... Yeah, I think that's the thing that got me about the original Hollow Knight. You know, we'll go into Metroid and Metroid's a game where you shoot every wall for some reason. ...
00:03:30 - 00:03:37
You know, we'll go into Metroid and Metroid's a game where you shoot every wall for some reason. And then occasionally there's a missile compartment behind a wall.
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00:15:38 - 01:13:09
... So it's it's good to have you back, Jay, really this is what we depend on you for really. Okay, so yes, this this this episode is all about the Metroid series. So Matthew has been building up to this for basically the entire year right Matthew, you've been building up to yes, he played every single game in the background. ...
01:15:18 - 01:19:49
and then you sort of go into this ultra fast mode which lets you punch through walls and then start launching yourself around and you begin to realize that in you know not just individual rooms but entire portions of the map are actually very convoluted run-ups for her to do these special jumps to get to power-ups and that stuff is it's in loads of the metroids but i i still love that trick i think it's it's just so awesome to behold in this when she sort of flies up and the camera angle changes a little bit…
01:26:48 - 01:28:25
grainy 16-bit gif of like suspiria but silox as well okay um number two then matthew should we actually should we start with jay's number two that probably makes sense i've definitely done this in uh it's slightly a rational order but i think that makes sense in terms of order of speakers what's your number two jay i mean this is kind of a okay i've so i've gone with metroid prime two but i kind of also count three here just because i think to an extent in my head they blend into one i think two is the better…
01:30:13 - 01:31:17
snap um so i think it just like the we mo and the the very particular rhythm of shooting in the metro prime games it's just like a perfect fit for each other yeah i mean i think that this formula of metro i mean for me metro prime is like the pinnacle of metroid as much as i'm a big 2d metroidvania fan there's just something about this formula that works so well and even the lesser games in this are going to be some of the best stuff you know ever in this in the kind of space it is existing i don't think the…
01:44:47 - 01:47:33
just to remind you of who you're playing as kind of like similar to the rain in that respect where it just adds that extra layer of atmosphere blessedly psy looks free as well although this does have the first the first appearance of dark samus uh smash pro's favorite in which leaves matthew we come to your number one uh which incredibly cliched fashion is super metroid on the snes i normally roll my eyes when list get to number one and it's like the snes version you know it's a little bit like really you want…
01:53:44 - 01:57:17
of this late hour i mean yeah we are recording at 20 past midnight in which case i will i will just ask you chaps to read out your top fives for all the information sickos who are not content to just listen to the podcast in real time and like things being recapped um after the fact see i i think we should do this podcast super metroid style and not repeat it so you just have to sort of like go and find it at your own pace but if you're more of a metroid fusion guy let's have at these lists yeah i will i will…
00:01:11 - 00:01:52
... And I would love to ask, given the subject of this episode, I mean, this is an episode all about the best Metroid games yourself and Matthew have each constructed a top five. And I think this is a genre we talked about several times before. ...
01:41:20 - 01:41:54
gives you yeah it is a incredibly beautiful uh sort of like you know way to experience the game now and it does it holds up well precisely because the thing we talked about earlier there is a bit of an evolutionary dead end there aren't many games that are there are many games inspired by super metroid and the 2d metroid games but there are fewer games that can sort of get their arms around what metro prime was trying to achieve and the the very specific 3d version of that experience matthew what do you want to…
01:37:32 - 01:38:06
like archa like archaeology in this alien world that i don't think anything else has really felt as good as this in that you know you play you know play its contemporaries stuff you know like you know star wars jedi survivor and stuff and it's got that metroidvania you know ancient space ruins feel but it doesn't feel like this it doesn't sell you on that sense of this isn't real a real ass ancient alien world and you're just in the ruins of it it's brilliant i think it was just a testament of art design and…
01:43:06 - 01:43:40
excited to go back to magmalk that's like that's like that's can we at least agree on that right just hopping over the lava the things popping out of the lava like that's it said it's a tough hang for me i i really don't like the last couple of rooms before the very last boss with all the the shitting metroids that turn into like three metroids and then they've all got different ammos to destroy them by the time you've worked out what's going on like another three have grown and oh just hell that was tough…
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