Well no... She's the Metroid Dread. I mean what better way to call the ultimate Metroid hunter, who slayed the Metroid Queen in Metroid 2, becoming the last and ultimate Metroid herself?
I like the detail that Raven Beak's armor protected him and she only got through because of the little crack on his helmet she gave him during their first encounter
I mean, this would be a baller teaser line to have for future Metroid game. Aside from the callback, imagine just how the fans minds would race if we got a teaser that was just that line along with confirmation that it was a sequel.
That bossfight took me quite a few tries, so when Samus was just screaming at his face and not letting go at him, I really felt some deep validation. She had just as much enough of this guy as I had.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever had as much difficulty in playing a Metroid game before. The only time that I ever came close to the frustration that I felt playing Dread due to it's difficulty was Fusion (specifically, the spider boss). But when even minibosses are hard to kill, you know the game is just too difficult. It's almost as difficult as Ghosts 'n Goblins on NES.
@@astrofan1993honestly, with the parrying making theblast game ezpz babyfood, I was worried. They really knocked it out of the park with Dread, I cant beleive a modern nintendo title had the balls to be challenging lol
The VA for Samus was so on point in Dread. The soft, caring tone when speaking to that chozo earlier, the sheer scream of desperate rage here... fantastic.
Her name is Nieves "Nikki" García. She's a veteran Spanish voice actor and singer (the gane was developed in Spain, after all). If you want to hear her, she dubbed Naomi Scott in the Aladdin live action remake, and her rendition of "Speechless" ("No callare" in Spanish) is really powerful. Which begs the question...does that turn Samus into a Disney Princess by proxy? lol
@@Pablo__58 "in a quarter mile, turn left" "In 500 feet, turn left" "Turn left now." "....nnnnnow turn left" "...When possible, make a u turn" "... mmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGG* " etc
@@masonhill5157 i think the Chozo knew this day were coming, and made sure everything was prepared. They were the ones that made the Metroids. The Chozo gave Samus 2 sets of DNA, the warrior and the set that prevents Metroids from losing their shit facing warrior Chozo like Raven beak. So they prepared for the future, so that Samus could become the ultimate warrior, a Metroid herself. Maybe she will be able to control those powers and we might see something similar to what dark Samus could do. Like the echo clones and stuff.
When Adam said “Don’t”, my heart stopped for a second because I thought the real Adam had turned on us, wanting to sacrifice Samus for the sake of galactic peace. Needless to say my relief when he explained was immeasurable.
@@OmiGundam777 Yeah, and that would go against what happened in Fusion. When AI Adam had scoffed at Samus wanting to sacrifice herself to destroy the X, basically saying, "you are the biggest threat against those who threaten galactic peace, willfully killing yourself would only help those that would endanger that peace" and that Samus willingly throwing her life away would completely throw out human Adam's sacrifice making his death essentially pointless. Suffice to say, yes, AI Adam deciding that Samus must be eliminated would be a completely 180 in terms of his characterization.
if you listen throughout the game adam has been acting weird since you lost contact with him at the start of the game. i mean for starters he seems to be raven beaks number one fan. and he doesnt once call you by your affectionate nickname. and while adam would tell you to hide, he would then tell you when you're ready to kick ass. "adam" never really does that. i mean it's subtle, but you can kinda tell "adam" isnt really himself today,
Love the symbolism of her being the last Metroid killing the last X Parasite and X Quiet Robe giving himself up so Samus can go back to normal (at least pre Metroid suit) and escape the ZDR’s destruction
And don't forget that she didn't exactly lost her metroid powers. For what I can understand from the Lore she was Mawkin genetically dominant and she wasn't able to control her powers, and considering that Metroids were designed to be controlled by the Thoha and aggressive against the Mawkin tribe. Now that Samus can control her Metroid genetic, it open more possibilities for game dynamics in future games.
