"Stories Retold" - Metroid Prime
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- ABOUT "STORIES RETOLD"
This series is not a retrospective or a review, it is a retelling of the story itself. It is also being done from the perspective of someone playing through the games for the first time beginning with Metroid Prime 1. No info or knowledge from a wiki, comics or other games come in until the end - this is a chronological retelling of the story, its lore and overall experience from beginning to end.
Metroid Prime. One of the (if not THE) most iconic games for Nintendo GameCube, always in the top 5 of greatest releases for the console and my personal favorite. But why is Metroid Prime such a great game? In this new series, I will cover Metroid Prime 1 and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes, covering its story and design.
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PART 1: Metroid Prime's story
When I picked up this game for the first time as a 9 year old kid, I was immediately in love. The exploring, the adventure, and yes, the story. Although many of the dark details of this multifaceted story was lost on my young eyes and young mind. Now as an adult, I look back on just how dark and gritty this story truly is yet is presented inside the package of a gorgeous adventure game.
This video will be presented through the eyes of my first play through as a 9 year old but through my perspective as an adult almost 20 years later. Its format will be a retelling / reliving of the story with occasional analysis and commentary.
Stay tuned for more Metroid Prime coverage.
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My favorite, and probably the most common favorite logbook entry, is the one where Space Pirates are attempting to reverse engineer Chozo tech to mimic Samus's morph ball. It has rather... disfiguring results lmao.
Now that would be a good Dev Art post if someone could be the visionary behind bringing that logbook to life 😂
Hahahahaha omg i finished it today (after a while) and i found this entry too :D :D that reminds me of the scene from iron man 2 where "Justin Hammer Industries" tried to mimic the MARK Suit from Tony Stark :D the upper body half turns around about 180° :D poor guy :D :D
I remember that one. The way they described it made them sound super salty too
YOOOOO I completely forgot about that one, it’s golden.
One of my favourites is the parasite one I think, where it describes how they compensate for their lack of intelligence with heightened aggression. Reminded me of twitter for some reason.
The bait and switch with The Great Poison is a super underrated aspect of Metroid Prime's story that I never hear anyone talk about.
Yes!! That's really here it all started with me going deeper into the lore!
Great vid. Looking forward to you metroid prime 2 and 3 vids.
that was done beautifully ... you should continue with echos.
It's finally coming out may 28
@@zerospeed1498 Really??? It???
Good narration! One thing, though: Samus doesn’t just want to stop the Space Pirates. She wants to annihilate them. They were responsible for the deaths of her human family and the severe culling of her adoptive Chozo family. They’re so afraid of her for that reason.
Thank you for pointing that out! There's a lot of context that I've left out of my videos as a huge part of my experience is the fact that Metroid Prime was the first game in the series that I played and really wanted to start there. But this makes the story even more dark and beautiful!
I think in both cases it was Ridley but I'm not sure if they fear her before or after Metroid/Metroid zero but in prime 1-3 they were really afraid of her which lead to the beam and omega pirat I think
I forget a lot of the time that motherly samus is also a bloodthirsty murderer
This was also my first Metroid game. It blew me away. I just remember being captivated by the environment. Even though I didn't know much about the story (and probably skipped through a lot of it because I was 9), I just had a sense of something being totally off about everything. There were signs of life, statues, buildings, etc. But where was everybody? The space pirates didn't seem to fit the mold of the native species. I just had a sense of having *just* missed something devastating.
You and I had probably the exact same culmination of feelings! That's around the age of my first playthrough. I think that beauty and disonance (coupled with nostalgia) is what brought me back to this game as an adult and ultimately led to the Stories Retold passion project. I love hearing everyone else's experiences too!
Now that the gorgeous remaster of this game has released on Switch, I think a remaster of this Stories Retold for MP1 would be awesome 😄
The soundtrack of the Prime games still gives me chills
This is HIGHLEY underrated.
Such a great video I loved how you talked through your journey it made the video so interesting I also played this game as a kid but did not know about the whole story behind the planet and chozo
Thank you everyone for the amazing feedback and support. "Part II The Design" is now up!
