Metroid NES is Actually Pretty Good
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- 0:00 - Introduction
2:01 - Story
3:04 - Characterization of Samus
5:22 - Chozo
6:34 - Characterization of Zebes
8:07 - Presentation
9:55 - Controls/Performance
11:14 - Sound/Music
17:39 - Measuring Linearity
26:26 - Progression
29:17 - Sequence Breaking
34:57 - World Structure
38:06 - Level Design
46:30 - Combat
50:52 - Bosses
52:57 - Respawning
56:15 - Expansions
58:20 - 100%
1:00:36 - Speedrun
1:04:00 - Criticisms/Hacks
1:06:00 - Conclusion
I just noticed that I forgot to mute the background music during the music/sound segment. That will bother me for a long time.
I don’t know why but after rendering my gameplay footage, the footage always looks distorted in motion. You can see that in my previous video and in this video. I record in 1920x1080 30FPS and I thought I had the timeline set to 30FPS as well. I edit with Davinci Resolve. Hopefully I figure this out before the next video. - เกม
I don't know if it was intentional but the Kraid theme played in the background during the Sound/Music section when you were showing the other Metroid songs. You could still clearly hear the songs you were showing, but it was weird hearing other music in the background when you were trying to discuss specific songs. Well made and well written video either way, I really appreciate this sort of in depth look/perspective on games like NEStroid, and hope you continue doing deep dives on the Metroid series.
This was not intentional, I goofed in the editing. I am mad that I didn’t catch this. I’m glad you enjoyed the video otherwise. I’m very new to video production and script writing so I’m glad to hear I’m doing well enough to interest viewers.
@@FlatulentFetus on my alt/day-to-day account here, but I've been making/posting video essay type content on another channel for a couple years now and you'll pretty much always have mistakes in scripting, editing, information, etc. Obviously it's something to be on the look out for, and definitely triple check your final product, but realistically the person that'll most be annoyed with these errors is you. Outside of something painfully obvious and glaring no-one'll drag you for production errors, and it's just a matter of learning/improving from whatever mistakes you make. Again, good luck in your continued video production here.
@@FlatulentFetus Great video.. props to owning up to a minor mistake.
Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario Bros were the three games, along with an NES itself, that my uncle had rented back in 1989 from a video game store. Writing stuff down on paper was huge. We had pages and pages of sketched out maps and bits of notes about items and enemies. It was a formative time for me.
If Metroid came out later in the NES's life, like 89/90, it would have had a better presentation and variety for sure. The later ROM capacities were like 3x or 4x the size of Metroid and the cartridge mappers were able to add new graphics capabilities, like tile animation. For 1986 it was just barely on the verge of being possible to make a game like this. There's not enough space to have unique rooms for the game's map, so they have to be reused.
honestly, the cartridge wasn't the reason. the game was made for the famicom disk system, on floppy disk.
@@alicevioleta3184sure, but unless they were gonna make it Japan exclusive, they still had to consider the fact that it needed to fit on cartridges outside Japan (which it did)
Seconded. Metroid looks the way it does because A) it had to fit on a Famicom floppy disc in Japan and B) it's an early NES game, put on a very small cartridge, with no fancy chips on it. Foreground objects, faux parallax scrolling, bigger sprites - all that stuff you show in the Megaman clip was only possible because companies eventually started slapping new chips onto cartridges to augment the NES' base capabilities. Such chips did not exist in 1986, therefore Metroid couldn't have looked much better than it did because the technology required to push the NES past it's launch limits hadn't been invented yet.
The Santa clause 2 is on rn.
I love how this video is a profoundly fair take on this game after so many years of piling on it negatively. Metroid 1 and 2 I feel are heavily underrated because of their unfair reputations so it's good to see people finally view them fairly.
One thing I'd like to point out: around 44:00 I feel the block, though obtuse, *is* actually hinted at to some degree: something I feel Metroid 1 uses quite effectively is the screen scrolling and repeated rooms, which while making navigation more difficult in general have a legitimate use: usually, a bombable tile will be bombable in every instance of that room on the map. Every room also has a set scrolling direction (even if it's a single-screen room, or appears single-screen at first like the lava pits in Brinstar) and bombable/shootable tiles will always be on the floor and ceiling of vertically scrolling rooms, and the left and right of horizontally-scrolling rooms, with the camera scrolling past the defined edge of a room often hinting at a secret. It's not an easy hint to pick up on, but I feel it's worth acknowledging as it is a design language that can be learned and mastered.
