"Save the animals." It's become a big part of any Super Metroid speedrun, especially when it comes to streaming events like AGDQ. Turns out Nintendo's own devs want you to save the animals as well, as they've discussed in the SNES Classic Edition: Super Metroid interview. The following comes from Super Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto and composer Kenji Yamamoto.
Interviewer: Yamamoto-san, what part of Super Metroid do you recommend?
Yamamoto: This is a bit detailed, but after you beat the last boss, Mother Brain, Samus escapes, right? The planet is beginning to explode, so you really have to hustle. But at a certain spot, there’s a Dachora and some Etecoons…
Sakamoto: Dachoras and Etecoons are alien creatures who teach Samus new moves, and they’ve gotten trapped while trying to evacuate.
Interviewer: If you help them, the ending changes. Is that right?
Sakamoto: The ending doesn’t exactly change, but when the planet explodes and Samus just barely clears the blast in her ship, out to the side you can see…
Yamamoto: The Dachora and Etecoons escape, too.
Sakamoto: About one dot of light shoots out from the exploding planet! (laughs)
Interviewer: (laughs) You understand from that one dot of light that they survived.
Sakamoto: I tried it myself, and the dot was so small I could barely see it! (laughs)
Interviewer: Is that because it was an old tube TV?
Sakamoto: Yes. With the high resolution screens today, you should be able to see it clearly. I hope people will check that out for themselves.
Yamamoto: There may also be people who played Super Metroid before who don’t know about that. I hope they will play the game again and help those creatures!
from GoNintendo
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