The last portion of Super Metroid really does an amazing job of figuratively saying so much while literally not saying a word. The small, remorseful chirp from the baby metroid as it flies away after nearly killing Samus, the way it saves her life shortly thereafter and even gives its own life, both of which prove Samus's hope correct, that they could be used for good and that they could even recognize and care for someone instead of just being killing machines, and then seeing that hope...
This is one of the best videos of this type there is. Hands down. Every opinion is backed up with fact, it is entertaining as HELL, and, my personal favorite, this is an analytical video that can actually bring back the emotion of an 8 bit and a 16 but game and immerse you in 5 minutes as much as a game can do in hours. ANYONE that has something bad to say about this video is an idiot because on this exact topic, the video could not be better.
There's no controls on the video. The controls are in the game. I was talking about the video. I agree that I would like the game more if it had the control scheme of the GBA titles. But SNES just had controls like this. It was annoying unless you got used to them first. But this game is slower paced than the GBA titles, so it's not as bad.
I really like how you zoomed out to show some of the long paths and the alternate shortcuts. Very well explained and it's great to see your reaction to the emotional moments from the game.
You know, this was quite good as a parody/fake episode of sequelitis, in fact, it would probably count as a sequelitis considering the fact that Arin hasn't made a fourth episode yet for the fewest months, just castlevania and megaman, nothing else after that. So, consider yourself lucky (maybe?)
Very interesting analyse, and funny at the same time. mm... It gaves me a lot of ideas... Also, I like the fact that it is still hard to describe why Super Metroid is so special.
Outstanding video. Very well thought out and executed. I love the comparisons. Also, the portions outlining the complexity of the map system in Super Metroid were particularly interesting; the sophistication of the routes that the designers implemented is remarkable, and you nailed it. The whole thing is excellent. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this and share it with all of us hardcore Metroid fans. See you next mission!
He doesn't want to do it anymore. He looks back at the Zelda video badly, and he can't really deal with the pressure of so many people putting way too much into his opinion.
Having done some retrospective videos on my other account, it takes a boatload of time to do. Especially if you make little animated reactions or character shots to go along with it like Arin does.
Man, it’s been 8 years already? I remembered this video quite well. In fact, it was the first one that made me found you and got me interested in the actual sequelities.
This video was great! I loved it, how could it be that i found this three years after release! That was THREE years of my life i didnt have this incredible video! TIM PLEASE! PLEASE MAKE MORE SEQUILITIS!
What you are talking about 6:36 is one of the main problems I had with Metroid: Zero Mission...there were way too many items you had to go really far out of your way to collect. It was a 100% speed runners worst nightmare. You don't even get the power bombs until the very end of the game right before the final boss, and then you have to back to all the earlier areas just so you can use the power bombs to pick up a few missile paks and a couple of energy tanks. The people who designed Zero Mission's maps were obviously not as brilliant as the team who worked designed the maps in Super Metroid.
***** You don't understand what I was saying. I'm talking about Metroid: Zero Mission...not Super Metroid. I agree with what he's saying about Super Metroid...how it's a speedrunner's dream come true. I don't like how they did it in Zero Mission (you couldn't 100% speedrun that game very well because of how inconvenient some of the item locations were).
+RetroGamerAaron While that is true, as a casual player I love 100%ing ZM. There are so many fun tricks to get some of the less obvious items, it was a really cool challenge the first time through, figuring out where to shine spark, how to keep it going over a couple screens... I loved it. That game is really, really good, IMO. I put it in my top 5 or 10 games, right along with Super Metroid.
RetroGamerAaron Unfortunately, not many people understand why Super Metroid is so great on so many levels like you and I do. D e e R F o r C e were f*cking geniuses!
This was probably the most amazing thing I have seen on your channel. Just like the real Sequelitis episodes, this video was not only funny, but it was also informative and showed us all of the small things about video games that people like me never noticed or simply couldn't explain properly. If you don't like all of the time and work it takes to make these, I understand. But if you DO enjoy making these videos, I think I speak for everyone when I say that we would LOVE to see more.
YOU HAVE IMPORTANT AND GOOD ARGUMENT, this is impressively put together, good dialogue- I mean very very elegant and diamond dialogue! Great work. I like your expressions! just keep drawing to things like this it's amazing =)
I would love to see more of this from you. I have valued your opinions on games in your LPs and this was perfect since you had time to write down your thoughts and put it in another video of its own. Please do more :)
Backtracking is not simply something that's either loved or hated. It's more complex than that. There's good backtracking and bad. This series mostly handles it well, but MP 2 didn't.
