I tried to think of a way to make a game about a minimalist lifestyle, or at least the pursuit of one. And so, here is a Metroid game, of sorts, where instead of acquiring powerups, you must get rid of them. All of them. Though the order in which you do so is up to you, certain areas will require certain power ups to access. Planning is key! If you place a power up you didn't mean to, you can pick it back up after a second or so. It is, unfortunately, possible to get trapped if you don't plan appropriately, just delete the data.dat file if you have to start over.
Controls: arrow keys: move around up: save/use lift down: use lift/duck/turn into ball
A: jump (double jump if you have the Screw Attack) S: shoot (hold to charge, if you have the Charge Beam) D: select missile or super missile (if you have them) Space: Pause/View current power ups Escape: Quit
Some notes on things that you might expect to work that don't: The screw attack doesn't work as an attack, it can just break down certain walls and get you to high locations
The ice beam will freeze enemies, but I didn't have time to make them work as platforms, so it's only really useful for metroids.
The power bomb is used by charging a shot while in morph ball mode, rather than selecting the power bomb using D
REVERSE METROID!!! Genius. There is a TON of content in this game for 48 hours. You basically made mini Metroid in less than 2 full days. WOW. Great concept and theme interpretation. Some of the animations (like the jump) are dazzling! Good work!
Wow, what a great idea! The implementation is impressively complete too, covering most of the 2d metroid weapons (But no Shinespark?!? :)), and appropriate but I think legal graphics. The flaw I think is with the difficulty -- the game doesn't do much to lead you to a solution and it's too easy to get stuck without making a map and a plan, which isn't that fun. :) I think I visited almost everything in the map! One of my favorites so far.
Brilliant idea. I haven't gotten far in the real Metroid, so I don't know what most of the items are supposed to do or how I'm supposed to get past most of the areas.
Cool idea. Quite a bit for a 48 game, I am impressed. As a note, the jumps was very floaty and I would often miss the mark on precision jumps. Also, felt like the jump and shot buttons should be reversed.
Nice concept, big metroid fan, very impressive. Still the gameplay is a little buggy. For example I couldn't exit the game, so I kept playing a little while longer
Interesting concept, and works well with the Metroid theme and it controls well. Unfortunately not the biggest fan of the guessing game of what to drop and what to not, but I found it to be well-developed with its mechanics and a lot of effort was put in, evidently.
Great concept, and the gameplay and graphics are nice. Unfortunately, once I ran out of ammunition it became unbeatable, as far as I could tell. Perhaps I would have done better if I'd had more experience with the Metroid franchise.
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Also Super Metroid Nostalgia points awarded.
Great job!