#MetroidDread #Details Attention to detail in Metroid Dread is amazing! Here's 20 little things that you might have missed :) Part 2: • 10 Cool Details in Met... / looygi
When Samus pushes against a 1 block gap that's above ground level, she'll put her hand on the bottom if she has the morph ball, and on the top if she doesn't.
5:27 - Okay, but there's _another_ absurdly small detail about when Samus presses up against a single-tile gap like that: She'll press her left hand against the floor (as seen in the video) _only if she has the morph ball!_ If she doesn't have it, she instead grabs the roof of the tunnel to better lean in with her arm cannon. The idea being that after the upgrade, she changes her posture from 'taking potshots through a gap' to 'getting ready to roll through the gap' Nobody asked for _that_ level of detail and polish, yet here we are!
I love seeing the heat and freezing air coming off from hot/cold rooms, it's a great visual cue to let players know which rooms they can explore at the moment and which ones they have to wait for.
Yeah and if you decide to check them early, some the rooms are smaller so you can go in and get missile and health upgrades early without dying. You can even get super missiles early by going through a zone you don't have the proper suit for but it's kinda tricky.
@@all-starsilver1835 In all previous games from Super through Fusion (maybe Samus Returns as well) you had to spin-jump into a wall, press jump and the direction away from the wall to kick off of it and execute a walljump. Now you just have to press jump to do it.
The first little detail that caught my eye was how Samus automatically vaults over one-block high obstacles when you push towards them. You don't have to jump.
I discovered this feature quite late into the game and was so amazed by it I ran over it about 8 times after I discovered it. I hope a sequel or DLC will come soon. Because the gameplay feels so smooth.
@@ewutermohlen better yet, a Super Metroid or Metroid Fusion remaster Mercury Steam have proven thrice now that they are more then capable of recreating the earlier Metroids and making them infinitely better, so imagine what they could do with Super and Fusion
I would love a Super Metroid remake, but we live in a time where people's childhoods are ruined when remakes are made and the remake somehow removes the old game from all existence.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Break the fan with the power of... wait for it. It's science. When you go so fast that you're practically an oncoming train... Momentum. The one thing that separates 900 MPH winds stopping you... and your 1600 MPH run, which breaks it.
I think even though we probably don't initially notice some of these details, we might've noticed if they WEREN'T there. That just makes the whole experience feel that much more immersive in our brains subliminally. For instance, leaning over the edge or her feet adjusting to the angles of the surfaces.
Aaaah the details, makes even the pixel art games a lot better than some modern 3D games. I love the fans effect with the missiles, it reminds me to Nightmare in Metroid Fusion when it increases the gravity. I thing the effect of the space jump in water is also in Zero Mission but it shows in all the liquids like Lava and Acid
The Nightmare fight was one of the most thrilling and terrifying experiences of my childhood. I remember failing time and time again until I finally beat it. Playing Fusion for the first time was an incredible experience.
4:42 The depiction of the chozo in the center of the wall is strikingly similar to the archaic battle armour worn by Grey Voice, the Thoha who donated his genes so that Samus could Survive planet Zebes. In the prequel manga, he died fighting Ridley so that Samus, her comrades, and the surviving chozo escaped.
There is also a cameo from both Grey Voice and Old Bird during the flashback right before the final boss. In the scene where we see Samus being injected with Chozo DNA there are two figures in the back that are definitely those two. Same body builds and the short one has a cane just like Old Bird.
@@vstpnv More than kneeling, it looks like the Zebesians were being overwhelmed in battle by the Mawkins. Even more interesting is that the same mural also depicts Mother Brain herself, meaning they have battled after her betrayal at the very least. Maybe this is related to Kraid's presence too.
