Chat telling you how to wall jump takes away the ability to learn it from the little creatures that are supposed to teach it to you. It is a very sequence breaky first playthrough, but the sequence was made to be broken.
@@FandomEntanglement well.. In other games, Red Doors open with 1 missile.. Like.. Zero mission... And there is that Red Door from Prime that only opens with plasma beam.... So.. Yeah. He is new in the SM.
3:37:23 Falls into water more than once: Torment.... Suffering.... Torcher.....Pain.......Persistent Pain....... Agonizing Pain... 3:37:38 Falls again: Urge to kill rising!
And here we see the effects of backseating. Because somebody tipped him off about the walljumps early before finding the animals, after he got the grappling hook, he missed that the game was trying to teach him about how to use it. The same room and the room after that were meant to do that, instead he completed the grappling hook room by practicing walljumps and missed the grapple block, and same thing with the second room, he just jumped over the gap again not noticing the grapple block. Then on the third room where it's needed, he spent some time confused about what to do, until he realized that "oh wait, I have the grappling hook" and then some more time got spent on being confused about how to use it and fighting and screwing around with the controls.
There's something magical about a first timer's experience with Super Metroid. I wasn't able to play it back in my youth since I had a Genesis, so I ended up playing it via emulation about a decade ago. It still stunned me with its atmosphere, sense of isolation, and the glorious soundtrack. There's something about the Brinstar Overgrowth theme that blows me away to this day.
My dude...... I played it back in the day. I honestly don't remember if I ever beat it when I was (I think) 11 or 12. A few years later in my late teens I did beat it. But yeah...... the game is just amazing. Its why when you look at lists for the SNES. Super Metroid is within the top 10. Dare I say within the top 5? It's a game I have on multiple consoles and a game I do go back when I wanna play something from that era.
@@TheDarkLink7 Even as someone who had the rival system as a kid, Super Metroid and many other SNES games are part of my own personal pantheon of best games ever. Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Super Castlevania 4, Star Fox, etc. They're all up there alongside my Genesis favs like Phantasy Star 4, Streets of Rage 2, and Shinobi 3 just to name a few.
it's amazing after over 25 years, Max was 100% unspoiled about this game despite its placement in many "best game ever" lists over the decades. Watching him play for the first time ever with absolutely fresh eyes and figuring things out on his own was a delight from beginning to end.
I played and beat this game for the first time 2 years ago. Anything that I did know about this series was what ever was represented in Smash games. And yeah, this game holds up. I can only imagine how crazy popular this game was 25 years ago.
@@Whienzarth It was straight up legendary. Imagine an era where this game was the most cutting edge game ever. The term Metroidvania didn't even exist back then coz this game is, well, the first part of that term. There would literally not be any metroidvania without Super Metroid.
1:10:51 "Why is it that every time I try something it actually works? That's so weird." The brilliance of the level design/invisible guiding hand in Super Metroid explained in the form of a question from a new player. Goddamn I love Super Metroid so much.
yeah, this game has some 4D chess class level design, there is little to no tutorial* and your hability to find shit is limited to your curiosity. *As in MEGAMAN MEGAMAN!! type tutorial
The 5 missiles to open red door thing always catches new players of the game by surprise. I don't blame them. Back in the day that info was only in the manual (or learned from playing NES metroid). As perfectly designed as the game was, there are some aspects of the game that beginners aren't able to figure out on their own without additional help.
man i wish i could have gotten an snes classic but nintendo reeeeeally did not care about keeping up the stock of it, they made one wave after the first and that was it it seems
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi I have it and to be honest it isn't as good as people made you believe. I even added games from other systems. It's been collecting dust in some drawer somewhere.
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi the snes classic is just a shitty emulator inside a snes shell. It's completely pointless other then the snes controller shells and buttons from Nintendo. There's better snes emulators that don't charge you.
This is the fourth pillar that the SNES legacy was built upon. After Super Mario World, Link to the Past and Street Fighter II, this was the game that send people towards the SNES instead of the brilliant SEGA Mega Drive. Timeless Masterpiece.
i mean you're in 2021. this guy showing that he plays the original Game on the ORIGINAL hardware shows how in pristine condition his stuff is. basicly saying. his hardware is like 30 ish years old and still works like a charm. not many people can say the same thing. especialy with 30+ year old electronics. its indeed a MASSIVE flex move
2:31:32 Gets the Grappling Beam. Used wall jumps to escape room that gives him Grappling Beam. 2:33:03 Realized that he has Grappling Beam. I love ya, Max.
1:55:30 I wish no one told him about the wall jump. I actually leraned there was a wall jump when I copied what those little critters are doing. The same thing for super jump. Metroid is all about the environment. Backseaters removes what makes metroid a metroid.
I felt this too. I got really upset when the wall jump and shine spark were spoiled for him. Finding the etecoons and dachora and learning those moves is the one of best parts of this game.
The beauty of this game really comes out when someone is playing it for the first time. Great example is the high jump room. Goes in, gets e tank. Sees the geemer under samus. "oh, can I bomb down?" Great hint by the deer force. Gets down to the entry to the boot room. Tries to jump up to get missiles, but can't yet because he hasn't learned wall jump. Okay, have to go in this room then. Bam, boots. Already knows that the missiles exist up, leading him to go up instead of trying to go back the way he came in.
And some secrets he walks right by not knowing where how or what. Or how much trouble he had with the big plant boss who's name I forget that I've done no damage runs of because it's so easy to cheese.
This is possibly the most over rated and non sensical game in existence. Yall fanboys lose all braincells when talking about it, you forgive stuff in this game that if any of it were in another game you would bash it.
