Metroid Dread | First Playthrough | Part 2

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[@cbfire9987]

I fucking love how Samus moves in the Kraid cutscenes. She looks like she’s thinking, “Yeah I know you. I know what you do. Gotta take care of you again huh?”

[@centauriboy]

Oats nailed it with the lore when he said "...trap to get me here". I wasn't even thinking that and didn't pick up that Adam stopped calling Samus, lady. Great game and story! Loved every second of it!

[@dvp84]

Game designer: *uses every hack of human behavior to lead the player to the next intended item/story event* Oats: no

[@emmareiman64]

37:51-38:00 Oats, eating calmly, not thinking too much of it Me: "Why do I hear boss music/Hey, did the music change?" The room: *Starts heating up* *Damage sound* --> Small panic upon realization Pfff, not the best spot for a snack break 1:02:16 saving that, that was kinda epic, 1st successful counter on an E.M.M.I.

[@cceyxx]

“I thought I could do that. Apparently I can clearly not.” Proceeds to go to the same room again...

[@gavinmiller134]

I played this game at 1 in the morning last night and had a blast. This game is awesome

[@LeGreatGaston]

Literally same, it's so freaking good and I just finished 100% about 4 hours ago now I want to speedrun it

[@Slevin_Kalevra]

"I played this game at 1 in the MORNING LAST NIGHT and had a blast." 🤔 How?

[@gavinmiller134]

@@Slevin_Kalevra it came out on the 8th I played it at 1 in the morning on the 8th

[@gavinmiller134]

@@Slevin_Kalevra oh I didn’t understand ur comment lmao

[@gavinmiller134]

@@Slevin_Kalevra idk how I’m just better I guess

[@OtrTrash]

Every time you make a sound there is a yellow ping. The EMMI will check the location of the last time it pinged you. Jumping up onto magnetic ceilings creates sound and thus a ping, however... If you cloak and then jump up it silences the sound and doesn't create a ping. Cloak THEN hide.

[@raynorzeraph953]

that speed booster is badass. Keeps speed through wall jumps that's gonna be fun to watch eventually.

[@magetime29]

I managed to get through the kraid fight without hitting the gross looking hole enough for him to cover it with his hand. I just used the spikes as stairs to the spider magnet wall thing. Instead of having it come down when all the spikes shoot out at once. Very interesting watching different play styles

[@Keith52Yo]

Aye I did the same. Used the charge beam and just shot each jug that popped out Kraids bellybutton and then he shot the three rapid succession claw stairs and I climbed up to magnet and shot him. Worked better than oats strategy imo haha

[@babytricep437]

I feel it’s way faster because it’s more time for damage

[@GirlGamer867]

@@Keith52Yo yeah I did the exact same thing!

[@greasynucleus]

Yea

[@CybeastID]

I didn't even know that was an option, I kept failing so badly at it.

[@masonpark8740]

49:49 finally oas understands what he does to chat everyday. The kraid boss fight is awesome lol

[@nomukun1138]

I love that when Big Boy breaks his hand out, it cuts to a look of EXTREME CONCERN on Samus's face.

[@pv2]

1:41:09 Headshotting the emmi while it was off-screen was sick, dude.

[@Slevin_Kalevra]

Oats not realizing the escapse sequence was deffinitely a highlight lol.

[@synyster__2120]

Lol that one death where Kraid just super punches the hell out of you XD. What a great game.

[@Agent719]

The smile at 1:11:02 is so genuine and precious.

[@thewindwakinghero7423]

that is somewhere between pog and joy

[@redrayd.r9299]

Oats as a member of the SM community I am proud to have you as a big face of the community

[@DanboReviews]

49:50 That never happened in my playthrough so glad to see it here LMAO

[@yaboyreege7158]

Who knew that daddy Kraid could throw hands like that?

[@matchanavi]

I totally died like that the first time lmao

[@waynetemplar2183]

I died every way to Kraid. Had to go back to basics and farm for health and missiles between putting a few shots into his ugly face. Fight took ages but I finished it with close to full health and missiles

[@kennbutler1234]

Dying in the lava a 1/3 of the way into this was hilarious. I was like 😱 stop eating and go!

[@wumbo484]

wasn’t here for the stream since i wanted to play the game for myself, but i will watch your videos for your reactions and thoughts and all that

[@MidanMagistrate]

Hey oats, dont worry to much about reaction speed to the EMMI's counters, its meant to be hard as hell. I did it earlier so it is possible, you can counter as they grab you or right before they kill you but theres no queue as far as i can tell Edit: Shoulda waited to see if you did later, commented this when you were at the green EMMI

[@v3i70ivigaming9]

Oats word of advice... a parry and shot combo is a 1 hit kill that rewards you with more energy and ammo than a regular kill

[@Hodge_6]

Hey Oas, did you know that it's possible to counter the emmi a second time? when its on top of you it's possible to kick it off. So you actually have 2 chances to counter. The first one can be done right as it screams, the second one right when the head splits open and the eye turns red.

