Metroid Fusion - Divine Deviation | Trav Guy

[Music] when it comes to procuring video games as a kid one of two days are likely to come to mind your birthday or christmas assuming that you celebrate those days yeah well imagine my surprise on easter of all holidays reaching into my easter basket provided by my christian parents and finding a cartridge for metroid fusion on the game boy advance yeah we're going to be talking about metroid fusion today the fourth entry in the metroid series and the one and only sequel to super metroid as far as i'm concerned metroid 4 as it was called at the time was announced back in march 2001 and even shown at e3 with a very very early build of the game that looks nearly unrecognizable from the final release samus in a dark black suit running up walls and ceilings jumping around a wall like its mario galaxy and even using the grapple beam which didn't make the cut in the final game the only recognizable set piece here would be samus injecting her arm cannon into this terminal to receive information about the bsl station this was clearly an early proof of concept for the game but nevertheless it got people excited keep in mind this was shown in 2001 so super metroid would have released nearly seven years ago yeah that metroid drought you've been feeling recently that's almost always been a thing but with portable systems like the game boy advance comes portable game design and metroid fusion thanks to returning director yoshio sakamoto's goal of challenging what makes a metroid game a metroid game is no exception okay so this shouldn't be held as gospel by any means but it should be noted that the trend of portable games back in the early mid-2000s was often to do away with the large and sprawling open-ended adventures and to create something more linear often with a mission-based structure hell even metroid 2 was given a smaller more linear world to explore where your mission wasn't so much to explore to find upgrades to reach the domain of the final boss but simply to check these metroid minibosses off the counter at the corner of the screen thankfully the team over at nintendo r d1 had a decent head start with lead programmer katuya yamano opting to build the game off of wario land 4's engine rather than building a new engine from scratch and i think that the most impressive part of that info is that you can't really tell by looking at it some of those early e3 showings of the game clearly used wario land 4 assets and can still be found in the game via hacking the traces are still there but they did a great job covering it up metroid fusion consists of mostly smaller more digestible worlds for samus to explore in the form of sectors broken up by plot dumps in between with much of samus's movement kit actively nerfed to prevent sequence breaking forcing the average player to commit to the linear path wall jumps now commit you to the arch of the jump making samus unable to mega man x up a single wall bombs now linger longer before detonating making infinite bomb jumping impossible and the cherry on top is that this is a more story driven metroid game we'll get to more than a minute but man if it weren't for the timing of this game i think that fusion might not have been received as well as it did don't get me wrong metroid fusion is one of my favorite games in the series but we had not one but two metroid games released on the exact same day side by side with retro studios as metroid prime on the gamecube a full first person metroid adventure which despite being an incredible game on its own created a fair amount of culture shock in the fan base prior to release likely making fusion the more palatable game for some but ironically it was prime that had that more traditional non-linear level design making this bizarre corruption of a classic a tad more desirable to some i mean it looked more like a metroid game than that one on the gamecube did and the early reviews sort of reflect that drawing in 4-5 star reviews across the board now imagine being a kid in the early 2000s and looking at all of this promotional material and thinking holy [ __ ] why is samus covered in blue laffy taffy and oh my god are there two of them unfortunately i wasn't one of these kids for as long as i remember i already knew the premise of this game well before i had my own copy delivered by the son of god samus is being hunted down by the embodiment of her destructive power but without a soul a theme that i was already familiar with thanks to metroid prime's dark samus which we'll get to eventually now this is the part of the review where i take a moment to look at the game's extended media before diving into the game's meat and potatoes but this time at least compared to super metroid metroid fusion barely received any extended media it received a bit of a manga recap in the debuting series samus and joey that's an interesting name but after this metroid fusion tie-in arc it's all an original story and while i'm not personally interested in reading it it did give us this official image of samus in a cloak i'm a sucker for robots or exo suits with a cloak draped over it god that's so cool [Music] now after super metroid set the standard it's not abnormal for a game like this to start with a plot dump but man what we get here is quite meaty we opened with samus hired by the galactic federation joining federation troopers on the surface of the metroid's former homeworld sr 388 making its return from metroid 2. the team seemingly unable to take on a single goddamn horror node steps to the side to let samus work her magic which ends up being one of the greatest mistakes of her bounty hunting career the horn transforms into the most hostile jelly blob i've ever seen since well the blob absorbing itself into samus who's unaware of the dangers to come this parasite hijacked samus's nervous system veering her ship into a nearby asteroid belt before being fortunately saved by the federation who were able to recover her escape pod returning it to federation headquarters samus's condition is not great with the parasite multiplying rapidly inside of her requiring massive components of her power suit to be surgically removed but desperate times call for desperate measures and in remarkably short time the federation was able to mix up a vaccine for the parasite from cell cultures taken from the baby metroid two games ago now this thing rewrites her dna injecting metroid dna into her own yeah that's that's not a vaccine this is a lot closer to crispr which i know wasn't really a thing when this game was being written whatever vaccines just inject a benign part of a virus to teach the immune system how to fight it off it's certainly not a cure for a parasite thankfully this metroid crisper worked flawlessly and remarkably