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BEST SIDE SCROLLER EVER!!! (DESERVS 10 STARS :) )

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS THE BEST SNES GAME EVER! THE GRAPHICS SURPASS ANY SNES GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH I BEAT IT 3 TIMES! ITS WEAPONS ARE COOL. LOOK AT THE POWER BOMB FOR EXAMPLE! ITS BLAST DESTROYS ALL ENEMIES ON THE SCREEN...EXCEPT BOSSES. THIS GAME IS REALLY WHAT STARTED THE SERIES TO THE TOP ( I THINK ANYWAY) BELIEVE ME, DUST OF YOUR SNES AND GET THIS GAME AND PLAY IT NONSTOP!

The First Videogame I Ever Loved...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Super Metroid is (as you can see from the title of this review) the first game I ever loved...and the one that brought me into the videogame world...
Super Metroid is, in my opinion, THE BEST SUPER NINTENDO GAME EVER CREATED. The music: awesome. The graphics: wonderful!(for SNES anyhow...) The plot: FLAWLESS. This game is perfect. It's got that hot bounty hunter Samus Aran, who is as good at kicking butt as ever; it's got that evil crazy old Mother Brain; it's got Ridley...basically, its got everything that you loved about the other games, but with better everything else. I haven't played Prime yet, but Metroid Fusion certainly doesn't compare to this game! Why do you think this game is still so expensive over ten years later? It's a classic, will always be one, and SHOULD be in your videogame collection. Everyone who plays this game will definitely fall for its awesome charms!

My Favorite Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I aboslutely love this game! It's the coolest. The graphics are great and the weaponry and enemies are extremely realistic, without there being any violence. The music intertwines with the areas very well too. All in all, this game is extremely entertaining, challenging, and a must-have for any player of the Super NES.

Super Metroid

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

One of my favorites, aside from the Zelda games, and the Illusions of Gaia...Super Metroid is one of those games that I can just play for hours, and not think about anything...I still have yet to go back and get the items that was missing when I finished the game, but obviously they were not needed...This is a challenging game that anyone can enjoy, if they have the time. My grandmother enjoyed this one, but kept calling me for hints on what she had to do next. The challenge, to me, is the part that is most enjoyable...If you are looking for a game that will take a few hours of your life, this is a good choice!

There is a reason why EGM Rated this #1 game of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I recieved this game three days after christmas, three days later I beat the game spending around 7 hours to win. My palms drenched in sweat and my heart racing tremendously I destroyed the final boss.
However despite my efforts I had barely scratched the surface of this truely time consumming game. There was still areas to explore and items to find.
This game is awsome to say the least. It is the true image of what the super NES was capable of. Topping Super NES greats such as Final Fantasy 3, Legend of Zelda, and more this title proves that 2D games are better in many ways than 3D. The huge world is only second to the tremendouse areas found in Castlevania SOTN. The bosses are difficult but not that difficult, they each have a specific pattern (Except for Ridley) and as such you must find their weakness. I honestly have no complaints about this game.

Another Pride of the SNES

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You quitly step out of your spaceship onto the sandy, damp ground of an unexplored planet. Suddenly, a giant flash of lightning appears as it starts to rain heavily. You nervously look behind you. Nothing there. In a hurry to get away from the rain, you run under a near cave. After going through an old, broken door another lighting flashes and an intemidating roar of thunder follows. You slowly continue to walk through the abondoned, lifeless cave. A slight glisting of metal appears as you approach a peice of torn machinary. Traveling depper, you find the entrence to an old advanced shelter of somekind. After exploring somemore, you return to this enterence spot. A flash of lighting lights up the place again and you find a giant insect mantis like creature staring right at you. In a hurry you fire your beam at it and destroy it. An ear-wrentching cry echoes the halls as you see there are tons more of them, crawling on the walls jumping down from the ceilings, surrounding you. In a hurry, you attack them one by one and run to the cave enterence of the place. Suddenly, it lights up with life. Giant crab like insects start crawling down the walls, trilobites flee as the abondoned bunker becomes housed again, lights flicker on and off and motion is constantly seen throught this once desolate and quiet place. Only not one human or freindly creature is moving. Thats basically the opening sequence of Super Metroid. Constantly through this game will be intense and sometimes freighting moments of suspence. There is also always very satisfying action to follow. You play as Samus Aran, who has really cool sumersaulting jumping techniques. Also, she can shoot something right at a pin of a target while sumersaulting through the air ten yards away. Shes a really cool character with a really cool suit and a really cool arsenal of firepower to go with it all. Plus, a really cool game. Most of the game will be taken up exploring places, finding new abilitys/weapons in those places, and using those abilitys to gain acces to and explore other places. Most of these enviroments are dark, suspensefull, and gloomy like the one described above. The game also features some inovative enemys that can be destroyed challengly and satisfyingly no matter how you fight them. It has some really great graphics, too. But, the one con, and its a big one to, is that after watching the opening cutscenes, theres almost no story left. You'll alot of times be wondering if youre supposed to be in an area or not supposed to be there, with no real knowlege of where to go or what to do next. Just little hints like you've accomplished a big task in an area and feel that the next big task is in another big area. Other than that, this game is a really great classic and should be played by all at least once. It really almost plays identically to Metroid: Fusion, so a learning curve would be very small since alot of people have probably played fusion by now.

