This game will remain a classic forever. It's weird confusing layout is what makes it so special. For a young gamer today it would be horrible, but for someone who understands old video game design it's extremely fascinating.
I love retro games and I grew up as a child with the colorless Gameboy. This game taught me why the Metroid franchise is so popular, and it is certainly not only because of the sexy female protagonist Samus, as I assumed. The moveset of Samus is amazing, with all the skills you can unlock throughout the game. But yeah, itis annoying that you can get lost so easy in that underground maze of planet SR388. The game is not sectioned in levels, it is one entire map. And there is no map that can be opened in any menu for checking at what location of the map you currently are, if you struggle and walk around in the circle. Some passages look very similiar. I both love and hate this level of difficulty when your orientation and navigating skills are challenged. Anyway, in some way these old games are still better than some modern games in my opinion. Some modern games only got better graphics, but they cannot transport the same feeling and experience like the retro games. And for some video game lovers like me, the old graphics and sounds can be charming.
Interesting you say that, I guess I would be considered a younger gamer for the standards of this game as I grew up in the early 2000s. I don't exactly remember how I ended up with a copy of this game but it ran on my gameboy advance and I remember making no progress for like the first month I tried to play it, eventually the game clicked for me and I started to really enjoy the exploration aspect and finding new weapons throughout the world. It was definitely very different from the games I was used to but even as a younger gamer I was eventually able to appreciate it.
I just beat samus returns on 3ds.... i definitely prefer the remastered version lol. Although i might say that 1st theme song level might still sound better on game boy version.
I think the atmosphere is a consequence of the technical limitations of the GameBoy. I wonder how intentional it was? Either way, it scared the crap out of me at times as a kid but it was still a blast to play.
@@zalden2565 I think it was intentional to some extent, but I think there also might just be something about 8 bit games (or their music, at least) that hits as extra creepier than it was meant to be. Like this game's metroid encounter theme makes my brain go "oh crap it's a metroid kill it kill it kill it" real hard. Or when a battle starts in Final Fantasy 1 I feel a sense of dread, even if it's just a single lowly Imp outside of the starting town, because of the battle theme. The Champion's theme in Pokemon GSC is also super foreboding to me for some reason (maybe because Lance is OP and a cheating butthole, but I digress) and Dark Cave is also a little worrisome. The remake versions of those songs don't give me the same feeling at all (and neither does Samus Returns as a whole for that matter, totally different atmosphere than Return of Samus). And then when a game's TRYING to sound scary, like Sweet Home? Get me the heck out of there lol.
i love both remakes but they absolutely fail to recapture this. AM2R and SR are always so vibrant and colorful when the original Metroid 2 in contrast feels dead, derelict, and increasingly ominous the deeper you descend.
@@JosephQPublic, he could be referring to the fact that the actual character designs in 2 look a lot better then 1 and so the change between the two was obviously gonna be huge just it’s amazing to see the difference
Very impressive how well you know your way around this game! Even though I played through Metroid 2 as a child, I can barely remember any specifics - unlike Super Metroid, my favorite game EVER. Anyway, it was definitely a lot of fun watching you. :)
+Ravenswraith OR get a Visual Boy Advance emulator and get the Metroid II Return of Samus Rom, But of course... There's AM2R (Stands for Another Metroid 2 Remake) [It's basically an entire remake of Metroid 2 which in sort, Improves. Everything.] But still, if you want to support nintendo and have Metroid II on the go, it wouldn't hurt to buy it either (somewhat...)
The first Metroid game I played before I played the 1st and 3rd game. When I was elementary school, I told the boys that Samus is a woman but they didn't believe me. When I got the best ending and showed it to them, they were very pissed and enraged. They were very angry that Samus is woman. I already knew that she was a women before I played this game by reading Nintendo Power. This was the best Metroid game I played and I'll never forget it. Getting the best ending was the most best part of the game.
+Highway Guy You would be surprised. I remember quite a bit of "X can't be a girl because X [does thing]" and them getting very, very angry if you told them otherwise when I was a kid. and a teenager. and an adult.
+Highway Guy Programmers, athletes, busnessmen, voters (about women as politicians), soldiers & asshats with strong opinions about women in the military, etc, etc.
+Highway Guy ...and that tells me that you neither believe women, nor your own ears. Literally, every single one of my bosses, whether at fast food restaurants or engineering firms, hold this opinion. You need to start paying attention to the world around you, hon, because you cannot swing a dead cat without hitting someone with these opinions.
