To me the Resident Evil remake from 2002 is still the best remake of all time
@ClarkKentaiКүн бұрын
Zero Mission and Black Mesa seem to make up a template for how to do an ideal remake. Recontextualize the old stuff that doesn't make sense, add some extra stuff that hints at later series entries, change up the endgame to surprise players of the older entry.
@Kadez-real-KlipsКүн бұрын
August 12 2037 the heat death of the universe
@basedsamtvКүн бұрын
repeating this meaningless phrase over and over again in hopes that it will mean something someday
@doomraven0Күн бұрын
i love the Metroid series so much, really but i have never really dug Fusion. The suit looks beyond stupid and the constant handholding not only ruins the isolation but also the exploration. But for a GBA title, it's pretty good.
@blackcatbooks642 күн бұрын
Nintendo put out their own Metroid II remake. I won't even watch your video because you made such a basic mistake.
@Kadez-real-Klips2 күн бұрын
One day he wil upload the dread video
@thenamelessphoenix55082 күн бұрын
I agree SHUT UP IF YOU THINK ANY OTHER REMAKE IS BETTER🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 anyways metroid zero mission is the best remake + i'm remaking it in terraria
@basedsamtv2 күн бұрын
cool! are you using the metroid mod? i really enjoyed it back in the day before 1.3
@one1211003 күн бұрын
I still love the fact that this game became available on my birthday
@gorila_albino3 күн бұрын
haven't watched the video yet, but came here to tell that AM2R is much much much better than Return of Samus for 3DS. In fact the 3DS game is the only bad 2d metroid.
@VampireNoblesse4 күн бұрын
Metroid NES is a GOAT..., the gameboy version was too hard & didn't have the same atmosphere
@JustB3NJI4 күн бұрын
Just recentgly polyaed it and yes Zm is top drawer.
@pepeelghetto12316 күн бұрын
On my first playthrough when I got to CHozodia I didn't even return to the rest of the map xD, in fact I thought It wasn't possible lol
@dylanmacdonough95656 күн бұрын
Iv been beating Zero Mission since GBA! Than on DS, than on Switch! And still beating it!
@NoHandle448 күн бұрын
Undertale Yellow is a fanmade game based on the critically acclaimed game Undertale, which was released in 2015 and the fan project started production in 2016, only one year later. The fan game was eventually released back in 2023. Which means it took over 7 years to be complete. But boy is it an amazing fangame if you love Undertale. 💕
@briansmith52398 күн бұрын
It's pretty much perfect in my eyes, still the pinnacle of the series although metroid prime runs it close.
@delta_power30499 күн бұрын
I would highly recommend playing Super Metroid Redux, a ROM hack that gives Samus her GBA controls. Its hard mode is super difficult, similar to Zero Mission's. There's also an option to increase Samus' weight, so she controls even more like the GBA games. And the map adds doors.
@BullshitGrinder9 күн бұрын
PIay it without a BS "guide" that you obviously used and the game is actually fun. It is difficult at times, but then again we weren't thumb-sucking pussles back then either.
@basedsamtv6 күн бұрын
i hope it was obvious that i used a guide because i literally said i did with no ambiguity. looks like i was wrong about nobody caring if i skipped grinding that tedious bullshit, but with a username like yours i suppose it makes sense!
@MrBsberzerker10 күн бұрын
Great review! I especially appreciate you recommending the fan mod of AM2R. Something that always should be noted when it comes to Metroid. There is an entire genre of games named after it, that seems to be the sign when a game is truly honoured.
@MrBsberzerker10 күн бұрын
Great review! I think you touched on some key points and observations. I am impressed that you picked up on some of the subtle things like the lack of other life as you get deeper into the planet and closer to the queen. This was my first Metroid game I ever played and it made me a lifelong Metroid fan. I beat it as a kid without a map and had to figure it out, I'm proud of myself for doing so. Is it the best Metroid? No certainly not but in my opinion it is one of the best at atmosphere and using the game play to convey a feeling like as you mentioned claustrophobia and isolation. Yes while the enemy variety is low it does fit the point of the game you are here to kill the Metroids.
