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- A breakdown of some of the things I noticed in Metroid Dread that easily could have been missed.
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What was your favorite thing about Metroid Dread?
The difficulty of the emmi and bosses and also dashdancing In place. Aaaannnd the ending.
EVERYTHING
among many other things, the way it rearranges some of the typical Metroid item progression. Giving Samus a slide move but withholding the Morphball for quite some time rather than it being like the first thing you get. A lot more underwater exploration before you get the Gravity Suit, while Spin Booster and Space Jump are allowed to function without it. In a way very much like how you used the Screw Attack in the Prime games to cross wide gaps.
In fact while it doesn't really acknowledge the Prime games as usual, there are some nice mechanical references. Storm Missiles being the most obvious, but also being able use the Grapple Beam to pull away stuff from some enemies.
I was really surprised about how stressful the emmi were during my first play through.
Also the ending. That ending. Wow.
The grab counters on bosses. So satisfying. Good lord, pulling them off every single time on every single boss even Raven Beak. I kicked his ass once I got to see how his attack patterns work. Took a few tries since I was new to the phase shift ability combined with the screw attack/space jump. Really helps when fighting his winged form.
I think a lot of people miss that the final area "the ship" is the same design of the Fusion Alpha and in some degree Samus suit also is similar to the Fusion Alpha one.
"There is no way to face Raven Beak as you are, Samus. He's too strong and handsome for you to remotely overcome his power. Accept your helplessness." Adam, probably
I'm loving the "raven beak is so strong and handsome" meme
He is super stronk and never skips leg day.
I saw him in the locker room, and he's RIPPED. You don't stand a chance.
Raven Beak is too strong. I have seen him beat dark souls with out dying and all the girls love him. Do not fight him Samus. He is too super cool. This is Adam telling you this. It must be true.
"Samus you can never defeat Raven Beak, even his song theme has too many sick beats for you."
"Raven Beak will have a stronger fan-base supporting him than you, Samus. Accept your helplessness. Oh yeah, and he totally has, like, an 8 pack. He's just so cool. And I am Adam. Totally not Raven Beak."
God this was funny
Why tf doesn't this have more like?!
Lmao
"he has like, 8 6-packs in each arm, you don´t stand a chance"
Did you know he has such a cool armor he maybe made it himself I’m totally sure he could beat you easily
-Adam
There is a very cool lore detail regarding the brains. It is never explained why they contain the "strange" energy to perform the omega canon, or why samus can simply absorb it. For that you have to recall the battle with mother brain in super metroid, where the baby metroid was able to absorb the hyper beam from mother brain and transfer it to samus when it heals her.
Samus now having awaken metroid abilities can do it herself from the mother brain-like computers.
WOAH I HADNT CONSIDERED THAT :O
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shit how did i not realize this before!!!
Counter argument: The hyper beam is actually specific to the metroids, not the brains. The baby transfers it's own special ability, the hyper beam, to Samus in Super. In Dread, Samus is endowed with the hyper beam after fully transforming into a metroid.
@@_ch1pset To be honest I think it could be either way, I don't try to claim the hyper beam is exclusive to the brains. It must likely is simply a manifestation of samus getting an incredible amount of energy into her suit.
Ultimately It is open to interpretation, but I do think it is implied in super metroid that the energy absorbed by the baby from mother brain was transfered to Samus and that is why she aquired the hyper beam.
And that is what is happening with the brains, with the only difference that the energy is not big enough, so its just the omega beam, and the energy can be acquired by samus by herself with her awaken metroid powers.
So I still think it is a reference to super metroid. I don't think it changes much.
@@diegog1853 I also might point out the color of the beam is very telling. The hyper beam is characterized by the rainbow colors, and the ability to destroy most blocks. In Dread, it's not really rainbow per se, but it's close enough and also destroys most blocks. It's explicitly clear in Dread that it was the metroid transformation that gave samus the hyper beam power, so we can infer that in Super, the baby was transferring a part of itself to Samus, not Mother Brain.
All that said, I think the ability for Samus to absorb the omega cannon power from the central units is easily explained by them being powered by aeon, or the simple fact that it is chozo tech, which Samus has always been able to absorb to gain powers from canonically.
Two other things:
1: If you have extremely good memory and attention to detail, Raven Beak's first battle with Samus were he beats her actually shows you exactly how to beat the first phase of his final boss fight, even the exact moment when to parry him.
2: Raven Beak's X-Parasite infected Spear Soldiers actually serve a darker purpose. If we go off the game's ending and you pay close attention, you'd notice that every time Samus defeats one of the Spear Soldiers they drop a red X-Parasite and Samus has no choice but to absorb it. We know that Samus' Metroid DNA reacts to seeing or fighting Raven Beak's species of Chozo, so in a calculated move Raven Beak actually engineered a situation where Samus would constantly absorb the DNA of his Chozo soldiers which would continually agitate her Metroid DNA to kick start her metamorphosis.
I noticed the first part on my Hard-Mode play through but definitely not my first one lol, lot of subtle hints they give you on how to do things is great
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The second point I hadn't even considered; but now that you mention it, you're right, and that's pretty cool, TBH.
@@LiatKolink
Something I noticed is during the parry Samus shoots the soldier in the beginning, then during the latter fights she starts absorbing them.
I was re-watching that fight in TH-cam like 1yr later when I noticed #1 and it blew my mind. In fact that was the case for most of the games bosses.
The fact the cu’s look like mother Brian’s fits with the lore considering mother brain was made by the chozo and raven beak made the cu’s to control the emmis so it’s not just a random out of nowhere reference
Yeah I kind of assumed that as well. I just knew Raven Beak was behind all of this mess. Still, I have a reason to believe there will be something else Samus will have to deal with in this version of the franchise. Metroid Prime was mostly focused on Prime becoming Dark Samus and trying to corrupt Samus in the third game. Turns out, Samus was able to adapt to the corruption and used it as a weapon and in the end, cured herself by ridding the universe of Dark Samus. As far as we know, at least.