I'm also really enjoying the video, and wanted to scroll down to comment on this same thing.
To reiterate your point, that particular vertical corridor further hints at that there's something below in the way the screen scrolls. Typically, if you get to the bottom of a vertical shaft, the screen stops scrolling and Samus drops to a low point on the screen. This is a signal that you have reached the end of the shaft.
In that particular shaft, the screen keeps scrolling, and Samus is close to the center of the screen. This is a sign that there is something more below.
I remember noticing the screen scrolling as a kid and that encouraged me to bomb the bottom of this particular corridor.
I played the game back in the day, when I was a teenager. I did not know that you can bomb tiles that not look like it. The ones that look broken early on of course, but the rest nope. The Legend of Zelda does the exact same thing, there are a ton caves you can find by bombing seemingly random tiles, and if it isn't bombs burn using the candle.
But once I read/heard that there are tiles that not look like it but that can be bombed away, of course I tried allot stuff. The good part is it is always the same tiles, since basically there is only vertical shafts or horizontal tunnels so it is not like it is impossible to play once you know that.
Not always are breakable tiles on scrolling rooms... there are a couple one-screen-rooms where you can bomb the ceiling or floor.
Metroid was made to counter tropes of the time, the Maru Mari is to the left of the start because in Super Mario Bros you need to always run to the right. Mario defeats enemies by jumping on top of them and Samus can later jump into them with the Screw Attack. It is even at the point of being unfair at many places, but once you get the Screw Attack nearly everything becomes easy.
24:45 "The player may falsely conclude they have reached a dead end..." I know it's not novel to say that the footage shown at this clip contains the dumbest the necessary hidden path in the series but I'm really glad you highlighted here. Fantastic analysis so far, excited to watch the second half of the video.
Kraid is actually best fought with Morph Ball Bombs. The explosions of the morph ball bombs create I-Frames for Samus, allowing her to phase through much of Kraid's projectile attacks. Here at 40:46 we can see an example of bomb-phasing where you otherwise would've taken damage if not for the bomb's explosion.
I'm ill, and was in a lot of pain when I started watching this. Thanks for distracting me, this video was a really fair and well written retrospective.
5:07 Actually, intentionally when the game was designed, Samus was supposed to be an android, it's only later during the development they created the backstory. The game was already called "Metroid" because you were playing as an android exploring a metro-like tunnel-system (metro-android) combining the gameplay of the 4-directional exploration of Zelda and the platform aspect of Mario games. When the game evolved they wanted a background story and changed the android to a person who is inside a powerful space suit and they called the "Jellyfish creatures" the metroids so they could keep the video game's title. Just in case anyone was wondering how they came up with the word "metroid" for a creature that sucks energy out of organisms.
Interesting! That makes a lot of sense
This very much is one of my favorite NES games ever.
There was a lot of happy accidents with this game, in that they really didn't have the extra space to really add all of the nice stuff that we all take for granted with later entries.
I love the conclusion as I think some people are a little bit unnecessarily hard on it, but I also lover Spelunker XD
Great review!
Counterargument: the block hiding the path into deep Norfair literally stumped me on my blind playthrough until I decided to stop being a lil bich and approach the game like the cryptic game from 3 decades ago that it is and started charting an actual map.
This only makes it painfully obvious there is a hidden path in this corner, no, that there MUST be a hidden path in it. Exploring Zebes in such an organic manner is a vibe that could only be found in a game from those times. It was so satisfying to complete and also ingrained the layout of the entire map into my brain and made it easy to do posterior, faster runs for the hell of it.
It is my belief this was the intended way to interact with the game, like... like it was a "game".
Kids these days don’t know about drawing maps 😅
(However, the fact that this room is part of a vertical shaft, but the screen doesn’t stop scrolling down, is already enough of a hint to know there’s something below you. If you were at the actual bottom of the shaft, then you wouldn’t be able to see so many rows of the “floor” below you for no reason)
Wish they’d taken a page from Zelda 1’s dungeons and had a map that would fill in as you explored the area.