The problem with Super was the hand holding. Yes, it was light, but it started there. As Sean Malstrom (the Snob of video games) demonstrates, in the original, you had to find Kraid, for example, while on Super, you can't miss him as it is next to his fake boss for the sake of pseudo-cutscene "build-up" which defeats the point of a fake boss. The game was also too easy.
Super and Hand Holding in the same sentence. Just how? So, you felt handheld when you had to navigate Norfair without the map being filled in? Yes, admittedly, the first part of Super was kind of linear, but afterwords you can fight the bosses in any order, explore areas on your own terms, and sequence break at will. You think there is any hand-holding in an RBO run? You have obviously not tried playing Super with any sequence breaking then.
Sakamoto made sure his newbie wife could play Super Metroid to make sure it would be as accessible as possible. This is a far cry from the first Metroid which was the expert's game. Sure, Super's hand-holding is subtle and still very far from things like tutorials, but it's still there. In the original game, Kraid was hidden and hard to find. The fake boss was really fake and made you believe you killed the real one! but until you found the real one the statue to access Tourian would not activate. In Super, Kraid is impossible to miss. It is immediately following mini Kraid which doesn't serve the purpose of fake Kraid anymore. This shows the game made this section more linear with hand-holding. In general, Metroid was much more of a maze while Super is easier to navigate. I'm not praising Metroid on NES for its repetitiveness here, just for its quality as a hard maze to find your way around. Super got great maps but is much more holding your hands as well. All the enemies have become super easy too, with rare exceptions... _"you can fight the bosses in any order, explore areas on your own terms, and sequence break at will"_ The original game also let you kill bosses in any order. It was actually even more open with less items required to access new zones. This hasn't changed so it isn't what is titling the comparison.
Holy crap that was epic! You're rendition almost had me reliving all the emotions I had the first time I played it 20 years ago. This is definitely going to be a goto for describing why this game is so amazing.
I LOVED THIS!! SERIOUSLY!! It's awesome. I love Super Metroid, I loved the way you showed different paths, I loved everything about it. PLEASE DO MORE!! :D
Jesus I just got the goosebumps seeing Samus' comeback after her "baby" being killed like that. Seen it x amount of times before, never experienced by myself, still it's one of the most devastating sacrifices in gaming I've ever seen. And this was on a 16-Bit console. Well damn
Why the f*ck do people keep calling the Metroid larva the "baby." I thought you guys hate Other M, so why follow in its example? The Metroid larva is known as the Metroid larva, or the Super Metroid, hence the name of the game!
First off: I have never played Other M and have only experienced it through some TH-cam videos. Second: From what *I* have seen of the game *I* do not hate it. I don't like how they present Samus as this helpless girl ever now and then in need of saving, when this was never really part of her character before. But either way you seriously shouldn't include someone like me, who you don't even know, into some group ( *"you guys hate Other M"* )... Third: I have no idea what you are talking about in general since I don't know enough about the game to actually completely see your point. They literally refer to the baby/larva Metroid as Samus' baby in Other M? Well I sure as hell didn't know. And even if I did, I honestly don't think me calling that lil' thing her "baby" should make anyone worked up. Also I did use quotations as I did not literally mean that it was her real baby. But *"baby"* because it hatches and follows around Samus as if she was its mother (seeing it as a similarity to earth animals, as many have a tendency to get attached to whatever first thing they see, and doesn't hurt them, of-course.) Also a comment about the name of the game: Whether it is actually named after the "Super Metroid" in the game itself or not, I don't know. But it may as well have nothing to do with any characters in the game as it's a Super Nintendo game and pretty much every (exaggeration) single game on that console have Super in the title (like N64 games having *64* after the title of a game.)
I was just trying to get a point across. I had nothing against you. I'm just seriously confused as to why people follow in Other M's example a lot in many ways yet claim they hate it. My bad for accusing you of that. Now I understand that you meant baby as in the way it latches on to Samus as one.
Surprisingly mature respond from your part there! Glad this didn't escalate into one of them stupid internet arguments that never ends x'D And I kind of see what you mean by that whole premise of someone claiming they hate something yet following in its example, as you put it. Yeah, that is pretty confusing and what not, completely agreed!
After having read all the replies, I felt the need to point out the fact that people have been calling it the "Baby Metroid" pretty much since Super Metroid was released. Which was, what, almost fifteen years prior to Other M's release?
this was great tim. these would be great to see every few months or so, or longer. however long it takes you to make it without being stressful. I didn't even realize the video was coming to a close. Good job tim!
