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[truepeaceinspace]

metroid is about isolation

but metroid is also about learning to do trick jumps from random animals who celebrate when you get it right, and about saving them even as the planet shudders under your feet

and metroid is about lowering your gun when you meet the last of a species who's only just hatched, and gently holding out your hand

and metroid is about accidentally calling the name of someone you care about, who you thought you'd lost, and finding out they've been with you the whole time

and about a little scribble of a child with their parents tucked into the corner of a grand mural

and about the gifts left behind by others because they may be gone before they get to meet you, but that won't stop them from helping you

metroid is about love actually

[audios-your-post]

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[brakken]

Metroid - The Usual

[tanzmetroidblog]

Do you ever think about how when Samus was at her most vulnerable and nearly died during Corruption and the beginning of Fusion, the thing keeping her safe was the power suit, a representation of the Chozo, her family who loved her? Her bond with Grey Voice whom she cinsiderd to be her father? Because I think about it.

And in Dread it's her DNA from him who loved her that was saving her from losing control and becoming a weapon like Raven Beak wanted?

Or how the baby Metroid's love of Samus saves her over and over again, even long after she died?

Or how Adam consistently tries to get Samus to understand how much she matters to the galaxy and to stop being so reckless with her life even if she refuses to listen most of the time?

Metroid really is about love vs power and how love will always triumph.

[darkarchercatalyst]

Oh people are like, actually writing off Metroid Prime 4 because of slightly corny NPCs in the overview trailer huh.

Frankly I think we don't have enough to say either way from the trailer alone. We'll just have to see.

[brakken]

Chozodia - Distant Memory

[gentle-hero-blog]

just. really really REALLY thinking hard about the idea of Samus obtaining a little prototype EMMI after the events of Dread (maybe she requested it as part of her payment?) and making it into a funny robot body for adam :] I think it was @truepeaceinspace who had a similar idea...?

[truepeaceinspace]

go read Samus and Joey

(that includes Metroid EX: Samus and Joey too)

[coldgoldlazarus]

Something I love about Hunters and Corruption is like

Up to this point, across five 2D games and two 3D ones, we knew that Samus was a bounty hunter. And if you actually read the NES manual, it specifically called bounty hunters out as being A Big Deal, the best way the Federation had to fight back against the space pirates before their own military was established, and still important enough to call on for the most serious cases now. But Samus still kinda existed in a vaccuum.

(Technically the Super Metroid comic had one, but he was just a big guy who had a blue chozo powersuit of his own for some reason, to my understanding.)

So it's really cool to see what kind of people are the closest things Samus has to peers now, and I like how varied they are. I've already gone on my big ramble about how the Hunters cast feel like toonami show action figures, and how much I sincerely love that about them. But I also wanna give some love to the Corruption trio too, who really embody that variety, and that idea of these like, Big Name powerhouses who operate outside of typical factional structures and don't fit any existing molds. They aren't Samus, but they are still people who you'd wince at seeing hired by the other side and be relieved to see on yours, people who take their briefings directly from fleet admirals.

Also something I appreciate about all of them? All aliens. I wish we'd see more of the Federation as the multi-species coalition the NES manual painted it as, but at least that spirit is still kept in an indirect sense with all nine of the other Hunters introduced so far. (I guess technically Sylux is an unknown, but still.) Wish I could sneak back in time and get @kosmonauttihai hired at Retro Studios circa 2005ish to implement that great Gandrayda redesign, though. But still!

[tallon-underworld]

I couldn’t agree more! The hunters feel like a vertical slice of the wider galaxy, a glimpse at the wide variety of races, cultures and factions that live out there, beyond just the Federation and Space Pirates. And they all have wildly different physiologies, too: You’ve got crab guys who can curl up and spin like tops, spiky bug-men whose heads float above their bodies, whatever the heck Rundas is, and they all look so cool and diverse.

And the fact that (outside of that manual and the manga) we only ever see humans employed by the Galactic Federation is actually my #1 biggest criticism of Metroid’s worldbuilding. Unless they’re implying something darker about the Feds, I don’t see why we can’t have a little more diversity.

[coldgoldlazarus]

From @crustacean-menace

[truepeaceinspace]

You ever think maybe Samus having to fight evil clones of herself so often is like, a literal interpretation of her having to fight for self love? Like, that she gets moments where she blames herself for not saving certain people in her life and has to actively remind herself that it isn't her fault? That she's doing the best she can?

i could see it, especially with how Dark Samus is handled in Prime 3

[manolizer]

[truepeaceinspace]

metroid is about isolation

but metroid is also about learning to do trick jumps from random animals who celebrate when you get it right, and about saving them even as the planet shudders under your feet

and metroid is about lowering your gun when you meet the last of a species who's only just hatched, and gently holding out your hand

and metroid is about accidentally calling the name of someone you care about, who you thought you'd lost, and finding out they've been with you the whole time

and about a little scribble of a child with their parents tucked into the corner of a grand mural

and about the gifts left behind by others because they may be gone before they get to meet you, but that won't stop them from helping you

metroid is about love actually

[morn-yvri-winters]

[truepeaceinspace]

whats the purpose of this blog. is it metroidposting, posting silly samus rps, or both. or is it the secret third option being this is just a personal blog where you do whatever the hell you want with it

originally i wanted to use this space to put down ideas for like. a metroid AU i've got in mind.

but since it is taking so long to brew anything coherent aside from scattered notes in a bunch of places on my computer, it has quickly become the home of the "metroid is about love" post, and that is just my legacy now haha

[truepeaceinspace]

A response to my previous question: "Do you prefer the 2D games or the Prime games" (new to tumblr srry) Of the Prime Trilogy, which is your favorite? I think all of the games were awesome in their own way, but if I had to choose it would be Prime 1.

no worries! we're all new at some point

prime 1 is probably my favorite as well, if only because it's the one i'm most familiar with

i remember really enjoying watching prime 3 as well, though

[truepeaceinspace]

@kitkitart: Do you prefer the prime trilogy or the 2D games?

i like both, but i prefer the slower, more exploratory pace of the Primes

[truepeaceinspace]

its on reddit?!?!?!? we've breached containment

[truepeaceinspace]

metroid is about isolation

but metroid is also about learning to do trick jumps from random animals who celebrate when you get it right, and about saving them even as the planet shudders under your feet

and metroid is about lowering your gun when you meet the last of a species who's only just hatched, and gently holding out your hand

and metroid is about accidentally calling the name of someone you care about, who you thought you'd lost, and finding out they've been with you the whole time

and about a little scribble of a child with their parents tucked into the corner of a grand mural

and about the gifts left behind by others because they may be gone before they get to meet you, but that won't stop them from helping you

metroid is about love actually

[alligator-with-a-top-hat]

[kallenchi]

Chozo Childhood

[ID: Two image photo set: 1) Digital drawing of Old Bird brushing a child Samus’s hair rendered in bright, flat colors against a yellow background. 2) Digital drawing of Samus as a young child holding hands with Gray Voice. Rendered in flat colors against a yellow background.

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