+Highway Guy at Sain Engineering Associates, I had to listen to a coworker rant for hours about women in the military, and women in STEM fields. The company owner agreed with him, as did most of the other engineers there.
+Highway Guy So because of two major and rare examples of internet activism, you refuse to believe everyone else's vastly more common lived experience. Ok bby.
Same. Soon as the Gamma Metroid phase hit, it freaked me out and I turned off the game. Years later, after I got a bit tougher, I turned the game back on... and those Metroids wished they never crossed me.
A Metroid hiding and instantly attacking you, paired with the “Ta-da!” Sound effect, followed by the music could cause sheer terror in me as a kid. Being low on health and distanced from my last save (and no such thing as a quick save) provides a tangible element that adds to the tension.
When I played it as a kid, I always tried to dive into acid water and forcedly walked as far as possible without knowing that water level would go down after beating metroids in near scope. Still love it.
This was a bit before my time, I was in grade school when the GameBoy Advance and GameCube were out. But even so that was something that was always going around on the playground. “Hey you know that Samus guy from Metroid Prime? He’s actually A SHE.” “What? No way, he looks like a guy!” “No she’s a girl, my brother told me.” “Whoa.”
This was one of my very first games I've ever played besides mario bros and other nintendo games such nostalgia I'm feeling watching this be ran so perfectly thanks for the video
Thank you very much for uploading this! Watching it enabled me to obtain ALL of the achievements for the game on Retro Achievements. Therefore, this video was VERY helpful. Once again, thank you very much!
Played this as a kid , just replayed it as an adult with a map. I can recall thinking to my self as a child there are places on the map where it should have overlapped. Now I know it actually did. The feeling of beating this game is a cherished memory. Finishing this game with no internet or guides , Its hard.
Thank you my friend. You can get lost in that tunnel maze so easy. Without your gameplay video I would not have made it. I never played this game as a child, but tried it now via emulator in the age above 30, and I love it. One of the best games for the old Gameboy in my opinion. But the creepy atmosphere in that game, well, it would have been too much for me if I played it as a child. From the Super Smash Bros. franchise I got to know about Metroid, and as I liked to see Zero Suit Samus in the later games, and read about the story of Metroid, I was fascinated to try the Metroid games quite from the beginning. The bikini scene, however, is not that exciting anymore nowadays. You can find pictures of cosplayers in the Zero Suit that look much better than that on the internet. But besides that I try completing this game in under 3 hours anyway.
Awesome play-through mate, this brings such a good memories playing this game and spending many hours trying to learn all the secret doors and passages. By far my favorite gameboy game and one of my all time favorites 👊
4:57 It was my first Metroid Game and if you don't play Metroid 1, this quickly becomes unsolvable. I couldn't get any further in the game for many weeks until, out of desperation and trying things out, I found out that you could continue at this point. I still remember today the feeling of joy when my friend and I finally made it further.
Wish Nintendo could officially remake Metroid 2: Return of Samus. But what kind of remake 2D like Metroid, Zero Mission, Super Metroid and Fusion or 3D like the Prime trilogy and for what console 3DS or Nintendo Switch?
Woh!!! Wait a minute......Where can I find this Metroid II remake? What platform is it for? Please share your most valuable wisdom with us fellow gamers.
This, Link's Awakening, and Super Mario Land 2 were my first GB games, and they were all great. I didn't know about the two ceiling tanks, and the item collection route on the area with the Varia is much more efficient than what I've been doing. I estimate this will shave four minutes off my best time, which is 1:25.
I always liked the little delay in this game when you fire a missile. It's like it launches out and then its thrust activates. I always thought it was really cool.
I forgot how damn confusing this game is. Definitely needed a map...I've been following this playthrough for over an hour, but you're only at 26 minutes...i died and gave up for now 😆
Same. I was freaking out when I first beat it. I even remember where I was. My family and I were chilling at a lake on a hot summer day and I had nothing better to do than playing Metroid 2 in the shade. My dad, totally unimpressed, was like "Great, now turn that droning box off and get your ass in the water ffs!" Must have been 1991 or 92.
