[Shapermc]

[aderack]

Yeah, I only really got into Metroid 1 retroactively. I absolutely adored the second game; basically all of the things that bothered me about the first one had been repaired, plus it was more intimate and atmospheric and unnerving. Some years later, when I went back to the first game, I understood it rather better.

I never played Super Metroid except through emulation. So. That was a while later, yet.

[aderack]

[aderack]

[Rud31]

Agreeing with Aderack for once (except for that whole naked samus thing.) Metroid 2 was one of the first games that IC/SB made me retry and beat. It's a very good game. You can't get lost because of the constrained lava. Well, you can get lost, but knowing where you are going the whole time (down.) Still, no shame in having a map handy!

Toups brought up a lot of important points on the previous page about the original Metroid. Still if you don't like it, you don't like it. I don't. I also don't really like Super Metroid. Love 2 and Prime though.
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[Talbain]

[Max Cola]

Metroid 2 is coming in the mail!

Also, I have a Game Boy Pocket and a Game Boy Color to play it on! And Super Game Boy! And a GBA! I have a lot of Game Boy stuff at my house.
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[Talbain]

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[Mr. Mechanical]

I'm playing the original Metroid right now off my Zero Mission cart, using the ZARPAS SWORD code to just power through the game. I just killed Kraid, but now I'm just trying to get back up that long tunnel with the single line of breakable/reappearing blocks as my only way back up. I keep getting knocked off and it's frustrating. All in the timing I guess.

I've played this a lot but never beaten it and now I figured I'd just cheat and see the ending, but nooooo, turns out you have to kill Ridley and Kraid before you can access Tourian (uh, just like every other Metroid game I know) so I can't just go straight to the end. And I'm still stuck after killing Kraid. Damn it.

The music is pretty good though.

edit-Okay just got past it. Turns out patience is the key, and taking a break on the single block platforms that occasionally run along the side.
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It's been a while, but I believe there is a way to get to Tourian with only beating one of the two bosses through glitchy techniques.

Also, for what it is worth, the original Metroid is a game that doesn't hold up for me, so if you aren't enjoying it I say move on the Metroid 2, which is still enjoyable to this day.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Oh I've played myself plenty of Metroid 2, don't worry about that. I kind of can't play the game anymore though, for whatever reason.

Just beat Ridley, now it's time to trek back up to Tourian for the end-game. Yay!
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Just beat it. That was fun. Samus in a bikini. Woohoo.

Also the game slows to a crawl when you have five plus metroids attached to you, and they're quite a pain to remove.

Man, that really was fun. I've attempted actually playing the game before, zoning in on it and trying to get as far as possible in a single sitting. Never beat it that way though, but I plan on doing so someday.

Now I'm debating on whether or not I should go through it again as suitless Samus just for kicks.
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[Baines]

If you've got five on you, your best bet is probably to go through a door.

[Max Cola]

I got Metroid 2 today, and so far I love it. Samus is easier to control, there are (rare!) save points, the Spider Ball is awesome, and the game is genuinely eerie sometimes, when you're just running around these dark caves and there's no music, just little noises occasionally. My GBA gives the game a pleasing color scheme - Samus and enemies are warm colors (reds and yellows), everything else is a cool blue and white (even the lava?).

So yeah, Metroid 2 holds up better.
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[Koji]

Started playing the original Metroid in my GBA, FDS version, last night, and I'm up to Kraid after beating Ridley. He's tough, but I think I have an idea on how to kill him now. Why the FDS version, though? Because I admire the sound design in Metroid and I prefer to listen to the original sound effects and what not. The music I still consider to be the best use of the NES sound chip.

There's something funny about the music in Metroid 2, though. In 1, you can listen to it and pretty much understand it as if you were playing the game, but for 2, you really need to be playing the game to grasp its brilliance. Out of the game (as a GBS file, or whatever sound format) it's annoying to listen to, with its short loops and cacophonic sound, but in the game it's masterfully used to enhance every relevant moment, highlighted by the silent sections in between. It's the only game where this has happened to me.

