Thread 11940672

Playing through this kino for the first time. Any fans? I just got the Space Jump and I have 24 Metroids left to go. It's a big improvement on the original, I'm drawing my own map and I love how claustrophobic it all feels. Any similar game recs?

I played through it recently and I liked it a lot, it's definitely more linear compared to Metroid but the power ups are more fun to use. The Metroid fights were super redundant though, 50 fights and only 3 different kind of Metroids for most of them, gets old fast; and only one real boss fight outside of those.

Still a great game

I really liked am2r which is basically a completely different game, kind of like how zero mission is. I guess I should probably get around to trying the 3ds remake too. I assume thats also nothing like the other "Metroid 2s"

There's a homebrew called Repugnant Bounty that takes a lot of inspiration from Metroid II.

It's a masterpiece of a game, only critiqued by 2000s avgn wannabes who HAVE to be critical.
Metroid II's enemy design goes hard

>>11940672 (OP)
Based.

>>11940672 (OP)
>Any similar game recs?
No, Fusion kinda gets close both in terms of atmosphere and linearity but it's a different setting

I can never take seriously anyone who says kino unironically.

>>11940672 (OP)
nah, it's one of the first games I've played and I would never recommend it to anyone

>>11940672 (OP)
>sml2
>links awakening
>metroid 2

amazing how well nintendo adapted their franchises on this underpowered turd of a handheld. LA is somehow way better than the NES zeldas even.

>>11941106
Nintendo were the only ones to make actual great non-RPG games for the platform, all that other stuff like the Castlevania games and Operation C was complete dogshit

>>11941120
Wrong.
Also Belmont's Revenge is a good game.

>>11941008
It indicates one of three things: that the poster is rather young and impressionable, or a grown adult who is still stuck in the mimicry stage of development, or someone who has chosen to learn English through image boards. None of which are great.

>>11941008
Unironically, I can never take someone seriously who uses "unironically". Ironically speaking.

>>11941008
"Kino" is fine when it fits, but for this game it doesn't. There are plenty of "kino" games, like Resident Evil or Metal Gear Solid, Metroid II is more ludo than kino though.

>>11941106
You're forgetting half the franchises. This is without counting their sequels including Wario Land

Nintendo made a lot of efforts initially to make the GB work. Then for the GBC it's mostly just rehashes, the same game in colour, or shitty straight ports; even in the case of "new" games like Zelda Oracles they're LA rehashes made by third parties. The GBA had it a bit better but Nintendo NEVER put as much effort in their handhelds as they did with the GB again.

>>11940672 (OP)
>It's a big improvement on the original,
No it's not. the movement options are nice yes. But, for everything they give you... it's linear as fuck... which... sort of makes sense given the tiny as screen and playfield too.
I still have the cart I played as a kid. It's not Metroid 1 good, but it's definitely good for a gameboy game.

>>11940672 (OP)
honestly i never really cared for it, linearity aside the metroid killing quest just makes the game drag imo. pretty good atmosphere though.
>>11941120
the mega man games on gameboy are solid, especially iv and v.

>>11941127
Oh I've never played that one
>Also Belmont's Revenge is a good game.
Honestly not a fan, even when not comparing it to the NES games. I like Kid Dracula though
>>11941435
>the mega man games on gameboy are solid, especially iv and v.
True

>>11940965
>2000s

Oh come on now, I played it well before the year 2000 and was disappointed by its linearity. (I still liked it though, since it is a good game.)

>>11940672 (OP)
>nso thread
>says he likes the game so far
You're one of the good ones OP

>>11941008
i feel like kino is slowly becoming a replacement for kusoge, which honestly i don't mind.

>>11941187
This is well put.

I have nothing but great memories of playing this one blind, without guides, back in the early 00s. It was my first Metroid game actually.

>>11940672 (OP)
Is there any good romhack that adds color?

>>11941120
>Operation C
>complete dogshit
Please try hard to have a fatal accident

>>11940672 (OP)
They actually used the system's weak hardware to an advantage by making it atmospheric and minimalistic visually.
It's great, and it is underrated in the sense that it is one of the first arcadey console games to really focus on creating atmosphere.

no one ever mentions how awesome the pixel art is in metroid 2. i love the palette, suits and animation. it's something they lost after super metroid, with prime series garbage morph-ball themepark worlds and that awful overly smooth/clean look ever since like a halo 2 rip-off.

>>11944312
> i love the palette

What? Let me guess, you played the fucking fan remake.

There's a cool GBC hack for M2. Did you check this out?
https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/10326/#review

General thoughts on the 3DS version? I've heard it's shit but I've never tried it.

