Jeremy Parish

NES Works #048 (Pt. 1) - Metroid (Patreon)

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2019-02-24 15:51:32

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Let's take a break from Virtual Boy, shall we? I wanted to commemorate the upcoming 25th anniversary of Super Metroid by looking at the game it was based on, which just happened to be next in the NES Works queue. Handy.

This Metroid video breaks the oath I made to myself after Final Fantasy II to avoid multi-part video episodes. I'll try not to do this often, but folks, I just don't have it in me to crank out a single 25-minute-plus video. Please understand.

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Metroid retrospective (part 1): Me and my Ze-best gal | NES Works #048 Pt. 1

Nintendo wraps its run of summer 1987 console masterpieces with the third entry in its not-quite-Black-Box series: Metroid. Playing like a midpoint between Super Mario and Zelda but with a flavor all its own, Metroid continues the trend of NES action games striving to present players with something more substantial than arcade-style test of twitch reflexes. (Stay tuned for the other half of this retrospective next week.)