When I first did the whole “hand on wall while aiming” thing by accident I was very amused because it looked like she was EXTREMELY interested in the wall. “HMMMMM yes this wall is quite flat, FASCINATING”
You forgot one of the best details. You can see some of the bosses around the game. For instance, you can see Drogygya's vines all over the place and after you kill the boss when you go back through the areas you see the vines are all dead. And you see Corpius crawling around in some areas. And you can see Experiment No. 57 being zapped by experiment stuff in one area and after you kill him that monster is gone so you know that was him.
@@motivatedman9730 Old comment is old, but seeing experiment 57 lying unconscious on the ground before you cut the power on, and especially seeing it being worked on after, gave me Metroid Fusion flashbacks. I just knew I was going to fight that thing eventually, and sure enough you make your way back eventually and he's gone and my first thought was "Dammit I knew the X wouldn't leave that one alone!"
Me and a friend who played through together were blown away by this detail: If you align her right Samus will press down floor buttons with only one foot - and her whole body adjust naturally to the shift too. I think thats the first time I’ve ever seen that in a video game.
Yeah, I get that a lot, but as someone who recently replayed that game I feel like this game raises all those details on whole new level, especially animations (which makes sense, SR had only 3 animators instead of a whole team)
I knew about her idle animation, but I didn't know she wouldn't do it in an active E.M.M.I zone. That's some really neat attention to detail. Another detail I really love as a fan of Fusion, Dread spoilers: Power bombs create a vacuum that sucks X parasites into the center of the explosion.
So many cool things I didn't know about in this video! I didn't know I could smash an item sphere or a frozen enemy with a melee attack. That's wonderfully good lmao imma start doing that
If you screw attack and hold down on the stick, when you land she’ll be pointing her arm downward in a kind of strange way. She’ll be standing no crouching
@@UmbraVivens94 it’s strange because her blaster arm is pointing down, usually during free aim she supports the blaster with her left hand, but in this instance she not touching it, and the free aim has a “stance” and she’s in a different slightly more narrow stance
Those tiny fish swarms will make an arrow pointing at Samus, before they make an attack. If Samus pushes against a small hole to crawl through that is waist high, she will place her left hand overhead on the wall if she doesn't have the morph ball yet, but if she has the morph ball she will place her hand low on the wall to better use hand to spring her into the morph ball animation
You can skip across the water like that with space jump in Super Metroid too, but it's a little different. You have to turn Gravity Suit off, and then you can do it. Normally in Super, Space Jump won't work underwater without Gravity on, but if you do it skimming the surface, she will skip with reduced height compared to normal Space Jump.
Even without paying attention to these details, the game just _feels_ great to control. I just started a new game on Hard and I'm amazed just how smooth and fluid it is to control even when starting again without any powerups. You can tell the devs are incredibly passionate developers.
Some of these were pretty cool things I didn’t notice but others were dumb shit like “you can turn into the morph ball if you hit down twice” yeah bro I know
The amount of detail in this game is phenomenal. I am not sure about this but I think even the sounds of samus's footsteps change for a few seconds when she comes out of water, indicating that they're wet.
You missed the melee animation when Samus is either in crouch mode or morph ball.. she does a somersault kick that goes from the front to the back, a full 360 motion. (sorta 360)
As an extension of 2, you can still see the orange heat and whitish-blue cold effect when the doors are closed. The effect is lessened though, and there are no particles.
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Before I watch, does this video mention the Music references? Hidden in the music are brief references to previous themes in the series. The Experiment has “Confrontation with the Core X” from Fusion for example.
For #17, its possible to walk past the insects with Stealth Mode and they won't fly away. Not sure what would happen if you fired beams in stealth mode though.
i knew about half of the facts and didn’t know the other half, i mean who knew that missiles and bombs would be blown away by the big fan things in the game…
The reason I like this game so much is because 1. Good storyline 2. Good gameplay and animations 3. The armor of Samus isn't super exposing like in most of the games
I cannot fit with the average girls and probably never will. They're all about dresses and jewels and here I am, watching in complete amazement at a girl in an astronaut suit with an arm-cannon, wishing with every bit of my heart that I could be at least 1/100 of what she is. I mean yes looks are important and I take care of how I look myself, but things like strength, bravery, confidence and determination are way, way more fascinating to me.