Mother Brian
@@lukelafontaine69 agreed the federation has always had an hidden agenda kind of feel where I feel like they could be the basis to a main villain for a game also Metroid 6 can go a similar route that prime 3 did where she’s trying to control her Metroid powers (she needed an x to power her down after all) also the few moments near the end where she shows hesitation in using it such as rather shooting that creature and hitting raven beak with her arm cannon and well considering how the federation treated previous x and metroids could see samus as nothing more then bio weapon material or use the excuse that’s she’s too dangerous to be left alive (which that would be funny considering how op samus normally is) I feel that would be the most logical way of continuing the franchise since it’s been stated that dread is the end of the Metroid arc the Metroid x and the main bads that want to use them are all gone so the focus is shifted to samus and how she can effect the galaxy either that or run with that line of raven beak already having samus dna up and running for cloning to not need her anymore (I feel like he had it as soon as you meet Adam with “uploading data” he was just watching samus to get an extent of her powers and how to trigger it for better use) and have a Metroid game were most if not all the bosses and enemies are modified clone of samus that to me is such a balls to walls move that I want to see it happen
@@zegop5736 basically a game where every enemy is sa-x
@@carso1500 exactly
My favorite thing about Dread was definitely the way they convey Samus being a stoic badass throughout the game using JUST body language. When she meets Kraid again, she's brimming with confidence because she's fought him before and knows everything about him. Beating Corpious is satisfying because it conveys "this is just Tuesday to me" vibes. Just god, man, all the cut scenes in this game are perfection.
I read this one article complaining about how "Samus should smile more" when she sees Quiet Robe for the first time because it's the first time she's seen a live Chozo since childhood. Granted, yes, that is a revolution. But she conveys it through body language that's she's relaxed around him and just speaking in his language, something she never forgot from childhood, is respect. That, to me, speaks volumes over a fking smile.
Agreed, the way she was sitting, the way her first real spoken lines in a main game are in chozo to him instea of it being japanese or english for whatever reason... It felt perfectly in character for her.
Indeed, she goes from "I'm gonna blow the s*%t outta whatever just moved" to chill and, imo, kind of happy to get a lesson from someone she undoubtedly immediately associates with wise mentor in like a sec... well once he bows and shows no hostility.
my ONLY complaint as it regards Samus' "language", is that I wished they'd put in what Samus was thinking, as text, as she moved from zone to another for the first time. other then that I agree wholeheartedly her non-verbal communication was 10 out of 10.
yeesh, they really said “she should smile more?”
Amen
It’s interesting to think that Samus is Metroid to the core even more than this. As established in the manga, Metroid means “ultimate warrior” in Chozo. And even though she’s had Metroid DNA since Fusion, she becomes the true Metroid when she defeats Raven Beak, the Chozo’s previous greatest warrior.
Also, on the meta-level, it’s hilarious that the protagonist of Metroid is now in fact Metroid. 😂
I guess you can really unsarcastically say that Metroid does indeed crawl.
If Zelda was made by Western Studios, Link would at some point do a gender transgression and become Zelda too, guaranteed.
I also love the attitude they gave her in this game and NOT PTSD. They you aren’t worth my time with kraid to shutting the fans off after killing the Experiment
@@gokaury Which she is still weirdly incapable of doing (crawling)
@@ExoticIsaac5839
To be fair crawling in a suit like that should be rather cumbersome, hence why the morph ball exists……ignoring the weird implications of how it really works
Two of my favorite details are both concerning Raven Beak.
The first is that every boss' intro cutscene subtly shows you how to damage them, but Raven Beak doesn't have anything like that. Instead, the game's intro cutscene shows you one of the methods to damage his first phase. During their first encounter, Samus ducks under Raven Beak's shockwave attack and, using a counter, shuts his lightning armor offline temporarily. This allows Samus to damage his armor with a missile.
The other is that Raven Beak uses the Lightning Armor and Beam Burst Aeion abilities from Samus Returns in his first and second phases respectively.
This game is so full of little details that make it an absolute joy playing through multiple times.
The aeion abilities even make the same sound effects if I'm not mistaken.
Good thoughts! There were times during the Raven Beak fight that I was like “Am I even hurting my daddy bird?!?!” Lol. He was the most difficult part of the game for me, and I absolutely loved that. A character as badass and built up as Raven Beak should demand that you get good.
Also just the fact that his suit has a very big and noticeable arm cannon and shoulder pads. Because of course her suit would be designed similarly to that of a Chozo Warrior. Might even be a sly nod to explain how her suit is so compatible with every piece of Chozo tech she happens to find.
I know right? Such canon!
@@Nirual86 This all just makes me think of a lot of stuff. The arm cannon seems like a special thing, you don't see it on the regular X parasite infected Chozo or many other places really (the robot Chozo are the one exception I can think of). So regular Chozo have no weapons tied to their suit like that, their weapons are separate. Most of the time it's a lance or a spear, manga Grey Voice uses a canon of sorts
Makes me wonder, if Samus didn't get the DNA donation from Raven Beak but instead some other Mawkin, and had no arm canon... We'd have a potential lance wielder instead, who could find a canon to use later on when it comes to the games. That'd be something
The "lady" thing makes so much sense. As a huge Fusion fan, I can't believe I didn't realize what it meant when Adam calls her that once and then never again after cutting out. Very clever.
There's a room in Dairon that you pass through that has (a dead) experiment z-57 in the background being worked on by robots. After the actual boss fight, if you go back to that room, it's gone. So the X parasite that you fought was controlling that experiment corpse.
Interesting, never noticed that.
You can go the spot in Dairon before you even encounter the boss, but only after you've gone to Elun
If you find that room before restoring power the Experiment will twitch now and then despite the machines being inactive. Makes you think...
I knew it was going to happen, when the X were released to the planet at large
It actually disappears _before_ the boss fight as a form of foreshadowing.
There's a mural depicting the Mawkin tribe subjugating the Space Pirates around the second elevator in Ferenia after the Quiet Robe scene. This coupled with the fact that Mother Brain not only lead the Space Pirates from Zebes, but also (in the manga,) kept talking about how "This is the only plan that can bring order to the galaxy." Leads me to believe that Raven Beak really has been behind it all from the start.
Well then, I haven't read the manga to that point yet but damn that makes sense.
@@matthewcorrie3324 I'm also coupling in the fact that Raven Beak giving Samus his DNA seems to have happened at a later date than when she got Grey Voice's as she's already in the Zero Suit in Raven Beak's scene and it seems to be going on behind Grey Voice's back with only Mother and Raven Beak actually knowing about it. (Of course these are just flashed pictures so hard to tell for sure, but it adds up enough for me.)