[Broco]

[aderack]

[Koji]

Yes, Famicom Mini version. Can save, it's exactly like the original FDS game, except that here you can also put the Game Boy to sleep, and that the graphics are slightly squashed horizontally. The difference with the NES Classics/Zero Mission version is that you have three save slots, and that by these saves you resume your game from Brinstar instead of the last elevator you took. And the sound thing, of course.

Broco, actually I ended up just killing him with my nearly limitless supply of acquired missiles at point-blank range. And after exploring every inch of the map that was left, I'm mostly certain that I have every missile and energy tank in the game before Tourian. Wait, I think I remember some place I couldn't reach in Norfair... Oh well, anyway, I headed for Tourian and got killed stupidly by a metroid mass-attack. I'll get that Mother Brain tomorrow for sure.

[RecessRapist]

Super Metroid was also my first game. And I gave up on the original after an hour of dying and trying to find a room that wasn't a huge pit with lots of platforms. THough that ZARPAS SWORD might be the little push that I needed to play though it all!

And I have to try M2 sometimes. My friend had it on his gameboy but I lost touch with him :(

[guest253]

[dmauro]

I'm pretty sure I still have my copy of Metroid 2 I'd be willing to trade if anyone wants to PM me.

I started playing Metroid 1 yesterday. I'm pretty sure I never beat it when I was younger, although I did play through Zero Mission. I'm really enjoying it except that once you get missles, enemies stop giving health all the time and start giving you excess missles.
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[guest253]

half on topic: i realised that i might be better off playing this on a nes-emulator for DS (full screen and all) than to pull out my famicom mini (squashed and black-bordered on DS and all), but is there a nes-emulator for DS that emulated FDS?

[Koji]

[guest253]

[haze]

[Mr. Apol]

max cola it's okay

the original metroid sort of blows
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[dmauro]

[guest253]

[Broco]

[Koji]

Enemies don't really go through doors, they just go into the inter-room chamber and attack you as you stand there defenseless; then they disappear. It's definitely an issue in the game, but it's only normal in all the rawness that Metroid exhudes, from the graphics to the map design, counting the thousands of bugs.

So I finished the game. It was great. I'll beat it again without collecting any missiles and try to do it as fast as possible, then hopefully I'll get a better ending.

[guest253]

[Max Cola]

[haze]

inversely, i am enjoying Metroid 1 a lot as I play it again now. I beat it once before but I cheated by using online maps and guides. so since I barely remember any of it, luckily, I'm doing it again by making my own maps and finding stuff, and it's becoming quite fun exploring. both this and the original Zelda, too many people pass them by because they're not as polished as future sequels, and it's not immediately entertaining in the first 15 minutes.

okay one thing i would've changed is starting with more energy, proportional to the total energy tanks. Zelda was more forgiving than this, where you had ways to avoid grinding for hearts.

OKAY, I do think there is something genius about the repetitive room design. not only the FEELING-LOST confusion, but in a way of noticing these patterns and solving other rooms in the same way. for example, in the item statue rooms (this is in both Metroid 1 and 2) there's a bombable space beneath them, leading to a small tunnel. sometimes the wall behind it is sealed, sometimes it leads to another passage. you start doing the same trick in every statue room you find! also, the secret tunnels in the Norfair vertical rooms, it's always the same every time. sometimes useful, sometimes a dead-end.


since I played Metroid 2 to death when I was young, and memorized just about all of it, so now I'm all jaded... it's hard for me to see the appeal of that one over the original Metroid. very nice graphics, sharper play control, more items, sure... but it feels way too much "lonely game" (lol) with all the giant empty caverns filled with nothing. I can't remember a single enemy in that game besides the metroids (and one boss) that give you any trouble. everything else is just background noise, aimlessly zipping back and forth, not caring if you shoot it or run by.

and the linearity kind of ruined the exploration in a small way. I mean, backtracking to find items you might've missed was just a pain, all that climbing back up. hey, still a great game, better than most other early "experimental sequels"

[Koji]

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[dmauro]

I tried the color hack for Metroid 2 that someone linked to on the first page, and it doesn't seem to work. I tried the auto patcher and the ips patch with my own ips patcher. I also tried it with two different roms. It wouldn't work in either of the emulators I tried it in, and it said that there was a bad header along with some other problems with it. what gives?
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