The Metroid Fusion suit lives up to its name | #metroid

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[CodyusedPSI]

I've always liked that the blue on the fusion suit almost looks like the zero suit streatched over the suit. You could make the argument that the old zero suit, which was always implied to help with interfacing with the suit, offered a degree of separation between samus and the armor, but now the armor is bursting out. There is no separation anymore. The amor now is as much a part of her as she is part of it, a fusion as you said.

[raveelemental]

I genuinely love that the suit is intentionally styled after a Metroid.

[thevenomspino]

One detail we noticed is the Fusion suit has some elements of the Metroids themselves. The pink helmet could be a reference to the nuclei/eyes of the Metroid, the arm spikes akin to their mandible, and the arm cannon more green and fleshy detail references the green dome of the Metroids. And give she was injured with Metroid dna to help stop the X from killing her, it make narrative sense, and acts as a bit of foreshadowing to when she will become the alpha and the Omega.

[roman]

They actually have to SURGICALLY REMOVE her suit to save her from the parasyte, at this point samus and her varia suit have become one, and the "Devolution" that plays here in fusion helps bring out the vulnerability of Samus without her suit, and even in the endgame samus is just thinking how deadly the SaX would be if it learned how to use her entire arsenal, my favorite metroid by FAR

[alxcus]

Also, I love the fact in Fusion, Samus carries her Arm Cannon in a shotgun carry (hand under the barrel), while is literally every other game she carries her Arm Cannon with her hand over the barrel, stabiling the weapon.

In Fusion, Samus is too weak to stabilize her arm cannon like this, so she has to hold it up with her off hand.

This is never stated, it's just a nice little detail in her sprite.

Man, I love little details like this.

[nerbdoi]

I love how the yellow parts look organic in an insect way, like an exoskeleton, or alternatively like visible human muscles

[GeorghiouD]

this is so unbelievably cool. i honestly think fusion might be the best metroid

[Deesar_]

I always liked how samus became part metroid through bonding with this suit. Theres a lot of interesting themes of a hunter *fusing* with a predator. There's some good story telling in gameplay with samus gaining the traits of a metroid, allowing her to absorb the X but making her incredibly vulnerable to her own gear. Gear tuned to hunting metroids.

[Vallent]

I've never been a big fan of this version aesthetically, but narratively speaking I think it works very well. I respect it quite a lot for that.

[timothymclean]

The Fusion Suit is my favorite Samus look. I like the idea of fusion between human and technology, I like how it narratively/aesthetically justifies a tweak to Samus's mechanical place in the world (and losing all of her powerups AGAIN), I like how it confirms that Samus's wide shoulders aren't just her armor having huge pauldrons, she's just Like That.

[kdl]

So basically this design is what kai'sa should have been 😂

[culfy]

I remember being a child and being so scared about the water/electric leviathan that as soon as the screen started shaking, I was turning off my GBA

[GoldLight]

I think this is the furthest the series has ever gone with exploring the biomechanical aspects of the Chozo Power Suit. I used to not care much for the design, but it's grown on me over time.

[jorgevitorgamerfull]

In my opinion Metroid Fusion and maybe metroid Zero Mission are really underrated, i barely see anyone talk about them in any media

[rayrabids]

A great element of game design that reinforces the horror elements, is that the X you absorb for HP, NEVER give you back more HP than a single attack from any enemy in the game. If you get hit even once, you have to defeat multiple enemies to get back to max health. Especially when I was younger and worse at the game, each time I got damaged felt like a major setback, turning some expeditions into the stations incredibly tense, as i tried to make to a recharge room with only a few bars of health left, and it made me get really good at killing specific enemies so I could reliably farm them for HP.

[GunNutproductionsOG]

I adore seeing reinterpretations of this suite in fan art where they go even further with the organic elements going full Gyver or Gieger

[jeremiahhoy]

Metroid fusion was the first Metroid game I ever played as a kid he was my first introduction to anything horror and even though it's a platform shooter, the first shooter I ever played. I played that game like 7 times. And the fusion suit is peak to me. I don't know if it's the nostalgia glasses or the fact that I'm really into biopunk but I love that it looks like a fleshy mucusy growth covering Sci-Fi armor (Yes, I'm fully aware that's that's what's going on)

[advmx]

Metroid Fusion essentially answers a question about her Power Suit: It's not just a suit of armor, it's part of her. First the suit generate the organic part, which is why the suit fits her nicely. It's also why the SA-X can copy her WITH the varia suit: The x can only copy organic matter. It can replicate plating, clothes, etc, but it needs to be organic.
Essentially Fusion shows how the Power Suit is without the plating, and it looks weird because again, it was stripped out by force. The suit would then generate the plating, but since the plating was forcefully removed, it will do it slowly.

Another interesting thing about the suit is that the Metroid Vaccine was only applied to her after the parts were removed, meaning they could not get to her body before removing the plating but the organic part is one with her skin so it works easier to penetrate.

Finally, Dread shows that the suit can regenerate but it will never be the same anymore, the plating will probably not regenerate completely, and I think Samus will prefer that way, this way she's more mobile.

I wish they have done a Fusion remake though, with huge maps and all of that.

[TheActualMrLink]

The little arm spikes are everything to me.

[Sifeus]

I can't believe we finally got a sequel to Fusion and it was GREAT