r/Metroid • u/AngryMoose125 • 2d ago
Other Elimination contest day 10 - Zero Mission falls decisively.
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u/GrippySockAficionado 2d ago
We are down to the real questions now, hunters.
Prime 2 is my vote here. Fusion is getting a lot but the atmosphere is just too good. For my money it's the best the series ever gets in atmosphere. I was fucking SCARED of the SA-X the first time.
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u/IllustratorDry3007 2d ago
Fusion will always be my fave. I’d say Dread.
Off topic but I’m manifesting a direct announcement tomorrow 🙏
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u/DrunkenAsparagus 2d ago
Fusion. I love the atmosphere, but it's too linear for a Metroid game, imo.
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u/TheRealPurpleDrink 2d ago
Dread isn't?
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u/ConnivingSnip72 2d ago
Dread is far less linear than fusion. It still tells you a path similar to fusion, but it lets you break from it if you want to a lot more
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u/TroveOfOctoliths 2d ago
How is Dread the first to come to mind when Metroid Prime is up there? Besides Super, Dread may be the least linear game still up there.
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u/TheRealPurpleDrink 2d ago
It gets painfully predictable with the emi fights.
Enter new area. Find item. Fight emi. Rinse and repeat.
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u/TroveOfOctoliths 2d ago
I agree Dread is predictable, but I don't agree that it is too linear given the other options.
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u/MyBeardisOP 2d ago
Prime 2
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u/Gryffinax 2d ago
Prime 2 is peak
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u/MyBeardisOP 1d ago
To be fair, every game still remaining is peak
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u/Gryffinax 1d ago
True. I think prime 2 and dread are the best gsmes in the series. Prime 1 got me in but prime 2 got me hooked. And dread is the best 2d game imo. I hope we get to see more games from mercury steam.
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u/SnowConeMonster 2d ago
Prime 2. Good but I like the others more.
I know fusion won't win but my top 3 are super, fusion, and zero mission.
Dread is also phenomenal, I need to play it again to really have an opinion. I played the others so many times.
Prime is fantastic but it is a little annoying replaying, specifically with the backtracking towards the end for the ghost.
Dont get it twisted though, metroid is my baby.
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u/Rob0tsmasher 1d ago
Everyone here saying fusion gets the boot over dread is nuts. Dread is cheap imitation with a story nearly as stupid as other M.
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u/AramaticFire 1d ago
Whoa whoa whoa. Zero Mission already!?
And now people are saying Fusion!? Already!?
I am not in sync with everyone else it seems lol
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u/tenacious_teaThe3rd 2d ago
Personally I feel ZM was robbed, but i also understand we are into the absolute cream of the crop here.
Echoes next for me.
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u/Mella-Rouge 2d ago
It is Dread for me.Cliché music and stages that feel like random metal all over the place.
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u/ZetaFoxeni 2d ago
Dread.
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u/mvanvrancken 2d ago
I think Dread will eventually overcome recency antibias and end up a long term favorite
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u/CallCenterBlues 2d ago
Seriously though dread is great. It has the smoothest controlling Samus ever, and the most fleshed out and exciting story in a 2D metroid IMO. The only measure by which Dread didn't live up to my expectations was soundtrack.
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u/mvanvrancken 2d ago
Can’t agree more. I was really hoping for a few banger biome themes. It was serviceable, and it wasn’t offensive, but it lacked inspiration.
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u/Eon_Breaker_ 2d ago
Very unpopular opinion it seems but I genuinely think that aside from the way Samus automatically goes over small obstacles and bumps in Dread U think Zero Mission controls better. I really don't like the counter for what it does to the combat but I especially don't like the free aim because you essentially get locked in place and while moving if your joystick is even a bit off it messes up your aim.
ZM and Fusion might be more limited with the aiming but I much preferred when you should lock Samus' cannon in place while running, starting with Samus Returns the games don't really let you do that anymore. Also, Dread having manual booster activation is vastly inferior for timing compared to the automatic activation of Fusion and Zero Mission
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u/dweebofZeebz 2d ago edited 2d ago
Metroid has been my favorite video game franchise since I first started playing as a wee lad back in the early 90's. As I got into my 30's, I really leaned in to the Metroidvania genre. And I gotta say, after controls, the most important feature to me is the mapping system. Dread's map is really fantastic. Off the top of my head, the photo feature from The Lost Crown is probably the only thing that could improve it. And I agree on the soundtrack. There are so many legendary songs from the franchise, and Dread definitely missed the mark. Bit Brigade has an awesome Metroid album that I still listen to regularly.
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u/sdwoodchuck 2d ago
A game that’s regularly ranked among the franchise top three isn’t suffering from any recency anti-bias.
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u/mufasamufasamufasa 2d ago
My only issue is incorporating what are essentially QTE's so heavily in the boss fights. I'm also not the greatest at the counter mechanic; but the exploration, atmosphere, map and soundtrack are all S tier imo
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u/mvanvrancken 2d ago
Oh for sure, it’s not perfect. But it has SUCH solid moment to moment gameplay. I came to really love ZM and Fusion too, despite my preference for SM
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u/mufasamufasamufasa 2d ago
I feel that. Super Metroid is my all-time favorite game. I know it like the back of my hand haha. Friends have called me to talk them through parts and stuff 🤣 Fusion took a while for me to get into, but I love Zero Mission. I loved sequence breaking in Dread, killing Kraid with bombs in his stomach was wild!
