Metroid

The stuff that it is mostly most well known for.

This is before terms like Metroidvania or anything like that ever existed.

This is just like a level one.

Walk from left to right, beat a boss.

um but it is a tough game and as a kid it took me forever to actually complete the game but man oh man once you did it was just kind of this like release of like i did it i did it oh my goodness that was followed up eventually uh in 1987 just the next year castlevania 2 simon's quest for the nes now this was in an era when Nintendo, because Nintendo was like, video games, it was just Nintendo.

Sega Master System was out, but was not really a true contender.

So a lot of companies were trying to make sequels that were not just direct sequels, copies of the last game they wanted to try and change up the formula right a good example at this in and around the same time was was the Zelda series right you had the Legend of Zelda this top-down view adventure game Zelda 2 was side-scrolling lots of different sort of approaches to how that game very very different kind of games right Castlevania 2 was still a side-scrolling game but it was kind of the early prototype of what we would see from Symphony of the Night later on, right? More of that Metroidvania style, but it was not really a Metroidvania.

It was just this kind of almost like mystery puzzle horror game where you would be walking around in towns.

Yeah.

Then we get to that first boss fight and like Psylux, I think, calls in some Metroids and they slap onto that space part.

I'm like, finally, Metroids and Metroid Prime, you know, like that was like my biggest pet peeve with all the games is that they didn't feature Metroids.

And I'm like, yes, actually slap on the Metroids on there and I'm playing the boss and I'm like, Whoa, this is the first boss from Prime 3.

Exactly.

The one on the Valhalla or the Federation ship.

exact same boss.

And I'm like, whoa, weird, but cool.