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is now in the works! Hop in the Discord for updates:
discord.gg/FE2BpHD
thank you,man we have alot of commons with this,probably the most surprising and awesome was when ya said "and listen to the best song in the game" referring to the Tallon Overworld Frigate crash site....all i could do was nod my head while smiling and say "damn right" thnx again for this video...idk why but this game has rooted itself in my mind and heart and i love everything about it down to the smallest detail🔥🔥🔥👏🤘😝🤘🐐
@@jamierowe_ It's forever in mine too! Maybe it's the mix of quality and nostalgia which makes for such replayability... if that's a word. And I actually love that song so much that over a decade ago I did a little remix just for fun. I wish I had that save file so I could make it sound so much better with the music knowledge I have now but I still enjoy it.
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Fun fact: this version of the story is actually VERY VERY different from the later versions of the game that would be released
(this version is known as the NTSC version). The PAL version (including the version in the Metroid Prime trilogy) has an alternate story to the initial American released versions. Although both stories are very interesting in their own right. they are both technically canonical since the outcome of the plots are the same and don't heavily affect the future games in the timeline of the plot. Very excellent definitely subscribing btw! But also I have a number of other minor corrections and interesting things to tell you! The fight with Meta-Ridley seems kind of underwhelming in how it's portrayed here, with context Ridley murdered Samus Aran's human parents and then not long after, her Chozo caretakers who had raised her. Also, something to note is that the Metroid Prime is NOT the meteor, after playing Metroid Prime 3 it can be discerned that the meteor is actually a leviathan seed originating from the home planet of Phazon, the living planet known as Phaaze. It can be deduced that the Metroid Prime is the product of a Phazon Metroid absorbing the Phazon Core inside of the leviathan seed and becoming "The Worm". This makes sense because the Metroids may have already come in contact with the planet when the Chozo lived upon it, as they are the Metroid species creators. Although maybe you had described it in this way on purpose? If so I applaud you for doing so, because that makes the surprise of learning Phazons true origins more impactful. This has to be one of my favorite Metroid videos now, the delivery on some of those lines are VERY POWERFUL.
I would say Metroid prime 3 would redcon the meteor to a Leviathan but yes I like how the tried to put all Metroid game in one timeline. I think Metroid prime 1-3 is set after Metroid/Zero mission and before Metroid 2/Samus returns
My biggest question at this point, that I don't think is answered yet is... If Phazon Metroids are stated in Corruption to be Metroids that have been exposed to Phazon, but Phazon in Prime 1 kills Metroids immediately, how could the mutation take place? Small enough dosages could cause it, I suppose, but by Corruption, Phazon is pretty much everywhere, so it would have to be done in a laboratory of some kind...
Even with Dread complicating matters a little, I like to think that a Metroid on Phaaze was contained within a Leviathan seed and sent out to Tallon IV. There's a tiny window where this is possible using Dread lore, but still possible so that the NTSC lore is true. As for it simultaneously escaping and being contained within the crater: It's "spirit form" (like that of the Chozo Ghosts) could exit containment while the essence remained within. An additional stretch, for sure, but that's what head-canon is about eh?
"They'd have invincible army powered by the souls of their enemies"
*in my head hears Ermac*
"We are many. You are one."
What a masterpiece of a video. Played this game for the first time at 30 and watching this only got me hyped to start Metroid Prime 2. Thanks a lot!
is it okay to say the phazon mines scared me
Yes. The phazon mines scared all of us.
Phazon mines had me only playing the game DURING daylight!
Considering that was the developers’ intent, I’d say absolutely; that’s how you know the game nailed its atmosphere
I went to explore the crashed ship first before getting the Gravity Boots. But I still managed to avoid getting trapped by the Gravity Trap.
The original Metroid on the NES in the late 1980s was the first video game with an ending that I completed. I had played all the games and was familiar with the larger story when Metroid Prime 1 came out... so it hit especially hard for me when I came into the game knowing that it followed immediately after Metroid 1 and the derelict frigate was one of the Space Pirate vessels that fled Zebes, with Samus in pursuit.
That is so cool!! Since Metroid Prime was my first exposure to the series and to date have only played Metroid Prime and Echoes, Orphean was my introduction to Samus!