Since Nintendo LOVES doing remakes, do you guys wish for an enhanced remake of this just like Metroid Zero Mission? My first Metroid game was Metroid for the NES but I couldn't get into it. Places just look the same and I never beaten it. I gave up...until Metroid Zero Mission came along. (Super Metroid is STILL my favorite Metroid game so far.) I never played this game (and I won't since it reminds me of Metroid for NES...unless a remake comes for this.) I applaud the people who beat this though. Nice work. EDIT: It's HAPPENING! An Official remake will be here this year (September 2017)! I'm SO~ HAPPY! Automatic buy for me! Like Metroid I to Zero Mission, I can finally play Metroid II's storyline!
saylsen I meant officially from Nintendo. I already saw a demo playthrough of that. It is nice but fan games / fan hacks really depend on motivation. Not many become "finished". Few fan-games I loved are finished but others are dropped.
AZD ANS Sorry to reply to a month old comment, but the motivation behind AM2R is indeed there. The developer updates the blog frequently and always has something new to share. He's also fairly well into finishing it. Although I do agree, some of my favorite fan made metroid projects have been dropped long ago, but I'm fairly certain AM2R will see completion
I played that as a child. I endet up getting lost in that caverns pretty much at the beginning. Love it. Ehen i heard prime 4 is going to happen, i started to replay every metroid game. Guess what. I'm stuck again in that damn caverns
Got the Gameboy as a Christmas present in the 90s with this game and legend of Zelda link to the past. I just watched what took me as a kid and probably hundreds of dollars worth of batteries and around a year and a half to finish... beat it in an hour😂
Question: Does the varia/barrier suit affect how fast the jump and fall are? I didn't notice much of a difference and the jumps are kinda slow in this game.
I still have this amazing game but I could never figure out how to get to the next level! Now I'm playing it again trying to beat it once and for all! Great game amsome soundtrac! Do you get a level map as you process futher into the unkown alein world of Metriod 2 return of Samus?
As a kid I played 100% through this game when we spend holiday in Austria in 1989 :) ! It has a very genius, tight atmosphere, music is brilliant, sometimes minimalistic in the later 'alien' levels but exactly to the point (great job by the developers) ! Soundeffects are great too, very scary, remember that soundeffects, when you hit the 'evil' bosses, even the enemies look unusual, very unique. So as a whole a great game ! -I think some tracks sound better on a original Game Boy btw. .
Before there was Resident Evil this is one of my favorite games as a kid and I already beat the whole game so many years ago. The good old fashioned days back when games had less or no dialogue certain games had no save points. Back when Gamestop used to be called Babbage's. Those were the days simple times.
0:11 and 0:16: BEGIN! Find all 39 Metroids and clear them all before escaping to win! 1:28, 1:29 and 1:30: Alpha Metroid incoming! 1:36 and 1:39: Alpha Metroid eliminated! (Clear all 39!) (1:41) 1:47: Acid is draining! (1:55 and 3:14) 4:27 and 4:37: Item found! Missiles earned! (4:39 and 6:18) 5:06: Energy bar extended! (22:49 and 22:53) 11:01: Just getting started! 34 Metroids to go! (16:30 and 16:34) (17:59, 18:01, 18:03, 18:05 and 18:07) 24:34: Keep going! 26 Metroids to go! (25:05, 25:06, 25:09, 25:43, 25:44 and 25:49) (26:21) (31:45, 32:22, 36:26, 37:42 and 38:50) 39:22: Getting close! 14 Metroids left! (41:38 and 52:43) 54:20, 54:22 and 54:24: 5 Metroids left! (55:32) Keep going! (55:34 and 56:51) 1:00:54 and 1:00:57: Almost there! One Metroid left! (1:03:39) 1:03:54, 1:03:55, 1:03:57 and 1:03:58: There’s 8 more Metroids keeping the last one! Blast them! 1:04:58: This is it! Get through the final hole to attack the queen! 1:05:10: Here comes Queen Metroid! Take her out to escape! 1:06:09: Queen Metroid eliminated! (1:06:18, 1:06:19, 1:06:21 and 1:06:22) Now’s your chance to escape! (1:06:26) The baby Metroid will follow you.
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This game will remain a classic forever. It's weird confusing layout is what makes it so special. For a young gamer today it would be horrible, but for someone who understands old video game design it's extremely fascinating.
I love retro games and I grew up as a child with the colorless Gameboy. This game taught me why the Metroid franchise is so popular, and it is certainly not only because of the sexy female protagonist Samus, as I assumed. The moveset of Samus is amazing, with all the skills you can unlock throughout the game.
