"Stories Retold" - Metroid Prime 

My favorite, and probably the most common favorite logbook entry, is the one where Space Pirates are attempting to reverse engineer Chozo tech to mimic Samus's morph ball. It has rather... disfiguring results lmao.

The bait and switch with The Great Poison is a super underrated aspect of Metroid Prime's story that I never hear anyone talk about.

that was done beautifully ... you should continue with echos.

I went to explore the crashed ship first before getting the Gravity Boots. But I still managed to avoid getting trapped by the Gravity Trap.

The original Metroid on the NES in the late 1980s was the first video game with an ending that I completed. I had played all the games and was familiar with the larger story when Metroid Prime 1 came out... so it hit especially hard for me when I came into the game knowing that it followed immediately after Metroid 1 and the derelict frigate was one of the Space Pirate vessels that fled Zebes, with Samus in pursuit.

Good narration! One thing, though: Samus doesn’t just want to stop the Space Pirates. She wants to annihilate them. They were responsible for the deaths of her human family and the severe culling of her adoptive Chozo family. They’re so afraid of her for that reason.

Great vid. Looking forward to you metroid prime 2 and 3 vids.

This was also my first Metroid game. It blew me away. I just remember being captivated by the environment. Even though I didn't know much about the story (and probably skipped through a lot of it because I was 9), I just had a sense of something being totally off about everything. There were signs of life, statues, buildings, etc. But where was everybody? The space pirates didn't seem to fit the mold of the native species. I just had a sense of having *just* missed something devastating.

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Now that the gorgeous remaster of this game has released on Switch, I think a remaster of this Stories Retold for MP1 would be awesome 😄

The soundtrack of the Prime games still gives me chills

This is HIGHLEY underrated.

Such a great video I loved how you talked through your journey it made the video so interesting I also played this game as a kid but did not know about the whole story behind the planet and chozo

Fun fact: this version of the story is actually VERY VERY different from the later versions of the game that would be released (this version is known as the NTSC version). The PAL version (including the version in the Metroid Prime trilogy) has an alternate story to the initial American released versions. Although both stories are very interesting in their own right. they are both technically canonical since the outcome of the plots are the same and don't heavily affect the future games in the timeline of the plot. Very excellent definitely subscribing btw! But also I have a number of other minor corrections and interesting things to tell you! The fight with Meta-Ridley seems kind of underwhelming in how it's portrayed here, with context Ridley murdered Samus Aran's human parents and then not long after, her Chozo caretakers who had raised her. Also, something to note is that the Metroid Prime is NOT the meteor, after playing Metroid Prime 3 it can be discerned that the meteor is actually a leviathan seed originating from the home planet of Phazon, the living planet known as Phaaze. It can be deduced that the Metroid Prime is the product of a Phazon Metroid absorbing the Phazon Core inside of the leviathan seed and becoming "The Worm". This makes sense because the Metroids may have already come in contact with the planet when the Chozo lived upon it, as they are the Metroid species creators. Although maybe you had described it in this way on purpose? If so I applaud you for doing so, because that makes the surprise of learning Phazons true origins more impactful. This has to be one of my favorite Metroid videos now, the delivery on some of those lines are VERY POWERFUL.

"They'd have invincible army powered by the souls of their enemies" *in my head hears Ermac* "We are many. You are one."

is it okay to say the phazon mines scared me

Gotta love Samus. Responds to a distress call, then immediately proceeds to kill everything on the ship on sight and cause it to crash onto the nearest planet. (Paraphrasing what actually happens, but it's more fun out of context)

The algorithm doing you dirty. This is awesome I wish the lore of prime was something touched on more frequently. nicely done

What a masterpiece of a video. Played this game for the first time at 30 and watching this only got me hyped to start Metroid Prime 2. Thanks a lot!

while samus didn't really "stop the space pirates" (as in they're whole orginiazation or group or whatever thehy call themselves). she did stop them from creating an army of omega pirates, which would've made the space pirates an unstoppable force.

i love this video because it makes me see that im not the only one nerding hardcore over everything metroid prime 1. i mean this game is, ive always said it, top 2 of my favourite games of all time

best content on youtube in a long while friend ! looking forward to see MP2 !!!much love from sweden

