Metroid: Zero Mission

Written by Murph on February 19th 2004, 12:00 AM, 2 Comments

The newest (or oldest?) Metroid game comes to the GBA. And it's fun. Lots of fun. Like you'd expect anything else from the Metroid series? Well, maybe pizza. I expected pizza, and I am sad.

Murph's Final Verdict!

Gameplay
4.5/5
FUN FUN FUN! But let me find my own way!

Graphics
4.5/5
Awesome sprites and cut scenes make it super rad.

Music/Sound
5/5
The remixed old themes are excellent.

Replay Value
4/5
Super fun must get 100% and beat in less than 3 hours.

Originality
4/5
Obviously, there were ones before it similar. But this is the original!

Overall: 4.4/5

Agree? Disagree? Impartial? Stupid? Comment on it!

Samus Samus Samus Samus...

The Metroid series is excellent. Excellent in a way that when baked at the correct temperature, can be the recipe for awesome. Time and time again, Nintendo has baked Metroid at the exact correct temperature, giving us gamers a delicious feast of blowing stuff up and making that "wish-wish-wish" sound when we jump and that "click" sound when we land. Yes, it has been a good time for Samus. A good time indeed. But, with any rising stars, fame can cause negative effects.

After 2002's release of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion. Samus found herself an over-night millionaire. The change from intergalactic bounty hunter to becoming more and more involved with the stock market led Samus into a depressive pit of depressing pitifulness. Nights of binge drinking and late-night carousing became the norm, often getting into barfights and attacking innocent bar-goers with her wave beam. Then, things turned towards the worst. Samus began randomly freeze-beaming pedestrians from her Hollywood estate in a drug-induced rage. She was apprehended after a 14-hour standoff with the California Police Department, ending only after former nemesis Ridley talked to Samus and showed her just how much she had changed.

After a year of rehab and counseling, Samus made it her ambition to get her life back together. And part of her 12-step process is looking back to all the things that led her to the life she nearly ended. Thus, brings us Metroid: Zero Mission.

That Was the Stupidest & Longest Intro Ever

Yeah, anyway... Nintendo gives us a remixed version of the original Metroid for NES. For some, the original is considered one of the best videogames ever made. I am one of those people, simply because I love exploration in videogames. When Metroid came out back in 1986, there was nothing else like it. Even though personally I didn't play it until about 1990, there was STILL nothing like it. And with this new release, I was "all up ons" that, as the kids like to say.

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Tital Screen!
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New cinematics helps the flow of the game.
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Space Pirates make Samus sad.
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Freeze beam makes Samus happy!

Comments!

Smilie! Rawrb absolves:
Murph has a Ridley of spelling errawrs!
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