The timeline is broken. All the metroids were destroyed in metroid 3, super metroid. So how did they come back in metroid fusion if they were all destroyed? Super metroid, metroid 3, opening says "the last metroid is in captivity. the galaxy is at peace" and motherbrain destroys the last metroid at the end. So how does it exist in metroid fusion? Did suckamoto fucked up?! I think he did!
in super metroid tho, the baby reproduced - seen as you enter the final area once again. and if you say that samus killed all of them, you don't know that all 0f the metroids actually attacked samus then. so rekt.
PIQuE How is it possible to reproduce if there are no other metroids to mate with?! How is ridley and kraid alive again in super metroid if they were killed in metroid 1, not only by samus but when the whole planet was in self destruct?! How is a frozen ridley possible in metroid fusion if ridley is destroyed time and time again from metroid 1 and super metroid?! The timeline doesn't add up. Sakamoto screwed up big time!
PIQuE I was thinking about that myself and it makes sense, but there is a queen, which would suggest a hierarchy system like those of a hive. So it does not fit. But then there is the other problem. Since it was the only metroid left and was taken back to planet zebes and only produced offsprings on the planet, that means it's only lived on the planet. But remember that the planet blew up in metroid 3, killing everything on the planet. So there are no more metroids after that. So even if there were offsprings in metroid 3, they all got killed when the planet was set to self destruct. There's a problem in the timeline and suckamoto killed it. How did metroids exist in metroid fusion?! Interesting isn't it?!
This was great, Tim! Awesome job! As somebody who never got to play any Metroid games (I had a Sega), seeing this kind of view on the first few games really opened my eyes to how deep the story got.
i know you just said it was a lot of work to make this but i think you did a great job and i kept coming back to this video about 4 times because how much intelligence was put into it, NCS you should continue making fake sequelitis its very fun to listen to you compare games. this would probably become a good series
You captured my emotion and sentiment perfectly. wow! I was a mix of rage and sadness when the baby Metroid died. That ending was such a roller coaster of surprise.
this was awesome capri - hope you do another. and many of the things you said rang very true from what I remembered from first playing this awesome game. :)
You just know Arin is gonna love this. You've seen how hard he gets over fan-content. Great job Tim, this is the last thing I would have expected you to upload on Christmas Day xD
Great job. You really captured how a lot of us felt about super metroid. It was a classic game that I played endlessly when it first came out, and still want to play years later.
This was really good and quite entertaining. I especially liked all the little cartoons you managed to have done for it. Something unique in it's own way. I was kinda hoping to see a kinda little intro like Ego does, but still pretty good!
very good job on it,Since your the one who made me known about sequelitis i really like to see you doing one of your own. Its also a very good thing that you credited egoraptor multiple time in it. i hope he will like the hommage
Wow Tim, this was...amazing. If I can be completely honest here, i've sort of fallen out lately with watching your videos. Something is different and i'm not sure what, but i've already watched this twice and I love it! I realize these types of videos can take a lot of work, but you should definitely make more if you want to, definitely one of my favorite videos you've made recently =)
Just stumbled across this video today, been subscribed to you for awhile but wasn't around when you first made it, hilarious video I gave it a like, really nice job.
HOLY CRAP! This was absolutely incredible, I've been expecting something different when you talked about it in your Metroid Prime 2 and DK64, but I'm impressed with how accurately you captured Ego's style when doing this, dude you're just awesome. End of story.
I gotta be honest, man. I did not have high hopes when I clicked on this video, expecting it to be a terrible attempt at anything similar to Arin's work, but I was wrong. Great job. Fantastic success in scratching the itch Egoraptor left behind (but hopefully not for long!).
Oh my god Tim this is amazing! I was really disappointed in the lack of commentary for your top 13 ice world themes but this way makes up for it! The commentary is amazing, as well as the jokes, and to top it all off, a sexy ass, animated waterhands Tim. How does it get any better then that?! I want... NO! I NEED Some more of this shit!!! GIMME DAH GOOD TIMMEH BOY!!!!
It really is one of the most investigating endings in gaming history. I remember that terror of being a afraid of that baby when it showed as a giant and attacked, elated when it healed me, and then shocked and sad it was destroyed.
I played this game for the first time in decades over the Labor Day weekend and it was marvelous. It holds up so well. Definitely one of my top five games of all time. Great video too.
