Favourite Metroid game?
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Absolutely Super.
Right now I'm playing through a new run of Super Metroid+A Link to the Past. The game is so perfectly made that it's just as good with a randomizer. -
I started with Fusion and I love it, but Super is a tiny tiny bit over it in my personal list.
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It's really hard for me to name a single favorite Metroid; I love most of them. In terms of non-linear open exploration, Super Metroid is probably my favorite, followed by AM2R. But I also really enjoyed the boss fights in Metroid Dread; they were really challenging...for me at least.
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Super Metroid is my favorite game period, so definitely that one. Dread was really good too though, I played through that one a bunch.
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Dread. I wasn't sure if it could live up to the high expectations set for it, but they hit it out of the park. Hits all the highs of Super and Zero Mission, then goes on to outdo those games in terms of combat and boss fights. Had a blast going back to speedrun it again and again.
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Mine is probably the oddball pick with Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. I know it's hardly the first game with a light and dark world mechanic, but I really appreciated the way you traversed in and out of them, and how each world replenished the opposite ammo type. The multiplayer in that game is also underrated, but probably not as good as in the DS game.
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I know a lot of people, myself included, got frustrated with the EMMI sections. Unless we all missed something about how they work, that the game could stand to explain better, you could end up walking into the room with bad RNG and the thing could be right on top of you. If you're speedrunning the game, presumably you have a trick to avoid that scenario, but it was quite common and brought down my opinion on the game, for sure.
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I wish I could love super metroid. I really do. The game holds up. The graphics are great, the sound design is bafflingly superb for a 16 bit game. Controls are tight. Map size is big but not daunting.
And then you get to the part where you fall down a pitt. And the game teaches you to wall jump.
...........everytime I play the game, thats where the game ends. It's been 30+ years, and I still can't wall jump in that game.
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Been a while and I don't remember the routing details at all, but I was surprised to find that they weren't much of an obstacle at all for the speedrun. They're designed to scare you on a first playthrough, but on subsequent replays you just go fast and they won't catch you.
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Well, what I meant was that you could enter the door and immediately be stuck in that quick time event that you usually fail because the window is so small, and you couldn't see where the EMMI would be before you crossed the door's threshold.
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You want to press jump a little bit after you press the D-pad in the direction away from the wall. The time you have to do varies but you have between two and ten frames to do this. Don't try and press them at the same time or it will always fail.
Are you a visual person? This image might help. You want to press jump when Samus is in this position, almost sitting against the wall.
Here's a video of someone wall jumping with a controller overlay so you can see their inputs and compare it to what's on screen.
It might take a bit to get the timing down but once it's in your muscle memory it is very consistent. If I can do this then anyone can do this.
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When ya said oddball pick I was half expecting metroid prime pinball to be it haha
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The super + alttp rando is so fun
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My favorite Metroid is a knockoff. Environmental Station Alpha. I can't help but recommend it in any thread that's even remotely on topic. It's not "better" than the official titles but I end up replaying ESA way more. The astmosphere and music just really hit me, and the gameplay is tight with lots of secrets.
My favorite official title is Fusion though. It was so awesome being able to play that on the train to school and lunch breaks.
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I've seen some mentions of AM2R, which I love, but also wanna shout out the romhack Super Metroid Redesign.
Its hard for me to pick an absolute favorite, but Fusion probably gets it today from me.
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That was an objectively good game. Small and short, but good.
Hunters, on the other hand, not great.
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Okay, but did you ever play Hunters multiplayer?
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I love going through most of the game and then finally realizing i don't have a shield lol
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Going to use this thread to recommend AM2R which is so high quality Nintendo could have made it themselves. It also has a great Prime-style OST in a 2d game which none of the other games have done
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If you ever get into a EMMI QTE you've done something wrong. The QTE is a glorified game over screen, the 1% chance of escaping is only there to make it scarier with false hope