@@TW33NSW4GGaming It hit totally different going into it knowing who and what the Space Pirates, Meta-Ridley, and the Chozo were to Samus, but like you said one of the great things about Prime is how the writing works for both vets and newcomers. It's really interesting seeing how it presented all of these mysteries to you.
i love this video because it makes me see that im not the only one nerding hardcore over everything metroid prime 1. i mean this game is, ive always said it, top 2 of my favourite games of all time
It's waaaaaay up there for me too, top 3 without a doubt. And you're definitely not the only one nerding out on it 😎
And here I am brand new to the series, currently 80% through echoes, and already I'm convinced this is my 2nd favorite series of all time right after Half Life
The algorithm doing you dirty. This is awesome I wish the lore of prime was something touched on more frequently. nicely done
Ive played this Game over 20 times never gets boring or old. Such a beautiful masterpiece.
best content on youtube in a long while friend ! looking forward to see MP2 !!!much love from sweden
Thank you so much! I'm really looking forward to the next video. Cheers from the USA!
Loved it! Metroid Prime is my passion but I've never really read the lore or understood the story. Thanks for the good video; it's well formatted and very well written.
this is good. my Prime Tested Stress Disorder is triggered “we climb this elevator” and.....game crashes.”
Amazing video! Made me re-live this game after so many years! It was a nice fresh reminder about the lore and space pirate data. Thanks! 👍
Thank you for watching Jasper! I'm so glad that these videos help preserve the great story that they wrote for us!
@@TW33NSW4GGaming no thank you! Can’t wait for prime 2 part 2! Must have been a lot of effort to put this together
@@jasperl180 It is a lot of effort! But well worth it (time permitting 😊)
Ive played through this game more times than I can count since its release, watched so many speedruns and even take part in the randomizer community stuff for it. I appreciated the design, texturing, story etc etc to a great degree but it slowly just became me loving the actual mechanics of the game along with the environments it takes place in. This video, however, really opened my eyes to what a truly special experience this game is. Its art. The story is incredible, the plot is thrilling, the art is perfect, the environments are stunning and so immersive, the upgrades are rewarding, the difficulty level is fantastic and I could go on. Its what games should be, not just an interactive movie with famous voice actors and quick-time events. This is full immersion. Above all of it, I cant believe it came out in 2002! You really did it justice with this video. Well done, seriously. This has got to be one of the only times ive sat for an hour and done absolutely nothing but watch. You should be proud of yourself!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I absolutely can identify with being so we'll engrained in something you love that you sort of get lost in it. I've felt similarly about things in my personal life! Sometimes taking that step back and falling in love again like we did at first is what we need! That's exactly what happened to me when I ran through the game again in 2018 and decided to make this video.
I play so many games and so many genres, it's hard to have a top 5 list or an all the favorite since that's so dependant on context. But when considering what you listed, Metroid Prime is right there at the top for me.
By the way I've watched the Metroid Prime speedruns from afar and am dumbfounded!! I'm the mod for the Battlefield 2: Modern Combat speedrun.com so I can appreciate a cult following of speedrunners. Ours is small but I know the Metroid Prime community has a sizeable speedrunning community. I love seeing the drive to explore more on the mechanic end, map design and fine tuning performance.
@@TW33NSW4GGaming You are so welcome. I can tell the game not only means a lot to you, but you really put a part of you into this video. Im just like you, I cant make a definite list of my favourite games of all time, all I know is Metroid Prime is no1. Its funny, I dont actually speedrun anything. I never have and probably never will, yet I absolutely adore watching so many of the runs of not only my favourite games but also any that play interestingly. Like you said, its almost an extra level of appreciation for a game. Its so cool to see that you're in that world though. I dont know if you have heard of the Metroid Prime Randomiser, but seriously, check out some of the races for it on SpeedGaming's youtube channel. I literally have watched them all, yet ive never actually done one or spoken to anyone in that community. You might find it exciting!
Simply amazing as I’m doing a play through of all the Metroid games in order that I can play currently. You really caught the image of the story through narration and I love it
Going back to replay this game made me realize that I taught myself how to read through video games. I was able to read the intro text and understand it all (except for roman numerals) when I was four years old. When I realized this and told my parents, apparently I had learned how to read yes and no at 3 from sitting in my dad's lap and watching him play games, and just taking in what the yes and no buttons would do on whatever game he would be playing, but I don't remember any of that at all. Planet stuff I remember was super easy to understand because I nerded out on that stuff hard as hell as a kid, I had a book about the solar system and memorized them in preschool.
