Omega Metroid Podcast

This week's show is a special one, as we're honoring one of the most fundamentally sound yet least heralded Metroid games: Metroid Zero Mission! Come and listen as we give this game its flowers, talking about our first memories of playing it, why it wasn't a bigger deal at the time, and the unforgettable stealth sequence. We also reflect on the legacy it left behind, including how it set the stand...

Hold on to your hats this week, as it's finally time to give the legend his due. That's right - this week is all about KRAID! We're going through and ranking all four of the Big Daddy Kraid confrontations and discussing the mechanics and evolutions, plus talking about Kraid adjacent fights and appearances, like Nintendo Land and Super Smash Bros. Melee! We finish off our Kraid homage by pitching a...

We're back this week to talk - what else? - Metroid Prime 4! As we've done before, we're going over a bunch of things we want to see in the game! Were working off of a wishlist that Doom put together that covers things like: could wall running be neat, or is that hokey? How foes one make a Speed Booster work in 3D? Should the Speed Booster be third person, first person, or a mix of both? Could the...

Unfortunately, our schedules didn't align this week and we weren't able to get together to record a new episode of the pod, but never fear - we're reaching into the fault to pull out a formerly Patreon-exclusive ROM Hack Review! We’re playing the amazing, puzzling, innovative, and gruelling ROM: Super Metroid Ascent! Made by Benox50 , this hack is the biggest, longest, and most intense challenge o...

Welcome welcome to our TWO HUNDREDTH EPISODE CELEBRATION!!!...so we did our ACTUAL two hundredth episode celebration LAST WEEK on episode 199 to coincide with The Zelda Cast's 300th episode celebration. So if you want to check out our big crossover episode, go back to episode 199 here or on YouTube! Anyway, THIS WEEK, we're talking Metroid Prime 4! It seems like we're getting closer and closer to...

Welcome welcome to our TWO HUNDREDTH EPISODE CELEBRATION (okay, we're cheating by one week to match up with The Zelda Cast gang)! This episode is a special one, as we're celebrating six years of The Zelda Cast , five years of Virtual Theater , and four years of Omega Metroid by getting all of our amazing hosts (sans Gooey!) into one place to answer some Zelda, Metroid, and Virtual Theater trivia i...

We're back this week, and we put YOU in charge of the show! We asked you for your Metroid Fusion questions, and you delivered big time! We're touching on subjects like; how could the B.S.L. blow up SR388 just by crashing into it? What's our favorite sound effect from the game? How would we want a remake to handle the SA-X? What's our alternate ideas for how Adams AI could have developed consciousn...

Welcome to the first episode of the podcast in 2024! This week, Andy and Doom are getting together to review the year that was 2023! We talk about the unbelievable highs of Metroid Prime Remastered, the shadow drop, and Metroid Fusion and Return of Samus hitting NSO, while also touching on some of the lows of the year, including the ever-looming shadow of the Switch 2, Metroid Prime 4, and Echoes...

It's a bittersweet week for us here at Omega Metroid, as the long suspected but recently confirmed demise of E3 was made official. Instead of being sad that E3 is over, however, the fellas decide to be glad that it happened and take a two hour trip down memory lane reminiscing about Metroid's finest moments at the gaming showcase. From the highest of high's - Ridley debuting in Smash Bros., Reggie...

Welcome back to the show! This week, we have a whole slew of different topics, including our thoughts on the rumors that Metroid Prime 4 is "basically finished" and that the only thing holding it back from being released is improvements to the games cutscenes. We also weigh in and offer our opinions on the game being supposedly developed for the base Switch and not the Switch 2. After that, we tal...

Mapping Metroid is back for another kick at the can, and this time we're going where we've never gone before: Metroid: Samus Returns! We're examining the fan favorite Area 7, aka the Chozo Laboratory, and breaking it down in great detail! We touch on the size of the area and its lack of items or boss fights, break down the three different Omega Metroid fights and what makes them so incredible, dis...

Inspired By Metroid returns, this time, to a post apocalyptic world where humanity is no more and only robots remain! We're playing Haiku, The Robot, a Game-Boy-Color-influenced Metroidvania from developer Mister Morris games and giving our thoughts on the games world, story, boss fights, and so much more! Playing as the cute robot Haiku, you could be the answer to a mysterious virus that's plague...