[@logansimon6653]

he knows

[@waynetemplar2183]

EMMIs scream?

[@NUGGet-3562]

He literally did counter it the second time, that's how I found out about it lol

[@dangerfindertreasureseeker8905]

Kraid - Oats !!!! This is for all those one shot kills ( punches Samus )

[@Epicdps]

That lore moment was so freakin awesome

[@LtCdrXander]

Finally got Dread for Christmas and completed it tofay, so I'm finally ready to watch playthroughs of it. Super excited to watch this 2 months late lol

[@Jimmytheman1]

I bought this game yesterday…just made it up to the magma level…can’t wait to see some speed runs…

[@kigbredera1337]

"Die once or twice" *I needed around 15 tries to get that Kraid

[@Darkman03]

Took about 30 for me, once or twice just makes me sad

[@grimnekropolis8500]

Kraid took me 45 minutes. That was excruciatingly painful.

[@WowShane]

I thought I was so cool finding the sequence break at 1:50:00 only to be let down seeing it was "useless" as of now with the grapple beam being right there lmao

[@davidhendel9210]

I really like the progression of items in this game. The flow of the design is superb. I don't like the early linearity, but I guess it was likely unavoidable. Thankfully, it is all opened up a bit later on.

[@NOTNOTJON]

Really appreciate the uploads to KZbin. Gameplay looks sic and glad you are having fun. Remember to get some sleep this week.

[@ultimaofelsewhere]

That death by stir fry part.

[@snowy9587]

The munchies are a deadly and silent killer

[@CassiusStelar]

dont worry you can skip all cutscenes if you've seen them once on any file. Except the Intro, that's 2 minutes of unskippable exposition.

[@exister6652]

Finally a traditional 2d metroid with all our favorite features like a 2 min un-skipable intro lol

[@babytricep437]

@@exister6652and only 3 save files… why tho seriously

[@casper_raine]

48:04 "Don't go in there" Well, he has a second phase skip and it's done by going in there, so...

[@thewindwakinghero7423]

See THAT is how it should be done, embrace sequence breaks and hard platforming

[@solarianstorm]

Bit of Lore background, after the Space Pirates murdered her parents, Samus was left stranded, but she was found by the Chozo who raised her, crafted her custom power suit, and infused her with Chozo DNA so she could fully utilize the technology of the suit, since the technology belonged to the Chozo and was originally designed for them. Because she was raised by the Chozo from early childhood, she learned their language, though she was able to retain the Universal Federation language (the Federation utilizes a universal language, not necessarily Japanese or English or any of the other included translations, and common translators allow us to understand them) through data logs left by her parents and Chozo education, allowing her to communicate with Federation troops and allies. But this is why Samus is so fluent with Chozodian, and why she is trusted by the survivors of that race to protect their legacy against a fellow Chozodian. She is basically one of them, not just another human.

[@CineGoodog]

You can also climb Kraid,s spikes jjust like SM. The counter also activates a cinematic you missed.

[@krspykreame1]

The struggle bus at the beginning of not leaving dairon when you're supposed to lmao

[@krspykreame1]

The game is painfully linear once you get in the groove with it. I did a bunch of sequence breaks in between and got lost as fuck

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

That guy's boss is watching this right now saying, Ima fire this guy.

[@will_of_europa]

That sad sad moment when you don't get grapple because you wanted to shift your way up lmao.

[@urukingotv90]

I discovered your speedruns on a super metroid imposible GDQ and i really enjoyed your comenting, glad to follow your YT chanell

[@blankthoughtsandaciddreams7390]

This game was beautiful but it was very hard until you notice the patterns of the enemies and bosses took me 8 hours to beat it only with 56% items

[@BradMcClung]

At 38:23 The exact same thing happened to me, lol.

[@chanceneck8072]

Thanks for the early access, Oats! 😎👍

[@DecidingAura]

Man it was so much easier beating kraid while playing on the tv then the actual switch

[@FFarat]

thank you and good luck

[@liamisafireplace]

when he get to burenia i said ITS FUKCING RAINING out loud

[@WaveForceful]

yeha you fight that thing later, It took me another PT to notice that.

[@bachelorsensei9437]

49:52 ONE PUNCHHHHHHHHH

[@CybeastID]

48:30 WAIT, **that's** what he's supposed to do? I just waited him out until he gave me the version I was supposed to climb up.

