I've been playing this yesterday/today (the line is blurred). They did a great job, feels like a Metroid game, alright, pain points and all. That feeling of 'where do I go next?', or game progression actually behind some hidden blocks you need to blow up (not just optional bonus items, like usually). Took me a while to find these. in Cataris I saw the two "hot" rooms and though I just had to come back later with a new suit, then they got me again in Dairon. I have to remember this is Metroid, I have to shoot every single brick in every room :D At least some of the previous games' pain points are somewhat alleviated by some welcome QoL improvements, such as the map system showing you doors and items you've found that you couldn't unlock or reach yet, each with its icon and label, really makes backtracking a LOT easier. Oh, and they know exactly what they're doing with the Morph Ball, the bastards! They keep teasing you at every corner with out of reach items :) The Emmis really give off an Alien: Isolation horror vibe, I like it. It's really tense when they're patrolling, and it's even more frantic when they start chasing you. Running off in a panic without paying attention to where you're going spells guaranteed doom. But hey, I've learned. Whenever I enter an E.M.M.I zone, I make sure to look at the map and trace an escape route if things get dicey, it usually works out. All in all, I'm enjoying this game. The platforming is smooth, Samus controls really well, never felt any death has been the game's fault. Combat is really good too, that counter system is really worth learning: you can defeat many enemies in one hit with it, even those "sumo bro" robots and the giant rock shotgun. The pacing and progression is, in my opinion, on point. If you're a fan of the Metroid games (or the Metroidvania genre), I really recommend this one.
I haven't finished watching the whole video yet (I'm at 1h30min), but I think you're not utilizing the melee counter/dash melee counter on normal enemies.
Love your content and loving this playthrough. The game looks great to me. I respectfully disagree with you about your issue with being lost here. Seeing as you'd just got the morph ball upgrade and used it to navigate that area a lot, chances were that morph ball gap was significant in some way. I was shocked you didn't try it straight away, especially as you're familiar with super metroid with its hidden paths! Edit: rewatch 2:15:55 and decide if you think it was easy to miss, lol
SUCH an easy thing to miss, especially for a mandatory progression route. if it was for some bonus item that's cool but given how super easy it was to not see that in an already big area with multiple dead-ends... i stand by my decision that it was whack lol
Fun fact - Games often have tips in load screens. And in Metroid Dread it literally tells you the specific answers to questions you had. TH-camrs are a different breed of stupid I’m telling you. IF YOU WANT TIPS READ THE GAME YOURE PLAYING.
I love how chat's just trolling like "you missed the EMMI parry you bad gamer listen to Adam next time" and then you go into the next room and Adam is like, if you get caught, there is a 99% chance of death
Not that you were told already at the first EMMI encounter that they hear you... Nah... whenever in an active EMMI zone it's crucial to stand still and shoot bullets in random directions as long as possible until the killerbot mysteriously finds you.
Your lack of Metroid experience was illuminating, which I must assume is the only reason for your disparaging remarks against Super Metroid ;p. Ya need to A) Stop letting what appears to be dead ends actually be dead ends. Gotta blow up all the walls and floors, especially when you see little boxes that seem to connect to nothing, there's always a way in. B) You're really not using counters very much, and those help tremendously. The smasher robots are just a counter shot away from dead, as are most bad guys in the game. Learn to look for those sparks right before they attack!
I think you were the fastest to parry one of the E.M.M.I.s for the first time! Damn bro- it seems like all the years of Mario kaizo experience payed off.
It’s funny. I think good gamers have a harder time with this. Or at least make it harder on themselves. The “pro” streamers I’ve watched tend to not read the text or recognize really obvious clues. More than any other I’ve played, this Metroid leads you through. It shows you exactly what to do if you just do what it says and trust it. Personally, I really like that, but people who are looking for a difficult time may be disappointed. Unless they just ignore everything and run around randomly.
