You can find energy reserve tanks that increase your max energy, so at some point you can have 500 or 600 max energy which makes farming for max energy even more tedious. Often you won’t have the patience to do that, but then you will likely just die and need to start over. When you kill an enemy you might get 5 energy (20 for some of the difficult ones) so you can just do that until you reach the max which is 99 initially, but why would they make us do that? it doesn’t make the game more difficult really, because you always have the option of killing constantly respawning enemies for energy. You can go through the extremely tedious process of farming for energy. You will die in 4 hits in a maze of respawning enemies, many of who you cannot shoot easily because of their very annoying flying pattern. The most annoying thing about this game is that you always start the game with 30 energy, which is very low. Most likely if you are playing for the first time you will die multiple times before you find a new item/power-up. This can be pretty difficult since you start of very weak with no hints on where to go. This game has the basic platforming elements but with a few nice twists. Then almost right in the beginning you cannot advance unless you travel left of where you start the game and pick up the upgrade that allows you to morph into a small ball that can roll under tight spaces, so right away you are taught the theme of the game. you meet some pretty weak enemies to shoot and get adjusted. In Metroid you start off as Samus Aran in a dark, murky area armed only with the power to shoot a very short distance and jump. This is for example a rocket launcher to shoot down locked doors or a higher jump allowing you to reach areas you couldn’t before. The idea is that the game is one big giant stage and you can only advance through the game by collecting items or power-ups. This game is the first of it’s genre later to be known as “Metroidvania” which is a combination of the game titles of Metroid and Castlevania.

The dark theme of the game is obvious right away. Anyway, at least i can say that i can approach this game with a non-biased mind and play it with a clean slate. I was never really a part of the Metroid hype since no one in Iceland owned a SNES and i didnt get a Gamecube until like 2005 or maybe even 2006. I played Super Metroid a very long time ago and haven’t played it in many years.

Let’s see how it went and see if you should play it too! We also look at Super Metroid, another legendary game that you should maybe play before the original game.įirst off i would like to say that i am not a Metroid fan really. This time i started playing it with the determination of finishing it, and that is what i did. The first Metroid game is widely known as a great game and a start of a legendary series, i played it a few times as a kid, didn’t get very far and kind of just brushed it off as a difficult, cryptic game.

Super metroid first etank