Wow. It's been a while. First of all, thank you all so much for 150 subscribers, it means so much to me :) Also, 135k views on a single video is way more than I could ever ask for in my life. I want to thank each and every one of you who has watched my videos and subscribed to me, it means a lot, even if I haven't talked about it until now. In terms of streaming, I’m into games like Geometry Dash now, but I still have retained my love for old games. I started streaming again a couple weeks ago, and I probably will for a while going forward. Once again, thank you all so much for everything :) -Lukas
What really makes the SA-X terrifying is that it really puts into perspective how creatures like the space pirates see Samus. In a lot of the logs in metroid prime they referred to her a a hunter and she’s basically depicted as an unstoppable killing machine which is exactly what the SA-X is
“ The SA-X. An enemy with my strongest abilities. But does it have reason? Probably not. It's just a killing machine. In my current state, I can't face it head-on. The SA-X is me, only heartless. I must stop it before it learns its potential and threatens the universe... „ -Samus Aran
FEATURED IN Metroid Fusion Metroid Dread (flashback) LOCATION Main Deck Sector 2 (TRO) Sector 6 (NOC) Sector 5 (ARC) Restricted Laboratory ATTACKS Ice Beam Wave Beam Spazer Beam Plasma Beam Screw Attack Super Missiles Power Bomb WEAKNESS Plasma Beam Metroids BATTLE MUSIC VS. SA-X REWARD(S) Ice Beam "Omega Suit" Full restoration of energy and missiles
The SA-X is legitimately terrifying tho. Their is just so many frightening thoughts that go into having an enemy that's a literal copy of Samus herself, full suit power ups and all. Especially when you get a good look behind the visor and see this hollow, eerie looking shot of what's supposed to look like Samus herself. Instantly upon looking at it you know there's something wrong, something unnatural about seeing yourself wandering around like that. To me it's probably the most frightening enemy of the Metroid series.
It’s unnerving from a story aspect, too. Samus was essentially crippled at the start of the game, literally needing to having pieces of her suit cut out of her, forcing her to start back from square one more vulnerable than before. *The SA-X is Samus in her prime.* Like the X virus knows what it did to her and is taunting her.
I know right, that was a spooky moment when SA-X first reveals itself by blasting the wall open, walks to the frame, stops and then turns to look at you as to address the player. Pretty much saying; "I'm here to kill you, so you better watch out."
And because right now it was confirmed Samus is at the weakest point she’s ever been in the fusion suit is far thinner and much weaker than the power suit and I’m guessing doesn’t have all the upgrades the power suit has It’s horrifying how Samus who is seemingly the strongest warrior in the galaxy not only had this monstrous clones of her made but she’s powerless to do anything except run
You really can’t compare the SA X and EMMI, they’re out to accomplish different things. The SA X is a heavily scripted encounter that will spook you on the first encounter, and they’re extremely effective in making you think “this asshole really is everywhere”. The EMMI are entire areas that make you think on your feet and improvise around their AI. Both are effective at what they’re trying to accomplish.
Here's the thing tho for Sa-X The alien has All the weapons and upgrades, you are quite literally using a spare armor that's weaker than the original armor And if you do get caught your best chances are to gtfo
@@SamDeMonic you’re not using spare armor. The SA-X was made of surgically removed parts of Samus’s armor. The “fusion suit” is all that’s left of the Chozo power suit, and it takes most of Dread to regenerate. The SA-X isn’t really mechanical in nature, It’s a replication of the organic parts of Samus’s suit and her lingering DNA. It probably doesn’t have EVERY power. It never uses X-Ray scope or Speed booster. Samus would be in a much better state if she had a back-up spare suit
Those blank eyes, the eerie sound effect, the lack of music and the slow but heavy footsteps are a perfect example of how to portray someone/something as a terrifying entity. Well done.
Ice is effective against Metroids yet but Samus had full armor when they fought. Meaning Ice was no longer effective. Super Missiles are way more powerful. And the only thing capable of taking Samus out at that point
"Yall, I forgot the Metroids were allergic to the cold but I'm still opening fire like a dumbass ignoring the fact there's one of I and 5 of these little rats- *OH GOD GET EM OFF GET EM OFF* -SA-X atm
Remember that there were 10 SA-X aboard the station, and that one definitely died, so it’s not the one you fight later. It’s possible some SA-X aren’t…as bright as others.
The SA-X isn’t trying to kill that Metroids, not directly at least. It was trying to trigger the self-destruct sequence of the Restricted Zone to wipe out all of the Metroids there and hopefully Samus too. It was mostly successful, it blew up the Restricted Zone and most of the Metroids, but one escaped, and so did Samus.
@@lawgd23 Way more. Hiding from SA-X would be a Nightmare. Speaking of, I had a nightmare once. POV: You are Samus, trying to find your gunship after beating a tough ridley boss. But you see SA-X patrolling by your Gunship, waiting for you there. You can't go back because you have Space Pirates hunting for you so the only choice you have is to fight. You're equipped with: •Morph Ball •Morph Ball Bomb •Charge Beam •Plasma Beam •Wave Beam •Hi Jump Boots •Varia Suit •Power Bomb •Missiles SA-X is armed with an Ice Beam, A Screw Attack, and can switch to a Hyper Beam from Super Metroid. Also: Question? Do you think the Galactic Federation would have liked the idea of making clones of Samus Aran?
