{"id":133495,"date":"2023-05-02T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-148881"},"modified":"2023-05-02T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:15:00","slug":"random-star-wars-jedi-survivor-contains-a-neat-super-metroid-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/02\/random-star-wars-jedi-survivor-contains-a-neat-super-metroid-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Contains A Neat Super Metroid Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b1eed3d59eee9\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b1eed3d59eee9\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Star Wars Jedi: Survivor \/ Super Metroid\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b1eed3d59eee9\/star-wars-jedi-survivor-super-metroid.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b1eed3d59eee9\/star-wars-jedi-survivor-super-metroid.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars Jedi: Survivor \/ Super Metroid\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Words like &#8216;lightsabers&#8217;, &#8216;Sith Lords&#8217; and &#8216;droids&#8217; might not immediately bring the games of Nintendo to mind, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/star_wars_jedi_survivor\" class=\"external\">Star Wars Jedi: Survivor<\/a> (the latest big-budget game set in a galaxy far, far away) one of the Big N&#8217;s most iconic sequences gets a nice little nod.<\/p>\n<p>As shared on Twitter by Giant Bomb journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffGrubb\">Jeff Grubb<\/a>, one early section of the game sees you learning how to wall jump in a <em>very<\/em> similar way to how you do in the 1994 SNES classic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_metroid\">Super Metroid<\/a>. Of course, we&#8217;re not referring to the actual act of wall jumping (heck, most platformers could be said to contain a reference in that case), but instead how the game teaches you to use the ability. Instead of a &#8216;Double-tap A&#8217; command appearing on the screen, Jedi: Survivor sees Cal Kestis learning the ropes from a trio of fluffy friends.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffgrubb\/statuses\/1652537898892230660 @ 2023-05-02T15:51:58+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">awesome super metroid reference in jedi survivor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7h82RVZex\">pic.twitter.com\/A7h82RVZex<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Grubb (@JeffGrubb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffGrubb\/status\/1652537898892230660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As alluded to by Grubb, the sequence very closely mirrors the wall jump &#8216;tutorial&#8217; from Super Metroid, in which Samus is shown (not told) what to do by the Etecoon \u2014 the three monkey-like creatures that leap up the walls and encourage the protagonist to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not likely that we&#8217;re going to see Jedi: Survivor head to a Nintendo console any time soon (if ever), but this little nod to one of the company&#8217;s greatest games has managed to bring a smile to our faces all the same \u2014 even if it has brought back some bad memories of one of the most frustrating mechanics to get the hang of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/metroid\/related-articles:143677 @ 2023-05-03T03:25:46+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you make of this Super Metroid reference? Morph Ball down to the comments and let us know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Words like &#8216;lightsabers&#8217;, &#8216;Sith Lords&#8217; and &#8216;droids&#8217; might not immediately bring the games of Nintendo to mind, but in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (the latest big-budget game set in a galaxy far, far away) one of the Big N&#8217;s most iconic sequences gets a nice little nod. As shared on Twitter by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}