This game is hard as balls, and possibly the hardest Metroid title so far, not sure what you mean by that. The difficulty escalate a lot after the X plot point.
Since I waited so long for this game to come out and I don't want anything spoiled, I'll have to watch after I beat the 3rd boss. Glad you played and streamed it!
2:05:05 Pretty sure you could have actually gotten that without going into the lava, look a bit further up and there's a "wall-exploding" section right behind that wall, all you had to do was shoot a charged shot at it I think. Edit: nevermind, you figured it out..
@@agdala1591 It was quite annoying when he seemed to forget that he has a counter ability that works against normal enemies too and it's extremely effective especially against the larger enemies like the ones shooting fire along the ground but I wouldn't say it wasn't fun.
Pro tip for EMMI? RUN, you can but are not supposed to counter them. It's faster and more reliable to get away. Just use your suroundings and your abilities to outrun the EMMIs. Works 9/10 times. You never need to explore a whole EMMI zone at once, you usually just have to go from the entrance to one or 2 specific exits, all other ways are usually blocked until later. So don't spend too much time with the EMMIs, not worth it, belive me! Another pro tip, READ the description for the power ups you get, they explain very good how they are used and what you can do, I don't get why people skip all the info and then wonder why they don't know about half the things ....
@@Silverslayed Are you talking about the emmi? You do know they have 4 different counter animations and the timing is slightly randomized each time. Essentially its mostly luck, and no ones gonna get it 100% of the time.
@@airplanefood3576 No I’m talking about the robots with piston arms that flash every attack and do that AOE blast attack. EMMIs are not meant to be countered regularly
Hey can you let us know if you plan to keep streaming this? I'm dying to watch more, preferably from you, but if this was a one and done I'll watch some others
I laughed the first 4 times Ryu called that place diarrhea. But the fifth time, right when he got there, made me laugh hard and loud. At midnight. Outside on my porch. Going to piss off the neighbors. Can't be saying diarrhea like 5 times. Way too funny. 🤣
hahah a very obvious and well-paragraphed nook to roll into is cryptic? I think it's more cryptic that you don't observe the obvious details in the environment and kinda rush through it.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: If the only Chozo that can control the Metroids is dead now, how does this not be as big a monkey wrench in the galaxy conquering plan as the extinction of the Metroids? Even IF the Chozos can bring them back with the DNA in Samus, they no longer have a means of controlling the Metroids. This whole fiasco went up in smoke the moment the old Chozo got shot in the back!!!
Nope not cryptic. Random two blocks that can be morph balled into? You spent so much time in other dead ends and none in the dead end that was actually the right way.
Why'd you take a jab at Super Metroid? That game still holds up *Today* and is the perfect example of Good Game design and a shining example for the series as a whole.. Never talk shit about Super Metroid 🤨
The game is designed like this! It will give you a power up and you look for places to use that power up in your immediate area. That is the pathing the developers want you to go. That is my navigation tip
I know they are called Metroidvanias but Metroid was the first games in this series class. So symphony of the night copied mostly Metroid and also Metroid did the you lost all your gear stuff first, js
Idk man... something about the way you talk.. I have been trying to master it, but I CAN'T. I keep watching your videos hoping someday I'll understand how you speak so clearly and weirdly. But not today!
This game takes significantly less skill than Super Metroid... no wonder you like it more n00b. Just kidding. It’s fun but it’s definitely not as good as Super Metroid, in my opinion.
i went through a range of emotions when this game was announced, first excited cause i love metroid, then bummed cause i dont have a switch, and now disappointed that they took a great franchise and screwed it by making it a keep away chase game....
I agree it doesn't look that good but it's on the Switch. It's easily worth the $60 price tag. You can't place the value of a video game on the graphics alone.
@@ericrodriguez990 Idk. Maybe I just value my 60 more than you. I can't just give money to these companies because they come out with something new. It's got to feel, look, and be a new generation game. I can appreciate seeing another Metroid game, but its easily not worth the full price tag when it looks like a GameCube Era game. Just my opinion.