Really wish they'd actually make a proper PC port for the games, or a proper PC port for MP4. You CAN'T tell me there isn't a market for it.
Oh, and I completed the game at 8 with an 82% which I was proud of. the Impact Crater area with fission metroids scared the shit out of me because of how difficult they were to me, and that fear still sticks with me to this day, it's not as hard as when I was 8, but it still freaked me out like I was 8.
That's so awesome!!! I feel similarly to Paper Mario for N64 but I love this story! Amazing the power the video games actually have to be a positive force for humanity. Thank you for sharing this and I'm so glad that this happened over a game like Metroid Prime! I think there definitely is a market for it, with all the technology that we have I think it's definitely more than possible, more of a question of allocating resources. But maybe one day we'll get it!
Haven't gotten far enough into the final battle with Metroid Prime so I'm not sure if he mentions this little detail but it's one of my favorites: One of my absolute favorite bits of lore is where it's told of when the Pirates discovered Prime in it's cavern and tried to tame it as a weapon of their own by equipping it with Chozo tech. Through it's rapid power growth, their experiments got out of their hands and it ended up killing any pirate who were assigned to work with it, and it inadvertently absorbed all the tech that they were trying to equip which is how it's able to do things like launch missiles and use the wave beam and things. That's one thing I love about this game - A detail like that makes absolutely no difference to the gameplay of the battle, and it doesn't give you any particular advantage in reading it, but it does give Prime a backstory for those who have the interest and patience to read through the countless screens throughout the mines and and research facilities.
One thing I'm curious about, though, is of all weapons it has available to it, the tractor beam is the only one Prime has but Samus doesn't get throughout the game. I wonder if the developers wrote in this as an option early on, and maybe swapped it out with the Plazma beam at some point?
Oh wow I never thought about that, maybe that was something entirely unique to Prime. In the first phase, Prime resembles almost like a massive spider, perhaps the tractor beam acts like a spinner's web of energy being Prime's unique weapon of capturing prey?
Just recently played through this game for the 2nd time after watching this video. Man, the way that the story is revealed through the background and optional scanning is fantastic!
My thoughts exactly! A game that could be played through as an action/adventure without knowing any of the lore or a game that could be read like a well written book! So glad you got to play through it again. Thoughts on the Mass Effect game in development?
@@TW33NSW4GGaming Yeah it was very fun getting to re-play the Metroid Prime Trilogy again, getting into more of the lore. I even created a fan-fiction series of logs about my playthrough of the games, told from Samus herself! Replaying these games and writing that story has been such a great pleasure!
Oh, and I think the new Mass Effect will be really fun. I have a feeling it'll be set in the Milky Way, but with Andromeda's open world gameplay!
I always get goosebumps when the chozo temples statues eyes glow red after u defeat ridley and you hear that normally beautiful choir take on a far more sinister tone, as if the Chozo's rage manifested at that point
Awesome video. Brought back so many memories. Thank you
Took me a while to find this by chance, I love your narration it’s really well placed throughout the video and well paced overall ♥️♥️🧐
This is the prophecy I’ve been transcribed so long ago
Great video! It was great to revisit an all time favorite. Love the way you chose to tell the story.
How does this guy have less than 200 subs and have this quality of content?
From what I understand, from the comics or non-game lore of Metroid, Samus was actually raised by the Chozo, on some planet, so these Chozo would probably know of her
That's wild to think about! That would make the emotional ending of her overlooking the temple even more significant!
" ... covered in chiseled stones, ancient tech, and lots and lots of sand ... sorry Anakin"
*hit subscribe frenetically*
but really, awesome vid, it still made me realize things I didn't see in one of my favorites games ever, keep up the good work, eager to see your work on Echoes and Corruption !
Great video! Good job. I’ve always loved the way this game presents its story.
What he said. Truly mesmerizing explanation.