[@j23roa]

Keeps saying he wants to enjoy this experience, reads and speaks to chat and missing on atmosphere and ambience of the game, the varia suit part was supposed to be a surprise change of game pace and expectations but he's eating during the start of it lol... Streamers have a fun job but I feel sad that they miss out on genuine good game moments because they rely on chat interaction to make their money

[@ruolbu]

1:51:51 aww it's a pity you left there, I wanted to hear your reaction. :p

[@shmupstick]

Chozo, Kraid, Shift - give me the games!

[@BassForever]

Dread has been utterly fantastic, I dunno if it'll beat Super for me but it's a top tier Metroid for sure.

[@thewindwakinghero7423]

"no one should stream that much" ~man that has said at least 2 times prior that it's probably going to be a 24 hour stream

[@DanboReviews]

1:10:59 Oats goes POG!

[@Epicdps]

Hahahaha that was so sweet

[@melloyello8787]

I love watching first playthroughs from people who you know are going to destroy the game, run into issues that I did. I want to reach out and tell Oats "COUNTER EVERYTHING!!! IT GIVES YOU MORE STUFF!!!" but he hasn't either noticed yet or like he said at the beginning he's scare/nervous when he's low on health.

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

No you can't cloak the pressure plates. That isn't how they work, at live chat.

[@theunholinesswithin70]

Ha, Oats isn't going to want to play Super anymore.

[@thewindwakinghero7423]

morph ball is the last item in the fucking game

[@Zephhi]

Countering the EMMI is difficult but not that bad to where you get it almost never. I’ve done it like 30-40% of the time

[@aggeman2]

Why is he chargeshooting all the time while he’s in the emmi zones? Isn’t he just guaranteeing that it will find him?

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

Hey live chat no spoilers!

[@JC-zn4pk]

are you winning oats

[@jadonwilliams9194]

Just beat it, super fun, ending was amazing

[@caiodeficit]

49:54 Hes face is a new twitch emote for you guys.

[@Ali-gv1yw]

56:17 Agree. Poor Kraid

[@taylrthegreat]

Odd number of missiles is triggering me

[@WaveForceful]

I think the fusion suit is basically a stripped down version of the varia suit. The reaosn why it looks different in this game is because it's biological in mature due to the Metroid DNA she was infused with, over time It changed just like our bodies do. I still consider it the fusion suit.

[@caesaria]

1:08:27 not crazy difficult - at this stage of the game. that changes

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

I know of a bot that plays better than TAS as it can figure out tricks that no one knows yet. And get this, it learns by it's self. No need for human programming.

[@jrizzle1222]

I LOVE YOU nO HoMo

[@wumbo484]

how does he spam the button so fast lmao

[@savagevalkyrie]

Is it just me or is a_n_i_v's chat not visible?

[@HartleySan]

The Chozo language is not Japanese or anything similar to it. It's giberish.

[@luminothg]

Did you really ask what lenguage he speaks 🤦‍♂️he is speaking Chozo 🤣😂🤣😂

[@blau6832]

This is proof speedrunning doesn't require smarts.

[@davidcassio6620]

Hello guys

[@Telemarathon]

I know it's a byproduct of having chat interaction and communication resulting in less focus on the game and all that but oats constantly forgetting basic mechanics like how to open charge beam doors or whatever makes me cringe.

[@holymanbob9491]

Honestly typed ever give away code in the KZbin comments and never won anything...also never saw anyone win anything in here so wtf! 😿

[@botekate]

There’s something tonally or visually different about this game that I dislike. I can’t quite put my finger on it. For me, it doesn’t quite seem to capture the same tone that the other Metroid games gave, especially Super Metroid. Again, not sure why. Haven’t played it myself though so maybe I will change my mind after that.

[@prancey227]

A lot of that for me is the music. Zero Mission and a few areas in Samus Returns was the last time Sakamoto's games have had good tunes during gameplay. Now we just get this atmospheric noise

[@Ricardo7250]

It feels more depressing than epic. But frankly, I'll take it and I like the fact that they experimented towards this direction.

[@logansimon6653]

I completely disagree.

[@wumbo484]

@@Ricardo7250 i guess that’s what they were going for, because if it’s more depressing, it emphasizes the feeling of dread and just how alone you are on this foreign planet

[@spearmintlatios9047]

A lot of things look toy - like if that makes sense. Because of the shiny textures and generally artificial landscapes. I am a fan of the look myself though.

[@leeartlee915]

“If you guys knew how much a house cost”. That might be one of the most privileged fucking statements I’ve ever heard come out of Oats mouth. He does realize most of the people watching his stream are either renting or, even more sad, living with family. Most people would love to have a mortgage to deal with. Annnnnnnyway, fun stream so far. Have to watch it in bits and pieces as I am working through the game myself.

[@getalper]

There should be an update for speedrun mode that cuts out all the cinematics.