I'm pretty sure the mural is depicting the Mawkin Tripe Executing the Thoha Tribe. Not the space pirates.
@@Michaeldragon800 I think that you are thinking of the one right before we meet Quiet Robe (though correct me if I'm wrong) and OP stated that this one was after we meet him (Cough cough had to put it that way for spoiler reasons cough cough)
@@Michaeldragon800 No the mural I'm talking about specifically has Space Pirates in grey. Then on the edge it has the Space Pirates kneeling and offering up their weapon arm (I know both are but it's a bloody heiroglyph,) to a Mawkin in Golden Armour.
I love how they were able to balance between the traditional Metroid style while not deminishing her growth as a character. This is displayed incredibly well in the boss fights. Her strength through combat experience really shines
The language is totally realized and consistent. If you follow along with what Raven Beak and Quiet Robe say and read the subtitles, you can make out that certain chozo words mean certain real words. The alphabet used (the weird triangles) also isn't gibberish, and can be deciphered into the chozo language. For example, the panel Quiet Robe uses to deactivate the Emmi has the words "tabolen Metroid dim Samus" written in the Chozo alphabet, which actually translates to "Extract Metroid DNA Samus"
The spoken language itself has a distinctly Egyptian sound to it (my roommate said it sounded nearly identical to the Egyptians in Age of Mythology, no less) which adds so much more flavor. Hearing Samus speak to Quiet Robe in Chozo said so much with so little.
@@snoozbuster Absolutely my favourite part in the game (I'm a huge sucker for invented languages, like the one in Shadow of the Colossus) and the way they do "less is more" with Samus' voice is just perfect.
Yeah all the language stuff in the game is super cool. Like if you look at the tassel things Raven Beak wears and translate the Chozodian text, it says "hadar sen olmen" which translates to "power is everything"
I haven't read every comment, so someone may have mentioned it, but one of my favorite details about the final battle is that, after transforming, Samus shatters Raven Beak's mask by punching through the same crack that she made in the mask with a missile in the game's opening cutscene.
I actually noticed that thing about Adam myself. I thought: "Didn't he call her Lady before? That's odd. Why is he now referring to her as Samus?" But then I brushed it off for the rest of the game and it was a huge surprise when they revealed at the end of the game that it was actually Raven Beak talking to you all along. I got literally mindblown and thought back to the beginning of the game when I noticed it. I loved that small little detail a lot. They didn't have to do it but they went the extra mile to put in this innocent seeming small little detail.
I would also like to address the sequence breaking with Kraid. You can kill him with the morphball bombs wich is also a throwback to Metroid on the NES where you could also defeat him much faster and easier with bombs. I think that's a nice touch and also rewards the player thinking outside the box and obtaining upgrades way earlier.
I'm more surprised that Samus never notices this deviation in Adam earlier but it even took me to the end of the game to pick up on it and had to replay all of the interactions to make sure I wasn't missing it.
@@frogmaster82 i mean, it's possible that she knew the whole time, and was just playing along
I only realised it really late into the game I was like "hey what's his problem?" Then I wondered for how long he'd been calling me by my name.
Really makes me wonder why Raven beak made me do the whole treck though ZDR only to tell me I'm useless, why did you even leave me alive you fuckwit
@@Al77343 Because he saw that Samus had Metroid dna in her. He wanted that.
Dude, I just thought they got rid of the Lady phrase due to Other M's backlash on Samus's portrayal. So I just brushed it off. But it now makes sense it was due to the story and Raven Beak being behind it all.
One of the smaller details that I loved as an OG fan from back in the day is from the load screen. When you are loading a save file, Samus' helmet is looking at the file you have highlighted, and when you select it, the helm turns to face you. I know this is a small detail, but it's one I remember well from my childhood.
The best thing about the Control Unit/Mother Brain connection is that lore-wise it makes complete sense. Mother Brain was created originally by the Chozo as a means of better controlling the Metroids, and in this game we can reasonably assume that the control units were created by Quiet Robe (or the Thoha in general) to control the EMMI... So it makes complete sense that they would share similar designs as they were created by the same population with similar purposes.
If that is the case then why did Raven Beak destroy the first Central Unit? I think it is more likely that the Central Units were built by humans to replicate Mother Brain. It’s not that big a stretch, considering the Galactic Federation has the Aurora Units and also MB from other M is a clone of Mother Brain, but that’s only if you consider other M canon.
@@see.eye.2361 Other than the research and 'taking control' bit, my only other possible guess for Raven Beak destroying an E.M.M.I. (that they already had control of in this guesses case) and the Central Unit would be to test Samus. He did want the Metroid DNA, yes, but he also wanted to see what it could do and if he could get more out of it. So chances are it is to give her more of a fighting chance, to gather her footing and get the 'training' going. If she fails the E.M.M.I.'s win gets him what he wants. If it succeeds then he might just be getting a stronger warrior at the end
Just a possibility
I doubt it'd be out of care or affection. Raven Beak did spare Samus at the Start but we don't necessarily get a 110% confirmation as to why that was. Was it because he saw a potential for more and got greedy? Didn't have the tools necessary on his person and had to do the next best thing? Or maybe he had to back off to not receive the end of Dread treatment right then and there. Could even have been the teeniest tiniest bit of care because he did donate his DNA for her and all that - although it's still much more likely that he saw her fully as an investment rather than anything more, and 'caring traits typical to likes of humans' or something just don't exist within him
There never really was a chance for him to say it outright. But either he just knows of the concept of it (as "ADAM" he constantly tells Samus to 'be careful' etc.) and uses it to seem more natural/tries to imitate a relationship he knows not enough of, to seem like 'he's there for her' - or it's some genuine care of wishing her luck (which again, I doubt but can't lock out completely)
It's a bit of a shame that the final fight ended up on getting the X involved, I'd have loved to hear humbled Raven Beak speak. Either try gathering himself for one last intimidation attempt, or try talk it out, as a cunning backstabbing plan or because he'd realize his defeat
There's still plenty of questions, I hope we hear of Raven Beak in the future still even if he's preeeetty much dead
@@emmareiman64 no offense but that’s a bigger stretch than what I said
@@see.eye.2361 It's pretty clear. When the EMMIs landed on ZDR, they found Raven's base and started snooping around. The first EMMI obviously ran into the first Central Unit and wrecked it. This then prompts Raven Beak to check out "who the fuck destroyed my CU" and he finds the EMMI and beats its ass, as shown in the ending artwork. Using that first EMMI as a base, he figures out how to hijack them and then assigns each one to another CU.