Worth it just to hear the Kraid music
16:45 "Oowwww, owww, OOOWWWW, ooooww, OOOOOWWWW!"
Also, I see the tradition of Ridley having ridiculous human sounding scream began right at the start.
Okay I just beat the game in like two sittings. You're right it is pretty good.
Thanks for this. So tired of reviews saying “unplayable crap” or the less common “masterpiece” or “flawed masterpiece”. It’s a great game by 1986 standards. The music is excellent and its non linear play was unique at the time. And yes it’s also got some jank. Better than most early nes releases but also not the best game on the system. Everything has to be amazing or crap according to TH-cam reviews… calm down.
a bit of info on the special mapper chips used in nes game, it was first a thing late 1989 in japan, we likely didn't see a game use them until 1990. i challenge you to find a game that had amazing backgrounds for the nes back before this time. you can find backgrounds but they are mostly solid colors with a cloud or two because they was all they could do at the time. custom mapper chips was the real game changer here.
ok i gotta stop you on using megaman 5 to show how much better the nes "could be" this is when you need to know some things from that time, when metroid was made games still had a 47k memory limit, severely limiting the space they had to work with, this is evident in megaman 1 that was made during that same limitation. also later in the NES life time you started seeing games with special hardchips in them that enhanced the capability's of the NES which nearly all NES games would start having once developed depending on the needs of that game, paralax scrooling wasn't even possible when metroid was made on the NES until the chips were available. so no, when metroid was made the NES was not capable to doing the same stuff that megaman 5 could do. full stop
There are other variables that I may not have accounted for. But either way, I still think that Metroid NES doesn’t look as good as other NES games. Perhaps it’s the best that they could have done at that time as far as fidelity goes. As I said in the beginning of the video, I'm not interested in viewing the game in the context of its time. Your additional information is interesting to hear, but I still maintain that there are much better looking NES games. I never said anything about Metroid failing to live up to Mega Man's standard, I just said that other games look better. I think you're arguing with a point I never made.
@@FlatulentFetusif we could go back and remake it with optimized hardware it would look super sick,
@@mrwess1927 a MSU version of the game JUST dropped. for the SNES, it looks the same but it has red book audio and an in game map as well as the ability to switch between the wave gun and ice blaster
True, but he does make a point that the spacesuit-samus looks weird when Zero-Suit Samus looks much better.
@@FlatulentFetusRemember it was made for the Disk System, which was a great enhancement at the time...
I absolutely loved this game as a kid in the 80s..but never was able to beat it. I got it again sometime in the past 10 years or so..maybe I'll give it another shot 😅
The first Metroid is probably one of the most important games ever made but I probably will never play it. I played zero mission (which is very good) and I had to use a guide for 90% of the game because apparently I’m stupid😅. I respect the first Metroid but I don’t have the patience to actually play it
It's okay buddy. I couldn't beat super mario rpg when I was a kid. A game made for kids.
Really that is the way to play this game. Because it's the same game, but has all the quality of life improvements he talks about.
NES Metroid aged way worse than legend of Zelda or Super Mario bros. Luckily it was remade.
Good thing for you is that Metroid's map is, at its core, very similar to the one in Zero Mission. So if you can remember Zero Mission, you have a lot of work done for Metroid (NES).
You had to use a guide for zero mission? The game where you're pointed towards your next objective every 5 minutes?
I love how samus is a he in the manual, my emulator setup actually downloads manuals so i like to read them
If you look closely under that infamous tile in Norfair, you can see 4 identical tiles in a square (the small bubbles tile). I always thought that was the hint for the path, as I don't think the tiles are arranged like that anywhere else in Norfair. So it's well-hidden, but it's not completely random.
For sure!
Also, the fact that the screen keeps scrolling down
If you reach the actual bottom of a vertical shaft, then the floor will only take up like 2 rows at the bottom of the screen. But if you can keep going, then Samus will be closer to the middle of the screen, and you can see several rows of the floor
(Similar things happen for horizontal rooms, where the screen will scroll further left or right, so you can tell there must be a bombable tile to get to the next room)
i never got too into this game, starting to rethink maybe i’d like another play through! good video
I will automatically sub to anyone who makes Metroid 'retrospectives'.
