Metroid II

[Anonymous No.4718326]

What went wrong?

[Anonymous No.4718337]

other than the fact it didn't include a casual friendly automap, nothing.

[Anonymous No.4718356]

>>4718326
Super Metroid came out too soon, that's what.

[Anonymous No.4718361]

nothing, except maybe the aspect ratio

[Anonymous No.4718394]

"sequel released on platform with lower resolution"

[Anonymous No.4718401]

>>4718326
how old are you? this was an amazing, ground breaking thing to have at the time. nothing went wrong. it was a commercial success.

[Anonymous No.4718406]

>>4718326
Its pretty good. Not horrible, its got cool powerups and if you play it on an sp youll get a nice color palette thats makes most gb games 1000% more playable.

[Anonymous No.4718419]

It was alright for a sequel. The hunting concept was great, despite the bosses being very basic. The map design is much more linear than the original, but it still played rather well for a OG GameBoy game. I liked the original.

But I recommend that people here download AM2R. It is a really good Super Metriod styled fan remake. Honestly, I liked it more than that Nintendo 3DS remake.

[Anonymous No.4718454]

>>4718419
I feel playing AM2R first may have ruined the original experience for me. I still enjoyed the original though.

[Anonymous No.4718776]

>>4718454
>ruined the original experience for me.

Thats not a terrible thing, while the GB game was a great game, AM2R was more capable as a game.

[Anonymous No.4718843]

It's not a bad game, but does have flaws, including:

- linear map design
- view distance too short
- repetitive boss fights
- disappointing soundtrack (yeah, "the tunnel" is great, but inb4 someone jumps in to point out how the electronic diarrhea heard throughout most of the game is """atmospheric""")

Plus points for the save feature and for introducing some cool powerups, though.

[Anonymous No.4718918]

Are there any retro metroidvania's apart from Metroid and Castlevania?

[Anonymous No.4718930]

>>4718918
TMNT 3 on Game Boy

[Anonymous No.4718936]

>>4718326
Too early.
>looks bad
>sounds bad
>no SGB support

>>4718918
>Castlevania
Which GB title is actually about exploration? Konami made their metroidvania for the GBC with Hunter x Hunter.

[Anonymous No.4718945]

>>4718936
>>4718930
Thanks, will check out TMNT and HxH. I was asking about every retro console, not just the GB.

[Anonymous No.4719017]

>>4718918
Wario Land 3

[Anonymous No.4719052]

>>4718419
>Super Metriod styled
dropped

[Anonymous No.4719053]

>>4719052
Imagine being this much of a hipster.
It's more of a Zero Mission styled remake, the controls and physics are tight as fuck.

[Anonymous No.4719056]

>>4718326
Your dad not pulling out you underage contrarian fuck. That game ruled.

[Anonymous No.4719075]

>>4719053
>It's more of a Zero Mission styled remake, the controls and physics are tight as fuck.

But Zero Mission borrows heavily from Super Metroid as well. But yeah, AM2R is the sequel-remake to Zero Mission that Nintendo never made. It's not a bad substitute either.

[Anonymous No.4719157]

>>4718918
Maze of Galious

[Anonymous No.4719185]

>>4718918
uforia nes

[Anonymous No.4719194]

>>4718326
Nothing aside from a memelet shitposting on the fourth channel.

[Anonymous No.4719254]

>>4719194
This is a useless post. This is a friendly board and you are ruining things. Eat shit.

[Anonymous No.4719318]

>>4719254

>this is a friendly board
>eat shit

[Anonymous No.4719329]

>>4718326
It was great at the time. It’s still okay now but we’ve been spoiled by future entries. AM2R or the 3DS remake are neat but the 3DS one is almost a different game

[Anonymous No.4719331]

>>4719254
Agreed, too many nigger-loving cuckold faggots acting rude around here lately.