@@AICW it would be a huge coincidence to have exactly as many central units as there were EMMIs, and the EMMIs weren’t even designed to be weapons so it doesn’t make sense for an EMMI to to randomly attack central units. Here’s what I think happened; The EMMI and CUs land on ZDR, set up the EMMI zones, the Chozo are like “wtf is this? Why didn’t they send Samus?” Raven Beak walks into and EMMI zone to investigate, comes into contact with an EMMI, absolutely claps it, probably using the energy from the nearby Central Unit, then gets Quiet Robe to figure out what these things are, and eventually decide to utilize them to aid in their search for Metroid DNA.
It makes my heart endlessly gleeful to know that there are kids who will experience this game as their first metroid, and what a title to do it with
Oh yeah!
One thing I like is how the finale parallels the end of Super Metroid. After a long battle with multiple phases, Samus is left helpless after an unavoidable attack, only to be saved by a Metroid that absorbs the power of the final boss and gives Samus access to the hyper beam, which she then uses to obliterate the boss, triggering an escape sequence where the poor helpless enemies have to face Samus at the most powerful she’s ever been and it all ends when she reaches her ship.
The arrow pointing at Raven Beak makes it seem like you're calling him "Dread Nuggets" and I think that is a hilarious nickname for him
Chicken tenders is what I called him after I fucked him up with the hyper beam.
Legit. I really did say that. It was hilarious.
That's "LORD Dread Nuggets". lol
@@lukelafontaine69 I said "I fry birds for a living...welcome to the other side of my life's purpose."
[Hot Foods Lead & Assistant Department Manager in a grocery store Delicatessen]
To the tune of the hot pockets jingle... Dread Nuggets 🎶
When Raven Beak reveals that he donated his DNA to Samus as well, in the pic where a young Samus is in the machine for DNA transplant, you can see two Chozos in the shade. One is tall and the other one is much shorter: they're most likely Gray Voice and Old Bird
I love that the Adam rooms are basically Raven Beak hyping himself up as the ultimate warrior. That's even more self absorbed than Ridley making a robot version of himself in Zero Mission.
"Samus, don't fight Raven Beak, he's so powerful and cool, you don't have a chance!"
I was wondering how Adam was able to lock doors in network station rooms even when we didn't upload his data yet. This is another proof about Adam being replaced by Raven Beak
Also, Uploading Data. That was my biggest clue. Why would Adam need to upload it if he already was telling you this himself? The upload data was for Raven Beak to exploit your weaknesses and learn how Samus fights. He wanted her to get stronger to further his research. Then, all he was going to do was kill her and extract her dna to make Samus Metroid Clones for his own personal army that he could effectively control with mother brains.
@@lukelafontaine69 Maybe i understood you wrong, but as get it, uploading data meant to be Samus uploading Adam into ZDR network to gain access to him
@@kirillheroes98 its more like she's transmitting her findings back to him on the ship. Its the female computer voice so its her suit saying it. The only weird part about is that you get such an instant response, but maybe the network is just that fast and AI can process stuff that quick. Or its just a gameplay convenience so players don't have to sit around and wait.
@@Nirual86 Future tech + game play convivence.
@@mightypancake2211 convenience
Since Mother Brain and her defenses were created by the Chozo, it would make sense the "Daughter Brains", as it were, would have similar armaments.
See I saw it as something different - the EMMI and control units are federation tech, are they not? I saw it as the federation stealing tech from samus's previous exploits for their own purpose. I am curious if the story could go that direction as well.
@@alexdickman5114 The EMMI are federation tech, but the control units are Chozo tech. Quite Robe reprogramed the EMMIs so they patrol the control unit areas.
@@alexdickman5114 The Central Units have Chozo writing on them - they are more likely than not to be Chozo tech.
There's a big one I noticed that no one has mentioned, when fighting ravenbeak, he goes into this hunched over posture that looks exactly like Ridley. It's when he's on the ground but still has his wings.
The best part about the Kraid fight is that it *isn't* exactly the same though. If you sequence break and get the morph bombs early, there's an alternate way to beat kraid in a single phase. It's really great what the devs put into this game knowing there would be sequence breakers.
Yeah, I really dig that. One of the quickest ways to beat Kraid in the NES version was to get in close and spam tf out of bombs. lol. So some people still think thats a connection. Whether or not the devs intended that, idk, but still a pretty cool detail.
@@zeltroid I'm pretty sure that it was just a quick dev skip, that just happened to be able to beutilized by sequence breakers.
I LOVE the whole Samus turning into a Metroid thing, we get total justification to continue calling the series "Metroid" without continuing that storyline. Here's hoping we see a lot more soon.
Also means we can now unsarcastically ask "why can't metroid crawl?"
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 I swear that joke will never get old
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 "why can't metroid crawl?" ah miiverse... good times
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 At least Metroid can slide!
Earlier in the game, you can see machines designing the power suits for the chozo warriors boss fights for later in the game in the background
They are actually making the Chozo robots.
Admittedly, I had notice the shape in the tank in Dairon, but never had it occured to me that it could possibly be Draygon!
That being said, I knew what to do the exact moment I saw the damaged glass tube, and I'm really surprised that so many streamers who were fans of Super Metroid didn't catch it right away...
Right? That's kinda crazy, like, I'm not a huge Super Metroid fan and even I knew what to do seeing a glass tube (especially now that they can show there's some damage, HINTING that you should PB it)
I've never played Super Metroid but I recalled something similar in Metroid Prime. That and also the orange EMMI does it just before the cutscene, so it was obivous.
@@user-uj8tq9ox8v Yeah, it is present in Prime as well in Magmoor Caverns when you have to blow up a tunnel to get ice spreader. (The missile combo for the ice beam)
@@samy29987 OMG, I had forgotten about that part in the Magmoor caverns! Good call!
@@FandeJay yeah!! Thanks. Haha. It's also present in Prime 2: Echoes in Sanctuary Fortress. There is a tunnel that connects to a portal to the dark world, but the tunnel can be blown up and the alternate path leads to an elevator to the top section if I recall correctly.