@@shubhamraj25 Since when is the value of a video game based on graphics alone? Bear in mind that Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time. Graphics alone don't make or break the game.
This game is very difficult to figure out once you get farther along 😬🤫🤐🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😠😡😤🧐🙄😒😰🤮🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤯🤯🤯🥵🥵😵😵😵😵😵🤓🤓🤓🙏🤝 those are my emotions while playing this game!
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Ryu: *misses the tutorial due to button mashing*
Ryu: "no, i didn't miss the tutorial"
she understands chozo because she was raised by them and all the tech she uses is chozo made
Shares their DNA too
That’s also why she can interface with all the tech here through her gun
This is like watching somebody push on a door for 3 straight fucking hours because they refuse to read where it says PULL!
*screams at screen* FOLLOW THE GLOWING ORANGE PIPES, FOR THE LOVE OF THE OLD GODS, FOLLOW THE PIPES!
I've been playing this yesterday/today (the line is blurred). They did a great job, feels like a Metroid game, alright, pain points and all. That feeling of 'where do I go next?', or game progression actually behind some hidden blocks you need to blow up (not just optional bonus items, like usually). Took me a while to find these. in Cataris I saw the two "hot" rooms and though I just had to come back later with a new suit, then they got me again in Dairon. I have to remember this is Metroid, I have to shoot every single brick in every room :D
At least some of the previous games' pain points are somewhat alleviated by some welcome QoL improvements, such as the map system showing you doors and items you've found that you couldn't unlock or reach yet, each with its icon and label, really makes backtracking a LOT easier. Oh, and they know exactly what they're doing with the Morph Ball, the bastards! They keep teasing you at every corner with out of reach items :)
The Emmis really give off an Alien: Isolation horror vibe, I like it. It's really tense when they're patrolling, and it's even more frantic when they start chasing you. Running off in a panic without paying attention to where you're going spells guaranteed doom. But hey, I've learned. Whenever I enter an E.M.M.I zone, I make sure to look at the map and trace an escape route if things get dicey, it usually works out.
All in all, I'm enjoying this game. The platforming is smooth, Samus controls really well, never felt any death has been the game's fault. Combat is really good too, that counter system is really worth learning: you can defeat many enemies in one hit with it, even those "sumo bro" robots and the giant rock shotgun. The pacing and progression is, in my opinion, on point. If you're a fan of the Metroid games (or the Metroidvania genre), I really recommend this one.
The "where do I go next" point isn't a pain point for me. It's like half the fun! Old comment I know.
What's QoL, Quality of Life?
Looking forward to see more of it, the platforming seems to get pretty fun with all the upgrades piling up-
I haven't finished watching the whole video yet (I'm at 1h30min), but I think you're not utilizing the melee counter/dash melee counter on normal enemies.
That mysterious planet with technology that works with Samus’s powersuit are related. Her powersuit was made by the same alien race, the Chozo.
Lol she IS *Chozo* 🤣
Watching you run from the Emmi was great 😂
It took me forever to find that second boss I was so mad when I seen ryu go right to it lmao
BRO SAME! I WALKED RIGHT PAST KRAID MULTIPLE TIMES!!!
Love your content and loving this playthrough. The game looks great to me.
I respectfully disagree with you about your issue with being lost here. Seeing as you'd just got the morph ball upgrade and used it to navigate that area a lot, chances were that morph ball gap was significant in some way. I was shocked you didn't try it straight away, especially as you're familiar with super metroid with its hidden paths!
Edit: rewatch 2:15:55 and decide if you think it was easy to miss, lol
SUCH an easy thing to miss, especially for a mandatory progression route. if it was for some bonus item that's cool but given how super easy it was to not see that in an already big area with multiple dead-ends... i stand by my decision that it was whack lol
@@ryukahr do you mean it was easy to think it was nothing or do you mean you think it's hard to even notice it?
