Another metroid, another banging game, does this series miss? (Apparently Other M doesn't exist). Also just a great all round remaster that knows how to rebuild a classic game from 1986 and modernise it to make it a more enjoyable and quality game, game design had come a long way from 86 to 2004 and this game accounts for that and makes tons and tons of great quality of life changes and adds hours of new content to make the original feel like a properly fleshed out experience.
Its the same sort of gameplay style as super metroid and particularly metroid fusion, albeit the movement is slightly different and there's abilities you have to unlock that are just a normal thing in many other metroid games like ledge grabbing, high jumping and being able to shoot full screen. Its just a game I was guaranteed to enjoy and I did, especially because it comes with a share of its own little surprises, the ost is actually pretty damn good for a metroid game and there's a whole post-game 'chapter' that follows on where the original metroid ends and the game becomes metal gear solid for a while which is dope as fuck. Then the moment you recover all of your abilities and then some has some great, albeit relatively small lore implications and then you become this unstoppable force, it serves as a reminder of just how powerful samus gets when she's at full strength, love it!
My only gripes are that norfair is a bit of a maze and very easy to get stuck in which happened to me and I spent like 40 minutes circling the whole place until I found one very discreet wall I had to screw attack. The mother brain fight, though it did receive some small updates, is largely unchanged and is very annoying since its basically bullet hell and its a kind of dps check since you need a ton of missiles to get through it which you may not have, but at least you can go back a screen and farm them for a few minutes. But the game more than makes up for it with the new final boss, which I thought was great, that whole section in general is just a ton of fun since you're mowing enemies down and blasting through the space pirate mother ship. Though not as compelling narratively (not even close) and in its overall vibe as super metroid or fusion, in many ways this is even more fun to play and a bit more 'arcadey' in its action which I like a lot. Banger!
Its the same sort of gameplay style as super metroid and particularly metroid fusion, albeit the movement is slightly different and there's abilities you have to unlock that are just a normal thing in many other metroid games like ledge grabbing, high jumping and being able to shoot full screen. Its just a game I was guaranteed to enjoy and I did, especially because it comes with a share of its own little surprises, the ost is actually pretty damn good for a metroid game and there's a whole post-game 'chapter' that follows on where the original metroid ends and the game becomes metal gear solid for a while which is dope as fuck. Then the moment you recover all of your abilities and then some has some great, albeit relatively small lore implications and then you become this unstoppable force, it serves as a reminder of just how powerful samus gets when she's at full strength, love it!
My only gripes are that norfair is a bit of a maze and very easy to get stuck in which happened to me and I spent like 40 minutes circling the whole place until I found one very discreet wall I had to screw attack. The mother brain fight, though it did receive some small updates, is largely unchanged and is very annoying since its basically bullet hell and its a kind of dps check since you need a ton of missiles to get through it which you may not have, but at least you can go back a screen and farm them for a few minutes. But the game more than makes up for it with the new final boss, which I thought was great, that whole section in general is just a ton of fun since you're mowing enemies down and blasting through the space pirate mother ship. Though not as compelling narratively (not even close) and in its overall vibe as super metroid or fusion, in many ways this is even more fun to play and a bit more 'arcadey' in its action which I like a lot. Banger!