Which is probably a bad thing if you’re going to play this in chronological order, considering the rest of the serious gets a downgrade in control slickness from here on.īut anyway, once I started playing this, I was hooked. A character that didn’t just break the glass ceiling, she blasted her way through it.Īnyway, with that out of the way, how is the remake itself? Well, in all honesty, I don’t think there has not been an official release of a 2D Metroid game that has played any smoother than this one. ![]() It made them all the more enamored with this character, making her all the more memorable. This blew adolescent 80s kids’ minds back in the day. Only to find out all this masculinity was contained within a woman? That you played as this entire time? This whole time you’re playing a badass bounty hunter, blasting aliens to pieces, killing a brain and pterodactyl, saving the world, showing off your guns and skill. So color hardcore gamers surprised when they got good enough at the game to beat it within 1 hour’s time on the NES, to get the biggest surprise reveal since Darth Vader: ![]() But that aside, the manual refers to Samus Aran as “he,” with “his” identity and form shrouded in mystery. When playing the NES game, this backstory doesn’t really mean much up until you face off against the Metroids and the Mother Brain. Once it has been determined that this alien life form, known as Metroid, could have been responsible for wiping out all life on planet SR388, and could be utilized as a weapon by the pirates to use against the Federation, they became desperate enough to hire the famed bounty hunter Samus to get into the fortress at Zebes, destroy the Mother Brain, and all trace of the Metroid. In a nutshell, there’s peace in the galaxy, the Federation brings back remnants of alien life from a planet called SR388, Space Pirates steal the remnants and bring them to their planet Zebes where they have established a defense Fortress, powered by the Mother Brain, capable of repelling Federation ships. The amount of backstory detail it provides is astounding, as is the descriptions of the creatures on the planet Zebes itself. In particular, the manual to the original NES game. So before getting into what I liked about this game, some background on the original Metroid should be established, particularly with an 80s gamer mindset. Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance 2004 remake of the 1987 game Metroid 1 on NES) So, with that in mind, I’ll be reviewing the Metroid games that I believe provide the definitive Metroid experience that is still fun for gamers today: I’d sooner play those remakes than the originals, especially with the experience I had with Zero Mission. Then they did the same thing again with Metroid II: Samus Returns, on the 3DS. One is known as Metroid: Zero Mission, which came out on the Game Boy Advanced (which basically had the tech equivalent of a Super Nintendo system), and is a remake of the original Metroid, except with updated gameplay and graphics, with some cutscenes, and an extended epilogue. Nintendo has made a remake for both those games. So what about Metroid 1 and 2? Well, that’s when things get interesting and fun. So I believe I can make a legit review whit legit opinions on those two. As for the other two, I have played Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion, in their entirety.
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