[TAS] GBA Metroid Fusion by Reseren in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2021-02-25
Rather than being able to explore the world freely and sequence break to her heart's content, Samus is at the mercy of a computer's will. As a result this game is very linear with virtually no chance to collect items out of order.
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Watch a resync ( github.com/aly... ) of this run being played back on a real console ( • TAS - Metroid Fusion b... ).

[@Levi_The_One_The_Only]

ADAM: "Samus if you run into the SA-X avoid at all costs." Samus: *Imma pretend I didn't hear that*

[@GUGAMINECRAFT]

SA-X be like: What the f##k is she doing?

[@jruler93]

"The SA-X may have my power and my memories, but it doesn't have my shmooves."

[@magetsalive5162]

FWIW: Samus leaves the ship to start gameplay at about 4:17. (That's skipping the opening cinematics, plot, and first Adam dialogue.)

[@gustavomodoasalto5030]

👍

[@Tyler-gv6zf]

FWIW?

[@Redd_docx]

@@Tyler-gv6zf "For Whoever Is Wondering" maybe?

[@MishKoz]

@@Redd_docx I've also seen it stand for "For What It's Worth"

[@Redd_docx]

@@MishKoz "When the replies needed him most, the OP disappeared" lol

[@malcovich_games]

Did we finally find a sequence break in the most linear Metroid game of all time? Watching vid now with suspense...

[@ryco9669]

Memory corruption to skip to the final boss after getting power bombs has been around for several years. This TAS doesn't do it

[@malcovich_games]

​@@ryco9669 Yeah thanks. I checked and it was apparently 4 years old. Why isn't there a tasvideos TAS about it? Weird. I saw the Memory Corruption TAS on Reseren's youtube too... and that's been a while.

[@ryco9669]

@@malcovich_games they mentioned in the discussion thread for this TAS that because it doesn't start from power on with a clean save that they'd have to redo a ton. Eventually may record it but it's not quite as interesting to them

[@schwarzenegger_begger8810]

Yes! I've been looking forward to this!

[@nate09392]

I love how Samus goes insane every time she has to wait for a bomb to explode.

[@bredoffender]

FuckingPullUpsAtTheSpeedOfLight

[@revlayle]

Federation: Samus, we have a mission for you to... Samus: Done.

[@murphmariotwopointoh7714]

Federation: What do you mean do- wait, did you just crash BSL into SR388!?

[@emilyz4104]

This is awesome, but having watched only the beginning so far, I'm impressed that this game even manages to railroad a TAS. TAS for Other Games: "So I'm going to hit this block at just the right corner, and there, I've skipped 3 hours of gameplay." TAS for Metroid Fusion: "With the power of computers, I can get through the agonizingly long mandatory cutscenes 0.01 seconds faster than humanly possible." Good game, but you'd think the devs might have lightened up a little on making sure everyone plays the game exactly the "right" way.

[@JustSomeDinosaurPerson]

Sequence breaking in Metroid Fusion has been around for years through memory corruption. It just doesn't make for an interesting TAS.

[@Neurotik51]

Never had any issue with how linear the game is, it did everything so well that I never even thought about it while playing, I was too afraid of SA-X.

[@thomasmurrell9832]

I mean...last time she sequence broke, all of reality fell apart (Super Metroid)

[@Blackrock18]

8k GBA recording? Hot damn

[@fallinho]

The best Metroid ever!!

[@Practicalinvestments]

I mean I love this game too but have you played super metroid??

[@fallinho]

@@Practicalinvestments yes, I have it here for my SNES. I like linear games, the fact Backtracking and more than 35 exits on the same screen, I get discouraged 😅

[@Practicalinvestments]

@@fallinho fair enough lol I tend to like games that just let me go in and figure it out I felt more accomplished beating super metroid. Fusion just wasnt as satisfying for me

[@Rassenomatjutut]

9:31 "That pitiful CO Malkovich was fool when he sent you here! You will surely die!" This one and Shadowgate are the Nintendo that gave me the worst trauma, even if I never played them.

[@EngineerDJ_Julius]

I'm glad that they made the 100% TAS version first

[@schwarzenegger_begger8810]

20:03 Well, that's new

[@nate09392]

Yeah, I kind of wanted glitchless.

[@zandatsu07]

Speedrunners can do that too,watch GDQ

[@_zip_fly_]

This TAS is awesome

[@ahmedkadria8195]

مغامرة فضائية دقيقة تكنوروبوتية بأسلحة ذات جودة عالية وجب حسن قراءة الرسوم التخطيطية وفهم اللغة أو الإرفاق بترجمة. المحطات أوتار شمالا وأشفاع يمينا، ثلاث ثلاث. الحزم البلازماوية تزيد في الطاقة. العقاقير الجينية من أجل تعديل ما شوه من حمض نووي. المناورة مطلوبة، سيما والعدو جد مناور. غرافيك مذهل.

[@avalonjustin]

Nice to see a TAS that isn't obsoleted already.

[@rickjames5998]

it is now!

[@MrMiguel211]

@@rickjames5998 how about now

[@Yui-Chan9124]

31:12, 45:09 - Finally! My ears!

