It’s no surprise Metroidvania games are popular in speedrunning communities, and the most talented players are able to pull off seemingly impossible feats. If you’re skilled enough, you can ignore some of these items (or even all of them, if you’re extremely skilled and dedicated) and break sequence completely. You can usually explore in several directions right from the get-go, but most of the paths are dead ends until you obtain the items required to progress. While this article is not about the finer points of the Metroidvania genre, it is worth mentioning that Metroidvanias are action platforming games that share a similarly open-ended structure with an interconnected game world and a variety of items you must find in order to progress to new areas. As wonderful as those aspects of the game are, the core gameplay design is the real draw and the reason Metroid is so beloved by fans to this day… not to mention the reason there is an entire video game genre named after Metroid and certain Castlevania titles. The appeal of Metroid isn’t just in the moody atmosphere and feeling of isolation in a hostile world. While the fourth Metroid Prime title is in production, we haven’t heard much about it since Nintendo revealed Prime 4‘s development had been restarted and handed back over to the original Prime developers at Retro Studios in 2019. Unfortunately, perhaps due to the series’ relative lack of success in its home country, it has been ten years since we last saw a new Metroid title on a home console (and even longer since we got one that Metroid fans actually enjoyed). Metroid may not be Nintendo’s biggest-selling IP, but this series of atmospheric action-adventures starring galactic bounty hunter Samus Aran has built up an ardent following in the decades since its inception on the NES - or, to be precise, the Famicom Disk System in 1986, with the American NES release following in 1987 and the PAL conversion in 1988. Today’s retro game I’ve shamefully only now gotten around to playing is, well, Super Metroid. I did a Late to the Party update on Resident Evil 2 a couple of years ago, and this is pretty much the exact same thing except these aren’t just my first impressions. It’s been a while since my last update and the whole world has gone crazy since then, but I’m still here and today I’ve got a So I Finally Played update for you.
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