Samus Aran

So it's Mario, Pikachu, Dino.

Fox, Link, Samus,

Falcon.

Well, he's unlockable.

We already did Mario and Luigi.

Falcon

and Samus.

You don't consider Mario and Luigi people? They're different.

So the other bits of development information, I mean, we mentioned probably this in our Super Mario Land 2 episode, but Hiroji Kuretake was the designer of Wario.

He was also the designer of Samus and a few other characters here and there.

One of his earliest, he was the director of this game, but one of his earliest Nintendo roles was as a graphic designer on Wrecking Crew.

So he probably designed Foreman Spike, which could be seen as a Wario precursor.

I thought this was maybe a gaming kind of urban legend or something.

But, Velvet, you mentioned this on your stream.

and that is that the Nintendo R&D team felt a little annoyed that they kept having to work on like Mario games and they also did Return of Samus and like the spin-offs of the main series they couldn't create characters themselves and so Wario is basically the embodiment of disdain for Mario they like created him for Mario Brothers 2 and I would say in Mario Brothers 2 and Mario in Wario Land Mario's personality is like a little bit uh I would say jerkier like Even in Mario Land 2, in which you play as him, he has a whole island and castle and, like, theme park dedicated to himself.

And, like, he's a bit more of a brash kind of capitalist sort of...

printing update.

Are you Samus yet? Do you have the whole suit? No, I'm just printing that stuff, but I got deck boxes for my Magic the Gathering stuff, which I was like, oh, I can print that, which is great.

This is glow-in-the-dark filament, which is really cool.

Hey, Google.

Maybe it's just the era we're in, but I think it would be kind of neat to do a debut character one.

Like I said, I'm kind of sick of just seeing all the classics, like the Super Marios or the Samus or whatever, just those figures that are so iconic.

But now we're in a stage where you have all these cool, unique designs for characters that come about that...

Sometimes their game might not ever actually go anywhere, but you can kind of pull them out and ham-fist them into different things, you know, and sometimes you may see a beloved figure that their game itself doesn't carry weight, but maybe potentially they could live on in some other facet.

That is almost like...

Another one that we'll kind of talk about too was Jamie Arantes, right? Jamie was literally called Samus.

Yes.

Like, okay, come on.

And the logo said that they were like a Metroid runner instead of a Metroid runner or whatever.

And the logo was literally the logo from the Nintendo character game.

Like they put just Samus in the game as a character and that is like, okay, come on.

This is so on the nose.

The other half of Metroidvania, Metroid...

Um, hey, yeah, I have been, the last time that we spoke, we talked about Metroid Samus Returns, and that we were going to start Super Metroid, because that's Metroid 2 and then Metroid 3.

We finished Super Metroid, and before anybody asks, yeah, we absolutely did save the animals.

That is an important phrase if you've played Metroid before, and if you haven't, then that sounds like, what the fuck are you on about?

Hey, so remember...

No, actually, we didn't talk about that.

At the end of a lot of Metroid games, Samus is on a space station or a planet and the shit fucking activates a self-destruct sequence and it explodes.

And hey, that happens here on this game.