0:23 Man, I am straight _obsessed_ with bizarre early-Samus artwork. I've never seen this one before and now I want it blown up to poster size and framed on my wall. Samus in intergalactic longjohns held together by red space rubberbands is my new favorite version of Samus.
It would be such a fun and interesting little nod if they were to implement that suit as a sort of 'extra' suit in one of the next games. I do not see that happening, mind you! Haha. Could you imagine, though?
@@MarkH Probably not a coincidence. Sentai shows were still popular going into the 80s. Samus's outfit having a superhero-show influence makes total sense.
Fun Fact: That arm cannon design with it being more forearm mounted was actually used in the first pass of Metroid 4/Fusion. It was why Samus could climb up ladders and use hand-over-hand grips on ceilings, however her design was changed to something more familiar, but the mechanic remained without explanation. Dread amends this by giving Samus a magnetic grip upgrade to climb specific walls without needing to alter her arm cannon.
@@juancgonzalez2102 I like how it's handled in the official manga. Just like how her suit forms around her, she can form her arm canon. So, when not in battle it's just her arm.
I’ve played all of them except for Pinball, Hunters, Other M and Federation Force. I’ve played Metroid 1 but not beaten it, because I got tired of grinding for health every time I died
I had my own experience like this with the Chrono Trigger series when I was younger. Though, in retrospect, it was far easier to track down a playable copy of Radical Dreamers than this. Bless our preservationists ♪~
@@thekiss2083 bruh really most of the series was sold on non dead consoles/ hand helds and most of those still sold far worse then titles that were put on "dead platform"
@@monarchsub8884 Exactly. There’s a lot of confirmation bias happening in the Metroid fanbase from people who don’t want to admit that the series simply doesn’t have mass market appeal.
@@lalehiandeity1649 This is why I'm more into indie games now. All the big companies trying for that "mass market appeal" is good for business, but it just makes everything mediocre and safe, like the movie industry nowadays.
I love Samus' design here, especially how her hand can separate from the arm cannon. It always felt to me like it would be really uncomfortable to not have use of your right hand in exchange for a weapon, I mean, it does look cool, but realistically it would be better to have a right hand with which you can hold a weapon. So the design here makes more sense and it also looks really cool with the wires connecting into her hand.
*EDITED* I've been told that the average Japanese citizen's dominant hand is their left hand (rather than their right like the U.S.). If that's true, that might have something to do with the arm cannon being on Samus's right arm.
@@mdalsted I did not know that, so I learn something today. But anyway, you would probably want your good hand to be the one with which you aim your gun, unless you are ambidextrous, which wouldn't surprise from Samus.
Well, she always had use of both her hands once the suit went away (seen at the end of most games). And they changed it in Other M so her suit comes out of her body and can be turned on and off at will...which was really dumb. But she still has use of her hands.
I remember finding out about this last year and was shocked at how little coverage there was. Glad this interesting game is getting its time in the spotlight
Kinda makes me wonder why that wasn't an option in Other M. That game was developed by the same people who made the 3D Ninja Gaiden games, for crying out loud, you'd think they could at least give Samus' Arm Cannon an Energy Blade augmentation; at least say it was an "experimental new technology being developed by the Federation who had reverse-engineered Samus' Chozo Tech" or something. :/
Are you sure about that?... ⚠️ Spoiler Warning ⚠️ The X Parasites have been a part of the series ever since the very beginning, yet somehow no one finds it odd that several easily identifiable life forms are consistently reemerging despite being destroyed by increasingly more destructive measures.., The fact is that the Space Pirates are the most loyal faction of the dark side of the Chozo, a group that unlike the Birds Samus knew never intended to just go quietly into the night despite being at the Apex of there species potential... There view was rather than being content with there own limitations as individual living beings and sharing everything that they learned to grow in new star children who might benefit from there ways, they where the only beings who where deserving of owning everything in existence... So they created the Ultimate Pirate, something that could take from who or whatever they wanted regardless of there own power... The X! The good faction of Chozo we know where horrified by this decision because through this one creation there brothers had effectively made the choice for them to take the universe for themselves rather than risking everything on the hope that others might follow in their ways, so they where basically forced to become like gods themselves and create living beings capable of defending the life of the galaxy from a threat of their own people's making!
