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Super Metroid - Setting the Standard | Trav Guy

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Many have reviewed Super Metroid, but this review is a little different. Super Metroid may not have been the first Metroidvania in the industry, but it sure was the one that kickstarted the genre - a game who's influence transcends the side scroller genre.

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Mega Man 9
Wily Machine
Metroid (NES)
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Brinstar Overgrown with Vegetation
Ending
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Theme of Super Metroid
City - Strapping Young Lad
Spirituality

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Eggman's Announcement (Isolated Studio Vocals) by @SnapCube
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Metroid - Samus Returns - Developer Diary (Nintendo 3DS)
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Metroid Dread - Development History - Nintendo Switch E3 2021
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Super Metroid - Stoke (Unused Enemy)
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Crying Meme Greenscreen
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Zelda - Skyward Sword - E3 2010

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20 Comments

@StubzTurner 5 years ago

Sakamoto not wanting to finish the original game because he thought the hardware wasn't powerful enough is really believable considering the development of Metroid Dread.

@cementedvision 5 years ago

Learned wall jumps from the aliens. At first I thought I had missed a power-up. Then realized that the aliens kept cycling. Literally spent an hour and a half just slamming my head against the wall and trying to get the timing right. I'm 99% sure that the aliens have different timing from Samus 💀

@versebuchanan512 2 years ago

"Imagine seeing this as a kid in the 90s"

Imagine? Brother, I was there. The second that timer started might have historically been my first verbal "OH SHIT" in my life.

@TiredBeing 4 years ago (edited)

"samus steals the metroid that samus saved in the last game" -ThatTravGuy

@derivative3704 4 years ago

38:50 - Fun fact: You can stun the Baby Metroid with super missiles and escape to the save room completely unharmed. You still need to run like hell. (Don't ask me how I figured this out - I just tried it one day.)

@YukiKazami 4 years ago

25:57 Yep, it's a Chozo ship, that was never retconned. It's even IN Zero Mission, the Green Area to the bottom left of Chozodia. You even can enter it through the very same lake that you do in Super, a lot of people miss that reference for some reason. Essentially, the Chozo built their temple around the ship they took to the planet, and then the pirate Mothership exploding blew away the ruins and revealed the ship proper

@macpatinhas 3 years ago

As a kid, the moment Mother Brain kills the Super Metroid was the first time I cried with video games. My brother was playing and I was weeping desperately.

@Flea_ip 5 years ago

34:17 fun fact, you CAN get both in one trip. You just have to carefully step on the crack between the two sets of crumble blocks so that they both crumble away on your first descent. Then you can just go get both missile packs and not have to backtrack. Big time saver.

@ellocojoncrazy3270 5 years ago

The problem with trying to be objective with a game that you know like the back of your hand is that you can't remember how the game gave you clues to beat it and it's hard to judge the design. I played Super Metroid shortly after about 10 years, and I don't know it very well, But I think the game does a good job communicating what to do (most of the time, I also got stuck at Ridley's exit) without holding your hand, It is very rewarding to explore and has a great admosphera ..... But fuck Maridia

@Chconroy 5 years ago

"I remembered when I first learned I could roll under his legs," he says, while I sit here processing this new information.

Super Metroid is a unique game for me because it was the last 2D Metroid I played (not counting GB Metroid 2, which I still haven't played). It's the one that gives me the most trouble to actually play because of its specific control feel, physics, and world design. But I respect it so much, not just because of what it did as a follow-up, but on the whole. The experience this game presents through the sequences from beginning to end, the wonderful atmosphere, and the freedom through the abilities of Samus (intentional or unintentional). I would probably play Zero Mission, Fusion, and Samus Returns before Super, but I feel that Super manages to be something unlike any other game in this series and I think that's genuinely amazing.

@Duckas 4 years ago

The fact this guy successfully called the planet a different name every time made this video worth it

@NerfPlayeR135 3 years ago

35:21 Finally, someone mentions this!

If the Golden Torizo is still alive, holding down ABXY when entering its boss room triggers a debug cheat. It was likely used to test the fight late in development, but was never removed. It resets your inventory to 700 Energy, 300 Reserve Energy, 100 Missiles, 20 Super Missiles, 20 Power Bombs, all beams, and all items except Screw Attack.

However, the cheat also enables all of the beams at the same time, which is a problem. The game will crash if you fire with all beams active - Spazer and Plasma are incompatible for a reason. Since you have to hold the fire button to activate the cheat, you need to enter the room in Morph Ball mode to avoid crashing.

@wonderfulone2902 5 years ago

I remember the first time I played this was on the Wii shop. Never really played an SNES game before and only start to play games around the N64 era. I thought it would be a fun game at the very least. The atmosphere and the visuals along with the gameplay had me making sure I played this game in total darkness Everytime. What an amazing game.

@boredgoddesstori6635 1 year ago

22:30 just wanna save this part for no particular reason…

@BradenBest 4 years ago

27:05 "I wish Phantoon had more lore to him"

You mean other than him being the physical manifestation of Mother Brain's murderous rage?

@The_Real_Everydude 5 years ago

(7:53) "The last metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace" iconic opening words.

@VideoGameAnimationStudy 5 years ago

2:03 - SO MUCH OF THIS for many other things too, like Mega Man 2 and other 'popular' games of any given franchise.
It almost smacks of jealousy that they weren't there at the time and have missed out on being a part of it.

@thedogmaticdirector 4 years ago

When I got to the Etecoons, I learned the wall jump from them purely by watching. I saw that they would turn as they hit the wall, then jump again. So I followed suit, hitting the opposite direction as I hit the wall and jumping. I wall jump regularly now, I even do it when I already have the space jump, it's great.

@Nyxondra 5 years ago

Actually, The Wrecked Ship has NOT been retconned to be a Space Pirate Ship! You can find a few (i mean like...2) rooms of the Wrecked Ship in Chozodia back in Zero Mission that is NOT the Space Pirate Mothership!

@silverdust9176 5 years ago

+100 for being someone who KNEW that the item collection jingle came from Ys. One of my first JRPGs was Ys Oath in Felghana and it took me as a shock when I heard the same jingle in Metroid Zero Mission. I was like who copied who and there's like no one ik who played Ys so I couldn't even talk to anyone regarding that.