quick the parasite from her system this dubbed x parasite is immediately wiped from her system and samus now donning this fleshy blue power suit survives to fight another day which the federation sure used to their advantage equipping samus with a new ai controlled ship to accompany her as she sent to investigate an explosion at the biological space labs or bsl and eradicate any potential ex-threats now that she's essentially the only member of the federation capable of combating them directly now you know what i'm wondering what the heck is the blue stuff on her suit now was this always under her power suit between the bulky layers are these growths from the metroid dna or simply prosthetics patched on by the federation i don't know if i'll ever know for sure but i love the design of it i remember when the fusion suit color scheme was confirmed for smash bros brawl back in the day i think i was single handedly more excited for that than most of the other content in the game and i was pretty stoked for brawl man what a premise though up until this point the usual metroid game was hey samus go wipe out these aliens or go wipe out those aliens maybe save your adopted jellyfish son while you're at it but here samus is crippled to a point that she's never been in the series so far release order wise not canon her status of being the most powerful thing in the room has essentially been stripped from her and now she's cautious even afraid for possibly the first time in her bounty hunting career about what lies beyond the corner [Music] hmm oh that's nice we get a map straight away i dig the purple 2 for the ship really this broad use of secondary colors is both aesthetically pleasing while also thematically relevant a fusion of primary colors if you will right away our ship ai sends us to investigate an explosion in the quarantine bay intended to be holding specimens from sr388 as well as chunks removed from samus's power suit the area is in lockdown for the most part none of the doors in the bsl will open for us only these pre-opened hatches allow us to move around speaking of movement it's fine again it's a step down from super in my opinion with tech like wall jumping actively being nerfed but it still works for simple while jumping and for now thanks to samus's lighter suit she can grab ledges as well really complementing the flow of movement at least until zero mission sort of retcons it it feels really good samus makes it to the quarantine bay through the dark silent and eerie hulls of the bsl all to be greeted by a single hornode which when killed morphs into the raw x parasite we've seen before but now [Music] thanks to the metroid dna coursing through her samus is able to now consume these blobs in exchange for health and later ammunition okay it shouldn't be a surprise that the specimens recovered from sr388 were compromised with samus's ai informing us of the federation studies the x are capable of invading its host mimicking its prey while killing it and reproducing able to mimic its victims down to a biological level perfectly replicating their dna samus current condition as well as the surplus of x parasites now settling across sr 388 brings the ai to a hypothesis that perhaps the metroids were the primary predators of the x and samus could potentially even restore her latin abilities from even stronger axe parasites gee it almost sounds like these metroids were created for a purpose fearing the x are concentrating in a single area in the bsl samus is sent to investigate a cluster of x's in the area after the ai unlocks his all level zero hatches in the region all of those locked gray doors we've seen can now be shot open like any traditional metroid door that's nice and finally we're sent out into the field and that hopeful and stoic music kicks in despite the dire circumstances and god i love it though before we take on these x clusters the folks over at federation hq have done us a small favor sending samus data for missiles to be downloaded you know as a kid i thought that this idea sounded like total fantasy but now i could 3d print a [ __ ] car so what do i know you wouldn't download a missile launcher [Applause] yeah the [ __ ] i would before this though we have one of many monologues from samus directly reminiscing over her old commanding officer adam malkovich and more specifically how the federation ai aiding her in her mission reminds her of him and how he'd often refer to her as a lady during mission debriefs samus decides to name the ai after him and i'll do the same i'll be calling this ai adam for the remainder of this video missiles are pretty sweet here so we only have two inventory items this time around rather than the five we got back in super though this time toggled by r rather than select but it's not even a toggle it's activated while holding r rather than simply tapping it to cycle through them and i love this it adds to this flow of combat making swapping between missiles and your beam a lot easier it feels great it feels kind of weird though that we're getting missiles before morph ball not gonna lie i guess downloading a missile launcher was too much for the station's bandwidth since the power for the elevators has now been knocked out though predictably thanks to the missiles we're able to break the paneling off the side of this room to go investigate the facility's inner workings oh hey look at that ladders as a kid i thought these were spikes like lethal spikes that would kill me if i touched them probably a side effect of growing up with mega man eyeball doors return from super as before they take three missiles to take down though now instead of just firing a beam to punish you for taking too long to fire at the eyeball now it's just rng whether or not they'll fire the beam when they open their eyes and if they do fire that beam you gotta wait for the next cycle it's [ __ ] annoying especially while speedrunning this game remember to catch my metroid fusion speedrun race against friend of the show some call me johnny i'll have a link for it somewhere remember to grab that second hidden e tank here before the boss if you care oh adam i think i found that x cluster wait arachnus [ __ ] i don't even have bombs let alone morph ball oh never mind i don't know what the x did to this guy but he's clearly not the same as we saw back on sr-38 they gave the dude [ __ ] sonic slicers and leaves a trail of fire yet i guess the trade-off was giving him a soft underbelly turning him into a whim get used to these round bastards this is the core x hidden inside of every boss in the game the only way you're cracking that shell is with missiles but not when it's flashing it's actually pretty satisfying getting the rubber banding movement and the timing of its iframes down you kind of get