Ive played through this game more times than I can count since its release, watched so many speedruns and even take part in the randomizer community stuff for it. I appreciated the design, texturing, story etc etc to a great degree but it slowly just became me loving the actual mechanics of the game along with the environments it takes place in. This video, however, really opened my eyes to what a truly special experience this game is. Its art. The story is incredible, the plot is thrilling, the art is perfect, the environments are stunning and so immersive, the upgrades are rewarding, the difficulty level is fantastic and I could go on. Its what games should be, not just an interactive movie with famous voice actors and quick-time events. This is full immersion. Above all of it, I cant believe it came out in 2002! You really did it justice with this video. Well done, seriously. This has got to be one of the only times ive sat for an hour and done absolutely nothing but watch. You should be proud of yourself!

Ive played this Game over 20 times never gets boring or old. Such a beautiful masterpiece.

this is good. my Prime Tested Stress Disorder is triggered “we climb this elevator” and.....game crashes.”

Haven't gotten far enough into the final battle with Metroid Prime so I'm not sure if he mentions this little detail but it's one of my favorites: One of my absolute favorite bits of lore is where it's told of when the Pirates discovered Prime in it's cavern and tried to tame it as a weapon of their own by equipping it with Chozo tech. Through it's rapid power growth, their experiments got out of their hands and it ended up killing any pirate who were assigned to work with it, and it inadvertently absorbed all the tech that they were trying to equip which is how it's able to do things like launch missiles and use the wave beam and things. That's one thing I love about this game - A detail like that makes absolutely no difference to the gameplay of the battle, and it doesn't give you any particular advantage in reading it, but it does give Prime a backstory for those who have the interest and patience to read through the countless screens throughout the mines and and research facilities. One thing I'm curious about, though, is of all weapons it has available to it, the tractor beam is the only one Prime has but Samus doesn't get throughout the game. I wonder if the developers wrote in this as an option early on, and maybe swapped it out with the Plazma beam at some point?

Loved it! Metroid Prime is my passion but I've never really read the lore or understood the story. Thanks for the good video; it's well formatted and very well written.

I always get goosebumps when the chozo temples statues eyes glow red after u defeat ridley and you hear that normally beautiful choir take on a far more sinister tone, as if the Chozo's rage manifested at that point

Going back to replay this game made me realize that I taught myself how to read through video games. I was able to read the intro text and understand it all (except for roman numerals) when I was four years old. When I realized this and told my parents, apparently I had learned how to read yes and no at 3 from sitting in my dad's lap and watching him play games, and just taking in what the yes and no buttons would do on whatever game he would be playing, but I don't remember any of that at all. Planet stuff I remember was super easy to understand because I nerded out on that stuff hard as hell as a kid, I had a book about the solar system and memorized them in preschool. Really wish they'd actually make a proper PC port for the games, or a proper PC port for MP4. You CAN'T tell me there isn't a market for it. Oh, and I completed the game at 8 with an 82% which I was proud of. the Impact Crater area with fission metroids scared the shit out of me because of how difficult they were to me, and that fear still sticks with me to this day, it's not as hard as when I was 8, but it still freaked me out like I was 8.

In the room meta Ridley was on the space station there was stuff to scan about Ridley . He was remade from parts that was blown up on zebes..after the planet blown up .

Amazing video! Made me re-live this game after so many years! It was a nice fresh reminder about the lore and space pirate data. Thanks! 👍

Just recently played through this game for the 2nd time after watching this video. Man, the way that the story is revealed through the background and optional scanning is fantastic!

This video is about to blow up since the remaster

The stuff about Metroid Prime being encountered creates a huge plot hole since it got out of the impact crater that the space pirates couldn't get into, then got back into this supposedly impenetrable crater. Later versions of the game changed the logs to fix this plot-hole.

From what I understand, from the comics or non-game lore of Metroid, Samus was actually raised by the Chozo, on some planet, so these Chozo would probably know of her

Great video! I always love to hear when people analize and dissect one of my favourite games of all time. One little nitpick, however, would be about Metroid Prime itself. If i'm not mistaken, the pirate data you narrated, about encountering the creature in a cave and it assimilating pirate weaponry is on the NTSC version, which was later retconned in favour of the PAL version. Either way, it doesn't change much in the great scheme of things. Very excited for that Prime 2 video.

