What I love about Dark Samus the most is that she is the reincarnation of Metroid Prime itself. Essentially Dark Samus is Metroid Prime 2. Almost poetic
Dark samus IS Metroid Prime. If you look at her face and tentacles, its the final form of Metroid Prime from the first one. She's using the Phazon suit she stole from you at the end.
This is easily my favorite moment in the entire franchise and shows just everything great and badass about Samus as a character. An entire dimension crumbling around her, minutes left till its destruction, when shes pinned down by her mortal enemy. And without question, without a single seconds hesitation, despite her circumstances and despite the odds, she raises her arm cannon and is prepared to fight to the death And THAT is why Samus Aran is one of the best protagonists in gaming
I love that here, as Dark Aether falls apart, that this is finally the moment where Samus realizes who her darm counterpart is - the resurrected Metroid Prime. They have this standoff, recognizing each other from back at Tallon IV. They raise their guns, swearing this duel to be their last.
Same here. No threatening gestures or posturing. No stammering, taken aback hero. No maniacal villainous cackling or monologue. Just a silent, mutual, understanding - and grim determination. One of the most subtly badass moments in all of gaming.
You know, the GameCube era sort of had a trend with evil doppelgängers. This game has Dark Samus; Mario Sunshine had Shadow Mario; Thousand-Year Door had Doopliss; Sonic Adventure 2 had Shadow the Hedgehog; Four Swords Adventures had Shadow Link. Even Smash Melee had that Dark Link battle. In fact, most of these games were the 2nd in their sub-series.
Have you seen Dark Samus's design in Metroid Prime 3? Her armor is identical to Samus' Light Suit from Prime 2. Dark Samus was successful in getting the suit, but Samus wasn't aware about it.
@Read My Name Your Gay Sorry if this sounds a bit pretentious, but Dark Samus is Metroid Prime fused with the Phazon Suit. Due to this, D.Samus is weak to the Dark Beam-and it's missile combo-as she is a being born in the world of light.
@@leothesealo4265 There's concept art of what seems to be Dark Samus with the light suit. From the looks of it, there may have originally been a bad ending where DS steals the light suit and escape and both aether's are destroyed.
This whole escape sequence was such a masterpiece in execution. Using ALL your weapons and giving you that sense of urgency and fear with the timer about the dimension collapsing 🔥🔥
It's such a shame this game gets overlooked. The enhanced difficulty and unique atmosphere is what made me love this game. And the final dark samus fight always gave me chills
the enhanced difficulty tends to be (at least from what I see) the reason why Prime 2 gets so much shit - but I think it's justified, the majority of people who play Prime 2, will have already beaten Prime 1 meaning it should be more difficult, but as a new player to the series coming at 2 first, I can see why people would label it as unforgiving
@@Killzone-cr2od it's not that hard though. I think bosses like boost gaurdian are great but shit like alpha blog and spider gaurdian just poorly designed and deserve shit
@@olsonbryce777it's very difficult. Prime 2 Normal/Veteran ranges from Prine 1 Hard mode to even harder than that. The game is quite well made but saying it's not difficult is wrong. Prime 2 has no chill and throws you in and tells you to get good and figure it out. While I'm not going to say that's a bad thing, in fact I think the opposite, it's still a huge challenge.
2:54 Love the fact that when Dark Samus gets hurt, you can hear it's first form scream in pain when you first fight Metroid Prime in the first game. It's a good callback too.
Definetely me on my first attempt. The part where you were supposed to absorb the phazon and fire it back at dark samus was so subtle that I just couldn't figure it out for hours until I searched it up.