When the SA-X first appears, that close up of what is supposed to be Samus' face with the pupilless eyes and almost skeleton like nose is creepy enough, but looking again, one other thing that makes it even creepier is that the "armour" is actually pulsing like a heartbeat.
Apparently the SA-X didn't know to morph into a ball & drop a few regular bombs to release herself from the Metroids' grip & then freeze them with the Ice Beam & fire 5 regular missiles at them. Also, that part where Samus learns there's actually been more than 1 SA-X the whole time... Man, was that a surprise.
Samus is mostly showes as a pitiless person when she's facing her ennemis. But it's clear that she's afraid of SA-X because everytime she encounter it, she is hiding and her heart is bumping. Her worst nightmare is probably this : facing the nightmarish version of her.
I just noticed something about the music: if you listen closely, you can hear something that sounds like a heartbeat that sounds....off. Further cementing how the sa-x isn't a fully human copy of you: it's not SAMUS' heartbeat your hearing. It's that...things.
I remember seeing the SA-X for the first time, and it utterly terrified me. It was made even scarier when it spotted you, chased you, tried to kill you, and doing all this while a terrifying soundtrack was playing.
You know SA-X is why Metroid Dread got delayed for almost two decades, her ai mimicked how Samus hunts down Metroids to the point the developers wanted to surpass her ai but in the words of Howard Stark from Iron Man "I am limited by the technology of my time"
The TRO encounter has to be the most anxiety enducing of all. Mainly cause this would technically be the first time you get chased if you didn't get cocky before. And a mostly mandatory one too unless you're very precise.
@@setokaiba914 you need to hit the SA-X with a very precise Ice Missile. And I do mean precise. Enough to hit it and go through the door. It won't follow you at all afterwards.its possible, but pretty difficult
@shen_valor I think I skipped the TRO encounter one time completely by accident. I was shocked at what just happened, and I just sort of just went with the flow lol
Fusion was my first ever Metroid game. Coming back to it as an adult i was absolutely stunned by the moment where the SA-X is attempting to destroy the secret Metroid Lab. It was going absolutely ballistic, Massive plasma holes in the wall, missile explosions everywhere, with animation and movement I never expected to convey so much destructive energy. I was only in the secret lab for a handful of seconds, and it nearly ruined an entire section of the map in just a moment of violence.
You can see whoisthisgit's review of Metroid Fusion for that. If you don't exit before the timer reaches 0, the station becomes Ejected. Both you and the SA-X basically are doomed to dicintigration from the explosion.
Well there were like 10 of those, Adam said there were around 10 SA-X because The X parasite has copied himself fast. The SA-X we fought at the end of the game was the ,,Original'' one. The First SA-X that broke the fourth wall in the beginning
Kind of wish they actually roamed around like an actual horror game type thing, it would have been so cool if they appeared out of nowhere and you had to run from them
Yeah but the SA-X is so easily manipulated for how bad the AI is. Emmis are not only pretty scary with the chirping, but also how the AI is legit really good.
1:47 I don't know why they made the power bomb only do 20 points of damage. Especially considering if you move all the way to the left of the room, there's exactly enough distance to dodge it. 2:55 And you see, that's just the thing about the power bombs. We don't usually think of them to have a set blast radius, we usually just think of them as a screen clear. But if you use a power bomb in this room when SA-X is at her furthest away/closest to the door, She won't even notice! You could use a POWER BOMB to escape this room...without alerting her! 3:19 That being said, this method is still the safest and quietest way out. 3:51 This sequence however is impossible to evade detection in. You're meant to be chased through it. I always used to struggle here when I was younger. Just take a deep breath, spam the hell out of your ice missiles, remember to aim diagonally up after blowing up the wall so you can shoot the switches in the next hallway, pick your favorite god, and PRAY! 4:02 NICE SHOT! That's step one finished! 4:10 No, you see that, how he aimed directly upwards? That's wrong, much too slow, if you do it that way you'll die! (Just like he almost did.) Hold the L button to aim diagonally upwards and spam your beam while running through! 4:26 This guy might have survived the SA-X chase, but what he didn't show is that he almost definitely died on his way to a save room and had to do the chase over again. The enemies in this area of the game hit hard and come in large packs, your going to wanna have at least 2 or 3 full tanks of energy after the chase. 5:56 Okay, this sequence always REALLY bothered me! Let me explain. When the SA-X attacks you at close range, she'll usually freeze you first and then smack you with a super missile in a combo that does between 5 and 3 tanks of energy. This is really smart and cool because samus used to do the same thing to deal with metroid larva in the other games, showing that the SA-X has copied Samus' knowledge and probably knows how to deal with metroids. But in this sequence, instead of spamming the ice beam to freeze everything like she's supposed to know is the right choice, she instead just decides to wildly shoot missiles like an idiot! IS SHE A SMART TACTICAL PREDATOR OR A DUMB BRUTE? SHE CAN'T BE BOTH! 7:36 Here's a little pro tip for this fight. If holding down and releasing charged shots is getting exhausting you can just keep the fire button held down and use the R button to ready missiles. When your gun switches to missile it will automatically release its charged beam. This allows you to hold down the firing button to charge shots and use the R button to fire them without ever having to release the firing button. 8:39 And another thing, her beams will still do over a full tank of damage even with the gravity suit. So...y'know...9 tanks probably won't be enough. I recommend at least 15 tanks if you're having trouble.
