Comments on: The Anatomy of Super Metroid | 17 | Family reunion

By: Vega

Vega — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:11:02 +0000

Lots of games have learned from the Super Metroid’s world design and pacing, but perhaps not as many have learned from its non-verbal storytelling techniques. Some day will you write an article about games that do so?

By: discord_inc

discord_inc — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:29:52 +0000

I must confess, that for years this moment fell flat for me. It wasn’t anything the game itself did wrong though. Before I ever played Super Metroid I spoiled the hell out of it by reading about it online. So I actually didn’t pick up on a lot of the game’s narrative techniques because I knew what was supposed to be happening.

In fact, it wasn’t until I played Cave Story that I finally got it. I’m not sure what the moratorium on spoilers is for a 10 year old (wait, seriously?) indie game, but the short version is it used a lot of the same storytelling techniques, even though it did have dialogue. In particular there is a character sacrifice moment that really got me. Later it dawned on me that it was the same as the baby Metroid and suddenly everything clicked. The next time I played Super Metroid I got it and I loved it completely.

Reading this anatomy brought back all of those memories for me.

By: Quartz Falcon

Quartz Falcon — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:58:37 +0000

I remember getting chills the first time I heard the Super Metroid give out that familiar chirping cry. Really, the sequence of events that begin as you enter the halls of desiccated enemies is brilliant and the perfect bookend to this game.

And now someone needs to make fanart of the Super Metroid using the energy station as a water fountain.