Fear, Love, and Metroid

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Examining Metroid (NES) and Super Metroid, their design, and how they create fear, especially through a story of motherhood. I also talk about the Alien movies a lot.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
4:00 Metroid (1986)
24:55 Super Metroid
1:03:12 Conclusion

Credits
Kraid battle animated by @daylight_anim
Featuring Hannah Hellwig as Samus Aran https://x.com/thejediexile21
Thumbnail by @hotcyder

Sources
Retro Gamer - Issue 65 https://issuu.com/roylazarovich/docs/...
Yoshio Sakamoto at GDC 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/201505121...
https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-cl...
https://web.archive.org/web/201503150...
Super Metroid Music Credits https://vgmdb.net/album/883

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