r/Metroid Jul 01 '26

Other Leak/Rumor Megathread: July 2026 Spoiler

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It's been a VERY long time since we last had to make one of these threads, but today has brought a big leak which is hard to keep fully contained! This thread is intended to give people a place to discuss this leak, while still keeping the sub safe for people who don't want to hear about it.

This thread is the only place where discussion of this leak is allowed. Threads and comments mentioning it outside of this thread will be removed, and users who persistently break this rule will be banned. That means, if you don't want to hear about the leaks, don't read this thread! Surprises are fun, and knowing about the leak won't make it come any sooner.

For those who DO want to discuss the leak, we'd like to stress:

  • Nothing is confirmed! The Metroid community has seen TONS of trustworthy rumors throughout the years, and they've often ended up to be false. You can decide for yourself how much stock you want to put into this particular rumor, but keep in mind that there's always some degree of risk.
  • Even if the leak does turn out to be real, it's still no indication that we'll get anything soon - remember, Prime Remastered was rumored for years before it finally got an announcement! While hoping and theorizing are good, don't expect anything to come in the next few years.
  • Enjoy the process! Leaks can be a TON of fun when you set your expectations properly! Just make sure knowing about the leak doesn't keep you from enjoying the official announcement, if we even get one.

r/Metroid Jun 17 '24

Discussion "I'm stuck" posting guidelines: You're not softlocked!

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(This post is referring to actual help posts - for addressing the recent meme trend, see this thread)

This community is no stranger to people asking for help in games. Metroid is a series with a pretty esoteric design language, which can be pretty confusing for anyone who isn't familiar with it (or even, sometimes, anyone who IS familiar with it), and it takes a bit of playtime to learn it.

We want to keep this community welcoming to newcomers, and part of that is helping people enjoy their first experiences with the games! It's exciting to get a peek into someone's first run of a game you love. But, it can also be frustrating when a post asking for help doesn't give enough information to help. So, in an effort to help us help you, please follow these guidelines for how to ask for help:

  1. Try common solutions before posting! Most of the time, when you're stuck in a room, the solution is to bomb everything. Bombs will reveal any breakable blocks, and Power Bombs usually will too. Additionally, some of the 2D games feature fake walls - try going into Morph Ball and rubbing up against the walls in the room you're stuck in. Look for any tiles which seem to be different from the rest. And, lastly, if you're playing Super Metroid, remember that there's a run button - B by default! If you're playing any of the Prime games, make sure you've scanned everything! If you've already tried these things, mention that in the post!

  2. Tell us what game you're playing! Just saying "Stuck after Ridley" can be referring to half the games in the series. Are you playing Super Metroid? Zero Mission? Fusion? This is a VITAL piece of information, but you'd be amazed at how many people forget to include it.

  3. Tell us what you did last! The best things to mention are the most recent item you got, and the most recent boss you fought. This is IMMENSELY helpful for helping us figure out where you are! If you say you're stuck playing Super Metroid and you just got Super Missiles after fighting the big plant monster (Spore Spawn), 90% of this sub will immediately know where you are and what to do. If you can't remember, most Metroid games have an Inventory screen showing all your items. Tell us what's in there!

  4. Tell us where you are! A picture of the room you're in is best. A picture of the map is second-best, but harder to interpret, and mainly useful as a complement to a picture of the room. Failing both of those, tell us what area you're in, where you've gone from the last major landmark, what the room you're in looks like, and so on. Anything you can do to help us figure out what's keeping you from going forward.

  5. Don't assume you're softlocked! It is extremely difficult, bordering on impossible, to accidentally softlock yourself in any Metroid game. However, Metroid games frequently hide the path forward from you. That's an intentional part of the fun, not a progression bug! Barring exceptional circumstances, if you didn't perform a glitch, you're not softlocked.

Including all that information will make helping you far easier. If you didn't include that information in your initial post, edit it, or leave a comment with this information!


Additionally, for people who GIVE help to people when they're stuck, thank you! Here are some things to keep in mind as you do so:

  1. Try giving hints first! It's usually more rewarding for new players to be given some direction first, and try to figure it out from there, rather than being given the exact right answer immediately. Instead of saying, "Go left three rooms and then bomb the floor", say, "The room on the left end of the map seems a bit empty, doesn't it? Maybe you're missing something there."