@@ryukahr have you ever played a Metroid game before? 😂😂
Nah cmon it was super obvious, it killed me when I saw him not even trying
@@ryukahr bruh
Very fun to watch! PLEASE use your missiles though! 😂👌🏼
“I need the pro tips” *lets 20+ TIPS ABOUT THE GAME PASS IN THE LOADSCREEN WITHOUT READING A WORD*
Fun fact - Games often have tips in load screens. And in Metroid Dread it literally tells you the specific answers to questions you had. TH-camrs are a different breed of stupid I’m telling you. IF YOU WANT TIPS READ THE GAME YOURE PLAYING.
Who is Adam? Oh ryu....
I’m Adam
@@5outof10 Hi adam!
Let the boy be blissfully ignorant. Don't even mention that Other metroid game. >.>
Don’t forget you have missiles lol
Thanks for uploading to TH-cam! Looking forward to more gameplay of DREAD from you.
Press X to counter, or dash while doing so counts as an attack. 1:24:26-1:24:31 1/4 energy tank.
E.M.M.I countering is all about being attentive to the hand and the eye of it.
I love how chat's just trolling like "you missed the EMMI parry you bad gamer listen to Adam next time" and then you go into the next room and Adam is like, if you get caught, there is a 99% chance of death
Not that you were told already at the first EMMI encounter that they hear you...
Nah... whenever in an active EMMI zone it's crucial to stand still and shoot bullets in random directions as long as possible until the killerbot mysteriously finds you.
Your lack of Metroid experience was illuminating, which I must assume is the only reason for your disparaging remarks against Super Metroid ;p. Ya need to A) Stop letting what appears to be dead ends actually be dead ends. Gotta blow up all the walls and floors, especially when you see little boxes that seem to connect to nothing, there's always a way in. B) You're really not using counters very much, and those help tremendously. The smasher robots are just a counter shot away from dead, as are most bad guys in the game. Learn to look for those sparks right before they attack!
Pretty wild that the time frame between the NES Metroid and GBA Fusion was just over 15 years. And then from GBA Fusion to Dread is 19 years...
I love how he just refuses to counter lol
Elevator pitch to Nintendo: "Metroid Maker"
Imagine being in a space suit and asking “can I breath underwater?”
Ryu: "gotta go to diarrhea land"
great line. it cracked me up
I think you were the fastest to parry one of the E.M.M.I.s for the first time! Damn bro- it seems like all the years of Mario kaizo experience payed off.
❤ this so much helping me through tough times thank you
Ryu you are a godsend you helped me find the grapple beam
Ryu you really should remember to do melee counters, it makes the enemies so much easier.
He really beat the 1st boss without countering once 😱 Ryu my man!!! Please tell me you learn how to counter later on D:
About an hour and a half in and he’s still on doing it 🤷🏽♂️
@tsppm yeah it's crazy XD I was spamming counter every chance I could. Ryu is like NAH
I liked the They Might be giants jingle. "Spider Sam, Spider Sam".
When you got the speed boost you ran past an Energy tank above the first obstacle.
It’s funny. I think good gamers have a harder time with this. Or at least make it harder on themselves. The “pro” streamers I’ve watched tend to not read the text or recognize really obvious clues. More than any other I’ve played, this Metroid leads you through. It shows you exactly what to do if you just do what it says and trust it. Personally, I really like that, but people who are looking for a difficult time may be disappointed. Unless they just ignore everything and run around randomly.
This game is hard as balls, and possibly the hardest Metroid title so far, not sure what you mean by that. The difficulty escalate a lot after the X plot point.
Yeah the speeding mentality makes gamers like him miss stuff ESPECIALLY IF YOUVE NEVER PLAYED THE PREVIOUS!
37:08 the David Jaffe room
I am totally not a Metroid fan, but i loved watching every minute. Thx Ryu.