@Hatchet2k411 күн бұрын
Regarding the Varia, yes it's out of the way on the normal sequence but Zero Mission is a game that begs for its sequence to be broken. You can get it as soon as you have the bombs if you have the skill for a tough bomb jumping challenge, or you can come back once you have the Power Grip where it's still challenging but at least a little easier.
@williamgersztyn466311 күн бұрын
Definitely one of the best remakes out there. I’m torn between this and Ys: Oath in Felghana being the best remake. The original game Wanderer’s from Ys is considered the worst in the series and Oath became one of the best, if not the best in the series.
@Hatchet2k411 күн бұрын
Going through these retrospectives and enjoying them so far, but had to make one comment about the run button. I agree it would have been better to not have it at all and just always be running, but my workaround is to map run to the R button. You do lose one direction for aiming, but you almost never need to aim down diagonally while not moving so that's the one I sacrifice.
@George-on5hi14 күн бұрын
You remind me how cool Metroid is and the creative minds that make it. Takes me back to when i was a kid.
@DaiquiriJack14 күн бұрын
I just finished a whole playthrough of this game, and I just remapped run to my controller's trigger, that way I didn't have to do thumb acrobatics. I also remapped the diagonal aiming to the left bumper and trigger. Super intuitive that way I think
@hexywesky14 күн бұрын
Just finished for the first time and it was sick
@Omizuke14 күн бұрын
18:30 Well they could've also added the mic to the controls and have you blowing at your 3DS for some functions. lol Speaking of controllers. That's probably the reason why you drop it more than once to play Switch even if the game was good. Playing on the 3DS I always found so uncomfortable to the hands. It was the main limiter of me playing long sessions as opposed consoles, or even the PSP that although also small I didn't have issues with how to pick the device. The Amiibo thing was such a bullshit thing to do. Not only were they hard to find. But where I live the only way to get them was online and with shipping and what not were more expenisve than the game itself. Plus having the 3DS not the new, means I needed to buy the reader.
@wolfgod644315 күн бұрын
Genesis was a Xenomorph reference. Eyeless, humanoid but still clearly a monster, acid spit. Given Metroid's roots are in the Alien franchise, it's fitting to make Genesis an "ancient" race. iirc DoctorM64 made the boss is about a day before release. While I'm a bit of a purist and always recommend the 1.1 version, something interesting about the "fan" updates is the metroid rebalances. In 1.0, Omega Metroids were very tough. They were nerfed for 1.1, but 1.0 also had some game crashing bugs (that I didn't experience but heard about) so it's not so simple as "play the 1.0 version". That's where 1.5 (and maybe beyond) comes in. The first Omega is like the 1.1 version and the Nest ramps up into the 1.0 versions. Alphas and I think Gammas are also more diverse specifically in which ones dodge and how much health they have.
@Abon50215 күн бұрын
Chorizo like the Mexican pork sausage ? Or Chozo
@sofia.eris.bauhaus16 күн бұрын
okay, i'm sure i'm doing something wrong (i'm pretty bad at dodging her attacks and missed collecting some energy tanks and missiles), but it really confused me that you said Ridley is harder than Mother Brain. like, i beat Ridley in my second attempt, but i started a new playthough because i couldn't beat Mother Brain yet. well, i guess it's about time to try again 🤷. also: i gotta disagree with your praise of the map. i do love the varied environments but it's so huge and confusing. i spent so much time running in circles and into dead ends, and the fact that the map doesn't show doors made it pretty frustrating. well i did get used to it more, and also i just got less ashamed to use external maps. i guess you just have better navigational skills, but not everyone has those 😅.