How have I NEVER heard of this. This sounds like something right up my alley. I love everything Metroid. Even Other M has some redeeming qualities. This feels like a game I never got to play.
I don't know why, but the fact that 6 of the 8 endings involves Samus dying brutally and of the two where she doesn't die, 1 of them implies she's gonna die off screen, scares me a bit. She nearly dies more time in this one game than there are 2D Metroid games lol
Maybe the multiple deaths was a way to emphasize the brutal difficulty of the original Metroid game, where the average player would probably die a lot before getting to the “end”
@@tekwizwa Right. This is the gamebook version of "Nintendo hard," theoretically forcing people to play the game over and over until they'd absolutely mastered it, if they wanted to actually earn the good ending. Although I wonder how many people got frustrated and just read the good ending without playing, haha.
I never even heard of this until now, so it’s honestly really cool how a choose-your-own-adventure/tabletop game (inadvertently or otherwise) introduced plenty of elements that’d get introduced in future Metroid games. This feels almost as dope as when I first discovered the Metroid manga and saw this whole alternate storyline that was never explored in the games.
They'll make an origin Metroid game that details her childhood and she'll have that suit as a prototype version once the Chozo take her in. ...That's how I would like to see it, at least, lol.
@@nevermore7285 I personally think it's kinda funny they never went with the explanation that it could just come right off, and there was another power glove inside it. maybe the cannon could hook onto a back brace when not in use.
Oh wow, I was looking up metroid endings the other day and came across endings for something called Zebes Invasion Order. Glad you were able to do a video on this!
Trippy hearing the Metroid Database in this video. 20 years ago I was pretty active on their original message board speedrunning Metroid 2. Might have to pay that site a visit.
I was just just playing Fusion an hour ago in preparation for Dread and when the power goes out, and you crawl through the walls, there’s a tunnel with black creatures that crawl on all fours and have acid spit that drops down onto you from the ceiling. Definitely Xenomorph inspired.
"This Japan only game inspired most of the games in the series." "So anyway, it wasn't a game, it was a choose your own adventure book." Kinda like how 2048 was inspired by a TI-83.
Correct. Ignore the haters. The truth is that they used the implication of it being a video game in the title to get people to click on the video. Could've said book, or choose your own adventure book, but that wouldn't have gotten as much clicks.
Samu’s armour design in the Japanese version really has that amazing samurai style to it. It’s really interesting that Japan created this D&D style gameplay style to it. Where we role the dice each time they take turns to determine Samu’s faith and how it’ll conclude at the end of the game.
The topic itself is super fascinating, but the fact that Samus used a sword at some point is some really mindbending nonsense. Imagine if that piece of lore stuck around until today?
It would be incredible if we got a nod to it in a future game, like if Samus pulls a reverse Obi-wan on a boss in Prime 4. Pulls a space-metal sword off the wall of a space-ruin, uses it to strike the killing blow on a boss monster, and then as she stands before the corpse, gives the sword a couple of awkward swings before tossing it away as if to say, "not really my style..."
What matters here is the context. Even if it is for gameplay reasons Samus losses her upgrades, if not even all of her armor, regularly, and even if we dont include the Metroid manga as cannon, and as such the physical/combat training Chozo gave her, we know Samus had militar type training. I agree that regardless of context it sounds really weird, but if it was well written its not necessarily nonsense for her to use a sword to fight.
@@CamusHyuga She's been more of a demolitions and ballistics expert in the past, but with her penchant for gymnastics and melee counters in recent titles I could see her wielding cqc weaponry. Just not a basic metal sword.
