Super Metroid hit American shores 30 years ago today, and it's well past time for Nintendo to give it a modern update.
How do you update one of the great videogames of all time? Very carefully is both the joke answer and the reality of things. You can completely reimagine it so that it’s both the original and something completely new, like, or you can simply update a game that holds up in the ways it needs, like with bringing it into the HD era and updating control scheme options and so on, like Nintendo did for
In either case, you need to be sure that it’s the correct decision: there were plenty of reasons, in the case of, in its original form, is as incredible in the present as it was over two decades ago, so much less was needed to bring it to modern audiences and let them see as much for themselves.a seminal game that first reached North America 30 years ago today, on April 18, 1994.
both celebrated and enhanced its source material on more powerful hardware, without doing away with everything it was celebrating in the process of remaking it. It’s the original game, but with elements of later Metroid titles in the same style incorporated into the original maps, also updated to accommodate those new items and techniques, and all made to look much more detailed and simply better than was possible on 8-bit hardware.
Shorter: MercurySteam had reasons to take a big swing with a game that, while good, was also considered the worst mainline title in the series until—it’s not difficult to make a convincing argument for it as the series’ highpoint.
It still feels miraculous today, with the only times I ever groan at it even a little coming when I try to get the muscle memory of wall jumping going again. This is not a game that needs considerable work done to it. Pick a way to graphically update it, incorporate those aforementioned changes, and drop, and it’s that element of it that should be spotlighted if it’s given a chance to return as something besides a digital re-release in the future.
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