Wow this video is a gem. I hope it blows up someday, thanks for your work :)
This video is about to blow up since the remaster
I can look back at several times when I see a spike in views and it definitely helps having Metroid Prime news!! We have an awesome community around this game.
Still wish there were a "crater escape sequence," the timer at the end of prime 2 ALMOST scratched the escape immediately sequence itch.
They teased us with the pirate frigate orpheon.
In the room meta Ridley was on the space station there was stuff to scan about Ridley . He was remade from parts that was blown up on zebes..after the planet blown up .
Gotta love Samus. Responds to a distress call, then immediately proceeds to kill everything on the ship on sight and cause it to crash onto the nearest planet.
(Paraphrasing what actually happens, but it's more fun out of context)
So true 🤣
Fantastic work on a game I've played through dozens of times and spent many, many hundreds of hours sequence breaking, glitching and speedrunning - definitely my favourite game! It's crazy how (let's say: "relatively") unaware I'd always stayed of the story. I appreciate the many great details and I especially loved your dissecting of "missions accomplished (or not)" at the end!
The same could be said of me and really what motivated this video. I've played through it so many times yet missed so many key underpins! Thank you for watching!
XIII is 13 not 8, but other than that this was a very very solid presentation. Good job~
Thank you! It's come up before but it appears my lack of Roman Numeral skill is rather obvious 🤣
Man I really hope you continue the series! This was do so great. Please keep it up!
I will! Life is crazy right now but I promise that the series will continue 💪
phenomenal video! loved every minute of it
Wow, this is a brilliant video. Extremely well-made, I could tell a lot of love and passion went into making this. Well done
Thank you so much!! A lot of love and a lot of memories growing up with this beautiful game 😊
This was excellent. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Great video and amazing story telling/recapping. I had started playing the game a while ago and had nearly finished it but then stopped. Now, months after, I continued the game and finished it but forgot most of the game's lore, so I wanted to get that refreshed, and I am really glad I found this video. Not only was this recapped very well, but it was also entertaining and very clear!
Thank you so much for letting me know! Im so glad this series is serving multiple purposes. Once my work editing load is lighter (after October/November) I should be able to get back and get Part 2 done. Thank you for watching!
Such a brilliant video. Best story recap of any game I’ve ever seen. It’s basically an immersive walkthrough experiencing the game as if you’re the player. Well done my man! Definitely gonna watch Echoes and eagerly await Corruption so I can relive these amazing games (given that I unfortunately don’t have the means to replay them)!
Thank you SO much! I am really looking forward to future videos on Echoes and Corruption! Things are a bit on pause while I am in limbo with some housing, currently my office is all boxed up 😬
I started looking up Metroid stuff out of nostalgia, thanks for this video and you’ve earned a subscriber!
Thank you friend!! So glad you're along for the journey! My speed of creating content has slowed way down with a very busy year but I'm planning a stream for mid December and some time to work on Echoes Part 2 after the holidays. Cheers!
even I first played, when I saw the planets and it had sr388 or zebes, I forget which... I was shocked, 1st time playing. also, I loved the magmoor caverns. brought back one of my favorite songs, and it was just as harsh playing lol. ptsd!
The Magmoor PTSD is R.E.A.L.
Can’t believe you skimmed past my favorite part of the game (which everyone else seems to hate lol): The Chozo Artifacts! To me, it was like a final lap through the world and I loved it
I love your “Stories Retold” series. Very different from anyone else’s content out there. Love this channel. 😀😎
Thank you very much! I love a good story and some of my favorite games are my favorite stories I've heard. That's where the inspiration came for this series. I'm so glad you enjoy them! I'll be continuing the series as time permits. Cheers!
After watching this amazing and well made video I cant understand why you have only 800 subscribes! Anyway, Metroid Prime is my all time favorite game. Back at the time when I first play it the storyline was far from my sight, the game mechanics and all the lonely feeling got me. Again, amazing achievement. Keep it up.
Thank you so much!
This is an incredible video thank you
So I never played any of these. Ever since I got the switch I’ve been in love, only playing my Nintendo switch. I can’t wait to try out prime 4
I highly recommend to start The prime series with 1, 2 and then The 3rd one before 4 comes out. I re-bought The Nintendo GameCube and Wii just for this series tho. You will not be dissapointed.
