callmeCata said: Sick art work and I like the flavor texts. Writing kind reminds me of darkest dungeon. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Corvidae said: Outstanding.



Sometimes I lose sight of the imagination these older games spark within us all, and then a thread like this appears out of the Aether to rekindle love for the classics.



The captions are absolutely chilling - they paint a portrait of a mentally exhausted, battle scarred warrior ready to meet her end at the hands of a cold, merciless universe.



More, please. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Garlador said: I have a giant folder of Metroid art saved and quite a few prints on my wall. The series has inspired legions of talented work from talented artists... I should probably get the stylus out and do something myself. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

La Flame Amiibo said: So is the giant variant suit from any actual game or official piece of lore ?



What hurts most about metroid is the incredibly potential to tell an other worldly story and just the series needs different leadership to get the maturity that it needs Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Dennis8K said: Yeah, I always felt that there was so much more that could be done it that universe - but with the unique, lonely, atmospheric Metroid way of telling stories.



Hell, I would love an RPG set in that world. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

nynt9 said: These are great. Highlights Samus as the lone badass who goes on her own to alien worlds to exterminate the most terrifying threats in the galaxy. She's clearly a little off her rocker to be doing this, which adds even further to her ferocity. Unlike the mewling mess that Other M paints her as, or the anime doll her Smash design makes her look like. I especially love this one: Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Thanks for the nice response! I've been working on a bigger project in my free time for a while (years!) that takes me away from making threads/writing articles, but it was really nice to put something online again.The captions were something that I hadn't originally planned, I just wanted to exhibit some of artwork I'd come across in some seperate research - but then I realised I should includewith them, and I absolutely love the lore of the Metroid universe.I recently completed Hollow Knight after 60 hours (101%) and the way that game tells its story, through similar flavour text, vague myth and non-linear allusions, has really stuck with me. Metroid does something similar with scans and lore translations, but it was nice to try to be a bit minimal.My headcanon for Samus after the game is similar. She has always been useful to the Galactic Federation, and has only ever seen hints of their corrupt core. She is now their scapegoat, the one to blame for the SR-388 catastrophe (of their own making). The state media present her as a renegade, disturbed by her childhood trauma and the Phazon corruption episode she experienced later in her life. Footage recovered from the station will be distributed to bounty hunters, showing her massacres (in actuality, the SA-X in her armour). Wanted dead or alive. Preferably dead.The clandestine agencies of the Galactic Federation have their own hunt. Within Samus is the only remaining Metroid DNA in the universe. They need this for their weapons program. The Phazon War could have been an extinction event for mankind, and the Federation offcials are convinced they need every weapon they can obtain, including the Metroids, to protect them from another.Do it! I don't have artistic talent like this at all, but I respect it enormously in others!The suit is the artists' conception, but it references the Space Pirate lore in which they have tried to recreate Samus' technologies - the morph ball in particular - with devastating results. There is no doubt the Galactic Federation would have done the same.As I wrote above, I have been completely enamoured by Hollow Knight's storytelling, and would love to see Metroid try something similar. There is so much opportunity for overworldly mystery.I think Nintendo doesn't get the potential of the Metroid universe. Its a great science-fiction construct for shared stories.Yet they chose Blast Ball and Federation Force, which is a shame. Maybe they have learned lessons here though.Yeah, I agree a lot. The Zero Suit design repulses me, its a booby cartoon sexified design that I'd like to be dropped. It contrasts my preferred interpretation of the universe, though I understand that most gamers might not feel the same way.Samus is a killer. She hunts the Space Pirates with the cover of legitimacy for the Galactic Federation, but her goal is murder, as many of them as possible to avenge the deaths of her human and Chozo families. She never stuns the beasts in her way, she kills them, because that is what she wants to do. Sometimes she will spare some animal creatures (Super Metroid, the infant and the little animals) but this is rare.She has been tortured by Phazon infection, which forced her to kill her allies. She has been tortured by X-parasite infection, and the agonies of Metroid DNA infusion that followed. She has had her own body cloned and copied and stolen to be used against her. She is alone in the universe, and by the end of the saga, hated and hunted.She should look cold, haunted and distant. Tired. Scarred from her wars. Powerful and impatient. Merciless.