Don't remember if Prime 3 has a tunnel like that.
This game is so good
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I believe Mother Brain was originally a Chozo supercomputer before it defected, so it would make sense the Central Units share similar features.
Yeah, read the Metroid Manga.
Samus’s suit is actually an organic part of her body. So it makes sense that she would transform into a Metroid along with her suit.
Adam: “He may have been your father, Samus, but he wasn’t your daddy.”
the second i saw that busted up glass tube in dread, a dopy smile spread across my face like " oh yeah, i know what im gonna have to do here"
Lol. I love those moments
It’s crazy how I haven’t played super metroid in ages but at that moment, it was clear on what I had to do without even remembering that from the first game.
I remember when I got to the first mini brain fight I didn't think much of it, but when I saw the fire ring my brain clicked. Since the chozo originally created MB it would make sense for Raven Beak to create more to power the EMMI. Also I didn't realize that Raven Beak posing as Adam was foreshadowed that early in the game, so it's really interesting to know!
Oh, and the final cutscene was freakin' great! I loved every second of it. My favorite part of the game probably had to be Kraid's fight though, it was really nice seeing how faithful to his boss fight they were. The game as a whole was just mind blowing
Absolutely! We’re on the same page. Haha. The only part about Kraid that bummed me out was that we didn’t get a new version of the “Kraid’s lair” theme, which is one of my favorite Metroid tracks. Other than that, it was perfect!
The coloring of Varia suite is a throwback to the original Metroid Varia suite.
Well one could also call each suit a molting of the metroid too, since each suit offered more armor plating than the last.
At that point it stops being a throwback and is instead tradition, since the Varia Suit is usually portrayed as orange and yellow.
Heck, the _original_ Metroid Varia Suit was _pink._
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Thank goodness I'm NOT the only one who noticed this.
Everyone I've mentioned this to has said nonsense like "You're just reading way too much into it", "Nah...more likely they had intended you to be able to choose your filename in the save menu & have Samus referred to by that name in-game before opting to scrap that in favor of accurate voice acting".
Seriously?!
No! ZDR-Network-Hosted ADAM was Raven Beak's attempt to empower Samus by giving her hints on where to go next & how to proceed so her DNA would be of even better use to him.
He then pointed her towards monsters he had hoped could dispatch her for him.
Then, he chickened out & tried to discourage her from even seeking him out anymore.
Then, as a last ditch effort to avoid confrontation, he had "ADAM" straight tell Samus SHE was the threat to the galaxy & should therefore simply giveup.
Samus knew the entire time because of ADAM referring to her as "Samus" instead of "Lady" & chose that last conversation to end the facade figuring she must've been waaaay to close for Raven Beak's comfort.
"Accept your helplessness"
Something that Adam would almost certainly never say to Samus because he would know that she sure as hell wouldn't listen.
He wasn't chickening out, he's too narcissistic and self-assured of that. He was waiting until she had developed her Metroid powers to the fullest so that he could make a clone army of her at her peak (as mentioned in the cutscene after his battle) - the "last-ditch effort to avoid confrontation" is him simply trying to make that easier by having Samus go along with his plan willingly. We see that in the final battle, were it not for Samus's powers flaring up beyond his expectations, he would hack kicked her ass in a fight, since the only thing that stops him from outright winning is Samus's powers suddenly activating to such a degree that she transforms.
draygon had small draygons at the start or the end i dont remember but those 4 other tanks in the bottom room could be them
They appeared at the beginning of the fight and you frighten them, leading to draygon's anger at you. Meaning sometime before the game began.
Early in the game in Dairon, you pass through a large room, and in the background you can see the Experiment being built.
the reason why samus reverted back to "normal" samus after absorbing X-Quiet Robe was because she gain the full capability to control metroids from Quiet Robes DNA thus being able to switch back to more human Samus
Hence she could essentially revert back and forth if that is the case. If she can control the form, she could potentially use it later on. Would be a great build for a game. Having her use it only to realize it slowly consumes her dna and alters it to metroids. Sure, Quiet Robe's dna can control metroids, BUT the X-parasite is prey to the metroid so eventually, that control will probably fail at some point, and she may become a metroid again but not at her own will. She may have no choice, and then she'd be hunted by the Galactic Federation.
@@lukelafontaine69 or the federation would try to clone her, like they did the metroids. my feeling is that after what happened in Other M and Fusion Samus isn’t on the best of terms with the Federation these days.
@@Breakfastlizurt True, but if that's the case, why was the GF deploying E.M.M.I.'s if they knew Samus was capable of doing this task on her own, as she usually does? I get that it was probably a secret plot that Raven Beak was after, it's probably why he chose to try to destroy the first E.M.M.I. he sees (as explained with some of the chozo lore pictures in the game) only to use his Control Brains on them. Interesting. As if to say he was waiting for you the whole time. He was probably there even in the beginning games, we probably just never noticed since maybe those games were simply foreshadowing his existance so that we would eventually come to the point of the big reveal and having to take him out.
@@lukelafontaine69 This was supposed to be the closure chapter for Samus, so she would most likely appear as NPC in the next in line Metroid.
@@lukelafontaine69 They probably didn't send Samus because of her destroying the Space Lab in Fusion. Adam kinda makes it clear that the GF wanted it intact. Though it was better that she destroyed it and the planet, the GF are pretty shady and clearly wanted the Metroids they were secretly cloning as well as the X they were trying to study to begin with. Sending the EMMIs to check if the video was real and if so they'd collect the X. Samus would just destroy them. It seems more like they sent Samus to collect their assets or at least figure out what happened. She was the last option. The EMMI were made of the toughest stuff possible supposedly, as she's the only thing biological that was ok to call at that point cause the X is involved. Plus she evidently doesn't fail.
If Raven Beak hadn't taken control of the EMMI they might not have called Samus to begin with. I'm assuming he sent out the video to lure Samus in but when the EMMI showed up he saw that he could use them to his advantage because they can extract DNA.
Also the GF technically could try to extract her Metroid DNA at any time but that's a fight they definitely aren't winning and she's a useful bounty hunter when she isn't destroying their stuff in the process.
I loved that we get the Samus we've known since the good old days. Finding out she speaks Chazodian was such a great touch
good work on this video. good thumbnail, good title/description/tags, good engagement with the pinned question, good video structure. keep it up
Yo i didn't expect to find you here. Cool to know you're a Metroid fan.
