Scribblemacher

Ok, so in previous #VideoGameClub months I barely made a dent. This month, I FINISHED by the 3rd day! Total time was 5:01. I forgot how adorable the little guy at the end is.

Considering this is a Game Boy game, the build up to the final boss is pretty great. The atmosphere is very tense, there's a fun twist with the Metroid counter, and the music is somewhere between sci-fi and horror. Metroid II is arguably better because of the Game Boy's limitations.

The final boss took two tries. I ended up using the escape route under the queen to resupply. I finished her off with a missile in the mouth, with my health around 60.

I'm feeling a burning desire. I may start another Metroid game now...

#Metroid #VGCMay2025 #MetroidII #GameBoy

May 4 at 3:19amWeb
Show threadHK2d ago
@scribblemacher That's awesome! And I think there was something quite beautiful about these old, resource-limited systems that pushed devs to use clever tricks and sprung creativity that is somewhat lost in modern gaming, where every single console is now just a different compilation target for the same source code.
Show threadJudeau (EatTheRich)1d ago

@scribblemacher Congrats on the victory!

I never beat this one. I played it off and on for about 7 years but got stuck at one point and literally could find nowhere to go that I had not already been.

I'm sure there was a small passage somewhere that I had to get to with the spiderball or something but years of playing it off and on and I could never find it.

I thought about using a walkthrough at one point but I was determined to beat it the first time without one.

I never beat it. Lol.

Show threadSaoirse Dulip1d ago

@scribblemacher Man, it was THIRTY YEARS before I realized you go go into her mouth as a ball and lay bombs inside of her.

I agree with you though. I don't know if it's the limitations and being unable to see "a lot" as you navigate but there were some parts of the game that felt almost horror like.

You never knew when a Gamma was around the corner!

Show threadJTO is Typing1d ago

@scribblemacher I thought that escape route was such a great idea when the game first came out. Now, I would just like to have a closer final save point, especially since it was a handheld system. Battery life doesn't always agree with spooky long treks.

Oh, and congratulations on completing it.

Show threadÖlbaum1d ago
@scribblemacher I really enjoyed Zero Mission, if you haven’t already played the original NES one. It was the first Metroid game I really played, and it was excellent. I had given a try to Super Metroid a while ago, but it was in an emulator with the keyboard, and world reading the manual, so it was just hopeless and I gave up after a while.
Show threadScribblemacher20h ago

@oscherler I've played every Metroid except Other M and Dread. Zero Mission is great, and I think it's even better if you played the original "NEStroid" first. The way it rewrites and surprises the player by subverting events in the original is a lot of fun.

I still like the original. If I'm still feeling the Metroid big after finishing Fusion, I might try the NES Classic version of Metroid on GBA and/or the version unlocked in Zero Mission.