Took me a while to find this by chance, I love your narration it’s really well placed throughout the video and well paced overall ♥️♥️🧐 This is the prophecy I’ve been transcribed so long ago

How does this guy have less than 200 subs and have this quality of content?

Still wish there were a "crater escape sequence," the timer at the end of prime 2 ALMOST scratched the escape immediately sequence itch. They teased us with the pirate frigate orpheon.

Bro i almost shit myself when i saw how low your view and subcount is. this is literally one of the best videos on metroid prime i have seen.

So I never played any of these. Ever since I got the switch I’ve been in love, only playing my Nintendo switch. I can’t wait to try out prime 4

I hope you read this and pin it because I have to mention this: Timestamp: 33:29 Space Pirate Log Entry 11.156.9 - that Log entry has been retconned from the Metroid Prime story - the log has been changed in the trilogy version of the game. I don't exactly know what the log was replaced with - however, the reason the log entry was changed was that it implied that the space pirates where able to enter the impact crater (something that they spent the entire game trying to do) found Metroid Prime (which was cocooned deep in the Leviathan Seed) - document it, pacify it to an extent and leave the impact crater while still trying to find a way to access it.

After watching this amazing and well made video I cant understand why you have only 800 subscribes! Anyway, Metroid Prime is my all time favorite game. Back at the time when I first play it the storyline was far from my sight, the game mechanics and all the lonely feeling got me. Again, amazing achievement. Keep it up.

Metroid will always have a special place in my heart. My firsr game ever.

Not sure if you've seen her videos, but this series reminds me of The Lady of Lore, a storyteller reading video game stories like a children's book. Her stories on the legend of Zelda are some of my favorite versions. I highly recommend.

Simply amazing as I’m doing a play through of all the Metroid games in order that I can play currently. You really caught the image of the story through narration and I love it

XIII is 13 not 8, but other than that this was a very very solid presentation. Good job~

Can’t believe you skimmed past my favorite part of the game (which everyone else seems to hate lol): The Chozo Artifacts! To me, it was like a final lap through the world and I loved it

Amazing video, dude! Your analysis was fantastic! I only got into Metroid about 2 years ago, and I've loved every single game. Metroid Prime was such a challenge for me the first time-- I remember finally beating the Omega Pirate with only 4 energy points remaining, and the Chozo ghosts' music honestly still freaks me out. XD The Scan Visor and lore are two of my favorite things about the entire Prime Trilogy, and I loved learning about Tallon IV's story through the Chozo, and all of the Space Pirate logs. The bit about the Morph Ball experiments still cracks me up! I also remember reading the first mention of Metroid Prime in their logs and feeling both curious and nervous that there was a creature with the game's name. Anyway, I hope you keep up with this channel! Your work is thorough and wonderfully detailed, and it's awesome how much attention you pay to the story! Best of luck!

Great video! And I’m sure it’s been pointed out already, but something very important to the lore of this series is that Samus is one of the final, living legacies of the Chozo. She was raised by them after her family was killed my Ridley and so things take an even darker turn if you consider Samus is walking through the decaying ruins of her people and uncovering a piece of their story she was until now unaware of. And it also becomes clear why she is able to find so many upgrades that are compatible with her suit and why some of the puzzles cater to her abilities so well. It’s almost as if the spirits of the chozo recognize that one of their own has returned to breathe new hope into their tragic fate

I just discovered these vids while on a prime content binge. Extremely good stuff. Hope you can do this for Corruption, as well as Prime 4 eventually

The Chozo are birds and the Space Pirates are bugs.

I love your “Stories Retold” series. Very different from anyone else’s content out there. Love this channel. 😀😎

What he said. Truly mesmerizing explanation.

Great video and amazing story telling/recapping. I had started playing the game a while ago and had nearly finished it but then stopped. Now, months after, I continued the game and finished it but forgot most of the game's lore, so I wanted to get that refreshed, and I am really glad I found this video. Not only was this recapped very well, but it was also entertaining and very clear!

Thanks for your hard work! Thoroughly enjoyed this. I’m actually about to battle Thardus (a second time) on Dolphin in HD. If you haven’t yet, DO IT. Game pretty

even I first played, when I saw the planets and it had sr388 or zebes, I forget which... I was shocked, 1st time playing. also, I loved the magmoor caverns. brought back one of my favorite songs, and it was just as harsh playing lol. ptsd!