Thank you so much for bringing this to everyone's attention! I actually just finished trying to stream this and I can confirm that it's not easy to get through! I made it past Kraid and then I kinda got stuck. I wholeheartedly recommend fans of the original Metroid to give it a try, though. The text version does a good job of replicating the experience of the original, right down to things like item placement and enemy behaviors. Really very well done.
I've only recently learned about this while brushing up my knowledge for Metroid Dread by reading the wiki. I was very surprised and I am glad more people get to know about it through this video.
Oh man, what an awesome find!! I absolutely LOVED all the old Mario and Zelda CYOA books in America way back when... I wonder why they never translated this to add to that series? Maybe it was just too dark/mature when the rest were marketed toward kids... but boy, I've NEVER known about this despite being a big Metroid fan my whole life. Gotta check it out!
I definitely recommend checking out Twinetroid then! It was a really cool way to experience the game (in the best way fans can these days) and it was how I studied the mechanics and story of the book for this video!
There was a mutant Metroid in the "Samus and Joey" manga, too! It was massive and could drain multiple life forms at once, and even broke up into hundreds of smaller mutants when it was destroyed! I would highly recommend that manga series for having one of the coolest depictions of Samus in the whole franchise, and it's on the Metroid Database site as well!
Wow, Metroid trivia I NEVER heard of! Something I doubt many people have, as well. Until now. Good job! But wow, what is up with Samus's double shoulder pads?
7:05 man, game commercials really were something else back in the day. They had actors, custom build sets and costumes. It’s like a little glimpse into an 80s movie that never got made. Really sells you the idea that this all is part of something bigger, less graspable. Such a shame game companies don’t do this anymore.
Having played Twinetroid, it is actually pretty good. The game does a good job of turning the secret room gimmick from the book into a videogame. Although what makes the game hard is that it does not tell you what your chances of winning a battle or regaining health or missiles are.
Funny, I leak a few images from this book to a Facebook Metroid group yesterday, and it gets a bunch of attention, and today this video comes out, before my scanner has a chance to finish compiling it into a PDF.
What shocked me most wasn't the half a dozen endings where Samus dies, but rather the fact she's depicted with black hair. I don't know whether I hate it or love it.
Also check out our video on The Cancelled Metroid Movie! th-cam.com/video/uJRmbfvFYrk/w-d-xo.html
@DidYouKnowGaming? - Another awesome episode of "Region Locked", guys.
you didn't swear in this video, did you ?
This video gave me an idea to make a fan OST for this if it was an actual videogame
EDIT: I did it, check it out
@@taoufiktorchanitaoufik6977 Why don't you find that out for yourself?
I hope illumination makes a metroid movie with Kristen Stewart as Samus and Gilbert Gottfried as Ridley
The guy who bought this and made it playable in the West is a fucking legend.
“An absolute legend” as Karl Jobst might say?
Or legends of legend, to coin a phrase?
Maybe he is a female?!!😳
Don't be ridiculous@@СталкерТравушка
@@СталкерТравушка I mean we literally see a picture of him in the video so no.
0:23 Man, I am straight _obsessed_ with bizarre early-Samus artwork. I've never seen this one before and now I want it blown up to poster size and framed on my wall. Samus in intergalactic longjohns held together by red space rubberbands is my new favorite version of Samus.
Isn't it cool?! I've actually seen a few people create custom 3DS themes based on some of the Zebes Invasion Order artwork
It would be such a fun and interesting little nod if they were to implement that suit as a sort of 'extra' suit in one of the next games. I do not see that happening, mind you! Haha. Could you imagine, though?
She looks like a Power Ranger lol
@@MarkH Probably not a coincidence. Sentai shows were still popular going into the 80s. Samus's outfit having a superhero-show influence makes total sense.
She also has a motorcycle helmet!
Fun Fact: That arm cannon design with it being more forearm mounted was actually used in the first pass of Metroid 4/Fusion. It was why Samus could climb up ladders and use hand-over-hand grips on ceilings, however her design was changed to something more familiar, but the mechanic remained without explanation.
