/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9688256

Super Metroid:
+ Lots of content. Has more areas than the GBA Metroids.
+ Many ways to sequence break and glitch through the game, often in the ways not intended by the developers.
+ Ability to mix and match your beams, as well as to turn on and off any of your upgrades as you please. (To be fair, this feature was planned for Zero Mission and can be re-enabled via a small patch.)

- Controls are not as precise (e.g. jumping) and convenient (e.g. shooting rockets and setting powerbombs) as the GBA Metroids.
- Grapple Beam. The physics are terrible, you might as well just wall jump.
- Quicksands and their physics.
- Many cool abilities are gotten way too late in the game.
- Graphics. Everything apart from Samus looks unprofessional and way too dark. There's a reason why somebody made a hack that replaces the environmental graphics with Zero Mission's.
- Music. Not as good as the the GBA Metroids, some tracks downright annoying.

Metroid Fusion:
+ Best bosses. (But still nowhere as fun as, say, the Mega Man bosses.)
+ Best environmental graphics.
+ Difficulty. Even common enemies deal a lot of damage. But this may as well be considered a con by some.
+ SA-X chases.
+ Easy/Hard difficulty modes (Japan version only).

- Linear, no sequence breaking at all. Single wall jumping and bomb jumping intentionally disabled by the developers.
- No Ice Beam.
- Constant chatting with the computer breaks the flow of the game.
- Ugly Samus sprite.

Metroid Zero Mission:
+ Best controls and physics. Bomb jumping and shinesparking has never been so much fun!
+ Sequence breaking. Lots of shortcuts and alternate routes INTENTIONALLY added by the developers.
+ Stylish graphics.
+ Easy/Hard difficulty modes (all versions).

- Not enough content, the shortest of all Metroid games.
- Very easy bosses (including the final boss, but excluding the very annoying Mother Brain).
- Zero Suit section. I don't need half-assed insta-death stealth in my Metroid, thank you very much.