[@fredlagg27]

1:04:23 OMG spider-ball in metroid fusion!? Holy sh¡t!!

[@ericdanielski4802]

Good video.

[@EvaOfficial2005]

No more first please

[@EvaOfficial2005]

No more first please

[@abomasnow4]

@@EvaOfficial2005 First! Lol, jk! I don't like "first" comments, too. I think they're annoying, but rather than bully someone for saying it I just mind my own business.

[@sammer1097]

@@abomasnow4 Finally someone else with sense. First posts are harmless and the people who get upset about them are hypocritical scum.

[@Marsuru1]

First comments are repetitive and pretty much have no use (much like all comments) but getting mad at them and replying harsh things just makes you look dumb.

[@mistressofthenekos1743]

Samus at 1:00:59 was like "Bro lemme help you"

[@pirater096]

THANKS FOR VERY GOOD [TAS]! :) You're cool! :))))

[@nikhilanand2613]

SA-X? Please, I got something stronger: the power of the TAS!

[@crazythejacob]

23:27 how

[@fredlagg27]

Spider-ball baby!

[@keyboard_toucher]

48:45 taunting the E tank

[@MrMiguel211]

1:04:23 *HOW???????????????????????????????????*

[@primesuspect8567]

Samus figured out how to reactivate spider ball

[@justaguy80]

people are complaining about fusion's linearity, but all i see is a damn good tas, with some cool skips in it, even if they're small ones. and to my knowledge, fusion can't be sequence broke while still being playable, due to the events system.

[@maplemabel]

30:55 anyone wanna tell me wtf samus did here

[@ShujitoDM]

4:17 hit me!

[@EvaOfficial2005]

Tas Player is good

[@xxEzraBxxx]

well any TAS published here has to be optimized

[@abomasnow4]

I hate your pfp! Not you as a person, though. Just your pfp! I hate the Grubhub commercials so damn much, that I wish somebody would nuke the corporate that greenlit it!

[@Terkzorr]

@@abomasnow4 Stop living inside the mainstream bubble then. As of today I have only seen one video talk about them and only because I was sad enough to visit the KZbin main page one day instead of directly going to my subscriptions.

[@cheepain872]

this game is very human thing to do

[@jacobh9268]

Good game👍

[@abdullahirfan9991]

It's kinda bs how you can't skip the intro

[@natejackorjillkate4136]

Lol I love how they waste a fraction of a second just to mock the "final boss" etank before yakuza.

[@nonexistentnathan]

tbh the thing i dislike the most about this game is the unskippable cutscenes. The linearity is also a sin, but it’s understandable given the intended audience and Samus being weakened.

[@vinsanity3510]

Go to the pokecenter and heal plz

[@GreigaBeastDS]

>This obsoleted 0% wat??? It's not 0%

[@ezgames6925]

Check the judgement notes in the submission for the explanation

[@GreigaBeastDS]

@@ezgames6925 Yeah I read the notes before and I read them again and the reasoning is stupid both times I read them.

[@daceyjenton1548]

A Metroid game that manages to completely miss the point of Metroid. The immersive atmosphere of its predecessors is ditched in favor of a bunch of annoying text boxes and cutscenes. Cool TAS though.

[@DestroyerOfAglets]

I don't know about that. The game has its share of navigation puzzles, and i really like what it was doing with the story. It's more linear, yes, but it uses that to build suspense and atmosphere unlike any other games in the series. It pulled off everything it was going for very well.

[@emilyz4104]

@@DestroyerOfAglets It's definitely the scariest game in the series, and cool in its own right, but the ultra-linear stuff is still jarring compared to, say, Super Metroid's ridiculous sequence breaks.

[@enkerzan3755]

This game is not as good as the previous ones, mostly because the creator died before this came out and the new team introduced a lot of cringy shit. While the new elements introduced into the game are decent, most of it was ruined by the completely unnecessary plot dialogue that was badly written. Also the previous games rewarded you for exploring and finding secrets, this game however hides most of the extra stuff towards the very end of the game so you can't be overpowered when playing through it. IMO this was a stupid STUPID design flaw and is one of the main reasons why I didn't play this more than twice. Despite the glaring problems mentioned above, it's an OK game at best.

[@michaelschrieber6461]

No idea what the main comment is talking about and I’m sad that 5 people actually agree with it. This is one of the best Metroid games out there. The suspense build up in this game makes it extremely atmospheric. People still talk about being scared for their life when the SA-X appeared lol.

[@emilyz4104]

@@enkerzan3755 I didn't realize the creator died. That explains a lot.

[@enerc2333]

But what the hell of a game, I had never played it, because they told me that it was not like the other Metroids, it is very linear, they tell you where to go and it is very bland, I really did not like this game, at least I never played it and that's good, because seriously it is the worst Metroid of the Metroid line, we'll see how it is, Metroid 5 dread

[@singlereedenjoyer]

This game uses the linearity to build an extremely immersive atmosphere. Whereas Super Metroid is just you aimlessly running around.

[@boogaloobender3462]

The game is literally the only game to pull off reducing features WELL and you bitch and whine about it.