Great video! And what makes Super Metroid amazing is that it does have a great story and ending and it’s portrayed without using any dialogue. Besides the prologue at the beginning obviously. Lol
This video was incredible! VERY awesome for just "throwing it together". And I had no idea you watched Egoraptor, nice Makes me wanna go play Super Metroid now
I really enjoyed this NCS. And keep in mind, Ego isn't the only one to do review videos, so keep up the good work. It's really fun to hear you so passionate about something.
This was awesome, man. Not only did you pay tribute to Egoraptor's hilarious style, but you are probably the best person I could think of to compare these two games. You really managed to get to the heart of why Super Metroid is one of the greatest SNES titles ever. Very, very well done.
Fantastic job Mr.Tim :D I've rewatched sequelitis several more times than I should have and this was a great parody of them! I don't have the same relation with Metroid as I do Megaman but this still hit me pretty well and I defintly enjoyed this video. I'll be sure to watch it again in the future.
It's been twenty years. Finally, I am no longer grounded for watching Crocomire's death sequence.
XD well, my mother walked in on that and unplugged the game. I never saved. D:
Midnight R Damn, that sucks. xD
Anime Profile Pic ugh, the worst part is I did a glitch where if it was unpluggeds or anything, my game would be corrupted, I had to buy another game.
Reason why she went into my room? to see if I wanted cake. I never got cake that day.
Midnight R LOL. Thanks, Crocomire.
I hope you do make more of these, because this was thoroughly entertaining. :)
The last portion of Super Metroid really does an amazing job of figuratively saying so much while literally not saying a word. The small, remorseful chirp from the baby metroid as it flies away after nearly killing Samus, the way it saves her life shortly thereafter and even gives its own life, both of which prove Samus's hope correct, that they could be used for good and that they could even recognize and care for someone instead of just being killing machines, and then seeing that hope...
Once you make about 4 more of these, it will be egoraptor that is copying you. :)
Mario: everyone in the world know me
Samus: I can walk left
Mario: HOW?!?!?!
His laugh when the Metroid was attacking Mother Brain is just amazing!
can't wait for the 2016 comeback of Fake Sequelitis! watchin you draw it on twitch right now as i write this! :D
Me too! It's gonna be cuh-RAZY!
+NintendoCapriSun the moment I heard you made multiple I looked for more but I only found one other than the banjo kazooie one
NCS you should do another one for 2017 it should be a yearly thing
MAKE MORE MAKE MORE.
If Egoraptor won't release any more, then, goddamn it, YOU need to replace his ass.
pls
pls tho
***** His voice doesn't suck, it's just the way it is. if you blame anyone, blame his mom :P
***** whoops, directed to the wrong reply -_-
Steve Taylor ncs is much better anyway and funnier
Excellent and much needed production. Never mind it being fake, it's legit in my book. If egoraptor didn't do this himself, it's his own fault.
Although, really, I'd still like egoraptor to cover this...
You can tell egoraptor didn't do this because it's not funny.
@@bli2z4rd I found it funny. But unlike you I've actually hung around long enough to get the references.
@@bli2z4rd that wasn't the reason. He just didn't want to make more of this type of content
"Hey, what if this Octorok was a good guy?"
And there you have it, the origin of *The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild*
Idk what you're talking about
This is one of the best videos of this type there is. Hands down. Every opinion is backed up with fact, it is entertaining as HELL, and, my personal favorite, this is an analytical video that can actually bring back the emotion of an 8 bit and a 16 but game and immerse you in 5 minutes as much as a game can do in hours. ANYONE that has something bad to say about this video is an idiot because on this exact topic, the video could not be better.
Joshua Blank The controls could have been better.
There's no controls on the video. The controls are in the game. I was talking about the video. I agree that I would like the game more if it had the control scheme of the GBA titles. But SNES just had controls like this. It was annoying unless you got used to them first. But this game is slower paced than the GBA titles, so it's not as bad.
I really like how you zoomed out to show some of the long paths and the alternate shortcuts. Very well explained and it's great to see your reaction to the emotional moments from the game.
You know, this was quite good as a parody/fake episode of sequelitis, in fact, it would probably count as a sequelitis considering the fact that Arin hasn't made a fourth episode yet for the fewest months, just castlevania and megaman, nothing else after that.
So, consider yourself lucky (maybe?)
You're in luck. The new one's out!
Very interesting analyse, and funny at the same time. mm... It gaves me a lot of ideas... Also, I like the fact that it is still hard to describe why Super Metroid is so special.