Why not??? Omg 🤣
Watching after having "La cena de Noche Buena" with family. Happy Holidays everyone
Since I waited so long for this game to come out and I don't want anything spoiled, I'll have to watch after I beat the 3rd boss. Glad you played and streamed it!
2:05:05 Pretty sure you could have actually gotten that without going into the lava, look a bit further up and there's a "wall-exploding" section right behind that wall, all you had to do was shoot a charged shot at it I think.
Edit: nevermind, you figured it out..
yeah its not really fun watching him play this lol half of the time he made me angry
@@agdala1591 It was quite annoying when he seemed to forget that he has a counter ability that works against normal enemies too and it's extremely effective especially against the larger enemies like the ones shooting fire along the ground but I wouldn't say it wasn't fun.
Pro tip for EMMI? RUN, you can but are not supposed to counter them. It's faster and more reliable to get away. Just use your suroundings and your abilities to outrun the EMMIs. Works 9/10 times. You never need to explore a whole EMMI zone at once, you usually just have to go from the entrance to one or 2 specific exits, all other ways are usually blocked until later. So don't spend too much time with the EMMIs, not worth it, belive me!
Another pro tip, READ the description for the power ups you get, they explain very good how they are used and what you can do, I don't get why people skip all the info and then wonder why they don't know about half the things ....
Love virtual as you circle love from your wathers. Ryu is a good man and we all know the love he gives we give back
Try the earthworm Jim remaster.
Does Ryu know he doesnt have to "buster only" this game?
Nice bro..keep playing
Dat game is dope!
The Pleb asks for more !
Thank you for making me feel MUCH better about my own playthrough. :))
Why do none of the lets players ive watched know how to identify a counter opportunity? Its driving me crazy
Same! When he kept running from the robot enemies that are simple counters I was going nuts.
@@Silverslayed Are you talking about the emmi? You do know they have 4 different counter animations and the timing is slightly randomized each time. Essentially its mostly luck, and no ones gonna get it 100% of the time.
@@airplanefood3576 No I’m talking about the robots with piston arms that flash every attack and do that AOE blast attack. EMMIs are not meant to be countered regularly
Hey can you let us know if you plan to keep streaming this? I'm dying to watch more, preferably from you, but if this was a one and done I'll watch some others
streaming it more soon fo sho
I laughed the first 4 times Ryu called that place diarrhea. But the fifth time, right when he got there, made me laugh hard and loud. At midnight. Outside on my porch. Going to piss off the neighbors. Can't be saying diarrhea like 5 times. Way too funny. 🤣
I just finished this game so I can watch and not be spoiled!
Way better than the remaster
I feel like this is the next Super Mario Odyssey of Metroid.
EMMI can sense your fear.
Play Metroid Fusion next!!! You will understand the story more with Metroid Dread 🤙🏼
Do you have a super metroid stream i can watch?
Even now, at least half of this game has probably be transcribed into Mario Maker levels.
To access ducts and small gaps you have to become small Samus... No, wrong game.
get your Omega Blaster now!!! It only depletes when you hit one specific entity in one specific spot! 🎉🎉🎉
hahah a very obvious and well-paragraphed nook to roll into is cryptic?
I think it's more cryptic that you don't observe the obvious details in the environment and kinda rush through it.
3:32:10 Probably still have to take them out with omega beams, or they will return later I bet.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: If the only Chozo that can control the Metroids is dead now, how does this not be as big a monkey wrench in the galaxy conquering plan as the extinction of the Metroids? Even IF the Chozos can bring them back with the DNA in Samus, they no longer have a means of controlling the Metroids. This whole fiasco went up in smoke the moment the old Chozo got shot in the back!!!
They aren't all dead though.. its still up in the air where the rest of the Thoha Chozo are at.
Nope not cryptic. Random two blocks that can be morph balled into? You spent so much time in other dead ends and none in the dead end that was actually the right way.
Why'd you take a jab at Super Metroid? That game still holds up *Today* and is the perfect example of Good Game design and a shining example for the series as a whole..