A few months ago I made a spoiler free recommendation of Metroid 1. If I had been willing to spoil the game, yours is the kind of video I would have made instead. It covers a lot of what I think is interesting and cool about the game, although you've come down on it a little harsher than I did.
As for the Ridley block, I allude to it in my own video as one that I actually found entirely on my own by reasoning it out. In the manual, Ridley's Lair is drawn below Norfair with a tiny hole at the bottom of Norfair. I deduced that this meant there was a destructible block somewhere in the zone that would lead there and started checking floors. Fortunately, that block is VERY close to the start of Norfair so once I made that decision it wasn't long at all until I found the block itself.
Also maybe don't keep playing Kraid's Lair's theme while you're trying to show off other songs in the soundtrack. It just becomes an awful mess.
Yeah… That’s one thing I think a ton of modern gamers seem to overlook. Every single one of these games came with a manual, and you were expected to read it!
If you just blindly fire up these games in an emulator without finding a PDF of the manual, then you’re just not going to have the same experience
I really like the original metroid and I'm glad to see someone give it the time it deserves. Yeah, many aspects of it can be very frustrating from a modern perspective, but there's still a lot to enjoy. Never heard of metroid planets before this video though, I'll have to check it out
Also I can’t wait for the Metroid 2 video. Literally my favorite game of all time.
Being a huge Metroid fan since I played this in 1988 for the first time, it had to walk so M2 and Super could run, I always loved getting the screw attack and telling all those respawning pipe monsters to eat screw!
Great video, looking forward to more!
It’s really nice when younger people can find things to enjoy in an old game, even if there are some jank and game design flaws. This game means allot to me despite it being a bit jank. The music is the best part about this game because I love the nes sound chip and how the music gets more dark and ominous as you progress
This is cool i love these games so i'm always happy to see videos talking about them. I hope u will do the whole series
You’ve only made a couple videos but your videos are so damn good. I’m a pretty new Metroid fan which means I have nothing better to do then watch hour long retrospectives about it. I’ve only played zero mission, federation force and dread but I own every game In the series besides the pinball one. I’m excited to possibly see future videos about other Metroid games
That particular floor tile that you must bomb to get into Ridley's hideout is quite a problem, but I remember how I discovered it.
Once you reach the ice beam in Norfair, when you are to return to the lower levels by bombing the floor, you'll notice that, that room looks identical to the one you need to bomb to get to ridley's hideout, and I was right. Get the hint?
What an incredibly written video, holy shit
personally i used to prefer the more robust sound of the FDS version, but lately i have changed that opinion, if oyu really listen you can hear that the melodies where redone for the NES and have sounds not at all used in the famicom version that makes it feel more refined. i REALLY need to do the mod that makes the extra sound channels more accurate to ultimately decide though because the "new" famicoms extra sound channels are a bit off i have read. edit: wish you would have muted the music in the background when you played the comparisions for the audio, hearing brinstar music behind kraid lair really threw me off lol
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing your advanced knowledge on Metroid. Great job!
I think the simplistic visuals is what makes Metroid look great. There is something special within a game that does alien environments like NES Metroid, not being influenced by inherent direction of trying to make an environment look unwelcoming or film-inspired, and instead being colorful and nice whenever it feels like, with not much human logic and instead purely memorable shapes and colors, where-as games like 2 or sometimes Super feel too intentionally organic, and sometimes disgusting in the same way as a sewer, making it more unpleasant to look at than anything.
I also personally greatly enjoy Metroid's non-linearity: it's both incredibly fun and charming for quick replays, and I think that despite repetitive room design, the game ends up being far more interesting to replay than something like Super, which has a lot of unique rooms but also so, so much bloat and also time spent on an average playthrough that it just becomes draining to replay. NES Metroid having more repetitive rooms can be solved by making a map, which greatly helps understand the areas you're in, but Super's sheer amounts can't really be avoided, and it's constant limiting of the player to certain areas also adds to that tedium, and I'd say that the same issue applies to 100% where even if you know what to do, there's simply too many items in the game. I would prefer cryptic design over forced timespending at any point.