I remembered when the GBA Metroids came out, some fans don't like the way those games gives you hints on where to go, unlike in Super Metroid. I also remembered when I played Super Metroid the first time it took me the same amount of time on where I should go like Max. But I did die a bunch of times attempting to do a Hell run in Norfair without the Varia Suit and against Kraid. I didn't die against Bomb Torizo & Spore Spawn though.
"we're almost at the end chat" LMAO I had to do a double take and make sure I was actually 10 mins into the video and I didn't just space out for 3 hours
Seriously, the journey you're going through shows just how incredible the design of this game is. Without any sort of tutorial the game teaches you it's mechanics through it's level design. Your experience is all of ours: "What", "Huh", "Wait, what?", "I can do that?", "dude..." lol.
Looping back to the ship the first time I played it in the 90s was mindblowing, didn't experience that same feeling again until Dark Souls over 15 years later
I recently played through all the 2D titles 100% for the first time in preparation for Dread. Super is definitely the top, but I’ve gotta be honest it took some getting used to. Definitely a game you’ve got to spend a lot of time getting a feel for, and I envy those who grew up with it and thus had a good amount of time to take everything in.
agreed max might be our hidden gem for him to know how it is to play this gam efor the first time and watch his brain blow up when he learns the advance techs and then finds about randomizers
When I first played this I had no concept of the Chozos and they didn't explain who they were in-game. I thought the statues were just giant, fossilised chimpanzees. And the ones that came to life were impostor bird creatures.
I don't think that a lot of people did have any concept of the Chozo until Prime, Fusion, and the manga. Fusion fleshed the Chozo via the backstory in the manual, while Prime fleshed out the Chozo via in-game lore (with the lore in the European and Trilogy versions of Prime being treated as the canon versions), and the manga fleshed out the Chozo through the events that unfolded. Though the Japanese guidebook for Super Metroid did mention Samus as having been adopted by the Chozo, this wasn't expounded upon until the manga. There was also a non-canon Super Metroid comic in Nintendo Power Magazine, however. And it's worth noting that many characters introduced in it became canon immigrants via their inclusion in the manga, which was solidified to be canon thanks to Zero Mission.
@@LittleAl016 If not for Nintendo Power magazine, I wouldn't really have known about the Chozo. Even the scant mention in the SM manual really didn't say much about them at all.
@@orangeslash1667 I would probably say that DOOM is more influential. Just like like Super Metroid takes most of the credit in Metroidvania - Half Life 2 takes the DOOM Blueprint and charges that landscape of storytelling within gameplay. It's really hard to narrow down a top-three because of the way games influence each other. I'd say that both Doom and Metroid deserve to be there. Coming up with a third knowing of the countless others that deserve a spot is almost impossible for me.
@@Sticks_of_Truth Doom and Metroid have one thing in Common. The creators of both both games confirmed the the Aliens series was a very big inspiration.
@@orangeslash1667 I'm talking about gaming. It's no secret that Aliens is a huge influence on many classic games. Definitely in my top ten of best movies ever. If not top five, but that's another impossible list.
Super Metroid is one of those games that is best played in a dark room at night and alone then pair it with whatever nice set of headphones or speakers you have lying around to get the most out of its gaming experience. I mean just look how dimly lit some of the places there, you wanna enjoy that by setting the mood of your own place like that too.
8:10 - Arrival on Planet Zebes 11:57 - Morph Ball acquired 15:42 - _technically_ Max's first walljump (look closely) 19:41 - First "Metroidvania moment" (i.e. one-way path to the next upgrade) 21:56 - First death 25:43 - Torizo statue defeated 29:35 - First E-Tank acquired 47:10 - Spore Spawn defeated 49:30 - Charge Beam acquired 53:23 - "N00b bridge" defeated 55:45 - Norfair BURNS 1:00:49 - High Jump acquired 1:13:55 - Kraid defeated 1:40:20 - Speed Booster acquired 1:43:17 - Waxing poetic about the value of a blind Let's Play 1:44:04 - Second "Metroidvania Moment" (unlocking new path to a previous room) 1:57:25 - First (intentional) walljump 2:01:40 - First sequence break (Wave Beam acquired early) 2:07:02 - First Shinespark 2:08:48 - Famous last words? 2:11:05 - Crocomire defeated, first try 2:26:35 - Power Bombs acquired in Norfair 2:31:25 - Grapple Beam acquired 2:50:05 - Ice Beam acquired 3:14:24 - X-Ray visor acquired 3:16:17 - Accidentally pro walljump 3:19:24 - "First" Power Bombs acquired (in Lower Brinstar) 3:28:23 - an ode to the Grapple Beam 3:32:03 - Max's previous save was 12 minutes ago in a different zone 3:35:00 - Returned to Samus's ship 3:42:13 - Phantoon hates Super Missiles 3:46:44 - second Ode to the Grapple Beam 4:00:30 - Phantoon defeated
Dood!!! I have been following your channel for YEARS, HUGE fan, and I'm about 1000% sure that you can kick my ass in ANY fighting game. My first fighting games were Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter II, both on SNES, and been playing fighting games since, but I'm nowhere close to an expert like you are. With that been said, Super Metroid has been my ALL TIME FAVORITE GAME since I was about 12 years old around 1995 since I my parents got me that game. I used to play it all day. I can probably get about 99% items with my eyes closed. Watching you play this for the same time had so many amazing moments (and some cringe since right at the beginning you missed 2 missile upgrades and I wanted to tell you how many things you were missing or wasting time on), but it reminded me of how much I loved playing this as a kid, exploring every nook and cranny, wasting hours and hours trying to get items just to have to come back later once upgraded. I watched all 4 hours and I'm about to start part 2. This is seriously not something I thought I would watch on your channel. Thank you for this!!!