[@astro6774]

you can instantly skip them

[@getalper]

@@astro6774 yeah but think about the item get music, the tutorial for each, energy tanks and missiles are also stopping the momentum. Maybe travelling between areas can also be slimmed down a bit. I enjoy each of those during the game but they could be cut out in speedruns and it would be great.

[@NeoUzzy]

I like how everyone is weirded out by stick innitiated running which is in like how many games now? lmao. Metroid only bois?

[@blau6832]

It's so annoying to see someone who keeps skipping text get lost.

[@robertjohnson6225]

Not a fan of the game, tbh.... but glad you enjoyed it, oatis.

[@thehurricane6767]

What didnt you like about it. Spoiler free, of course

[@robertjohnson6225]

@@thehurricane6767 Some things I didn't like were: The art style... Particularly how every area seems to only have 4 colors on the palette and that's it... the usage of meshes instead of textures throughout the majority of the game (done to improve performance) making everything feel low-effort. The migration away from true 2D to 2.5D... essentially scrubbing the game clean of any "hiding in plain sight." How you are allegedly exploring a planet.... yet it feels like you are always inside the room of a building somewhere. Why everything from platforms to walls are pitch black when it is two inches from the focus? I feel like the game would have been much more aesthetic if it had been rendered the same way the in-game cutscene artwork was done. Samus' ship and its entry to planet ZDR is absolutely beautiful... because it is using actual artistic design and not untextured (or barely textured) geometry like the rest of the game. If they had done something more visually akin to the game Ori with the art direction I would have been much happier. I'm not saying Dread doesn't look good for a Nintendo Switch game.... I'm saying if that had taken an artistic direction (instead of pushing hardware that is already 10+ years old), Dread could have been an absolutely visually stunning masterpiece that would have stood for 20+ years the way Super Metroid still holds up today. The gameplay... When looking at Dread as its own thing... it is not bad at all.... but when I think about games like Zero Mission, or Super Metroid... I can't help but feel as if they missed the mark. For one... they took too much inspiration from the one flaw that Metroid Fusion has.... and thats the game's overly linnear design... and its boxed-in feel. (Go here get this... ok now you have to do this... ok now you have to get this... there is 0 freedom) Fusion was a space station with biomes held within.... ZDR is supposed to be a planet. So why does ZDR feel more like you are indoors all the time than Fusion does? The game also forces you to go in circles so very often because you can almost NEVER backtrack... lots of one way entrypoints into areas where you need to go all the way through and around and make a loop to get back to where you need to be. The map and gameplay area is massive.... but it all feels so hollow... It doesn't feel like you are exploring a planet as much as it feels like navigating through a hallway inside a building, looking for doors to see where they lead... and every door you go through locks behind you, so you are kept perpetually lost as you try to make it back to the exit. Then there is the re-usage of several mini boss fights, that by the 3rd and 4th time, you are like.... really??? this guy again?? The burst counter and the 360 aiming, both things from Samus Returns that I did not like... made a return for Dread, and they are now REQUIRED to beat the game... and even though Nintendo says they "fixed" them... they are still gimmicks, imho and take away from the core 2D Metroid Experience... along with the overly cinematic encounters that result from a successful counter. It would have been better if they provided an advantage to mastering these systems instead of forcing you to use them.... or outright removing R&L aiming and replacing it with free aim or nothing. Some other Powerups/Abilities (that I won't spoil per your request) are next to pointless... or are so niche that you wonder why they were included in the game at all... or are just a clever reskin of existing abilities in the franchise. It all felt kind of gimmicky and pointless.... By the time Zero Mission was released, I feel as if the 2D games had, mechanically speaking, all the things they needed... and Dread just buries you in "useless" tech... but leaves out loads of already existing tech... just to say its "new" and so you don't find it useless. I have yet to see any actual sequence breaking... and forget about reverse boss order. The Story... Without spoiling anything... Its full of plotholes... specifically the ending makes 0 sense... and leaves you thinking.... "why???" The Music: There is not one track in the entire game that I felt was good other than the Intro Cutscene music remix. No modern mixes of old themes.... no themes that pay homage to existing themes that everyone loves.... no catchy new themes.... its all bland and samey and totally a let-down. Overall... Dread is NOT a bad game.... but it had some pretty big shoes to fill.... and in my honest opinion... it did not come anywhere near filling them.

[@flavorgod]

Haters gonna hate.

[@ismarin]

​@@robertjohnson6225 Dread is a fantastic game that you happen to dislike, personal taste doesn't always line up with what is good or bad.

[@Ali-gv1yw]

@@robertjohnson6225 It does not use textures a lot indeed... But other than that I think its great great game

[@Hangeki-Gami]

First