Imagine the timer running out in the middle of the fight, with both Samus and Dark Samus halting their battle to make a run for the portal, only for Samus to arrive there first and jam a Super Missile in Dark Samus' face. Stranding her in Dark Aether while the dimension explodes.
when dark samus approaches you in the last scene i bet she is thinking "where in the world did you get that suit, i must have it too! oh wait i am disappearing ! see you in corruption :P"
@foxalive1772 We'll the presence of Phaz-Ing (the phazon variant of Inglets) in Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, seems to hint that the Ing themselves we're born from Phazon. It's possible that when Leviathan hit Aether and split Aether into two dimensions, the Phaz-Ing on the said Leviathan we're somehow altered by either the rift that created the Dark Dimension or Dark Aethers Atmosphere changing f4om beings of Phazon to beings of Darkness.
If you look at Dark Samus’ hands, you’ll notice that they’re the same from Prime 1’s post credits scene. So first it was forming the body of Dark Samus, and then put on the phazon suit.
Any true gamer KNEW that we would have to face Dark Samus one final time in this adventure. The fact that we did not encounter Dark Samus before destroying the Ing Emperor, made it clear that facing Dark Samus was inevitable. And what a final showdown it was. Dark Aether, the Ing Homeworld, on the verge of total annihilation, and Dark Samus finally shows itself. And for those of us who witnessed Prime 1's true ending, were not surprised one bit, when Dark Samus' final form revealed itself as Metroid Prime reborn. Now a twisted merger of its true self and the DNA it absorbed from Samus Aran.
If you want to find items by yourself, my recommendation is to use the in-game options menu to turn down the music volume and keep the sound volume very high. That way you can hear the low hum of a power-up. Be sure to explore each room thoroughly. If you want to use a guide... any search of "Metroid Prime 2 __(item)__ locations" will be helpful.
They really did perfectly capture what an “affront to nature” would look like as a Metroid villain. Everything about Metroid Prime/Dark Samus is just inherently “wrong” when it comes to biology. She only came about because of a fluke in nature mixed with Chozo/Space Pirate tampering
oh! charge beam turns to phazon beam!!! I WISH THE GAME TOLD ME THIS KIND OF SHÏT!!!!! that's the only problem i have with video games. they're not fun at all when you don't know what you're doing!!! not even a next to perfect game that retro makes has this simple game design. i don't want to have to go online to find the answers but game designers, even still, like 50 years into the business are making critical mistakes that make their customers pissed off. maybe in another 50 years I'll be happy!!!!! I'll be like 70
The clues are there, you just have to know where to look for them. Scanning gives you the hint, you just have to work it out based on observing Dark Samus's attack patterns. Also, games telling you all the answers in an obvious way are games that hold your hand and don't respect your intelligence as a player. At times a game may go a bit too far in obtuseness, but this is not an example of one at all.
It's a true testament to the quality of the original texture work that even blown up to 4k the game still looks phenomenal.
Which is why I loved the GameCube. The games looked so amazing for their time.
What I love about Dark Samus the most is that she is the reincarnation of Metroid Prime itself. Essentially Dark Samus is Metroid Prime 2. Almost poetic
Never thought about that
It's almost as if she's metroid primes echo..
I always wondered if _it_ was a different entity from Metroid Prime or if it actually remembers what happened to it. :/
Not to mention how you need to use the echo visor for the final fight, thinking about the title usage still makes me grin
Dark samus IS Metroid Prime. If you look at her face and tentacles, its the final form of Metroid Prime from the first one. She's using the Phazon suit she stole from you at the end.
This is easily my favorite moment in the entire franchise and shows just everything great and badass about Samus as a character. An entire dimension crumbling around her, minutes left till its destruction, when shes pinned down by her mortal enemy. And without question, without a single seconds hesitation, despite her circumstances and despite the odds, she raises her arm cannon and is prepared to fight to the death
And THAT is why Samus Aran is one of the best protagonists in gaming
I love that here, as Dark Aether falls apart, that this is finally the moment where Samus realizes who her darm counterpart is - the resurrected Metroid Prime.
They have this standoff, recognizing each other from back at Tallon IV.
They raise their guns, swearing this duel to be their last.
Except it ain't their last, cuz Dark Samus pulls off a loki with a massive grin on her face.
