Metroid- Zero Mission thoughts
 

Well, I just got this game a few days ago and I think it's freakin' awesome. It's mostly freakin' awesome, that is. Some of it is disappointing, like the bosses. None of them took me more than 2 tries to beat.
I haven't beaten the game yet, but I have beaten the Mother Brain, and she was so easy it was pitiful. Now I've crash landed on a new planet. Hopefully there are more challenging bosses there.
I have to give this game a 9.2, because while it is awesome, it's not as challenging as Metroid Fusion. I'm anxious to complete it in order to unlock the NES Metroid...yeah, I know they're obsolete, but I love old NES games..
Anyway, does anyone else like this game? Or hate it?

I haven't gotten to Best Buy yet, but mark my words. THIS GAME IS SOLD!
:D :D

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have always been a fan of the Metroids, and the first game was incredible (except the fact it was really hard). I beat it the first time with 3:28 as my time and with only 63% completion. I went out and bought the guide and played through it again. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

I have actually never beaten the first Metroid, so that is another reason I am looking forward to unlocking it. I just got to a weird boss on Zero Mission where there is a clone of me in a bubble. I fought it twice and died...so I guess the bosses are getting tougher..

If anyone here is not finding Metroid challenging anymore, I suggest you try the original 1986 game. If that doesn't frustrate the hell out of you, then nothing in this world will.

Metroid Prime already managed to accomplish that with me...sat there and wasted many hours trying to figure everything out on that second level. (it was over Christmas break so no valuable time was wasted however. :D ). I was sick with the flu, constantly hacking coughs and getting my butt kicked. It was an interesting time. :wink:

The bosses on that game....AGPTH!!!!! :x

Need to pull Prime out and finish it...just totally forgot about it after we moved.

Prime was also one of those games for me, that it is really awesome, but for some reason I just never play it. I'm about 15% through it, and I've had it since 2002..

Haven't got it yet, a friend of mine said she's going to buy it for me so I am just waiting for it.

I *DID* lose patience a play a rom of it a little, just to try it out and I had fun for the 15 minutes or so I had playing it. It Gave me some serious flash backs to Metroid 1.

I've always been a huge metroid freak, I can beat Metroid 1 in under an hour, Metroid 2 in just over an hour, Metroid 3 my best time, I believe was 1 hour and 19 minutes. Never played Fusion for more than 10 minutes, I didn't really enjoy it. Prime was pretty freaking awesome though, especially the last boss :o

Metroid Prime was totally sweet. I almost crapped my pants when Samus busted out the hardcore Hyper Beam.

You gotta love a game series where your reward is seeing a woman (albeit a very pixelated one) strip of her clothes. Too bad they didn't take that idea all the way to the end....

I like in Zero Mission how, later on, you actually get to play as Samus. It's funny how weak you are without the suit, and once you get the suit you easily kick those aliens' asses.
Super Metroid is another game that is awesome. I've gotten very far in it but never beat it.
Prime is a game I keep wanting to get into, but my game playing free time is so small. It's easier for me to play gameboy while on the bus or something.

Oooh you can play as Samus WITHOUT The armor???

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At the end of the game, it's not a 'can', it's a 'must'. You have to infiltrate the Space Pirates motheship after being shotdown when you escape from Zebes. You only get your little stun blaster thing and one tank of life. It's really fun though. But yeah, Mr. Pliggins is right... once you get the full suit you can just go apeshit on everything. Stupid Space Pirates.... lol.

Oh yeah... I can't even get to the second power up >_>. Hard game. Very hard. Gamers now have too much slack given to them. I say bring on more games lik Ikruga :evilgrin: .

Dude, 1986 Metroid is a freaking cake walk.

People make requests to watch me play that game.

But then, I played that game every day from the time I was 7 untill 1994. Super Metroid put an end to that. :lol:

Exactaly :-p. It's all in practicing with the Metroid series.

Well yeah, professionals excluded of course. Besides, with (much) repetitive practice and construction of your own domain maps, it's quite beatable. Usually requieres drinking caffeinated soft drinks, but unfortunately they tend to make you all the more angrier when your power is rapidly depleted by the same enemy hitting you while you're stuck in a door with it.....don't you just hate it when that happens?