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In the Restricted Laboratory, the SA-X is trying to trigger the detach and self-destruct sequence rather than directly kill the Metroids. It probably could’ve just went around killing them the usual way, and maybe the future Omega Metroid wouldn’t have escaped. Or Samus for that matter.
i didnt get to play fusion, so all of this context helped me understand just a little bit more :) watching him jump thru the vertical metroid room was painfully staged though.. no way anyone takes that many hits, and further proof it was staged because he waited till last second 0.5 seconds to enter door. plus he flew through it flawlessly after he let the timer run down a bit haha. nice trick
Those footsteps and the harsh start of its theme gave me chicken skin for years. Not to mention the part where ADAM tells you there where more than 10 on board and that they where hunting me.
If they make another 2-D Metroid game again, they need to have an enemy like the SA-X again. You're wondering around, exploring the Planet with the fear of something unstoppable searching to kill you
7:27 once you enter this room after getting your final objective you can no longer save. While the door leading back does open after defeating the SA-X you can’t go through the door leading out of the lower elevator room. All you can do is activate the propulsion sequence and run to your ship. You’ll get to go to a recharge room during your escape but you shouldn’t need it. Oh, and don’t feel discouraged if you didn’t get all the pickups. Once you clear the game you can continue and go back to the sectors and other areas so you can get whatever you missed. Or if you want, you can start over for a better ending result, only you won’t be locked out of exploration once you get your final objective.
Would be interesting to see what (if any) politics would play out if Samus, Dark Samus and an SA-X ran into one another. I’d expect Dark Samus to uncompromisingly target Samus first and foremost, but I wonder what move the SA-X would make.
@@retro8696 they’re made of the strongest materials in the universe remember. And there was 7 of them each with a unique ability copied from Samus Aran herself. I think they prepared pretty well given the very little they knew of ZDR
@@retro8696 x can't copy robots, only organic materials. All the "robots" x copy in fusion and dread have organic matter on them, essentially bio organic machines.
People seem to trash the E.M.M.I.E's here. I personally thought it was super fun to outsmart them and juke them out and hitting the counter felt so fricking good every time. Also the eerie atmosphere of those places were on point and it was always tense and exiciting getting chased by one. I cant quite compare it to the SA-X because i never played fusion but i can still say i liked the E.M.M.I.'es. But tbh the SA-X seems really cool too. Having the final(?) boss (whos pretty much a stronger evil clone version of you) roaming around the map who you are forced to avoid until the end of the game seems like a really cool concept and if im correct you never know when SA-X shows up so its more scary because you live in constant fear when shes gonna show up next whereas you dont get that with the E.M.M.I'es because they have designated zones so always know when to expect one. Although i must admit the underwater sections and the last two were kinda bs because they were so much faster than you underwater and the blue one froze you and the purple one heard and saw you from miles away. (Fortunately the blue one can be killed almost immedietly thanks to an easy exploit. Wont go into detail it here but if you want to know how to do it just search early ice missiles. And for the purple one where the most underwater sections are, you can get the gravity suit before that part, again if you want to know how to do it you can search early gravity suit by yourself. Just be aware that i think you need to do the frozen artaria section before heading back to ferenia. This means you need to do frozen artaria without storm missiles and space jump. It is possible using shinesparks but the experiment z57 bossfight might be a bit harder)
Everyone says the Sa-X is the better metroid horror experience but I guess I'm the exception. I thought narratively the Sa-X was really cool and poetic in it's own uncanny way. But when it comes to playing a horror game (or at least a game with horror elements) I just prefer the subject of fear to have it's own agency instead of scripted events. I think this just keeps the unpredictability lasting longer.
@@zacharymabb4873i'd honestly agree with you if SA-X wasn't scripted, if we ever get a remake of fusion and SA-X could just come out whenever, that would be real scary.
God damn not everyone in the comments trashing on EMMI lmao. Honestly, I feel like they're different enough to where you can't really compare one over the other. I just love em both lol.
The way it patrols the areas is terrifying. This would have made me sh!t myself as a kid. And that you HAVE to run makes it worse. The futility of fighting it.
You can't turn upgrades on or off in fusion. Although I agree that Sa-X seems to be doing up to double her normal amounts of damage...hard mode perhaps?
Imagine a remake of metroid fusion, but the SA-X has a Mr X style AI from the RE2 remake. Would be perfect for it. Something ever present that always has a chance of finding you that you can stop for a tike but can nevwr kill until the right time
i wish more games had chase since like this mostly open world games ik it being a big world might make it less scary cause you ain't restricted in one place but like im thinking more like being hunted like they don't EXACTLY know where you are but always within range of you so you can't go to place to hide because most games have an enemy that's better to run from not because they can't die it's just very hard to having something unkillable always following you is what makes it scary
Man, imagine if they remade this game in first person with an AI based SA-X along the lines of Alien Isolation where it could show up anywhere, anytime. That'd be a dream game for me.
