Metroid 2

I love the pic of Samus Encounters Spore Spawn from Super Metroid done by ZEBES. Which inspired me to illustrate the final battle of Samus versus the Queen Metroid in Metroid 2.

I know it wasn't the best game in the series, but it was one of the best games around on the GameBoy, and Nintendo has never re-released an updated version of it. So many of the younger gamers who have played the remakes of Metroid, have missed out on the small yet key influential event that happens in Metroid 2. Such as the introduction of the metroids evolution chain, and as most everyone knows by now, the rescuing of an infant metroid that also makes an appearance in every other Metroid sequel.

The Queen Metroid was definitely one of the coolest bosses that I've seen on my spinach green GameBoy screen. So here she is, along with Samus hand drawn, and scanned to be coloured in Photoshop. The explosion is a 3D particle explosion I've done and thrown into the image with several layers of compositing.

P.S. Yeah I know Samus doesn't find the egg until after she kills the queen, but I felt like including it in there, so I did