Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 12 (Last!)

[davidn]

After twelve videos, here is the end of Super Metroid! After a slightly inadvertent last round of item-hoovering, we head into the depths below the statue room to find out what lies there. And I was extremely surprised to find out what it was - after an entire game of forgetting the plot and running around finding items, what a masterpiece of silent storytelling and subtle dread that turned out to be! In contrast to the rest of these videos, most of those scenes have been left in unedited. And yes, there is screaming.

Thank you for sharing the ride with me, and also thanks to the Wii U players for inspiring me to finally try this myself in the first place. (But they're still all really stupid.)

http://youtu.be/4q8xYIP9oe0

So now the floor is free - tell me anything you like! Things I missed, things I did differently from you, recommendations for speedruns and sequence breaks to watch... this was an absolutely fascinating game, and as always, I'd love to hear other people's experiences with it.

You MUST also look at lupineangel's tribute to Super Metroid in a personalized form of Scarborough Fair!

Comments

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

Hey, great video!

Unfortunately, I've forgotten basically everything else I wanted to say already :P

I have to admire your skill at wall jumping, and also at using the space jump/screw attack. I always had so much difficulty with the latter, that I felt jumping actually became more difficult after getting those power-ups. I knew I had to get it to progress, but oh no~ my jump!!

Discussing the Norfair boss route. . well, it is called "No[r]fair," but it's actually quite possible to get through the stone dragon mouth and enter Lower Norfair without using the gravity suit to resist the lava damage. Honestly, I had forgotten it was even possible to ignore the damage from the lava at all! You eventually have to judge that it's the way to go, and take the plunge that brings you inexorably towards the end of the game.

You've got plenty of energy at that point in the game, anyway. Especially you: you almost got every energy tank in the game!!! . .And still only 77% item collection!

You're pretty lucky you didn't get killed by Mother Brain's. . .brain beam. Because that's something that can actually happen. I think I did the same thing you did, the first time I played the game, and had to deal with all the metroids leading up to Mother Brain: super bombs are the only way to go, or so it seems. .


See you next mission!

[davidn]

I did actually experiment with diving into the lava in Norfair regardless, before I had the gravity suit... I didn't make it, obviously, because you need the space jump (which is really difficult to pull off consistently!) as well, but I saw I could definitely survive for a while down there.

Thank you for that tribute :)

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

This tribute amused me more than it should. :P It's like the world's saddest epitaph, or something. :P

D.F.