Man that SA-X couldn't do a shit against the little metroids in the secret lab, i always thought that being created of part of samus suit and not for absorbing her entirely make the X lose they main trick, the memories absortion, they only learn the power of the armor but no combat experince agains the metroids so even if they know thw suit can beat metroids...thata SA-X get beaten easy by the little ones
Wow. It's been a while. First of all, thank you all so much for 150 subscribers, it means so much to me :) Also, 135k views on a single video is way more than I could ever ask for in my life. I want to thank each and every one of you who has watched my videos and subscribed to me, it means a lot, even if I haven't talked about it until now. In terms of streaming, I’m into games like Geometry Dash now, but I still have retained my love for old games. I started streaming again a couple weeks ago, and I probably will for a while going forward. Once again, thank you all so much for everything :)
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What really makes the SA-X terrifying is that it really puts into perspective how creatures like the space pirates see Samus. In a lot of the logs in metroid prime they referred to her a a hunter and she’s basically depicted as an unstoppable killing machine which is exactly what the SA-X is
Sounds like encountering the doomguy for the first time
The fact that is always walking its what scares me the most
@@Nombrenooriginalthey had a baby together, called master chief😂
Nothing's is more scarier than the scary part of yourself.
Agree
“ The SA-X. An enemy with my strongest abilities. But does it have reason? Probably not. It's just a killing machine. In my current state, I can't face it head-on. The SA-X is me, only heartless. I must stop it before it learns its potential and threatens the universe... „
-Samus Aran
FEATURED IN
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Dread (flashback)
LOCATION
Main Deck
Sector 2 (TRO)
Sector 6 (NOC)
Sector 5 (ARC)
Restricted Laboratory
ATTACKS
Ice Beam
Wave Beam
Spazer Beam
Plasma Beam
Screw Attack
Super Missiles
Power Bomb
WEAKNESS
Plasma Beam
Metroids
BATTLE MUSIC
VS. SA-X
REWARD(S)
Ice Beam
"Omega Suit"
Full restoration of energy and missiles
the concept of SA-X roaming around looking like the player is terrifying enough. the sound design for it is chilling
Sa-x use to haunt my dreams
The SA-X is legitimately terrifying tho. Their is just so many frightening thoughts that go into having an enemy that's a literal copy of Samus herself, full suit power ups and all. Especially when you get a good look behind the visor and see this hollow, eerie looking shot of what's supposed to look like Samus herself. Instantly upon looking at it you know there's something wrong, something unnatural about seeing yourself wandering around like that. To me it's probably the most frightening enemy of the Metroid series.
It’s unnerving from a story aspect, too. Samus was essentially crippled at the start of the game, literally needing to having pieces of her suit cut out of her, forcing her to start back from square one more vulnerable than before. *The SA-X is Samus in her prime.* Like the X virus knows what it did to her and is taunting her.
Yeah, and the cutscene showing the face is CREEPY, not gonna lie.
I know right, that was a spooky moment when SA-X first reveals itself by blasting the wall open, walks to the frame, stops and then turns to look at you as to address the player. Pretty much saying; "I'm here to kill you, so you better watch out."
And because right now it was confirmed Samus is at the weakest point she’s ever been in the fusion suit is far thinner and much weaker than the power suit and I’m guessing doesn’t have all the upgrades the power suit has
It’s horrifying how Samus who is seemingly the strongest warrior in the galaxy not only had this monstrous clones of her made but she’s powerless to do anything except run
@@zizochemlali4639 yea the fusion suit is literally just the inner layer of the power suit medics literally chopped off parts of the suit
You really can’t compare the SA X and EMMI, they’re out to accomplish different things. The SA X is a heavily scripted encounter that will spook you on the first encounter, and they’re extremely effective in making you think “this asshole really is everywhere”. The EMMI are entire areas that make you think on your feet and improvise around their AI. Both are effective at what they’re trying to accomplish.
Emmi?
@@KyzaSangre The Robots from Dread.
Here's the thing tho for Sa-X
The alien has All the weapons and upgrades, you are quite literally using a spare armor that's weaker than the original armor
And if you do get caught your best chances are to gtfo
Emy no move
@@SamDeMonic you’re not using spare armor. The SA-X was made of surgically removed parts of Samus’s armor. The “fusion suit” is all that’s left of the Chozo power suit, and it takes most of Dread to regenerate. The SA-X isn’t really mechanical in nature, It’s a replication of the organic parts of Samus’s suit and her lingering DNA. It probably doesn’t have EVERY power. It never uses X-Ray scope or Speed booster. Samus would be in a much better state if she had a back-up spare suit
Those blank eyes, the eerie sound effect, the lack of music and the slow but heavy footsteps are a perfect example of how to portray someone/something as a terrifying entity. Well done.
Gave you 69th like, completely relate to the comment regardless
SA-X: *Has all of Samus’s powers, abilities, and memories*
Also SA-X: *Uses missiles instead of ice beam against Metroids*
Ice is effective against Metroids yet but Samus had full armor when they fought. Meaning Ice was no longer effective. Super Missiles are way more powerful. And the only thing capable of taking Samus out at that point
"Yall, I forgot the Metroids were allergic to the cold but I'm still opening fire like a dumbass ignoring the fact there's one of I and 5 of these little rats- *OH GOD GET EM OFF GET EM OFF*
-SA-X atm
Remember that there were 10 SA-X aboard the station, and that one definitely died, so it’s not the one you fight later. It’s possible some SA-X aren’t…as bright as others.
