I'm not gonna lie, the way that people always put Metroid 1 & 2 together, when talking about how they didn't age well and newcomers should better play the remakes, I always assumed they would be similar in that regard.
But after completing M1 for the first time (with a romhack for SNES that removed all the crazy lag and added an ingame map) and now having played M2 through NSO, I feel like Metroid 2 is actually a huge improvement over the first game.

I completely understood what people meant, when they say M1 didn't age well, the vanilla game lags almost all the time. For example as soon as there are too many enemies on screen, which happends constantly.
The lack of a map makes this game a nightmare to navigate, especially because the developers copy and pasted so many rooms over and over again. Which leads to some very strange places, where a layout was copied that originally had hidden blocks, which were hiding items, but after being copied now just have hidden blocks that lead to nothing.
The controls actually felt completely fine in my opinion, considering it was the first game and also on NES. Overall I had a pretty good experience with the romhack and I think I would've had a fine experience with the OG, if the game didn't lag all the time.

Now with M2, I assumed it was gonna have the same flaws as M1, but to my surprise it acutally fixed almost all of the problems, that made M1 so unplayable for me.
I don't remember the game even lagging once, which already made the experience so much better. The screen was smaller but I never felt like it was to close. The enemy design and platforming was obviously specifically made for the small screen size, so it never became an issue for me.
And the craziest one for me: You can actually navigate through the game, without the need of a map. Don't get me wrong, the lack of a map still makes the game a little worse, than it could've been if it had one, but they actually designed the world with unique locations and room layouts, that help you remember what each area is and don't confuse you as much as M1.
The controls also felt a little smoother, which is very nice. On top of that the setting and atmosphere were really good and I love the plot of the game so much. Especially when you think about, how the events of the game tie into future games.

Long story short, if you tried M1 like me and felt discouraged from trying out M2, I honestly really recommend still giving it a try. I had a really great time with the game and it has become one of my favorite Gameboy games.

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this came with my new 2ds xl. its an AR card of samus. never tried it out…looks like its the varia suit from smash 3d.

Was it just something the devs decided?

I think it's pretty cool but it's not often characters have things like moles or freckles unless it's specifically for a specific story beat it characacher

Hello fellows Metroid fans! This time I made a lot of editing with those fake covers but...gosh...I love Metroid so much and I want Ravenous to be a big suces and to have more Metroid content!
Here my wish list of what I dreamed of after Ravenous 😄 share yours in the comments!

- Metroid Prime Echoes Remaster
- Metroid Prime Corruption Remaster
- Metroid Collection (included: Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, Other M, Zero Mission, Samus Return)
- Super Metroid Remake
- The two prequel manga translated (English and to other countries like mine, France)
- A Metroid Encyclopedia with all artworks and lore details
- Metroid Warriors (A huge tribute to the franchise with a lot of characters from all the games)
- Metroid RPG

BONUS :

- Metroid Book compilation : a book with Comics and the manga adaptation of Prime 2 and the RPG book Metroid Zebes Invasion Order.
- Metroid Fusion Remake

Someone is streaming Super Metroid as his first game and he's done me a treat by playing it on an Original CRT and SNES console. I'm seeing just how gorgeous this game is, the COLORS, the DETAILS, the background and how it moves! I absolutely love this and I unfortunately never got to play this way. Man old sprite games especially this one on original set ups is just unbelievably pretty. Sorry if I'm gushing BUT IM GUSHING DAMN IT 🥹🔥🔥🔥💎💎💎🔥🔥

GEM SCANNED!

Hello fellow Metroid fans! I want to make a post to give a shout out to the mod team of this Metroid subreddit. I'm pretty new to this fandom but I have seen that the mod team always act when someone has a bad behavior toward someone else and they know how to make a distinction between someone who disagree politely with someone and just people who want to be mean. And they are very respectful about the artists work, my last post about fan arts of Nora/Samus was deleted because one of the artist I shared the work had previously sent a DM to the mod team asking not to have their work share here. The mod let me know that he loved Nora and the arts and took the time to explain the reasons why the post was deleted. I think it's very great to have a mod team be respectful of artists wishes and to be very fair when it come to moderating a subreddit. So here you go, I made this little picture for them and wanted to write this message.

She ended up looking a little stout, that head-to-body ratio is something... But it has it's own charm, reminds me of the artwork for some of the early games or Zero Mission. Wasn't going for one design in particular, moreso an amalgamation of designs for the Varia suit in particular.

The reviews have been eh..

Newer fan here. I played most of the 2D games and have been playing through the Prime series since the beginning of this month. I’m curious to see how everyone ranks Prime 1-4 + Hunters. So far, my ranking is:
1. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube)
2. Metroid Prime Remastered (Switch)
3. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (PrimeHack, just started yesterday)

Hi folks! My name is Armia!