Oh yeah I forgot there's no map in that game. I'm gonna have a lot of fun playing it. Metroid Zero kinda tells you where to go next on the map...but in 1986 Metroid they don't even give you a map!
If I'm not mistaken, in Metroid II: the Return of Samus, there is also no map. I had alot of fun with that one back in the day. I think Super Metroid introduced maps.

Yes, there is no map in Return of Samus. I just kind of ran around smackin' up Metroids until I finished the game. After that, I got 100% items.

Ah, ok.. I thought that's how it was...
Well, I did it! I beat Zero Mission last night.. now I can play original Metroid, woo hoo! My time was a very sorry 4 and a half hours! The ending wasn't that great either..I should play thru again to get a better ending.

Well my friend bought me this game and the Gameboy Player for Gamecube, and man, this is the greatest thing ever.

I am at the part where you have to roam around the Space Pirate Mothership as Armorless samus.

Wow, you got that far already? Good job. It took me about a little over a week to beat, but I was only playing on bus rides and stuff..most of my free time goes to...uhm.... wait...i don't have free time.

Now that I have unlocked Metroid 1986, I am playing thru it and noticed one thing that really annoys me about that game.. Whenever you start your game over, you only have 30 energy! It's so annoying to have to fill your life up. Also, original Metroid seems more challenging..maybe because of the lack of save areas and lack of maps.

That is THE coolest part of the game... well... no. second though ;). the best parts after you get your suit back and getta go all Rambo on the space pirates XD. You'd be supprised how easy the level gets... lol.

I ended up beating the game (3 and a half hours was my time...) And am on my second run! I"m trying to find some cool sequence breaks, so far I've just skipped the Long Beam. (I am at Kraid with out it >_<)

cool, kittie... I need to start another game, I need to improve on my 4 and a half hour time. Maybe I'll play it on my gameboy player this time...

The final enemy of the game was a wuss. He's easy to beat with super missles.

The best last bosses are the ones that are SUPER hard

Back to the original Metroid for a minute, did anyone ever get into the "glitch rooms"? Just curious. It happened to me once, and it was kinda weird.

Oh yeah, I know Metroid 1 inside and out. There's a few that you could be talking about, one in norfair, one in Ridley's hideout and there could be one or two in brinstar.

Hmm, I've never heard of "glitch rooms"..what exactly are they?
I've never made it to "minus world" in SMB either.... :roll:

The one in Norfair. I think if you got through a wall at one point, you get into this sequence of rooms that are weirdly coloured and have strange looking enemies. It's like a trip, without the drugs. Makes me wonder though, since this "glitch" exists consistently in all games, it's probably not a glitch. I think it could be an abandoned area that they started to code for, but never finished.

The one in Norfair is actually a color glitch. You see, since you go in to the Green area of norfair to reach it, you accidently can end back up in the purple area of norfair by doing the Door Jump, but since you use that method, the Pallet doesn't switch back over to the purple pallet and remains Green. Now, when ou head back to Brinstar with the glitch in effect, the Gold area of Brinstar is Blue, and the Blue Area is gold.

I should take screen shots later for Mr Pliggins.

Yes, that would be cool if you would take screen shots. I'm surprised, being the avid NES gamer I was, I've never heard of this glitch!

I still have yet to pick up either GBA installments in the series though eventually I want both.

I have Prime and was about 83% through or so and right before the omi pirate (3rd to last boss) and stop playing when the next big release came out. Havent touched it since.

You don't need that to take him out though...

Metroid Tip #1: ALWAYS use your missles on bosses.

Hehe, no I meant I was at Kraid's hideout. I'm now at the end, just need to go Kill Meta Ridley. My time so far is 2 hours 5 minutes. GRR I WASN"T QUICK ENOUGH THIS TIME.

Hey, nice screens! I've never seen that before. Does it save into your game when you die? 2 hrs five minutes huh? What is the time you're supposed to get for best ending?

No, I think when you die it resets the Color Pallet. (atleast it did in the original NES Version.)

Under 2 hours is the best ending, I Came that close! Well, 3rd time's a charm, right?

Alright, now I've got an end time of 1 hour and 38 minutes.

Not bad :D

This is for Metroid Zero Mission? Do you get anything special for it?