@@dnor16 yeah that mostly makes sense. It seems Quiet robe X calm her down giving her Thoha/Thoja DNa controlling he Metroid DNA or at least making it more docile and going dormant
Someone did the numbers....somewhere, I think it was on reddit. Samus has destroyed, or been involved in the destruction, directly or indirectly in around 30% of the planets we know she has been on. This is a concerning number. Samus for god of destruction 2022.
you do know it isnt samus that destroys it? Zebes was destroyed by a time bomb set by the pirates, phaaze died after dark samus died, dark aether collapsed as a result of samus taking the last of the planetary energy, SR388 was from the BSL exploding in close proximity to it and finally zdr was destroyed by itorash somehow. Samus herself has never destroyed a planet
@@urkeksi4490 They really make it clear that Samus, for all her training and lethality, really doesn’t know what the full capabilities of a Chozo suit are. Raven Beak does, and damn does he show them off.
@@orbitalbutt6757 Ya like even until the very end he look so chill like he hasn't even broken a sweat yet. It was only going full metroid mode and catching him off guard she won in the end.
@@toddelmsworth640 that was just his way of roasting a certain one winged mamas boy. "One wing? Nah i dont need it i dont have mommy issues. I MAKE daddy issues"
Yeah, it surprised the shiitake out of me! I think Raven Beak failed to hear of that First Rule of the Fanatic... Samus never had a chance to learn of it, yet they *DID* become the very things that were out-and-out *SCARY.* At least Quiet Robe set things right and posthumously saved Samus.
@@caiusballad8544 Everyone in the Smash House: (Points towards Pit) Doomguy: I thought that was just fan stuff. Bowser: Yeah, but that doesn't mean she hasn't tried...
Kind of interesting that, while the X are supposed to be essentially mindless mimics, Quiet Robe there either is in control... or the X that took his form took so MUCH of his form that it gained his memories as well, and understood what needed to be done, even though it'd mean the destruction of the X parasite itself in the process. In a way it shows that they could evolve to be more than just devouring 'grey goo' mimics. Maybe. Or Quiet Robe was just the abberation among them.
Yeah... No. The X can take the memories, intelligence, and abilities of the host (it was explained in Fusion). That's what made the X so terrifying. If they didn't, what's a few planets worth of species to wipe out the X?
@@PenguinAndMoogle I think it's more like, they take the memories, but they simply don't know how to use them, since they themselves are without mind. They are just ridiculously hungry/hostile to EVERYTHING, and anything organic is under threat of absorption when they're around. The reason they're a galactic threat is that they're basically Grey Goo, only instead of being nanomachines deconstructing everything into more nanomachines, they're amoebic organics with an amped up defensive factor (the mimicry) and a natural instinct to Devour. When they absorb a sentient being, or an animal, they might absorb its natural capabilities entirely, and utilize them...but it doesn't innately understand those things. It Does because it Does. But maybe, just maybe, an X eats something that, when rebuilding its form into that shape, it assumes not just the physical structure, but the actual mental structure as well, in a kind of carbon-copy. It isn't the original... but it's strangely close enough, which separates it from the others that JUST rebuild the physical structure as a framework to use.
I always believed the X were more than meet the eyes and were actually much more smart than what most people assume. It however depend on the host. If an X parasite use a mindless creature X. It will only be just a more agressive version of it. However, if it copy an actual sentient person, they ALWAYS act with much more profund plans. Metroid Fusion: a X try to blow up the entire station by overheating the generator in Sector PYR. Metroid Fusion: a SA-X actually HELP against the Omega Metroid. Recognizing that the metroids are a the bigger fish to fry even compared to them.
Well Metroid Dread is the proof that Nintendo is always willing to give the franchise a try, even if their sales has been always lower compared their other franchises (the best metroid games had barelly sold 2M compared to 30M of most pokemon main games for example)
@@cristiany140 Well they definitely seem to be giving it a big push with Dread and Prime 4. The Prime one remaster was a lot of work they didn't have to do.
Nintendo literally doesn't understand the character. In Japan they view her as some kind of motherly figure, while the west views her as a silent, troubled mercenary badass. I know she was created in Japan but I'll say with confidence, they've got the wrong interpretation of the character, and seeing her in Metroid Dead really validates the badass version of her.
