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Nintendo Acquires CG Animation Studio and Other M Post-Production Contributor Dynamo Pictures
Revealed in an announcement earlier today, Nintendo has acquired Dynamo Pictures, a CG animation production company that will become “Nintendo Pictures.” The move will make Nintendo Pictures a wholly-Nintendo owned subsidiary by October 2022. Dynamo Pictures has a lengthy track record in anime TV and animated movie production, including work…
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Episode 121 – Is It Time To Forgive Other M?
Welcome back to another week of Omega! This week, the fellas are tackling a bunch of different #MetroidMusing questions, including this doozey: 12 years removed from the game launching, is it time to forgive Other M and embrace it’s good qualities while leaving behind what it did wrong, or should…
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Check Out This Video Analyzing the Tragedy of Samus Aran
Much of the Metroid lore presented to players leaves room for plenty of speculation. Details that give a general sense of what happened on a planet before Samus arrived is to be expected, but enough is told through environmental story telling that fan speculation is able to fill in some…
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Episode 120 – Samus’s Percentages: Where in the Timeline Will Metroid Prime 4 Take Place?
Andy and Doom are back in the hot seat this week for another edition of SAMUS’S PERCENTAGES! The premise is simple: we read a statement and assign a percentage on how likely we think it is to be true! Will Prime 4 have more than four beams and visors to…
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Learn How The Theme of Samus Has Evolved From BillPill
A new video by BillPill analyzes one of Metroid’s most iconic tracks, the Theme of Samus, show and appreciate how the song has been utilized to introduce players to everyone’s favorite bounty hunter. BillPill has taken a deep look into each variation of the theme to find out what makes…
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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…
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Reggie Fils-Aimé Opens Up About Metroid: Other M In Recent Interview: “It Really Didn’t Touch the Player the Way We Hoped It Would.”
Metroid: Other M is a divisive game in the eyes of the Metroid community, to put it mildly. Looking back at it in hindsight, it seems almost absurd that the game sold relatively well and was received warmly by critics, but at the time, everyone was at least somewhat on…
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Episode 110 – Answering Your Metroid “Would You Rather” Questions!
This week, we’re answering YOUR fan questions in a “would you rather” format, and we have some absolute doozeys on hand! Would we rather every game play like Federation Force or have dialog like Other M? Would we rather a new Hunters style stand alone game or just have multiplayer…
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The Music Theory Behind Metroid’s Iconic Soundtracks
Metroid music is stylized so perfectly that you know what you’re listening to the moment the notes hit your ears. 8-bit Music Theory’s video explores the musical theory behind Metroid’s music across multiple games down to the melodic structures, chord progressions, and key signatures. As an artform, music elicits emotional…
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Episode 107 – Ranking Every Metroid-Themed Stage in Smash Bros.!
The whole crew are back together this week to talk about two of the things they love most – Metroid and Super Smash Bros.! We go around the table and definitively rank each Metroid-themed stage in Smash, discussing things like the differences between Planet Zebes and Brinstar, if you can…
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- Metroid II: Return of Samus
- Super Metroid
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Fusion
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid: Zero Mission
- Metroid Prime Hunters
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Metroid: Other M
- Metroid: Samus Returns
- Metroid Dread
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
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