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The sub for discussing Metroid, the Nintendo series which chronicles the adventures of Samus Aran, Space Warrior!

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Rules

1. The Golden Rule

This subreddit is meant to be a comfortable environment to bond over all things Metroid. Don't be mean, hurtful, or vulgar towards your fellow redditor; be excellent to each other. Do not harass, or intentionally troll each other. We encourage all members to engage in thoughtful discussion, and to avoid partaking in echo chambers. Participating in flame wars will see action taken at moderator discretion.

2. Submissions must directly pertain to Metroid

Our community is dedicated to all things Metroid; make sure your submissions follow suit. Stay on topic and avoid using vague references in your submission or title. Any content not directly related to Metroid will be removed. A cute title or text over an image is not enough to be considered relevant. Neither are look-alikes that are otherwise unrelated. Keep your submissions on point.

3. No low-effort posts

Do not post submissions or comments with little to no effort. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Redundant/reposted content
  • Intentionally misleading or click-bait titles
  • Poor context in the title ("MFW Ridley dies", "I'm stuck help plz!")
  • Nondescriptive media
  • Posts that are easily searchable ("I'm stuck in Green Brinstar")
  • Straw polls
  • Threads dedicated to ranting
  • Screenshots with little context that generate poor discussion ("just beat ZM!!")
  • Low quality images
  • Tierlists

4. All artwork requires attribution

It's our belief that all artists should get the credit they deserve. When posting someone else's artwork, include name attribution in the title and, if possible, a link to the original source in the replies. Failing to provide attribution will result in your submission being removed.

As a result of this requirement, AI-generated artwork is also banned, as it's impossible to provide attribution to the artists whose art was used to train the model.

5. Don't share emulators or ROMs

Discussion of emulation and hacks is allowed, but keep it simply at that. Sharing or asking for roms or emulators will get you banned, as will advocating for piracy in general. Please do not give specific information on ROM manipulation, patching, etc. If you must know how, a Google search will be sufficient.

6. Tag any and all spoilers

Tag all spoilers using the following formatting without spaces: > ! This is a spoiler. ! <

For example:

Metroid is inspired by Alien.

Ridley dies at the end.

Other M is a video game.

New Metroid games tend to be far and few between. Don't ruin the surprises they may have for others.

7. No NSFW content

Pornography and R34 content is not permitted and will result in a permaban. Content that is more lurid than typical in-game imagery but does not fall into the prior categories must be NSFW tagged, but is otherwise permitted. The line for this rule is drawn well before nudity - you're on a Nintendo game subreddit, so please keep your content on point.

8. Limit self-promotion

Don't spam the subreddit with your media. Self-promotion should require careful consideration as well as being consistently well recieved by others within the community. Limit let's plays to a single episode or speedruns to once in a while. Links to your own content should account for about 10% of your total combined submissions and comments, not including comments on your own submissions.

9. Armorless cosplay must be both OC and posted in moderation

Any cosplay without armor must be OC! Please refer to Rule 8 and post in moderation. Excessive amounts of submissions will be removed and action handled at moderator discretion.

10. Rule of Moderator Discretion

The r/Metroid moderators reserve the right to remove content or ban users as necessary if it ruins the experience of others. Any content that lowers the subreddit experience can and will be removed. Being ignorant of the rules nor disagreeing with them is not an excuse. Breaking the rules in response to someone else also breaking the rules is inexcusable.

11. Leak/Rumor Discussion

The Metroid community is prone to numerous fake leaks and rumors. To prevent the spread of misinformation and potential spoilers while still allowing open discussion, leaks and rumors must be discussed in dedicated megathreads posted by the r/Metroid moderators. Posts pertaining to leaks or rumors outside of these megathreads will be removed.

 


 

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Like a record baby...

I was playing Metroid Prime when this happened This continued for several minutes

10 Comments
2024/10/30
03:07 UTC

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Ridley is trying anything these days..

12 Comments
2024/10/29
22:08 UTC

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My wife surprised me

My wife went to Walmart and got me a few presents. She didn’t even know I was looking for Phazon Suit Samus, but it was the last one they had and she snatched it up. Sorry to humble brag, but I’m pretty happy. I gotta get her something now haha.

4 Comments
2024/10/29
17:08 UTC

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Ah yes! This is how Chozo start.