The SA-X isn’t trying to kill that Metroids, not directly at least. It was trying to trigger the self-destruct sequence of the Restricted Zone to wipe out all of the Metroids there and hopefully Samus too. It was mostly successful, it blew up the Restricted Zone and most of the Metroids, but one escaped, and so did Samus.
@@MetaFanWing And tha was badly communicated by the Game tbh
When I saw SA-X stare into the screen the first time, I didn’t knew that a 2D game could do something like that and it legit scared me 0:23
If Sa-X had the x-ray visor and morph ball abilities, this game wouldn't be as easy.
@@WiiManElite I think it would be a bit much to have such an OP npc just roam the map.
@@WiiManElite Lets wait our hero that is gonna make this remake for us....maybe Doctorm64.
@@miniaturejayhawk8702Alien Isolation would disagree
@DarknessXxMaster The SA-X would be twice as terrifying as it already is
@@lawgd23 Way more. Hiding from SA-X would be a Nightmare.
Speaking of, I had a nightmare once.
POV: You are Samus, trying to find your gunship after beating a tough ridley boss.
But you see SA-X patrolling by your Gunship, waiting for you there.
You can't go back because you have Space Pirates hunting for you so the only choice you have is to fight.
You're equipped with:
•Morph Ball
•Morph Ball Bomb
•Charge Beam
•Plasma Beam
•Wave Beam
•Hi Jump Boots
•Varia Suit
•Power Bomb
•Missiles
SA-X is armed with an Ice Beam, A Screw Attack, and can switch to a Hyper Beam from Super Metroid.
Also: Question? Do you think the Galactic Federation would have liked the idea of making clones of Samus Aran?
The sound of SA-X's footsteps always give me chills down to my spine.
don't know what scared me more in the intro: the sa-x breaking the fourth wall or the steps had no music with it
Both
Nightmare to
Honestly the sa-x breaking the fourth wall is more scarier
What really scares me is the final encounter his gameplay against SA-x
The SA-X is the original E.M.M.I.
Damn straight
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@WiiManElite Cap.
@WiiManElite those insta-kills beg to differ
@@alanvelazquez6320 child detected
2:58 Sa-x: .... Juuuust to make sure she isn't really there, let me go back to double check
lol
oh wow, thank you lol@@lawgd23
If Metroid Fusion ever gets a remake, They should do what Capcom did with Mr. X and make the SA-X patrol the WHOLE station.
There were 10 sa-x's on the station after you destroy the one in the metroid lab
@@rock3793 even better! Maybe MULTIPLE SA-X's can chase Samus!
Maybe as a hard mode?
well that would straight up be a horror/survival game
@@rock3793 according to Adam, we never see more than one. At most two if you believe SA-X couldn’t bomb off metroids.
When the SA-X first appears, that close up of what is supposed to be Samus' face with the pupilless eyes and almost skeleton like nose is creepy enough, but looking again, one other thing that makes it even creepier is that the "armour" is actually pulsing like a heartbeat.
Exactly sax eyes is the scariest part
Apparently the SA-X didn't know to morph into a ball & drop a few regular bombs to release herself from the Metroids' grip & then freeze them with the Ice Beam & fire 5 regular missiles at them.
Also, that part where Samus learns there's actually been more than 1 SA-X the whole time...
Man, was that a surprise.
Where was that?
@@robertnelson9599 The Restricted Laboratory located in the lowest area of Sector 6: NOC.
I wish so much a remake of fusion it could be so cool
They just remastered it for the switch
@@joshrawks21 Not a remaster. It is on switch though.
@@joshrawks21 no they didn't.
Samus is mostly showes as a pitiless person when she's facing her ennemis. But it's clear that she's afraid of SA-X because everytime she encounter it, she is hiding and her heart is bumping.
Her worst nightmare is probably this : facing the nightmarish version of her.
I just noticed something about the music: if you listen closely, you can hear something that sounds like a heartbeat that sounds....off.
Further cementing how the sa-x isn't a fully human copy of you: it's not SAMUS' heartbeat your hearing. It's that...things.
I remember seeing the SA-X for the first time, and it utterly terrified me. It was made even scarier when it spotted you, chased you, tried to kill you, and doing all this while a terrifying soundtrack was playing.
Could you imagine SA-X in Metroid Dread??
I'm praying for a remake
The EMMIs make the SA-X look like nothing.
Maybe in dlc
You know SA-X is why Metroid Dread got delayed for almost two decades, her ai mimicked how Samus hunts down Metroids to the point the developers wanted to surpass her ai but in the words of Howard Stark from Iron Man "I am limited by the technology of my time"
God no 😂
The TRO encounter has to be the most anxiety enducing of all. Mainly cause this would technically be the first time you get chased if you didn't get cocky before. And a mostly mandatory one too unless you're very precise.
You describe it as a "mostly mandatory one unless you're very precise". How do you avoid it?
@@setokaiba914 you need to hit the SA-X with a very precise Ice Missile. And I do mean precise. Enough to hit it and go through the door. It won't follow you at all afterwards.its possible, but pretty difficult
@@shen_valor. Interesting, I didn't know that.