They're neat, but the things they do for the game kinda suck. At least Samus Returns gave us Fusion Mode with its amiibos instead of an energy and missile tank.
It is an absolute crime this game wasn't nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Sound Design.
The sound makes up for the numb music
Exactly
Fusion looks and has better sound design than Dread. No cap
When Samus pushes against a 1 block gap that's above ground level, she'll put her hand on the bottom if she has the morph ball, and on the top if she doesn't.
I was wonder why sometimes she put hand above and then on the bottom, now i know hahahahha thanks for the info.
@@elvynmarte Yeah, its because is more comfortable to turn into morph when she has her hand in the bottom side.
I remember i made the jingle bell music with the sound it did
I noticed this a while ago, it's sooo cool
5:27 - Okay, but there's _another_ absurdly small detail about when Samus presses up against a single-tile gap like that: She'll press her left hand against the floor (as seen in the video) _only if she has the morph ball!_ If she doesn't have it, she instead grabs the roof of the tunnel to better lean in with her arm cannon. The idea being that after the upgrade, she changes her posture from 'taking potshots through a gap' to 'getting ready to roll through the gap'
Nobody asked for _that_ level of detail and polish, yet here we are!
That's incredible. I think this might be my fave Metroid since Prime.
This game is utterly fantastic, the animation production is insane. Thanks for making this video, lots of additional details even I missed!
Will you make a video about this game?
@@AkaiAzul
I have done!
King moves
I just watched your video on it this morning actually
You both do amazing jobs
I love seeing the heat and freezing air coming off from hot/cold rooms, it's a great visual cue to let players know which rooms they can explore at the moment and which ones they have to wait for.
Yes! I loved this cause it meant I didn’t have to enter the room and take damage to know if it’s hot/freezing
Yeah and if you decide to check them early, some the rooms are smaller so you can go in and get missile and health upgrades early without dying. You can even get super missiles early by going through a zone you don't have the proper suit for but it's kinda tricky.
Honestly, the graphics are one of this game's best features
Strongly supported by how fun and smooth it is to move around.
@@MegaMato Yep, it's so much fun to run around in and I'm so glad they made walljumping easier
Genuinely one of the best looking games on the Switch imo
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Walljumping easier? Huh. The walljumps honestly seemed really weird to me. Were they worse in previous games?
@@all-starsilver1835 In all previous games from Super through Fusion (maybe Samus Returns as well) you had to spin-jump into a wall, press jump and the direction away from the wall to kick off of it and execute a walljump. Now you just have to press jump to do it.
The first little detail that caught my eye was how Samus automatically vaults over one-block high obstacles when you push towards them. You don't have to jump.
I discovered this feature quite late into the game and was so amazed by it I ran over it about 8 times after I discovered it.
I hope a sequel or DLC will come soon. Because the gameplay feels so smooth.
Super Mario Run: *first time?*
@@ewutermohlen better yet, a Super Metroid or Metroid Fusion remaster
Mercury Steam have proven thrice now that they are more then capable of recreating the earlier Metroids and making them infinitely better, so imagine what they could do with Super and Fusion
I would love a Super Metroid remake, but we live in a time where people's childhoods are ruined when remakes are made and the remake somehow removes the old game from all existence.
When you remember that Super Missile travel 550 mph in canon, but still can't overcome the power of a fan... Unless they remembered that too.
Wait,where did that tidbit of info come from?!
@@abuttnugget6753 IIRC, the Super Metroid manual. Don't quote me on that location though.
That fan is powerful enough to keep a human in a power suit from getting close
@@nanakojo Yeah it is; Samus needs the speed-booster to do it lol
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Break the fan with the power of... wait for it. It's science. When you go so fast that you're practically an oncoming train...
