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Yesssssssss

I also think this even though I got pissed off last year when I played it and ran out of missiles in one of the last areas lol

Unironically, and I truly say this in all seriousness - a Top 3 Metroid game for me. It nails a very specific type of forboding atmosphere and uses space so incredibly well for a gameboy game.

I think I agree! the vibes are impeccable. to, it manages to evoke the scene in Alien when they investigate the crashed ship and discover the alien egg. the Metroid franchise is heavily influenced by Alien but no other game gets close to that particular feeling, which is one of the best parts imo

it’s already sticky

I think a lot of it just comes down to how its presented; the form factor of the Gameboy is unfamiliar to most ppl nowadays and is therefore intimidating. But, its honestly just a very fun and interesting game! Its just not something a lot of folks have seen before

My partner played it for like 5 minutes to get the NSO profile icons, then handed me the controller like "hey check it out, this kinda has the sauce." She left and came back 4 hours later to find that I'm *still* playing it, completely engrossed now. Great sauce indeed.

One of the weirdest things about AM2R is that it originally wasn't "this unplayable old game needs a remake" but "Metroid 2 deserved a DX version too." Somehow of all the fan projects working on that, AM2R was what we got. The narrative shifted to fit the game and changing preferences.

I think you're overlooking Pokémon here, plenty of people do not mind playing the original Gameboy games (I'm also gonna include Gen 2 in here bc the GBC isn't that different from the GB). For a while also Link's Awakening but the Switch remake completely changed that.

think it's really interesting to consider a world where metroidvanias took off with that as the base inspiration instead, with multiple smaller areas with several upgrades in them and no map. Prime 2 is the closest to this I think and it rips

This is how I discovered emulators. My bestie had a physical copy and let me play it, and I craved more and sought out a let’s play in the before times of Youtube. And I noticed the guy playing stuff kept opening menus so I found out about Emulators. My first clear tho was that fren’s physical copy

I will at least say that playing it definitely felt good, unlike my first 3-4 times playing the NES game and that Samus Returns doesn't keep that atmosphere at all but I still love what it did overall

I started with Metroid Fusion and since the GBA was backwards compatible, I jumped to Metroid 2 next. Preteen me thought it was hard as balls.

You're as right as right can be!

it's like what if a metroid game was sauceless :(

The spider ball may be the coolest upgrade in any game ever

Also the official GBC colors are better than all the fanmade color patches

A game so good it led me to reappraise the entire GameBoy catalogue

Been meaning to try AM2R