into that rhythm and it just feels really good anyways speak of the devil there's the morph ball i can't say a lot about it i mean it's just the morph ball but you can grab one block wide ledges and immediately morph into them which is pretty cool with samus's morph ball restored adam brings concerning news the sector 1 breeding environments have been compromised by the x likely result of adam unlocking the level 0 hatches though if you ask adam he thinks it's the result of whatever blew up the quarantine bay which as you'd have guessed by now our culprit is none other than the sax introduced in the most past jittingly way possible oh wait that pleasant i'll be honest this never really unsettled me even as a kid there were other monsters in this game that did give me nightmares but not this thing i love how it uses samus's green screw attack blasting doors open with super missiles that's that's [ __ ] awesome you know exactly how dangerous this thing is if you have super metroid under your belt though we're gonna be stuck here on the underbelly of the bsl for a while thanks to evil samus knocking out the elevators and when you know it this sector what is a recreation of sr-38 complete with plenty of returning monsters from the planet hornodes thousands motos they're all here kind of they're all x's actually and get used to that because all but one enemy encountered in the game at least i think are all hosts for the x who have also managed to clog up the air filtration devices for their own needs if those guys get into the air conditioning then who knows what kind of hell could happen oh hey you see that in the air filter look closer closer yep that's a combination taco bell pizza hut yo what did the x parasites do to the space pirates dude that looks sick i love this design and not just because it's purple this look almost returned in other m as seen in one of the promotional trailers i guess someone decided yeah this design is the result of x-mutation and realize that probably wouldn't have worked in lore that's a shame oh hello there elephant bird god i hope that's a mistranslation oh look this core x has spikes on it yeah the special core x that grant new beam upgrades have some added defenses you need to hit them in the eye to deal damage and even then need to make sure to dodge the blast that follows now could someone tell me how or why the x decided to mimic a chozo statue is this implying that the chozo statues are alive in some way or at least slightly organic i mean it's meant to be a nod to the torizo fight from super metroid though this is the only traditional chozo statue we see in the game we do see another chozo statue just in different circumstances [Music] all right that's more like it and this charge beam is pretty good you can't do the charge bomb trick from super anymore it just auto fires the charge beam at crouch level now complete with this bizarre slash projectile that adds even more damage to anything caught in the blast almost giving the charge beam a sort of shotgun effect even our normal shots have changed dealing extra damage it's like if mega man x's normal lemon pellets got replaced with these lime beams upon upgraded other tricks like the sudo screw attack also return once again being super helpful in the early game you could also use this shotgun effect to take out the last stabilizer x with a bit of damage boosting early that's pretty sweet can these zombies please stop trying to shove their face into my crotch that would be greatly appreciated the stabilizers are back online i guess the x thought it would be a lost cause to just do it again and adam finally learns of the sax's presence an x that's hijacked samus's power suit and most of her tech from super metroid believing it detonated a power bomb to escape quarantine creating this domino effect in the bsl now because of samus's vulnerabilities adam advises us not to engage with the saxophone directly yeah no [ __ ] the bastard has my fully powered arm cannon from super including the wave and ice beam and i'm still part metroid all it needs is a clear shot and a super missile and i'm gone that said we're being sent to sector two to download data for the morph ball bomb since it's the closest data room to us now that the elevator is busted unfortunately this one is locked behind a level 1 blue hatch which feels so wrong why can't i shoot the blue door open from the get-go i feel naked these caterpillars could suck my ass though i lost a speedrun dropping down onto one of these [ __ ] here though if you kill it you're almost guaranteed a red x which refills all of your [ __ ] during the early game that's pretty nice thank god this level 1 hatch isn't too out of the way [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right that's bombs down i can't wait to not use these to sequence break and instead spam them all across the floor wherever i go this is something not new to metroid let's be honest and this tends to bother a lot of people more in this game than it did in previous games and if i had to guess it's because of the longer detonation time for the bombs it's just a hypothesis though tldr having to bomb every inch of the floor to find these pillars here is kind of [ __ ] it was annoying back in super and it's extra annoying here too yeah okay i see what you're going for here sakamoto [Music] is that a [ __ ] space condom oh god get me out of here the condom isn't that hard of a bust but i've heard of this guy ending some first-time runs for some folks i admit it's kind of hard for me to comprehend this but if i could help people out uh pay attention to how fast he's jumping when he does a slow jump he's about to be vulnerable for a moment and release a charge shot followed by some missiles i already have 60 missiles at this point of the game so it's not like i'm gonna run out whatever the spider-man colored core x rewards us with the high jump and spring ball consolidated into a single pickup thank god um looks like my secret admirer is really locking me in all right me where you hiding it bastard let's see if they're as tough as they say [ __ ] oh no no no wait wait wait i can't believe it just killed me like i was a metroid that's kind of awesome yeah adam wasn't kidding that sax do got hands and you gotta hunker down and just wait for this [ __ ] to leave if you want to risk out running it go for it but if you want to play it smart just listen for those footsteps and that heartbeat once that sound is gone you're all in the clear at least for now [Music] and hey those caterpillars that riddle this area all pupas and chrysalis is now they'll hatch later on in the game and boy when they do there's some real [ __ ] [ __ ] good thing i've already got 85 missiles god damn as you'd have probably expected by now opening up