Download Dolphin emulator and play 1 and 2 in 4K! That's what I'm doing right now :)
This was such a well made video, you deserve more than 112 subs dude
Great video! I always love to hear when people analize and dissect one of my favourite games of all time. One little nitpick, however, would be about Metroid Prime itself. If i'm not mistaken, the pirate data you narrated, about encountering the creature in a cave and it assimilating pirate weaponry is on the NTSC version, which was later retconned in favour of the PAL version. Either way, it doesn't change much in the great scheme of things. Very excited for that Prime 2 video.
Thank you so much! This has definitely come up before actually, a few times in the Discord as well. I think the writing meant for the Pirates to have discovered Prime and possibly get some kind of vague understanding, but definitely the detail of their tests in the log would not have been possible with the Chozo containing it in the crater depths. It is totally in the character of the Pirates to have done such a thing, but just not practically possible. It definitely shows that they were trying to, since some of the keys are in their possession; perhaps they were trying to gain access to do more tests. Super interesting!
@@TW33NSW4GGaming The origin of Prime has always been a bit hazy. How could a Metroid have slipped past the Cipher? Did the original metroid come from the Chozo themselves, as they are the creators of the creature, or did it escape from the pirates? It's always fun to try and theorize it, and I do believe the 3rd game can lend some leads on the matter. But yes, the pirates seemed to be vaguely aware of something growing inside the impact crater, that much is sure.
*EDIT* Deleted some details from MP3 since I did not know you have yet to play it, apologies.
The Chozo are birds and the Space Pirates are bugs.
Bro i almost shit myself when i saw how low your view and subcount is. this is literally one of the best videos on metroid prime i have seen.
Haha thank you! I'm trying hard not to watch the other videos out there to keep my thoughts purely personal. Once I get everything out that I plan, I want to dive deep into what other people have to say too!
You are great man! I dont think the story could be explained in a better fashion! I am impatiently waiting on your 2 Echoes mini series!
Thank you so much!!! Just one big super fan over here =) I'm really hoping to give Echoes justice, I know it's an anticipated one, so I'm taking some extra time on it!
Metroid will always have a special place in my heart. My firsr game ever.
SO happy i came across this 💜 need that metroid luv
Amazing video, dude! Your analysis was fantastic! I only got into Metroid about 2 years ago, and I've loved every single game. Metroid Prime was such a challenge for me the first time-- I remember finally beating the Omega Pirate with only 4 energy points remaining, and the Chozo ghosts' music honestly still freaks me out. XD
The Scan Visor and lore are two of my favorite things about the entire Prime Trilogy, and I loved learning about Tallon IV's story through the Chozo, and all of the Space Pirate logs. The bit about the Morph Ball experiments still cracks me up! I also remember reading the first mention of Metroid Prime in their logs and feeling both curious and nervous that there was a creature with the game's name.
Anyway, I hope you keep up with this channel! Your work is thorough and wonderfully detailed, and it's awesome how much attention you pay to the story! Best of luck!
Thank you so much! I love that you jumped in so late only to enjoy it just as much! That's what happened to me and Mass Effect. Those boss fights are no joke, I've had some seriously close calls, especially after unlocking hard mode for Prime 😎 I was so proud of killing the Spider Guardian in one shot for the Echoes video, I'm so stoked to be working on it!
This is a masterpiece. Amazing. Subscribed friend.
An excellent video. I am happy to have stumbled upon this.
Amazing video, love to know any detail surrounding this game/series
And I'm sure there's plenty I left out or missed! This series is surprisingly filled with so much!
incredible video. Prime is an incredible science fiction mystery. Especially since a player could potentially miss that a mystery is even happening!
So true! I love the way you put it. I missed it all together my first time through until the end cinematic!
Thanks for this men, thanks!
Thank you for this! I finally played through the trilogy for the first time, but I had a hard time understanding the story of the first one especially since so much focus was on backtracking lol.
The stuff about Metroid Prime being encountered creates a huge plot hole since it got out of the impact crater that the space pirates couldn't get into, then got back into this supposedly impenetrable crater. Later versions of the game changed the logs to fix this plot-hole.
