Infact, I’d say the only other Metroid game that holds up to Super is Metroid Prime.
What about Zero Mission?
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It boggles my mind that people say that Metroid Dread is better than Super Metroid. How can someone say something so wrong so confidently?
Dread is a downgrade in nearly every way to Super Metroid. Infact, I’d say the only other Metroid game that holds up to Super is Metroid Prime. Not that Dread or the other games are particularly bad, but nothing has beaten Super Metroid yet.
Opafi@feddit.de 11 months ago
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I agree. I played 200+ hours of dread when it came out. Loved it.
After moving on to other games and replaying Super and AM2R, and beating Axiom Verge a couple times, I took Dread for another spin and… Downgrade is a good term for it like you said. I’m not excited at all for the next one anymore.
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The movement mechanics in dread are definitely the absolute best we’ve gotten out of a Metroid game. I love my super Metroid and all, but let’s not pretend it’s controls feel… Dated
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The movement mechanics are faster in Dread, but that doesn’t mean they are better. Super Metroid offered button remapping, a feature that even modern games sometimes fail to provide. Some technical aspects allowed for real creative sequence breaking that is simply unrivalled in nearly every other game in the 2D sidescroller action adventure genre.
Dread also has a pretty severe linearity rivaling Fusion and Other M. Super Metroid still beats Dread. Super Metroid is timeless, nothing about it is dated except for maybe the music being MIDI based. Everything about the game combines into a single cohesive whole that modern games still attempt to emulate, with varying degrees of success.