those level 1 blue doors was a bit of a bad idea though a necessary evil for progression which is going to be a recurring theme for the game going forward as we open up more of the bsl and the sax has infiltrated sector 4 now the sax samus recounts is essentially herself without the self-restraint nor empathy something that could be a threat to the entire universe and to make matters worse adam can't rule out that the sax is acting on intelligently made decisions rather than chaotic sporadic attacks sector 4 is also home to a being dubbed saris not saris the space station from super this one is felt with an s the ceres is capable of moving at extreme speeds and thinks that the x want it purely for a strategic advantage and it's better for samus to put it down before the x can get their grubby hands on it would that work we've seen the x be able to reanimate these zombies on the floor wouldn't it just be able to assimilate the victim's dna after death as long as it's still fresh oh cool it's a water area there's a lot of returning creatures from meridia too including these crab things it's a lot easier for me to see the crab part here though back in super as a kid at least i thought that these were like walking heads with chun li style headdresses but here no i just see the crab if you follow the map the way that you expect you're bound to run into a roadblock though you should still take this route because you're given an e-tank being rewarded for wrongly going the right way but no to make it to saras you need to take a detour by blasting through a save room this is wild to me personally but this is alluded to earlier back in sector 1 there's a safe room with a destructible wall leading to a long vertical shaft that you could wall jump up to get some missiles so needing to break through the save room to progress isn't that far out there oh adam i found saris unfortunately that's the good news [Music] oh boy he's got the speed booster all right try not to overthink this fight just stay on a single block and wait for sarah's speed booster to wear off and try to blast him with a close range charge shot remember batoon from super this is actually nothing like that never mind at least the music here slaps [Music] predictably we get the speed booster here which has been appropriately simplified first off shine sparking is much easier allowing the player to input the desired direction during this little short hop that samus does thank god the speed booster is also activated automatically due to the lack of a run button here which is something that bothered me as a kid but today i've come to appreciate this can also make running into a new sector a bit more interesting since you have just enough room for it to activate i also just love the rainbow effect it has it's it's aesthetically pleasing what can i say samus lowers the water levels thanks to her newfound speed booster and now the trek to the navigation room begins actually it's not too bad you just gotta take out this golden crab by taking out a normal crab and letting it mutate into a golden one remember this we're gonna be seeing a similar encounter of this much much later yeah we don't spend a lot of time in sector 4 for now not much we can do here but remember this we revisit each sector at least once throughout our adventure so we'll be back here in a bit i mean i don't even have the gravity suit yet you can't really expect me to explore this region without it adam is surprised that the x beat her to saris somehow but believing that this acquisition of abilities via core x's to be a trend proposes that eventually samus may be able to take out the sax soon and that this next upgrade sent from headquarters could certainly aid to that the super missiles were sent down to sector 3 after headquarters asked for it to be sent down to sector 4 i don't know what's up with that but whatever sector 3 the pyrosphere is predictably very hot so we're not going to be here for very long until we snag the various suit which we won't be getting for a minute the x also hasn't invaded sector 3 yet but since we need to unlock these a level 2 green doors to grab the super missiles that feeling of security isn't going to be lasting very long [Music] jesus the x didn't even hesitate to hop into sector 3. it's almost like they were waiting oh hey it's the guys from super oh jesus [Applause] [Music] alright now that's gonna help me tip the scales super missiles now a passive upgrade for your standard missiles yeah that sounds absolutely busted now i'm not totally sure why this decision was made but i have some guesses i feel like this was to consolidate missiles and super missiles together as an early attempt to streamline the flow of the game for the portable console or they saw how busted super missiles could be in super metroid and didn't want a repeat of it this time around i mean metroid prime did something similar so i'm guessing that they just wanted you to not rely on super missiles as much it's not like these things are anything to scoff at though they're still several times more powerful than your ordinary missiles which i have over a hundred of that's crunchy now if only i had something big to try them on ah you'll do just fine [Music] could you believe that this guy used to give me trouble actually yeah i can this dude's a [ __ ] to newcomers once you get the hang of how he moves he's a total pushover but you need to hit the juicy center of that hitbox and that center is protected by this sort of outer shell making it a lot harder to hit him with missiles i won't deny that the skill ceiling for the box drone is pretty [ __ ] high but once you get it he's quite easy to manipulate yeah we'll be seeing him again yeah so that box drone has apparently gone rogue no idea if it's been taken over by the x but hey adam has given us his blessing to destroy it if our paths cross but now with level 2 doors open sectors 5 and 6 are now available to us sector 5 essentially being a massive freezer so we got to take a detour from our linear number counting once again to grab the returning varia suit from sector 6 as the x have destroyed all of the previous data rooms okay i'll bite but as soon as samus heads up to the sector hub guess it wouldn't be the federation without some kind of conspiracy it's only fitting that they're in cahoots with our commanding officer ai unfortunately we don't have a ton to go off of for now but i mean come on it's not hard to immediately conclude that we're being used by the federation and not only as a client getting the various suit should be pretty straightforward or at least it would if the x didn't mutate as fast as it does freezing blue cold x parasites have leaked over from sector 5 able to do some serious damage to samus due to the obvious thankfully