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Episode 115 – Definitively Ranking Metroid: Samus Returns
Definitive Ranking is back for a brand new installment focused on Samus’s first new (at the time) 2D Metroid game in over a decade, the apply named Metroid: Samus Returns! We’re breaking it down, discussing the categories and topics such as: did the gameplay innovations made in Samus Returns land,…
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ROM Hack Reviews: B2-TW
We’re back with our (ahem) balls to the walls – Morph Balls, that is! In our latest ROM Hack Review, we’re taking a look at the unique B2-TW, a hack by Grime in which you play in Morph Ball form the entire time, jumping, bombing, puzzling, and even fighting enemies…
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Check Out Moo Lander, The World’s First “Mootroidvania”, Launching Today!
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “man, I really wish there was a game like Metroid out there where I controlled a UFO and battled an assortment of evil cows”, first of all, congratulations, your imagination is greater than mine, and second of all, you’re in luck! Moo Lander, a…
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Relive the Events of Super Metroid in This Fun Animated Short
Fans of the Metroid series have long been supportive about the idea of a television show or movie based on everyone’s favorite bounty hunter. Support has been so tremendous that some fans have taken it upon themselves to make more media for Nintendo’s space adventure series. 64 Bits has created…
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Learn More About “The Living Weapon” Kanden in this Metroid Lore Video!
For many veterans of the DS multiplayer focused title Metroid Prime Hunters, one of the most tantalizing aspects of the game was playing as a character not named Samus and being able to experience the Metroid world through a different visor. One character that players had the ability to play as was…
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Episode 114 – Ori and the Blind Forest: Inspired By Metroid
Welcome to another installment of Inspired By Metroid! This week, we’re diving into a game that helped launch the Metroidvania renaissance, Moon Studio’s 2015 masterpiece, Ori and the Blind Forest! Andy describes this game as “one of the greatest games ever made””, and this week we dive into all the…
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Learn Chozo With This Community Written Language Course
Chozo is a mysterious language, with only two games having ciphers for the English language – Metroid: Other M and Metroid Dread. While Metroid: Other M has just a simple English-to-Chozo cipher, the team at MercurySteam went one step further and developed a constructed language (or conlang) for the cipher…
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Check Out Figma Samus Taking on Bionicle Mother Brain!
The iconic SNES battle between Samus and Mother Brain has been recreated with a Figma figurine of Samus and an impressive Mother Brain model constructed completely out of LEGO Bionicle pieces! Everyone remembers the battle between Mother Brain on Zebes and Samus Aran in Super Metroid. MootroidXproductions has certainly breathed…
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Torvus Bog Theme Recreated by Music Producer SynaMax
Electronic music producer SynaMax released a new video on his Youtube channel yesterday featuring a remastered recreation of the fan favorite “Torvus Bog” track from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. SynaMax, who has gained popularity from the Metroid fan community in recent years, has been on an ongoing quest to find…
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Episode 113 – Recreating Metroid: Other M’s Story (While Using the Same Basic Premise)
Yes, we’re talking about Metroid: Other M again, the most controversial Metroid game that Metroid fans can’t seem to be able to forgive or forget. But this week, Andy is arguing that the basic premise of the game (“Samus, emotionally reeling following the events of Zebes, answers a distress call…