Samus: No. No. No.
(Turns around and faces Dark Samus)
Samus: NO!! NOT AGAIN!!
Dark Samus: That's right... Samus...
0:30 is still my favorite thing in MP2.
Same here. No threatening gestures or posturing. No stammering, taken aback hero. No maniacal villainous cackling or monologue. Just a silent, mutual, understanding - and grim determination. One of the most subtly badass moments in all of gaming.
Totally just gives the impression of.
"Well, let's do this thing"
Just simple, direct, to the point.
You know, the GameCube era sort of had a trend with evil doppelgängers. This game has Dark Samus; Mario Sunshine had Shadow Mario; Thousand-Year Door had Doopliss; Sonic Adventure 2 had Shadow the Hedgehog; Four Swords Adventures had Shadow Link. Even Smash Melee had that Dark Link battle.
In fact, most of these games were the 2nd in their sub-series.
3:35 Gotta love that moment when you randomly take damage and lose your charge.
It happens alot when I fight her XD
The player stepped back into the poll of Phazon that surrounds the arena.
@@AdmiralOctopus no he didn't, directly after that he steps back even more and nothing happens
Another reason this fight is shit
There was a small bit of phazon they didn't absorb that hit them
6:15 sorry Dark Samus you already took the phazon suit you have to stay with the one that you already have
Can you imagine a dark light suit tho?
Have you seen Dark Samus's design in Metroid Prime 3? Her armor is identical to Samus' Light Suit from Prime 2. Dark Samus was successful in getting the suit, but Samus wasn't aware about it.
And then in Prime 3 she models her new armor after the Light Suit
@Read My Name Your Gay Sorry if this sounds a bit pretentious, but Dark Samus is Metroid Prime fused with the Phazon Suit. Due to this, D.Samus is weak to the Dark Beam-and it's missile combo-as she is a being born in the world of light.
@@leothesealo4265 There's concept art of what seems to be Dark Samus with the light suit. From the looks of it, there may have originally been a bad ending where DS steals the light suit and escape and both aether's are destroyed.
0:28 I don't know if ya'll can hear this but I can make out dark samus saying "Samus"
I did not know that after playing this game for 12 years stumble upon the comment right at the 28 second mark
i've never noticed that before
Wait holy shit i didn’t know. Oh my god i didn’t know that. I never realized. Omg thats so cool and creepy
i like how prime series and 2d series go full circle now
a metroid has become samus
and samus has become a metroid
A prophecy in the making and we didn’t see it.
Shit the quality here is amazing!
Can you imagine it if someone did some higher quality textures?
This is probably wii version hd look, I have gamecube hooked up with hdmi cable and it still look amazing not as close as this
@@chacemarsee4295 This is on PC, emulating the Wii version. The Wii and WiiU versions are the exact same anyway, they're 480p
This whole escape sequence was such a masterpiece in execution. Using ALL your weapons and giving you that sense of urgency and fear with the timer about the dimension collapsing 🔥🔥
This is probably one of the most frustrating fights with Dark Samus I’ve ever had.
Reads discription Chykka boss fight in Metroid Prime 2. Ha ha ha ha!
It's such a shame this game gets overlooked. The enhanced difficulty and unique atmosphere is what made me love this game. And the final dark samus fight always gave me chills
the enhanced difficulty tends to be (at least from what I see) the reason why Prime 2 gets so much shit - but I think it's justified, the majority of people who play Prime 2, will have already beaten Prime 1 meaning it should be more difficult, but as a new player to the series coming at 2 first, I can see why people would label it as unforgiving
@@Killzone-cr2od it's not that hard though. I think bosses like boost gaurdian are great but shit like alpha blog and spider gaurdian just poorly designed and deserve shit
@@olsonbryce777 still standing by what I said but yeaaah some bosses are a bit poorly designed
@@olsonbryce777 it was fixed in trilogy veersion
@@olsonbryce777it's very difficult. Prime 2 Normal/Veteran ranges from Prine 1 Hard mode to even harder than that. The game is quite well made but saying it's not difficult is wrong. Prime 2 has no chill and throws you in and tells you to get good and figure it out. While I'm not going to say that's a bad thing, in fact I think the opposite, it's still a huge challenge.