But yeah, itis annoying that you can get lost so easy in that underground maze of planet SR388. The game is not sectioned in levels, it is one entire map. And there is no map that can be opened in any menu for checking at what location of the map you currently are, if you struggle and walk around in the circle. Some passages look very similiar. I both love and hate this level of difficulty when your orientation and navigating skills are challenged.
Anyway, in some way these old games are still better than some modern games in my opinion. Some modern games only got better graphics, but they cannot transport the same feeling and experience like the retro games. And for some video game lovers like me, the old graphics and sounds can be charming.
Interesting you say that, I guess I would be considered a younger gamer for the standards of this game as I grew up in the early 2000s. I don't exactly remember how I ended up with a copy of this game but it ran on my gameboy advance and I remember making no progress for like the first month I tried to play it, eventually the game clicked for me and I started to really enjoy the exploration aspect and finding new weapons throughout the world. It was definitely very different from the games I was used to but even as a younger gamer I was eventually able to appreciate it.
Now that I’ve played am2r I understand the layout completely
I just beat samus returns on 3ds.... i definitely prefer the remastered version lol. Although i might say that 1st theme song level might still sound better on game boy version.
Yeah I couldn't play this game. Just too shitty for me
1:07:21 the fact that you knew when to stop moving forward is hilarious
I got a 'tool assisted' vibe from the whole run
Response got censored
This game is still delightfully creepy in atmosphere for how old it is.
u r right
It's awesome
I think the atmosphere is a consequence of the technical limitations of the GameBoy. I wonder how intentional it was? Either way, it scared the crap out of me at times as a kid but it was still a blast to play.
@@zalden2565 I think it was intentional to some extent, but I think there also might just be something about 8 bit games (or their music, at least) that hits as extra creepier than it was meant to be. Like this game's metroid encounter theme makes my brain go "oh crap it's a metroid kill it kill it kill it" real hard. Or when a battle starts in Final Fantasy 1 I feel a sense of dread, even if it's just a single lowly Imp outside of the starting town, because of the battle theme. The Champion's theme in Pokemon GSC is also super foreboding to me for some reason (maybe because Lance is OP and a cheating butthole, but I digress) and Dark Cave is also a little worrisome. The remake versions of those songs don't give me the same feeling at all (and neither does Samus Returns as a whole for that matter, totally different atmosphere than Return of Samus). And then when a game's TRYING to sound scary, like Sweet Home? Get me the heck out of there lol.
i love both remakes but they absolutely fail to recapture this. AM2R and SR are always so vibrant and colorful when the original Metroid 2 in contrast feels dead, derelict, and increasingly ominous the deeper you descend.
The step up in quality between Metroid 2 and Super Metroid is insane. I love this franchise so much.
Gameboy to SNES
@@JosephQPublic, he could be referring to the fact that the actual character designs in 2 look a lot better then 1 and so the change between the two was obviously gonna be huge just it’s amazing to see the difference
@@hadesfades The first game was on the NES, the original comment is talking about Super Metroid, which is the third game that was on the SNES
@@Vilonu, I know, NES- Gameboy- SNES, I’ve played them all just got a bit confused with what he meant
I love this game
Rare case of a game actually looking better than I remember it as a child
Very impressive how well you know your way around this game! Even though I played through Metroid 2 as a child, I can barely remember any specifics - unlike Super Metroid, my favorite game EVER. Anyway, it was definitely a lot of fun watching you. :)
I played this game for hours and hours on road trips as a kid. I came close, but never beat the game....
+Ravenswraith Well nows your chance! if you have a 3DS buy the virtual console port and beat it! if you still have it then play it!
+Ravenswraith OR get a Visual Boy Advance emulator and get the Metroid II Return of Samus Rom, But of course... There's AM2R (Stands for Another Metroid 2 Remake) [It's basically an entire remake of Metroid 2 which in sort, Improves. Everything.] But still, if you want to support nintendo and have Metroid II on the go, it wouldn't hurt to buy it either (somewhat...)
@sneksnekitsasnek, and also 7 likes and you still haven’t beaten the game yet
Same!
@sneksnekitsasnek Samus Returns on the 3DS, or if you want something closer to the original look up AM2R
I use an emulator for this longplay. Sometimes I changed the colors and cut the video files together. I think it`s make the video more interesting.
