Another absolute must-play coming out of a fan-game community.
Subversion is a super metroid rom hack that is able to stand on its own legs despite retaining a lot of the spirit of the original.
The new map is genuinely impressive, both through sheer scale and world design, with a lot of interlacing parts and areas to explore as you unlock your upgrades (both old and new) and I think the game does some very interesting things with its progression, like splitting up upgrades from previous games into multiple pieces to be able to have a large amount of hidden upgrades and secret areas.
Unlike some of the other 2D metroid games, this one felt very fair, most of it is designed to be intuitive and you never really find yourself shooting at random walls in order to progress, yet it's still inventive and presents some eureka moments which are key to the series.
All of this makes a lot of Subversion's parts feel on par if not better than Super Metroid (and that's already one of the best games of all time), with my only caveats being the progression for the last batch (3 or so items) of upgrades being a bit tedious due to the amount of backtracking required and some underwhelming bosses mostly because they had to be taken out of super metroid.
Subversion is a super metroid rom hack that is able to stand on its own legs despite retaining a lot of the spirit of the original.
The new map is genuinely impressive, both through sheer scale and world design, with a lot of interlacing parts and areas to explore as you unlock your upgrades (both old and new) and I think the game does some very interesting things with its progression, like splitting up upgrades from previous games into multiple pieces to be able to have a large amount of hidden upgrades and secret areas.
Unlike some of the other 2D metroid games, this one felt very fair, most of it is designed to be intuitive and you never really find yourself shooting at random walls in order to progress, yet it's still inventive and presents some eureka moments which are key to the series.
All of this makes a lot of Subversion's parts feel on par if not better than Super Metroid (and that's already one of the best games of all time), with my only caveats being the progression for the last batch (3 or so items) of upgrades being a bit tedious due to the amount of backtracking required and some underwhelming bosses mostly because they had to be taken out of super metroid.