Good job man, found out through my friend
Defo gonna watch part 2
Great video! And I’m sure it’s been pointed out already, but something very important to the lore of this series is that Samus is one of the final, living legacies of the Chozo. She was raised by them after her family was killed my Ridley and so things take an even darker turn if you consider Samus is walking through the decaying ruins of her people and uncovering a piece of their story she was until now unaware of. And it also becomes clear why she is able to find so many upgrades that are compatible with her suit and why some of the puzzles cater to her abilities so well. It’s almost as if the spirits of the chozo recognize that one of their own has returned to breathe new hope into their tragic fate
Thank you! Yes this has been brought up and I'm so glad it has! I love the layers of her story in Prime, both if you know the previous context from the other games or not. It keeps going deeper! Thank you for the comment
I know I'm a year late but what an amazing video! I'm sure this took a long time and was at times a pain in the butt to make, but you pulled it off beautifully. Great job, man!
Thank you! I'm excited you're waiting for Echoes too! It is so much fun to make these videos, but you're right it is a lot of work! We're streaming tomorrow at 7pm PST to update everyone on the progress for the Echoes videos if you want to join. Thank you for watching!
I hope you read this and pin it because I have to mention this:
Timestamp: 33:29
Space Pirate Log Entry 11.156.9 - that Log entry has been retconned from the Metroid Prime story - the log has been changed in the trilogy version of the game.
I don't exactly know what the log was replaced with - however, the reason the log entry was changed was that it implied that the space pirates where able to enter the impact crater (something that they spent the entire game trying to do) found Metroid Prime (which was cocooned deep in the Leviathan Seed) - document it, pacify it to an extent and leave the impact crater while still trying to find a way to access it.
That's interesting, I never knew that! I will say that unless there was some kind of result where the Space Pirates pacified or found says to control Metroid Prime, I always thought it was kind of strange that the Space Pirates discovered it, yet never entered the crater. I tried to make sense of that when writing the script but couldn't quite connect the dots. Thanks for posting.
It was actually changed in the Pal/player's Choice versions, That is one the many changes those versions have in addition to bug fixes.
How do you have under a thousand subs? The quality is insane, keep it up!
Well made video. Great explanation.
Wow man I gotta tell ya... that was amazing! You nailed it 👏
I am seareosly impressed im subscribing!
Thank you so much! I had so much fun making it. Echoes is on the way!
You should do one of these videos for each of the prime games including prime 4 whenever that comes out
Just hear to give my thanks , just finished Prime 1 and got the story for the most part . But with your thoughts and explaining it made more sense .Very impressive video! Dread was my first Metroid, now in playing Prime Trilogy back to back , I’m hooked!
Thank you so much! What a great entry to the franchise. I haven't even been able to play it yet since I don't have a Switch so I'll have to wait. You'll love Echoes too! I've played through Prime probably in the ballpark of 15 times and Echoes 5 or 6 but it is a seamless sequel.
awesome vid!
Not sure if you've seen her videos, but this series reminds me of The Lady of Lore, a storyteller reading video game stories like a children's book. Her stories on the legend of Zelda are some of my favorite versions. I highly recommend.
That's very cool, I love that idea! I actually have tried to not watch other creators in an attempt to not copy or borrow style or content. Just because there are so many great creators out there and I do this simply out of love for these games (I wish I had the time to devote to really building a channel) maybe some day!
@@TW33NSW4GGaming I respect your desire to be unique. Personally, I like to watch other creators to gain inspiration, but I try to put my own spin to make it my own. All the same, you did a great job and I look forward to you finishing Echoes & doing corruption.
@@Chiller31916 Thank you very much! I am so thankful for all of the comments from everyone, it really shows our appreciation for the series which truly deserves high praise. I am getting close to finishing part 2 so stay tuned!