I’m sorry but towards the end the “urge to KILL RISING!!” Had me dying! The grappling hook is life. I’m glad you are playing this masterpiece before Dread. I hope you get to fusion.
Frfr I remember being a kid playing Fusion on my SP and finding that little crack in the save room somewhere in sector 4 I was literally punching the air bro I went bananas
You kids don't even know how earth shattering this game was for the time. The sounds, the atmosphere, a character that has some weight and nuance, the map style...
@@MinecraftMinersUnity I know that's true in the Prime games but I don't think its true in Super. I know canonically you have to freeze them when they are in their 1st form.
When phantoon does that flame wave after attacking him with a super missle, use your charge beam and hold the round and jump. It’ll allow you to pass through his flame waves creating a psudo screw attack.
The way u got Wave Beam and picking up the super bomb instead of getting it for the first time in it intial spot was genius. I never thought of getting it that way and I've been playing Super Metroid since it was out for Snes. I always learn something new in this game. I love your 1st reactions, cause I had the SAME ones back when
One thing I love about this play through is that despite not having “nostalgia goggles” for this game, Max’s still able to put his mind back into the 90’s to appreciate the detail that was insane for the time that most kids nowadays probably wouldn’t be able to appreciate. I first played the game in around 2014 when I was about ten-ish. While I loved the gameplay loop, I didn’t get most of that detail until years later and now it’s still me of my favorite games, despite being about a decade older than I am.
He didn't have to put his mind back into the 90's. It's still a superb game with fantastic art direction, amazing level design and controls that complement the game perfectly.
I mean games now still get this kind of style (probably inspired by this game), so it's not too hard to appreciate it. Not to mention it still plays great.
Everyone has there own preference for Super Metroid control schemes, but I think a necessity is ditching "Aim Down" and making sure "Item Cancel" is easily accessible (as in mapping it to any button besides Select). You won't have to worry about fiddling with item cycling like what happened here against Phantoon.
Seeing Max get himself out of a softlock with wall-jumps (2:23:29) let me know that even though he might muddle through & figure out how everything works, he'll be alright.
Upon watching this and re-thinking of my own playthrough of this game back in around 1995... I'm realizing especially now how _AMAZING_ the sound design in this game is. I know the SNES' sound chip was capable of surprisingly complex music and sound quality (well, for the time and in retrospect) but the more I think about it and make comparisons to other SNES games and the more I'm starting to believe that Super Metroid may well have the absolute best sound design in the entire SNES library. And by sound I don't even mean the soundtrack (which itself is incredible). I mean the various little blips and environmental ambient sounds of the various maps. The _atmosphere_ and the feeling of 'dread' in this game just coming off of the sound design alone is top notch. From the sound of the suit's Cannon, missiles, lasers, to the sound of the doors opening (about as memorable as the doors sounds in DOOM), to the footsteps to the super powers when they kick in, the enemies and sound cues when getting hit, to the eerie background atmosphere and unsettling bosses screams. It's just a marvel work of art. I think that Super Metroid is so good for being a 16-bit game that I would say that's the sort of a 2D game I imagine would have been made for the Sega Saturn or PS1 instead. It's really an outstanding game and probably represents the peak of 16-bit gaming. There's a lot of amazing games on the SNES (and Genesis as well) and I could easily think of Mega Man X, Link to the Past or Donkey Kong Country of course but... jeebus man Super Metroid does something so great it's almost unbelievable it was a Super Nintendo game.
That whole exchange in Norfair with the big room and the falling platforms had me yelling at my screen after he obtained the Power Bombs. But the reaction at 2:30:48 was so worth it XD (And don't worry. That was also me during multiple parts of the game. It feels like experiencing this for the first time watching Max play. Feels great!)
I have to agree with the controls on this game. Yes, I understand that speed runners can do some incredible things with this game, and I’m not saying the controls are bad. However, this game remade with Dread’s fluid controls and movement (and visual upgrade) would be the best upgrade ever.
I loved this game. The feeling of just this lone person on this planet, with unknown mysteries and secrets around any corner, and the music plays so well into this as well. Man, there's just so much to love about it
I was just teaching my friends little brother the ins and outs on this classic not too long ago. He had pretty much the same reactions Max had when he was playing it lol. Now he NEEDS to play Metroid Fusion next!
@@knox7945 Funny enough, had a friend that posted on Twitter saying, "Fusion is the worst of 2D Metroid" the other day. And they said they'd let M1 and M2 slide because of limitations... in which I had to remind them that there are hacks, playable on real hardware, that fix 99% of the jank of those games, and they even then still said Fusion was the worst. Like alright, it was linear as hell and enemies hit like trucks, still has a better overall design than most other metroidvanias despite its linearity.
No lie, there’s a certain point where you have to do a hit and run encounters with the SA-X at certain points and as my first metroid game, Fusion legit scared me from finishing it and had to get my friend to help me get past some of the points. Even as an adult those encounters still fucking make my skin crawl. Fusion will test Max.
@@TheDarkkilla12 Oh yeah, it took me awhile too to screw up the courage to get past each SA-X encounter my first play through. I’d still dread (pun unintended) doing it in subsequent play throughs, much like I dread doing the bottom of the well dungeon in Ocarina of Time due to THAT mini boss.
I just realized how incredible it is that power bombs are behind Crocomire. He didnt go get speed booster, then get ice, then get power bombs, then get grapple, then get wave. He got speed booster, then he got wave learning to wall jump and therefore sequence breaking, which gave him Crocomire access, who had power bombs behind him in high jump range so he could get grapple using speed booster. Almost as if they expected someone to reach Crocomire without power bombs. Was this intentional design, or another happy little accident from the design team?
