/vr/ - Retro Games

finally got around to playing Super Metroid Subversion and holy shit it's awesome. starts a bit slow but once it gets going it just keeps going. 7 hours in and I have almost all the main upgrades but I'm still finding completely new areas. the amount of custom code in it is unbelievable.

>Let's make every room twice as bigger
>Let's make them more vertical too
>But no hub or teleport system, because we need players to backtrack the whole fucking map all the fucking time because turns out we have several new areas for the player to go but the player will only figure out which one if there are not blocks of 5 or 6 different types blocking his way
>Let's bloat the game with pointless damage, jump and speed upgrades that were all part of other upgrades before
>Let's make every boss have a gimmick, instead of just shooting them
It's funny how many rom hackers and fangames seems to struggle with this, they don't understand how game design works, they just think more is better.

And... fuck the zelda music, keep your gay elf fetish out of my franchise.

An absolute must play for all 2d Metroid fans.
Don't spoil the game for yourself by looking up reviews or videos. Just play it.

Subversion is pretty fun
https://metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?id=716