I think What really caused her to snap was Raven Beak insisting she was his daughter. Maybe she remembered her real father (as well as the chozo that raised her) and that gave her the Will to keep going.
No, what made her snap was literally everything. This woman has gone through so much shit, worked so hard to keep Ridley and the Space pirates at bay repeatedly, then the Metroids, then the X as a result of the Metroids being culled (oops), then this prick getting the better of her and using herself as a weapon. 19 years to get a sequel to conclude the entire franchise with one game and end all the bullshit- this anime cliche was the best use of it because the catharsis was felt by every Metroid fan that's been waiting this long to finally see Samus just fucking go beast mode, and it's arguably the best moment in the franchise's history because of it.
@@Hysteria98true but also she finally gets some real closure on WTH happened in the past with quiet robe, just for raven beak to spout a bunch of bs to her, I think that was the tipping point
Just hearing her screaming in pure unrestrained rage, and that look of fury in her eyes. I just get chills, not even Ridley himself pushed her to this level of rage!
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@@batmanneedssome200 I mean, dude betrayed his whole species, and by default, betrayed Samus. So yeah, it is understandable why Samus was angry to such a degree
@@batmanneedssome200 I'm fairly certain Samus knew the Chozo longer than she knew her parents... Old Bird was basically who raised her more than anyone else soooo... yes, she would be ENRAGED
I unironically love the design of the Metroid suit here. The mix of mechanical and organic components in Samus' classic suit colors looks amazing, and I like the sort of jagged edges that match up with its relation to her anger. I wouldn't mind it coming back for future games as a sort of temporary "rage mode".
Funny that Samus metroid tanks a ship explosion from high above like its nothing. If this was in another game, that would be an escape sequence. That just proves how powerful this new form/power is.
@@IamCanadian3333 Which isn't much of a surprise. You need ridiculously large amounts of energy to actually blow up a planet. That little fortress wasn't even remotely close. Kinda like comparing a minor firecracker to a Tsar Bomba, except the difference is way bigger.
5:37 I could only imagine what would have happened, if Adam didn't stop her, It's nice you got the metroid form and all but you can't survive a planetary explosion, Quiet Robe X knew where to go immediately after his "revival" but did the X parasite share the sentiment, or was Quiet Robe controlling it? So many questions with this awesome scene, Metroid Dread was done right!
It also complicates the narrative that X are unfeeling monsters solely focused on self-propagation established in Fusion. Much like how Samus thought Metroids were unthinking beasts until the Baby
@@justinokraski3796 I think when you reach the end of fusion, you realize the x aren't focused solely on self propagation as the Sa-X attacks the Omega Metroid to defend Samus, but I agree that Quiet Robe X saving Samus at the end of Dread adds to the complexity of what was previously thought to be a very simple, viral parasyte.
Samus: Destroys a whole planet with a slam of her fist Doomguy who shot a hole to the core of mars and made the demons go extinct: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary.
@@spidlenexor the kids would be so hilariously op that after enough generations of mingling with the rest of humanity we basically wouldn't need space ships or their guns, just suits with arm canons. We could propel ourselves with our wrists, and kick the ass of anything we bumped into during transit.
Something I just noticed, but whenever you kill an X with the beam in the Metroid suit the X is just straight up obliterated. Every other weapon in Samus's arsenal can only force an X back into it's blob-like state, but that final beam just straight up wipes them from existence.
Here is the solution to this 1. Establish a troubleshooting agency that can resolve issues and threats 2. Hire Samus as an agent 3. For her partner, hire Bayonetta 4. ????? 5. *PROFIT* 5A. Realize you may have just inadvertently doomed EVEN MORE PLANETS AND POSSIBLY THE MULTIVERSE
Yeah Nintendo doesn't really seem to value Metroid as much as Mario or Zelda, do they? It will probably take another 20 years for this the next sequel.
@@elijahjackson3261 I think part of it is that it's easier to do zelda and mario games because the storylines across games are connected very loosely. metroid is more difficult to produce because you have to consider a not just a good story, but also think about how that story fits with the rest of the canon/lore.
