Metroid (Nes Classics GBA)

GOOD:
Cast your mind all the way to the eighties, think of the NES, then think of Metroid-A really good platforming game at first, the bosses are hard to beat, it's full of challenge, but, that's the only good thinhg about the game...

BAD:
At first, it's good, you get the Morph Ball (or Maru Mari) and then you go rolling around in...the same locations...It hits you, what the? I've been down here before, seriously! The locations are the same: Long corridor with acid, short tunnel, tall tower room, long corridor with acid... See what I'm going at here? It's like you've been going around and around, and that is terribly annoying! Second of all, Nintendo have just pulled a big money-wasting prank on you. I have this game already. On Metroids Prime and Zero Mission! It was a bonus extra! Why waste 15 on this when you can get the far, far, superior Metroid Prime for 20 and have this game bundled free, that's why I didn't get this game, because I already had two free versions!!!

Graphics-Appaling, blocky 2-D stuff! 2/5
Sounds-Bleep, blork, annoying music! 1/5
Difficulty-Did I just come down here? Arrrrrgh!!! 5/5
LifeSpan-It takes about three hours, but you'll never want to stick with it! 2/5

FINAL VERDICT!!!-Why, Nintendo? Why?


Pretty good if you stick at it.   January 22, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is one of my favourite NES Classics at the moment. I'm not really very good at it, but it is fun. If you own Smash Bros Melee on GC, you'll recognise the music in this instantly- that was the first thing I liked about it.
In this game, you play as Samus Aran, like most of the NES games it just throws you into the game with no explanation- you just have to find new abilities like the morph ball to roll into small gaps and shoot enemies that get in your way. The only 2D Metroid I'd ever played previously was Fuison for the GBA, so this was nice as it shows where the ideas all came from for that game as well as the 3D ones on GameCube.
There is a good sense of exploration as you go around the game, it's tough and frustrating, but a lot more loveable than some of the other NES Classics.
The problems with it are that there is no map so it can get confusing and frustrating, the graphics are not amazing or varied so that adds to the problem of forgetting your way. Obviously being a NES game, you wouldn't expect great graphics, so this is forgivable. I'd still reccommend either Fusion on the GBA or Zero Mission on the GBA (this is a remake of the original anyway) if you want a 2D Metroid game (also Super Metriod on the SNES).
If you own a GameCube, you unlock this game anyway if you connect completed saves of Metroid Prime(GC) and Metriod Fusion(GBA).