Metroid FAST FACTS!
2,600Samus Returns with a Metroid Remake, so we’re back with a Metroid Fast Facts! Did you know Planet SR388 gets its name from a Yamaha Motorcycle? You did? OK, fine.
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Yoshio Sakamoto, co-creator of Metroid, has stated that the 1979 sci-fi masterpiece ALIEN, was a major influence on the creation of the game, including having a female protagonist and the boss Ridley as a reference to ALIEN director, Ridley Scott, but the similarities don’t end there. A Nintendo Power issue states that Samus’ appearance in a comic adaptation was based off Ripley.
It’s debatable whether or not sequence breaks -- the act of completing tasks in an unexpected order -- were intentionally built into Super Metroid. The map, however, wasn’t finalized until the later stages of development, which cut short the amount of time for bug testing. This could be why Super Metroid has so many sequence breaks. But if after completing the game and leaving it to idle on the title screen, a gameplay demo will show advanced techniques essential for sequence breaking.
Samus' most iconic power-up, Morph Ball exists only because Nintendo's programmers couldn't animate Samus crawling under low walls and into secret holes. So instead, they just had her turn into a ball.
Part way through development it was decided that the usual SNES noises for the bosses didn't have the right oomph, so the developers turned to various Godzilla movies to find the right sounds. Crocomire and Phantoon had cries similar to Titanosaurus from Terror of Mechagodzilla, Draygon was sampled from Anguirus, and Mother Brain has the same sound as the... mother of Godzilla villains, Mothra.
Perhaps the most iconic part of Metroid is Samus’ Varia Suit. The name is actually a mistranslation the developers decided to make canon. Originally the suit was called the Barrier Suit because it could withstand high temperatures and acid.
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