Chat telling you how to wall jump takes away the ability to learn it from the little creatures that are supposed to teach it to you.
It is a very sequence breaky first playthrough, but the sequence was made to be broken.
people spoiling the wall jump should be ashamed, learning through animals is the best thing ever
When Max doesn't go left for the Morph Ball, that's when you know he really is new to Metroid.
That hurt me.
So that's the joke that Nintendo lady made during the dread demo. Something about going left first
Also thinking only 1 missile will open the red doors.
@@FandomEntanglement well.. In other games, Red Doors open with 1 missile.. Like.. Zero mission... And there is that Red Door from Prime that only opens with plasma beam.... So.. Yeah. He is new in the SM.
@@LOtLeal why....do...u....type...like...this?
3:37:23
Falls into water more than once: Torment.... Suffering.... Torcher.....Pain.......Persistent Pain....... Agonizing Pain...
3:37:38
Falls again: Urge to kill rising!
1:56:00 who tf spoiled about wall jump? goddamn it wasn't the time yet ffs
I'm no fan of back seating but it was cool to see a first timer sequence break!
John Lennon reincarnated playing SNES.
And here we see the effects of backseating. Because somebody tipped him off about the walljumps early before finding the animals, after he got the grappling hook, he missed that the game was trying to teach him about how to use it. The same room and the room after that were meant to do that, instead he completed the grappling hook room by practicing walljumps and missed the grapple block, and same thing with the second room, he just jumped over the gap again not noticing the grapple block. Then on the third room where it's needed, he spent some time confused about what to do, until he realized that "oh wait, I have the grappling hook" and then some more time got spent on being confused about how to use it and fighting and screwing around with the controls.
I agree I feel there was a lot of parts he was lost and the chat was telling him go back or what to do
Cry
@@BDSL Nah, why would I do such a thing when I can just leave you to do it instead?
Shaddap nerd
Back seaters should be executed and turn into fish food
Maximilian Dood sounds just like Jeff Goldblum
Subtitle: Max does absolutely EVERYTHING the absolute hardest possible way.
Cuz that's what chads do.
Except asking people how to do shit. :P
He sequence broke the game and got wave beam early
The longer I watch, the truer this statement becomes.
except bomb jumping
57:00 Max immediately intuiting and attempting to Mockball is probably my favorite part of this.
There's something magical about a first timer's experience with Super Metroid. I wasn't able to play it back in my youth since I had a Genesis, so I ended up playing it via emulation about a decade ago. It still stunned me with its atmosphere, sense of isolation, and the glorious soundtrack. There's something about the Brinstar Overgrowth theme that blows me away to this day.
I just recently played it on an emulation as well about a month ago and it was great.
That's it I'm playing it.
My dude...... I played it back in the day. I honestly don't remember if I ever beat it when I was (I think) 11 or 12. A few years later in my late teens I did beat it. But yeah...... the game is just amazing. Its why when you look at lists for the SNES. Super Metroid is within the top 10. Dare I say within the top 5? It's a game I have on multiple consoles and a game I do go back when I wanna play something from that era.
Plus like 27 years later it still looks damn good.
@@TheDarkLink7 Even as someone who had the rival system as a kid, Super Metroid and many other SNES games are part of my own personal pantheon of best games ever. Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Super Castlevania 4, Star Fox, etc. They're all up there alongside my Genesis favs like Phantasy Star 4, Streets of Rage 2, and Shinobi 3 just to name a few.
Super Metroid is one of the many examples on how 1994 is one of the best years for gaming.
it's amazing after over 25 years, Max was 100% unspoiled about this game despite its placement in many "best game ever" lists over the decades. Watching him play for the first time ever with absolutely fresh eyes and figuring things out on his own was a delight from beginning to end.
I played and beat this game for the first time 2 years ago. Anything that I did know about this series was what ever was represented in Smash games.
And yeah, this game holds up. I can only imagine how crazy popular this game was 25 years ago.
Yeah, wish I could go back and experience it for the first time on console again.
Oh, and hi Lance. Any new art in the works?
I mean there's not a lot to spoil per say...
@@Whienzarth It was straight up legendary. Imagine an era where this game was the most cutting edge game ever. The term Metroidvania didn't even exist back then coz this game is, well, the first part of that term. There would literally not be any metroidvania without Super Metroid.
@@shelbyherring92 always, been streaming them fairly often, catching up on owed stuff before I feel free to do my own stuff
@2:16:21 "Now I'm dead. Now I'm fuckin dead...No, I'm fine." 😁😁
I like how Max says "Planet Zeebs" and then looks knowingly at the chat as if daring them to correct him
Ha yeah Im like "Its not zeebs like in dweebs its Zebes like in the best" .
yeah everyone knows it Zebeth
What do you mean thats not how its said?
Schwarzenegger would say "Planet Zeebs" too if he played Super Metroid lol
@@Kaarl_Mills It's been officially pronounced "Zeb-ess" both by promotional material and in Other M.
Whose idea was it to tell max to explore the blue bits in norfair? When he clearly could've gone back to brinstar to progress. Jesus
1:10:51
"Why is it that every time I try something it actually works? That's so weird."
The brilliance of the level design/invisible guiding hand in Super Metroid explained in the form of a question from a new player. Goddamn I love Super Metroid so much.
yeah, this game has some 4D chess class level design, there is little to no tutorial* and your hability to find shit is limited to your curiosity.
*As in MEGAMAN MEGAMAN!! type tutorial
This playthrough is my ultimate comfort watch
First time reactions to crocomire's death are always 10/10
Maximilian Dood, Your videos always make me happy, so I subscribed!
I'm amazed how the game still look so good in my eyes. So many good memories.
Detailed sprites will always look good, no matter how old the game gets.