Same! Love watching your videos.
Metroid zero suit cracks me up. Metroid boobs will physically drain the life out of people vs metaphorically.
By the way, fun fact: the rings Mother Brain fires are called Rinkas, which is the first thing I shouted upon seeing them in the game. Just, a lovely little callback.
I have a theory about the Draygon easter egg. I think it was meant as a boss fight at the start, and that they show it off like the X Ridley in fusion (Hence why the Cryo Chamber), yet ended up scrapping that boss. Probably because they had no idea how to bring him into the story well. DLC for this game is hard imaginable, only if they do stuff like the Zero Suit Samus extra like in I think Super Metriod (Can be wrong, never played any of the older games), tho instead of playing Samus, we get to play Raven Beak. That we can see how his whole backstory played out by playing, we see a cutscene of how he entrapped Kraidd and then, maybe, a Draygon boss where he is slain and the put into the cryo chamber for experiments. That he would be dead by the time Samus sees him but we still get to fight him
you're thinking of the Zero Mission remake of the first game, which added a new segment after the end of the original game.
@@Nirual86Yeah that. That is the one thing I can imagine well for a DLC
I could have maybe seen draygon being used later during the game when the X broke out and infected everything. I think the fight got scrapped to not prolong the 'Frozen planet' phase in the game and had experiment Z-57 be the boss instead. It's a shame tho cause I would have loved to see draygon be used as an optional boss if you explored Dairon late game and got an unrequired suit upgrade like pulse radar
@@sigmatheta9399 Might be an additional area under water where you fight him and get one or two other Aeion abilities namely the shield upgrade and rapid fire... perhaps an Aeion tank to help with its usage.
@@mightypancake2211 Maybe Draygon was intended to be the boss of burenia, but was replaced by drogyga. The names are similar, after all.
I remember as a kid working my way through Metroid and Zelda. Not sure how many hours I burned on them. I never became much of a gamer as I got older. Now I have 4 kids and we got them a Switch. Mariokart and Metroid are defiantly amazing games. My son and I are working on Metroid Dread together. It is very cool Nintendo kept both franchises so strong for so long.
Can we stop and think at the moment that this is the last game (chronologically) to ever see Kraid and/or Draygon one last time since they are officially dead in ZRD (either controlled by X or blows up along with the planet).
I doubt that Metroid Prime 4 takes place after Dread's story. But canonically, Kraid and possibly Draygon died in Dread than in Super Metroid. Cloning won't be the original anyways.
Prime is a different setting I think. It's why Meta-Ridley exists in that game. Ridley could only be alive if Mother Brain survived somehow, and he comes back in Prime as Meta-Ridley only because the other space pirates found his corpse and revived it with the power of their metroid experimentations. I think the game even references this fact, since it was the first Metroid game to provide lore stations, which I thought was really cool, gives you an in-depth look at the Space Pirate society.
Prime is the same setting, it's earlier in the series and with Ridley appearing in Metroid II on 3DS as Meta-Ridley it shows that after he was defeated he was most likely cloned (Or Reborn the way he is in Other M) and that's why he's no longer a cyborg. However this does most likely imply that since he didn't show up this time, Ridley is either dead for real after the events of Fusion, or possibly just didn't show up because there were no space pirates here. I do like the implication that Kraid may have been in prison this whole time and that's why we haven't seen him for a while... XD
@@darkmastern2322 only speculation but kraid must be a race and it not just one guy so it may not be the same kraid as in the other metroid just like ridley there must be other from the dame race as him
@@legros731 I agree. Kraid has to be a race of some sort since he doesn't seem to be a bio weapon or anything like that and we see a baby Kraid (Fake Kraid) in Super Metroid.
@@darkmastern2322 Kraid is in metroid I and Super. He doesn't get more light than that... he was a possible boss idea in the primes but they didn't get the idea right I think. so he was scrapped. But I think cloning is easier or just that there are others of his kind as the original book suggested, Not that there are clones or regenerations of Ridley but just that there are others of his species. Same for Kraid.
But if the knitting is that the space pirates are rather just Raven Beak's underlings, it would mean with Raven Beak dead, that there is no more high command for the Pirates if any exist since the prime games seems to be hunting down the space pirates along with destroying the phazon... waiting for Prime 4 to see what happens next.
One of my favorite parts about Metroid Dread was how well the game made you feel like a badass. The game is pretty difficult so as I progressed through the game not only did I unlock more weapons and abilities that made me stronger but I was improving as well. Near the end enemies that were previously a pain to kill were a breeze and I felt like a certified badass.
This has to be one of my favorite quality of games in general, and one of the reasons I love The Last of Us so much. Running around as Joel as an experienced zombie veteran and kicking some ass was always a great time.
Moral of the story, make me feel like a badass more when I play games please.
If you haven't played Hollow Knight yet, then from what you described, you might really like it.
The game gives so much respect to its past through the whole game. Even in the robot rooms. You hear the nes Metroid as the faint music
Raven Beak actually slips up during one of his ADAM monologues. He tells Samus to "recall" that the region's EMMI can see through walls and fire paralyzing shock balls... despite us never having encountered this EMMI yet. This was my first clue.
You do encounter that EMMI in the Quiet Robe cutscene where it hits you with a paralysing shock ball through the mural before busting in
@@NoahTopHatz Ohh. You're right, I missed that detail. Thanks, ignore me :p
He didn't sound quite right through the entire game, but especially because he never called Samus "lady", and his rundown of Raven beak's abilities came across like gushing over somebody.
I like how none of the chozo words had F sounds or any plosives like a hard P or B (Berak was pronounced with a softer B sound) and there's a lot of throaty sounds. Really good attention paid to the sort of sounds chozo wouldn't be able to make with beaks instead of lips
"Being more resilient than all the crying beta male journalists."
You sir have earned a subscriber.
"All the crying beta male journalists" earned you a sub hahah
The way how she moved when shinespark kicked in while running, the dash animations is amazing. Plus the slide is a nice addition.
I figured out the breakable tunnel with a power bomb precisely because I remembered that in Super Metroid, and to my delight, it worked.
Before you fight the first boss, the one that goes invisible and you get the phantom suit from, he faintly appears in the background a couple of times, it took my 4 runs to see this, but it’s awesome!
