show of hands, how many of you were legitimately pissed off and wanted revenge on mother brain when he killed our little baby friend who saved us in the end?
Stan if you beat the one on Gameboy, Samus spares the baby metroid because it hatches and thinks she is its morher. The whole game basically sends you on a wild goose chase to rescue it, which is why it pissed so many people off when Mother Brain killed it.
Saving the animals does make a difference. After the planet explodes and the yellow ship is flying away, there is a small white dot moving from the planet off the right side of the screen. This only appears of you save the animals. Nintendo says that is their ship.
You know whats insane about this fact? I bought Metroid when it first came out, I was just a child. I've actually physically owned the cartridge and beaten this game hundreds of times, and it took until the advent of the internet for me to find out this fact. It was like an Easter Egg had traveled through time to surprise and delight me once again with this game If you blink you miss it, but saving the animals totally makes a difference!!
Oh god, I just realized that after it tires to eat Samus and realizes who she is and starts floating above her, it's making the same chirping noises it does when you first hatch it in Metroid II...
@@FTUGF Yes... yes it was. That's how the metroids feed. They latch on and drain energy until their target is lifeless. That's how they have worked in every single metroid game ever. It stops feeding right before it kills you because it remembers that you're the "mother" it imprinted on when you hatched it and fed it to help you escape at the end of Metroid 2. That's why it starts making the same chirping noises it did back then, and why it later protects you when Mother Brain is trying to kill you. Please turn off the insulting language, it just makes you look like a bored child who's about to get in trouble on Zoom.
@@FTUGF It feeds on her before you reach Mother Brain, in the tunnel with all the dusted corpses before the energy refill station. Actually, 1 room before the energy refill, since she leaves you at 1 HP. She then comes to rescue after you have fought Mother Brain and gives you back that energy and whatever else she consumed from the other monsters she ate, and then you absorb the rest after Mother Brain kills her and the corpse falls onto you. That first time, when she remembers who you are and stops feeding when you're at 1HP, is the event I was talking about.
This was honestly one of the greatest vg moments back in the day from when you see the boss statue's eye gems shattering to Mother Brain's death. So many epic moments: your Metroid realizing it's you and not killing you, the glass shattering effect on Mother Brain's tank, you realizing it's not over yet, that satisfying yet terrifyingly unavoidable beam attack she has, your Metroid's help and sacrifice and finally it giving you the epic laser to blast that ugly bitch to hell. Not many games I know to string events like this.
exactly what I thought when I was a kid playing this, I was like "Is there some way I can avoid that move"? It's not fair! I was honestly about to reset the game ESPECIALLY when I couldn't move after the last attack mother brain did.
yeah, but if you dont save them in this one, they still come in the next. if there was a remake with the one addition of porting saves, then that'd be cool, cuz then metroid fusion would have the good ending, or the bad one, wheer samus crashes into the station
Kind of sad that most people are all like "what is that weird metroid doing, is it helping?" Metroid II was a great game worth being played and everyone who would have finished the game would know who that metroid was and maybe even be a little bit saddened that it died while giving you back your health, despite being attacked.
Even without playing Metroid II, everyone who play Metroid III from the start should know that since it is explained at the beginning of this game, it is literally said that the metroid think of Samus as his mother.
That Metroid cry, though. That's fucking emotional. I read at some point a fanfic someone did of this battle. It was pretty dark, described some of the damage that Samus went through with Mother Brain's hyper beam: disintegrating part of her arm and destroying her arm cannon, amongst other things. The Metroid healing her, while calling her 'mother' (as that's what the Metroid thought she was). It made the next part a little emotional.
Hontoni Arigato I guess the creator (guess Miyamoto san) was hugely inspired by the mythology of the Alien movie. That's the reason why Ripley and Samus are my absolute all time favorite fictional figures. Strong women who fight all alone agains aliens.
ash hw Nope, it was Gunpei Yokoi (director of the team, he did not create itself), another great Nintendo staff, creator of Game&Watch, Game Boy and D-Pad. But yes, Metroid franchise is initially an Alien tribute : one of most important boss, Ridley, is named like Ridley Scott, obviously.
Hontoni Arigato I don't count Prometheus, because it makes Alien v. Predator 1 and 2 not happen. Those two movies are way better so Prometheus gets the boot.
The reason why that giant metroid didnt kill you was because He's the little baby metroid that samus brought at the start of the game in the story, so he thought that sammus was his mommy.
@@nathanael06lewis10 No, it attacked because it didn't recognize Samus at first. Then it stopped before she was dead because it realized, and that's why it made the sad noise and ran away.
“1994 Nintendo”. I can’t explain why, but I always get chills around that part. Samus is capping off the end of an era in such a glorious fashion that she departs into the dark unknown ready for whatever the future holds in store for her.
They're quite frankly the best graphics I have ever seen for SNES. Including Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean. Super Metroid is so detailed, bright, colorful, and vivid, and the lighting effects blew me away. I never knew the Super Nintendo was capable of switching palettes like that.