Momentum. The one thing that separates 900 MPH winds stopping you... and your 1600 MPH run, which breaks it.
I think even though we probably don't initially notice some of these details, we might've noticed if they WEREN'T there. That just makes the whole experience feel that much more immersive in our brains subliminally. For instance, leaning over the edge or her feet adjusting to the angles of the surfaces.
That's exactly how these little details are. They're what make the world "realistic", especially how Samus' feet position to match the terrain.
"You always notice when an animator did a bad job, but never when they did a good job"
Aaaah the details, makes even the pixel art games a lot better than some modern 3D games.
I love the fans effect with the missiles, it reminds me to Nightmare in Metroid Fusion when it increases the gravity.
I thing the effect of the space jump in water is also in Zero Mission but it shows in all the liquids like Lava and Acid
The Nightmare fight was one of the most thrilling and terrifying experiences of my childhood. I remember failing time and time again until I finally beat it. Playing Fusion for the first time was an incredible experience.
Number 20 is also neat in that it kinda cancels out people who’d be like “why can’t my missiles just blow up the fan?” As a like “here’s why” moment
4:42 The depiction of the chozo in the center of the wall is strikingly similar to the archaic battle armour worn by Grey Voice, the Thoha who donated his genes so that Samus could Survive planet Zebes. In the prequel manga, he died fighting Ridley so that Samus, her comrades, and the surviving chozo escaped.
cool
Holy shit,nice catch!
There is also a cameo from both Grey Voice and Old Bird during the flashback right before the final boss. In the scene where we see Samus being injected with Chozo DNA there are two figures in the back that are definitely those two. Same body builds and the short one has a cane just like Old Bird.
One of background murals depicts space pirates kneeling to a chozo in power armor.
@@vstpnv
More than kneeling, it looks like the Zebesians were being overwhelmed in battle by the Mawkins. Even more interesting is that the same mural also depicts Mother Brain herself, meaning they have battled after her betrayal at the very least. Maybe this is related to Kraid's presence too.
When I first did the whole “hand on wall while aiming” thing by accident I was very amused because it looked like she was EXTREMELY interested in the wall.
“HMMMMM yes this wall is quite flat, FASCINATING”
These things are not much on there own, but they add up to make the world feel more real for the player.
You forgot one of the best details. You can see some of the bosses around the game. For instance, you can see Drogygya's vines all over the place and after you kill the boss when you go back through the areas you see the vines are all dead. And you see Corpius crawling around in some areas. And you can see Experiment No. 57 being zapped by experiment stuff in one area and after you kill him that monster is gone so you know that was him.
Actually i remember seeing Experiment No.57 being gone before fighting it lol i was like "Wait...
WHAT
HOW"
@@motivatedman9730 Old comment is old, but seeing experiment 57 lying unconscious on the ground before you cut the power on, and especially seeing it being worked on after, gave me Metroid Fusion flashbacks. I just knew I was going to fight that thing eventually, and sure enough you make your way back eventually and he's gone and my first thought was "Dammit I knew the X wouldn't leave that one alone!"
Me and a friend who played through together were blown away by this detail: If you align her right Samus will press down floor buttons with only one foot - and her whole body adjust naturally to the shift too. I think thats the first time I’ve ever seen that in a video game.
Ironically, many of this details featured in Samus Returns. But, they didn't noticed them until now 'cause Samus Returns wasn't THAT big of a deal
That's MercurySteam for you all. The main one would be the heat coming out from the doors before magma zones.
Yeah, I get that a lot, but as someone who recently replayed that game I feel like this game raises all those details on whole new level, especially animations (which makes sense, SR had only 3 animators instead of a whole team)
@@Marxhog it certainly helps that they wanted to do a remake of Fusion before Nintendo said “no, but how about remaking this Metroid game instead?”