@basedsamtv16 күн бұрын
yeah I look at this map as sort of a fine wine that ages better the more familiar you are with the game. the first playthrough can be a bit confusing and unintuitive, but on repeat runs where you'll likely know about the advanced tricks and sequence breaks, there really isn't any other map that offers the same level of freedom. I could've made that perspective a bit more clear in the video itself!
@sofia.eris.bauhaus14 күн бұрын
@@basedsamtv yeah, i definitely found it getting easier with time, having almost finshed my second run. though i still don't get how you say Ridley is harder than Mother Brain. I beat her now, but it was not easy. meanwhile i started another save and gave Ridley another try in a 100% run, and this time i blew him up first try without him having to pick me up. i dunno, Ridley gives you a lot of room to dodge, wheres with MB you're just crammed in that tiny room and she takes up half of that and i get hit with just about any attack…
@basedsamtv14 күн бұрын
i personally found mother brain's attacks easier to dodge, the only attack i found kind of tricky to dodge is the fireball/rocket/ketchup attack when she's at low health. ridley moves faster and can swoop in from off screen, not giving a ton of time to react, especially when he goes for grabs. just shows that different people struggle with different things, i guess!
@Mixedupfiles_-116 күн бұрын
Mother brain has a gay beam
@duck681116 күн бұрын
I love fusion, even after knowing the story i still feeled threatend after seeing sa-x
@JD-xz1mx17 күн бұрын
Wow......... I could not possibly disagree more. Zero Mission is a perfectly fine game. It is an unfathomably terrible remake. It obliterates the basis for the appeal of the original game.
@basedsamtv17 күн бұрын
interesting! what do you think zero mission is missing from the NES game? i genuinely really like hearing perspectives from people that prefer the NES version, it clues me in on things i may have missed and gives me more of an appreciation for the game.
@duck681117 күн бұрын
Netindo sucks and i will emulate every game they made
@carrionysus589318 күн бұрын
she doesn't need the power grip with the zero suit because she's using her hands, not huge chunky metal robot gloves, one of which is also a cannon, and she doesnt have the extra weight of a big metal suit. always made sense to me - it's actually this aspect that convinces me of the "fusion suit is light enough not to need power grip" theory
@shawnathin745020 күн бұрын
If I was Nintendo I would make a Metroid movie with the story it could work
@kringhetto21 күн бұрын
I played this game so much as a kid. My personal favorite GBA game, and my cart still lives in my GBA at all times.
@deathtaco409521 күн бұрын
i never really minded adam i think hes cool
@somehelluvafanboy835723 күн бұрын
I started playing this game a few days ago after watching this video, and now I can't for the life of me take the Chozo temple theme seriously at all Idk what my reaction would have been without the video but it certainly improved my experience lmao
@mennanaelkant732424 күн бұрын
My only problem is that I progressed so fast that I got to an area without the upgrade needed to traverse it and saved so I had to rest my save file
@somehelluvafanboy835724 күн бұрын
Man, it's honestly sad to see a video with such good production value be so underperformed like this, it sucks
@basedsamtv24 күн бұрын
thanks for the kind words! it's worth noting that i only had around 100 subscribers when i released this, and deep rock is a fairly niche game, so it makes sense why the algorithm didn't pick it up like it did for a few of my other videos. in hindsight there's also a few things i would've done differently with the script/editing/etc anyway. i just took it as a lesson to make my future videos even better, so i'm not worried about it. :)
@nonplayercharacter59625 күн бұрын
Lol speedrunning
@nonplayercharacter59625 күн бұрын
I'm so sick of zoomers
@Cyber-Blitz26 күн бұрын
The fact that you said almost means that they will come for you. You have dug your own grave. The Super Metroid stans are coming for you
@basedsamtv25 күн бұрын
oh they already are, but it's all in good fun haha. at least they have good taste!
@Salemcannibal27 күн бұрын
You get power bombs after wave beam. I get power bombs after super missiles. Lmfao
@michaelsong555529 күн бұрын
You're not gonna mention the extra scene at the end? The extremely creepy scene? And why the baby Metroids were eating those crystals? And unlike Samus Returns, you actually see the death sequence of that frog enemy. Very jarring, in a great way.