The first Metroid game I played before I played the 1st and 3rd game. When I was elementary school, I told the boys that Samus is a woman but they didn't believe me. When I got the best ending and showed it to them, they were very pissed and enraged. They were very angry that Samus is woman. I already knew that she was a women before I played this game by reading Nintendo Power. This was the best Metroid game I played and I'll never forget it. Getting the best ending was the most best part of the game.
+Highway Guy You would be surprised. I remember quite a bit of "X can't be a girl because X [does thing]" and them getting very, very angry if you told them otherwise when I was a kid. and a teenager. and an adult.
+Highway Guy Programmers, athletes, busnessmen, voters (about women as politicians), soldiers & asshats with strong opinions about women in the military, etc, etc.
+Highway Guy ...and that tells me that you neither believe women, nor your own ears. Literally, every single one of my bosses, whether at fast food restaurants or engineering firms, hold this opinion.
You need to start paying attention to the world around you, hon, because you cannot swing a dead cat without hitting someone with these opinions.
+Highway Guy at Sain Engineering Associates, I had to listen to a coworker rant for hours about women in the military, and women in STEM fields.
The company owner agreed with him, as did most of the other engineers there.
+Highway Guy
So because of two major and rare examples of internet activism, you refuse to believe everyone else's vastly more common lived experience.
Ok bby.
Little did Samus know, her actions on SR388 would cause a string of events that resulted in the destruction of two entire planets.
Edit: Three now.
I mean it’s not her fault the space pirates had zebes rigged to self destruct.
I mean, she personally dropped a colony on SR388... so can't really blame her for that one.
Dread spoilers:
There's three, actually.
Three now
Make that 3 planets.
WOT...i literally had no idea you could get into the queen's belly for dealing massive damage with bombs.
Brings back memories. It was difficult playing this on the regular Gameboy. The lighting was terrible, but great game.
remember you had to have that attachable light hanging over it? lol
So true! I eventually got a Gameboy light to help.
Those 1991 Sound FX are still nightmare inducing.
First game to ever scare the shit out of me.
MLFreese yeah bosses were the worst n the stressful boss music didn't help. The game is a master piece though
@@spacecobra3101 the audio poorly aged though... you can compare it to Am2r
@@Regunes 1989 technology versus modern technology, can't really compare them.
Same. Soon as the Gamma Metroid phase hit, it freaked me out and I turned off the game. Years later, after I got a bit tougher, I turned the game back on... and those Metroids wished they never crossed me.
A Metroid hiding and instantly attacking you, paired with the “Ta-da!” Sound effect, followed by the music could cause sheer terror in me as a kid. Being low on health and distanced from my last save (and no such thing as a quick save) provides a tangible element that adds to the tension.
When I played it as a kid, I always tried to dive into acid water and forcedly walked as far as possible without knowing that water level would go down after beating metroids in near scope. Still love it.
Same here
Wow mind blown! You can power ball into the belly of the boss!? Nice work mate!
I grew up with Metroid Prime Hunters. Boy did I miss out on the classic experience!
Same I grew up on Prime, but it feel great going back and playing the old games!
@@gamefreak2050 before that I also played zero mission.
metroid is such a amazing game series
when i found out samus is a girl i exploded like a power bomb
lmao, nice
This was a bit before my time, I was in grade school when the GameBoy Advance and GameCube were out. But even so that was something that was always going around on the playground. “Hey you know that Samus guy from Metroid Prime? He’s actually A SHE.” “What? No way, he looks like a guy!” “No she’s a girl, my brother told me.” “Whoa.”
I remember playing the shit out of it for hours as a kid. My personal best, I think, is 1hr and 47 min. Well done!
This was one of my very first games I've ever played besides mario bros and other nintendo games such nostalgia I'm feeling watching this be ran so perfectly thanks for the video
I only finished this game under a year ago yet it instantly claimed a very special place in my heart. What a great and underrated game!
I love the music and the atmosphere in this game. Phenomenal
Thank you for this wonderful playthrough. Congratulations
kinda doesn't feel like a true metroid without the "escape from the planet after killing the final boss because of the time bomb" element.
Despite all my rage i'm still just lost in this maze.
At least you are not a rat in a cage. The world is still a vampire tho
@@danielzelpher7335 Yeah, and Smashing Pumpkins still only have 2 good songs...