I've been watching NCS for years and I never saw this until I found out about it today, what else have I been missing?
Dude, I know! I just heard about this today from some friends and thought "Tim did another Fake Sequelitis before Banjo Kazooie/Banjo Tooie?!"
I am so glad I've wasted the last percents of my battery on this wonder.
your laugh when the Metroid attacks mother brain that was ... just hilarious
Awesome stuff! I especially liked the abridged walkthrough parts. XD
10:41 took me off guard. Well played, sir. Well played.
PLS, I NEED MOAR FAKE SEQUELITIS IN MY LIFE!!!
Outstanding video. Very well thought out and executed. I love the comparisons. Also, the portions outlining the complexity of the map system in Super Metroid were particularly interesting; the sophistication of the routes that the designers implemented is remarkable, and you nailed it. The whole thing is excellent. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this and share it with all of us hardcore Metroid fans. See you next mission!
NCS, dude, this is already light years better than anything Arin could have put out.
bro you are so uneducated
I watched Egoraptors Sequelitis so many gd times and always wished for more content - This is awesome. Thank You!!
This deserves WAY more views
Awesome job Flame Pillar
I've watched this video so many times. Great job with the delivery and editing! Just an all around great video.
I wish more people would make sequelitis shaped videos since arin takes his goddamn time doing his
He doesn't want to do it anymore. He looks back at the Zelda video badly, and he can't really deal with the pressure of so many people putting way too much into his opinion.
Having done some retrospective videos on my other account, it takes a boatload of time to do. Especially if you make little animated reactions or character shots to go along with it like Arin does.
Ian Phoenix well yeah it will take a long time to do but over a year?
***** Arin isn't going to make any more.
Guypersonmanthing3 i know thats why i said i wish more people did it
Man, it’s been 8 years already? I remembered this video quite well. In fact, it was the first one that made me found you and got me interested in the actual sequelities.
I might like this video more than Egoraptor's ones, honestly
I don't mind. I'm used to having unpopular opinions
+φ First-order logic You don't stand alone, I'm here with you
Although I also am one of the few that agree with Arin that Ocarina of Time is shit compared with A Link to the Past
+φ First-order logic
It has less of the sudden "LOL SO RANDOM" shouting and cuts but the audio quality is not good and neither is the caricature art.
You can't compare Arin's art with this guy's art, though... Arin (not sure if still does) did animation for a living
This video was great! I loved it, how could it be that i found this three years after release! That was THREE years of my life i didnt have this incredible video! TIM PLEASE! PLEASE MAKE MORE SEQUILITIS!
What you are talking about 6:36 is one of the main problems I had with Metroid: Zero Mission...there were way too many items you had to go really far out of your way to collect. It was a 100% speed runners worst nightmare. You don't even get the power bombs until the very end of the game right before the final boss, and then you have to back to all the earlier areas just so you can use the power bombs to pick up a few missile paks and a couple of energy tanks. The people who designed Zero Mission's maps were obviously not as brilliant as the team who worked designed the maps in Super Metroid.
Well when i first played zero mission i never got power bombs
+RetroGamerAaron these games are non linear. if you wanted every item in order, it wouldn't be the same as metroid is now.
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You don't understand what I was saying. I'm talking about Metroid: Zero Mission...not Super Metroid. I agree with what he's saying about Super Metroid...how it's a speedrunner's dream come true. I don't like how they did it in Zero Mission (you couldn't 100% speedrun that game very well because of how inconvenient some of the item locations were).
+RetroGamerAaron While that is true, as a casual player I love 100%ing ZM. There are so many fun tricks to get some of the less obvious items, it was a really cool challenge the first time through, figuring out where to shine spark, how to keep it going over a couple screens... I loved it. That game is really, really good, IMO. I put it in my top 5 or 10 games, right along with Super Metroid.
RetroGamerAaron Unfortunately, not many people understand why Super Metroid is so great on so many levels like you and I do. D e e R F o r C e were f*cking geniuses!
TIM you NEED to make more of these! I loved every second of it.
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This was probably the most amazing thing I have seen on your channel.
Just like the real Sequelitis episodes, this video was not only funny, but it was also informative and showed us all of the small things about video games that people like me never noticed or simply couldn't explain properly.
If you don't like all of the time and work it takes to make these, I understand.
But if you DO enjoy making these videos, I think I speak for everyone when I say that we would LOVE to see more.