I knew about her idle animation, but I didn't know she wouldn't do it in an active E.M.M.I zone. That's some really neat attention to detail. Another detail I really love as a fan of Fusion,
Dread spoilers:
Power bombs create a vacuum that sucks X parasites into the center of the explosion.
SPOILERS:
At the end of the game, when Samus gets the hyper beam, when she kills an enemy, the x also gets destroyed
2:20 That poor Goliath just wants sis to lay off the belly.
So many cool things I didn't know about in this video! I didn't know I could smash an item sphere or a frozen enemy with a melee attack. That's wonderfully good lmao imma start doing that
If you screw attack and hold down on the stick, when you land she’ll be pointing her arm downward in a kind of strange way. She’ll be standing no crouching
so like free aim?
@@UmbraVivens94 it’s strange because her blaster arm is pointing down, usually during free aim she supports the blaster with her left hand, but in this instance she not touching it, and the free aim has a “stance” and she’s in a different slightly more narrow stance
Best Metroid in years
Only Metroid in years
@@leonpv983 i was gonna comment this u read my mind
When you shoot the block under a crawler in Dread: "Ok, I'll just fall to the ground."
In Classic Metroid: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (crazy spinning)
In the first Metroid if you break a block where the enemy is standing, the enemy will be glitched in mid air and will start spinning😂
The front part of her arm cannon heats up for a normal shot
Those tiny fish swarms will make an arrow pointing at Samus, before they make an attack.
If Samus pushes against a small hole to crawl through that is waist high, she will place her left hand overhead on the wall if she doesn't have the morph ball yet, but if she has the morph ball she will place her hand low on the wall to better use hand to spring her into the morph ball animation
You can skip across the water like that with space jump in Super Metroid too, but it's a little different. You have to turn Gravity Suit off, and then you can do it. Normally in Super, Space Jump won't work underwater without Gravity on, but if you do it skimming the surface, she will skip with reduced height compared to normal Space Jump.
This game is full of so many details I feel like I discover something every time I play.
Even without paying attention to these details, the game just _feels_ great to control. I just started a new game on Hard and I'm amazed just how smooth and fluid it is to control even when starting again without any powerups. You can tell the devs are incredibly passionate developers.
i love the detail in the backgrounds with all of the creatures and stuff
"dReAd iSnT wOrTh 60 dOLLaRs"
That isn't a false statement, though. It's worth at LEAST seventy.
B A S E D
And people still think this should be 10-20 dollar game
I bought the whole SE and amiibos. I'm not proud of myself, but I definitely got my money's worth.
Some of these were pretty cool things I didn’t notice but others were dumb shit like “you can turn into the morph ball if you hit down twice” yeah bro I know
The amount of detail in this game is phenomenal. I am not sure about this but I think even the sounds of samus's footsteps change for a few seconds when she comes out of water, indicating that they're wet.
Game of the year right here.
Now I'm wondering what happens in you shoot a Missile in the wind while running with the Speed Booster...
The fact that the Speed Booster makes Samus faster than Missiles is insane.
That wind missile one is on another level
You missed the melee animation when Samus is either in crouch mode or morph ball.. she does a somersault kick that goes from the front to the back, a full 360 motion. (sorta 360)
I just learned a new word
Me too!
If anyone else is interested:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapilli
Missles in the Fanshaft: Yeeeet!!
Shooting with Plasma beam against walls looks like they are melting the wall a little but then it gets back to normal
Laying a bomb in the path of a floor saw in Dairon makes it jump
This kinda felt like a subtle shout out to the Arachnus fight in AM2R. That was key to winning that fight.
As an extension of 2, you can still see the orange heat and whitish-blue cold effect when the doors are closed. The effect is lessened though, and there are no particles.
Oh my gods, the missiles and the fan bit. That's fantastic.
Amazing game, excelente atention to detail.
And nice job on your video. I apreciate your effort.
