Thread 717881867

As an action game? It sucks

As a platformer? It still sucks

As an exploration game? It still fucking sucks

As a thread? It's bait.

Didn't you make this thread already?

Boss fights? Minus spore spawn, croc and ridley, pretty ass. Whack a mole firesnek sucks, phatoom is bullshit, and the only enjoyable way of fighting draygon is a cheese strat
Maridia? Fucking horrible
Going for 100%? Infuriating
Mother brains fight is cool the first time, but every time after it’s just tedious waiting for her to whack you to 1%

8/10 game otherwise

The main issue is the combat and platforming are both terrible and also provide zero challenge or stakes whatsoever in the slightest.

So what you have is a game where you just endlessly roam and backtrack through long series of generic, samey rooms that all just blend together in your mind as one jumbled, forgettable mess, with enemies and platforming that is more of just a nuisance than actual engaging or challenging gameplay. And who genuinely finds shooting, bombing, or scamning every single tile to see which reacts to actually be fun?

I just played original NES Metroid (with a map) and thought it was okay

I'm not liking Metroid II so much so far, but I'm sure I'll like Super Metroid.

>>717882189
Should have just played Zero Mission and Fusion

>>717882263
>the worst Metroid pre O:M
Cringe

>>717882189
>I'm not liking Metroid II so much so far
Play AM2R.

>>717882189
Super removes all challenge from enemies and hazards. It's almost impossible to die unless you go out of your way to deliberately gimp yourself and get hit over and over and over without ever picking up health. You get energy tanks constantly, supply tanks, two suit upgrades that each halve damage, every enemy drops a shitload of HP, constant energy refills, and basically every other room has these enemy geysers that basically just spam trashmobs when you're near them with the sole purpose of quickly stocking up on health and ammo.

The game is genuinely easy and the stakes so non-existent that the only "fun" you will find is if you love roaming corridors shooting every block to see if it's destructible

>>717881867 (OP)
sage bait thread super metroid is peak

>>717881867 (OP)
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/WgDqmKBdK8uWvbMKHspoAg/

>>717881867 (OP)
Why are Reddit Knight zoomers so insecure? I get why you like it, but it's no Super Metroid. I think it's a shame that Reddit Knight's bad map design has become the standard for the metroidvania genre, but you wouldn't get it and neither would Team Cherry.

>>717884661
OP here, I hated Hollow Knight even more actually.

>>717882189
Playing NEStroid first made me appreciate RoS a lot more. Just being able to crouch felt great.
Neither of them are indicative of Super and everything built on from that

>>717882189
Playing without a map was total ass. II was better without it, but eventually everything looked the same and I got lost enough that I dropped it. Super is the first game that still holds up, and it’s my third favorite 2D Metroid

>>717882741
The enemy spawners are a shit mechanic, agreed. Just adds tedium to health replenishment. And no, it isn’t really hard. But Ridley is a huge difficulty spike. Most of the bosses have an element of tanking them and out DPSing, but Ridley is egregious and overturned

>>717882741
Mother Brain is hard cause of her laser

>>717885515
>>717885560
I'm not complaining about the bosses, they are the only redeeming part of the combat. They really fucked up with the basic enemies and hazards though, they are just a complete pushover that might as well be non-existent as they serve as nothing more than an extremely minor inconvenience.

I've beaten all the mainline metroid games, what are some good fangames to play?
Only played am2r so far.

>>717885776
Cave Story is basically just Metroid but better in every way and without the pixel hunting bullshit.

>>717884728
Based.