Metroid Samus Gender Reveal
Here s a look at all of samus aran s contributions to the medium.
Metroid samus gender reveal. The metroid franchise has done a lot for improving the depiction of women in gaming. Samus aran had just defeated a planet s worth of parasitic organisms thanks to a futuristic power suit in nintendo s 1986 classic metroid. Samus is biologically female. Retrofitted with an arm cannon and the ability to transform into a metal sphere the suit was a powerful piece of technology that covered aran s entire body.
Dark samus utilizes several attacks based off samus s weapons including attacks based off missiles and a variant of the charge beam that fires many scattered shots. Samus true identity as a woman was a heavily guarded secret and was obscured by the power suit s androgynous appearance. Zero mission samus is portrayed by chisato morishita. Metroid prime used this dna to become dark samus.
This is explained by metroid and samus co creator yoshio sakamoto. Hayden a 27 673 views. Plus she is exclusively referred to with feminine pronouns throughout the games so there s that too. Metroid prime combined with samus dna.
At first players were led to believe that the hero was a man the game s accompanying booklet referred to samus as a he. Samus aran is typically seen wearing the power suit a powered exoskeleton which protects her from most dangers she encounters and can be enhanced by power ups collected during gameplay. The famous scene where samus is revealed to be female at the end of 1986 s metroid. E3 2017 group reaction yes.
Development in fact began with samus aran as a male hero albeit still in the suit as was the standard at the time. Dark samus absorbs a large amount of the phazon and battles samus. Samus encounters her doppelganger in a room designed to process phazon. Metroid introduced gamers to intergalactic bounty hunter samus aran.
Live reaction metroid samus returns nintendo 3ds e3 2017 duration. Biological sex is determined in your dna. In the japanese commercial for metroid. This big reveal of samus aran s gender in metroid wasn t just one of gaming s greatest twist endings it remains arguably gaming s most influential moment she is one of the first female video game protagonists and established her as a feminist icon.