Dread amends this by giving Samus a magnetic grip upgrade to climb specific walls without needing to alter her arm cannon.
Is there concept art of this?
I myself like the idea of the arm canon just disarming and transforming into a gauntlet
I did always find it weird. I just thought it worked because the arm cannon was gripping onto the bars via the hole.
@@juancgonzalez2102 I like how it's handled in the official manga. Just like how her suit forms around her, she can form her arm canon. So, when not in battle it's just her arm.
I think the idea is that the Fusion Suit is lightweight, allowing her to easily grab onto ledges without any other abilities like the Power Grip
And here I thought I played all the metroid games already smh
I’ve played all of them except for Pinball, Hunters, Other M and Federation Force. I’ve played Metroid 1 but not beaten it, because I got tired of grinding for health every time I died
"The last Metroid game has been completed. The gaming sphere is at peace..." ...OR SO YOU THOUGHT! *_[Theme of Super Metroid intensifies]_*
Fan translated Japan only titles aren't the only titles that don't come to the rest of the world.
@@GmodPlusWoW i heard that in my head as i read it. :P
I had my own experience like this with the Chrono Trigger series when I was younger. Though, in retrospect, it was far easier to track down a playable copy of Radical Dreamers than this. Bless our preservationists ♪~
That early manga design for Edit: (Zero Suit) Samus is… striking.
It just looks like someone put on a costume like it’s a low-budget tokusatsu show and I for one am 100% okay with that.
Yeah, it’s really a….. “interpretation.”
@@SicMetalMaggot4life Sorry, I meant her helmet-less design.
I can't imagine how such long hair doesn't get in the way of her face, but that's just how women appeared in 80s Japanese sci-fi titles.
Okay but Samus’ suit is fucking awesome in this book.
It reminds me of classic anime
I'd love to see it as an alt for Smash, or an alternate costume like the Fusion suit in Prime and Samus Returns
@@toanuva6178 Same. Tbh I actually like it better than the Varia suit.
Yeah the arm cannon actually makes her hand usable
would love if they reused it to make a new suit for a new game like how they reused the white suit concept form the cancelled ds og version of dread.
I’m glad Metroid is getting a chance again. Hopefully dread can bring it to a new level of popularity.
I really think it will. It's getting marketed and released on a non-dead platform which is better than most other Metroid games got
Pre ordered it, will come in like 8 days officialy.
@@thekiss2083 bruh really most of the series was sold on non dead consoles/ hand helds and most of those still sold far worse then titles that were put on "dead platform"
@@monarchsub8884 Exactly. There’s a lot of confirmation bias happening in the Metroid fanbase from people who don’t want to admit that the series simply doesn’t have mass market appeal.
@@lalehiandeity1649 This is why I'm more into indie games now. All the big companies trying for that "mass market appeal" is good for business, but it just makes everything mediocre and safe, like the movie industry nowadays.
I love Samus' design here, especially how her hand can separate from the arm cannon. It always felt to me like it would be really uncomfortable to not have use of your right hand in exchange for a weapon, I mean, it does look cool, but realistically it would be better to have a right hand with which you can hold a weapon. So the design here makes more sense and it also looks really cool with the wires connecting into her hand.
*EDITED*
I've been told that the average Japanese citizen's dominant hand is their left hand (rather than their right like the U.S.). If that's true, that might have something to do with the arm cannon being on Samus's right arm.
@@mdalsted I did not know that, so I learn something today. But anyway, you would probably want your good hand to be the one with which you aim your gun, unless you are ambidextrous, which wouldn't surprise from Samus.
I always thought she had lost her arm in combat, and it was replaced by the cannon xD
Well, she always had use of both her hands once the suit went away (seen at the end of most games). And they changed it in Other M so her suit comes out of her body and can be turned on and off at will...which was really dumb. But she still has use of her hands.
