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This is actually very true not a lot of people mention. I believe the opposite is also true with games like Metroid Prime that had some speedrunning skips patched out of the players choice release

Interesting to hear, I always found them to be way worse lol

I never knew you could use missiles I always heard it was with the shine spark, thats awesome!

@@Brandt2698 well its different blocks to be clear, they are the ones directly in front of the door, so about 3 or 4 away from the speed booster blocks. People just thought it had to be speed booster because that's technically how you get it the normal way (cause the ball launcher counts as that). But people only discovered the missile blocks later because of the Power Bombs revealing them.

That must take a lot of patience not being able to shoot more than three feet. Maybe one day I’ll make a video about the minimalist run in these games

@@Brandt2698 Even worse than no long Beam is no Power Grip. Its technically possible but the amount of wall jumping is a bit much, lol.

I think these are all fair points. I don’t mind the difficulty, and also don’t think many connection to super Metroid is necessary since it isn’t remaking that game. (Also super Metroid does take place after so that could be when fake Kraid appeared?) I also believe the game still has a decent enough balance with the statues and intuitive design. I do agree the final boss for SURE could have been better designed and more climactic

@@Brandt2698 the fake kraid thing is seriously one of my biggest sticking points actually. That whole sequence is carefully designed to play on and subvert the expectations of those who played the original. Keep in mind the fact that SM even having a fake version of kraid isn't the only callback happening there. It's also referencing the fact that players will be expecting kraid to be SMALL, but then get blindsided when he rises out of the ground like Godzilla. If kraid was always huge, the surprise falls completely flat. I just want people to experience the classic trilogy the way it was always intended rather than the way most people experience it now. It's basically like the star wars special editions where in their zeal to "fix" the classic they also end up ruining it somewhat.

​@@BlondeBarbarianFusion is overrated

I definitely agree with Fake Kraid, BUT its not because of SM references (because SM was referencing the Original in the first place and ZM has all the references besides Kraid) But because Fake Kraid was in the original game as well, in fact it was far more devious as he looked exactly the same except his color, so if you didn't explore everywhere to find the real one, you would go all the way to the Tourian entrance only to discover its still not unlocked. I also remember fake Kraid always respawning, as another clue he's not the real one. My only possible reason for why they didn't include him was because the Map shows where the area boss is, and because most players would likely be familiar with Kraid being known for his size at this point, making the fake one more obviously fake to the degree that most people wouldn't even realize he is meant to be a red herring. I still would have left him in, even as a bonus boss. the game is delicately balanced in its difficulty, it literally couldn't be harder without messing up the other playstyles it supports (like 15%). Perhaps if they had done more with 100% runs increasing difficulty somehow. Hard mode is difficult enough though, so the game isn't ridiculously easy, and a normal mode 15% is much more challenging than Hard if you still need a challenge. so I don't understand the issue? If you want difficulty than this game can provide that. The final boss is just an add-on reference to Meta-Ridley from Prime, as a way to bridge the gap for the story (much in the same way Meta-Ridley is in SR). Its just bonus content because the main game would have been too short otherwise and they didn't want to massively change the world map from the original. My main issue is with the map design of the final area, its too annoying to navigate, but at least you don't need to spend much time there. The game is naturally guiding the player, you don't need the hint statues. But there was a genuine fear at the timje that most players hated exploring, as Metroidvanias weren't as popular, so they wanted this game to be someone's first game in the genre and tried to accomodate as best they could. Nowadays people are very familiar with Metroidvanias and they are very popular, so the statues wouldn't be needed, but it was a different time back then and developers weren't as certain about the appeal. At least the statues only give a general clue on where to go but nothing on how to get there, so it still requires searching on your own. If the statues were removed then nothing would change because the game is so good at naturally guiding the player, they just added it as extra help. It just feels like "look, a marker! BAD DESIGN" while ignoring all the good design surrounding it.

This is sorta good point since the crypticness is lost in Zero Mission since it’s very straight forward. But as I’m sure you realized I more than prefer zero missions much better playability and fun factor, as well as all of the sequence breaks to somewhat envoke this open ended feeling

@@Brandt2698oh i understand completely. i wasn’t expecting the remake to be nearly as open, or require me to draw my own map or anything. i just wish there was some sort of middle ground between this and the original

@@Hutch2Muchcould have been an « original style » mode or something like that perhaps

This is a good point, I don't know that many shinespark sequence breaks besides the Screw Attack one I mentioned. This definitely would have been a more fun reward than getting like five extra missiles

this is kinda hilarious because (imo) samus looks like shit throughout that entire game lmao

@@Hutch2Much Of cause it looks like shit to us, the game is soon 40 years old. I think what they meant was more that u in no way could still look at it and recognize that its a crawling character.

Dude Metroid isa guy just like Zelda is😂😂😂😂

@@rep9303 Dam i had it wrong the entire time. If i would have just know that i save Link in every Zelda game xD

His name is METROID….

Yeah Ridley is basicly just a DPS Check and the little pea shooter on MB fights shouldnt have knockback. Also getting the Powerbombs in Tourian as a last Key to open the last door to MB would have been a better idea

I agree a lot!

If by metro you mean Metroid on the NES, then I would definitely agree

@@Brandt2698 yes that’s what I meant I played zero mission on the switch

@@AndDeathForAll82 I never understood why they call them there they don’t play the same castlevania may have hidden items like vania but vania is definitely linear for the most part meaning not having to back track but Metroid is more like resident evil were back tracking is definitely present in the game castlevania for the most part your just forward and up to an end goal to fight a boss Metroid is more exploration like the Spencer mansion in resident evil so it’s definitely more like resident evil than it ever was like castle vania I think in my opinion

@@fantasticdavidson1179 Symphony of the Night copied a lot about Super Metroid and added RPG elements, so games like it ended up being called Metroidvania. It’s annoying, but it’s fine. Where I draw the line is when people use that term to describe Metroid itself. That’s nonsense. It contains nothing that Castlevania later added, so it really doesn’t fit Metroid at all. Metroid is just Metroid. SotN and games like it, are Metroidvania. Putting that label on Metroid can confuse newer gamers and make them think the franchises influenced each other, but the influence was completely one-sided. Also, games that are inspired by Metroid, but don’t have RPG elements, should not be called Metroidvania. It only makes sense if the game is clearly influenced by SotN.

@@fantasticdavidson1179Allow me to explain. There are 2 types of Castlevania games. There’s “Classicvania” games like Super Castlevania 4 where you play through linear stages, and “Metroidvania” games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night that plays through non-linear areas like Metroid. You seem to have mistaken the “Classicvania” games with the “Metroidvania” games. I hope this cleared things up.

I AGREE

I mean are we gonna call Hollow Knight, Ori, Pseudoregalia and others « Metroid games »? The only reason they’re called « Metroidvania » is cus they tried to do a similar genre to those 2 franchises, same way we call any game resembling Dark Souls a Souls-Like or any game resembling Rogue (1980) a Rogue-Like; plus even tho they’re made by FromSoftware, Elden Ring and the other non-darksouls games are called Soulsbornes (also souls-like). Perhaps Metroid-Like could work (even though it still technically wasn’t the first game like that) but idk cus Symphony of the Night (and the other castlevanias for that matter) was also very important for the genre with how it alters the similar to be more unique. Or we could just call them Search-Action games that works too

No he isnt dude shut up

WHAT THE FUCK

@@Oliver_Glez no Metroid is a creature in fictional game from outer space samus is a girl

@@fantasticdavidson1179metroid is the girl dude, the green things are the samuses😂😂😂

Duh. Metroid is a robot, and all robots are girls