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Episode 75: The Golden Age of Metroid, Metroid LEGOs, Dread Pre-Orders, and More!
Dak is back, while Andy is off getting hitched (congratulations Andy and Sam!), as the show must go on. Doominal returns to join Dak for an in-depth reflection of the “Golden Age” of Metroid. We look back and reminisce on arguably the best time to be a Metroid fan. With…
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Episode 74: Alien: Isolation – Inspired By Metroid
After a long hiatus, Inspired By Metroid returns, and in a somewhat serendipitous turn of events, we examine a game modeled after the great 3D Metroids that’ from the series that helped inspire Metroid! That’s right, its finally time to talk Alien! Andy is joined by Zelda Dungeon and Boss Rush…
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Episode 73: Playing Guess That Metroid Character in 16 Questions!
We’ve brought over a fan favorite game from the Zelda podcast and sister show, The Champions’ Cast, to play this week, but of course, with a Metroid twist! Introducing Guess That Metroid Character in 16 Questions, the game where you get 16 yes or no questions in an effort to…
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Episode 72: Definitively Ranking Metroid II: Return of Samus
The boys are back with the latest entry in the Definitive Ranking series, going all the way back to 1991 to talk about Metroid II: Return of Samus? How does the original Game Boy classic hold up? Should Metroid fans bother with this title or just head straight to the…
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Episode 71: Theorizing How Metroids, Ridley, and the Space Pirates Could Be Used in Metroid Dread
Welcome back to another great week of Metroid bliss! This episode is split in two parts – the first half, we theorize what kind of role – if any – Metroids and the “Dark” and “Light” Chozo will play, if we could see an E.M.M.I. fashioned after Ridley, and what…
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Episode 70: Analyzing the Sakamoto Diaries and Comparing Metroid Dread to Prime 4
Welcome to our last breakdown of the gameplay footage of Metroid Dread. This week, we take a listen to series producer Yoshio Sakamoto give an excellent Developmental History of Metroid Dread, offering context and info about the series to new players and old. We look over some new footage in the…
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Episode 69: Metroid Dread Q&A – Theories, Concerns, DLC, and More Answered!
We asked you to give us your best Metroid Dread questions, and boy did you deliver. This week, Andy and Doom cover a wide array of topics including: do we think it’s possible Dread has DLC? Should the Ice Beam return as a tacked weapon or its own beam again?…
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Episode 68: Metroid Dread Gameplay Analysis Part 2 – Samus vs Corpius!
We’re still picking up our jaws off the floor after watching Part 1 of the Nintendo Treehouse, so we’re ready to do it all over again for Part 2 of the Treehouse presentation! A big focus on this half is the focus on Samus’s boss fight against Corpius, the Phantom Cloak and its…
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Episode 67: Metroid Dread Gameplay Analysis Part 1
Happy days, Metroid fans! We’re still riding high on the announcement of Metroid Dread, so today we take to the Nintendo Treehouse Gameplay footage to break down and analyze as much of Samus’s adventure of planet ZDR as we can. We talk all the new enemies, the Save Station, Adam and his…
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Episode 66: Metroid Dread is Finally Here! And Our E3 2021 Reactions!
HYYYYYPE!!! We finally got Metroid 5, and it’s the game everyone has been hoping it would be for years: Metroid Dread! Come join us, as well a special guests Doominal Crossing and Rod Lloyd, to discuss our reactions to Metroid Dread, the lack of Metroid Prime 4, our thoughts on…