@@maxis2k her suit has always done that in the Canon, infact she did it in the beginning of Metroid prime 3
I remember finding out about this last year and was shocked at how little coverage there was. Glad this interesting game is getting its time in the spotlight
ngl, swordfighting Samus would be badass, going medieval on Ridley's space dragon hiney.
dude I haven't heard anyone use the word "hiney" in so long lmao
Kinda makes me wonder why that wasn't an option in Other M. That game was developed by the same people who made the 3D Ninja Gaiden games, for crying out loud, you'd think they could at least give Samus' Arm Cannon an Energy Blade augmentation; at least say it was an "experimental new technology being developed by the Federation who had reverse-engineered Samus' Chozo Tech" or something. :/
...was that a Weird Al reference?
@@SirSethery omg I think you're right
Sword fighting Ridley (who uses his tail as a sword) would be seriously kino.
Nothing could surprise me more than learning this today
Are you sure about that?... ⚠️ Spoiler Warning ⚠️
The X Parasites have been a part of the series ever since the very beginning, yet somehow no one finds it odd that several easily identifiable life forms are consistently reemerging despite being destroyed by increasingly more destructive measures..,
The fact is that the Space Pirates are the most loyal faction of the dark side of the Chozo, a group that unlike the Birds Samus knew never intended to just go quietly into the night despite being at the Apex of there species potential...
There view was rather than being content with there own limitations as individual living beings and sharing everything that they learned to grow in new star children who might benefit from there ways, they where the only beings who where deserving of owning everything in existence...
So they created the Ultimate Pirate, something that could take from who or whatever they wanted regardless of there own power... The X!
The good faction of Chozo we know where horrified by this decision because through this one creation there brothers had effectively made the choice for them to take the universe for themselves rather than risking everything on the hope that others might follow in their ways, so they where basically forced to become like gods themselves and create living beings capable of defending the life of the galaxy from a threat of their own people's making!
How have I NEVER heard of this. This sounds like something right up my alley. I love everything Metroid. Even Other M has some redeeming qualities. This feels like a game I never got to play.
This was an incredible tale that most of us would never have heard of. Thanks!
Samus' suit looks wild as hell in that artwork, I love it.
I legit ever heard of this, this is interesting and actually sounds fun
*never
This is new to me too! it doesn't sound pretty cool
@@GoodlyPenguin *Gonna give you up
@@randallbro6749 doesn’t?
@@GoodlyPenguin *nobody cares
This is some great research, as usual. Way to go, Wayne!
I don't know why, but the fact that 6 of the 8 endings involves Samus dying brutally and of the two where she doesn't die, 1 of them implies she's gonna die off screen, scares me a bit.
She nearly dies more time in this one game than there are 2D Metroid games lol
Maybe the multiple deaths was a way to emphasize the brutal difficulty of the original Metroid game, where the average player would probably die a lot before getting to the “end”
@@tekwizwa Right. This is the gamebook version of "Nintendo hard," theoretically forcing people to play the game over and over until they'd absolutely mastered it, if they wanted to actually earn the good ending.
Although I wonder how many people got frustrated and just read the good ending without playing, haha.
Oftentimes gamebooks have a one-true-path going on.
I never even heard of this until now, so it’s honestly really cool how a choose-your-own-adventure/tabletop game (inadvertently or otherwise) introduced plenty of elements that’d get introduced in future Metroid games. This feels almost as dope as when I first discovered the Metroid manga and saw this whole alternate storyline that was never explored in the games.
Incredible to hear that Wayne got the opportunity to do this! congrats!
It's a major departure from what I'm used to, but I'd kinda love the suit design. They need to find a way to bring it back
Who knows? It might appear as a new kind of suit, and I wouldn’t put it past them to reuse scrapped content for something new either.
They'll make an origin Metroid game that details her childhood and she'll have that suit as a prototype version once the Chozo take her in.
...That's how I would like to see it, at least, lol.