possibly as a result of their mutation these blue x can be stunned and temporarily immobilized due to our power beam wait a powerbomb block well [ __ ] i must have taken a wrong turn okay y'all mind if i oh [Music] wait what are you telling me that that thing is what set the station off a mere 20 points of damage god that's kind of pathetic hey that's mine you [ __ ] oh [ __ ] excuse me sir can i have my drip back yeah never mind you could keep it if that's what i'm gonna look like a massive mega core x has somehow taken the various suit and is also immune to missiles that's all i got it's not a hard boss you just gotta get the hang of how it rubber bands around you now where's my suit you overgrown durian [Music] i take it back this is the absolute opposite of drip yeah whose idea was it to make the various suit piss green i'm not a fan of this when do we get the gravity suit again oh no a bunch of blue x's whatever will i do dumb asses at least that one was smart enough to get away oh [ __ ] a bat adam is surprised that the x are capable of downloading the various suit from the data room challenging the federation's understanding of what the x are capable of add that to the pants [ __ ] list these organic parasites can interface with gf tech shame this is the only time we really see this if any more x are downloading abilities like this it's all done off screen from here on at least headquarters has begun production on sending us the plasma beam believing that it could be the key to damaging the sax but that'll still take some time for now we need to work on restoring our ice beam and the federation fears that due to samus dna we'll need to find a way to contain the ice beam until it's left the suit so they've come up with a new plan ice missiles i guess the federation had a blueprint for those stored from the time samus went nuclear yeah the sector 5 data room is secured of course forcing samus to open up the level 3 latches yeah yeah i get it it is cool to see that the various suit is expanded on to be more of an environmental conditioner rather than just cooling the user off in hot environments allowing samus to survive these harsh sub-zero environments ah there's a red door all right the level three terminal is at least hidden well compared to the previous two a good amount of distance from the start of the sector thankfully this region loops you back around to the entry pretty well so it's not like it's gonna take much to get back to the data room though we've got one of those one-way doors blocking our path so we're gonna need to improvise the way out of here anyways the ice missiles are another passive upgrade for our missiles much like the super missiles and we've even got our old floating turtle friends the rippers to try them on and you know what having the ice beam on a toggle or ice missiles in this case is really nice letting me hold my freezing ability to the side and not requiring me to have all my beams look the same from this point on oh god not another one sector 5 has a lot of these puzzles that require you to ignore an x parasite when it's ready to be absorbed and let it transform or assimilate into another being this room for this missile tank is a good early example i need to let this x transform into a ripper to let me freeze and stand on okay that's cool but then you get to this puzzle where an x flashes to indicate that it can't be absorbed at first and then it doesn't basically telling the player yes absorb me now but you need to kill it a second time to let it absorb into this hive thing filling up this platform allowing you to speed boost on top of it i'm conflicted on this i think this gives the player the wrong idea and not in a good way i mean it still works i figured it out as a kid but i think that this could have been communicated better to the player i guess it really depends on if you go into that room in sector 2 and see that these hives turn into those pillars because if you miss that then you're kind of [ __ ] alright we got our ice missiles now let's go turn in this mission and jesus ain't that the thing of nightmares [Music] oh god i swear it wasn't me this time blame that night terror back there what the [ __ ] is he doing so sector 3 has gone into meltdown the main boiler has malfunctioned putting the whole station at risk regardless of the culprit although it's probably pretty obvious it's up to samus to shut the thing down with a six minute deadline at least we've got this badass music to keep us company during these dire times alright sector three speed boosts go [ __ ] come here you long neck bastard hood hike excuse me sir could you please step away from the console [Music] i knew it was aliens yeah this dude was supposed to have a much longer boss fight with full sprites for getting shot by samus and even an unused animation of turning into a space pirate if i had to guess this was probably intended to be the first encounter of a golden space pirates oh it could have been anyways this egghead here gives us the spacer wide beam okay it's everything the spacer was just in a new name whatever widebeam does a better job at telling us what it does actually it's not a bad change and it's purple kinda odd that this is our first beam upgrade since the charge beam and we're basically halfway through the game at this point adam is shocked that the dna was able to mimic a crew member fearing that the x can not only mimic a host's dna but its memories as well add that to the pants shooting list it is pretty odd he thinks that an x would do something so short-sighted as wipe out everyone on the station for a species so obsessed with self-preservation unless possibly they consider samus a threat so great that the casualties to their own fellow ex-parasites would be worth it put a pin on this for later this plot point will come into play in a while though on a more hopeful subject potential survivors have been found back in the hub of the bsl with the power restored to the main elevator it's time to revisit that wonderful beginning area of the game that we've missed so much and hey we could finally see the room that the sax was vibing in before making its dramatic entrance wait this is it what the hell was it doing in here napping oh that's a big x skate let me guess power bombs i'll be back for you later [ __ ] wouldn't you know it one environmental puzzle later and the survivors turn out to be the animals we've saved back in super metroid how did they get here i have no idea but hey that good ending positivity pixel from super was canon as i said canon cares not for the frames the edicoons and decoras are what these are called apparently nice to see samus exercise her empathy for the guys even recalling that they taught her those abilities that she's still using today it's unfortunate