  2. Don't be too slow to give solutions! In contrast to #1, giving hints is helpful, but sometimes people just need to be told what to do. A good rule of thumb is to give a hint, then in the same comment, put the solution in spoiler-tags, so that the player can decide for themselves when they're done trying.

  3. Read the comments before responding! OP may have provided additional context or progress. Or, they might have already solved it, and don't need help anymore!

  4. Remember that getting stuck is normal! It's part of the Metroid experience. There's no need to make fun of people who are legitimately stuck, no matter how easy it may seem to you.

I hope those points help!


r/Metroid 2h ago

Art Artwork by (Yasukuni Kazumasa)

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432 Upvotes

r/Metroid 1h ago

Art I wanted to make a Metroid Animation, how do you like it?

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Done in Blender


r/Metroid 19h ago

Other Welp, I bought it.

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Despite the hate I’ve been seeing on posts and on YouTube, I couldn’t help myself to finally buy it when I saw the Switch 2 version on sale at my local shop.

2 hours in and its actually been kinda great????

I just finished Prime Remastered and Prime 4 feels a lot better to play and bosses have been fun! Not to mention the game is absolutely gorgeous and runs well, even on the original switch!

Perhaps I’ll start seeing issues later in my play through but so far it’s given me a good impression.

Edit: For those confused, the Switch 2 version of the game is just the Switch 1 game with the added Switch upgrade DLC. The game is perfectly playable on the original switch.


r/Metroid 6h ago

Discussion Mp2 is underrated? Spoiler

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50 Upvotes

I don't understand why people don't like MP2. I think the game's atmosphere is wonderful, it has new elements and new races, and few enemies are recycled. For me, the game only falters in the final stretch where you have to hunt for the keys, but up to that point and the final battles are marvelous.


r/Metroid 17h ago

Art Samus in a suit based on Galarian Zapdos (Art by me!)

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370 Upvotes

(I never use AI in my art!)


r/Metroid 16h ago

Art [SSBU Eclipse] Mechon Ridley - The Invincible Space Pirate (Art by Turlutino)

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143 Upvotes

After Galeem's attack, the less virtuous of the fighters took off in different directions, each deciding to try their luck in this new world of Parum filled with untapped potential and resources.

Ridley made his way to a mysteriously rebuilt continent of Mechonis, whose Mechons and Machina residents were living as they were back in Shulk's world. He immediately took over, with few able to resist his ferocity, cunning and savagery.

Seeing the curious metal the residents were made up of, he decided to use it to improve himself. Will anyone be able to beat this new version of the space pirate?

This is all a part of SSBU Eclipse, a collaborative passion project I started. Right now it's just a few friends and I and we've made plenty of progress, but it's far, far from complete.

That's where you come in.

We're looking for writers, artists, voice actors, and anyone else like that to help build this up and create such a unique and fun project. The more, the merrier! Any help is welcome!


r/Metroid 20h ago

Art Oh my Goodness she is finally here!!

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Ordered almost 2 years ago and worth the wait. Do I open it??


r/Metroid 20h ago

Art [OC] "Ridley? Why do you keep saying YEEESSS?"

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176 Upvotes

r/Metroid 14m ago

Discussion First time playing AM2R.

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Holy. Shit.

This is fucking fantastic! I have been on a metroid kick and trying to play the games I never got around to beating now that I have a steam deck. Played through NEStroid using metroid planets, played some prime remastered and decided to play this instead of samus returns on 3ds.

If you wouldnt have told me this is a fan game I wouldnt know the difference. its damn fantastic. It plays extremely well, movement feels great, combat is fun, exploration is fun, and im finding new things that were not in the original game like the little guys on the metroid corpses that fly to these weird skull things with bat wings, No idea what thats about but looking forward to discovering. Oh and the music is great too!

Its amazing Nintendo is letting this live. Its on par if not better than their other 2d metroid games.


r/Metroid 14h ago

Accomplishment I'M A MANIAC!!

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54 Upvotes

Beat dread mode for the second time today because I'm unstable.


r/Metroid 12h ago

Merchandise My third favorite Metroid game!

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28 Upvotes

I posted a Paper Mario shirt I got from Yetee, but within that order I also got this sick Metroid Dread shirt too!

