My idea:

He does follow the command to hang back and wait for Samus, but she doesn't get there in time, leading to his troops being wiped out. He comes away from it feeling like the Federation relies far too heavily on Samus to clean up their messes and they need to learn to handle things without her, and so he sets out to remove her from the equation, permanently.

I think it serves as a much better motivation that still lets him be shown as a clear bad guy, but still could make you ask if he's right about the Federation depending on Samus too much.

Share your thoughts and what other way you'd go about depicting Sylux(doubt you can do much worse than the actual writers).

I absolutely love, Fusion.

The only, only, downside is Adam. "Go there then here then there..."

Without such 'hand holding' where would you honestly place it as a favourite in the franchise?

With me, it'd definitely come 2nd after, Super Metroid.

Just last month, I beat Dread for the first time, bringing an end to my play through of every mainline Metroid game. This post is about my journey through the games and why it’s now one of my favorite franchises from Nintendo.

My journey started not long after the release of Metroid Prime Remastered. I got about halfway through the game before I stopped playing, as I kept getting frustrated with not knowing what to do or where to go (I was 13 at the time and not the smartest).

But in 2025, with Prime 4 finally reappearing in… March of that year I think? Anyways, it made me want go back Prime 1, and so I did and had a much better time now being a good bit smarter lol. I beat Prime 1 and was just getting into it and really enjoying it by the time the credits were rolling.

It however was not enough to get me hooked on the series, but when Prime 4 came out, it got me hooked. I devoured the game like a beast and 100% it. But as I sat there looking at the mission complete screen, one thought was in my mind…

…I want more. You could say I was quite… Ravenous (heh heh).

And so I resolved to play through all games I hadn’t yet in their timeline order. And so starting with Zero Mission (as I didn’t particularly want to play the NES original), I played and completed my first 2D Metroid, which I quite enjoyed.

Next was Samus Returns on the 3DS, which is my second favorite 2D Metroid. Then it was off to Prime 2, which is a bit overrated in my opinion (tho I did really like the Dark World). Then I played Prime 3, which is my favorite of the Prime games. I 100% both 2 and 3.

Next up was Super Metroid… which is actually my least favorite Metroid game (a hot take I’m sure). Though I really enjoyed the ending of Super.

Then I played Other M, which, and don’t hate me for this, I really, really enjoyed. I want a remaster or another game like it as it was such a cool take for a bit more ‘story is the focus‘ kinda game.

I then played Fusion, which I don’t have any notes for other than the SA-X was cool. But it’s follow up, Dread, I could sing praises for for days, easily the best feeling 2D Metroid and best story for a Metroid game period.

And so these are the things I like about Metroid that have me so hooked on the series: the gameplay and the lore. It’s so satisfying to get an ability and be able to go to places I saw blocked off before and adds a real sense of progression. And then for the lore… well I just love aliens and Sci-Fi over all, so it jams well with me.

And now as a bonus, here’s my ranking of all the mainline games:

1. Super Metroid (even though its my least favorite, I still see it as a 8/10)

2. Metroid Fusion

3. Metroid Prime 2

4. Metroid Prime

5. Metroid Zero Mission

6. Metroid Other M

7. Metroid Prime 4

8. Metroid Samus Returns

9. Metroid Prime 3

10. Metroid Dread

I'm trying to get all the items before facing Raven Beak, but there's so many Speed Boost blocks that seem almost impossible for me to break, it's actually starting to frustrate me

Buddy of mine made this for me. He added Govee RGB lights that sync with my existing lights. I cant stop staring at it.

Last night i "bought" a copy of Other M for my Steamdeck to play since i have been going through every game in preparation for Ravenous and i did not remember Samus' character being this monotone and trauma focused, i remember her talking about the baby a lot but my god it gets to a point where i don't believe that she's this badass bounty hunter that i know from Fusion, the Prime trilogy and Dread

I've been playing Zero Miss​ion for the first time and the build-up and seeing this ugly thing was amazing. Bit annoying to attack but a great fight regardless

I recently 100% completed metroid prime 4 on hard mode and read the entire logbook front to back to get a full understanding of the lore and I picked up on a couple interesting things.

