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|developer=Nintendo R&D1 and | |developer=Nintendo R&D1 and Intelligent Systems | ||
|publisher=[[Nintendo]] | |publisher=[[Nintendo]] | ||
|platforms=[[Super | |platforms=[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] | ||
|releasedUS=April 18, 1994 | |releasedUS=April 18, 1994 | ||
|releasedEu=July 28, 1994 | |releasedEu=July 28, 1994 | ||
|releasedJp=March 19, | |releasedJp=March 19, 1994 | ||
|genre=Action Adventure | |||
|ratings=ESRB: E<br/>OFLC: G8+<br/>PEGI: 7 (Virtual Console release)<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/vc/super_metroid_6666.html| title= Super Metroid| site= Nintendo.co.uk}}</ref> | |||
|modes=Single-player | |||
|media=24-megabit cartridge | |||
|input=[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] Controller | |||
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|theme=[http://metroid.retropixel.net/metroid3/music/sm01.mp3 Title theme] | |||
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''' | '''Super Metroid''' is the third game in the Metroid series and is the sequel to ''[[Metroid II: Return of Samus]]''. In it, [[Samus Aran|Samus]] answers a distress call at the Space Colony [[Ceres Space Colony|Ceres]]. She finds the station deserted, and the researchers dead. When she locates the [[Metroid Hatchling]] they were studying, [[Ridley]] abducts it and Samus gives chase. | ||
'' | ''Super Metroid'' improved on the formula established in ''[[Metroid (game)|Metroid]]'' and ''Metroid II: Return of Samus''. | ||
== | ==Plot== | ||
=== | ===Prologue=== | ||
After [[ | After [[Samus Aran|Samus]] completed her mission and eradicated the entire [[Metroid (species)|Metroid]] population on [[SR388]] as commanded by the [[Galactic Federation]] (sans the [[Metroid Hatchling]], which she nicknamed "Baby"), she brought the Hatchling to the Ceres Space Colony for research. However, shortly after she left, she received a distress signal from the Station and returned to investigate. | ||
When Samus arrives at the | When Samus arrives at the Space Science Academy where the Baby was being studied, she finds all the scientists slaughtered and the containment unit that held the Baby missing. Upon further exploration of the Station, she finds the Baby in a small capsule. As she approaches, [[Ridley]] appears and grabs the capsule. After a brief battle, Samus repels Ridley, and he activates a [[Countdown|self-destruct sequence]] to destroy Ceres. | ||
After escaping the explosion, Ridley flees to [[ | After escaping the explosion, Ridley flees to [[Zebes]], and Samus goes after him. [[File:Baby_and_Ridley_-_Ceres.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Ridley roars at Samus on the Ceres Space Colony]] | ||
=== | ===Zebes=== | ||
Samus lands on Zebes, explores the | Samus lands on Zebes, explores the surface, known as [[Crateria]], and heads deeper into the planet. She finds that the old base of [[Tourian]], which was destroyed after Samus defeated [[Mother Brain]] during her [[Metroid (game)|last visit]], has been completely rebuilt, and [[Space Pirate]]s have resurfaced their activities on Zebes. Samus heads deeper still back into [[Brinstar]] to explore, and upon returning, she finds [[Zebesian]]s all over the rebuilt Tourian base. As Samus moves farther along, she unknowingly finds the entrance to the "new" Tourian, which is blocked by golden statues of [[Kraid]], Ridley, [[Draygon]], and [[Phantoon]], all of which shine with gemstones that only vanish once Samus has defeated the respective bosses in their domains. | ||
[[File:New_Tourian_gateway.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Golden Statues that block the entrance to "new' Tourian]] | [[File:New_Tourian_gateway.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Golden Statues that block the entrance to "new' Tourian]] | ||
Samus sets out to reclaim her original [[Upgrade|upgrades]] from ''Metroid'' as well as some new ones that help her along her way. Numerous enemies bar her way to find the four guardians. She encounters Kraid, who was one of the guardians of "old" Tourian and has rebuilt his | Samus sets out to reclaim her original [[Upgrade|upgrades]] from ''Metroid'' as well as some new ones that help her along her way. Numerous enemies bar her way to find the four guardians. She encounters Kraid, who was one of the guardians of "old" Tourian and has rebuilt his lair, which takes up a large part of Brinstar, and defeats him to claim the [[Varia Suit]] as her own. She then makes her way to the [[Wrecked Ship]] and finds Phantoon, who has shut off the power supply to the ship, making progress impossible until she defeats him. Afterwards she takes the [[Gravity Suit]] from a storage room in the Ship. After making her way through the Wrecked Ship and its mazes, she finds her way into the submerged Space Pirate research facility in [[Maridia]]. | ||