2:54
Love the fact that when Dark Samus gets hurt, you can hear it's first form scream in pain when you first fight Metroid Prime in the first game. It's a good callback too.
that doesn't sound like metroid prime at all
Sounds nothing like it
Yeah if anything it's a corrupted version of the OG primr
Fight phazon with phazon. Loved this boss, amazing music to go with it as well.
7:55
Hail Samus Aran. The Saver of Aether
Who else paused the game to find out how to defeat it?
Me
Definetely me on my first attempt. The part where you were supposed to absorb the phazon and fire it back at dark samus was so subtle that I just couldn't figure it out for hours until I searched it up.
Ironically, for being the darkest game in the trilogy, Prime 2 ended on the happiest note out of the three.
Imagine the timer running out in the middle of the fight, with both Samus and Dark Samus halting their battle to make a run for the portal, only for Samus to arrive there first and jam a Super Missile in Dark Samus' face. Stranding her in Dark Aether while the dimension explodes.
Dark Samus use to scare the shit out of me when I first played this as a Kid
People who think this version of Dark Samus should've been a skin in Ultimate like Meta Ridley
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I didn't know I had to collect the phazon that's why samus was aiming up
0:33 It ends here and now.
when dark samus approaches you in the last scene i bet she is thinking "where in the world did you get that suit, i must have it too! oh wait i am disappearing ! see you in corruption :P"
And then her armor in Corruption resembles the Light Suit
@@silv2309 yeah what were the odds of that happening is she going to steal every single cool suit samus has
@@Tsumefan2 why wouldnt she? Samus did leave it behind.
Samus: STOP MIMICKING ME!!
Dark Samus: I'll mimic you ALL I want! Because I'M your DARKER half!!
prime 2's plot was all over the place and Dark Samus barely did anything except appear randomly to fight
So what?
I feel bad for the ing who just wanted to protect their hive
Don't be dark samus was phazon given form the ing was phazon given life at less that's what I believe what the ing was.
@foxalive1772 We'll the presence of Phaz-Ing (the phazon variant of Inglets) in Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, seems to hint that the Ing themselves we're born from Phazon. It's possible that when Leviathan hit Aether and split Aether into two dimensions, the Phaz-Ing on the said Leviathan we're somehow altered by either the rift that created the Dark Dimension or Dark Aethers Atmosphere changing f4om beings of Phazon to beings of Darkness.
If you look at Dark Samus’ hands, you’ll notice that they’re the same from Prime 1’s post credits scene. So first it was forming the body of Dark Samus, and then put on the phazon suit.
Any true gamer KNEW that we would have to face Dark Samus one final time in this adventure. The fact that we did not encounter Dark Samus before destroying the Ing Emperor, made it clear that facing Dark Samus was inevitable. And what a final showdown it was. Dark Aether, the Ing Homeworld, on the verge of total annihilation, and Dark Samus finally shows itself. And for those of us who witnessed Prime 1's true ending, were not surprised one bit, when Dark Samus' final form revealed itself as Metroid Prime reborn. Now a twisted merger of its true self and the DNA it absorbed from Samus Aran.
0:33 Spider-Man meme
I prefer Dark Samus' defeat here than in Prime 3. There she just explodes in pain, but here she tries to reach for Samus before disintegrating.
It tried to take the light suit
@@chiville165I always wondered why she tried to reach out to Samus
The music fits so perfect!
Oof, Samus' zero suit look in this game tells you how much they had to rush development of this game toward the end lol. I still love this game tho.
0:39 what exactly does the computer say, whenever you scan something that is added to the database?! I always wondered!