Thank you very much for uploading this! Watching it enabled me to obtain ALL of the achievements for the game on Retro Achievements. Therefore, this video was VERY helpful. Once again, thank you very much!
That exploration music is soooo good. I wish all the levels had music. The game often feels so bare. Still a big improvement over the original.
So this was the first Metroid game without Ridley as a boss
Yes, and it was only the second game.
Which was changed in its remake, Samus Returns, which also helps connects the Prime series to the timeline and establishes it as canon as well
@@Proteus_Ridley also makes more sense for Fusion to occur
@@Proteus_Ridley also ruins the atmosphere and impact of the original
@@olsonbryce777 I would say it made it better
I was looking at the game time line apprently this is right after metroid prime trilogy
So many memories with this game! I found it used for 2 bucks at a swap meet. One of the only games I beat as a kid.
Played this as a kid , just replayed it as an adult with a map. I can recall thinking to my self as a child there are places on the map where it should have overlapped. Now I know it actually did. The feeling of beating this game is a cherished memory. Finishing this game with no internet or guides , Its hard.
The speed of the standard shots made me think this was a TAS but nope. It was just excellent mashing skills. Good run!
I played this game over 20 years ago and I never knew that you could bomb the inside of the Metroid Queen.
I can't believe I put up with this soundtrack and noise as a kid on a Gameboy. I Loved every second of it but jeez that screw attack >_
This is the best metroid game ever. Emmii sound is there. Nice game play and a great record. Almost like me👍🔊
小学生の時ムカつきすぎて半泣きになりながらやってたな。ed見た時の感動は今でも忘れない。にしても隠し通路とかこんなにあったんだ笑神業すぎる。
This game is so dark. It is hauntingly good.
AM2R is such an amazing remake
It's sooo gooood!
RedVGFox do u know if that am2r game runs off an emulator?
Koops Akimoto can you help me find this? i really want to play AM2R
its no where near exact......
as far as level lay out in the start of the game..
Thank you my friend. You can get lost in that tunnel maze so easy. Without your gameplay video I would not have made it. I never played this game as a child, but tried it now via emulator in the age above 30, and I love it. One of the best games for the old Gameboy in my opinion. But the creepy atmosphere in that game, well, it would have been too much for me if I played it as a child.
From the Super Smash Bros. franchise I got to know about Metroid, and as I liked to see Zero Suit Samus in the later games, and read about the story of Metroid, I was fascinated to try the Metroid games quite from the beginning. The bikini scene, however, is not that exciting anymore nowadays. You can find pictures of cosplayers in the Zero Suit that look much better than that on the internet. But besides that I try completing this game in under 3 hours anyway.
Thank you, I was trying to figure out what version I played back in the day that had the metroid at the end that followed me to the ship.
Awesome play-through mate, this brings such a good memories playing this game and spending many hours trying to learn all the secret doors and passages. By far my favorite gameboy game and one of my all time favorites 👊
I miss these BASIC games. I miss playing them.
本当にすごいです。子供の頃マップないからどこ行っていいかわからないから速攻で投げた覚えがあります。
Brilliant game. I loved the little pitter-patter of his feet when running lol! Bring back the old days!
@@coil8906 I had no idea lol! Somehow I think I'll always think of it as a guy though, just out of habit lol!
1:07:25 perfect landing
all these years I had no idea you could get inside the boss like that
James and Mike need to see this
It was a brilliant move to have the last metroid follow Samus - lots of story arc to follow from this.
4:57 It was my first Metroid Game and if you don't play Metroid 1, this quickly becomes unsolvable. I couldn't get any further in the game for many weeks until, out of desperation and trying things out, I found out that you could continue at this point. I still remember today the feeling of joy when my friend and I finally made it further.
Wish Nintendo could officially remake Metroid 2: Return of Samus. But what kind of remake 2D like Metroid, Zero Mission, Super Metroid and Fusion or 3D like the Prime trilogy and for what console 3DS or Nintendo Switch?
Screw the official, man. AM2R in 2 weeks. GET HYPED.
HYYYYYYYYYPE
Woh!!! Wait a minute......Where can I find this Metroid II remake? What platform is it for? Please share your most valuable wisdom with us fellow gamers.
metroid2remake.blogspot.com/
You'll find the game here!
Lovely Nintendo removed it
Yo lo jugué con un emulador en mi Sony Ericsson. Me encantaba este juego, no lo pude terminar. En ese entonces no solía investigar en internet.
