This is a game that started the beloved Metroid franchise. Samus, our hero, exploring some planet to exterminate the menace. The game doesn't tell you the full story of this game, however, in the manual of this game, the story is well more detailed so that the player could understand the goal our game.
The music of this game is iconic. The first song when arriving on the planet is really good. What is impressive about the OST is that the music is able to catch the atmosphere of the game.
The visual of the game is simplistic, but does the job perfectly. It's able to catch a darker atmosphere of an unknown planet. The enemies are all well distinct and the main character looks badass for the time. However, because of the background, it's really hard to find your bearings and know where you are going. The reason for that is that the background and level sections looks really similar to one another. For an exploration game and you need to do some back and forth in certain areas can be really confusing.
The controls are really good. Samus can run, jump, crawl and shoot. While you are exploring the planet, your character will get some buffs and upgrades. It can be more health, more missiles or simply power-ups. The fact that your character can shoot different type of bullets is really neat for the time, especially when you need to use them for the exploring part of the game. The player can freely use limited ammos, since eliminating some enemies will drop some missiles or health.
The bosses are also able to make you feel in danger when facing them (especially Mother Brain). Most of the bosses are big missile mashing battle, some of them were really cool to do. The last boss can be really frustrating to go against since there's so many bullets coming your way and it's impossible to dodge all of them. So you really need to explore and collect a whole bunch of upgrade before reaching the last boss.
While this game was really fun to play, I consider it a "walkthrough" game. You really need a map to tell you where to go and where stuff are since the level design looks really similar to one another in certain section. Also, there are a lot of secret passage and hidden objects scattered all around the map. You should try this game with a walkthrough in my opinion.
Game #40 of my challenge
The music of this game is iconic. The first song when arriving on the planet is really good. What is impressive about the OST is that the music is able to catch the atmosphere of the game.
The visual of the game is simplistic, but does the job perfectly. It's able to catch a darker atmosphere of an unknown planet. The enemies are all well distinct and the main character looks badass for the time. However, because of the background, it's really hard to find your bearings and know where you are going. The reason for that is that the background and level sections looks really similar to one another. For an exploration game and you need to do some back and forth in certain areas can be really confusing.
The controls are really good. Samus can run, jump, crawl and shoot. While you are exploring the planet, your character will get some buffs and upgrades. It can be more health, more missiles or simply power-ups. The fact that your character can shoot different type of bullets is really neat for the time, especially when you need to use them for the exploring part of the game. The player can freely use limited ammos, since eliminating some enemies will drop some missiles or health.
The bosses are also able to make you feel in danger when facing them (especially Mother Brain). Most of the bosses are big missile mashing battle, some of them were really cool to do. The last boss can be really frustrating to go against since there's so many bullets coming your way and it's impossible to dodge all of them. So you really need to explore and collect a whole bunch of upgrade before reaching the last boss.
While this game was really fun to play, I consider it a "walkthrough" game. You really need a map to tell you where to go and where stuff are since the level design looks really similar to one another in certain section. Also, there are a lot of secret passage and hidden objects scattered all around the map. You should try this game with a walkthrough in my opinion.
Game #40 of my challenge