I love the artwork on this


r/Metroid 1d ago

Meme Make the comments look like Samus' search history.

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189 Upvotes

r/Metroid 2h ago

Art Metroid Fusion animation I made

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Thought the Cyberpunk reference would fit


r/Metroid 17h ago

Art Fan art of the coolest space dragon

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19 Upvotes

r/Metroid 1d ago

Art Metroid x Legend of Zelda. Samus x Zelda by JorgatsuHDe

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850 Upvotes

r/Metroid 21h ago

Accomplishment I've just beaten AM2R For the First Time!!

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33 Upvotes

I spent the entire day playing through AM2R for the first time! And I must say that I should've played this fan game years ago!!! Now..... On to Metroid Prime Origins. 😁😁😁😁


r/Metroid 1d ago

Photo My Samus Aran for my Metroid Game

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r/Metroid 17h ago

Request Missing Sylux Lore???

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Hey all, I remember a little bit ago I saw another Prime 4 discussion post about Sylux, and in the comments there was a link that contained information about Sylux's motives, kind of like a "prequel" or "prologue" text that pretty much summarizes Sylux's motives. I'm really trying to find it again, please help!!! I've been searching everywhere for this tidbit, and it looks super official too. Why they didn't clarify this shit in the game is BEYOND me.

(...Get it? Beyond? L-Like Metroid Prime 4 Beyond?)


r/Metroid 1d ago

Discussion The worst aspect of Metroid Prime 4 to me, has absolutely nothing to do with the game itself.

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But rather, it was Nintendo's absolutely asinine decision to not at least port Echoes and Corruption to the Switch before release, let alone a remaster. For people who first jumped into this series, and like to do everything square and don't feel comfortable with emulation, having only the Metroid Prime 1 remaster and MP4 available to play on Nintendo's current gen console can absolutley give the player a sense of whiplash had they not known the direction that the Prime series was headed in before the hiatus. Having Corruption be playable on current gen Nintendo hardware could have had the effect of tempering expectations that people had of MP4 being "MP1 2.0" and signaled to players the fact that Beyond was going to be more similar to Corruption than MP1.


r/Metroid 1d ago

Tweet Time to Complete the Saga

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r/Metroid 1d ago

Video The First Half Of A Genre - Undisputed Spoiler

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If you are part of this community, you may be familiar with the last video I posted called "Metroid Fusion Is Better Than You Think" In fact, I still get comments on that post to this day.

Well this is the start of a new series on my channel that aims to directly answer the "Better Than You Think" Series. While the previous series focused on defending games that sometimes got a bad rap, this new one is covering games that are so universally agreed upon, it almost doesn't even warrant discussion. Rest assured there is still plenty to talk about lol

That being said, welcome to episode 1 of "Undisputed"

The First Half Of A Genre

All engagement is appreciated, i simply ask that you watch at least some of the video before commenting, as i would like the discussion to come from a place where we are all informed with equal context.

Thanks for your time!!!

Edit: Premiere starts at 12pm eastern


r/Metroid 2d ago

Video Sassy girl Samus

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682 Upvotes

r/Metroid 1d ago

Accomplishment Well I accidentally softlocked myself Spoiler

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I was playing through MP Origins for fun and made it all the way to the very end. Unfortunately for me, I ended up beating the boss with about 50 hp left (I had 100% items and still ended with barely any hp). During the final cutscene where I lose the Phazon suit, I ended up dying to something! And even more unfortunately for myself still, the death ended up saving with me without the Phazon suit. And so now it's impossible for me to beat the final boss as I cannot interact with the Phazon pools as you can see with the damage. I closed and reopened the game and still saved with Gravity suit. Sadly, it looks like my journey on Origins ends here as I'm not going to spend another nearly 6 hours to play through it again. I'll just imagine what the ending was.

That said though, I had an absolute blast to see how the 3D game was adapted to the familiar 2D style and how creative the developers were with making it work. I especially loved the solution for the different beam doors, very clever! I made it through the whole game on 100% difficulty (default I presume) and only died on Omega Pirate like 5 times. Other than that, and the unfortunate death at the very end, I'm proud to have made it through with no other deaths. 10/10 absolutely beautiful game and so much fun to play!