@Hatsune_mikuxXАй бұрын
4:40 that's not samus aran that's her mentality challenged brother Sam Adam
@damsen978Ай бұрын
Its the atmosphere of the game what makes it probably the best Metroid game in the series. And i say this as fan of Zero Mission too. But Super Metroid sound and sprite-works mesh together wonderfully to make this dark and super-immersive atmosphere no other Metroid game has.
@voltron77Ай бұрын
Metroid’s underrated masterpiece is Metroid 2.
@basedsamtvАй бұрын
a real answer? on my april fools video? how could this be. good pick though, i think i agree.
@voltron77Ай бұрын
@@basedsamtv Wait that was an April’s fools? God I’m stupid.
@damsen978Ай бұрын
I also come back to this game, probably since 2015 i've been playing it at least once each year. Idk what's about the game that makes me come back to it. I doubt its nostalgia because i never played it as a kid.
@damsen978Ай бұрын
There's something sad about this due to the fact that Nintendo will never make another 2D Metroid game, because the 2D art is part of the charm of the franchise. I'm not sure to say if i miss it, but it's like saying goodbye to an old friend. Games evolve and we have to move on with them.
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To me the Resident Evil remake from 2002 is still the best remake of all time
Zero Mission and Black Mesa seem to make up a template for how to do an ideal remake. Recontextualize the old stuff that doesn't make sense, add some extra stuff that hints at later series entries, change up the endgame to surprise players of the older entry.
August 12 2037 the heat death of the universe
repeating this meaningless phrase over and over again in hopes that it will mean something someday
i love the Metroid series so much, really but i have never really dug Fusion. The suit looks beyond stupid and the constant handholding not only ruins the isolation but also the exploration. But for a GBA title, it's pretty good.
Nintendo put out their own Metroid II remake. I won't even watch your video because you made such a basic mistake.
One day he wil upload the dread video
I agree SHUT UP IF YOU THINK ANY OTHER REMAKE IS BETTER🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 anyways metroid zero mission is the best remake + i'm remaking it in terraria
cool! are you using the metroid mod? i really enjoyed it back in the day before 1.3
I still love the fact that this game became available on my birthday
haven't watched the video yet, but came here to tell that AM2R is much much much better than Return of Samus for 3DS. In fact the 3DS game is the only bad 2d metroid.
Metroid NES is a GOAT..., the gameboy version was too hard & didn't have the same atmosphere
Just recentgly polyaed it and yes Zm is top drawer.
On my first playthrough when I got to CHozodia I didn't even return to the rest of the map xD, in fact I thought It wasn't possible lol
Iv been beating Zero Mission since GBA! Than on DS, than on Switch! And still beating it!
Undertale Yellow is a fanmade game based on the critically acclaimed game Undertale, which was released in 2015 and the fan project started production in 2016, only one year later. The fan game was eventually released back in 2023. Which means it took over 7 years to be complete. But boy is it an amazing fangame if you love Undertale. 💕
It's pretty much perfect in my eyes, still the pinnacle of the series although metroid prime runs it close.
I would highly recommend playing Super Metroid Redux, a ROM hack that gives Samus her GBA controls. Its hard mode is super difficult, similar to Zero Mission's. There's also an option to increase Samus' weight, so she controls even more like the GBA games. And the map adds doors.
PIay it without a BS "guide" that you obviously used and the game is actually fun. It is difficult at times, but then again we weren't thumb-sucking pussles back then either.
i hope it was obvious that i used a guide because i literally said i did with no ambiguity. looks like i was wrong about nobody caring if i skipped grinding that tedious bullshit, but with a username like yours i suppose it makes sense!
Great review! I especially appreciate you recommending the fan mod of AM2R. Something that always should be noted when it comes to Metroid. There is an entire genre of games named after it, that seems to be the sign when a game is truly honoured.