>>4719053
>the h-word
I like Metroid 2 very much, I really don't need the "worst" game in the series "fixed" by turning it into SM/ZM. desu ZM is nice but it doesn't truly replace 1, same deal.

[Anonymous No.4719339]

>>4718918
Demon's Crest on the SNES is one of the best ones IMO. 10/10 graphics and music. You unlock and revisit areas after acquiring new forms, there are multiple endings and many secrets.

[Anonymous No.4719365]

It gave me nightmares.

[Anonymous No.4719839]

>>4718326
Nothing? Super Metroid was only able to be so great because it pooled from experiences gained while making M1 and M2.

[Anonymous No.4719842]

>>4718454
>>4718776
See, AM2R was able of being much better because it stood on shoulders of giants - including Super Metroid, Metroid: Fusion, Zero Mission and a ton of other metroidvanias released between M2 and AM2R.

So of course it'd be better, Metroid 2 was a very experimental game.

[Anonymous No.4719861]

>>4718326
It's on fucking Gameboy for one

[Anonymous No.4720156]

>>4718326
a spike in "aged like milk" revisionism

[Anonymous No.4720247]

>>4719254
This is not an underage friendly board. Check the rules. It's also not a shitpost friendly board. Again check the rules.

[Anonymous No.4720520]

>>4719331
I never said Metroid 2 is the worst either, dummy.

[Anonymous No.4720529]

>>4718337
The whole complex is just giant tunnel with branching corridors connecting to giant open areas. It's hard to get lost.

[Anonymous No.4720548]

>>4720529
You'd be surprised at the average person who plays games.

[Anonymous No.4720703]

>>4720548
>surprised
that's a funny way of spelling disappointed

[Anonymous No.4720923]

>>4718326
It's understandable why they went with the Gameboy, it was the current hot shit and needed some flagship titles, Metroid was one such title, doing very well with the first installment.
Here's where things sort of fall flat for it, though.

M2 gets it's atmosphere from the fact that the GameBoy only had 4 colors and they were Black, Dark Grey, Light Grey, and White. This was a limitation of the hardware in one respect, but you only really need 4 colors to make any display. This works in it's favor in some respects, but if there was an option for color, you can bet your ass it would have a proper palette.
Another limitation of the medium is that it had a small screen, and to fit a certain amount of detail in, you have to make sacrifices. In this case, the devs made the sprites larger than they were on NES, but the screen the game is played on is significantly smaller and on a 1x1 scale, so you end up cramming everything onto the screen and having very little space. People say this is intentional but it's obvious it's a retarded way to go about making a game.
>inb4 the cramped screen ads to the effect
It's fairly obvious this game got rushed and some bad decisions were made.
The music isn't that fantastic, most Metroid games have pretty memorable music, Metroid 2 has only a few tracks worth listening to and the rest was meant as filler just to have sounds and keep the game from being completely boring. At least they realized a game with no background noise at all would be boring.

The Gameboy was the hot new system at the time. It's easy to see why they would throw something like this at the platform. They had some good ideas in the game, cool stuff all around. A little too linear, but it's not easy to make a free-roaming game with the limitations of the portable platform. There's a lot that they fit into that little cartridge. It could have been better, but it wasn't horrible.

Super Metroid just improved on the issues of both M1&2.

[Anonymous No.4720927]

>>4720529
the one sort of mossy area with the long vertical shafts were the most trouble

[Anonymous No.4720929]

>>4718326
Literally nothing. It's pretty much just contrarians who dislike the game. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.4720960]

If you want to experience the original there's always the colorized hack.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/175/

[Anonymous No.4721937]

>>4718401
>>4719056
>>4719194
>>4720929
I actually like this game, I just kept hearing how it's the weakest of the franchise
not counting other m and federation force or course

[Anonymous No.4722003]

>>4721937
Many younglings consider anything in B&W to be bad. Many consider anything not in HD to be bad. A bunch of underage having hangups doesn't make Casablanca the weakest movie ever made or this the weakest game in the franchise.