How Super Metroid Gets It Right
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That was such an amazing experience. I remember the sheet awe at fighting what was at the time the largest enemy of any game, ever. I still need to play fusion. After all these years I don't know why I never have.
Whenever this game is brought up, I always feel the need to call attention to its soundtrack. This game, to me, feels like a masterpiece of game sound design: you have an enormous "open planet" in front of you, alive, full of weird and vastly different creatures, and it ties the ambient sounds and music to them as if to show you the sensation of being there instead of just filling the air with musical tones. The instruments might as well be the acid dropping from the ceiling, the many legs of those crawling organisms, the sound of some barely-standing robots do as they wobble around, or the echo produced by a swarm of alien bugs on an open, long abandoned hall.
And in case you haven't heard about it, there's a project called Metroid Metal, which - obviously - covers many songs of the entire franchise in awesome Metal songs. I'm not a metalhead, but I love it.
I linked MM's free songs above, but they also have full albums that you can buy/donate for and that are on spotify as well. Check them out, they are so worth it.
Another Super Metroid analysis? Is there anything new here? I get that it's a great, great game, but there are so many of these retrospective analyses of it that I have to wonder if there's anything left to be said about it.
One Christmas all I wanted was the new Zelda game. My grandfather went to Sears to buy it for me and they didn't have it but the salesman told him this would be a good game instead. I was pretty upset to open this, but once I played it I was instantly hooked. It is easily one of my favorite games of all time I recently re-plate my grandfather went to Sears to buy it for me and they didn't have it but the salesman told him this would be a good game instead. I was pretty upset to open this, but once I played it I was instantly hooked. All of my friends at the time give me a hard time about it. I think maybe it was a little mature for my age group… I would've been 10?
It is easily one of my favorite games of all time and I recently replayed it.
Nintendo really makes history's best games. Nothing else comes close to the masterpieces they've made.
Off topic, but man, that intro reminded me of how I love playing games on a rainy day. It's been long time since I've done that.
I only got to beat Super Metroid just yesterday, I beat Zero Mission and Fusion some years ago and I must say I prefer them over Super Metroid by a little margin, all of them are wonderful. I think Zero Mission is my favorite among the three.
I got lost a lot after obtaining power bomb because I missed the map room that opened with it and I didn't stumble into it, I was searching other places, I spent a day or so and looked online. I got 67% in the end.
Also I didn't get Plasma Beam and got my ass kicked by Ridley A LOT. I actually went back to find more Super Missle capacity after dying 5 times and even then I had a hard time. It says online that 30 Super Missles gets it to 0HP but it took me like 40 Super Missles, 100 Missles and some charged beams and it still wasn't dying after picking me up.