I wonder if anyone would be able to write a Patch file for Metroid: Zero Mission and make a game-playable version of this chapter?
So basically a rom hack that changes the part after killing mother Brain? Sounds interesting
We could use this
As long as anybody who does it doesn't open their mouth about it until releasing it.
@@Sea-Salt Nintendo doesn’t go after rom hacks.
@@moderusprime
Not yet
The arm canon design makes so much more sense on that cover
Not... not really...
@@kyantrussell555 it frees up both hands man what’s wrong with it
It does definitely give more utility. The cannon is more connected to her suit for power reasons, so her hand also being free does make sense.
@@nevermore7285 I personally think it's kinda funny they never went with the explanation that it could just come right off, and there was another power glove inside it. maybe the cannon could hook onto a back brace when not in use.
I really want to see Metroid modders go wild with this and recreate this scenario in an actual playable rom!
That would be wild, seeing Samus fighting someone with a sword in-game.
How hard is it to mod zero mission?
@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 depends on what you are doing, sword combat would take a while
Metroid would totally be one of those violent 80s OVAs with a floofy haired bad ass samus if nintendo was cool.
Oh wow, I was looking up metroid endings the other day and came across endings for something called Zebes Invasion Order. Glad you were able to do a video on this!
Is where you looked have all the endings? I think I only got 5 of them.
Never knew about this and I've been a Metroid fan when I was about 13 or so. Thanks for informing me, DYKG
Check out the Metroid Museum for more Metroid merch like this.
Honestly, I think Samus’s armor on the Zebes Invasion Order cover art is cooler than its official design.
Trippy hearing the Metroid Database in this video. 20 years ago I was pretty active on their original message board speedrunning Metroid 2.
Might have to pay that site a visit.
Those were the days! Drop by and check it out!
*rolls nat 20*
You shinespark across the fucking map
I was just just playing Fusion an hour ago in preparation for Dread and when the power goes out, and you crawl through the walls, there’s a tunnel with black creatures that crawl on all fours and have acid spit that drops down onto you from the ceiling. Definitely Xenomorph inspired.
Like, 80% of Metroid is inspired by the Alien movies.
@@GamingintheAM0801 yes I know. But the reference was blatant, which surprised me. It’s not usually on the nose
@@christiankettlewell,...?
Ridley,...
@@metroidmania8833 that’s not on the nose, even if it’s obvious, they changed the spelling. Tell me, when is there a dragon in the Alien franchise?
@@christiankettlewell The name of the director of the alien movies is RIDLEY Scott.
When you mentioned speedrunning tactics, I hoped one could roll a critical hit to kite an enemy over a couple of screens to skip the bosses.
It's Wayne! My buddy! Thrilled to see him here. He's a fantastic content creator.
"At the end of this video, we're going to show you how you can play it yourself without spending a penny."
Nintendo would like to know your location.
I doubt Nintendo even remembers this book exists
LET'S GO WAYNE, I'M SO PROUD OF MY BOY
Wow. Just when I thought I’d heard it all. Great episode!! Thanks guys.
Wow, I'd love to see Samus sword fighting in a mainline Metroid game sometime.
"This Japan only game inspired most of the games in the series."
"So anyway, it wasn't a game, it was a choose your own adventure book."
Kinda like how 2048 was inspired by a TI-83.
Well it was a game, just singleplayer tabletop and not a videogame
@@the_observer9786 that is literally what i just said
Correct. Ignore the haters. The truth is that they used the implication of it being a video game in the title to get people to click on the video. Could've said book, or choose your own adventure book, but that wouldn't have gotten as much clicks.
Great video! I can't believe I've never heard of this. Bookmarked the text adventure. This is amazing.
These types of books were popular. But i always perceived them as just fun books that dont really make a significant impact on the lore or anything
I had a ton of books like this one, didn't know they had a Metroid one
They sound awesome though. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.
@@stevencolon1723 oh yeah, they're a lot of fun
Yeah, Choose Your Own Adventure books aren't canon.