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one of the best videos you made in my opinion. good job and you should do more of these
Metroid Babies, we make our dreams come true
Metroid Babies, we'll do the same for you
YOU HAVE IMPORTANT AND GOOD ARGUMENT, this is impressively put together, good dialogue- I mean very very elegant and diamond dialogue! Great work.
I like your expressions! just keep drawing to things like this it's amazing =)
I bet MB really tasted THAT rainbow XD
Great points about how awesome SM is, especially in regards to speedrunning. Great job Tim!
I immediately went to go play Super Metroid a 3rd time after watching this.
I would love to see more of this from you. I have valued your opinions on games in your LPs and this was perfect since you had time to write down your thoughts and put it in another video of its own. Please do more :)
Backtracking is not simply something that's either loved or hated. It's more complex than that. There's good backtracking and bad. This series mostly handles it well, but MP 2 didn't.
The problem with Super was the hand holding. Yes, it was light, but it started there.
As Sean Malstrom (the Snob of video games) demonstrates, in the original, you had to find Kraid, for example, while on Super, you can't miss him as it is next to his fake boss for the sake of pseudo-cutscene "build-up" which defeats the point of a fake boss.
The game was also too easy.
Super and Hand Holding in the same sentence. Just how? So, you felt handheld when you had to navigate Norfair without the map being filled in? Yes, admittedly, the first part of Super was kind of linear, but afterwords you can fight the bosses in any order, explore areas on your own terms, and sequence break at will. You think there is any hand-holding in an RBO run? You have obviously not tried playing Super with any sequence breaking then.
Sakamoto made sure his newbie wife could play Super Metroid to make sure it would be as accessible as possible. This is a far cry from the first Metroid which was the expert's game.
Sure, Super's hand-holding is subtle and still very far from things like tutorials, but it's still there.
In the original game, Kraid was hidden and hard to find. The fake boss was really fake and made you believe you killed the real one! but until you found the real one the statue to access Tourian would not activate.
In Super, Kraid is impossible to miss. It is immediately following mini Kraid which doesn't serve the purpose of fake Kraid anymore. This shows the game made this section more linear with hand-holding.
In general, Metroid was much more of a maze while Super is easier to navigate.
I'm not praising Metroid on NES for its repetitiveness here, just for its quality as a hard maze to find your way around. Super got great maps but is much more holding your hands as well.
All the enemies have become super easy too, with rare exceptions...
_"you can fight the bosses in any order, explore areas on your own terms, and sequence break at will"_
The original game also let you kill bosses in any order. It was actually even more open with less items required to access new zones.
This hasn't changed so it isn't what is titling the comparison.
Holy crap that was epic! You're rendition almost had me reliving all the emotions I had the first time I played it 20 years ago. This is definitely going to be a goto for describing why this game is so amazing.
One final boss that made me cry was the final boss of megaman zero 4,
Zero 3 also had a sad ending with the death of the guardians and all
I LOVED THIS!! SERIOUSLY!! It's awesome. I love Super Metroid, I loved the way you showed different paths, I loved everything about it. PLEASE DO MORE!! :D
Jesus I just got the goosebumps seeing Samus' comeback after her "baby" being killed like that. Seen it x amount of times before, never experienced by myself, still it's one of the most devastating sacrifices in gaming I've ever seen. And this was on a 16-Bit console. Well damn
Why the f*ck do people keep calling the Metroid larva the "baby." I thought you guys hate Other M, so why follow in its example? The Metroid larva is known as the Metroid larva, or the Super Metroid, hence the name of the game!
First off: I have never played Other M and have only experienced it through some TH-cam videos.
Second: From what *I* have seen of the game *I* do not hate it. I don't like how they present Samus as this helpless girl ever now and then in need of saving, when this was never really part of her character before. But either way you seriously shouldn't include someone like me, who you don't even know, into some group ( *"you guys hate Other M"* )...
Third: I have no idea what you are talking about in general since I don't know enough about the game to actually completely see your point. They literally refer to the baby/larva Metroid as Samus' baby in Other M? Well I sure as hell didn't know. And even if I did, I honestly don't think me calling that lil' thing her "baby" should make anyone worked up. Also I did use quotations as I did not literally mean that it was her real baby. But *"baby"* because it hatches and follows around Samus as if she was its mother (seeing it as a similarity to earth animals, as many have a tendency to get attached to whatever first thing they see, and doesn't hurt them, of-course.)