This game has aged like a fine wine
He did use an upscaler but looks great even without it
@@vincewilliamss it looks better than dread honestly
It's a supreme achievement of Nintendo. A tribute to their high standards...
I personally like having the controls mapped this way:
A=Jump
B=Shoot
X=Run
Here we go, boys. METROID FANS UNITE!!!
The 5 missiles to open red door thing always catches new players of the game by surprise. I don't blame them. Back in the day that info was only in the manual (or learned from playing NES metroid). As perfectly designed as the game was, there are some aspects of the game that beginners aren't able to figure out on their own without additional help.
little young gamer: What emulator your using?
Giga Chad Max: THE REAL LIFE EMULATOR, THAT EMULATES REAL LIFE
Little Young Gamer got rekt.
The only thing that could make it more authentic is if the console was connected to an actual CRT.
man i wish i could have gotten an snes classic but nintendo reeeeeally did not care about keeping up the stock of it, they made one wave after the first and that was it it seems
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi I have it and to be honest it isn't as good as people made you believe. I even added games from other systems. It's been collecting dust in some drawer somewhere.
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi the snes classic is just a shitty emulator inside a snes shell. It's completely pointless other then the snes controller shells and buttons from Nintendo. There's better snes emulators that don't charge you.
This is the fourth pillar that the SNES legacy was built upon. After Super Mario World, Link to the Past and Street Fighter II, this was the game that send people towards the SNES instead of the brilliant SEGA Mega Drive. Timeless Masterpiece.
Max slowly revealing the SNES controller is one hell of a flex.
i mean you're in 2021. this guy showing that he plays the original Game on the ORIGINAL hardware shows how in pristine condition his stuff is. basicly saying. his hardware is like 30 ish years old and still works like a charm. not many people can say the same thing. especialy with 30+ year old electronics.
its indeed a MASSIVE flex move
@@cherrydragon3120 is he not using the snes classic?
@@TyranBatten Nah, he's using the SNES *actual* classic lol
@@cherrydragon3120 this is fact. My NES barely works anymore, but it still works.
2:07:00 His First Shinespark.. God it's beautiful.
"Why is it every time I try something, it works?
Because genius game design, This game is an absolute masterpiece!
60% of the time, it works, every time.
As the chat backseat games the entire time
true
@@HonkeyKong54 😮😮megaman
2:31:32
Gets the Grappling Beam.
Used wall jumps to escape room that gives him Grappling Beam.
2:33:03
Realized that he has Grappling Beam.
I love ya, Max.
1:55:30 I wish no one told him about the wall jump. I actually leraned there was a wall jump when I copied what those little critters are doing. The same thing for super jump. Metroid is all about the environment. Backseaters removes what makes metroid a metroid.
I felt this too. I got really upset when the wall jump and shine spark were spoiled for him. Finding the etecoons and dachora and learning those moves is the one of best parts of this game.
100% with you on this one.
At least chat could of helped him with the phantoom fight. I beat it by rolling into a ball and to the edge of the room to dodge the swirly balls.
@@KiyokaMakibi You can also jump while charging your beam
@@july7498 I didn't know that when I first played it when I was growing up XD
The beauty of this game really comes out when someone is playing it for the first time. Great example is the high jump room. Goes in, gets e tank. Sees the geemer under samus. "oh, can I bomb down?" Great hint by the deer force. Gets down to the entry to the boot room. Tries to jump up to get missiles, but can't yet because he hasn't learned wall jump. Okay, have to go in this room then. Bam, boots. Already knows that the missiles exist up, leading him to go up instead of trying to go back the way he came in.
2:07:03 that's everyone's first reaction to shinespark. I love it.
It’s funny because back in the day the controls felt responsive because we didn’t know any better 😂
I love how natural his sheer confusion towards everything is. Just every “What” “How” and “huh” really gets me
And some secrets he walks right by not knowing where how or what. Or how much trouble he had with the big plant boss who's name I forget that I've done no damage runs of because it's so easy to cheese.
This is possibly the most over rated and non sensical game in existence. Yall fanboys lose all braincells when talking about it, you forgive stuff in this game that if any of it were in another game you would bash it.
@@jonathansoko1085 Yeah-huh. You're definitely 100% correct and not wrong in the slightest.
@@jonathansoko1085 Care to elaborate? I think you can make a very informative TH-cam video about it. Not making fun of you, just curious.
I remembered when the GBA Metroids came out, some fans don't like the way those games gives you hints on where to go, unlike in Super Metroid.
I also remembered when I played Super Metroid the first time it took me the same amount of time on where I should go like Max. But I did die a bunch of times attempting to do a Hell run in Norfair without the Varia Suit and against Kraid. I didn't die against Bomb Torizo & Spore Spawn though.
1:11:11 is the perfect gamer math
Full reload + big map room = Boss Fight
"we're almost at the end chat" LMAO I had to do a double take and make sure I was actually 10 mins into the video and I didn't just space out for 3 hours
.................I didn't know you could shoot Phantoon's fireballs. How did MAX teach me that when I've seen so many speedruns-
Seriously, the journey you're going through shows just how incredible the design of this game is. Without any sort of tutorial the game teaches you it's mechanics through it's level design. Your experience is all of ours: "What", "Huh", "Wait, what?", "I can do that?", "dude..." lol.
It's bizarre how entertaining it is to watch you experience games I grew up with for the first time. Thank you, Max.
Looping back to the ship the first time I played it in the 90s was mindblowing, didn't experience that same feeling again until Dark Souls over 15 years later
3:28:24 That Grappling hook song. I felt that.
I haven't seen someone who doesn't know what they're doing in this game since 2010 so this is fascinating.