Y ahora que hicieron que dos remakes uno por parte de un fan y otro de forma oficial ya dan ganas de probar el juego original.
I remember taking my Game Boy to school with this game to compare our speedrunning times
My favorite metroid game loved beating this as a kid
@NadrianATRS
This video don`t use cheats. The shortcuts are the designers intend. If not there wouldn`t give the player an option for shortcuts.
This, Link's Awakening, and Super Mario Land 2 were my first GB games, and they were all great. I didn't know about the two ceiling tanks, and the item collection route on the area with the Varia is much more efficient than what I've been doing. I estimate this will shave four minutes off my best time, which is 1:25.
This game was one of the best. When you play it on the GBC, the colour palette makes it look almost like a full-colour game.
WOAH! METROID IS A GRIL!
um.
yeah. I know that. That was sarcasm.
>.>
lol yes a Grill
I wonder if metroid uses propane.
+LokasennaCole it better or I'll kick his/her ass.
I like how some dumb bitch tried to call me out, then deleted their comment before i could reply to it :-P
I remember the first metroid you encounter at 1:29 i thought it was a clowns head 😂
i see it!!!
That main theme still slaps!
you really don't take damage around here in fact you rock at this game!
Starting at 56:52, the games soundtrack scared me shitless as a kid.
@DerSchmu I have yet to play Metroids 1, 2, and 3 without using a map, so far I cant do it, I can play Metroid Fusion and Zero without a map
Excellent job with Metroid 2.
One of my favorite game series of all time!
With the final boss, I always just waited for the neck extension when it opens it’s mouth and just super rapidly tap the shit into the shoot button
I always liked the little delay in this game when you fire a missile. It's like it launches out and then its thrust activates. I always thought it was really cool.
if only that baby metroid at the end knew samus wiped out its entire species... it would have finished the job in norfair
I forgot how damn confusing this game is. Definitely needed a map...I've been following this playthrough for over an hour, but you're only at 26 minutes...i died and gave up for now 😆
How I managed to beat this game as a kid without a guide is a mystery to me. Probably took 40+ hours of gameplay though.
Same. I was freaking out when I first beat it. I even remember where I was. My family and I were chilling at a lake on a hot summer day and I had nothing better to do than playing Metroid 2 in the shade. My dad, totally unimpressed, was like "Great, now turn that droning box off and get your ass in the water ffs!" Must have been 1991 or 92.
Since Nintendo LOVES doing remakes, do you guys wish for an enhanced remake of this just like Metroid Zero Mission?
My first Metroid game was Metroid for the NES but I couldn't get into it. Places just look the same and I never beaten it. I gave up...until Metroid Zero Mission came along.
(Super Metroid is STILL my favorite Metroid game so far.)
I never played this game (and I won't since it reminds me of Metroid for NES...unless a remake comes for this.)
I applaud the people who beat this though. Nice work.
EDIT:
It's HAPPENING! An Official remake will be here this year (September 2017)!
I'm SO~ HAPPY! Automatic buy for me! Like Metroid I to Zero Mission, I can finally play Metroid II's storyline!
Someone is already remaking metroid 2. Google project AM2R.
saylsen
I meant officially from Nintendo.
I already saw a demo playthrough of that. It is nice but fan games / fan hacks really depend on motivation.
Not many become "finished".
Few fan-games I loved are finished but others are dropped.
AZD ANS Sorry to reply to a month old comment, but the motivation behind AM2R is indeed there. The developer updates the blog frequently and always has something new to share.
He's also fairly well into finishing it. Although I do agree, some of my favorite fan made metroid projects have been dropped long ago, but I'm fairly certain AM2R will see completion
SuperPylon
Thank you for this info. That makes me happy.
***** That's what the developer did with AM2R, he built it from the ground up.
Gameboy was my 1st video game and Metroid II Samus Return my first game played as a kid too.
The main theme is so good
Thanks for this really good job!
Thanks for the video man! Cleared it in 1:50 with this.
I played that as a child. I endet up getting lost in that caverns pretty much at the beginning. Love it. Ehen i heard prime 4 is going to happen, i started to replay every metroid game. Guess what. I'm stuck again in that damn caverns
Nintendo also released Metroid: Samus Returns, which is a remake of this one. I recommend playing that one instead
DerSchmu, I subscribed because your videos are super cool!
