One thing that sucks about Metroid - Magnitudeten.com

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So I recently played through the original Metroid for the first time. I've played through almost all the other ones in my lifetime but always ignored the original. So when I screwed up on Mother Brain I was more than a little pissed to find out that the game restarts you with 30 energy and minimal missiles. This aspect can't even be exploited with the password system either so theres no way around it.

This particular problem is only a pain in the ass when you die at the very end of the game because you don't have anywhere to go so you're just left grinding. And yes I know there are enemies in certain areas that give slightly more energy and missiles, but you lose any time you'd save just getting there.

This game unlike other entries in the series like Super Metroid for example does not consistently give you energy and missiles when you kill off enemies. Instead it's totally random. You'll notice in the video I leave the room like 40 times because enemies after a few minutes stop giving you anything. And when you have full energy it will suddenly start giving you nothing but energy when you're just trying to get missiles. So it's literally the programmers being dicks...

God this part of the game sucks.

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Gaming

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• metroid
• mother
• brain
• queen

[NatosREekeiEinai]

this is not gaming.. this is WORK!!

[yingyanggamer]

Lastly, the jumping and stuff is awkward, so it's impossible to dodge enemy attacks, but they have no problem dodging your weapons because they suck, you can only have 3 bullets on screen, and they're really small, and you fly back so avoiding the lava is impossible. So you die a LOT...

[yingyanggamer]

@UltimaSlacker The original Mario was a little crappy, but it was tolerable, Metroid on the other hand has no right to be a video game. God knows how it caught on because it sucks...

[yingyanggamer]

One thing that sucks? I can think of 3. First off, there's a load of enemies on the ground but you can't duck and shoot. Eventually you get the mine, but it sucks so bad it's not worth it. Secondly, the health system sucks, I played it, and I lost a pissload of health from landing in the lava a couple of times, so the only way to survive is to collect energy, but that takes so long and you end up dying even with it 10 times faster than it took to collect it. Third, see my next comment.

[alexdz123321]

@UltimaSlacker

Super Mario Bros. ROCKED.

And the original Metroid is almost as good.

And Super Metroid is the best game in history.

[MotherPunker970]

lol im glad i played zero mission and not the original...i mean i played the original but ive passed only zero mission...i dont like playing nes classics(no special reason,i think they are hard to me...im not used to the classics couse i was born in 1997,and started gaming way back in 2003) if there are remakes

[MagnitudeTen]

@FreakShizzlez yeah, the whole game is hell without the screw attack.

[FreakShizzlez]

...haha can you imagine if you didn't have the Screw Attack though?

[FreakShizzlez]

Oh God I feel you on this one...