I've never played but im waiting for that push
I recently played through all the 2D titles 100% for the first time in preparation for Dread. Super is definitely the top, but I’ve gotta be honest it took some getting used to. Definitely a game you’ve got to spend a lot of time getting a feel for, and I envy those who grew up with it and thus had a good amount of time to take everything in.
agreed max might be our hidden gem for him to know how it is to play this gam efor the first time and watch his brain blow up when he learns the advance techs and then finds about randomizers
DeeBeeGeek is also going through it blind
@@jamesmith1048 same here. Wish it was more easily playable and/or not locked behind a subscription.
Bomb Torizo opening a can of whoop-ass on newbies is always a delight.
I loved Max playing this game, but god damn his chat pisses me the fuck off with all the backseat gaming every 2 seconds.
The Grapling Hook song was very touching and relatable.
When I first played this I had no concept of the Chozos and they didn't explain who they were in-game. I thought the statues were just giant, fossilised chimpanzees. And the ones that came to life were impostor bird creatures.
I don't think that a lot of people did have any concept of the Chozo until Prime, Fusion, and the manga. Fusion fleshed the Chozo via the backstory in the manual, while Prime fleshed out the Chozo via in-game lore (with the lore in the European and Trilogy versions of Prime being treated as the canon versions), and the manga fleshed out the Chozo through the events that unfolded. Though the Japanese guidebook for Super Metroid did mention Samus as having been adopted by the Chozo, this wasn't expounded upon until the manga.
There was also a non-canon Super Metroid comic in Nintendo Power Magazine, however. And it's worth noting that many characters introduced in it became canon immigrants via their inclusion in the manga, which was solidified to be canon thanks to Zero Mission.
Fossilized chimpanzees was youre guess? Thats unironically hilarious
@@LittleAl016 If not for Nintendo Power magazine, I wouldn't really have known about the Chozo. Even the scant mention in the SM manual really didn't say much about them at all.
The only bad thing about this game is that you can only play it once for the first time.
Probably one of the top three most influential games of all time.
Doom may be more popular but Super Metroid came first.
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I would probably say that DOOM is more influential. Just like like Super Metroid takes most of the credit in Metroidvania - Half Life 2 takes the DOOM Blueprint and charges that landscape of storytelling within gameplay. It's really hard to narrow down a top-three because of the way games influence each other. I'd say that both Doom and Metroid deserve to be there. Coming up with a third knowing of the countless others that deserve a spot is almost impossible for me.
@@Sticks_of_Truth Doom and Metroid have one thing in Common. The creators of both both games confirmed the the Aliens series was a very big inspiration.
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I'm talking about gaming. It's no secret that Aliens is a huge influence on many classic games. Definitely in my top ten of best movies ever. If not top five, but that's another impossible list.
@@Sticks_of_Truth Theres actually a really underrated manga I recommend called(Samus and Joey) that is available on the Metroid data base.
Varia is not barrier. No translation error here. Just a name.
Actually that's exactly why it's called "varia" suit. It was a lost in translation thing by the Japanese who initially called it barrier suit. 😊
@@seriousbismuth2173 Shit, you're right 🤣🤣 Makes sense 🤣🤣
The gaming logic and playstyle of oldschool vs new Gen gamers is really interesting
Could you elaborate on that?
I find it annoying. Some things are so obvious and he cannot figure them out without being told by the chat.
"Give it to the scientists, they'll do nothing nefarious in their science fiction world!"
*laughs nervously in Metroid Fusion*
Super Metroid is one of those games that is best played in a dark room at night and alone then pair it with whatever nice set of headphones or speakers you have lying around to get the most out of its gaming experience. I mean just look how dimly lit some of the places there, you wanna enjoy that by setting the mood of your own place like that too.
God I love this soundtrack.
When Ripley appeared, I realized Max had 2 things inspired by Alien in front of him. Neat
Ridley, after Ridley Scott who directed Alien
@@meining-mech4378 Uhm no. Ripley, as in his daughter's name
@@MauZangetsu we’re talking about the Space Pirate dragon/pterodactyl boss yes? Maybe I’m confusing the context
@@meining-mech4378 What I meant was both his daughter's name and the game were 2 things inspired by Alien
Man why did chat have to spoil wall jump..at 1:55:45? Finding it out through the animals was such a cool thing back then..
8:10 - Arrival on Planet Zebes
11:57 - Morph Ball acquired
15:42 - _technically_ Max's first walljump (look closely)
19:41 - First "Metroidvania moment" (i.e. one-way path to the next upgrade)
21:56 - First death
25:43 - Torizo statue defeated
29:35 - First E-Tank acquired
47:10 - Spore Spawn defeated
49:30 - Charge Beam acquired
53:23 - "N00b bridge" defeated
55:45 - Norfair BURNS
1:00:49 - High Jump acquired
1:13:55 - Kraid defeated
1:40:20 - Speed Booster acquired
1:43:17 - Waxing poetic about the value of a blind Let's Play
1:44:04 - Second "Metroidvania Moment" (unlocking new path to a previous room)
1:57:25 - First (intentional) walljump
2:01:40 - First sequence break (Wave Beam acquired early)
2:07:02 - First Shinespark
2:08:48 - Famous last words?
2:11:05 - Crocomire defeated, first try
2:26:35 - Power Bombs acquired in Norfair
2:31:25 - Grapple Beam acquired
2:50:05 - Ice Beam acquired
3:14:24 - X-Ray visor acquired
3:16:17 - Accidentally pro walljump
3:19:24 - "First" Power Bombs acquired (in Lower Brinstar)
3:28:23 - an ode to the Grapple Beam
3:32:03 - Max's previous save was 12 minutes ago in a different zone
3:35:00 - Returned to Samus's ship
3:42:13 - Phantoon hates Super Missiles
3:46:44 - second Ode to the Grapple Beam
4:00:30 - Phantoon defeated
Thank you for this
Sweet, thanks for this and the other on part 2!