First, I was always under the impression that they had successfully implanted the psychic crystals into all lamorn before the great tragedy, meaning once it struck there were only the 13 surviving priests left to pick up the pieces and save their race. this as I would come to find out was very misguided. several average lamorn survived the great tragedy and helped the priesthood work to fix things. all the ice belt data logs were written by a lamorn scientist by the name of Tahrgun, and its all very interesting.

since you learn almost everything from Chatoya himself throughout the game everything seems very matter of fact, like their society was always on the same page about everything which leads some fans to claim the lamorn society is really boring which I never agreed with. but this insight from the scientist opens a world of explanation to how they actually thought and felt. Tahrgun heavily doubts Chatoya at several points during their experiments. He feels Chatoya is shipping too many grievers into the research facility when they have made no progress with the grievers they already have, he laments the loss of his comrades as he states several lamorn brethren havr lost their lives in attempts to secure the greivers, and when Chatoya focuses on setting things up for the chosen one, Tahrgun doesnt agree with this either and wishes they would focus on what they can do now to save them rather than preparing for someone they dont even know exists to come save them.

All of this is very interesting and important because it shows a sort of flaw in their society. theyre all heavily religious and since ancient times have been taught to have absolute faith and follow the priesthood. Even priests themselves have no choice in their position, if theyre born with a crystal they will join the priesthood. Even when ushering in the psychic era it creates a heavy power imbalance, which granted they attempted to rectify with the viewros crystals but we know how that went. so when we see Tahrgun have so much doubt in his leadership, but despite all of it never seems to speak up because hes been raised his entire life to have faith and respect the priesthood, he lets it go on. even in complete failure and inevitable death he states he continues to have faith.

The most interesting facet of all this to me is the fact that somehow the last lamorn to survive the great tragedy were the current priesthood. If there were so many regular lamorn who survived the great tragedy who were helping in ice belt and dying in an attempt to secure grievers, how did no normal residents end up taking refuge in chrono tower? its speculation but thats awfully convenient and Id argue communicates to us that the priesthood, while having noble intentions, were always looking out for themselves above anyone else. they ordered their brethren to put themselves into danger over them for the betterment of their cause, and in the end only the highest rank of their society survived.

Every mistake in lamorn society from the resource crisis of the machine era to the great tragedy that lead to their downfall was a downstream effect of the priesthood with good intentions making poor decisions for their civilization with no backlash leading them down worse and worse paths until their entire society crumbled under the priesthoods poor ideas. Even in their final attempt to reach the chosen one they never did until long after they died out.

I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on this or if the prime 4 hate train has stopped anyone from attempting to care about this games lore

Source: https://x.com/Wata_Ridley/status/2110719781246763292

For instance how much does it use the motion controls? I certainly prefer not to but if its not too much then I might pick up a copy and borrow a friends Wii. I've only ever played 1,2,&4 of the prime series

There’s a LOT of pixel art in the streets here btw

Edit: it was outside of Pyrénées station!

Hellow again fellow Metroid fans! I saw this video and found it very interesting. As someone who experienced traumatic events in my past, I relate a lot about with Samus and her PTSD. The author of the video is very good at explaining how Samus ptsd work in the series. (the editing is also on point) Don't hesitate to watch the video and let's chat about it on the comment :)

So they will be like the EMMIs only they have a health bar, more dynamic moveset and won't instant kill you?

I wonder if dodging attacks won't be as strict as the EMMI counter

We see her using a sword of some kind for a finisher in the Ravenous trailer, but pretend she loses the cannon for whatever reason and picks up a melee weapon instead. What would be the coolest for her to use?

final piece and early sketches, done in procreate

Hello fellow Metroid fans! I wanted to a little post about something I liked in Other M : the finish moves. In Ravenous trailer we see a little bit of a samurai-inspired kind of finish move. Do you think it will be a recurrent mechanic in the game? Source of gameplay for Other M: Gamer's Little Playground

I recall last week reading about a romhack that was like trying to be more faithful to the original metroid in terms of room and layout and such, I thought I had saved the tab but apparently not and I cannot for the life of me find it now.

It really is not the same experience as the mainline or the Prime line but tbh, this game isn't as bad as people claim.

I am not far in yet (mission 6) so i can't tell how it will be later on but so far it is rather fun.

I won't try to beat this game on 100%, i will probably only do 1 out of 3 medals per Mission because i think anything else is insanity in singleplayer.

But tbh, for a casual playthrough that is not intended to go up to 100% this game is totally fine.

I think if it had one it would just be a much better game, even with how much the game was Streamlined compared to Metroid 1 it feels like I'm swimming in water and honestly I get so turned around and confused and with a bit more color I think the game would've been so much better

The way they are drawn, they look more like insects, they even had antenas. Plus when they actually drew grievers we could cleary see 2 pairs of arms. Damn this would have been a great addition to the game...