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The way dread handled morph ball, and added the slide, really justified it to me.

The only time I have seen that the narrative device of losing all your weapons has worked is in DMC, where canonically Dante sells them to pay his debts and I find it a very funny explanation.

One thing i liked about Banjo-Tooie is how you had every single move from Kazooie from the start. Not a lot of games do that.

TO BE FAIR about “physical amnesia” (mild Dread spoilers) — we find out that it was not a correct explanation and that her abilities were taken deliberately. It’s just that a certain someone may have been trying to mislead Samus.

Ironically, I think the fact that Metroid always explains narratively why Samus loses her abilities is what makes it so noticeable.

I played the sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn recently and when someone asks the main character what happened to all her gear from the first game, she literally just says in an offhand remark that she lost it. Doom Eternal also starts with you literally having only two weapons and doesn’t even bother to explain what happened to your whole arsenal in the first game.

The thing is, I barely even thought about how weird that was when it comes to these games.

I think Metroid has become such a landmark series with so many infrequent titles that we tend to overanalyze stuff that wouldn’t even be considered in other games.

"releasing games at a consistent pace"
"like castlevania"
i wish

I like the idea that there's a degree of discomfort Samus gets from upgrades, and that it's cumbersome to go to most missions while fully loaded up. I'd imagine she takes small contracts off screen, like small time crime or something

I feel like a series with multiple planets has the easiest solution of:

Previous suit does not protect Samus from the dangers of the new planet, so a different suit is needed that has not been fully upgraded yet. Some suits could even be better at certain things, maybe some start with morph ball, some don't, etc.

Thought of the idea of her keeping some abilities but they’d get upgraded versions during the game. Like a Grapple Beam upgrade that lets her grab enemies and throw them ala Gravity Circuit for example.

Maybe an upgrade to the Shinespark that could change direction.

The one time Samus kept all of her stuff, the SA-X was born. She may be on to something.

Not gonna lie dude at a distance the thumbnail looked like Samus was going for a slam dunk.

That’s one thing I appreciate about Prime 3 is that you don’t loose absolutely everything. You still keep the charge shot, space jump, and morphball and bombs. And you even get the missile launcher and grapple beam very quickly at the beginning. And I think that the inclusion of the hyper mode abilities that you unlock make for some upgrades that aren’t the same old things we are used to.

"What if a Metroid game let you keep some basics, like the Charge Beam, Morph Ball, Space Jump, and Bombs?"

Prime 3. You're thinking of Metroid Prime 3. She also keeps the Varia Suit, too, even if that one never serves any purpose. (And gets heavily altered.)

That outro might be the hardest I’ve laughed at any Arlo video. “I don’t remember how to drive a car!” 😂😂

I'm no Metroid fan, but i'm chuckling to myself at the idea of Samus tripping on an alien rock whilst going ''oopsie.'' in a deadpan voice as she realizes that she lost all of her abilities, again, for the fifth time this week in the middle of a mission, like the Metroid equivalent of the ever-eternal cartoon banana peel gag.

10:58 My problem with that approach is that it doesnt feel as natural.
"I can turn into a ball now so I'm going to be looking for crawlspaces" or "I can jumper higher so I'm going to climb everything" feels way better than "this weapon can break yellow blocks".
The former feels like actual progression, the latter feels like I just  found a key but they've put it inside a gun to make it look cooler.

story wise i think dread's way of explaining samus' ability loss is the best execution of the trope. like moments where samus gets into some sort of accident that she manages to survive with her power suit still functional yet she Just So Happened to have lost her less "essential" abilities can be pretty silly. but in dread it makes perfect sense. raven beak's whole plan is for samus to awaken her metroid abilities by fighting through ZDR, so of course he'd want her to lose most of her abilities while still being able to survive. it ties into how he was implied to have deliberately laid every upgrade, boss and obstacle out in order to achieve his ambitions, basically making him a metaphor for the game designers in a way. so like the convenience of samus Just So Happening to lose stuff like her morph ball while still having stuff like a functional arm cannon makes a lot of sense

"yup time to play dread again" is the realest feeling ever.

Other M reminds me of that funny comic I found online of Samus constantly being denied of using the abilities. Only to find out that it was actually Adam in the suit and Samus denying him.
Adam: "Okay okay, I get your point!"
Samus: "Good."