Lore Archives is back! This week on the show, Dak & Doom dive into the bounty hunters of the Metroid universe. We talk about all the known bounty hunters in the games from Metroid Prime Hunters as well as Prime 3: Corruption. These characters are shrouded in mystery. What do we know about them? Who was behind the experiment that created Kanden at "A Sinister Laboratory?" What was Ghor like bef...

In honor of Super Mario RPG coming out this week for the Nintendo Switch, we're reminiscing about our favorite Samus Aran cameos from over the years! From the most famous cameos, like the aforementioned Mario RPG bed spot to Samus rocking out with the cello, to some more obscure appearances, like the classic F1 Racing and Picross, to a whole schwack of crazy WarioWare guest spots, we go through th...

It's a new era for the Alien franchise, as the first entry in the series that helped shape Metroid without Sigorney Weaver enters full-on spinoff territory, colliding with the world of Predator to deliver the ultimate showdown in Alien vs. Predator! Andy and Gooey Fame are back to dish out their thoughts on the Paul W. S. Anderson directed film. While this film probably has the least in common wit...

Now that we've had a few years to chew on Metroid Dread, the gang gets together to discuss Metroid 6, and more specifically things we DON'T want to see Metroid 6 do. Topics on the talking block that we don't want Metroid 6 to do include: abandon the Metroid Suit and its abilities; bring back the Pulse Scan in its current version, particularly when it could be replaced by a new-and-improved X-Ray S...

Everyone's favorite game-show Samus's Percentages returns this week! The premise is simple: we read a hypothetical statement and then assign it a percentage based on how likely to be true we think it's be! On the docket this week: will the next Mercury Steam game have a great soundtrack? How much would a Metroid movie make at the box office? Will Federation Force ever see a port? Will Samus show u...

Definitive Ranking returns! This time around, we're analyzing what's often called the "weak link" of the Metroid Prime Trilogy, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. We spend a lot of time debunking that weak link theory, talking about Corruption's story as the best in the series, debate how Hypermode could have been better, complain about the lack of challenging expansions, gush about using Samus's Gunshi...

Welcome to a brand new segment on the podcast that we’re calling Logbook Archives: the series with a focus on deep diving into the in-universe lore of the Metroid series! To kick things off, we look at the most feared faction in the galaxy: The Space Pirates! In this 2-hour+ epic, we detail their various movements and plots, covering things like what exactly are the Space Pirates? What is their hi...

The gang are back once again to talk about Metroid Prime 4, but this time, to focus on what exactly the game needs in order to be a massive success. Obviously, things like good marketing and quality are a given, but what about beyond that? Does Metroid Prime 4 need to be a launch title for the Switch 2? Should it utilize the maximum power of the Switch 2, even if it means sacrificing a Switch port...

We once again turned the keys to the show over to you, asking you to send us Metroid questions, and you did not disappoint! How would a "Metroid 99" battle royale game work? Would Metroid Prime Remastered have benefited from a traditional marketing build? What new abilities for Samus's Suit would we like to see in future games? Is "Phendrana Drifts" overrated? Is there any room for weapons like sw...

Our annual September Direct came and went, and while there was some quality stuff shown, it will likely be remembered as fairly underwhelming. The gang get together to discuss the not-unexpected-but-still-disappointing absence of Metroid Prime's Echoes and Corruption and what the calibre of games shown could mean for the Switch 2's reveal. We also get into the Direct itself and talk about the nume...

Rumors have been flying around lately about the successor to the Nintendo Switch, with Nintendo apparently showing off the "Switch 2" at Gamescom this year, so this week, Andy and Doom break down the technical specs that the Switch 2 is rumored to have, spitball their theories on when Nintendo will reveal their console (spoiler: Andy thinks it's sooner than you think!), when Metroid Prime 4 will l...

We're back to finish off the journey we started last week with Volume 1 of the Metroid Manga! Volume 2 picks up right where the last one left off and makes some...interesting decisions. Hear our thoughts on things like Adam's characterization towards Samus, if that ending was enough to undo the whole story thus far, Samus suffering from PTSD (and how that same scene later resurfaced in Other M), t...

Welcome to a brand new sub-series from Omega! Today's episode is the first instalkment of Metroid Manga In Review, a series where we will be reading and reviewing the various Metroid manga that have been made over the years. Kicking us off is Metroid: Volume 1, the origin story of one Samus Aran! Come listen to our thoughts on the manga's interpretation of the last days of the Chozo, the Space Pir...