Waypoint 101 - Super Metroid

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Super Metroid popularized a genre that to this day bears it's name, but does it hold up after all these years? Join Austin, Patrick, and Cado as they re-examine one of the all time greatest games from the 16 bit era, how it's level design leads the player without sacrificing a sense of exploration, talk about it's killer soundtrack, and discuss it's lineage through to modern games like Dark Souls and others.

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0:30.0	Uuuuuh!
0:32.0	Uuuuh!
0:34.0	What's good internet?
0:36.0	Welcome to the Waypoint 101 for Super Metroid
0:40.0	Today Wednesday September 8th.
0:42.0	I'm your host Austin Walker.
0:44.0	Joining me today, Patrick Lappich.
0:46.0	Hello!
0:48.0	And Riccala Contreras.
0:50.0	We're here to talk about Super Metroid
0:52.0	which we finished playing on stream
0:54.0	last week, last Monday.
0:56.0	And your questions about it.
0:58.0	And also just kind of our experience with it.
1:00.0	And with Metroid in general.
1:02.0	I will say immediately that I was compelled to immediately start playing.
1:06.0	I mean, if you've watched the streams, you saw me start playing.
1:10.0	Well, yeah, but what would you mean as you've been sending us screenshots of you continuing to play?
1:14.0	Continuing to play Metroid Fusion.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	Which is really interesting because of the differences between those two games.
1:22.0	Which some of these questions that people send in might like,
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