As for diagonal aiming, I think bringing up Mega Man is a good showcase there - Metal Blade is the ultimate death to weapon balance in 2, and while it's not just because of diagonal aim in of itself, Mega Man as a whole was designed around that as that specifically makes dealing with enemies above or below you more difficult and requires you to find ways to get around that: I personally think this approach also fits Metroid, especially as it gives bombs more combat potential and in general makes the game use the base moveset more, something I feel the later games abandon more and more with making later enemy encounters more mindless through how powerful your beam gets on top of the base moves and by focusing puzzles less on stuff like that Kraid one from NES Metroid where it requires careful navigation with Morph Ball and bombs, and more on upgrades like Shinespark being used for upgrade-specific challenge rooms to get an item.
Still, great video! It's very cool to see someone look at the game from neither an inherently negative nor positive perspective, and I can certainly see some points pretty well. I wish you luck in future videos, if you make any! It's odd to see the aspect ratio and cropping of the game footage to change seemingly at random, though. Is there any reason for that?
22:45 - comedy gold
what a nice video about this game. i could never get into the metroid games. idk why. i tried but i never could. it's nice to see appreciation for it :)
This was an awesome video! Love how you talk about the item and event progression of Metroid games. To me, the best games in the franchise and the genre are the ones that make the progression super satisfying. It creates incredible game feel when done right. I also definitely want to check out Metroid Planets now. Excited to hear your thoughts on Super and Prime in particular.
Really great video. I would love to see you tackle other games in the franchise
the fact that the varia suit is a thing on zebes i always assumed that Samus had some kind of connection to zebes inhabitants, then she goes on a crusade to take all the metroids out in metroid 2 it made me feel it even more because that felt like it was for vengeance to go that far. felt pretty vindicating to see that theory conceptualized in zero mission when it came out.
My favorite part of Metroid Planets was also burp. Very nice feature. Very good improvement.
I really appreciate the deep dive. You really managed to convey many of the things that I was never able to put into words myself until now, and even motivated me to really play it for myself right now. Thanks for that.
I love that you just don't even acknowledge the burping. I know that it's the kind of humor most people don't laugh at, but I found it funny.
Really nice essay, well done!
What's this route mapping program you show a couple times in this video? It looks really impressive
E: Oh, it's at the end of the video lol
Thank you for sharing this. Definitely subbed to keep an eye on this channel. :)
Dumb luck? I played the game as a kid when it was new. I distinctly remember finding that "impossible" path in Norfair the very first time I entered that room. See, by the time you're skilled enough to get through the previous hall, you've played the game enough to realize that bombing every floor and shooting every wall and ceiling looking for secrets is a major part of the game.
Both the left and right paths from the elevator also quickly lead to 'dead ends'. If you weren't looking for a hidden path forward, what on earth were you doing?
There's also the map in the manual that very clearly shows Ridley's hideout below Norfair.
fun fact: it wasnt till metroid prime 3 did miyamoto know what a bounty hunter was. When he found out, he was horrified because he pictured samus as some kind of selfless hero, not a merc
Excited to check this out. Growing up with the game, I’ve never felt that it wasn’t great, but I’m excited to hear another perspective on why. :)
As I watch more of these reviews, I do disagree with more stuff than I initially did, but I REALLY appreciate a TH-camr that isn’t afraid to state his opinions boldly. Good work.
this was a very well written review and i really enjoyed this video. i never had thought about metroid being a combination of zelda and mario. you’ve shined some much needed light on this game. as a long time metroid fan, im excited to see what else you have to say about the rest of the series, considering how much passion felt from your words
Amazing video! I love finding hidden gems on youtube like this
The thumbnail is very suggestive.
Enjoying the video so far, just wanted to point out that during the segment where you play the game’s music, you still have the Kraid track playing underneath everything, even under its own track highlight later. You’ll definitely want to fully mute the backing music track in future videos so 2 songs aren’t playing overtop each other. Likely an editing mistake.
I’d definitely like to see more of these Metroid vids and others like it
The way you describe speedrunning is right on. Having beat Metroid Prime 200%, hardmode, glitchless, in 1hr:30mins, just for fun... its just so satisfying
Such a good section on music, and you leave the BGM playing over it the whole time!!! (!!!!!)