to adam though that the survivors weren't human heavily implying that every crew member on the bsl is likely dead which is a little confusing the human body isn't really ideal for combat so the x probably targeted the humans purely for intel out of fear that the x is growing stronger headquarters is sending data for the power bombs to be downloaded in sector 5. the same room that we got the ice missiles finally a data room we've already been to oh hold on i don't think i've checked this room yet oh god why the [ __ ] does the federation have a ridley here first off how the hell did they patch him back together and second is there anything alive in there if there is he's probably already been taken by the x oh jesus it's still flying around over there hey i'm ready for you [ __ ] whenever you decide to pop out of the shadows [Applause] well that was a little too easy i can only assume the trip back won't be oh [ __ ] haha can't freeze me anymore [ __ ] how's it [ __ ] feel ow and yeah powerbombs are back ironically they detonate a lot faster than they did in superb or at least it feels like it and better yet they have a sort of vacuum effect pulling in all of these stray x's for all of that free health and ammo to where the bomb was detonated not directly into samus but it's still pretty good though i'm gonna need some new tinnitus medication after that because holy [ __ ] they're loud you know aside from running from the ghost of samus past that mission wasn't too bad and now i just have to go back to my ship that's it boy i sure hope nothing goes of course well it was nice to have the main elevator working for all of 10 minutes oh [ __ ] hello ridley [Music] i [ __ ] knew it guess we'll be seeing him later well at least my ship has power adam reports that the primary reactor for the bsl has gone offline likely because of the x all hatches even ones we've previously unlocked won't work until power is restored or even given the location of the reactor but without power it's a crapshoot on how to get there since the map navigation isn't working we gotta find our way there manually also the animals have boarded our ship adam insists that they're not ex-hosts god i [ __ ] hope that's the case if dread opens with these [ __ ] being ex-parasites i'm gonna cry for at least three minutes their survival must have some kind of significance though perhaps they're immune to the x at a biological level like the metroids what if the x are somehow programmed to leave them alive by a third party and they're being used in another plot we'll just have to see oh god dammit it looks like those pupas have hatched i hate these bastards even with the various suit they still do so much damage especially if you get hit by one of their stingers hey did you miss the space pirates yeah they're back too despite looking identical to the ones we've saw in sector 1 these guys are way tougher and able to survive a blow from a powerbomb though still dramatically weakened this section of the game always has me on edged i think it's a leftover feeling from childhood being forced to brave the gauntlet without a save point until the boss and though i'm beyond confident in my ability to survive this area today that lingering feeling from childhood persists now let's see who's responsible for this mess ah hello curio yeah this spider's name is yakuza apparently okay i can't help myself domidone [ __ ] while not aesthetically similar the first phase of this guy reminds me a lot of spore spawn moving around the screen like one of those dvd player screensavers forcing it a morph ball in the corner until he's done it's not too bad but then the second phase hits and he just starts space jumping everywhere puking up centipedes okay charge shot is a life saver here with the wave beam covering much more area and guaranteeing a hit as long as your timing is right and your aim i suppose and hey look we got the space jump back and it's so much more forgiving than it was in super which is going to be a recurring theme of future games with a space jump and i will continue to bring it up every time power is restored to the bsl it's actually just safe points and recharge room no auxiliary power meaning no elevators or hatches until we can find the real culprit meaning that we gotta find a manual way into sector 2 where adam believes that the source of vegetation is choking out the reactor oh god i hear you down there do i need to okay freeze [ __ ] oh please don't have x-ray scope please don't have x-rays go please don't okay i guess this is canon to the average any percent super metroid run [ __ ] i hate this revisit of sector two okay that's not true i just hate the key hunters if you're not careful you will be off screened by one of these guys and lose what feels like half of your health at times and a pseudo screw attack isn't enough to one shot him i try to powerbomb essentially every square inch of the place just to be safe all right now that's a sportsbond bus oh there's that other chozo statue yeah this guy is incredibly easy once you find out that you could sit in the single spot in morph ball mode and just not get hit at least until you blast the front of the statue off and it starts firing plasma beams at you then you gotta jump and duck under them i guess we know what this chozo statue was guarding before i got taken by the x [Music] nice to have the plasma beam back especially for the key hunters adam however is surprised that the plasma beam was acquired by samus remember the federation was going to send this to us at one point so i guess that they did and adam just didn't tell us oh whatever no time to argue there's been an explosion in the sector 5's data room finally revealing that large [ __ ] in the background was to blame the nightmare a gravity manipulating science project bioweapon the only silver lining here is that we might get our gravity suit but what the [ __ ] who the hell were you gonna deploy this thing against certainly not the space pirates since they seem to all be dead i think sector 5 is messed up the nightmare leaving a trail of destruction in its path but it was nice enough to take out this red door before i was supposed to unlock it these aqua pirates are sure something either the ice from sector 5 has melted down or the water from sector 4 has begun leaking in i guess that's how you get mermaid pirates alright now where is this oh my well that's terrifying yeah this guy unironically gave me nightmares as a kid it's kind of hard to explain why when the first phase of this is blasting off his gravity [ __ ] until he activates the gravity effect and renders my missiles useless once his gravity [ __ ] has taken enough damage it's time for phase 2 the nightmare pulling back and oh what the [ __ ] damn two cycles that's not too bad