@shen_valor I think I skipped the TRO encounter one time completely by accident. I was shocked at what just happened, and I just sort of just went with the flow lol
@@lawgd23 An accident! You weren't even trying, you just lucked out! Kudos to that, cause it's tough to pull off.
0:24 SA-X is one of the creepiest game of all time, when I was 7 years old I'm scared of the hell of that face
Yeah that’s the scariest part
Fusion was my first ever Metroid game. Coming back to it as an adult i was absolutely stunned by the moment where the SA-X is attempting to destroy the secret Metroid Lab. It was going absolutely ballistic, Massive plasma holes in the wall, missile explosions everywhere, with animation and movement I never expected to convey so much destructive energy. I was only in the secret lab for a handful of seconds, and it nearly ruined an entire section of the map in just a moment of violence.
The Sa-X has a particular hatred for doors and walls.
7:10
Does Samus legit just explode if you don’t escape before the timer expires? That’s incredible.
Might’ve been a coincidental explosion that played right behind where she was.
spontaneous combustion
@@megaman4354 she dashed outta the place
You can see whoisthisgit's review of Metroid Fusion for that. If you don't exit before the timer reaches 0, the station becomes Ejected. Both you and the SA-X basically are doomed to dicintigration from the explosion.
That face scares the crap out of me as a child.
0:26
As a kid I always though there was multiple SA-X since one died with the Metroid facility
Well there were like 10 of those, Adam said there were around 10 SA-X because The X parasite has copied himself fast. The SA-X we fought at the end of the game was the ,,Original'' one. The First SA-X that broke the fourth wall in the beginning
@@kirby3player there’s zero confirmation of that likely not true
@Flippermango451 there's literally dialogue where Adam says there are at least 10 SA-X
Adam DOES say there are 10, but nowhere does it say the one you fight is the ORIGINAL one. More poetic that way, though.
Didnt the last one have your armor tho? That make it the original and not just a copy with everypower inside
You were struggling so fucking hard during the restricted lab moment
was pissing me off 💀💀
Didn't really look like he was trying to leave. Just seemed like he was dicking around with the Metroid for the minute you get with them.
Oh good someone else called this out. The final battle was a bit hard to watch too if I'm honest.
And fighting the SA-X and the X Core. I was so annoyed lmao
Yeah I was a lot younger at the time and I wanted it to look like I was struggling, I don't know what the heck I was doing lol
The fact that is not only 1 SA-X but 10! It was very scary
Kind of wish they actually roamed around like an actual horror game type thing, it would have been so cool if they appeared out of nowhere and you had to run from them
The dread before Dread.
I legitimately remember my cousin playing this game on game boy color I think and seeing the reveal scene gave me the creeps
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Don't even think about saying it
@@jeffindecheirobom8436 Sus
@@danhenry7431 Amogus
@@ZAWARUDO3392 *Cringe levels max.,*
@@elizabethramirezthezenshii9691 XD
I want a fusion remake on switch so bad.
Its on gba Nintendo switch online
@Chi Ville that's cool. What I really want is fusion in the same engine that dread used. The eairy atmosphere of SR388 would be so terrifying.
@@kylewatson6890 that would be awesome if they did that instead of putting it online
It will be...
Already did better graphics it's for gba for NSO EXPANSION only
That music. One of my favorite fictional villains of all time.
The E.M.M.I don’t match up to the S-AX. They are more annoying than straight up terrifying
Yeah but the SA-X is so easily manipulated for how bad the AI is. Emmis are not only pretty scary with the chirping, but also how the AI is legit really good.
They’re only annoying if you don’t know the exists.
SA-X > Dark Samus
Fax
"Why bother having a dark echoes clone when I can just split off by mitosis?"
-Sa-X probably.
oooh, a controversial thought, i like it
1:47 I don't know why they made the power bomb only do 20 points of damage. Especially considering if you move all the way to the left of the room, there's exactly enough distance to dodge it.
2:55 And you see, that's just the thing about the power bombs. We don't usually think of them to have a set blast radius, we usually just think of them as a screen clear. But if you use a power bomb in this room when SA-X is at her furthest away/closest to the door, She won't even notice! You could use a POWER BOMB to escape this room...without alerting her!
3:19 That being said, this method is still the safest and quietest way out.
3:51 This sequence however is impossible to evade detection in. You're meant to be chased through it. I always used to struggle here when I was younger. Just take a deep breath, spam the hell out of your ice missiles, remember to aim diagonally up after blowing up the wall so you can shoot the switches in the next hallway, pick your favorite god, and PRAY!
4:02 NICE SHOT! That's step one finished!
4:10 No, you see that, how he aimed directly upwards? That's wrong, much too slow, if you do it that way you'll die! (Just like he almost did.) Hold the L button to aim diagonally upwards and spam your beam while running through!
4:26 This guy might have survived the SA-X chase, but what he didn't show is that he almost definitely died on his way to a save room and had to do the chase over again. The enemies in this area of the game hit hard and come in large packs, your going to wanna have at least 2 or 3 full tanks of energy after the chase.