That missile in the fan is really cool
1:12 Yes don't those rooms look inviting??? XD
6:00
This is so badass
Probably my GotY. An absolute joy to play!
lapillus, plural Lapilli (noun): unconsolidated volcanic fragment with a diameter between 4 and 32 mm (0.16 and 1.26 inches) that was ejected during a volcanic explosion. Lapilli may consist of fresh magma, solid magma from a prior eruption, or basement rocks through which the eruption passed.
Before I watch, does this video mention the Music references? Hidden in the music are brief references to previous themes in the series. The Experiment has “Confrontation with the Core X” from Fusion for example.
So much attention to detail
The 12th fact is a game changer for dread mode.
For #17, its possible to walk past the insects with Stealth Mode and they won't fly away. Not sure what would happen if you fired beams in stealth mode though.
0:50 A lot of let's players did not seem to pay attention to this...
6:42 No more glitchy speening in mid air enemies, I guess
i knew about half of the facts and didn’t know the other half, i mean who knew that missiles and bombs would be blown away by the big fan things in the game…
The missiles falling away from the fan is so sad
Wait, you DONT have to melee attack to destroy item spheres?
The reason I like this game so much is because
1. Good storyline
2. Good gameplay and animations
3. The armor of Samus isn't super exposing like in most of the games
I loled when I saw the missles blown away in the game
Samus is a life-size posable action figure in this game
sheesh theres so much detail i feel i missed when i played it when it released wow XD
Thanks so much for making this.
Will butterflies fly away if you approach them with phantom cloak active?
You can do this without wave beam at shooting their belly.
Fun fact : you can actually make Samus dab you have to dash counter then press r and you can make Samus dab
Today I learned the word lapilli
I cannot fit with the average girls and probably never will.
They're all about dresses and jewels and here I am, watching in complete amazement at a girl in an astronaut suit with an arm-cannon, wishing with every bit of my heart that I could be at least 1/100 of what she is.
I mean yes looks are important and I take care of how I look myself, but things like strength, bravery, confidence and determination are way, way more fascinating to me.
Getting it for christmas but I played the demo twice
When you aim upwards while underwater the laser will suffer a distortion because water bends light.
I could not do the Idle movement. Everytime I press up she points the arm cannon
0:50 duh, that's the whole point, so you don't go in without the Varia
If there was no metroid left, why we needed the ice missile?
some of these ik from my experience of the game but some i never knew existed frr
I still think it’s cool that Mercury Steam wanted to do a remake of Fusion, but then Nintendo had them remake Return of Samus instead.
Made with LOVE
Enemy projectiles can also follow you through doors
Learned that the hard way...
That one youtuber that dunked on this game clearly had the mind of a 3 year old.
The amiibo’s are grates
They're neat, but the things they do for the game kinda suck. At least Samus Returns gave us Fusion Mode with its amiibos instead of an energy and missile tank.
For me the best metroid ever! ... is hard to say between dread and super metroid 😅
You have a very stylish intro
guess i learned the word lapilli today
#12 gave me Metroid 1 war flashbacks
1:30 so I guess you can just sit in lava then 😳
Yeah, the Gravity Suit does that for you
#12 might be an annoying reference to Metroid 1 lol
Poor Goliath, it didn’t do anything 😢
Oh... it’s an X... nevermind
Are cross bombs affected by the fans?
Those are standard nowadays.
What's so amazing about them ?
I love this game thank u
7:30 what if you walk towards them with the shade cloak?
Yo now I'm boutta stealth the entire game one playthrough
I knew about all this already. Nice to see all the different details they put in this game.
Make more , like stages little details
stay tuned :)
How do you even know the names of all these enemies?
The Metroid wiki I'm guessing?That, or datamining the game.
Estaría fachero que te hiciera daño los misiles, para dejar de arrojar XD
What are butteflies?
The heat and ice coming from doors was a great touch. No more running into a damage area without warning lol
I wonder what Mercury steam could do if they were had more powerful hardware
Oh no. That's be too good for life.
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