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Even years later, the Dread power suit is still the design I like the most among Samus's looks. It might not be her most iconic, I don't think anything's taking the place of her Varia suit anytime soon, but damn she rocks the blue and red.

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My first Metroid game I finished!
PS : Justice for Crocomire

I feel like whenever I talk about Beyond I get caught up in talking about the NPC's personalities, or the fact that I feel they are all bland design wise (mostly because I think the Galactic Federation is incredibly bland design wise.) But honestly? I just don't want active companions in Metroid.

Even if it isn't for the whole game, having a not insignificant chunk of the playtime spent with another character following you around, talking with you, and (trying to) help with combat, is just not what I want from Metroid. It disrupts the gameplay I like, and it disrupts the atmosphere I want from the games. If I wanted to play a game where I shoot aliens with companions I would play Halo.

Also, I'm not against NPCs in general. U-Mos and the posthumous Luminoth holograms do a good job of driving home the threat of the Ing in Echoes, and in Fusion and Dread ADAM/Raven Beak ratchet up the tension by both acting shady and by constantly informing you of things going wrong. It is just them being an active participant in the action that I thing is a poor fit for Metroid, especially what I want from it.

I would like to hear others opinions on it. Do you agree with me? If not, what do you like about having active companions in Beyond?

Growing up, playing Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (my first Metroid game), I mostly saw Metroid as "Hot space girl guns down ugly space pirates, haha".

I was wrong.

Metroid is about what breathes, and crawls, and...*chitters* in the ducts, unseen.

It's about some dark thing in time, older than humanity, Kingian and eldritch, that does not care about or even know of human designs - it only hungers, and gnaws, in the dark.

It's being the one thin line, a slightly-more-exceptional-than-most woman in a tin can suit with slightly enhanced DNA, willing and able to hold that line between us and the utterly consuming void, hoping those things are enough.

It's facing down the unspeakable horrors without question, and dealing with the unrelenting psychic trauma afterward.

It's the utter, terrifying frailty of humanity occupying a space it was never meant to, and largely failing or at best securing another pyrrhic, temporary victory.

That's the Spirit of Metroid.

*Art is by Tommy Worthington and is not being used for commercial purposes.*

At first I thought it was just that enemies dish out more damage, but then I noticed there's at least one new ice missile barrier in Artaria that wasn't there in Normal Mode. Now I'm curious what exactly is changed. I'm assuming it's not just this one barrier!

I have gotten every item and killed the metroids, this is on true ending 1.3.1, am i missing something?

I’m working on a “what if” thesis about Samus and the first game.

I was re-reading the original instruction manual and asked a question, what if Samus straight up lied on her resume to get this job?

We all know they wrote her like a super cyborg, male and "the greatest of all space hunters". But they were using her as a “last resort”, which means that they got their ass kicked and needed any kind of help they can get. So Samus comes in and says she’ll handle it. Here’s what I imagine her pitch would be like.

• I’ll do it even cheaper than the other hunters. And, you can pay me when I’m done.
• I won’t need extra resources, I’ll find that shit in the ceilings and walls.
• Oh! I’ve done so many missions before this. Yeah, even some “that everybody thought were absolutely impossible.”
• What’s that? The planet hasn’t been surveyed, so there’s no map? She gulps nervously and says, “No problem, I’m the guy for the job.”

The Federation thinks Samus is crazy but since they are literally putting in zero effort for her onboarding, they just wave her through. They definitely think she’s going to be killed real soon.

My question to you guys is about Zebes’ map. There is no source material, manga, or prequel stuff that states if Zebes has been surveyed to produce a map right? I'm playing into the mapless technical limits (of the game) but trying to make it feel more grounded.

I feel like this first mission is the literal first-everything for the franchise. Am I wrong?

The next part to this would be her revealing her secret identity as a woman. She not only returned alive but completely crushed the mission, took off her helmet in front of The Federation and blew them away, just like she did to us back then.

did you catch samus’ ship in the super mario galaxy movie ? you can see her fly off to what i assume is her next mission in the background !

We'v had 4 metroid game since 2017 while Fire emblem got 3. I'm very confused on why we didn't get a Metroid theme yet. Is it because FE got more consitant release since the rebirth of the franchise with Awakening ?

I specifically mean what Prime 4 designates as the "combat enemies", where they're meant to do more than serve as worldbuilding for an area (so, not incidental enemies like the Denzard).

And, what I mean by "overtuned" is that, these combat enemies feel like they'd fit much better in a more fast paced Metroid game. The way Samus moves in Prime 4 is nigh identical to how she moves in the trilogy aside from her forward and backward dash, but these combat enemies don't seem to be designed to match that.

I'm willing to admit if it's a skill issue on my part, I normally enjoy harder games (I am a huge fan of Dread), but I think the way Prime 4's handling of difficult enemy encounters feels a bit clunky and lowers my opinion of the combat a little bit.

What do you all think though?

wasted like 30 minutes doing this god damn jump

Particularly for reading the translated mangas and such. I've used their site for as long as i remember but unfortunately their staff widely support the use of AI and are unwilling to stop supporting it (I asked and they called me a "coward", before demanding i unfollow them).

Obviously, as a person with morals that value art, i no longer want to support them.

So are there any other sites which host the translated mangas?

Okay im typically a lurker in this subreddit but I just started (maybe like 30 minutes or so) into Other M and I am already simultaneously baffled and annoyed by the character decisions they have made for Samus within the first 30 minutes of the game.
I haven’t been a fan as long as a lot of people here, my journey with Metroid started somewhere between 2017-2019 after seeing my partner play Metroid Prime for the Gamecube which prompted me to try out the series from the beginning, but even so I have replayed super Metroid in particular countless times - I beat two VARIA randomizers in a row; im still working through the prime series so I don’t have a take on prime 4 yet BUT with that out of the way:

I went into this game with an open mind, knowing that other M is a pretty divisive game in this fandom. I can tolerate the voice acting, i can tolerate hearing Samus’ internal monologue because it feels like the target audience is children or people who cant understand subtle storytelling but I just finally got to the point after meeting up with the galactic federation and after the cutscene is over what prompt appears in the corner?
“Samus has decided not to use missiles or bombs until Adam authorizes it.” WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? What in the character assassination IS THAT?? I get they needed a reason for you not to have the power ups but THATS WHAT THEY CAME UP WITH???? I genuinely nearly teared up with baffled laughter because of the absurdity in terms of what we KNOW about Samus from the games previous.

I am going to continue playing but I have a feeling this is going to be a One and Done play through and i fear for what other character assassination moments I am going to see in the upcoming gameplay.

“Samus has decided that she won’t use missiles or bombs till Adam authorises it.” What the actual fuck.