Also a comment about the name of the game: Whether it is actually named after the "Super Metroid" in the game itself or not, I don't know. But it may as well have nothing to do with any characters in the game as it's a Super Nintendo game and pretty much every (exaggeration) single game on that console have Super in the title (like N64 games having *64* after the title of a game.)
I was just trying to get a point across. I had nothing against you. I'm just seriously confused as to why people follow in Other M's example a lot in many ways yet claim they hate it. My bad for accusing you of that. Now I understand that you meant baby as in the way it latches on to Samus as one.
Surprisingly mature respond from your part there! Glad this didn't escalate into one of them stupid internet arguments that never ends x'D And I kind of see what you mean by that whole premise of someone claiming they hate something yet following in its example, as you put it. Yeah, that is pretty confusing and what not, completely agreed!
After having read all the replies, I felt the need to point out the fact that people have been calling it the "Baby Metroid" pretty much since Super Metroid was released. Which was, what, almost fifteen years prior to Other M's release?
this was great tim. these would be great to see every few months or so, or longer. however long it takes you to make it without being stressful. I didn't even realize the video was coming to a close. Good job tim!
The timeline is broken. All the metroids were destroyed in metroid 3, super metroid. So how did they come back in metroid fusion if they were all destroyed?
Super metroid, metroid 3, opening says "the last metroid is in captivity. the galaxy is at peace" and motherbrain destroys the last metroid at the end. So how does it exist in metroid fusion? Did suckamoto fucked up?! I think he did!
in super metroid tho, the baby reproduced - seen as you enter the final area once again. and if you say that samus killed all of them, you don't know that all 0f the metroids actually attacked samus then. so rekt.
PIQuE How is it possible to reproduce if there are no other metroids to mate with?! How is ridley and kraid alive again in super metroid if they were killed in metroid 1, not only by samus but when the whole planet was in self destruct?! How is a frozen ridley possible in metroid fusion if ridley is destroyed time and time again from metroid 1 and super metroid?! The timeline doesn't add up. Sakamoto screwed up big time!
TheSnoopyclone #asexualreproduction
PIQuE I was thinking about that myself and it makes sense, but there is a queen, which would suggest a hierarchy system like those of a hive. So it does not fit.
But then there is the other problem. Since it was the only metroid left and was taken back to planet zebes and only produced offsprings on the planet, that means it's only lived on the planet. But remember that the planet blew up in metroid 3, killing everything on the planet. So there are no more metroids after that. So even if there were offsprings in metroid 3, they all got killed when the planet was set to self destruct.
There's a problem in the timeline and suckamoto killed it. How did metroids exist in metroid fusion?! Interesting isn't it?!
TheSnoopyclone They used the DNA to reproduce them, I'd imagine. The same way the fusion suit became a thing.
Dude, there needs to be more of this. This was very entertaining to watch.
amazing, very well done, the way you put i think alot of peoples feelings into words, was great. Keep it up man.
This was great, Tim! Awesome job! As somebody who never got to play any Metroid games (I had a Sega), seeing this kind of view on the first few games really opened my eyes to how deep the story got.
Your game analysis was the freakin highlight of my day! Funny as shit but very informational!
Still one of the best video game reviews of all time. 10/10
i know you just said it was a lot of work to make this but i think you did a great job and i kept coming back to this video about 4 times because how much intelligence was put into it, NCS you should continue making fake sequelitis its very fun to listen to you compare games. this would probably become a good series
This was amazing Tim. I really enjoyed it. I'm kind of disappointed it wasn't longer, actually. But great job! I'm proud of you :D
This took me back when I first played it. Lol I pretty much felt the same way abut it the game as you did. Great video!
Man, this is incredibly well done. That's all I have to say.
I hope you do another one of these.
You captured my emotion and sentiment perfectly. wow! I was a mix of rage and sadness when the baby Metroid died. That ending was such a roller coaster of surprise.
Tim, you definitely need to keep doing these. Such good insight.
this was awesome capri - hope you do another. and many of the things you said rang very true from what I remembered from first playing this awesome game. :)
Very well done NCS; I enjoyed it! A nice little homage to Sequelitis, and a neat work on its own merits. Good job! :-)
You just know Arin is gonna love this. You've seen how hard he gets over fan-content. Great job Tim, this is the last thing I would have expected you to upload on Christmas Day xD
Already watched this about 3 times. Really awesome job, Tim!
