Question
What was your first Metroid that you FINISHED?
Mine was Zero Mission because i wanted to play Dread, but wanted the whole story so i started from the start. Followed by Samus Returns, Super, Fusion and finally Dread. It was an awesome journey!
That game blew me away in middle school. Sitting on the porch with my GBA SP just exploring, running from the SA-X, then finally ending that bitch felt so good.
And then linked to Prime and thought that was really cool
I so wanted Prime but my little brother had the gamecube. It wasnt up to me what games we got. I played thru prime during covid with the wii-u controls which i actually loved.
Same here, except I was maybe 8. I still have an entirely irrational fear of the SA-X, despite fucking with it every time I play through the game. Massive adrenaline dump every time it’s about to appear.
Metroid Prime on Game Cube, still my favourite Metroid game 👌
Great atmosphere in the dungeon where you get the x-ray vision and get harassed by Metroids 😅
Same. I had to go back several times because I was young and didn't know what I was doing or where I was going, I just knew a mission needed to be completed and I looked cool doing shit.
Zero Mission. For Christmas my father got me a gameboy sp and Metroid Zero Mission. I remember playing that game ao much that still to this day I can play it and 100% it no problem. Love that game.
Nice, Return of Samus is the only 2D Metroid I have yet to play. But I am scared it would be to dated for me, especially since I already played Samus Returns.
Yea, I'm sad I didn't had a GB(C) back then. But I finished Nestroid after Dread (with a guide) and also recently finished Super Mario Land. So I should just give Metroid II a go and see from there.
Prime 1 on GC, I'd literally never managed to actually encounter a copy of any of the others until then, or at least when I had the equipment to play it. I'd heard about how good they were and was so excited to get my hands on Prime, even though I didn't like FPS games.
Metroid Prime. It was my entry into the franchise as a small child watching my dad play through it. I started playing it after his playthrough, and at some point did beat it. I don't remember at what age I actually became capable of beating it, because all those years kinda blend together in my mind.
Super, years after it came out. I am a Sega kidI didn't have a Gameboy or NES and couldn't finish 1 at a friend's house. Watched him beat it and played with Justin Bailey code a lot.
Finding everything eventually, I don’t really know how long it took me as I didn’t use a guide until after the first time I had really beaten the game. I had, of course, missed some stuff 😂 But I had owned the game for probably years before I properly beat it. I had played the game using JUSTIN BAILEY and beaten it that way, but that’s cheating 😂
The joke here being that even though I’ve played a number of Metroid games I still haven’t actually beaten any of them. I’ve gotten close though… I think.
Super Metroid. It was on Nintendo Switch Online, I love Samus on Smash Bros and I was like Why not give it a try. I played it more than 20 year after its release and what a banger!
Second one I 100%Ed on normal was dread becuase the shinespark puzzles are toned down a small bit in that one compared to the hell that is fusion and zero mission shinespark puzzles.
My friend had Super Metroid at the time and I wanted to feel involved, so I played through Metroid II.
I remember hanging out in the front porch while my babysitter watched TV during a thunderstorm, making my way through the later parts of the game with the light coming through the half opened door barely enough to see the original Game Boy screen.
I think my friend later let me borrow Super Metroid and then I was able to play through that. I didn't get my own copy until my late teens.
Metroid NES I never liked nearly as much, and even though I owned it back then as a kid, I never beat it until I was an adult and used a map I found online. Metroid NES is still my least favorite game in the series.
Lets give it up for Prime hunters on DS, prime hunters on DS everyone, played the game on bots SO much that both L/R bumpers were merged into the frame. and the game itself was worn out from being inside constantly.
It was Dread. Like many, I wanted to play other Metroids before Dread and I found an emulator for Fusion, I got extremely far up until Nightmare but I just couldn't beat it with phone controls. So I just jumped into Dread after that. I still have to go back to Fusion tho.
If you have Dread, you have a Switch. Why not play on NSO? All 2D Metroid games are there except Samus Returns. It's much better controls than a phone(ofcourse) and also a lot more forgiving since you have a rewind feature!
super, i'm especially nostalgic for that first 16 hour run where i recall exploring maridia while drinking soup because i was sick and exploring norfair while in line at the hospital
Return of Samus. I was mesmerised by the weird chirping music and the feeling that I couldn’t describe at that time, which was isolation. I became instantly a fan of the series.
I started with Metroid Prime 2, technically, as I loved the multi-player as a kid, but I didn't beat any until I beat Super Metroid in middle school. I then went on to beat Prime and Prime 2 before Dread came out, and eventually beat Fusion after I had means to emulate it.
Metroid 2: Return of Samus, I didn't have Metroid NES as a kid. I did have a neighbor who had it and his dad could beat the game from memory. I never finished it myself when visiting.
I was 9 when a cousin gave me a gameboy advance with Metroid Fusion. I was stuck on the squid boss for two years until I found you can fire missiles into its rear end. Then I progressed to when the SA-X appears after the spider boss where I struggled for another 6 months.
Fusion is still my favorite. I even showed it to my oldest son recently who is 11!
Zero Mission was the first I completed, then I tried to get into Samus Returns, but it felt too different from the classic 2D gameplay, so I went with AM2R instead, and I played Super Metroid (Redux rom hack for GBA-style controls) and then Fusion
I figure I'll go back to play Samus Returns before I get to Dread, since I hear its gameplay is a bit more similar to that one
... because I didn't have the patience for Metroid on the NES, and I borrowed Metroid II from a friend at school. The second Metroid game I beat was Super Metroid on the SNES.
Fusion, and I'm thankful it was my first since it's the most linear Metroid game. The first time I played Super, my second Metroid game, I of course got lost a few times.
Nestroid with the Justin Bailey code. I was in elementary school. I never finished it for reals until much later on an emulator and more recently on the Switch. I think it’s better than most people give it credit for.
Fusion was the first Metroid I owned, so it was the first one I finished. I can remember the full order.
After that, Super. Then Zero Mission, then the original, then Prime. Then AM2R, then Samus Returns, then Dread, then Prime 4. Never played ROS, Hunters, 2, 3, FF, or Other M, and (sadly) not Pinball either.
First one I played was Super, first I beat was Fusion. I never owned Super, but played it at a friends when I was a kid. Didnt have money to get it as a kid, but when Fusion came out I managed to buy it myself.
Metroid Dread. I thought I wasn't going to get into the series at all but somehow I love it now. Then I played the NES one followed by Zero Mission and Return of Samus. Haven't got to the rest yet.
Dread. I had played multiple metroid games in the past but never got fully invested. Metroid Dread came out at the perfect time as I was getting more into Metroidvanias
I "beat" super first, but only because I got it used when I was like 6-8 and there was a save file in Tourian. Between getting lost too much and siblingly favouring deleting only MY save files, I never got around to beating it until much later.
But the first one I finished front to back was Metroid Prime back when it first released on the Gamecube, and probably the most influential game of my childhood.
Metroid Other M, I was like 10-12. I honestly don't know who bought it for me. I wasn't even into Metroid but I used to be able to finish games 1 at a time without much thought. Tbh I don't remember much about it, just thought it was silly that upgrades were obtained by Adam's permission. The gameplay was unique, I didn't care that it was considered bad.
The GameCube version of Metroid Prime. At that point of my life, I think BioShock was also pretty popular, and despite it's voice acting and cool exposition, the way Prime allowed you to explore and investigate the environment felt more fun and intuitive for me. It was super cool.
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u/High_Af_Osrs Jun 07 '26
Super Metroid.
First one that I beat, and that I 100%'d.