I hope I live long enough... Damn, being myself a cancer patient right now (who most likely will get cured), that sentence gives me chills. There are more important things than the next mainline Metroid game, but it would suck to not make it to its release.
I can't wait to see how her new Metroid powers are used in future games. Just imagine the badass boss executions. Hell just imagine a scene of a robot rampaging, getting ready to attack and she just stabs her hand into its power source and drains it to nothing.
@@gmailisaretard unless its something else she gets stripped of everything BUT her metroid powers, since those are genetic and the next game is more about mastering them.
the fucking rage samus got to put on display in this game was something satisfying to behold. she deserved to really let loose after everything that's brought her here. I hope we get to see more of this side of her in future entries.
seeing samus just go all out like that is awesome, gotta say one of the joys of this game is the cutscenes, they really made samus into the badass space bounty hunter she always was
@@some_cartoonist I mean, we all thought they were dead when the space station hit that planet, too, yet here they were again. At this point, I fully believe they aren't completely gone yet. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they have an entirely separate colonized planetary system out there somewhere, filled with hyper-evolved X, that are only being contained because of a strain of Metroid People, like Samus has become, but who evolved naturally, that are combating the threat on their own, unknown even to space-faring species like the Luminoth or the Chozo.
Foolish Raven Beak. Samus may have overestimated herself but you made the same mistake & paid the price for it. Power is NOT everything, it's how you USE your power, THAT is when you gain the REAL power. The power to overcome even the mightiest of foes.
Metroids were created to kill X Parasites and also engineered to see Mawkins as enemies. Raven Beak was both in his final moments so Samus was fulfilling her purpose as the last Metroid.
this is still hands down my favorite scene of all metroid, just the primal rage of samus sticking her hand through raven beak head asorbing him and screaming only to reveal she gets the metroid suit was just so badass.
The only redemption is for Other M to not be considered canon. Thankfully, Mercurysteam absolutely achieved this imo by utterly perfecting Samus' character and how this story could be told. I have problems with Dread (entirely down to the terrible world design and dull soundtrack), but Mercurysteam did the franchise so proud with this game's story and ending, alone.
@@JacksonVoet was worth it only because Dread tied it all together & gave one of the best payoffs in gaming. But overall it was a very convoluted plot point with some really awful dialogue in the interactions between Adam/"AI Adam" & Samus.
This was the first Metroid game that I've ever played and beaten, and Jesus holy fuck, that scream is one of the most satisfying moments in gaming history.
No, y’all don’t understand. Metroid means “ultimate warrior” in Chozo. So Samus actually became the “ultimate warrior”. While yes, she actually became a biological Metroid, she also became the best hunter in the galaxy
Basically the escape scene can be done just by walking and jumping. bad guys die by you touching them and the jumping only for the parts when you have to jump.
I mean that's how most of the escape sequences go in this game it's supposed to be a spectacle the rest of the game is the challenge this is your reward
@@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris sorry I didnt word it correctly most of the games in the series have an escape sequence like this that is meant for spectacle sorry for the confusion
@@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris that is incorrect most of the metroid prime games have an escape sequence similar to this and there is also super metroid that does this i cannot vouch for other m as i haven't played it and the escape sequence in fusion does break the mold a bit by having a large boss during the escape sequence there is also metroid 2 samus returns (the remake) that I cant quite vouch for as again I haven't played but I have watched walkthroughs that look like it has a somewhat similar escape sequence the original one and 2 I have no idea as I haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of either of them
Samus giving Doomguy a run for his money with these levels of ANGERY. Also I'm glad that after all these years, calling Samus "Metroid" is no long entirely erroneous.
One thing I noticed, was that as she was throttling him, many paid attention to the fact that now she's a metroid she wasn't letting go of his head. In my case I noticed Raven Beak wasn't just trying to pry her off him, but also shoot her off him with what I assume to be an ice beam in his power suit, since their suits are of similar design. Yet Samus kept dodging the cannon no matter how many times he tried aiming it while trying to pry her off. Unlike the Metroids, she's not letting him have a fighting chance.