5:56 Okay, this sequence always REALLY bothered me! Let me explain. When the SA-X attacks you at close range, she'll usually freeze you first and then smack you with a super missile in a combo that does between 5 and 3 tanks of energy. This is really smart and cool because samus used to do the same thing to deal with metroid larva in the other games, showing that the SA-X has copied Samus' knowledge and probably knows how to deal with metroids. But in this sequence, instead of spamming the ice beam to freeze everything like she's supposed to know is the right choice, she instead just decides to wildly shoot missiles like an idiot! IS SHE A SMART TACTICAL PREDATOR OR A DUMB BRUTE? SHE CAN'T BE BOTH!
7:36 Here's a little pro tip for this fight. If holding down and releasing charged shots is getting exhausting you can just keep the fire button held down and use the R button to ready missiles. When your gun switches to missile it will automatically release its charged beam. This allows you to hold down the firing button to charge shots and use the R button to fire them without ever having to release the firing button.
8:39 And another thing, her beams will still do over a full tank of damage even with the gravity suit. So...y'know...9 tanks probably won't be enough. I recommend at least 15 tanks if you're having trouble.
-holy fuck this man wrote an entire essay calm down ffs-
It's people like you and me who pour their heart and soul into their CZcams comments and into what they love that should be the majority of what this site entails, just like how it used to be at the start of it. Keep being passionate on what you do and don't let anyone restrict you with the banal concept of using too much effort.
thank you for this rant/knowledge dump/essay
In the Restricted Laboratory, the SA-X is trying to trigger the detach and self-destruct sequence rather than directly kill the Metroids. It probably could’ve just went around killing them the usual way, and maybe the future Omega Metroid wouldn’t have escaped. Or Samus for that matter.
i didnt get to play fusion, so all of this context helped me understand just a little bit more :)
watching him jump thru the vertical metroid room was painfully staged though.. no way anyone takes that many hits, and further proof it was staged because he waited till last second 0.5 seconds to enter door. plus he flew through it flawlessly after he let the timer run down a bit haha. nice trick
@@MetaFanWing i mean, considering a different X almost blew up the entire ship in PYR, this seems plausible
A shame it never showed up in sector 6
Those footsteps and the harsh start of its theme gave me chicken skin for years.
Not to mention the part where ADAM tells you there where more than 10 on board and that they where hunting me.
If they make another 2-D Metroid game again, they need to have an enemy like the SA-X again. You're wondering around, exploring the Planet with the fear of something unstoppable searching to kill you
The EMMI would like to have a word with you
@@cooingwolf6775 lol
You forgot to add the last SA-X encounter where he helps Samus defeating the super alien
You mean the Omega Metroid.
Sa-x Nintendo nightmare villain
My childhood trauma
My brother is still traumatized from this game 🤣🤣🤣
the first game that made my eyes water from getting so scared
7:27 once you enter this room after getting your final objective you can no longer save. While the door leading back does open after defeating the SA-X you can’t go through the door leading out of the lower elevator room. All you can do is activate the propulsion sequence and run to your ship. You’ll get to go to a recharge room during your escape but you shouldn’t need it.
Oh, and don’t feel discouraged if you didn’t get all the pickups. Once you clear the game you can continue and go back to the sectors and other areas so you can get whatever you missed. Or if you want, you can start over for a better ending result, only you won’t be locked out of exploration once you get your final objective.
I had a skill issue and I know all this now, but thanks anyways
Sax vs Dark Samus is still what we all want to see.
Not really
Would be interesting to see what (if any) politics would play out if Samus, Dark Samus and an SA-X ran into one another. I’d expect Dark Samus to uncompromisingly target Samus first and foremost, but I wonder what move the SA-X would make.
Yea when I fell into the room in sector 2 and it was just standing there, I freaked out. I panicked and it killed me in just a few seconds.
Even on the GBA this freaked me out as a kid
Terminator music with those footsteps
SA-X was fun to go up against. EMMI was just straight up annoying.
Dread has one thing I don't understand. Why would they send robots to look for the X when we know the X can take robots as host.
@@retro8696 they’re made of the strongest materials in the universe remember. And there was 7 of them each with a unique ability copied from Samus Aran herself.
I think they prepared pretty well given the very little they knew of ZDR
@@retro8696 x can't copy robots, only organic materials. All the "robots" x copy in fusion and dread have organic matter on them, essentially bio organic machines.
@@retro8696 only if it had organic components like the security bot had an organic brain
*STOP GIVING ME A HEART ATTACK*
Why is everyone so scared 🤨
SA-X is just the Hall Monitor
I think you mean...
THE HALL MONITOR 🗿
0:23 "I know you were just here. I'll get ahead of you and flank you. There's no escape from me. I have all your powers... What do you have?"
People seem to trash the E.M.M.I.E's here. I personally thought it was super fun to outsmart them and juke them out and hitting the counter felt so fricking good every time. Also the eerie atmosphere of those places were on point and it was always tense and exiciting getting chased by one. I cant quite compare it to the SA-X because i never played fusion but i can still say i liked the E.M.M.I.'es. But tbh the SA-X seems really cool too. Having the final(?) boss (whos pretty much a stronger evil clone version of you) roaming around the map who you are forced to avoid until the end of the game seems like a really cool concept and if im correct you never know when SA-X shows up so its more scary because you live in constant fear when shes gonna show up next whereas you dont get that with the E.M.M.I'es because they have designated zones so always know when to expect one.
