect samus during combat as well as supplying her with firepower via the arm cannon but the most important feature of the armor comes in the form of its ability to be upgraded with additional weaponry to help its user survive any encounter an interesting piece of trivia is that a metric m2 you can come across an enemy known as a respite in sanctuary fortress that can infect samus of a virus forcing her to reboot some of the suits functions after the reboot a message will be displayed containing what seems to be the serial number of the armor which reads as chozo battle subversion is a 1 4 4 6 8 v m6p the Varia soon as I laid on to the 4 is the most iconic armor of the entire series with its large round shoulders bulkier chest plate and the added orange colors to the standard power suits palette in the original NES game this armor was a simple color change for the power suit but with its sequel being released in the original game boys lime green screen the virus suit was giving a Booker the sign to make it visually different from the standard power suit its name derives from a mistranslation of the word barrier since it serves a purpose to protect samus from deadly substances such as the acid found in brinstar the suit does not only boost samus's overall defenses but it also protects her from either extreme heat or sub-zero temperatures allowing her to explore otherwise harsh environments and this defense has increased even further after you managed to collect the gravity suits which usually is the last armor collected in the 2d games this suits change has been represented most of the time as a simple palette swap of the Vario suit the changing its orange sections into violet as well as making the green visor and lights into blue summers returns however features a slight redesign of the armor with some additional lights to give it a bit more of a unique look the gravity suits main ability is to allow Samus to move normally in any environment with abnormal gravity as well as through liquid environments the suit also protects her from damage caused by LaVonda 2d games and grants you of a clearer vision while submerged in water in Metroid Prime however while you do gain the gravity suit with its benefits in Metroid Other M the powerup does not change the overall look of the armor NSA gave you a pinkish aura around the Varia suit to symbolize whenever it's active this decision perhaps was made by the developers to preserve the classic color scheme of Samus during the games many cutscenes after defeating the Omega pirate in Metroid Prime Samus is exposed to a large amount of the radioactive face on that infuses itself with the armor thus creating the phazon suit this new upgrade grants samus with even more defenses while the same time making her completely immune to the dangerous substance and not to mention adding that darker color scheme to the suit that just looks really cool the suit is also able to access the extremely powerful face on me during the final fight against the Metroid Prime and after finishing the battle the core is somehow able to seal the face-on suit from Samus and fuses itself with the armor which results in the creation of the sinister dark sense later on Samus would find herself travelling to Planet either during the events of nature Frank - and after fighting the Guardian a morbus were granted with a mysterious dark suit which features a different style of shoulder pads and a much more muted color scheme this armor was created by the aluminum as a way to protect themselves against the toxic air of and be able to stand the chance in combat as he attempted to free the world from the shadows brought by the ink in the hands of Samus the dark suit drastically reduces the amount of damage you take from dark a therse atmosphere and can later be upgraded with a gravity boost to have it simulate some of the abilities given to you by the gravity suit however once Samus manages to restore the light of either she's able to infuse her armor with the light itself to create a perfect fusion of lumen often chosen technology in the form of the light suit this armor features a much more sleek and streamlined design with some rather dangerous looking kneecaps and many holes are capable of producing the same energy as the one from the light of aether rendering Sam is completely invulnerable to the dark dimensions atmosphere as well as allowing her to travel between the planets many temples through the use of sunlight chests once a mist of beats the Emperor King she returns to light suit alongside the energy stolen by the dark creature thus securing the future for the planet and aluminium meanwhile in the northern system the federation find themselves at war against the space birds who have found a way to weaponize the phazon and intend to use it to take over the galaxy during the pirate invasion on Orion dark Samus manages to corrupt the hunters with a virus that will make their bodies produce space on this prompts a federation to rebuild samus's armor so that she can safely contain the face on growing inside her and utilize it to boost her combat capabilities this results in the creation of the Faison enhancement device suit or PD suit for short the machinery used to create this armor was faced of captured space power technology but Asus IRA symbols more of a mix between the various suits and the armor used by the federation troopers the PD suit allows Samus to enter a state called hyper mode so she basically becomes invincible and her arsenal is powered by the face-on insightful however misuse of this can result in the user becoming completely corrupted by the Faison where in other terms have their minds completely controlled by the substance as well as dark stems which makes the PD suit sort of a double-edged sword you later can also collect and upgrade in the form of the hazard shield that creates a barrier that protects samus from things such as the acid rain in the pirate homeworld or the fuel gel found in Brio while escorting a biological research team on the surface of planet 388 Samus finds herself getting infected by a strange parasite known as the X that thread in her life the only cure that was found was to use of DNA collected from the baby Metroid aboard the space station series to create a vaccine that will purge the parasite since the metrics are the natural predators of the X force all of this works perfectly because Berkman however most of the organic components of the power suit end up becoming completely infected by the X and so Sam has found herself in the newly introduced fusion suit this suit can be considered as a redesign of the classic power suit since it has all the same basic functions you can celebrate it later on with the Varia suit and gravity suit however this time around the armor allows Samus to absorb the x-parasites she encounters to replenish your health and gain new abilities at the expense of making her incredibly weak twice due to the metrics DNA inside of her Metroid's can't tolerate cold temperatures they couldn't survive in this environment this knew the signs for it's a much more slim look compared to the traditional armor but it's added details make it resemble a metroid of sorts such as the three orbs in the back that resembles the Metroid's internal nuclei the helmet area resembling the creatures talents and the three blades on the left arm that could be reminiscent of either the metrics teeth or the crest seen in the joseph's arms while you'll never return to the classic designed armor metroid fusion the surviving x parasite remaining in some of the portions of the original fire suit morph together to become an x clone of Samus to place a role of the main antagonist most commonly known as the sa X the fusion suit also makes an appearance in Metroid Prime as a bonus for linking the game with a copy of Metroid Fusion on the Gameboy as well as in Samus Returns has a special on lock and given by the Metroid amiibo without counting the base functions provided by the standard power suits I think some of the most useful armors come in the form of the Varia suit for its resistant to extreme temperatures the gravity suit since it allows us to move normally in any situation and the P these who for the ridiculous power you get while in hyper mode from a design standpoint however have always been a fan of the way the dark suit kinda resembles a looming off and the fusion suit for just how different its silhouette is from the traditional armor and the gravity suit because well it's a bluer version of the Varia suits and I really like the color blue the one in Salmons return sir looks really cool one thing that I adore about these designs is that no matter how different they might look from each other all the armor still share our similar traits that make them feel like they do belong to the same person and I've always appreciated how much samus's armor has changed over the years with each iteration managing to create an image that resembles the atmosphere of every mission and I am really excited to see how this might be applied to the upcoming metric rank 4 from the general shape of the visor to the tubes on the helmet to the pronounced shape of the shoulders and that ever so iconic arm cannon all these details come together to form the iconic heroic look of one of gaming's most recognizable characters that just helps resemble how mysterious and deadly star the many worlds that she explores on her journeys [Music]

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Keywords: Orpheon, Samus, Aran, Metroid, Chozo, Varia, Power, Zero Suit, Dark, Light, Phazon, PED, Luminoth, Ing, Prime 4, Samus Returns, Switch, 3DS, Nintendo, Sakamoto, Prime, Trilogy, Fusion, Space Pirate, Ridley, Elma, Crocomire, Adam, Malkovich, Design, Analysis, Gravity, SA-X, Dark Samus, Corruption, Rundas, Tradition, Morph ball, iconic

Id: Q1S9QBDZ0Bo

Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 14 2017