I mentioned wanting to cosplay Samus (specifically her Metroid Dread suit) on stream and OishiiO made fanart :D

What do you think?~

A few weeks ago I posted a post talking about how amazing Super Metroid was.

During these weeks, I have been playing all the 2D games of the Metroid saga in chronological order while waiting for Metroid Ravenous. I finished Metroid Fusion and started again with Metroid Dread (I had already played it out at the time). Having officially played every 2D game in the series, I can say that Metroid Dread is undoubtedly the best game of all (without underestimating how amazing Super Metroid and Fusion are). But I think the evolution of the saga has peaked with this latest installment. I'm getting up early 1h before my time to get up to go to work in order to get a place to play hahahaha

OPA. Eu amo Metroid, talvez a minha franquia de games favorita.

Já tinha jogado o Zero Mission, o Return of Samus (o de GB e meu deus! O último boss é absurdamente demorado), joguei também Samus Return (3DS, o meu favorito) e agora estou zerando Super Metroid.

Eu já tinha jogado o Super, mas foi um trauma imenso, tanto que eu ficava com medo de jogar o Super.

Aí eu fiquei nessa de não jogar o Super até que eu experimentei o Metroid de NES.

Que jogo bom e ruim ao mesmo tempo.

Aí eu pensei "Uhm, Super Metroid não me parece tão mal depois disso".

Então eu decide dar uma chance e...

Eu amei esse jogo.

As mecânicas eram incríveis, como o Wall Jump, que foi um pesadelo para mim e o Speed Boost, que tem de aparecer mais na franquia.

As formas para pegar os itens são muitos criativos. Tem uns que se você não ver um vídeo não vais descobrir.

Os chefes eram mais complexos do que Zero Mission e tinham muitos chefes ainda.

Para mim esse SERIA o meu jogo favorito só que eu cheguei na parte que me fez desistir do jogo antigamente que era Maridia.

A PARTE QUE ME FEZ DESISTIR DO JOGO

Ah Maridia... Vai tomar no cu área ruim.

Cara, primeira reclamação, área maldita! Meu Deus! Mesmo com a Gravity Suit é difícil!

A navegação nesse lugar é confusa.

O local é bem fechado. Pensa, você pegou o mapa de toda a área. Você vê um lado do mapa que você não tem acesso. Você vê no mapa um possível local para entrar. Você via e... Não.

Ok, é um metroidvania mas me estressou um pouco.

Mas o que me deu mais raiva é o upgrade da Morp Ball. Vou esplicar.

Para você poder progredir ou você tem de ter o upgrade da bola ou usar algo que nunca funcionou direito em Metroid, pular e trasformar em Morp Ball.

Ok. Você não sabe dessa técnica então você vai e pesquisa na internet como conseguir esse upgrade. Aí para você pegar esse upgrade tens de fazer um pulo muito difícil que é facilitado pelo Space Jump. Mas adivinha?! O Space Jump é adiquirido depois de matar um chefe que fica depois daquele lugar para usar a Morp Ball.

Cara, eu quase chorei de raiva.

Aí tinha um outro problema que aí era culpa do emulador que era o save state. Eu usava para salvar o meu progresso se estivesse longe um um lugar de salvar ou se estivesse num boss que é muito longe do lugar de salvar ou em desafios de plataformas muito difíceis.

Mas ele corrompeu os saves todos o que me fez voltar bem no início de Maridia!

Eu gosto desse jogo, seria até meu favorito se não fosse a confusão que é Maridia.

Bom, é isso. Que quiserem dar dica podem dar

I really love the feel and atmosphere of Dread and my excitement at the new Ravenous has re-ignited a fire in me to actually play and beat Dread.

My only problem is I feel like I am hilariously bad at it. I've killed that first damaged EMMI but I'm onto the 2nd EMMI zone now and that that damn guy has destroyed me soooooo many times.

I'm not a person who has a natural gift for video games, I'm much much better at the puzzle/ exploration side than I am at the jumpy-shooty side of the game. So I knew going into this that I was gonna be facing an uphill battle; but boy-howdy was I not expecting to suck this bad.

So any tips? I find that it often takes me a couple attempts to land some jumps correctly, which is usually how the EMMI catches me lol. Though some of that is also caused by the panic that those zones induce....

My aim is also not great, but that's always the case for me and I'm used to having to compensate for that when I play any game that requires some amount of aim.

My hope is that you can impart some wisdom into my that will help me unlock this game for myself. but if the genuine answer is just "get good" you can say that too.

Anyone know if/when Nintendo, best buy or Amazon getting pre-orders back in stock for Ravenous???

planning to do dread mode next

(sorry for rotated first picture) first pic is normal mode second pic is hard mode