Poor thing died defending his mother. Even though Samous wasn’t exactly a good mother to it, it still chose to protect her. Definitely one of the best wordless story telling moments in gaming.
I really hope that when this game gets a remake they recreate this with the best graphics and make us feel like we felt when we saw it for the fist time back in 1994
I've thought a lot about this scene over the years, and I think the reason it made me so personally feel so furious and hurt wasn't simply the murder of Baby, or the loss of maternal bond it formed with Samus. It is that the game never gave us a chance to save the child. As a kid, I was watching in abject horror and helplessness as Baby continued to heal Samus while Mother Brain was gleefully attacking. I recall my (very young and stupid) train of thought going something like this: "What? NO! Stop it! I don't need to be at full health! Let's take that thing down together. Just give me back Samus so I can save the baby!" Of course, that didn't happen. And just as everybody else in this thread did, as soon as Samus got up and glowed with the power of the Hyper Beam, I roared back into the fight with flames in my brain and the desire for vengeance. But even when I'd dusted Mother Brain and escaped, I just couldn't help but be a little resentful that in those crucial few moments, I couldn't do anything. To my memory, helplessness wasn't a common feeling for a gamer in 1994. Most games had an optimistic resolution and gameplay feel, and even the tragedies of that era somehow felt like they weren't preventable. This did not. This game ingeniously plays upon an innate feeling that lives in us, the feeling that we could have - and SHOULD have - saved Baby if we'd just had the chance, and it is absolutely artful.
I recently played the hole 2D saga (the remakes tho) just to finally get this moment, I knew this was going to happen (My first metroid was Other M -sadly- and I had seen the flashback) so I thought it wasn't going to be that sad. But now I get it and I don't know what to do with this feelings, on one hand it is an incredible piece of art and storytelling but in the other this has me torn. A f*cking saga about a space bounty hunter and her relationship with a space squid has me absolutely obsessed and emotionally annihilated. Congratulations metriod and f*ck you. Sorry, but I just needed to get it out of my chest.
Poor thing died defending his mother. Even though Samous wasn’t exactly a good mother to it, it still chose to protect her. Definitely one of the best wordless story telling moments in gaming.
The way it got the player to feel rage, making them determined to win and go into a blood lust fury is amazing
This scene devastated me as a child.
The moment an entire generation of gamers raged in unison.
Mother brain: *Kills baby metroid*
Samus: *loading hyper beam angrily* you. killed. MY. BABY!
People who thought Sephiroth killing Aerith hurt don't know what true pain is unless they've seen this scene.
I really hope that when this game gets a remake they recreate this with the best graphics and make us feel like we felt when we saw it for the fist time back in 1994
in other m there is a cutscene about this scene!
@@darkedifenix yeah but it didn’t hit as hard imo, the scene was very limited
The feels...
I've thought a lot about this scene over the years, and I think the reason it made me so personally feel so furious and hurt wasn't simply the murder of Baby, or the loss of maternal bond it formed with Samus.
It is that the game never gave us a chance to save the child.
As a kid, I was watching in abject horror and helplessness as Baby continued to heal Samus while Mother Brain was gleefully attacking. I recall my (very young and stupid) train of thought going something like this:
"What? NO! Stop it! I don't need to be at full health! Let's take that thing down together. Just give me back Samus so I can save the baby!"
Of course, that didn't happen. And just as everybody else in this thread did, as soon as Samus got up and glowed with the power of the Hyper Beam, I roared back into the fight with flames in my brain and the desire for vengeance. But even when I'd dusted Mother Brain and escaped, I just couldn't help but be a little resentful that in those crucial few moments, I couldn't do anything.
To my memory, helplessness wasn't a common feeling for a gamer in 1994. Most games had an optimistic resolution and gameplay feel, and even the tragedies of that era somehow felt like they weren't preventable. This did not. This game ingeniously plays upon an innate feeling that lives in us, the feeling that we could have - and SHOULD have - saved Baby if we'd just had the chance, and it is absolutely artful.
R.i.p baby metroid
R.I.P baby metroid, may your sacrifice not be in vain
This part made me cry angry
Not only you ... I still remember the tears on my cheeks while saying "I won't be in vain"
This scene hit me in the feels
Baby makes Mothra roars, Ridley makes Anguirus roars
And now it's time....TO PAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Top 3 saddest anime sacrifices
I recently played the hole 2D saga (the remakes tho) just to finally get this moment, I knew this was going to happen (My first metroid was Other M -sadly- and I had seen the flashback) so I thought it wasn't going to be that sad. But now I get it and I don't know what to do with this feelings, on one hand it is an incredible piece of art and storytelling but in the other this has me torn. A f*cking saga about a space bounty hunter and her relationship with a space squid has me absolutely obsessed and emotionally annihilated. Congratulations metriod and f*ck you.
Sorry, but I just needed to get it out of my chest.
Awww man! Poor baby metroid.😧
So blinded by rage, Samus forgot about the R bumper.
I just noticed that the teeth on the metroid go in to suck energy and go out to give energy
nooooooo.....
Aerith, eat your heart out.
Why am I only now realizing that they used one of Mothras sounds for its death?
😭
Arrf... raargh... RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!! D8