I wanna read the log book entry from the Pirate Scientist who figured out how to harvest energy from Metroids between Prime and Echoes. One thing I noticed on this playthrough was how they've suddenly figured out how to use Metroids as power sources in Agon Wastes

i know this was posted two years ago, but i played the first metroid prime game like a million years ago, but never had the chance to play prime 2 or 3, until now! but i could barely remember what happened in the first game, but didnt feel like replaying it when i so deeply want to jump right into echoes having never been able to play it, so this is a great in depth recap!

" ... covered in chiseled stones, ancient tech, and lots and lots of sand ... sorry Anakin" *hit subscribe frenetically* but really, awesome vid, it still made me realize things I didn't see in one of my favorites games ever, keep up the good work, eager to see your work on Echoes and Corruption !

This is an incredible video thank you

How do you have under a thousand subs? The quality is insane, keep it up!

You should do one of these videos for each of the prime games including prime 4 whenever that comes out

What I interpret with Prime 1's main objective is not saving the Chozo or stopping Prime. However, causing to go turn into Dark Samus and thus leave the planet ends up purging the Phazon from Tallon IV and letting the Planet have a fighting chance to live again. ( I also headcannon that the Chozo ghosts, now freed from the corruption, end up helping the planet bloom once again and Tallon IV becomes a new colony a few years down the line)

Fantastic work on a game I've played through dozens of times and spent many, many hundreds of hours sequence breaking, glitching and speedrunning - definitely my favourite game! It's crazy how (let's say: "relatively") unaware I'd always stayed of the story. I appreciate the many great details and I especially loved your dissecting of "missions accomplished (or not)" at the end!

Thank you for this! I finally played through the trilogy for the first time, but I had a hard time understanding the story of the first one especially since so much focus was on backtracking lol.

I started looking up Metroid stuff out of nostalgia, thanks for this video and you’ve earned a subscriber!

I'm an older gamer, was always a big fan of Metroid and Nintendo, and of course I actually got a cube before relenting on the PS2 to play FFX... but anyway, I of course adored this game, and one of my favorite gaming memories was getting the chance to show it to the son of my older cousin who was visiting while I was on break from college... Just a handful of days that we had but it was so fun, as a 20-ish year old, to introduce Metroid to a kid, I think he was around 9-10 or whatever, and watch him fall in love with everything about it. It was so much fun giving him tips or hints when he needed them but letting him do it himself as much as he could, which was really well (smart kid).

Both of your videos on this game are amazing. I especially love your dramatic reading of that log entry at 36:48 - 38:05; your delivery, the cutscene of the tower being activated and rising up, the music (one of the best tracks in the game), and the actual message of the dying Chozo all combine really well. I honestly wouldn’t change a thing about how you make these videos, they turned out so well and I love how you approach the story, presentation, and themes of this incredible game. I got this for Christmas as a kid and it has always been a favorite of mine, but rarely seems to get thorough, in-depth analysis from people who actually seem to love the game (most retrospectives seem to respect it because of its reputation while also wanting to critique it, as opposed to connecting with it on a personal level and really seeing the game for what it is). I appreciate your approach to the lore as story-telling, since it’s easy for people to ignore it and say “there really isn’t much story.” A lot of games rely on lore to flesh out their world but use supplementary material like books or wiki articles when reading is required, and the Prime games do a good job of at least keeping that reading in-game and in-universe; it’s not the player going on a website to look up background info, it’s Samus herself reading from her personal research log after scanning something in her environment, and her learning the tragic history of the Chozo and of Tallon IV is its own little story...one that is quite optional if the player chooses to even engage with it.

Bro, YESSSS!!!! Just subbed, and so glad you announced an Echos video! Can’t wait to see more! Honestly, you might as well go through all the Metroid games at this point and I will watch them all so many times 😂

Just hear to give my thanks , just finished Prime 1 and got the story for the most part . But with your thoughts and explaining it made more sense .Very impressive video! Dread was my first Metroid, now in playing Prime Trilogy back to back , I’m hooked!

incredible video. Prime is an incredible science fiction mystery. Especially since a player could potentially miss that a mystery is even happening!

Wow this video is a gem. I hope it blows up someday, thanks for your work :)

Had to come back to your video after the remaster came out. Its great to see people back into this game along with a whole new generation. Glad the remaster treated this game with a lot of respect.