Never knew Tim had an old vlog channel called "Now Only Lasts For One Second" until searching "waterhands" after watching this
Tim, this is a great video, I hope you make more of these in the future. Until then, I'll just have to keep watching this one. :)
Great job. You really captured how a lot of us felt about super metroid. It was a classic game that I played endlessly when it first came out, and still want to play years later.
Thanks for making this, man! You made me appreciate this game all over again!
This was really good and quite entertaining.
I especially liked all the little cartoons you managed to have done for it. Something unique in it's own way. I was kinda hoping to see a kinda little intro like Ego does, but still pretty good!
very good job on it,Since your the one who made me known about sequelitis i really like to see you doing one of your own. Its also a very good thing that you credited egoraptor multiple time in it.
i hope he will like the hommage
Wow Tim, this was...amazing. If I can be completely honest here, i've sort of fallen out lately with watching your videos. Something is different and i'm not sure what, but i've already watched this twice and I love it! I realize these types of videos can take a lot of work, but you should definitely make more if you want to, definitely one of my favorite videos you've made recently =)
This is so well paced and the comedic timing is super well done. GG NCS
I loved it! Please do more, I just can't get enough of it :D
Has it really been over 2 years since this has come out? Man does time fly by.
Just stumbled across this video today, been subscribed to you for awhile but wasn't around when you first made it, hilarious video I gave it a like, really nice job.
Dude, I like your style, and you make a damned good sequelitis. Keep it up!
Really wish you did more of these
gasp...i played the second one...loved it too. This was really awesome btw, keep making these
HOLY CRAP! This was absolutely incredible, I've been expecting something different when you talked about it in your Metroid Prime 2 and DK64, but I'm impressed with how accurately you captured Ego's style when doing this, dude you're just awesome. End of story.
Amazing, Tim. Smashed that like button. Couldn't have done a better franchise to do.
Nice job man. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
I gotta be honest, man. I did not have high hopes when I clicked on this video, expecting it to be a terrible attempt at anything similar to Arin's work, but I was wrong. Great job. Fantastic success in scratching the itch Egoraptor left behind (but hopefully not for long!).
Oh my god Tim this is amazing! I was really disappointed in the lack of commentary for your top 13 ice world themes but this way makes up for it! The commentary is amazing, as well as the jokes, and to top it all off, a sexy ass, animated waterhands Tim. How does it get any better then that?! I want... NO! I NEED Some more of this shit!!! GIMME DAH GOOD TIMMEH BOY!!!!
It really is one of the most investigating endings in gaming history. I remember that terror of being a afraid of that baby when it showed as a giant and attacked, elated when it healed me, and then shocked and sad it was destroyed.
Awesome video, excellent insight and perfect choice for a series to talk about, Metroid is in a class all it's own, well said!!
I played this game for the first time in decades over the Labor Day weekend and it was marvelous. It holds up so well. Definitely one of my top five games of all time. Great video too.
I teared up just watching the final fight. Bravo, sir.
Great video! And what makes Super Metroid amazing is that it does have a great story and ending and it’s portrayed without using any dialogue. Besides the prologue at the beginning obviously. Lol
This was really really good! Awesome job Tim! I love how in essence it was your style and not a bland mimic.
Okay, I had my doubts at first but this was actually awesome. Congratulations!
Very well done Tim! This was so entertaining!
This video was incredible! VERY awesome for just "throwing it together". And I had no idea you watched Egoraptor, nice
Makes me wanna go play Super Metroid now
I really enjoyed this NCS. And keep in mind, Ego isn't the only one to do review videos, so keep up the good work. It's really fun to hear you so passionate about something.
This was awesome, man. Not only did you pay tribute to Egoraptor's hilarious style, but you are probably the best person I could think of to compare these two games. You really managed to get to the heart of why Super Metroid is one of the greatest SNES titles ever. Very, very well done.
Fantastic job Mr.Tim :D
I've rewatched sequelitis several more times than I should have and this was a great parody of them! I don't have the same relation with Metroid as I do Megaman but this still hit me pretty well and I defintly enjoyed this video. I'll be sure to watch it again in the future.
Oh man, Tim. I have to say, this was great! Also, I like your animations.
I say “Jungular” to this day. Thanks Tim
Great video dude so many memories of this awesome game with a good sense of humor
As a person that's subbed to you for a few years, I can say that I like this more than your LPs.
i still come back to this video every now and then because I love super metroid; and it has everything i like about it.
Goddamn, I wish I could do something like this. It was amazing Tim. Great Job :D
That was an awesome...review? Well, whatever it was, it was awesome! SUBSCRIBED!