Super Metroid

==First play (July/August 2021)==
With Metroid Dread, the first 2D Metroid game for 19 years, being announced and my having never played a Metroid game (I think I tried Metroid Prime briefly once but for all of 10 minutes), I got interested in the franchise and decided to try this one on the Switch's Virtual Console. I was also bored during the summer in Osaka.
Played it from the end of June to the beginning of August. I'm sure it took me way longer than it should have, but I just found it frustrating to progress and got irritated and bored for a lot of it.
Overall impressions: kinda fun, cool atmosphere if you play it in small chunks, extremely tedious and frustrating at several points, would definitely not have finished it if I hadn't had walkthroughs and the virtual console's suspend points to help me.
Worst point: missing the gravity suit and slogging through water without it for ages.
Best point: I guess the final boss was cinematic? Although the gameplay was very simple.
0 (5/10)
Glad I played it, never played a Metroid game before despite it being a famous and influential franchise - I can certainly see how Metroidvanias get their inspiration from it. Looking forward to seeing how the franchise developed in later games. Zero Mission next!
The YouTuber Game Maker's Toolkit absolutely gushes over its level design as if it's the best thing ever, which i seriously disagree with. It has promise and I get that it was innovative, but it failed too many times to prevent me from getting stuck and lost. Maybe if the movement was smoother and faster I wouldn't have minded so much - Ori and the Blind Forest has such fun movement and gameplay (and the graphics and music are amazing) that I actually enjoyed running around the map looking for secrets and the way forward. When I got to the end of Super Metroid and realised I might not have enough health and missiles to get through the end sequence, I knew I was definitely not going to be going back to look for any. I managed to cheese my way through using the suspend points.
Category:1990s video games
Category:Metroidvania video games
Category:Nintendo video games
Category:Video games played in 2021
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