now where's my gravity suit oh thank god now i'm no longer puke yellow [Music] oh [ __ ] you they knew i was gonna use a powerbomb here doing so puts up all of these pillars to punish me keeping me from going up kudos level designer [ __ ] well regardless of where this water is coming from we sure did end up in sector 4. hey adam i don't think i'm supposed to be here that's okay at least the music is [ __ ] beautiful [Music] anyways we end up unlocking the red doors without adam's permission boy i sure hope we don't get shoot out for that later on and no i'm not gonna do the shine sparks skip to get that secret dialogue that tells me how cool i am i can already cool myself off with the new and final missile upgrades the diffusion missiles i'm sure many of you guys out there were just like me and had no idea what diffusion meant as a kid see this is the part of the video where the smart asses come into the comment section and go no i totally know what diffusion was when i was eight this missile upgrade is pretty good though creating a massive aoe for the missile's freezing effect while also taking out missile blocks from a distance sadly though despite the charging graphic it doesn't add any damage to the missiles it just means that the aoe effect is ready to go but everything on screen freezing from a single missile that's nice though i guess i broke more protocols than just unlocking the level 4 doors adam has no recollection of hq sending the data for diffusion missiles though he's definitely more upset about samus unlocking those red doors thankfully there's no time for scalding remember the box drone from sector 3 that ran off yep the bastard is back and apparently mutated by the x and going on a rampage through sector six with adam demanding that once we take it out that we leave immediately oh trust me adam i'll be doing much more than just leaving let's see is he over here no entry without authorization guess not looks like i need the wave beam gee i wonder who on earth has the wave high box remember to drop a power bomb as soon as you start this fight so that you can expose the ladder on the ceiling that makes this fight a lot easier oh look he's got rockets now that are arguably easier to avoid than his previous firebombs that's that's kind of weak all right i know some of these x abilities have been a reach but how in the god damn did box have the wave beam whatever at least our beams are fully upgraded now and god damn is your charge being [ __ ] devastating now well hey at least we could break into that hidden sector [ __ ] you adam what are you hiding in here um this show reminds me a lot of sarah stations where they did tests on the baby match oh god damn it i guess the federation just couldn't [ __ ] help themselves yeah remember how they had that batch of metroid dna just on hand and ready to go yeah that wasn't all just for life-saving medicine of course they're growing these [ __ ] in a lab including fully raised betas gammas and zeta stages but oh boy where's that omega metroid [Music] hmm oh god again i swear it wasn't me this time oh i guess it was actually dumb ass sax really thought it could take on a group of baby metroids though i guess the sax really does consider these metroids to be more of a threat than i am it didn't even acknowledge me before it got devoured the hidden sector is jettisoned off the station killing the sax where adam is furious to say the least we ignored his orders and threatens that we'll pay the price for that soon enough holy [ __ ] samus actually chimes in and challenges adam that's that's nice to see i guess with not a lot to lose adam doesn't hesitate to inform samus of the federation's metroid breeding program insisting that it's for peaceful applications sure i mean if it wasn't obvious sector one's perfect recreation of sr-38's ecosystem was ideal for breeding metroids and hq even learned how to rapidly grow a metroid through its life cycle potentially sending a metroid straight from its infant stage up to an omega oh and by the way there's upwards of 10 saxs aboard the bsl at this point urging samus to just give up abort the mission and bail the station where she reminisces that the real adam would have said the same thing just with a bit more compassion hey you know who doesn't deserve compassion these gold pirates they're forced to spawn after taking out these genesis is genocide whatever they're pretty easy once you know how to exploit them you're supposed to shoot them in the back with a charge shot but because of an oversight in their programming you could just fire a charge shot turn around and i guess that's all the game checks for making sure that you're facing the same direction as the pirate is when the charge beam makes contact hey adam why does this ship have its own taurian are we about to see a recreation of mother brain oh oh no it's just [Music] ow all right i know that he dies faster than charge beams but god damn it i have so many [ __ ] missiles at this point okay never mind this is taking too long and i don't think my ears can handle this finally the screw attack amusingly the manual says that the screw attack isn't usable underwater without the gravity suit even though that scenario was literally impossible without cheating perhaps it was intended to be acquired earlier i don't know thankfully it's as busted as ever and provides us a mean through these screw attack blocks we've seen through our adventure this e-tank and powerbomb always [ __ ] me up though you gotta do some fancy shine sparking shits for these bastards [Music] alright now it's time for cleanup and boy this is one of the more monotonous cleanups in the series at this point the main elevator to the sector hubs shut down if you use it essentially creating a point of no return so you need to use these passageways between sectors gee it sure is nice of the federation to at least put these signs up hey adam am i supposed to be able to shine spark in a [ __ ] space to grab these powerbomb upgrades i'm surprised it didn't suck the atmosphere out of the place adam has made his decision samus is to abandon the bsl and leave the rest to the federation samus protests pointing out the obvious scenario that the federation will be [ __ ] slaughtered by the x the moment they set foot in the station but that won't stop these space colonizers god are we sure that these guys aren't the real space pirates no no guys the galactic federation is cool and totally not as much of a threat to peace in the galaxy as the pirates are i swear samus comes up with a plan to set the station to self-destruct destroying the whole facility and hopefully the x would be a better outcome than the x falling into the hands of the federation or vice versa until adam being the dick that he is locks samus into the