After moving through Maridia, Samus find many more upgrades and makes her way to [[Ridley's Lair]] in [[Norfair]], where she also finds the Baby's broken capsule. Along the way, Samus encounters the [[Mochtroid]]s, the products of the Pirates' failed experiment to clone [[Metroid (species)|Metroid]]s for use as bioweapons. She annihilates them and continues her quest to make her way into "new" Tourian. | After moving through Maridia, Samus find many more upgrades and makes her way to [[Ridley's Lair]] in [[Norfair]], where she also finds the Baby's broken capsule. Along the way, Samus encounters the [[Mochtroid]]s, the products of the Pirates' failed experiment to clone [[Metroid (species)|Metroid]]s for use as bioweapons. She annihilates them and continues her quest to make her way into "new" Tourian. | ||
===Tourian=== | ===Tourian=== | ||
[[File:Super_Metroid_Tourian_Metroids.png|right|thumb|250px| | [[File:Super_Metroid_Tourian_Metroids.png|right|thumb|250px|Samus battling Metroids in Tourian]] | ||
After defeating all the | After defeating all the guardians, Samus sets off to return to "new" Tourian's gateway. She enters the facility and finds real Metroids that attack her on sight. After delving deep into Tourian, she annihilates all of the Metroids and nearly reaches the end of the facility when she enters a room and encounters a massive Metroid, much larger than any Metroid she has ever seen. After draining the energy of a few creatures in the room, the Metroid moves in Samus and begins draining her energy. | ||
[[File:Baby_attacking_Samus.gif|thumb|left|250px|The Baby after it nearly kills Samus]] | [[File:Baby_attacking_Samus.gif|thumb|left|250px|The Baby after it nearly kills Samus]] | ||
It was | It was the Baby. By the time it recognizes Samus as its mother, Samus only has one unit of health left. The Baby feels disgraced for attacking its adopted mother and flies off shrieking. Samus, barely able to even stand, finds an energy recharge station and re-energizes herself. | ||
She continues on and confronts Mother Brain yet again. She destroys Mother Brain's control unit, and the machine appears to be defeated, but it is revealed to be housed in a separate room and attaches itself to a giant, bipedal mechanical body that it can control freely, offering many more offensive armaments than the previous phase of the fight. After dealing damage to it, Samus is overpowered by Mother Brain's [[Hyper Beam (Mother Brain)|Hyper Beam]] attack. As Samus in on the verge of death, Mother Brain rears back to deliver the death blow but is stopped by the Baby, who rushes in and absorbs its energy. After apparently depleting Mother Brain's energy, the Baby releases its hold on Mother Brain, and it falls to the floor, gray and lifeless, the same fate of the creatures it attacked earlier in Tourian. The Baby then attaches to Samus, who feared death from her own adopted child, but the Baby did not take the last of Samus' energy. It instead delivered the energy it stole from Mother Brain into Samus' body, completely recharging Samus's energy and endowing additional powers. | |||
During this time, Mother Brain miraculously recovers its energy and commences to attack the Baby. After releasing Samus, the Baby rears back for one final attack, intent on destroying Mother Brain, but Mother Brain delivers a deathblow and kills the Baby, destroying the last Metroid specimen and rendering the race extinct. | |||
[[File:Motherbrain.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Mother Brain in its control unit]] | |||
[[File:Mother_Brain_Bipedal.png|thumb|right|250px|Mother Brain in its bipedal form]] | |||
Samus, whose form is pulsating with the energy given to her by the Baby, knows she possesses the power to defeat Mother Brain. A fierce, final battle ensues, and Samus easily defeats Mother Brain using the Hyper Beam, destroying her once and for all. | |||
After exploding, a countdown begins that results in Tourian exploding. Racing for her life, Samus runs through hidden passages in Tourian and [[Crateria]]. Along the way, she rescues three Etecoons and a Dachora that she met in Brinstar as she makes her way back to her [[Samus' Gunship|Gunship]]. As she leaves Zebes, home of the [[Chozo]] and the place where Samus was raised until she was mature enough to venture off on her own, the planet explodes with violent force and nothing is left behind. | |||
In ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', which immediately follows the events of ''Super Metroid'', Samus experiences a sense of longing for the Baby, and she is reminded of it often, particularly after receiving the "Baby's Cry" distress signal from the [[Bottle Ship]]. DNA from her [[Power Suit]] is later used to clone Metroids (including a [[Queen Metroid]]) and Ridley. | |||
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==Locations== | ==Locations== |