Great review! I think you touched on some key points and observations. I am impressed that you picked up on some of the subtle things like the lack of other life as you get deeper into the planet and closer to the queen. This was my first Metroid game I ever played and it made me a lifelong Metroid fan. I beat it as a kid without a map and had to figure it out, I'm proud of myself for doing so. Is it the best Metroid? No certainly not but in my opinion it is one of the best at atmosphere and using the game play to convey a feeling like as you mentioned claustrophobia and isolation. Yes while the enemy variety is low it does fit the point of the game you are here to kill the Metroids.
Regarding the Varia, yes it's out of the way on the normal sequence but Zero Mission is a game that begs for its sequence to be broken. You can get it as soon as you have the bombs if you have the skill for a tough bomb jumping challenge, or you can come back once you have the Power Grip where it's still challenging but at least a little easier.
Definitely one of the best remakes out there. I’m torn between this and Ys: Oath in Felghana being the best remake. The original game Wanderer’s from Ys is considered the worst in the series and Oath became one of the best, if not the best in the series.
Going through these retrospectives and enjoying them so far, but had to make one comment about the run button. I agree it would have been better to not have it at all and just always be running, but my workaround is to map run to the R button. You do lose one direction for aiming, but you almost never need to aim down diagonally while not moving so that's the one I sacrifice.
You remind me how cool Metroid is and the creative minds that make it. Takes me back to when i was a kid.
I just finished a whole playthrough of this game, and I just remapped run to my controller's trigger, that way I didn't have to do thumb acrobatics. I also remapped the diagonal aiming to the left bumper and trigger. Super intuitive that way I think
Just finished for the first time and it was sick
18:30 Well they could've also added the mic to the controls and have you blowing at your 3DS for some functions. lol Speaking of controllers. That's probably the reason why you drop it more than once to play Switch even if the game was good. Playing on the 3DS I always found so uncomfortable to the hands. It was the main limiter of me playing long sessions as opposed consoles, or even the PSP that although also small I didn't have issues with how to pick the device. The Amiibo thing was such a bullshit thing to do. Not only were they hard to find. But where I live the only way to get them was online and with shipping and what not were more expenisve than the game itself. Plus having the 3DS not the new, means I needed to buy the reader.
Genesis was a Xenomorph reference. Eyeless, humanoid but still clearly a monster, acid spit. Given Metroid's roots are in the Alien franchise, it's fitting to make Genesis an "ancient" race. iirc DoctorM64 made the boss is about a day before release. While I'm a bit of a purist and always recommend the 1.1 version, something interesting about the "fan" updates is the metroid rebalances. In 1.0, Omega Metroids were very tough. They were nerfed for 1.1, but 1.0 also had some game crashing bugs (that I didn't experience but heard about) so it's not so simple as "play the 1.0 version". That's where 1.5 (and maybe beyond) comes in. The first Omega is like the 1.1 version and the Nest ramps up into the 1.0 versions. Alphas and I think Gammas are also more diverse specifically in which ones dodge and how much health they have.
Chorizo like the Mexican pork sausage ? Or Chozo
okay, i'm sure i'm doing something wrong (i'm pretty bad at dodging her attacks and missed collecting some energy tanks and missiles), but it really confused me that you said Ridley is harder than Mother Brain. like, i beat Ridley in my second attempt, but i started a new playthough because i couldn't beat Mother Brain yet. well, i guess it's about time to try again 🤷. also: i gotta disagree with your praise of the map. i do love the varied environments but it's so huge and confusing. i spent so much time running in circles and into dead ends, and the fact that the map doesn't show doors made it pretty frustrating. well i did get used to it more, and also i just got less ashamed to use external maps. i guess you just have better navigational skills, but not everyone has those 😅.
yeah I look at this map as sort of a fine wine that ages better the more familiar you are with the game. the first playthrough can be a bit confusing and unintuitive, but on repeat runs where you'll likely know about the advanced tricks and sequence breaks, there really isn't any other map that offers the same level of freedom. I could've made that perspective a bit more clear in the video itself!