navigation room under orders from the federation which samus in a freudian slip refers to the ai directly as adam catching the ai off guard the ai questions this atom person and even goes as far to call the original adam a fool for giving his life to save samus's gee this atom guy sure sounds interesting i do hope we get another game to uh so yeah after a short back and forth the ai somehow and very suddenly suggests to samus that altering the planet's propulsion system would bring the planet below into the station's self-destruct radius even pointing samus to the operations room to adjust the ship's orbit into the planet dropping that any objections lady phrase that samus remembers him for yeah i guess this ai really is the real adam's mind backed up into a computer which really adds to how [ __ ] up the federation was if you ask me now this is under the assumption that they backed up his brain without his consent and i really wish there was more time to explain how the adam ai suddenly flips to aid samus in destroying the bsl it feels out of character but i admit it is a great moment but first we've got some cleanup to do and sadly i don't have a lot to report on it was about 40 minutes of just wandering around solving puzzles and collecting way more power bombs than anyone has a right to have at a single time [ __ ] 74 power bombs how the hell is anyone going to use 74 power bombs without purposely trying to drain them all whatever at least we get to see the bsl's reactor no longer covered in vegetation god that's beautiful and always rewarding to see before we use it as a planet destroying nuke speaking of all right let's get this over with the sax as a boss is underwhelming maybe this was done on purpose to emphasize how powerful samus has become but it really is a game of rhythmic charge shots fired as soon as the sax lands though the fight is still incredibly punishing the sax can knock out a single e tank at a time though it always felt like i was in an anime dragon ball fight whenever we both screw attack into each other it's a childhood like feeling that i can't really explain but i love it the sax is quickly defeated but not before breaking out its ultimate form a [ __ ] resident evil monster that is a pretty great callback to the horror node that started this whole [ __ ] thing shame it's even more of a chump than its raw form look at how cool that gun arm is and it doesn't even use it hell you can even one shot the guy if you fire a diagonal charge shot just at the right angle when it jumps it's a shame i wish there was more to this fight [Music] come on dumbass where's all that intelligence i keep hearing about give me ice beams [Music] oh it got away i guess it could just do that oh well i'm about to make a dent in the solar system even that bastard can't survive propulsion sequence activated destination planet sr 388 oh no my ship is an egg jesus adam wasn't kidding about these metroids dude was the size of a super metroid a few minutes ago [Music] christ it took out all of my energy in a single swipe why did it attack me i'm one of you oh gee now if only something as powerful as i could come in and yeah okay i saw that coming the sax predictably seeing the omega metroid as a larger threat than samus decides to sacrifice itself at the sake of self-preservation of its species and loading samus the ice beam alright i guess adam was [ __ ] wrong about me not being able to use the ice beam but hey here we are also why does the ice beam work on the omega metroid when it was outright immune to it back in metroid 2. perhaps this was a deliberate mutation by the federation so that they could control them better i don't know samus destroys the omega metroid in a very quick though still intimidating boss fight with her ship swooping in to save the day sending the bsl into the surface of sr 388 erasing the planet from the solar system any hopes of the x and the metroid surviving the planet are literally eradicated also i hope the sax isn't alive in me in some way because it's probably really mad that i blew up its home planet samus reminisces over adam the quote perfect military mind whose wisdom was jammed into a computer she doubts the federation would understand the decision to destroy the bsl in the planet below i mean why would the colonizers have empathy for its greatest weapon being nuked from orbit one of them ought to understand i hope but hey you might be asking how was the ship able to flee the station without samus to pilot it no it wasn't adam the answer is actually a lot simpler my friends we simply saved the animals [Music] metroid fusion is a bizarre deviation from the traditional metroid formula and i am all for it i love seeing beloved game franchises try out a new genre while still calling back to its roots and while on the surface fusion looks a lot more like a metroid game than say prime there's no denying how far separated this was from the masterpiece that is super metroid but in my opinion i think it was handled quite well and had a great vision of the game that they wanted it to be and honestly like i said before its linearity is something that made this game great for entry-level speed running i'm sure this is nothing impressive in the grand scheme of things but i was able to get an in-game sub 1 hour and that felt like a massive achievement when i was able to pull it off once again the credits music here is a [ __ ] bop but come on it's metroid that shouldn't really be a surprise at this point 3 hours 20 minutes 100 not my worst time but far from my best honestly if i didn't forget to pause to take notes i would have at least gotten sub three hours interestingly in the japanese release of the game there's two additional difficulties four kids and four adults essentially easy and hard from my understanding which added extra ending images depending on your difficulty time and collection rate and these are interesting showing for the first time in game samus's past of her colony being destroyed by ridley and the space pirates being found by the chozo and raised into the half-bird super soldier she is today also buffs samus with a pistol and ripped jorts someone is very happy right now i can tell you that much but as it stands the last metroid is samus and as far as we know until october 8th samus is the last sentient being of metroid dna and chozo help maybe even her suit could be reverse engineered to resurrect the x samus is a walking bio weapon and i could only imagine what lies in store for our favorite bounty hunter in her next mission which i'll see you next mission uh [ __ ] that up i'll see you next time guys [Music] you

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Id: L6wL52BE2Po

Length: 52min 40sec (3160 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 03 2021