One of the most classic platformer games and perhaps one of the greatest games ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I could ask every I see at school if they ever played Super Metroid and out of the 20,000+ students there, I'd estimate maybe 1/500 have played this amazing game. Despite the imense popularity of the Metroid series in the gaming world, Samaus Aran's exploits are unfortunately not well-known outside of geek gatherings. So I say to you, oh one-who-hath-never-played-Metroid. YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO PLAY THIS GAME IMMEDIATELY IF YOU VALUE ANYTHING THAT IS FUN!!!! Buying this game would probably be the most sound advice I'd give to anyone who wants a game that a.) anyone can play and beat, and b.) it is fun as hell.

As for official stuff:
1. Great Graphics (for SNES)
2. Huge areas!
3. Great power-ups
4. Challenging, but not overstressful.
5. Great replay value (go back and find all the items, beat the game in three hours).
6. Rich enviorments and atmosphere.
7. Great soundtrack.
8. Kill a giant brain.
9. Easy controls.
10. EVERY ELSE IS DOING IT!!

I told ya not to go there!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

3D is good and so is 2D, people should not display ignorance in themselves by saying simply because humans mastered one artform prior to another, the prior is inferior. 2D is not inferior because that is the same as saying blue is more primitive than red. It makes no sense. They are both rendered differently and express game content differently. Besides, it is not as if 3D is really 3D anyways since you use a flat 2D TV screen to view the fake 3D environment. If you could pass your hand through the TV into the environment it would be 3D.

So in conclusion, 2D is valid and "3D" is valid as plausible TV game options. Don't make yourself look immature by disputing irrelevant information.

A little disappointing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Before recently beating it, I hadn't played this game since I was nine-years-old when it came out in 1994. Back then, and up until last week, i thought it was the greatest game ever. In 1994 I remember playing it virtually all day, and when I finally finished it, writing to Nintendo thanking them and giving them new ideas for weapons and territories for a future metroid game.

After recently buying a SNES off of eBay and beating SM again though, my opinion has changed drastically. It is still a fantastic game, but it is WAY TOO EASY. I only died a few times when I beat it this time around, and it was only because I used the energy refills sparingly. The boss battles are a joke, and there is no reason to cater to lazy, unskilled gamers by including maps and energy and missle refills. The beauty of the original Metroid is that it's challenging game, with no maps, energy, and missle refueling.

I guess video games are a lot harder when you're nine-years-old.

In conclusion, it is still a great game, but the greatest game of all time for me is now probably MGS 1,Goldeneye, or Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

This is the greatest game on the snes tied with Zelda

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well I was always a fan of Metroid and always will be. I can play this game and know the next room before I enter. I know were to wall jump and g an item before get your exposed to. I even found every thing under a 2 hour time frame. I would like to call myself a Metriod master.

Many people don't know, and always are saying this game is to easy. Well I have found a more difficult rout through this game and not many people know of it. Or may know one else knows. You can beat Kraid after Riddley and go through the game without gettin the Varia suit. Its a though route until you get to the point of the game were you have enough power ups. But if you want to know just contact me at zediah.timmons@us.army.mil and I can give the simple instruction on how to play this game at whole new level. If your up for the challange and don't know this little setting and have the patince for the task then contact me. I also know even taking risk of getting upgrades to get them quicker and clearing the game in record timing.

But otherwise this is just a challange. A whole knew look at the game. So you won't be disappointed.

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