Metroid had clunky controls, laggy gameplay, and a ridiculous difficulty curve, and that’s how most people felt about it at the time, too. But it was also an amazing game for exploration and design. So we still loved it even though Mother Brain is barely playable.
Anyway, my point is people noticed the problems most complain about in retrospect, at the time, and it was just back seated by what it did amazingly, which was map design, musical and visual atmosphere, and cool gameplay elements.
Im old. This game and the NES are my childhood. We didnt have maps or internet back when this came out. Yall got it super easy today.
lots of us had nintendo power
@@blarghblargh I had a subscription from Issue #1 and bought EGM and GamePro. EGM was my favorite. Still comparing that to the internet and the instant info kids have today... it's not even a comparison.
I think one problem modern gamers are running into, is that they don’t realize they’re supposed to read the original manual!
Sure, they didn’t give you a room-by-room map. But the original Metroid manual does give you a general layout of where the main areas are, and how they are connected. Many try to play this game blindly without basic information like that, and end up getting completely lost due to a major lack of context
The games these days are crappier overall. Less of that "Challenge = Accomplishment" we had, barring a handful of outliers.
@@METALmurdererOGmodern AAA games might be simple, but there are so many games releasing every week that you could easily play hundreds of games with a good challenge
An easy way to see if there could be a bomb-able passage in Norfair is to check if there are any tiles in the way that are single large bubbles. Those are always solid.
This is a really well made video, great job. Ive been seeing a bit more appretiation for the original metroid over the last few years, not like making it highly regarded but saying that if you have the right mindset, its not bad at all. Ive tried a few times to get into it, but i probably need to dedicate myself to a playthrough. Maybe if i make a video on Metroid, would love to retrospect on the entire series
Of course it is duuuuh!!
I was 4 in 86. That nes music man…… what a flood, what a flood of memories and nostalgia… *sigh*
Great to see people still speak about these games. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
The required norfair bomb block is similar to the pitfall blocks under the extendosnakes in fusion to go beyond the locked doors
In my mind, the blocks in Norfair are exponentially more problematic because that similar part in Fusion locks you into a small portion of sector 3, meaning you’re far less likely to waste time elsewhere. Though I do agree they are similar.
Great video. 👍
WOW!! Great video! Thank you for actually taking the time to analyze this game genuinely and not just shitting on it for being old! I played this game back in the day when it was new and I was a VERY young kid so it has a special place in my heart. It makes me sad that everyone just skips it in favor of Zero Mission since that game offers a very different experience from the original and kind of erases a lot of the connective tissue that exists between it and Super.
Hopefully videos like yours will convince more people that the original Metroid is deserving of respect and shouldn't be so casually ignored.
Metroid only channel? Yes.
I loved Josie Woah's video but also commented that I disagreed with her. I think the game is great even if hard for newcomers. its got spunk and atmosphere that many other NES games doesn't have.
Around 11:45 You left the background music going while playing the music samples.
I am so bummed that I didn’t catch this until after uploading. I made a last-second change to the music and forgot to take it out for that segment. My b
@@FlatulentFetusWe'll be waiting for the 1 week anniversary remaster.
Great video really does show Metroid pros and cons
Did you not know you could freeze the projectiles of all the bosses? I noticed how you didn't even bother freezing the rinkas against Mother Brain?
This makes Kraid and Ridley cakewalks, once their projeciles are frozen they can't throw anymore, since they need them to despawn before they can throw more.
What games didn't have flickering and sone slowdown lol?
If you never played Metroid on the nes, do not play it with a map. Just play and explore the game. You are meant to get lost and experience the dread of the environment and enemies. Have fun because it’s a really fun game.
You sound and write an awful lot like Nerrel. Almost makes me doubt if this is a swcond channel of his lol. Either way, im happy for the find because i love this style of content. Congratulations
Around 12:36 why would you keep the background music playing while playing the example tracks?
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Ya better believe it's good. I explored this as a kid like I explored the legend of Zelda. Metroid is darker. Atmosphere, great music and the map is vast. Makes me feel small and alone. So creepy I love it
watching starting now, but to the title of this video i have to say, yeah no doubt, few people give Metroid as much love as it deserves. It is way underrated. Even the people that respect it, don't enjoy the game as much as they should.
