Wanted to try and get 100%, with no glitches, in under an hour for the best ending. Made a ton of mistakes since I'm no professional, but this time isn't too bad. Recorded directly from an actual NES.
As someone that's old enough to have played Metroid when it was first released, below I timestamped most of the times where a player would have no clue how to proceed unless they a) pixel hunted virtually the entire game bombing/shooting nearly every wall, floor, or ceiling section in hopes of finding the way forward. b) had someone/something help them (ex: nintendo power, nintendo hotline, 'that friend' that just knows everything about a game, etc.). Agree? Disagree? Why and what timestamp? Enjoy! 09:25: bomb the wall 10:59: bomb bubble floor 11:30: bomb the floor but has signifier 12:23: shoot the ceiling 13:10: bomb the floor 13:49: bomb the wall 14:15: bomb the floor at dead end 14:30: shoot the pillar 16:16: bomb the floor 16:43: bomb the floor 17:30: shoot the ceiling 17:59: bomb the floor 19:05: bomb the wall 21:23: shoot the ceiling 22:43: shoot wall at dead end 24:09: shoot ceiling 25:23: bomb the floor 26:12: movement puzzle! 39:40: shoot the ceiling 43:09: energy tank in ceiling 45:29: bomb the floor 45:58: bomb the floor
This is how I like speed runs or longplay walk through. Tool-assisted runs and glitch-abusing demonstrates no skills, they just showcase how you can cheat, and it's equally insulting when TAS/glitch runs are submitted to speed run sites as attempts at setting a world record. No world record should involve glitching and save-states or slow-down freeze frames. This here is how it's done right.
Johnny Casey I think both types or runs, glitches and glitchless are intresting, glitched runs take more skill generally then those without because the glitches are difficult to pull off
Great video! I enjoyed how it's not like some crazy optimized speedrun, just someone who knows the game well and is very skilled. Side note, I love how this looks on original hardware. Need to add an NES to my collection soon!
For a regular dude who doesn't do this for a living, that's a great run-through. Normal folks today have trouble navigating simple platform games. Or God forbid, remembering your way to each item in Norfair. People who post frame-perfect record-breaking videos on RU-vid are a tiny minority. Hand a NES controller to an average guy or girl, and most people die trying to jump over stuff.
I was there when this game was new. Seen the ending many times, but i don't think i ever finished it myself. I think i still have the cartridge somewhere. Watching this run i realize i was in waaaaay over my head. Any kid that could 100% complete this game in the 1980s was on another level.
I never completed this game as a kid, but i remember I got to the end and fought the mother brain and died no matter how hard I tried, but I didnt have enough E-tanks. As a grown up, I'll have my revenge. I'm gonna try and complete it now on my freshly arrived Nes Mini :D
I've actually completed it several times now. I didn't want to abuse the save states. So I only used them at the spawn points. The benefit is that you don't have to spend time to grind to get your health and missiles back.
26:12 This blew my mind. Been playing Metroid for years but had no idea you could even do that kind of mid air jump. I always bypassed this location thinking it was just put there by the devs to troll players.
@@zaphod77 The fun part? That jump is easier if Samus doesn't have the Hi-Jump Boots, which are required for that one out of the way Missile tank immediately to the left of the start of Ridley's lair.
The only time I ever beat this game was using a map about 10 years ago. Today I decided to see how far I could get with NO help at all before I lost my sanity lol. I was already at Ridley’s Lair with no wave beam, screw attack, or all the power ups. This was because I completely missed the green area in Norfair. Thanks to this video, I now know that lol
Even the instruction manual for this game advises that you should probably make a map yourself! That's foreign in today's gaming but back in the day lots of dungeon crawlers supplied graph paper for the sole purpose of the player mapping out the dungeon. It's part of the immersion lol.
Press up on the d-pad without pressing left or right, (to unmorph) then press jump without pressing left or right. Only after you have jumped can you press a direction.
really enjoying the video ^^ the code u entered is purely a visual thing, asin it doesn't increase ur damage or other gameplay stuff? Edit: No worries , noticed in ur other video what the answer is ^^
I think I managed to get unstuck from there before. This was years ago so memory may be foggy, but if you unmorph from the morph ball in mid air you can then press jump for a midair jump. I morphed, and started laying bombs, and when I got some air I unmorphed and jumped. Took a while trying, but I had varia so I had plenty of time for attempts since the lava hurts you so slowly. Eventually I got lucky and got enough air in the morph ball that I was able to unmorph and jump out.
Where is her helmet? Is this s new game+ thing or something? On my NES cartridge, she is in full suit from the beginning, but I have only beaten it once and didn't want to keep playing afterward.
That code in the beginning allows you to start a new game without the suit. There are other "suitless" codes, the most famous being the JUSTIN BAILEY code. But other suitless codes start you various places with various power-ups.
Is that Ridley attack random? I almost always get a wave of slowly moving attacks from him all lumped together, and not at that high parabolic arc here. It takes me 1-2 minutes to defeat him, because I have to keep jumping them, and then he immediately sends another wave out.
I find that the fastest way to nail ridley is to simple roll into a ball and just keep spamming him with bombs, you'll take his for sure, but you'll finish him off before he depletes your tanks if you've got a good 3-4 tanks going into the battle.
There’s a few spots where he cant hit you if you have the wave beam, if you have the ice beam though it’s pretty much a free fight you just gotta stand right next to him and freeze all the projectiles so he cant keep firing then also if you have zero missiles there’s a trick you can do to kill him really fast by pressing select and b for some reason you shoot much much faster, but you have to have 0 missiles
