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Games/Super Metroid/Reviews
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Super Metroid
Super Metroid is the third game in the Metroid series and the only Metroid game to be released on the Super Nintendo. It has become widely revered for its gameplay, atmosphere, and environmental storytelling, and continues to inspire many action-adventure games.
First Class
This is the one that made me love the Metroid games after being more ambivalent about them previously, thanks to various quality of life improvements, improved and evolved controls (8-way aiming! Togg… Read more
In my top 5 SNES games.
The inter-galactic bounty hunter Samus Aran discovers an egg that immediately hatches revealing a small Metroid larva. The creature becomes attached to Samus thinking her as its mother. Samus takes th… Read more
Subtlety Trumps All
"Atmosphere" in today's world of video games is a term usually reserved for the description of a game's world, and rarely anything more than that. Perhaps one of the greatest achievements that Super M… Read more
Super Metroid Review
Super Metroid is an action platformer with a lot of exploration for the SNES. It came out in 1994. It's a sequel to Metroid for NES and Metroid II for the Gameboy. At the time it was the biggest cartr… Read more
From There to Here
I've been living in New York City for almost 6 months and I still get lost all the time. Even with pre-trip research, I regularly go the wrong way or pass my destination. Typically, before venturing o… Read more
Best of the series, even in 2012.
The Short Pros - Perhaps the best space exploration game ever made - Masterful use of sound and graphics create a simultaneous sense of dread and wonder - Plethora of secrets and power-ups to find enc… Read more
If I played this when I was 8 when it originally came out I would
Well after never really playing this game until 2010, I feel like it is great game that still holds up in todays standards. I always remember people telling me how great it was but I never had a chanc… Read more
Not all parts have aged well, but whats left is still great
The first thing one notices when launching Super Metroid is that it is unusually option heavy for an Nintendo game. Not only can one configure the button layout, but also a few other things such as "m… Read more
The Definitive Metroid Experience
What with Metroid: Other M releasing in a few days, I felt it was appropriate to revisit earlier chapters in the Metroid series, culminating with the best: Super Metroid. It regularly ranks highly on… Read more
Shadow Oedipus Complex
Have you ever eaten a dish so extraordinary, one that provided such an overwhelming sensation on your taste buds, that “ordinary” suddenly tastes like arse? Like go to , have an exquisite chicken cape… Read more
Quick Review of the Best of the Metroid Series
Originally posted on my blog Super Metroid is yet another one of those games that I never played during its actual lifespan. A full two systems after the launch of the game, I finally played Super Met… Read more
Best of the series?!?!?!
As far as games for my Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) goes, this one sits very high on the charts. The first time i played the game was at a friends house, and on his SNES, not my own. I o… Read more
Please delete this review.
Back in 1986, back when Ronald Reagan and Wiliam "Refrigerator" Perry roamed the Earth, Nintendo released a game that reinvented the adventure genre and set a precedent for future games to come with i… Read more
Super Metroid SNES
From the start of the game, you are put into the action packed life of our leading woman, Samus Aran. Briefly, she educates you on past experiences of the Metroid franchise and thus sets the back stor… Read more
As far as 2D games go Super Metroid is the best.
In 1987 a lone bounty hunter named ,Samus Aran, went to the planet Zebes to destroy Mother Brain and eliminate the Metroids on that planet. She succeeded (or so she thought) and the galaxy was safe on… Read more
The last fast and loose Metroid game
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System was home to arguably the greatest library of games on any single console. It had games that set new standards in graphic technology, and stretched 2D gaming bey… Read more