Metroid Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/metroid/ Stories about Culture Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:27:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Metroid Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/metroid/ 32 32 On the Death of Samus Aran https://unwinnable.com/2021/12/02/on-the-death-of-samus-aran/ https://unwinnable.com/2021/12/02/on-the-death-of-samus-aran/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:01:20 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=85460 For Samus, her body is her central locus of meaning, the way both in which the world interprets her and in which she, so far as we can tell, interprets herself.

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]]> https://unwinnable.com/2021/12/02/on-the-death-of-samus-aran/feed/ 1 The Growth and Adaptation of Samuslikes https://unwinnable.com/2020/05/26/the-growth-and-adaptation-of-samuslikes/ Tue, 26 May 2020 04:00:24 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=79484 Samus Aran, videogames’ own Strong Sci-Fi Female Protagonist, echoes through the medium just like the design of Super Metroid.

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]]> The Platforming Genre That Might Have Been https://unwinnable.com/2019/09/19/the-platforming-genre-that-might-have-been/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:16:32 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=76082 We all know how the Metroidvania became the standard for so much of the platforming genre. But what it there was another possibility?

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