@@joshua.alvane It's pretty normal lightning effects for 16 bit consoles. Even the Mega Drive can do that with Shadow & Highlight. That being said, many of the environments were absolutely amazing in how they were shown. Super Metroid was just overall an impressive game for 1994 on the SNES, being one of the first (ever?) games that had 24 Megabits on the cartridge. Perhaps what I love most with the memory upgrade are the detailed and varied backgrounds throughout the game. Not a single area of the game looked bland.
This ending video is, BY FAR, the BEST ending video EVER. The way the player plays is very perfect. Just take a look at 4:40 during the tense moment when the ''Hostile incoming'' were playing in the backgroud, Samus just gets ready to fight with the lil' monster just before it was attacked, later when the Metroid comes up to attack the monster, Samus 's reaction is just awesome, she gets shock and jumps, and then, when Metroid kills the monster, Samus realizes she would be the next one and she starts shooting it. The player just plays like he was there, even knowing that he either couldn't kill it or get killed. Another great part is at 8:57, the missiles runs out exactly the moment when Mother brain attacks Samus with no mercy. In my opinion, Mother brain's attack wouldn't have the same effect if Samus weren't with all the energy complete, like the more is complete, the more the scene is longer and poweful. Saving the animals just ends this final in the best way possible. I hope this video never gets deleted or the channel, because I always come back here to watch this masterpiece specially to see the parts I mentioned.
i just love the little touches like how mother brain goes back in fear after the metroids death. perfectly captures how powerful samus is with the hyper beam!
They make you think, oh just like the original Metroid, this is seriously the final boss?! Woah, wait what? HOLY MOTHER OF! Ok, I got this... my attacks do literally nothing. PANIC NOW, OH GOD, THAT BEAM!!! I CAN'T MOVE!!!! This is it, I'm done for and... BOOM! The Metroid Larva!? Wait a second, it was you from the beginning! YEAH, KILL THAT DUDE! Wait no, don't kill me! Oh, healing ok. Umm the guy is getting back up. *laser* ... no, you, you... *cries* YOU WILL PAY! Simply the shot of your beam has energy equivalent to the center of the sun. TAKE THAT A**HOLE! Killed you, see ya in hell and TIME BOMB!!! 3 minutes! RUN LIKE YOU'RE ESCAPING A CONCENTRATION CAMP. 1 Minute left!!! I made it! Wooh! *Planet explodes* And that is how Samus makes an exit
What other game brings out so many emotions and feelings in just its last 10 minutes? Skepticism, confusion, excitement, fear, sadness equivalent to an old classic book with a dog in it, heart racing, and finally, relief.
When I played this for the first time and the self destruct started counting do I was like "holy shit, RUNNN".....anyone else have that kind of reaction?
This is by far the most dramatic and stunning climaxes of any Metroid game. I love watching the sequence when Zebes explodes. It's honestly kind of harrowing. First is the shot of the scorched surface flooding with lava as the toxic gases obscure its view. As the shot zooms out to the upper atmosphere, the clouds converge, almost like curtains. Like it's sealing the planet's doom and everything on it, all the creatures and places you traversed. We zoom out one last time to see the planet enshrouded in a storm of turbulent cloud, concealing the hell that's building beneath, accompanied by a realistic sounds of hurricane-force winds. There is no music. The tension is swung to an alarming high as the atmosphere is burned away to reveal a charred planet, the crust shattering from the fearsome force of the eruptions. Finally, to a sound that fits it perfectly, the planet explodes in a cataclysmic nova, distorting the view of the outside universe and shining blindingly bright. The tension is released. Somehow, that buildup gives a surprising sense of scale. Better than any other Metroid game, SM conveys just how big the planet is. This is all the more terrifying when you think about how powerful the pirates are to be able to manufacture a self-destruct with that level of power.
For that selfless act of "Saving the creatures has no effect but..' line, as long as this vid exists, you have a place in my utube lists. Heres, evermore, to nerdy good deeds.
The music, sound effects, and visuals in this game were incredible back in the day, and it may just be nostalgia talking but I think it all still holds up now. I felt my shoulders tensing up just watching this video, like I was 11 years old again playing it myself. Memories!
Along with the Baby Metroid dying bringing me sadness, the joy I feel frying Mother Brain with the hyper beam is glorious. You can really FEEL the power hitting her as it thrusts her head back.
12:45 In this room you can power jump to save yourself time. Run along the floor at the bottom...the powerjump against the right wall. You'll be able to pass through the flooring and exit the room. It's
My brothers and I used to sneak up when everyone was asleep just to continue playing this game. So much good memories haha. This is my all time favorite game! :)
It's truly unfortunate that such an epic franchise with so much potential is currently in the hands of clueless, stubborn imbeciles that don't know how (or care) to handle it. Instead we get some watered down, cheapass chibi-fied multiplayer budget handheld title that holds literally NOTHING alike to what defines Metroid in the first place. I play games like Ori and the Blind Forest and can't help but dream of such a Metroid. I'm skeptical Nintendo could even produce such a game today. The best possible hope we can hold out for the future of this series is that it somehow finds itself into the hands of people that actually know what they're doing. Because as it stands right now, Nintendo is not even close to being the same company that created this masterpiece so many years ago. And that's a downright shame. How the mighty have fallen.