Although i must admit the underwater sections and the last two were kinda bs because they were so much faster than you underwater and the blue one froze you and the purple one heard and saw you from miles away. (Fortunately the blue one can be killed almost immedietly thanks to an easy exploit. Wont go into detail it here but if you want to know how to do it just search early ice missiles. And for the purple one where the most underwater sections are, you can get the gravity suit before that part, again if you want to know how to do it you can search early gravity suit by yourself. Just be aware that i think you need to do the frozen artaria section before heading back to ferenia. This means you need to do frozen artaria without storm missiles and space jump. It is possible using shinesparks but the experiment z57 bossfight might be a bit harder)
Everyone says the Sa-X is the better metroid horror experience but I guess I'm the exception. I thought narratively the Sa-X was really cool and poetic in it's own uncanny way. But when it comes to playing a horror game (or at least a game with horror elements) I just prefer the subject of fear to have it's own agency instead of scripted events. I think this just keeps the unpredictability lasting longer.
It really isn't because the E.M.M.I. are bad. It's just that Sa-X is so damn good that the E.M.M.I. look bad in comparison.
@@zacharymabb4873i'd honestly agree with you if SA-X wasn't scripted, if we ever get a remake of fusion and SA-X could just come out whenever, that would be real scary.
Woo that damage is high
God damn not everyone in the comments trashing on EMMI lmao. Honestly, I feel like they're different enough to where you can't really compare one over the other. I just love em both lol.
I'm glad it's for the switch for all NSO EXPANSION users
The way it patrols the areas is terrifying. This would have made me sh!t myself as a kid. And that you HAVE to run makes it worse. The futility of fighting it.
Did you forget to turn on the Varia suit? I don't remember the SA-X doing that much damage!
You can't turn upgrades on or off in fusion. Although I agree that Sa-X seems to be doing up to double her normal amounts of damage...hard mode perhaps?
@@zacharymabb4873 probably on hard mode
ちゃんとエレベータ乗ってからやってくるの偉い
Imagine a remake of metroid fusion, but the SA-X has a Mr X style AI from the RE2 remake. Would be perfect for it. Something ever present that always has a chance of finding you that you can stop for a tike but can nevwr kill until the right time
SA-X appearances would also go well together with the Terminator arrival music from the Terminator 1 movie
Mr X: "Ah, a worthy challenge. Our battle will be legendary!"
SAX: "Based on the memories from my host, you open these gray hatches by shooting them." *ULTRA SUPER MISSILE OF DOOM* "Memory confirmed."
I really hope they remake Fusion with dread engine
Shouldve bought this back in the day. Got zero mission for the advance instead. Thankfully the switch brought this back for a second chance
zero mission was also really good
You missed the ending SA-X encounter where he helps you fight Metroid Fusion. Bummer!
Omega Metroid you mean.
Lmao i thought it was an alien doing the pog face.
0:26 "those cold foot steps" "remeber the nameless fear in your heart"
I can't decide which one is more terrifying. This thing or the EMMIs from Dread. 😟
And then it appears again to Samus from the Omega Metroid at the end of the game.
The plot armor tho…
i wish more games had chase since like this mostly open world games ik it being a big world might make it less scary cause you ain't restricted in one place but like im thinking more like being hunted like they don't EXACTLY know where you are but always within range of you so you can't go to place to hide because most games have an enemy that's better to run from not because they can't die it's just very hard to having something unkillable always following you is what makes it scary
Man, imagine if they remade this game in first person with an AI based SA-X along the lines of Alien Isolation where it could show up anywhere, anytime. That'd be a dream game for me.
Yeah this is way more terrifying than Dark Samus 😂
I sense a lot of hesitation.
プライムとかの3Dでこんな強敵に不意に追われてみたい
I think if Nintendo gave Fusion the Prime treatment, it would be a Helluva lot scarier!!!
Just... wow, this is... dude im wanting to look out my flipping window fron this thing... ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Wish they would remake all the metroids using the Dread engine.
Wanna know what would be cool if nintendo remakes this masterpiece
最初の登場が小学生の時やっててめちゃくちゃ恐怖感じたの覚えてます
You forgot the last encounter...
You missed the last encounter
I can’t help but screw with X-AX every damn time to 😂
Can someone explain why you need to hide from it
Fun fact: I beat this entire game on a school laptop.
Man that SA-X couldn't do a shit against the little metroids in the secret lab, i always thought that being created of part of samus suit and not for absorbing her entirely make the X lose they main trick, the memories absortion, they only learn the power of the armor but no combat experince agains the metroids so even if they know thw suit can beat metroids...thata SA-X get beaten easy by the little ones
This game is so clean.....
They should do metriod game that's all stealth
Ah The SA-X... Such *wasted* potential
Ty for playing my favourite song for a while! At lol but it's 0:00 begin lol
Is this fan made or a actual gamw?
Actual game btw@@inc2000glw
That right there is more of a horror game for adults or teens than a kids game wouldn't u agee?
U forgot the ending
惑星ゼーベスの地盤がしっかりしてるだけで目立たなかったけど、スーパーミサイルがバカほど強いのよね 壁もゲートも当たり前のようにぶっ壊していきやがる
You forgot the final battle
and the last?
So its basically Among Us creature.