>>11940672 (OP)
Metroid II is sick. I beat it in one sitting and actually didn't need to make a map. I think they handled the map well considering it's a handheld game with the limitation being your battery life. Hope you enjoy it OP.
I actually tried the remake first and found it really dull, but when I went back to the original I completely enjoyed it. I think it's a 5 out of 5. Has a few minor issues, but none that really get in the way. Shockingly solid for a Game Boy game.

Which is the better remake of this game? Loved AM2R but haven’t played 3DS one

>>11945641
>>11946542
It's ok at best. Feels like proto Dread without the good stuff. I had some fun with ice + melee combo. Play it for the novelty, but other than that am2r is the way to go.

>>11940672 (OP)
It's hard to articulate but the game does an impressive job of taking a concept and executing it in a convincing organic way, the game promises you a descent into the bowels of alien cave system exterminating metroids and that's what you get. on the original gameboy

>>11946542
AM2R is great and feels almost like something Nintendo would make
Samus Returns is parry slop

>>11941342
You can actually save unlike in the first game which is a big improvement

>>11940672 (OP)
In the world it was released into, it was a genuinely cool game especially for game boy. I used to beat it over and over just to hear the ending theme.

It’s not timeless like Super - dated AF now. But it was a critical stepping stone and a massive improvement over Nestroid

>>11947052
How many anons played metroid 2 first? I had a slew of GB games I never had for the SNES/NES like Killer Instinct or even super return of the jedi

>>11940672 (OP)
>Any similar game recs?
nod rly
at least not for GB/C

>>11941106
The gameboy was a marvel of engineering, not an underpowered turd.

>>11944325
i mean the original gameboy, im 40 years old

>>11940672 (OP)
boring genocide simulator, ubisoft shit

I liked the graphical improvements when I was a kid and enjoyed the game okay but replaying it as an adult, I hated how linear and unexplore-y it was. AM2R is a surprising improvement.
As a dumb kid, I didn't realise how linear it was at the time. Same thing happened with Lunar and /especially/ Lunar II. As a kid, I spent so much time playing those games on my Sega CD. Replaying them as an adult, I hated the linearity. At least the original, you had options to travel to other, not-plot-relevant-yet towns, like once you get to Meribia, you can go to Nanza, Lann and Althena's main temple. After passing Nanza, you've got the weirdo town, the thief town and the 'tard town, Meryod. After Meryod, you've got the musical town and is town-by-town thereafter, iinm
Meanwhile, with Lunar II, you're town-by-town almost the entire time.
>>11940965
I played and beat it when it was still new and didn't replay it until the coloured patch came out a few years ago. Still thought it was meh at the time.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a contrarian.

>>11947702
>if I spam buzzwords about a game I never played will I fit in
No

>>11947737
>enter cave
>kill everything you see
>lava moves down
>repeat
not my metroid

>>11947702
Oy vey.

>>11947743
>you can't kill everything in a metroid game
>this is ubislop
Lol no games zoom zoom detected

>>11947702
Thanks for reminding that it pretends to be a genocide simulator just to deliver the ultimate KINO twist at the end, which is to this day one of the biggest highlight of the series.

>>11946760
>Play it for the novelty, but other than that am2r is the way to go.
No. https://www.acriticalhit.com/am2r-depth-critical-review/

>>11941187
>>11941224
>>11941321
>>11942348
kino

>>11944172
Look for EJRTQ Colorization.

>>11940672 (OP)
I’m also going through a second play through of it now, there is 15 left to go.
>>11945661
I never thought about it but the battery (and possibly the portability) of it shaped the development, thus it is a good game to play in small chunks. I used to be into long grindy games but nowadays I have much less contiguous time to play.

Honestly probably my favorite Metroid, even if a bit tedious at times. Never made a map for it since whenever I replay (not very often) I like to still have a little bit sense of exploration. Atmosphere is top notch, the area before the Metroid lair gives some desolate feeling that almost no other of the 2d games (never played Prime trilogy or Other M so I can't speak about them) in the franchise, I feel like AM2R didn't nail the feeling on that area but they certainly did on the abandoned outpost and ship zones

>>11940672 (OP)

it strongly leverages the gameboy's capabilities and limitations.

my only criticism was the limited musical tracks, didn't care for the waveform instruments used, even tho i liked the melodies.

>>11949128
My greatest criticism was the three rooms next to each other where you got three different beams. Sorry spazer. We never had the time to enjoy each other.

>>11941187
What if you used /tv/ a lot and you just like the word kino

>>11940672 (OP)
>mainline sequel is a handheld exclusive
Why?

I just started playing this for the 1st time myself. Good game so far, though I'm not too far into. I think I've got like 28 metroids left. Playing the eshop version on the 3DS that I downloaded more than a decade ago & never got around to.

>>11940672 (OP)
I played through it like 2 years ago, holds up surprisingly well if you're willing to look up a manual for it's map.

>>11941342
Saving and especially crouching is a huge improvement