+RadicalMongoose Maybe. Though they sure have every clue on how to put out more Marios, Mario Karts, and Smash Bros. Probably because those things sell. Believe me, if Metroid sold a metric fuckton of copies, they'd pay it heed and have every idea where to go. I suspect there's a traditional Metroid in the works that we'll see revealed in the next year or so. They have to know (especially after the E3 backlash) how frustrated the fans are. As much as I think Nintendo is a bumbling idiot a large majority of the time in many respects, they simply can't be that obtuse. Metroid established an entire genre. It is a legendary franchise. Nintendo needs to accord their history its due respect.
it's sad how nowadays they just leech off of old franchises watering them down making them seem like they we never good. it's sad that they ruined metroid and countless other classics.
+Wesly Thomason your comment is so true. indeed, that they leech off the classics and make crappy versions when instead they should be making just as good, different material or a reboot that captures the essence or is better than the original.
I love how the guy plays along on the super metroid scenes, trying to shoot at him and acting scared as if it was his first playthrough (it obviously wasn't).
Loved that you saved the little alien guys at the end, I always did this as well. If you also notice after the planet blows up and Samus' ships comes towards the camera you will see a little spec of light coming from the explosion going towards the right, letting you know they made it safe 😊😊😊
I really like the atmosphere when you enter the post-statue zone, the haunting music and bubble effects make you feel like you entered the final stage of the game it creeped me out as a kid. Love the sound design
I was too young to play this game when it came out, and thus do not suffer from the nostalgia factor, but this is still one of the best games of all time
Un final que me aterrorizó, me dio desesperación, me dio tristeza, me dio rabia, me dio ansiedad, me dio satisfacción, y en general, muchos sentimientos encontrados, la primera vez que lo jugué, literalmente me temblaban las manos, sudaba, y hasta me dio taquicardia de ver que gastaba toda la munición y esa aterradora, espeluznante y chillona criatura llamada Mother Brain como si nada, cuando Samus no se levantaba ante Mother Brain y ésta atacaba a Samus, quien tenía los tanques de energía al mínimo y el sonido de la alarma al borde de la muerte, oprimía todos los botones como un desquiciado al borde de la desesperación (pensando únicamente en que algún otro tipo de arma mas potente que el rayo de plasma y los súper misiles me había faltado por encontrar), cuando ví al "bebe" metroid morir me dio rabia, tristeza e impotencia profunda, cuando le disparaba a Mother Brain con el hiperrayo, lo hacía con mucha represalia, rabia y satisfacción, y ni que decir cuando ví el temporizador de cuando Zebes iba a explotar, otra caída de ansiedad y desesperación... En general, todo un exquisito éxtasis de emociones!! Luego que Zebes explotaba, cuando salían los créditos y sonaba el soundtrack característico de la franquicia, recuerdo que mi corazón palpitaba fuertemente, y hasta admito que me saco un par de lágrimas (literalmente) de tantas emociones, no me importó en lo mas mínimo el ranking y el porcentaje obtenido, no sabia si estaba feliz o triste, satisfecho o insatisfecho, solo recuerdo que solté el control como quien quiere más, y a la vez como quien ya había tenido demasiadas emociones en un instante, jamas, pero JAMÁS me hubiera esperado un final así, y mucho menos en un juego de plataforma en 2D. Fue un final que me había dejado en shock, y por supuesto, uno de los mejores finales jamás vistos en un videjuego!! (que un videojuego logre generar tantas emociones juntas, no puede ser descrito mejor sino como toda una obra de arte). En conclusión, SUPER METROID es un JUEGAZO, es toda una experiencia, una obra maestra hecha videojuego, una joya de las que muy pocas veces uno puede hallar, fue el juego que me introdujo a interesarme en ésta infravalorada y maravillosa franquicia (pese a la ironía de que, en la historia dentro del videojuego, Samus falló la misión, pues el objetivo de rescatar al bebé metroid, que era el fundamento y la única razón por la que ella estaba en Zebes, no se logró, por eso creo que es un gran final, porque es mas realista, no el perfecto final feliz, pero tampoco fue de lo mas fatídico, no fue blanco o negro, mas bien fue gris, deja satisfacción y a su vez, un cierto sinsabor, fue espectacular!!).
LOL Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass der Kanalinhaber aus der Deutschsprachigen Region kommt haha! Super Metroid vor kurzem für mich entdeckt und dabei bin ich über die Videos hier gestolpert. Geil :D
Seeing the name of a dead man at the end credits is really surreal. Especially when that name was all over various games back in the day. Gumpei Yokoi who died in a car crash shortly after the Virtual Boy's failure
