Evolution of Samus Deaths & Game Over Screens in Metroid Games (1986-2021)

I think Metroid Prime 2's game over screen was the scariest. Lime you actually hear Samus' heart monitor go into overdrive before flatlining and it all goes static.

Every metroid Game: armor gets destroyed Metroid prime: you die, like, that's it Metroid I & II: PROCEEDS TO FUCKING DESINTEGRATE.

The Prime series loves to hammer home the fact that you are, in fact, dead. No sugarcoating.

I remember being scared as a kid of the game overs in metroid prime 1, 2, and 3. The scream gives me chills, it actually feels like your character straight up died.

I must have seen the two death animations in Dread over 100 times. That game was BRUTALLY difficult

5:44 “Power suit energy is depleted” What an understatement. She exploded!

I still find Prime 2 the most upsetting. Seeing an xray of her heart stopping. The colour palette in Prime 2 really adds to it. But I will say Prime 3's ominous blood death screen is more creepy.

2D Metroid games: dramatic half naked pose Prime games: Life support systems flatlining... We watch her heart stopping to beat... Blood everywhere...

Damn, The Metroid Prime death screens are brutal.

Some of those animations were straight up BRUTAL, specifically the morph ball ones. Not only do you die, but YOU LITERALLY EXPLODE INTO A MILLION PIECES

Prime trilogy's death are absolutely fucking unsettling.

Metroid Dread has my favorite death sequence. Like others have pointed out, the lights and effects really add to it, but I think the reason it’s so successful is actually Samus’s pose, particularly her arms. In other death animations, her arms sort of angle to the back, which in my opinion looks a little awkward. In Dread, her arms shoot more outwards, which really sells the feeling of force.

The Most brutal death in the Metroid series was the GAME_OVER screen in Prime 3. You could see the blood going everywhere from Samus’ death.

7:15 the corrupted DNA one is the most brutal to me

I love Metroid Prime 3 the most, and the Phazon Corruption overload is really cool in my opinion

Are we all just gonna ignore how in Dread that robot thing just straight up thrusts a blade through Samus' throat?

Whoever came up with the idea of Samus's suit being shatter deserves a raise.

I was killed during a failed counter with Raven Beak in Dread. She just gets anticlimactically knocked on the ground and I got the game over screen!

Nes:Wow, even in zero suit, she just explode into pieces, that's kinda shocking The return of Samus: This one is kinda crazy how she just desintegrates into thin air, for some reason it feels sadder than usual Super Metroid: It's just me... or do they bounce? Prime: Imagine if someone really tought their TV turned off during a critical moment in the game Prime morphball: never knew about this one, it's a really cool detail Fusion:Samus states in the intro of the game that due to the X they could not remove the suit from her alive, this make this one the best one as a game-over screen IMO Zero mission:I just noticed her hair tie also desintegrates Prime 2: Another really good one, I love the way it just abruptly cuts to "Continue from last save?" Pinball: . . . Poetic Prime hunters: "Let's do like Primes'es game-over screen but w/o the cool parts" Prime hunters morphball: That's the default explotion effect Prime 3: Metroid: The only Nintendo franchise allowed to have corpses and blood Corruption: This one is also great, the cool animation and a simple but effective game over Other M: Can't unheard the "Snake? SNAAAAAAAKE!!!" Federation forces: I forgot this existed Samus returns: Now we'll never know what Metroid 2 death animation was DREAD: This one is the best visually, all the flashing lights and effects do a great job making it really impactful

Metroid Deaths are SCARY. Samus's actor nailed the screaming in the 3D games. It's actually the 2D (or 2.5D) games that I have problems with, because it just feels weird seeing her Zero Suit every time she dies.