41 Comments
2024/10/29
16:27 UTC

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Reptilicus names and language

I was thinking about playing a Reptilicus character for an upcoming DND oneshot (flavored as lizardfolk), but unfortunately am blanking hard on names. I know there are certain conventions in the Reptilicus language (use of y’s, etc) but I was wondering if anyone more linguistically savvy than me could point out aspects of the language that could help me come up with a convincing name. Also I enjoy discussing fictional languages because it’s really fun lol

6 Comments
2024/10/29
16:24 UTC

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The most disappointing aspect of Metroid Dread (in my opinion)

Since Metroid Dread's release the game has received a lot of praise for its great visuals, controls and action, and I agree with all of them. The game was so fun that I beat it in Dread mode, 100% it multiple times and grinded the boss rush for many hours. The game has also been criticized for being more linear than most Metroidvanias, with few branching paths and little need to remember where to use your new powerups, as well as having a weak soundtrack. I also agree with all of these criticisms, although they're not a dealbreaker for me.

However, my biggest gripe with the game is something I haven't seen anyone complain about, and that is how the game has a really cool idea of starting in the center of the planet and working yourself to the surface and yet completely abandoned it when designing the areas.

The first area Artaria is the biggest offender. It's very deep down in the planet, but it just looks like another Crateria-like surface cave area. The spaces are really wide and bright, there's sunlight shining from the ceiling, there's an area with a large lake and all the lifeforms seem normal, and not like the abominations that one would expect to find so deep underground. A deep cave could have been so cool with tight, claustrophobia-inducing corridors, artificial lighting and strange creatures adapted to the extreme environment. But instead it's just a generic cave area.

Burenia is similar. It's this ocean-like area with rain and waves, and it just feels like it's a normal ocean. Nothing about it makes it feel like deep sea. The fact that when you arrive you're at the surface of it could mean it's some huge underground lake, but it is in no way distinguished from just a normal sea in the surface.

Ferenia and Ghavoran are also fully lit by what appears to be sunlight, so they just feel like a normal jungle and castle, and don't make use of the potential of being underground.

Maybe it's too restrictive to make all your areas have an underground aesthetic, but what bothers me is that it doesn't feel like they even tried. They could have had the player reach the surface half way into the game or earlier if it was too hard to make all the areas feel subterranean, but those that are should feel like it. Not a single area feels like it's sticking to the theme of being extremely deep below the surface, and it hurts the atmosphere a lot in my opinion. That combined with the lack of lore entries contextualizing what we find in these areas and the mediocre OST make this game have a mediocre atmosphere in my opinion, which sucks because the graphics and backgrounds are amazing. Even the first room in the game is extremely wide, has sunlight shining in and has beautiful blossoming trees. It's pretty, but it doesn't create the atmosphere that it should, and the one they were setting up with the idea of working your way to the surface.

Anyway, that's how I feel. If anyone disagrees I respect it, but I could never immerse myself in this world and setting, inspite of how fun the game is. And I think this is the main reason why.

https://preview.redd.it/u2117pk73oxd1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb1a910f81cb0ca0e962a1031d172b2ecce2bc7f

How does it rain underground?

https://preview.redd.it/e6umk2hu4oxd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=07593950c339b78f85519f190cb45ad1ffe04701

I guess you can see the ceiling of the cave, but it's so spacious and bright that it doesn't make a difference for most of the area.

16 Comments
2024/10/29
10:04 UTC

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The Japanese box art for Zero Mission looks amazing but I got a kick out of the back of the box

37 Comments
2024/10/29
13:44 UTC

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Samus Ripley by Dlusionalx

29 Comments
2024/10/29
13:37 UTC

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Confrontation; Crocomire Fight, what if the 2d games also had health bars like the prime trilogy?

42 Comments
2024/10/29
13:11 UTC

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Who found a cure for the X parasite!?

In the intro to Fusion, Samus states that 'someone' found a cure for the X. >!I believe that 'someone' was none other than Sylux! If they were able to clone mochtroids, why couldn't theu develop a vaccine from Metroid DNA? It is also worth noting that mochtroids first appeared in Super Metroid, which directly preceded Fusion chronologically.!< What do you think!?

