/vr/ - Retro Games

Happy birthday metroid. Lets have a thread of the original metroid
>dat immersion
>dat kraid's theme
>dat difficulty
original metroid for the nes is one of my all time favorite games.

I actually just beat SotN recently, was great aside from maybe getting 196.5%+ of squares visited. In the reverse sewers/caves, how the fuck are you meant to get some of them? Hugging the water-filled ceilings doesn't do much for me. That and the bosses being way too fucking easy most of the time. Galamoth is an exception, but instead he isn't very well designed.

Ritcher mode is okay too I guess, chaining together super jumps and air dashes from the get-go is pretty neat

Though as much as I do like Super Metroid I think it controls really awkwardly by comparison to the GBA titles

>SM
>L + R = Angling
>Face buttons jump, run, shoot, and manually scroll through active weapon one-way
>Walljump and bombjump take much practice

>Zero Mission
>Holding R allows Samus to fire missiles
>L + D-Pad = Angling up or down
>Jump and shoot assigned on face buttons
>Speed Booster is automatic, game has to be designed around it but less buttons to worry about
>Select toggles missile type
>Easier, faster walljumps and bombjumps
>Dat Morph Ball shinespark