Metroid Fusion is About the Fear of Never Being Good Enough

Metroid Fusion is a game that was built to take the horror elements bubbling beneath the surface of every previous game in the franchise and bring them to the surface. While it's been lauded over time for that tonal shift and the horror of the creatures found in the Biologic Space Laboratories, the true horror of Metroid Fusion is the success of Super Metroid. Join the Patreon:   / wavelengths   Listen to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/itswavelengths/ --- Feel free to follow me elsewhere! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengt... Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@brendonbigley Blog: https://wavelengths.online --- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hmt3yH... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/x6p7ni3r And more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh... --- Chapters: 0:00 - Metroid Big November in 2002 2:13 - Metroid Fusion’s Villain is the Success of Super Metroid 11:41 - Metroid Had Never Felt Better 13:39 - Being linear is Fusions Greatest Strength 17:12 - And Now... a Word FOR Our Sponsors --- ⏆