I didn’t even know this game existed, and yet, now I want it more than ever
i no rite? Even if it's just as a collector's item.
You can play it via the link in the description. Finding the secret rooms in that version will be harder, though.
Samu’s armour design in the Japanese version really has that amazing samurai style to it. It’s really interesting that Japan created this D&D style gameplay style to it. Where we role the dice each time they take turns to determine Samu’s faith and how it’ll conclude at the end of the game.
That kind of gamebooks really started off with the likes of Fighting Fantasy from the UK.
This was a great little text adventure. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
This is the kind of content that DYKG needs.
Nice to see Wayneisboss on here
Can’t wait for Metroid dread to drop this coming Friday. Preordering tonight.
Samus reminds me a lot of Tekkaman in this one, pretty cool.
this is pretty cool history that i wouldn't have known about if you guys didn't tell us :3 Thanks DYKG
WOOOOO HELL YEAH WAYNE
This is so fascinating 🤔How have I never heard of this?!
yo! it’s metroid trainer!
i wonder if you’ll do a video on this?
Yeah it’s mindblowing
That mutant Metroid would make an awesome enemy/boss in a future Metroid game.
The topic itself is super fascinating, but the fact that Samus used a sword at some point is some really mindbending nonsense. Imagine if that piece of lore stuck around until today?
It would be incredible if we got a nod to it in a future game, like if Samus pulls a reverse Obi-wan on a boss in Prime 4. Pulls a space-metal sword off the wall of a space-ruin, uses it to strike the killing blow on a boss monster, and then as she stands before the corpse, gives the sword a couple of awkward swings before tossing it away as if to say, "not really my style..."
maybe if it worked like the Crucible from Doom Eternal.
What matters here is the context.
Even if it is for gameplay reasons Samus losses her upgrades, if not even all of her armor, regularly, and even if we dont include the Metroid manga as cannon, and as such the physical/combat training Chozo gave her, we know Samus had militar type training.
I agree that regardless of context it sounds really weird, but if it was well written its not necessarily nonsense for her to use a sword to fight.
@@CamusHyuga She's been more of a demolitions and ballistics expert in the past, but with her penchant for gymnastics and melee counters in recent titles I could see her wielding cqc weaponry. Just not a basic metal sword.
@@CamusHyuga I don't think he means "mindbending nonsense" in the sense of "how preposterous!" but in the sense of "wow, that's very unexpected!"
I love these design for Samus! They got that old school sci-fi anime feel to them.
Congrats Wayne
A wonderful opprotunity. I was very happy to be part of this, friend
Thank you so much for bringing this to everyone's attention! I actually just finished trying to stream this and I can confirm that it's not easy to get through! I made it past Kraid and then I kinda got stuck. I wholeheartedly recommend fans of the original Metroid to give it a try, though. The text version does a good job of replicating the experience of the original, right down to things like item placement and enemy behaviors. Really very well done.
Metroid is so damn underrated, still need to get my hands on the rest of the games though
So many ROM hacks.
I've only recently learned about this while brushing up my knowledge for Metroid Dread by reading the wiki. I was very surprised and I am glad more people get to know about it through this video.
Check out the Metroid Museum for more stuff like this!
Great hearing Wayne narrate this one. Keep up the great work!
Oh man, what an awesome find!! I absolutely LOVED all the old Mario and Zelda CYOA books in America way back when... I wonder why they never translated this to add to that series? Maybe it was just too dark/mature when the rest were marketed toward kids... but boy, I've NEVER known about this despite being a big Metroid fan my whole life. Gotta check it out!
I definitely recommend checking out Twinetroid then! It was a really cool way to experience the game (in the best way fans can these days) and it was how I studied the mechanics and story of the book for this video!
There was a mutant Metroid in the "Samus and Joey" manga, too! It was massive and could drain multiple life forms at once, and even broke up into hundreds of smaller mutants when it was destroyed! I would highly recommend that manga series for having one of the coolest depictions of Samus in the whole franchise, and it's on the Metroid Database site as well!
