absurd question: If I wanted to understand like- Samus' backstory, what the fuck has gone on in her life, and the story of other games, what's the best way to do that that isn't playing ten million metroidvania style games
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Other than just reading her wiki? There isn't really an easy way. You know the Superman page that's like "Doomed planet, desperate scientist, last hope, kindly couple" for his origin? Samus's would be "murdered parents, raised by birds, find the space pirates, kill them all"
The manga has her backstory and like half the Metroid games are remakes of older ones. If you want the streamlined experience it's manga -> zero mission -> samus returns -> super -> fusion -> dread
The prime games take place between zero mission and samus returns but the story there is entirely self contained and boils down to "we stopped the threat of evil space goo yay!"
Other M takes place between super and fusion but is also self contained. Don't listen to the haters, the game is completely fine but is still totally skippable. It's basically "wow all the villains we killed came back so we killed em again yay!"
Luckily the manga is obsolete now, so you can save some time there. Ultra Abridged:
- Human parents killed by Ridley/Pirates
- Taken in by Chozo, get DNA/Suit
- Work briefly w/ Federation, meet friends/dad figure
- Fights Chozo AI Mother Brain, pirates, altern. selfs, rogue Chozo, corrupt federation
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- Human parents killed by Ridley/Pirates
- Taken in by Chozo, get DNA/Suit
- Work briefly w/ Federation, meet friends/dad figure
- Fights Chozo AI Mother Brain, pirates, altern. selfs, rogue Chozo, corrupt federation