Game:

Super Metroid (1994)

Duration: 13:34

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5

A bit of explanation:

I've been loading from savestates at the beginnings of the videos so I can keep the map progress I had beforehand. The map in this hack is atrocious, partially because of this, but also because you can't access it in any useful way. This is what led me to most of my frustration in the latter half of the hack because I had no idea where I had been, where I hadn't, and where I was going. In hindsight, I should have tried savestates in Temple of the Winds to make it fairer. Anyway, on to the scoring!

Theme: 5/10
The first half of the hack I give an 8/10 because I really liked how all the enemies exploded more. It seems like something you could get through to vent. The second half I give a 2/10 because of the lack of a map, leading to a lack of direction, causes a lot of frustration with progression. (as can likely be seen in the prior video) Averaging those out gives a 5/10

Aesthetics: 5/5
I really enjoyed the custom graphics and music. They made the hack feel fresh and were well done overall. There were a few graphical gripes, but not enough to bring it down much.

Replayability: 4/5
This hack I think is supposed to be nonlinear, but I'm glad I took the path I did at the beginning. The other paths seem like they would be really annoying to traverse through first. The openness of the hack I think would make a second playthrough interesting, especially once a player knows what to do.

Fun: 3/5
There are some pretty fun parts of the hack, but there are also parts that are downright frustrating and mean. The sparsity of save stations and the lack of adequate refilling areas compound to make savestates something you wouldn't feel too bad about using, as I used very liberally in these videos.

Construction: 3/5
This hack is built pretty well, but there are a lot of points that make no sense. The main thing is bombs. How do you get bombs? I'm sure it's possible, but they eluded me for the entire hack. This leads to a multitude of problems. The main problem is the fact that you can't check to see how you are supposed to break something. That is frustrating, but it's also bad design. Don't even get me started on the map. These things bring the hack down a lot, but the rest of it is well constructed enough to supplement at least to a 3/5.

Total: 20/30

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