/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5482236
What's gotten into the water around here lately?

Super Metroid is still one of the best games ever made, you'd have to be literally mental incapacitated to not see its brilliance. The level design? Amazing, literally a blueprint that other games in the metroidvania genre have followed for decades. The plot? Well its not stopping you every ten minutes to tell you about the "baby" or "Samus go to this sector because I just unlocked the door." It uses environmental storytelling to a degree that was uncommon for platformers in that era. The atmosphere and soundtrack alone are fantastic for such a dated release. Sure its not a hard game really, I don't think it ever was unless you'd just sat down and started playing it for the first time. Speedrunning wouldn't even BE the same had Super Metroid not been created. You also have the original to thank for opening up a whole new fucking genre to videogames.