Was there a Crystal Flash moment anywhere? Would be awesome if he somehow discovered that, would want to watch his mind get BLOWN apart
@@MrLinkolin Nope. Chat filled him in on walljumps and shinespark, but among the secret techniques in Super Metroid that one is THE most secret.
My jaw dropped at the wave beam early part. I was so sure he wouldn’t do it, I thought he’s wasting his time. Proved me wrong! Lol.
Dood!!! I have been following your channel for YEARS, HUGE fan, and I'm about 1000% sure that you can kick my ass in ANY fighting game. My first fighting games were Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter II, both on SNES, and been playing fighting games since, but I'm nowhere close to an expert like you are.
With that been said, Super Metroid has been my ALL TIME FAVORITE GAME since I was about 12 years old around 1995 since I my parents got me that game. I used to play it all day. I can probably get about 99% items with my eyes closed. Watching you play this for the same time had so many amazing moments (and some cringe since right at the beginning you missed 2 missile upgrades and I wanted to tell you how many things you were missing or wasting time on), but it reminded me of how much I loved playing this as a kid, exploring every nook and cranny, wasting hours and hours trying to get items just to have to come back later once upgraded.
I watched all 4 hours and I'm about to start part 2. This is seriously not something I thought I would watch on your channel. Thank you for this!!!
This game has one of the most beautiful pixel art ever
Super Metroid's map and level design is glorious.
Somehow one of the moments I like the most is when Max is concentrating so hard on fighting Phantoon that he can't even speak.
This gameplay is so cosy I love it
"The Grappling Beam Sucks" in the Key of D was pretty amazing! 🤣🤣🤣
Played this since the 90s and the music still
🧐👌
This is not only the best Metroid game, it's probably the best game ever made.
True masterpiece.
I’m sorry but towards the end the “urge to KILL RISING!!” Had me dying! The grappling hook is life. I’m glad you are playing this masterpiece before Dread. I hope you get to fusion.
This is one of those games I will play 1, 10, 20, and 30 years from now... All time classic.
1:08:15 "save rooms generally don't have any secrets, don't waster your time" ...and then Fusion/ZM happened, hehe.
Frfr I remember being a kid playing Fusion on my SP and finding that little crack in the save room somewhere in sector 4
I was literally punching the air bro I went bananas
yeah.....i was running for the 100% first time in Fusion and that was a nightmare of three months.
Nintendo: "pulled a sneaky on 'ya"
@@Creammm69 That wasn't even a secret either it was required for progression. It took me forever to find that.
Tangentially related:
Took me forever to find that one in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance.
You kids don't even know how earth shattering this game was for the time. The sounds, the atmosphere, a character that has some weight and nuance, the map style...
You know if Samus had just broken the glass on the metroid container when Ridley was kidnapping it... Game would've been over right there.
But then there's a chance she'd hurt *The Baby*
@@Zappy_C Considering Samus Returns, trust me, *nope.*
@@Zappy_C Only thing that can hurt a Metroid is freezing.
@@MarginalSC Anything can hurt metroids, as you can kill them without any form of ice weaponry; metroids just have an extreme weakness to cold.
@@MinecraftMinersUnity I know that's true in the Prime games but I don't think its true in Super. I know canonically you have to freeze them when they are in their 1st form.
When phantoon does that flame wave after attacking him with a super missle, use your charge beam and hold the round and jump. It’ll allow you to pass through his flame waves creating a psudo screw attack.
"Man this game actually just got 3 times easier, there's not even any.."
**proceeds to get mauled by water plant**
17:24 "what emulator are you playing on?
Max: "what emulator? im playing the real thing."
2:11:08 - 2:11:55
I had a similar reaction when fighting this for the first time. It's such a good moment in the game.
1:20:43 Yes, Metroid Other M takes place directly after Super Metroid and before Metroid Fusion.
@3:26:47
Pause it there, see Max's reaction and facial expression. That's where he truly fell in love with this game. It's a very memorable zone.
The way u got Wave Beam and picking up the super bomb instead of getting it for the first time in it intial spot was genius. I never thought of getting it that way and I've been playing Super Metroid since it was out for Snes. I always learn something new in this game. I love your 1st reactions, cause I had the SAME ones back when
Already looking forward to the Metroid Dread stream Max!
Same here! Great to see him enjoy a classic like this blind playthroughs are hard to come by nowadays.
Did he even played Fusion? ... Doesnt make sense to play it then... just sayin...
Metroid dread finally gives me a reason to buy a switch.
@@venar4248 that’s a dumb though process
@@venar4248 You don't really need to have played Zero Mission, Samus Returns, Super Metroid, Other M and Fusion before playing Dread.
3:28:23 for the Grappling Hook Song
Also, laughing hysterically at the number of times Max falls into the lake outside of the Wrecked Ship XD
One thing I love about this play through is that despite not having “nostalgia goggles” for this game, Max’s still able to put his mind back into the 90’s to appreciate the detail that was insane for the time that most kids nowadays probably wouldn’t be able to appreciate.
I first played the game in around 2014 when I was about ten-ish. While I loved the gameplay loop, I didn’t get most of that detail until years later and now it’s still me of my favorite games, despite being about a decade older than I am.
I mean, to be fair, Max is kind of perpetually in the 80s/90s, so it's not that hard for him to put himself there.