33 Comments
2024/10/29
04:49 UTC

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So I made my own colored version of metroid 2 and when I patched it, it didn't work but my God is the glitched visuals so much funnier and better than the actual colors

Samus Aran inspects the cieling as a Jesus Hornoad approaches in his bee leg warmers

8 Comments
2024/10/29
02:53 UTC

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Artwork by (SidVenBlu)

7 Comments
2024/10/29
02:40 UTC

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Please help me find the source to this track!

Was looking into playing Hunters on PC and came across this trailer for a mod.

Both Prime 1 and Doom Eternal are in my top 5 all time. Merging these two musically is something that never even crossed my mind but it sounds amazing! Does anyone know the artist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGFu4WgaFII

2 Comments
2024/10/29
02:07 UTC

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Would y’all be opposed to a more Doom FPS style Metroid Prime game?

I love Metroid but I also love modern FPSes like Doom, Wolfenstein, Half Life, Fallout etc and I think it’d be cool too see a game made in that style. Thoughts 💭?

Edit: I’ll change those games listed to be Halo, Crysis, and Doom Eternal/2016 instead since the others are not modern.

89 Comments
2024/10/28
23:46 UTC

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When does Super Metroid load data?

I'm assuming this happens:

  • from the title screen, after starting

  • from a room, through a door, into another

  • from an area to another area, such as those long elevators

Is it correct to say those are loading screen; points where the game loads data such as code, sound and images?

I'm looking for confirmation or refutation, thank you.

--- update

I got confirmation from people in the SM Speedrunning discord experienced with modding, with the asterisk that the game's catridge-based nature doesn't have it load data in the same way it's loaded from external storage like a hard-drive, and instead, data like compressed audio, level information, and others, are decompressed and this is what happens in the aforementioned sections.

4 Comments
2024/10/28
21:21 UTC

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Ceres is the Roman goddess of fertility and motherhood; the station Samus delivered the Baby Metroid (who mistook her as its mother) was named Ceres.

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2024/10/28
20:33 UTC

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Photoshop of the Metroid Prime Saga (fanmade MP3 logo by Electronic-Data24)

60 Comments
2024/10/28
16:30 UTC

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Squirtle Aran sketch

Don't know what category I should put this in, but I wanted to post this sketch of Squirtle in a Metroid power suit.I plan on improving this later so this isn't the final look.

3 Comments
2024/10/28
03:44 UTC

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I love most of the Metroid games, but I hate the bosses

I know, hot take, but it's what I think.
I really, really love Metroid, but I find a lot of the bosses a core to fight, to be honest: a bore.
Do you feel the same? Why?

43 Comments
2024/10/28
12:07 UTC

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Super Metroid semi-blind 1st time - Norfair Invisible Wall and Ridley help

Hey everyone, playing Super Metroid for the first time trying to only look up when I get absolutely stuck which has been finding out to shoot the bubble in the top right of Norfair to get some power up to progress, how to escape that Dragon web grab and the invisible wall in Norfair. This last one I could not figure out and now I don't know how to get to Ridley.

Please don't spoil but try to nudge me in the right direction, Ridley is in Lower Norfair right and I can access him in this area (no instance of other section like Brinstar etc leading to him)

5 Comments
2024/10/28
06:06 UTC

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Just beat prime remastered, am i locked out of ng plus?

Hi, i just beat prime remastered (one of the best games ive ever played btw) and when i got the option to save after the credits, i clicked no, because i wanted to keep my file. Is there any indication of the save file being beaten, kinda like how in botw theres a little star on the save file, but you still respawn at your last save? In order to unlock ng plus do i have to beat the game again?

4 Comments
2024/10/27
21:22 UTC

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Miss Samus & her Bewitching Companion (@BowsyInk)

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2024/10/28
00:13 UTC

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Why is Ridley printed red on the box?

Just a random thing about Super’s box art I’ve always been curious about.

122 Comments
2024/10/27
23:18 UTC

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Stuck in super Metroid. What do?

Beat the spore guy. Got super jump and nukes.

15 Comments
2024/10/27
20:11 UTC

573

Artwork by (MostlyGhostly)

5 Comments
2024/10/27
19:47 UTC

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Please I'm begging you

38 Comments
2024/10/27
19:03 UTC

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I just finished Zelda: Echoes of wisdom. I'm now craving more games with 'Echoes' in the title on Switch

52 Comments
2024/10/27
18:29 UTC

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Ridley by Marikyuun

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2024/10/27
18:26 UTC

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