I Love that soundtrack 💕
Playing this game in black and white,it's hard to tell this game came out after metroid 1,huge improvement with color
エンディングBGM聴いてマジ泣きそうになる
The perfect land in the ship at the end made me laugh. I always failed to land it as a kid.
1:07:19 EPIC FREEFALL
I strongly agree 🤩
1:07:19
Love this game, though i always thought the soundtrack was a bit weird in places
It's funny to look back on this old ass game knowing the new lore in Dread about the Mawkin and Thoha and what they did on SR388.
Used to leave my gameboy on the toilet with this game. Took me like 10 years to finish it..
Got the Gameboy as a Christmas present in the 90s with this game and legend of Zelda link to the past. I just watched what took me as a kid and probably hundreds of dollars worth of batteries and around a year and a half to finish... beat it in an hour😂
I used to have the game back when I was 8, but lost it some sixteen years ago.
メトロイド２懐かしい。
しかし初期装備からモーフボールとミサイル３０発はありがたいですね。
たいていモーフボールとミサイルはアイテム取らなきゃ使えないですから。
Question: Does the varia/barrier suit affect how fast the jump and fall are? I didn't notice much of a difference and the jumps are kinda slow in this game.
This Dude or Girl is A G!!!! I never had it that easy playing Metroid 2
I still have this amazing game but I could never figure out how to get to the next level! Now I'm playing it again trying to beat it once and for all! Great game amsome soundtrac! Do you get a level map as you process futher into the unkown alein world of Metriod 2 return of Samus?
The good old days
As a kid I played 100% through this game when we spend holiday in Austria in 1989 :) !
It has a very genius, tight atmosphere, music is brilliant, sometimes minimalistic in the later 'alien' levels but exactly to the point (great job by the developers) ! Soundeffects are great too, very scary, remember that soundeffects, when you hit the 'evil' bosses, even the enemies look unusual, very unique. So as a whole a great game ! -I think some tracks sound better on a original Game Boy btw. .
cannyfocus This game came out in 1991
Sir, this is a pretty impressive speedrun, you should come chat sometime!
Hes probably one of the devs
Before there was Resident Evil this is one of my favorite games as a kid and I already beat the whole game so many years ago. The good old fashioned days back when games had less or no dialogue certain games had no save points. Back when Gamestop used to be called Babbage's. Those were the days simple times.
Imagine playing this before TH-cam and strategy guides no map no idea where to go and five energy tanks is your max
Good job & as a reward, a little fanservice courtesy of Samus!
0:11 and 0:16: BEGIN! Find all 39 Metroids and clear them all before escaping to win!
1:28, 1:29 and 1:30: Alpha Metroid incoming!
1:36 and 1:39: Alpha Metroid eliminated! (Clear all 39!) (1:41)
1:47: Acid is draining! (1:55 and 3:14)
4:27 and 4:37: Item found! Missiles earned! (4:39 and 6:18)
5:06: Energy bar extended! (22:49 and 22:53)
11:01: Just getting started! 34 Metroids to go! (16:30 and 16:34) (17:59, 18:01, 18:03, 18:05 and 18:07)
24:34: Keep going! 26 Metroids to go! (25:05, 25:06, 25:09, 25:43, 25:44 and 25:49) (26:21) (31:45, 32:22, 36:26, 37:42 and 38:50)
39:22: Getting close! 14 Metroids left! (41:38 and 52:43)
54:20, 54:22 and 54:24: 5 Metroids left! (55:32) Keep going! (55:34 and 56:51)
1:00:54 and 1:00:57: Almost there! One Metroid left! (1:03:39)
1:03:54, 1:03:55, 1:03:57 and 1:03:58: There’s 8 more Metroids keeping the last one! Blast them!
1:04:58: This is it! Get through the final hole to attack the queen!
1:05:10: Here comes Queen Metroid! Take her out to escape!
1:06:09: Queen Metroid eliminated! (1:06:18, 1:06:19, 1:06:21 and 1:06:22) Now’s your chance to escape! (1:06:26) The baby Metroid will follow you.
So elaborate
I just finished the game (2h58 my record, just to watch the best ending 😁). Such a great gem, improving so much the first one.
This looks like a speedrun to me, had no idea you could take out 12 metroids in 20 mins, nice.
Just beat this game for the first time.. and didn't know about thr bomb trick for the boss.