Ok watching as you explain why Metroid is good, since your premise is correct. Metroid is good not only as a starting point, but it is inherently good. I would argue that in many ways it is superior even to Super Metroid.
What’s the song in the beginning?
This video is really well made
i just played through the nes and famicom version of this the other day and get bikini samus ending in both with 100% item completion. pretty nice for a game that i havn't picked up since i was a kid. nice, i actually played on my modded "new" famicom which is the same model you show here.
22:44 favorite part of the video
Neat!
22:44 thanks
The production values are so good dude
zelda 1 starts with 3 hearts btw, you never start with full hearts in the game except the begining when you max hearts is 3
12:50 You really played Kraid over Kraid in the background XD
i'm nestroid's biggest defender. though i cannot defend its grindy nature of health and pickups. it's absolute ass which im glad you brought up
What game is at 22:08??? That looks sick!
That is Comix Zone on the Sega Genesis. If you get really good at it, you can beat it in like 30 minutes. I’ve never been able to get the good ending though.
The most important thing to remember about Metroid (and Metroid II):
No maps.
i agree with you on that tile, and offer another seemingly stupidly hidden required bit of metroid 2. i beat both of these games as a kid, that tile you mention took me like half a freakin year to find. in metroid 2 there was a part that stumped so hard that picking it up off and on took me 2 years as a kid, and that is finding the queen metroid room at the very end of the game. i flew through metroid 2 on the game boy just to get stuck at this one part. the trick is to use the spider ball and climb this reallllllly high wall and then go pretty far across the ceiling, at least a full minute of spider balling until you reach the one block gap in the ceiling. edit: i just looked up a video of the boss in metroid 2 and now know there is two entrances, the one i mentioned in where you spider ball in a ceiling entering in the bottom of the boss room, but i guess its more common to enter from the top of the room but the entry that is used is not intuitive looking as there isn't an entry like it elsewhere in the game
i will say in metroid 1s defense, what helped me find that tile was the fact that only the 4 bubble tiles in norfair are really bombable if it isn't one of those cracked tiles. so there is at least that.
Not sure if it was intentional but Samus looks like she's getting double teamed in the video's image.
Everytime I come back to the video I always do a double take so it's probably intentional still it makes me chuckle
13:17 This would sound a lot better if the music from the background footage wasn't playing underneath the music you're trying to demonstrate.
Yes, many people have taken notice of my editing mistake. I apologize for goofing that up. I’ll be more careful in my future videos.
you should have pointed out how awful the escape music is on the famicom lol, there is this one noise they use that is kinda unsettling lol
Oh yeah you’re right. That alarm sound is horrendous.
First NES cartridges weren't able to animate certain tiles or render complex scenes without significant frame-drop ("flicker"), dude. Original ROMS only had enough room for two 128x128px "sheets" which lessens if character-sprites are 8x16px (which Samus is). Metroid is kinda marvelous how much content they were able to pack-in, with such limited resources. It wouldn't be until later that companies began to modify their games and NES carts to use more memory or processing power for animations, paralax, etc.
I believe you got Metroid and the samuses names mixed up, Metroid is the guy you play as and samuses are these weird jello aliens
Also here's an editing tip: make sure to mute the background music when you are playing clips of other music for examples, it's a bit distracting
Saving time… I forgo the long beam… Metroid is one of my favorite series, I actually have the Japanese Famicom Disk System version… because I feel like it's better than the password US version…
I usually 100% Metroid games after this game because energy tanks don't stack higher than six energy tanks… as well as getting 255 missiles… to get the best ending, there's just not enough time to get all of the missile tanks…
the general background music of the video isn't muted during the part where you're playing the individual level music meaning that the two subtly overlap each other. it's a bit unpleasant
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New thumbnail HYPE! This was definitely the weakest thumbnail before the change so this change was welcome
44:30 the patern of the floor there is 3, 3, 4. That might be the hint?
YOU DAMN RIGHT
The NES at the time of release wasn't capable of much better visuals than this. A comparison to Mega Man 5 is ignoring all of the cartridge-side hardware upgrades that the system took advantage of in its later years. Mario, Metroid, Zelda, etc. weren't all released with more basic graphics because they just didn't put in the effort to take advantage of the console's capabilities, that was what the NES was capable of without advanced mapping chips and large cartridges.