Really enjoying your analysis so far, and the regular injection of lore! One small correction, you seemed to think that you need the space jump to reach the Chozo Temple, and the Pirate data on the path there. You don’t, and I found the temple first when I originally played the game. Same for several playthroughs I’ve watched on RU-vid. I appreciate your perspective, and what that data means if you find it when you did, but for me it was an immediate acknowledgment that the Pirates beat Samus to the planet, and that I would encounter them again.

I know I'm a year late but what an amazing video! I'm sure this took a long time and was at times a pain in the butt to make, but you pulled it off beautifully. Great job, man!

The video was amazing dude. The only thing I can say to work on (I know the video is pretty old) is maybe get like one of those foam pads to put in front of the mic, or back away from the mic a little. Aside from that amazing job!

Wow, this is a brilliant video. Extremely well-made, I could tell a lot of love and passion went into making this. Well done

Man I really hope you continue the series! This was do so great. Please keep it up!

I don’t know how I forgot to sub to you after this video but I did now 💯💯💯💯 you deserve many many subs , great work , love to re visit this video

Such a brilliant video. Best story recap of any game I’ve ever seen. It’s basically an immersive walkthrough experiencing the game as if you’re the player. Well done my man! Definitely gonna watch Echoes and eagerly await Corruption so I can relive these amazing games (given that I unfortunately don’t have the means to replay them)!

The funny thing about the intro monologue you did before Samus's ship docked at the frigate was that originally there WAS a planned monologued intro. It was Samus recapping the events of the games up until that point.

Honestly love the series so much im happy it got remastered on switch

Great video! Good job. I’ve always loved the way this game presents its story.

22:03 class 13 Westland. In Roman numbers X is 10, V is 5. Small correction in your beautiful video. Keep it up! This is awesome. You gained a sub!

Metroid prime was the first person game I played as an 10 year old. I was fucking terrified just playing the first level boss but man, this was one of the best games I've ever played. I never got to play Echoes but I purchased it today, just gotta wait a month for it to get here. Aside from MP, second favorite game was Skyrim.

I would argue that Samus "saved" the Chozo in a sense. In Metroid lore, the Chozo found a way to ascend into another stage of existence (their version of "heaven"). The Chozo who were corrupted by Phazon went into madness and descended into a darker stage of existence (their version of "hell"). By destroying Phazon, Samus might have set those Chozo ghosts free to join their brothers in big bird heaven. I would argue that Samus did "save" the Chozo" so to speak.

The chozo are not people... They're birds.. Lol, I loved your video, kudos from another Metroidphile.

Had my ass caught at the first few seconds of the video, amazing work friendo

Thanks for this men, thanks!

Wow man I gotta tell ya... that was amazing! You nailed it 👏 I am seareosly impressed im subscribing!

Well made video. Great explanation.

This and wind waker were the first time i had to swallow my words about a game not working out.I doubted prime from the first reveal,from nintendo letting a unknown dev make the game to going 3d and the blasfemy (for me at the time) of going first person,all was smelling and tasting flop.As a long fan of super metroid i remember couldnt be more sad, was my favorite franchise becoming a call of duty/medal of honor clone?.I couldnt play it on launch,heard the praises but couldnt believe,in my mind was just hype for a strong franchise comming back, but when i played on the wii i thought "man this is game design perfection".All three games were master pieces on its own rights but prime hits the heart more, the sense of isolation and imersion that they achieved...man.When i finally beat it, i remember saying out loud " thank you Retro Studios, and forgive me for doubting you".

Amazing video, love to know any detail surrounding this game/series

Small detail : The pirate logbook entry in Phazon Mines which tells that they discovered the Metroid Prime actually only exists in the american versions of the game. So that raises the question if it is cannon. As part 1 of echoes is already out, must say that you are doing a great and so underrated job on these games so far... I love this content ^-^

first game ive beaten since i was 12 and i couldnt have picked a better game. this was really great to skim through anytime i was feeling burned out on a section great job.

"The Chozo... are all gone." Metroid lore: "Well, yes, but actually, no."

I can't be the only one that thinks that Halo gets a lot of its story inspiration from Metroid am I?

That log entry about them controlling Metroids at this point in the timeline they already found a way (that was destroyed by Samus) mother brain

Great video! It was great to revisit an all time favorite. Love the way you chose to tell the story.