Hi everybody - before I say anything specific, thank you all for your support. I appreciated every last bit of it over the past few years.
Over the past week I’ve encountered a personal crisis, which has made me reevaluate how I have to think about my future.
Sadly trying to make YouTube my priority is not likely to be compatible with the things I need to do in order to take care of my family.
The pressure of trying to make this a career, with very inconsist results (not all bad results, just results which are difficult to confidently plan around) is making it difficult for me to get out of the way of perfectionism, so I end up with a bunch of scripts which don’t get made into videos, or videos which don’t get finished before my observations have changed and I end up wanting to start from scratch.
So I’m going to be taking a major step back for a while - I’m not likely to be streaming very often and I won’t be promising any videos.
I hope you stay subscribed to my channels and I’ll still be on Metal’s Forge and guesting on shows when I’m invited, but if you don’t want to keep supporting me on here or any other monthly membership format where you might be supporting me, please cancel.
I don’t feel comfortable collecting monthly support, if I’m not working at making personal channel content in those months.
I do hope to keep working on stuff and maybe I will get the urge to do a gaming stream now and then; but I need to make it my hobby again and stop thinking of it as my post-military career path.
Once again, thank you for everything and I’m sorry
One of the things I’ve worked on to help me get through my personal stuff, is turning my basement into a healthier environment
The timing with Asmongold cleaning his kitchen (for what appears to be the first time in a decade) is purely coincidental and this project was being worked on long before his ban.
Bidaily deadlifts have been doing a lot to help keep me feeling energetic and healthy. Would recommend buying a bar and a few plates on a local marketplace if you’re looking to improve a little bit
Metroid Fusion
The series continues its trend of having the even numbered entries being exclusive to a portable console, as well as the new trend of hiding the number within the opening credits.
Metroid 4 is known as Metroid Fusion and debuted on the Game Boy Advance in 2002.
Intro
I have a strange relationship with Nintendo. Super Mario Bros was the first game I can remember playing at a friends’ house and Super Mario World was the first game I ever owned, as it came with my Super NES.
I’ve loved several Mario games, Zelda games and the original Donkey Kong Country games- I have played dozens of hours worth of drunken Super Smash Bros Melee with my high school friends and more time than I can reasonably estimate killing time on my Gameboy Advance SP while on military courses in the early 2000s.
I also am extremely critical of Nintendo’s consumer practices, particularly in regards to how they handle their back catalog and how most of their games are stranded on their legacy platforms and the ones they do bring to their current hardware, are given a fraction of the attention which community modders give those same games for free.
They also do their best to cease and desist everyone who has the nerve to use their passion for their properties to make fan projects - which in my opinion, they do to prevent their fans from outdoing them.
They are inconsistent about their fidelity targets, sometimes designing games perfectly for the hardware they are releasing the games on- producing incredible performance results like Super Mario Odyssey or they shoot for the moon and have games which struggle to hit 30fps, like Breath of the Wild, while refusing to officially port their games to PC or create new hardware iterations which can run their own games more competently.
Finally, their online service, both when it comes to value and stability, is atrocious.
They are both an incredible company who make amazing games and a terrible company who is very out of touch with many aspects of the modern industry.
The vast majority of the amazing games they make are targeted at children and families, but one Nintendo franchise is very much unlike the others -it draws its inspiration from films like Ridley Scott’s Alien and like that film, stars one of the most badass women in the entire medium.
That series is Metroid
Metroid was originally created by Satoru Okada, but the man behind the majority of the franchise is Yoshio Sakamoto, who was the character designer on the original game and has overseen every other game in the series- if not as director, then as a key adviser.
The result of having Sakamoto act as the shepherd of the series, is that despite the numerous iterations and spin-offs, the Metroid canon has remained relatively tight.
The only major deviations from the originals come as a result of Zero Mission and Samus Returns, as they are remakes of the first two games, which have some more narrative detail.
The series has had a lot of absolute bangers over its nearly 40 year run, which have come in the form of mainline entries, a trilogy of spin-offs which shift the perspective to first person, remakes of both the official and unofficial variety and even some creative fan projects which Nintendo, being Nintendo, has sadly cease and desisted.
So join me as we take a historical look at the gameplay as well as the stories, featured in every official game in the series, as well as some key fan projects.
Without further ado, I present to you: Metroid.
Metroid