Both of your videos on this game are amazing. I especially love your dramatic reading of that log entry at 36:48 - 38:05; your delivery, the cutscene of the tower being activated and rising up, the music (one of the best tracks in the game), and the actual message of the dying Chozo all combine really well. I honestly wouldn’t change a thing about how you make these videos, they turned out so well and I love how you approach the story, presentation, and themes of this incredible game. I got this for Christmas as a kid and it has always been a favorite of mine, but rarely seems to get thorough, in-depth analysis from people who actually seem to love the game (most retrospectives seem to respect it because of its reputation while also wanting to critique it, as opposed to connecting with it on a personal level and really seeing the game for what it is). I appreciate your approach to the lore as story-telling, since it’s easy for people to ignore it and say “there really isn’t much story.” A lot of games rely on lore to flesh out their world but use supplementary material like books or wiki articles when reading is required, and the Prime games do a good job of at least keeping that reading in-game and in-universe; it’s not the player going on a website to look up background info, it’s Samus herself reading from her personal research log after scanning something in her environment, and her learning the tragic history of the Chozo and of Tallon IV is its own little story...one that is quite optional if the player chooses to even engage with it.
Wow, thank you so much! I got this and my gamecube for Christmas as a kid too and I remember the first time playing through it so well! That compelling feeling of being lost in Chozo ruins, not exactly sure what was going on but slowly piecing together fragments from the Lore.
I really appreciate your perspective, I think we share a similar appreciation for the game, both from it's story within the story but also for the overall experience. And man this game hits hard! Honestly, for single player story games, Prime is at the top for me as far as holding the special place in my heart. I think Mass Effect may have my favorite story but Metroid Prime will always have that favored spot on the podium.
Thanks for your hard work! Thoroughly enjoyed this. I’m actually about to battle Thardus (a second time) on Dolphin in HD. If you haven’t yet, DO IT. Game pretty
Thank you! It's been a long time since I've had Dolphin working, I had it on an older computer. I'd love to do a playthrough on that though!
I'm an older gamer, was always a big fan of Metroid and Nintendo, and of course I actually got a cube before relenting on the PS2 to play FFX... but anyway, I of course adored this game, and one of my favorite gaming memories was getting the chance to show it to the son of my older cousin who was visiting while I was on break from college... Just a handful of days that we had but it was so fun, as a 20-ish year old, to introduce Metroid to a kid, I think he was around 9-10 or whatever, and watch him fall in love with everything about it. It was so much fun giving him tips or hints when he needed them but letting him do it himself as much as he could, which was really well (smart kid).
This video is so good!
The funny thing about the intro monologue you did before Samus's ship docked at the frigate was that originally there WAS a planned monologued intro. It was Samus recapping the events of the games up until that point.
Had my ass caught at the first few seconds of the video, amazing work friendo
i know this was posted two years ago, but i played the first metroid prime game like a million years ago, but never had the chance to play prime 2 or 3, until now! but i could barely remember what happened in the first game, but didnt feel like replaying it when i so deeply want to jump right into echoes having never been able to play it, so this is a great in depth recap!
I'm so glad this was able to purpose a recap for you! The story of Metroid Prime is a GREAT one, one to make sure we remember well. Cheers friend and happy gaming!
while samus didn't really "stop the space pirates" (as in they're whole orginiazation or group or whatever thehy call themselves). she did stop them from creating an army of omega pirates, which would've made the space pirates an unstoppable force.
Very true! I never really put that thought together. I wonder if that's what brought them to Aether.. 🤔
I wanna read the log book entry from the Pirate Scientist who figured out how to harvest energy from Metroids between Prime and Echoes. One thing I noticed on this playthrough was how they've suddenly figured out how to use Metroids as power sources in Agon Wastes
WOW! I’ve never realized the sunken frigate was the same ship from the opening!
recently replayed metroid 1 &2 and onto 3 atm 🥰
I don’t know how I forgot to sub to you after this video but I did now 💯💯💯💯 you deserve many many subs , great work , love to re visit this video
Amazing video
Wow good video man i love metroid prime is my favorite game i hope god that this great franchise not die
Great fking video and you deserve 1k subs 100%. Keep it up and keep up the great work
Thank you! Slowly but surely, there will be more work to come.
Great video dude, can't wait for the 2nd part discussing the gameplay. Btw hope prime 4 comes earlier than the next nintendo console lol
Thank you! I'm almost done with the script so hopefully I'll get to cracking on the edits soon! Man that's been my curse, so many of my favorite video games release new titles for consoles I don't have haha. I still get so much enjoyment out of what I currently have, I'm so late to buy up and upgrade.