Building upon what was established in the original Metroid and it's sequel on Gameboy, Super Metroid is one of Nintendo's very best projects, and it has innovated and excelled in excellence even today.
After destroying the home planet of the Metroids previously and keeping the last one for research purposes, all seems to go well until Samus gets a sudden distress signal. Discovering that her old foe Ridley is still alive, she starts hunting and looking for the last Metroid on planet Zebes.
Super Metroid welcomes you to re-discover this planet as it has aesthetically improved, although the original still holds it's own charm as well. From a green nature environment to underwater and lava environments, it has the typical settings to play through.
With enemies carrying difficult names to remember, the adventure can feel alien in a good way. Luckily, the new map system is your best ally, aside from the various abilities you will discover as you progress.
Some of the classics return including the Morph Ball and the Screw Attack, but new ones include the X-Ray, allowing you to see hidden passages, or the Speed Booster, allowing you to speed run but more interestingly, it allows you to perform Shine Sparks/Power Jumps, which is normally not explained.
The game actually has a few more special techniques for Samus to use, such as consuming Power Bombs to perform specific beam effects, doing wall jumps and dropping a clusterbomb of several normal bombs.
The soundtrack is very immersive and fits great with the game's environments and the little plot it has building up. The bosses are giant, intimidating and memorable, including Kraid's tower appearance and Draygon(my favorite)'s special way of defeating it.
Super Metroid deserves to be called one of the best
games ever. With superb gameplay and tons of secrets to find, atmospheric music
and backgrounds, great bosses to fight and great equipment for Samus to use,
Super Metroid is the grand champion of the 2D Metroids.
Replayability is very
nice too, trying to find all the secrets or beating the game faster, it's no
wonder that Super Metroid could possibly still be the best game to speed run through, as many have done already.
If only Nintendo could give us another Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion or Metroid: Zero Mission sooner than later...
Rating: 9.1
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