"y cant metroid crawl?" - A Miiverse post from a bedraggled Wii U owner after playing the initial stages of Super Metroid on the Wii U Virtual Console. This statement and many others like it, demonstrate the true extent of how many modern gamers are struggling to make stable foot-way into the fantastic but punishingly difficult adventure that is Super Metroid. For that reason, is Metroid too difficult for modern gamers?
Super Metroid was a monumental triumph of interactive art, a game that achieved new heights in presentation, level design, and pacing, and despite a few flaws, manages to hold up astoundingly well to this day.
"30 years after its launch, however, Super Metroid for the SNES remains the undisputed king of the franchise in terms of its atmosphere and tone. " - Ollie Reynolds | NintendoLife
Fusion did a great job at it. Really love that horror feel with metroid. I mean you are completely alone on alien planets filled with horrific monsters and toxic environments.
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It's really a matter of gamers having had their hand held too much with current gen games, when playing an old school gem like Super Metroid it's important to adapt to the game and what it expects from you instead of expecting to be told what to do.
If you're stuck then either you haven't searched the area enough, or you are lacking a certain power up, it's usually never anymore complex than that beyond a frustratingly tough boss fight.
The entire way you play differs greatly from most current gen games, you're thrown into a strange world that you yourself must explore with the only real direction being that of a point on world the map, making progress at 1st is either done through trial and error or dumb luck, however once you become acquainted with the game mechanics and realise that progress usually stems finding new Items or Suite power ups and often back tracking between areas, then the game becomes very straight forward, not easy mind you but it helps if you approach the game as it was intended to be played instead of expecting glowing arrows to guide you.
People need to realies, you get it very easy these days.
i can't lie,even though i beat it on snes.i was stomp for at 1st but only because i didn't know she had a dash button.but know it's all coming back to me.the best 30 cents i ever spent.
It's like any new game you play for the first time, you learn the controls and your find. It's no difficult than any other game.
Maybe if they weren't such a moron and first realized the character isn't Metroid but Samus, and second, looked around and found the Morph Ball it wouldn't be such an issue !!!