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Episode 132 – Frigate Orpheon: Mapping Metroid
Mapping Metroid returns, offering up a companion episode to our Tallon Overworld deep dive. This time, we’re mapping two areas in one: the Frigate Orpheon! Come listen to us dissect the ship as it flies in space, talking about that Parasite Queen fight, the lore of the ship and what…
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UPDATE: Metroid Dread Samus Figma Now Available for Pre-Order
UPDATE: The new Metroid Dread Samus figma is now available for pre-order! You can grab your pre-order on GoodSmile for $86.99 USD (and if you create an account before ordering from GoodSmile’s website, you can get 50% off shipping!). The figure comes with posable joints, perfect for your most-desired poses,…
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ROM Hack Reviews: Metroid Oil Spill
We are continuing the Game Boy Advance journey with this Metroid Fusion ROM Hack from Spedimus called Metroid: Oil Spill! Placing Samus on a freighter leaking (you guessed it) OIL, players will have to navigate this open world while trying to stay alive against the games brutal difficulty. Is this…
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Metroid Musing: Should Metroid Introduce Time Travel?
Despite being a sci-fi series set in the distant future, there are two sci-fi staples that Metroid has yet to explore in a significant way. First would be actually being in the vacuum of space. Samus wears Power Armor that seals her off from the outside and has spent some…
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Check Out This Orchestral Arrangement of The Metroid Prime 2 Title Theme
As a lover of orchestral video game soundtracks and remixes, Wingus Dingus on YouTube has become one of my favorite channels as of late. So I was more than excited to see that not only a new upload had hit the channel in the past few weeks, but that it…
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Episode 131 – Metroid This or That!
On this week’s episode, Dak and Doom play a game of Metroid This or That! We’ve got a bunch of different prompts and questions involving Metroid that Dak and Doom take their stances on. Would they rather take the slide or flash shift for the next 2D Metroid? Would they…
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Metroid Musing: Does Zero Mission Completely Replace NEStroid For You?
By the time Metroid for the NES neared its 18th birthday, a lot had changed in the Metroid series. By then, Metroid had introduced new items and powerups that became series staples, had refined its gameplay to include maps and markers, and generally moved away from the notion that getting…
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Metroid Musing: Should Metroid Prime 4 Include More Than Four Beams and Visors?
While we still know very little about the mysterious Metroid Prime 4, beyond the developmental snafu of course, Nintendo calling it “Prime 4” does tell us a few things. We can safely assume that this game will: be an FPS; that scanning will make its return; and that this will…
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Episode 130 – Remakes, Releases, Beams, Directs, and More in Metroid Q&A!
Welcome back to another instalment of the only weekly Metroid podcast on the internet! This week, we’re answering your fan questions and touching on a top of different topics, including: what do we think a realistic timeline to release Metroid Prime 4, Trilogy and/or Prime HD is? Should Metroid Fusion…
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Metroid Musing: Do You Think Releasing Metroid 2 on the NES Would Have Helped The Metroid Series Grow More?
Despite what some people may tell you in 2022, Metroid II: Return of Samus for the Game Boy is still a very enjoyable game to play. Yes, Metroid: Samus Returns and AM2R both improve on the original game in almost every conceivable way, but between the tension created with the…
