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I just think it would be cool to see an Omega Metroid fight Monster Mother Brain and the baby just getting bigger never made sense to me.But why? It's not like the Metroid's evolution was retconned, it was literally the Super Metroid.
The Metroids in Metroid II evolved by absorbing the lifeforms on SR-388. It's not really shown how the Baby was fed, though. I'm assuming it's done differently since it was birthed by the Queen Metroid.
It Dynamaxed.
How? It’s literally just a bigger sprite. It’s not more intimidating or scarier it’s just dumb. It’s like the Space Pirates fed it a Mega Mushroom. It’s just dumb. I always hated that part of the encounter, lore be damned. It’s only Super in the Mario brum brum brum sense which imo does NOT fit with Metroid at all.
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It’ll never not amuse me seeing you get annoyed at the most random ****.
I always assumed the baby's oversize was result of whatever experiments the poor thing had to go through at Ceres.
Not liking a stupid thing in a video game is one thing. People defending that stupid thing because hurrrrr duh LOOOOOOORE pisses me the hell off despite how guilty of it I have been in the past. Like I always want the lore of my games to be consistent. But I will also say that if your only excuse for not doing something really really cool in your game is the lore then you have no valid excuse and you should do the cool thing.
Maybe they just didn’t think of it? You think of that?
I don’t care dude, that’s not the story they wanted to tell.Dont tell me this isn’t more threatening then just normal Metroid but bigger.
Then they should change it in a remake. And all the posts I’m getting about “the lore” are not valid.
But if lore reasons are the reasons it didn’t happen, then it’s totally valid? I just proposed a theory, not the definitive answer. If the true answer is lore, then that’s just the way it is. And you gotta deal with it.
Guh-Huzzah!
Didn't you have a brother that once frequented here? How's he doing? Or am I going insane?
I will go to bed. But because I have to go to work tomorrow. But my final stance is that I see no valid reasons against this. And no one can change my mind. An Omega Metroid would be cooler so that’s what it should be. End of story.
If the baby wasn't literally "just a giant Metroid" they couldn't have done it's scene with Mother Brain the way it was done, and that is like, the best scene of the entire franchise, I would never change that to a scene without the giant Metroid doing what only him could have done.
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The baby Metroid is an infant queen.
And yet it doesn’t look mutated in any other way so it just makes me think they somehow played Return if Samus without killing any of the Metroids and think that’s just what happens when Metroids grow up. Not to mention how dumb it looks because it’s just been fed a Mario mushroom which just isn’t how anything else in Metroid works. It’s like all of a sudden The Avengers is running on Bugs Bunny logic for a few minutes.
Thank you.
I mean… it’s not valid to me. I think it’s incredibly stupid and breaks the consistency of Metroid’s universe. I don’t care what reasons they had. The lore isn’t a valid reason, they made up the lore to justify the decision they already made. And the story and themes I can understand on an intellectual level but I can’t say it worked because I never felt that when I played it. I always just thought about how stupid it was. And like it or not I am not a child in the 90s experiencing Super Metroid for the first time like many of the people who deem the scene iconic. I give the reasons the weight I think they deserve.
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Mutations take form in different ways, some things grow in size, some grow new limbs, some change color, and so on. There's not a uniform trait to all mutations, and how some organisms respond to different reactions is going to vary. That can apply to the Baby Metroid as we know they had to do something to it to get all of those new Metroids and that something could've resulted in it changing size as a result of whatever exposure it got.
You're being rather demeaning here. There are many people who have played Super at different stages in their lives, whether as a kid, a teen, an adult, or even older, and many of them still found that scene engaging and memorable. Trying to play that love off as childish nostalgia is being completely dismissive of those fan's opinions just because they're not your own.
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I mean I only played Super Metroid for the first time recently and the scene where the baby metroid sucked all the energy from me scared the **** out of me, and I'm not someone who gets frightened easily. I don't think that scene would work if it was an Omega Metroid, same with its death scene - especially since no Omega Metroid shows up prior to this so its inclusion would just seem out of nowhere to people who haven't played Return of Samus. You gotta consider the context of the game - Metroids are some of the biggest threats in Super Metroid so having a gigantic one succ you of all of your energy without you having an opportunity to react is naturally a terrifying prospect, which is why I think it's such an effective moment. The fact it shows remorse for doing so also makes the player recognize it as the baby Metroid, which again, wouldn't work if it was an Omega Metroid unless the player has played Metroid 2.