@@basedsamtv yeah, i definitely found it getting easier with time, having almost finshed my second run. though i still don't get how you say Ridley is harder than Mother Brain. I beat her now, but it was not easy. meanwhile i started another save and gave Ridley another try in a 100% run, and this time i blew him up first try without him having to pick me up. i dunno, Ridley gives you a lot of room to dodge, wheres with MB you're just crammed in that tiny room and she takes up half of that and i get hit with just about any attack…
i personally found mother brain's attacks easier to dodge, the only attack i found kind of tricky to dodge is the fireball/rocket/ketchup attack when she's at low health. ridley moves faster and can swoop in from off screen, not giving a ton of time to react, especially when he goes for grabs. just shows that different people struggle with different things, i guess!
Mother brain has a gay beam
I love fusion, even after knowing the story i still feeled threatend after seeing sa-x
Wow......... I could not possibly disagree more. Zero Mission is a perfectly fine game. It is an unfathomably terrible remake. It obliterates the basis for the appeal of the original game.
interesting! what do you think zero mission is missing from the NES game? i genuinely really like hearing perspectives from people that prefer the NES version, it clues me in on things i may have missed and gives me more of an appreciation for the game.
Netindo sucks and i will emulate every game they made
she doesn't need the power grip with the zero suit because she's using her hands, not huge chunky metal robot gloves, one of which is also a cannon, and she doesnt have the extra weight of a big metal suit. always made sense to me - it's actually this aspect that convinces me of the "fusion suit is light enough not to need power grip" theory
If I was Nintendo I would make a Metroid movie with the story it could work
I played this game so much as a kid. My personal favorite GBA game, and my cart still lives in my GBA at all times.
i never really minded adam i think hes cool
I started playing this game a few days ago after watching this video, and now I can't for the life of me take the Chozo temple theme seriously at all Idk what my reaction would have been without the video but it certainly improved my experience lmao
My only problem is that I progressed so fast that I got to an area without the upgrade needed to traverse it and saved so I had to rest my save file
Man, it's honestly sad to see a video with such good production value be so underperformed like this, it sucks
thanks for the kind words! it's worth noting that i only had around 100 subscribers when i released this, and deep rock is a fairly niche game, so it makes sense why the algorithm didn't pick it up like it did for a few of my other videos. in hindsight there's also a few things i would've done differently with the script/editing/etc anyway. i just took it as a lesson to make my future videos even better, so i'm not worried about it. :)
Lol speedrunning
I'm so sick of zoomers
The fact that you said almost means that they will come for you. You have dug your own grave. The Super Metroid stans are coming for you
oh they already are, but it's all in good fun haha. at least they have good taste!
You get power bombs after wave beam. I get power bombs after super missiles. Lmfao
You're not gonna mention the extra scene at the end? The extremely creepy scene? And why the baby Metroids were eating those crystals? And unlike Samus Returns, you actually see the death sequence of that frog enemy. Very jarring, in a great way.
4:40 that's not samus aran that's her mentality challenged brother Sam Adam
Its the atmosphere of the game what makes it probably the best Metroid game in the series. And i say this as fan of Zero Mission too. But Super Metroid sound and sprite-works mesh together wonderfully to make this dark and super-immersive atmosphere no other Metroid game has.
Metroid’s underrated masterpiece is Metroid 2.
a real answer? on my april fools video? how could this be. good pick though, i think i agree.
@@basedsamtv Wait that was an April’s fools? God I’m stupid.
I also come back to this game, probably since 2015 i've been playing it at least once each year. Idk what's about the game that makes me come back to it. I doubt its nostalgia because i never played it as a kid.
There's something sad about this due to the fact that Nintendo will never make another 2D Metroid game, because the 2D art is part of the charm of the franchise. I'm not sure to say if i miss it, but it's like saying goodbye to an old friend. Games evolve and we have to move on with them.