I noticed Draygon in the tank, but first thought it was a Parasite Queen since i was thinking of the ones you see in tanks on the frigate in Metroid Prime. When i realized it was more than likely Draygon, I thought and hoped we were going to have a battle with him. It's a shame we didn't since every other major boss from Super Metroid has had a 3D boss battle except him (Ridley many times, Phantoon in Other M and now Kraid).
Other what? What are you talking about? No such a thing. Phantoon only appeared in super.
But for real though i much prefer getting new bosses instead of references. This is metroid 5 not metroid the reference to 3.
@@ULAER I see what you mean but... how many times have we seen Ridley? If the space dragon can have the resurrection treatment every other entry then there's no reason we can't have a recurring boss that ISN'T a purple dragon now and again.
We don’t need more Ridley, we need more Crocomire !!!
@@biorobot2 *remembers how he was going to appear in Zero mission but was cut* We were robbed!
@@ULAER Other M is canon though, it gets a gallery artwork if you beat hard mode quickly enough
And one thing about that appearence of Draygon is the name of the section, Dairon
Mercury team probably name that area in honor of Draygon
Great point. It might even be possible that Draygon was initially in the development plans for Dread, but it got scrapped for some reason. Metroid Prime for example is loaded with stuff like that
That and they needed a name that began with D since the zones all have an alphabetical naming scheme
I loved how there were special cutscenes for killing bosses with items you normally don't get until later
At 6:15 - something else regarding power bombs really stuck out to me: using a power bomb to knock out the power generator in Itorash just before the fight with Raven Beak. It felt extremely similar to a scene when you first get power bombs in AM2R, almost like a shout out...
The Red bar of the power generator also looks like the barriers in the prior mother Brain fights.
Yes, everything you said is true, that was amazing! I think the fact that the developers made this game respecting what Metroid is all about that's what I like the most cause it's feel a true Metroid game.
One thing I’ve noticed that I don’t think anyone’s mentioned is that most, if not all bosses are foreshadowed in the game’s background before you fight them, whether that be the room before or much earlier in the area.
True! We see Corpius in cloaked form twice across Artaria. Kraid roars a number of times in lower Cataris. Experiment Z-57 is seen dead in Dairon on a dissection table. Construction of the Robot Chozo is also seen in Dairon (Yet neither the experiment or the robots are fought in this area). The tentacles of Drogyga are seen around it's area of Burenia. And of course we see chozo warriors leaping around in the backgrounds. The 2 Core X bosses have no foreshadow and Raven Beak goes without saying.
@@countlazuli8753 Escue actually is shown before the fight, flying around the sky outside the building before you enter the boss room.
@@countlazuli8753 feels kidna saddening.. those chozo warriors seem to not get any chance agains tthe x parasites...
@@Link3000XD Power hungry leader with no experience with the X parasites. Let the X parasite into the barracks and after learning of that mistake had to lock it down at least till Samus arrived since she was the last metroid.
Finally, a “Things you missed” video that actually has things you’d missed.
One little thing i love about dread , when you fight the X virus bosses , at the end of their battle they become a ball where you can hit it with misiles and then gain their power ,this is a call back to the Metroid fusion bosses that did the same thing
Why is no one talking about all the planets samus keeps destroying.... I mean she has got to be the most hated bounty hunter at this point. 😆
to be fair the whole planet got infected with the X. Not doing so might have risked the X using chozo tech to infect other planets
@@sigmatheta9399 nice, very thought out.
I noticed all of these things but it’s still cool to see a video cover them all. As an OG fan, this is to be expected but I’m glad you guys went out of your way to get the newer fans up to speed.
Well done!
I actually noticed Adam not calling Samus “Lady” early in my first playthrough, thought it was odd, shrugged it off, and forgot about it. Genuinely surprised that it was Raven Beak almost the whole time
Good to know someone else noticed the fact Raven beak was speaking the entire game
I liked the journalist comment
Just a correction on the Metroid to the core section; the surface you're seeing around her face is just the leathery padding of her helmet that you can see throughout the game.
EXCELLENT find with Draygon tho, I was tripped out by that empty room too!
True, however in this her hair that's visible in other shots isn't anymore here, makes me wonder
Good stuff. I really hope that we get the new suit design in Smash Bros Ultimate somehow, beyond just being a spirit.
Another thing I noticed is that in the opening cutscene you can see how to avoid and counter some of raven beaks attacks, as well as how to get through his first phase.
The part with Adam, I didn't even realize that until this video. Thought Adam was compromised at the end but this makes much more sense haha
Now I gotta play it again! 🤙🏿
I have been waiting... half my life now, I guess, to see Samus go full Metroid, and it was a beautiful moment.
If you go back into the kraid room after releasing the x, the belly spike he shot as he died is gone. This was more than likely absorbed by the purple x that infected raven beak. Which would explain why raven beak x looked a lot like kraid.
Some nice detail i noticed was the spike room before the kraid Battle, its easy to pass this the first time but when you notice about it it feels cool
Nintendo literally restarted development on this game to make sure it was a good game in the series, and they made the right choice.
Because Metroid dread is about 85% awesome.
Idk how I missed the Draygon looking creature. Hope it is a DLC
I saw the silhouette and thought it might be something I'd have to deal with later (much like the creature being zapped in the same area) but I didn't recognize it. Does make me wonder if they originally planned on that being the case since the actual underwater boss we fight really lacks the buildup of most bosses in Dread but even if its just a fun reference in the background its still nice to see.
I would honestly love Dread DLC
It's not DLC. It's mostly likely cut content :(
@@MarioBros27568 That's most likely the case, but imagine if they decide to revisit it for DLC
@@MarioBros27568 yeah I wouldn't expect there to be DLC in a Metroid game. Though I'm surprised they just left that room in the game, freely accessible. Almost as if they wanted to bring the boss back in as a free update or something... but I'm not expecting it.
Fusion and Prime 1 also have nondescript power bombable glass tubes. They've been training us for a while!
That empty room near Draygon in Dairon, that originally held a specimen of something similar to Corpius. You can find it when you first enter Dairon to turn on the generators. The specimen later disappears, and returns as Experiment Z-57.
Well, the answer is simple. Raven Beak had a HUGE interest in bioengineered (it's likely he helped the Space Pirates back since Metroid Prime which was the start) weapons and made a bioengineered Corpius with Draygon/Parasite Queen DNA. However, if you analyse the bonus arts, the face looks no where near resembling Draygon and instead resembles the face of the Parasite Queen.