It's not nostalgia, this game is still one of the best
He didn't have to put his mind back into the 90's. It's still a superb game with fantastic art direction, amazing level design and controls that complement the game perfectly.
jesus you are so young but I am happy that the younger generation /gen-z still enjoys a masterpiece like super metroid
I mean games now still get this kind of style (probably inspired by this game), so it's not too hard to appreciate it. Not to mention it still plays great.
Everyone has there own preference for Super Metroid control schemes, but I think a necessity is ditching "Aim Down" and making sure "Item Cancel" is easily accessible (as in mapping it to any button besides Select). You won't have to worry about fiddling with item cycling like what happened here against Phantoon.
Seeing Max get himself out of a softlock with wall-jumps (2:23:29) let me know that even though he might muddle through & figure out how everything works, he'll be alright.
B= Jump Y= Shot X=Item Select O= Run Select = Item Cancel always!
One of the best games ever made.
Super Metroid is a master piece and has the best introduction in video game history. The ending is also spectacular.
Upon watching this and re-thinking of my own playthrough of this game back in around 1995... I'm realizing especially now how _AMAZING_ the sound design in this game is.
I know the SNES' sound chip was capable of surprisingly complex music and sound quality (well, for the time and in retrospect) but the more I think about it and make comparisons to other SNES games and the more I'm starting to believe that Super Metroid may well have the absolute best sound design in the entire SNES library. And by sound I don't even mean the soundtrack (which itself is incredible). I mean the various little blips and environmental ambient sounds of the various maps. The _atmosphere_ and the feeling of 'dread' in this game just coming off of the sound design alone is top notch. From the sound of the suit's Cannon, missiles, lasers, to the sound of the doors opening (about as memorable as the doors sounds in DOOM), to the footsteps to the super powers when they kick in, the enemies and sound cues when getting hit, to the eerie background atmosphere and unsettling bosses screams. It's just a marvel work of art.
I think that Super Metroid is so good for being a 16-bit game that I would say that's the sort of a 2D game I imagine would have been made for the Sega Saturn or PS1 instead. It's really an outstanding game and probably represents the peak of 16-bit gaming. There's a lot of amazing games on the SNES (and Genesis as well) and I could easily think of Mega Man X, Link to the Past or Donkey Kong Country of course but... jeebus man Super Metroid does something so great it's almost unbelievable it was a Super Nintendo game.
The SNES has a really good sound chip
I mean this and other stuff like ki really are just still a good liste .
Super metroid is one of the best games of all time. Very iconic.
That whole exchange in Norfair with the big room and the falling platforms had me yelling at my screen after he obtained the Power Bombs. But the reaction at 2:30:48 was so worth it XD
(And don't worry. That was also me during multiple parts of the game. It feels like experiencing this for the first time watching Max play. Feels great!)
I have to agree with the controls on this game. Yes, I understand that speed runners can do some incredible things with this game, and I’m not saying the controls are bad. However, this game remade with Dread’s fluid controls and movement (and visual upgrade) would be the best upgrade ever.
I love Max taking the breaks to play with his kid. He is a truly loving father. So wholesome.
"why every time i try something it works?"
thats the beauty of super metroid Max
most of the stuff you think is there, is there
I loved this game. The feeling of just this lone person on this planet, with unknown mysteries and secrets around any corner, and the music plays so well into this as well. Man, there's just so much to love about it
The "dash" button is actually more like an "accelerate" button. When she gets up to max speed you can just let it go.
Didn't she slow down after you let go of the run button? It's been years since I played Super, so I don't remember.
@@blaedus5318 As long as you're holding forward you will never decelerate.
1:40:20 All I wanted was his reaction to the speed booster. The coolest item in all of 2D metroid
love that it's coming back in dread
NAH... the shine spark. took me forever to learn that back in middle school
@@NpausAsHawj tbf its not an item
I love that this game throws references to the Nes game. As if showing the huge jump back then
It's really fun watching someone that never played this having a go at it
I think people forget when this game came out, the graphics and controllers were perfect in the 90s.
I was just teaching my friends little brother the ins and outs on this classic not too long ago. He had pretty much the same reactions Max had when he was playing it lol. Now he NEEDS to play Metroid Fusion next!
Oh geeze, I hope he’s got strong nerves, the SA-X is scary as hell to deal with for first timers.
Fusion is one of the best next to Super
@@knox7945 Funny enough, had a friend that posted on Twitter saying, "Fusion is the worst of 2D Metroid" the other day.
And they said they'd let M1 and M2 slide because of limitations... in which I had to remind them that there are hacks, playable on real hardware, that fix 99% of the jank of those games, and they even then still said Fusion was the worst.
Like alright, it was linear as hell and enemies hit like trucks, still has a better overall design than most other metroidvanias despite its linearity.
No lie, there’s a certain point where you have to do a hit and run encounters with the SA-X at certain points and as my first metroid game, Fusion legit scared me from finishing it and had to get my friend to help me get past some of the points. Even as an adult those encounters still fucking make my skin crawl.
Fusion will test Max.
@@TheDarkkilla12 Oh yeah, it took me awhile too to screw up the courage to get past each SA-X encounter my first play through. I’d still dread (pun unintended) doing it in subsequent play throughs, much like I dread doing the bottom of the well dungeon in Ocarina of Time due to THAT mini boss.
I just realized how incredible it is that power bombs are behind Crocomire.
He didnt go get speed booster, then get ice, then get power bombs, then get grapple, then get wave. He got speed booster, then he got wave learning to wall jump and therefore sequence breaking, which gave him Crocomire access, who had power bombs behind him in high jump range so he could get grapple using speed booster. Almost as if they expected someone to reach Crocomire without power bombs.
Was this intentional design, or another happy little accident from the design team?
Wait that’s not the intended way to get power bombs?? That’s how I got them ever since I first played this game 20 years ago