scottcr

Finished it with the kids... brilliant stuff. Needs a second series though.

I got to the room with the silver pirates with 30 health... no amount of rewinds was helping me there.

No game does I AM NOW ALL POWERFUL like a Metroid game Note. There are no such things as Metroidvania games

Holy shit! It IS much easier to do wall jumps in super Metroid using the digital buttons. As a result, I know have the plasma beam! YASSSS

WAT

tbf - from what I've seen so far, it's very much an optional technique

Yay! Finally made it to the Metroids in Super Metroid and now have the Space Jump. Beating Draygon the quick way was great. I’m now well beyond where I’ve previously given up. switch is best

oh definitely... In many ways I wish I didn't know that I got to Meridia by using the power bomb... that must've been a great AHA! moment back in the day.

Determined to finish it this time...

all I know is that I find wall jumping really really hard to pull off. I've managed 4 in a row and I've managed once or twice to get to areas that I sohuldn't have been able to by jumping just vertically... but I know I find it hard to pull off reliably. Every other game that has wall jumping is much much easier to do. The quicksand can piss off though. Thankfully by the sounds of it, it's just a couple of rooms and I'm not far from getting something that helps with it. Cracking game though. I'd probably still put Zero Mission above it so far but remember, I never played Super Metroid on release, never had a SNES and didn't actually properly play Super Metroid until it appeared on the Wii VC.

I've really enjoyed my play through so far - and it's been long enough that I'd forgotten a whole bunch of cool stuff. But the wall jump and the quick sand are broken. It might be cheating, but the rewind feature is making a big difference. Sure, I lose the tension of trying to find the next save point while on one point of health - but I've got Dark Souls to play for that kind of stuff.

I’ve got to where I last gave up with Super Metroid... can someone tell me if there is a simple way to stop having to thrash about like fuck to get out of the quick sand. It drives me nuts.

Given current values, if I don’t like it, I’ll punt it on eBay for pretty much what I bought it for

I know... it just put me right in the mood but I wasn’t going to pay 45-50 quid for it

Yay. Yoshi’s Crafted World for 29 quid on eBay. Playing Island on the SNES made me desperately want it.