Massive W, Wayne!!!!
I loved that you used Metroid II ending music! 😊
I didn't know I needed that design of Samus with a sword
Japan is really weird with localization at times
Heh, "she might die off-page*" not "off-screen". But man, this is really cool.
Super interesting... great video, DYKG!
I had no idea this existed >_> THANK YOU
A Metroid game ending in a swordfight??!?
NARPAS SWORD CONFIRMED
That is pretty cool. It is always nice to see the really hidden stuff be found by dykg
Holy shit my boy Wayne - congrats on the voiceover!
Great to hear WayneIsBoss making his DYKG premier at long last! And great subject matter too!
Maybe that guy who made that AM2R fan game could make a fan game of this Zebes Invasion story installment of the Metroid franchise???
Wow, Metroid trivia I NEVER heard of! Something I doubt many people have, as well. Until now. Good job!
But wow, what is up with Samus's double shoulder pads?
It was the '80s. Shoulderpads were huge (...both literally and figuratively.)
7:05 man, game commercials really were something else back in the day. They had actors, custom build sets and costumes. It’s like a little glimpse into an 80s movie that never got made. Really sells you the idea that this all is part of something bigger, less graspable. Such a shame game companies don’t do this anymore.
I love solo RPGs and would snap this up in a heartbeat if an official translation (or an updated sequel) were published.
WAIT OMG DEVIN MONNENS THAT WAS MY GAME DESIGN WORKSHOP PROFESSOR
Well I know what I'm doing in preparation for Dread's release this week
This is the only reason I even know about Zebes Invasion Order.
Samus with long black hair instead normal blonde looks pretty great. 5:57
Can I mention how cool Samus suit design looks here?
So glad to see Wayne here. Good for him!
Wow, this is a deep cut! I've never even heard a whisper of it. Fascinating stuff all around.
What the hell! I thought I played all the Metroid games?!? Well time to learn lol
Samus with a sword, wild hair flowing around her? Hmm yes, I like
:3
5:59 - so this is Samus wielding the infamous Narpas Sword?
Or maybe Excalipur? Which would mean she wouldn't have been able to win...
Incredible story ! ♥
Coucou psyhodelik!
black hair Samus is the greatest discovery in videogame history, she looks absolutely beautiful I totally love it!
Having played Twinetroid, it is actually pretty good. The game does a good job of turning the secret room gimmick from the book into a videogame.
Although what makes the game hard is that it does not tell you what your chances of winning a battle or regaining health or missiles are.
I wish someone had done the same for the three Castlevania game books
This sounds like a lot of fun! I also love the power suit artwork 👍
Funny, I leak a few images from this book to a Facebook Metroid group yesterday, and it gets a bunch of attention, and today this video comes out, before my scanner has a chance to finish compiling it into a PDF.
Just imagine if it wasn't a coincidence.
You have the link to the PDF?
@@harlannguyen4048 Scanner is working on compiling them into an uncompressed lossless PDFfor maximum beauty
Congratulations to Wayne from Wayneisboss. It is incredible seeing how much he and his channel have grown in the last year alone.
Only got to where I am because of the people that supported me along the way. Thanks for the kind words and hope you enjoyed the video!
This design should totally come back as a alternate costume, at least in project m
“We’ll show you how to play without spending a single penny”
*nintendo doesn’t like this*
Really cool to learn! And that design for Samus is pretty neat.
I need more Metroid lore! A movie! Anime! GAMES! ALL OF It!!!
What shocked me most wasn't the half a dozen endings where Samus dies, but rather the fact she's depicted with black hair.
I don't know whether I hate it or love it.
She probably has green hair like in the NES game if the book gets a color version.
Go Wayne!
God this is genius! I wish they'd make another one!
I was NOT READY for Samus using a SWORD! I WNAT THAT IN MY LIFE!
*on my face