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523: Episode 523 preview: Super Metroid + The Metroidvania, Pt. I

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish, Diamond Feit, and Stuart Gipp touch down on the doomed planet Zebes to give Super Metroid a proper in-depth retrospective while looking at its place in the history of metroidvania and exploratory action game design.

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0:00.0

This weekend, RetroNuts were still praying for a true peace in space.

0:04.0

Hi everyone, welcome to RetroNuts. I am Jeremy Parrish, your host this episode, and this

0:32.8

episode is a number 523. What an inconsequential number, but it is

0:39.3

consequential in one sense because looking through our list of episodes that we've

0:46.3

recorded to date, it appears we've never had a dedicated episode to

0:51.0

Super Metroid, an episode dedicated to Super Metroid, a dedicated Super Metroid

0:54.6

episode. We've talked about the Metroidvania genre, we've compared Super Metroid

1:00.3

to Symphony the Night at PAX, in a live, very rowdy panel, but it appears we've

1:09.0

never done a deep dive into Super Metroid, which actually makes me feel better

1:13.0

about doing this because I put this episode down because I just wanted to talk

1:16.4

about Super Metroid again. You know, I got to touch on this topic once a year or so,

1:19.8

and I thought, well this is kind of repetitive, we've already done this, but no,

1:24.8

actually, unless there's just something that's not showing up on any of our

1:29.8

internal notes or on Google search, this is the first episode we've really had

1:34.6

dedicated to just Super Metroid, at least in this run of the show. So I'm very

1:39.6

excited to be introducing everyone here, everyone listening to a fun new topic

1:46.3

that you've never heard of before. So please, please prepare yourself to be

1:51.0

amazed and enlightened in the next hour and a half, and who was that who just

1:56.5

talked over me in the classic Metroid, Metroidvania style, yes, retro nuts.

2:02.5

I was just trying to give you props because one of the things I love the most

2:05.9

about this podcast is that you'll give these obscurities the time of day. So I'm

2:09.5

really, I think that's great for everyone that we get to finally talk about Super

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