Never talk shit about Super Metroid 🤨
Yeah, Ryu sure has some L takes from somebody who is a self proclaimed hardcore gamer.
amazing
Amazing game
1:30:30 I'd enjoy a playthrough of blasphemous. it's a delightfully fucked up game.
The game is designed like this! It will give you a power up and you look for places to use that power up in your immediate area. That is the pathing the developers want you to go. That is my navigation tip
Ryu, i only have to wait until thursday and then i can get this game for myself. what are you playing this on? Switch? Ps4? are the controls good?
It seems like Ryu developed tourette's for this video :)
Always been a fan but it looks weird like it has a filter on it
I was in the comments of the last video the whole time…
…Whoops……
F'n A for Jacob
I know they are called Metroidvanias but Metroid was the first games in this series class. So symphony of the night copied mostly Metroid and also Metroid did the you lost all your gear stuff first, js
#RyuCantParry
Why are you my favorite youtuber? I can't answer it....
She spoke?
"This game is better than Super Metroid". Doesn't recognize Kraid. Very authoritative source.
Kraid really doesn’t need to skip cleaning that bellybutton on wash days…. UGHHHH
It's like Nintendo can never redesign her helmet and torso, lol. Cool that they finally have voice acting, though.
Did he not want to play the game or something? WTF is up with the commentary, super annoying.
Idk man... something about the way you talk.. I have been trying to master it, but I CAN'T. I keep watching your videos hoping someday I'll understand how you speak so clearly and weirdly. But not today!
This game takes significantly less skill than Super Metroid... no wonder you like it more n00b. Just kidding. It’s fun but it’s definitely not as good as Super Metroid, in my opinion.
So glad I didn't buy this game! Those emmis are beyond stupid omg!
I get that this is more like the original metroid.
But I grew up with the Prime games, and this looks like a downgrade to me.
The prime games and the 2d games are 2 separate metroid series. Not even the same story. I have a place in my heart for both prime and main series
Man 2d is the main series, prime games take place between metroid 1 and metroid 2, just give it a try
this is the worst metroid game i've played so far. way too linear.
i went through a range of emotions when this game was announced, first excited cause i love metroid, then bummed cause i dont have a switch, and now disappointed that they took a great franchise and screwed it by making it a keep away chase game....
Why does it look like GameCube graphics? Straight up feels like a 2D version of Metroid Prime. And they're charging a full 60 for it huh. Rough. :(
I agree it doesn't look that good but it's on the Switch. It's easily worth the $60 price tag. You can't place the value of a video game on the graphics alone.
@@ericrodriguez990 it's definitely not worth $60
The worst thing is not the graphics but the terrible art direction not matter how good resolution and textures it would still look super bland
@@Tristan-mv6lc a true King has entered the chat
@@ericrodriguez990 Idk. Maybe I just value my 60 more than you. I can't just give money to these companies because they come out with something new. It's got to feel, look, and be a new generation game. I can appreciate seeing another Metroid game, but its easily not worth the full price tag when it looks like a GameCube Era game. Just my opinion.
That's hands down the WORST samus' default power suit so far and her overall design.
Enemies suck so hard, too.
Stop x saying God's name in vain please
is it just me or does this game not look very fun to play
If its not your kind of game of course you wouldnt enjoy play it/watching it
But the game graphics looks so bad
@@shubhamraj25 Since when is the value of a video game based on graphics alone? Bear in mind that Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time. Graphics alone don't make or break the game.
It definitely is really fun to play.
It's fine if your standards are pretty low. It just sucks when people praise mediocrity as a masterpiece so devs only make more of the same.
This game is very difficult to figure out once you get farther along 😬🤫🤐🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😠😡😤🧐🙄😒😰🤮🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤯🤯🤯🥵🥵😵😵😵😵😵🤓🤓🤓🙏🤝 those are my emotions while playing this game!