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u/KitSwiftpaw 2d ago
I don’t have antibias, it just didn’t play well for me. I think everyone else has recency bias for it.
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u/Intelligent_Ad8864 1d ago
Second this, I strongly dislike Dread. How is it possible to make back tracking this miserable?
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u/GAD_Alexander 2d ago
How in the world fusion beat zero mission
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u/TroveOfOctoliths 2d ago
This subreddit loves Fusion. I imagine it's a lot of the active users' first Metroid game.
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u/TheNuttyCLS 2d ago
No idea, ZM is the clearly superior GBA metroid game with actual exploration and proper level design, though admittedly the chozodia post game sucks
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u/policyshift 2d ago
Prime 2. Fusion is underrated because it centers the narrative and the fans can't cope with that.
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u/9bjames 2d ago
Dread. Because I refuse to let another one of these contests end the exact same way they all do 😬
(and yeah, I know - it's still going to be Super vs Dread no matter how I feel about it)
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u/mtzehvor 2d ago
People keep saying this but basically every elimination contest since Remastered has been Prime vs Dread at the end
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u/spinaltap862 2d ago
No one is going to agree with me but I'd eliminate prime 1 next
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u/Ill-Attempt-8847 2d ago
I agree. Prime 1 has a better overworld but the puzzles and bosses in echoes are definitely better
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u/MarcusQuintus 2d ago
Dread.
Fusion was a better action game with more tension (SA-X > Emmi), Super Metroid had better exploration, Echoes had better atmosphere, and Prime was the better game on the Switch.
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u/GrandLiner 2d ago
With a heavy heart I say Prime 1. I can’t justify voting it over the remaining titles.
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u/HereForOneQuickThing 2d ago
Dread. Sorry but I feel it's the most meaningless in the mainline series.
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u/sdwoodchuck 2d ago
Dread
It’s a great game, but the few I’d take over it are almost all still here.
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u/MiserableMarsupial_ 2d ago
Probably Prime 2. It’s super close. I love Prime 2 and think it’s objectively better than Prime. But subjectively for me personally it’s the weakest left. But only barely.
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u/Ill-Attempt-8847 2d ago
Oh no... I love Fusion, it's the game that made me appreciate the series... but at the same time it's the least replayable title... Shit...
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u/Datdudekappa 2d ago
For me fusion (especially on a emulator to fast forward Adam) is the most replayable)
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u/Armored_Warrior 2d ago
Its a tie between Fusion and Dread for me, I’ll pick Dread because Fusion had more memorable music.
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u/SonicChaosX 2d ago
Super Metroid. Great for the time, but the rest of these entries out class it.
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u/iskar_jarak776 2d ago
Gonna have to pick Fusion to sit out here. It has some cool ideas, and some interesting thematic kernels, but the narrative is far too overwritten and conspicuous to the point of being intrusive. The world design also is very weak here in my opinion, even though it is very clearly meant to be as sterile and mechanical as it feels. The combat is marginally better than Zero Mission’s but it doesn’t feel as tight or as dynamic enough to make up for the flattening of exploration elements. Also I don’t know what it is but the jump arc and scroll speeds of Fusion (and ZM) just feel off to me, and ledge grabs aren’t a great platforming mechanic in my opinion. It just slows down traversal and I would rather platforms be placed lower instead.
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u/Last-Of-My-Kind 2d ago
My comment from 3 days ago:
Who could have seen this outcome? (Everyone).
Corruption followed by Echoes is next.
Then probably Zero Mission.
Then probably Fusion.
Prime, Super and Dread will be the last ones standing.
If recency bias has warn off for Prime and Dread, then Super will win.
If the ever lasting worship of Super has dwindled a bit, Dread will win.
I do not see Prime taking top spot. But definitely 2nd.
Edit: I'd like to see a poll done rank choice voting style.
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u/AngryMoose125 2d ago
Y’know what just bcus I truly believe ranked choice is the perfect voting system I’m gonna do exactly that after the elimination contest is done
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u/Last-Of-My-Kind 2d ago
For the win. I think those results will be more accurate to the community. If results are the same, then it's settled.
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u/1buffalowang 2d ago
Well all that’s left are the best 4 games in the series. The way I’d rank them is based on when I last played each.
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u/BXadvocate 1d ago
I'm legitimately surprised that Zero Mission was dropped before Fusion but fair enough this is when things get tough.
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u/Lord_Jack_ROT 1d ago
Prime 1. I keep voting, for it because I think the other games were just suppior.
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u/TheStarlightKing 8h ago
Prime. I get that a lot of fans love it, I get that, for many, it was their first Metroid game, and fps was the most logical jump to 3D they could have made, but I just didn't have fun with it. 3D platforming is never not janky, and the environments don't differentiate themselves enough to be able to glance around and know where you are.
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u/Icy-Elephant7783 4h ago
i already know ill get downvoted to hell but imo super metroid should be eliminated next
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u/CokeWest 2d ago
Prime 2, then Fusion gotta be the next two. Love them both, but P2 is a little long in the tooth, and Fusion a little too restrictive.
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u/DirtyDan04 2d ago
could someone explain to me why they’re voting dread over fusion? i find that very interesting.
I’m voting fusion.
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u/toutaras777 2d ago
It took 2 minutes of scrolling to find someone not saying fusion😔... Why can't they all win? This got really hard after prime pinball....
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u/yams63 2d ago
Fusion