Im sure we all have a scary huge backlog and no time to get to it. However you also ever find yourself in one of those moods where nothing seems to be going right and of all the hundreds of other more important things you could be doing you just drop everything, grab a beer, and play some games? Well thats the perfect time for me to kill the ol' backlog
Tonight i really wanted to play some DKC and was all ramped up for it, but continuing the trend, it turns out i either never actually owned it or cant find my cart, so i ended up settling for something i'd never played before. SUPER METROID! I'm actually ashamed to say of all the games i've played, i've never actually gotten around to playing any of the metroid series even though i own quite a few of them
Booted it up, got my controller and have been at it for about an hour or so. My initial impressions are that its interesting... the music is pretty good and i already kinda like how theres a bunch of secret passages and such. Still im not sure how i overall feel about it, theres a pretty distinct lack of direction and the controls dont feel as tight to me as other nintendo platformers of the SNES generation. Also some of the mechanics seem counter intuitive (i had to back travel like a bitch because i didn't realize right away that you need FIVE rockets to open red doors). Im not saying its a bad game or its incredibly exploitative atmosphere is a bad thing, just personally not my exact cup of tea, but i might change my mind. Im starting to get a hang of things now though.
Also, am I missing something? from the intro cutscene i feel like what happened in the prior two games may have actually been significantly important (i didnt even know there was a metroid 2, i thought thats what super metroid was). All i know is riddles stole the last metroid and blew some people up and im now on a rainy planet with aliens. I assume im hunting down riddly and his gang but im not really to clear on the details in between.
any tips or tricks? also what the fuck was with that one chozo that attacked the shit out of me when i picked up bombs i think it was. i thought they were samus's friends?