AFCA - World Bodybuilding Archive “Recording to logbook”
@@Apena2012 damn thanks. For some reason the first word/s always sound to me like “be correct“ 😅
Data recorded to log
Recording to logbook
You may have defeated dark samus but make no mistake when you get metroid prime 3 you're arch nemesis will return
your*
Lord Phill your what
Apollodragon 2000 Also Ridley makes his return too
Apollodragon 2000 You're is a combination of You and Are, so what you said was, You are arch nemesis will return?
what you mean to say its spelled your not you're
i just beat it, amazing game.
This bossfight should’ve never been timed. The timer is the reason I can’t beat it on hypermode because pulling phazon shots is buggy
The timer is the least of your worries when you remember just how ludicrous the damage is in Hypermode. It's like everything hits Samus like a truck.
@@PunishedVenomDrake I’ve mastered dodging shots, it’s the the buggy phazon shots that never work
@@mobileethan245 I literally just finished it now. I wasted over 2 and half hours on my life for a fucking bragging right...
7:17 Goodbye Ing Horde and Dark Aether
Game's reminding you who's the real final boss of METROID PRIME...
Thanks!
Now stay where you belong: in my memories.
0:28 i think she said "the first person you know" well i think
They should make dark Samus and the Ing machine a spin-off of bendy and the ink machine.
Oh damn that new power suit that samus got is better than the one that secures the phazon on her
I hope they HD port or Remaster this game someday.
They got the first Metroid Prime on switch now
Coolest dark Seamus skin, need it in ssbu
Hope they HD Remaster this game next.
YO SHE SAID SAMUS!!
Ha, you've got as many missile upgrades and energy tanks as me and I'm up to the same bosses, any good guides showing the location of all the items?
If you want to find items by yourself, my recommendation is to use the in-game options menu to turn down the music volume and keep the sound volume very high. That way you can hear the low hum of a power-up. Be sure to explore each room thoroughly.
If you want to use a guide... any search of "Metroid Prime 2 __(item)__ locations" will be helpful.
They really did perfectly capture what an “affront to nature” would look like as a Metroid villain. Everything about Metroid Prime/Dark Samus is just inherently “wrong” when it comes to biology. She only came about because of a fluke in nature mixed with Chozo/Space Pirate tampering
0:34
I never beat this game, I just moved onto prime 3, I just couldn't get used to the dark/light world mechanic
HUGE L. Def. missed a masterpiece
Lol you fucked up blud
I understand you, i also felt like the mechanic was simply boring to search stuff from one world to another. Still, its a creative one
I hated this boss so much...
+Light Turner
What about the boost guardian?
It was a piece of shit,but at least I slayed it at my first try ahahahah
+Light Turner
You're a GOD for that
Only luck,every time I was close to die I could heal myself thanks to the drop of the little ings that spawn during the battle
+Light Turner
I would get the drops, but then I got boosted and killed. Not even a developer was able to beat this thing without debug stuff
Dark samus is one annoying Metroid
Really bothering me how much you got hit.
oh! charge beam turns to phazon beam!!! I WISH THE GAME TOLD ME THIS KIND OF SHÏT!!!!! that's the only problem i have with video games. they're not fun at all when you don't know what you're doing!!! not even a next to perfect game that retro makes has this simple game design. i don't want to have to go online to find the answers but game designers, even still, like 50 years into the business are making critical mistakes that make their customers pissed off.
maybe in another 50 years I'll be happy!!!!! I'll be like 70
RStaR RaptoR Actually if you scan that form it will say you need to collect those phazon balls with your charge beam.
The clues are there, you just have to know where to look for them. Scanning gives you the hint, you just have to work it out based on observing Dark Samus's attack patterns.
Also, games telling you all the answers in an obvious way are games that hold your hand and don't respect your intelligence as a player. At times a game may go a bit too far in obtuseness, but this is not an example of one at all.
RStaR RaptoR It does tell you, maybe by SCANNING?!
Such a stale and anticlimatic fight. The one in prime 3 is fucking great though