You earned my sub the second you took a jab at the journos hahaha.
I’m glad that you brought up potential DLC, because there are several loose ends and plot points that the ending doesn’t explain.
For instance, I highly doubt that Raven Beak was the only Mawkin left after the initial X infestation, there’s likely still a population of Mawkin somewhere on ZDR or in orbit, maybe in that empty top right corner of the global map? In the last Chozo Archive image you can see a cloaked Chozo figure in the background holding a strange forked weapon that we never see in game. Hanubia the the name of the area on the surface of ZDR, where Samus’ gunship is landed, I’m sure most of you who have reached this area have noticed the docked Chozo ships hovering over the buildings, what you probably haven’t noticed are that those same ships are nowhere to be found during the final escape sequence. Speaking of which, it was never really explained why the planet exploded, perhaps it was detonated by some third party, a person or group of people that used the Ships on Hanubia to escape? Idk dude just spitballing here.
AND ANOTHER THING! what’s the deal the the X parasite that infects Raven Beak at the end of the game? We’ve never seen a purple X form before, all we’ve seen are yellow, green, and red X forms. Whats with that?
@@see.eye.2361 Bro you're right, I never thought of that. We've never seen a purple x, mutating with kraid probably doesn't explain it since an x absorbed ridley before and nothing changed in its color. Damnn, I never thought of that hahahaa
@@see.eye.2361 I also found it kinda interesting that Samus makes a point NOT to absorb that X, but rather to blast it dead. Granted, in part it just serves as a display of the fact that this beam actually can destroy X (which i'm pretty sure hasn't been possible prior), as well as an excuse to pan the camera upward to show the exit from that area (this game really does a great job about using visuals to instruct), but to me it also came off as a conscious decision by Samus to not take any influence from Raven Beak or allow any aspect of him to survive.
@@shannonjones8877 I don’t see why the x wouldn’t be immune to conventional weapons. I always thought it was because they move around so quick that it would be incredibly hard to hit them. I can’t see a way that Raven Beak could have stood a chance against them otherwise. We see an X form plunge into a pit lava and die after killing the experiment. I also don’t think they can go through walls, what we see in dread and fusion is just a consequence of the game being 2D.
@@see.eye.2361 That X doesn't die though. It falls into the lava, finds Kraid's corpse, then infects Raven Beak. That's why Raven Beak X looks like a cross between the Experiment, Kraid, and Raven Beak.
And yeah i'm mostly basing that on the fact that the outer shells of the X can be shot and destroyed, but the only way to truly get rid of the X for good before that had been to absorb them.
And the X probably weren't subdued by Raven Beak through combat, he just managed to act quickly enough to lock them all down in Elun before they spread.
what i understand is that chozo always used vat grown brains for computing, mother brain was supossed to be the biggest and smarter of them all
The ending was great, yes, but I think the most efficacious part of the game for me was when you go to Elum and release the X Parasites onto the planet. Anyone who's played Fusion to death and loves the lore of that game, knows full well what this means, and seeing it come to life among all the areas you've already been through was just fantastic.
And the REALLY cool thing, was the fact that the X's didn't show up in a new area until Samus "broke the seal" and brought them in with her. Another huge throw-back to Fusion.
Calling the "gaming" journalists beta is a little bit too good.
About #6, there was also a glass tube in Zero Mission. It lead to a power bomb container and one of two ways back to the "main map".
That attack raven beak does in the final fight where he shoots a pink wave attack was shown in the opening cutscene where Samus fights him. He does it in the intro and Samus ducks underneath. During the final fight you can avoid this attack by simply ducking. I have seen many first time players struggle with this attack and the game activity showed you how to avoid this in the intro.
To be honest, the battle with Corpius reminded me of the first battle against Daemon Lord on "Castlevania LOF: Mirror of Fate". Despite these are two different games, you can quickly spot the "MercurySteam essence"
Something that was a little odd to me was the iconic self destruction countdown at the end. I've only played through normal difficulty, but when you're clamoring through enemies and obstacles, I was getting pretty conscious that I'd taken a lot of damage in my haste, but then I realized something: *THERE'S NO ENERGY TANK DISPLAY.* Was wondering from hard difficulty players if this was the case. Because when I noticed that, I just decided to run straight through and not care about obstacle bumps. They're ultimately there just to eat away at the time you have to escape ZDR.
I think it's intentional. For one, it saves on gamer frustration of repeated game overs without a solid save point. Secondly, that's just how overpowered Samus became as a full on Metroid. And lastly, I theorize that when that X parasite at the end "helped" Samus revert to normal, it may have just become the most powerful X yet, possibly absorbing enough Metroid Suit Samus energy to survive ZDR's explosion and come back as a new menace.
I love that from the point of quiet robe’s death samus gets more and more aggressive as if her DNA is also tied to her growing feeling of needing to kill ravenbeak
Hey cool fact Metroid dread was teased in a data log on the pirate home world reasearch area all the way back in Metroid prime 3 a game released in 2007.
Great breakdown, definitely wouldn't have caught on to some of the things you pointed out. I'll be sure to look for these during my playthrough.
Really doe, the Metroid armor looks sweet as heck! Really hope we get it as an unlockable DLC for the full game
I still think they'll save it for the next game, where she'll be able to fully control it so it doesn't drain energy of everything around her.
I didn't know what the Blue Brain bosses were called so I just started calling them Father Brains lol
i love the jurnalist slander so much. great vid
Can’t wait for someone to rip that model of “Draygon”, if it isn’t been already. Good catch!
Ehhhhh don't think that's Draygon, it's likely going to be the Parasite Queen. (Draygon got eaten remember)
I'm sure there are even more of these hidden callbacks we haven't noticed yet. Great vid.
I just loved that fusion had such a major impact. Not just from a lore perspective but game play as well. Fusion was my first Metroid game, and is the reason I love horror so much as an adult. Dread and Fusion are my favorite Metroid games because they do the element of fear so insanely well. Dread permeates the entire experience and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
MORE OF THIS PLEASE
Another thing is that you notice when Samus' metroid powers start to kick in during Chozo fights. At first she holds their jaws open and goes to town, but towards the end she instead holds them down and starts absorbing them.