Super Metroid: Sunshine Oddity

Super Metroid: Sunshine Oddity
Release date: Feb 17, 2014	Author: Vismund Cygnus/Quote58	Download: Version 1.0 [UH] (1330 downloads)
Genre: Unknown [?] Game:	Difficulty: Unknown [?]	Average runtime: 0:41 Average collection: 20%
Read Me: [None]	Forum Thread: [None]	Rating:
	Awards: Top Hacks 2014: Best Aesthetics

Description

Much samus, Very winter, Such reef. Wow.

Includes ReadMe.

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Ratings and Reviews

By Aran;Jaeger on Dec 09, 2016 (

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23% in 0:51

No animals to be saved.

Quick Summary of the meaning of my SM hack ratings:
5 orbs: SM hacks within the 80% to 100% (90% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; SM hacks for outstanding wholesome playing experiences and at most minor inconveniences.
4 orbs: SM hacks within the 60% to 80% (70% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Well done SM hacks with noticeable design problems.
3 orbs: SM hacks within the 40% to 60% (50% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Normal decent average SM hacks.
2 orbs: SM hacks within the 20% to 40% (30% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Overall messy, confusing, or punishing SM hacks with some upsides.
1 orb : SM hacks within the 00% to 20% (10% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Ruthlessly unplayable, broken, or barely from the original game changed SM hacks.

Judgement parameters summary:
° Creative ideas and features, polished design, how enjoyable and fun the hack can be, lack of hard to find or cryptic required game elements, the difficulty, and if the hack can be finished without major guides or tools.
° Note that the length of a SM hack will not necessarily contribute to my rating of the SM hack, since instead the averaged out experience over the whole hack will be taken into account to get a relative comparison between SM hacks.
° Besides this, lack of impactful changes from the original SM game also went into the evaluation of SM hacks (otherwise one may consider them among the 3 stars hacks) as follows: Ultimately, for my ratings I consider a situation in which an SM enthusiast that already has, knows about and is familiar with the original game and its prominent mechanics could only choose 1 new SM hack to play and thus would really want to make sure he/she will get a fresh and fantastic experience or journey out of his/her 1 choice.

The goal of all these SM hack ratings is so that rather new players have an overview of the whole spectrum of SM hacks and how to sort them in, in relation to each other, where SM hacks that are rated lower might still be enjoyable for more experienced players.

Finally, sometimes for SM hacks it can be relevant that they may be significantly more enjoyable from a player standpoint at which the player is well practiced and familiarized with Super Metroid's game mechanics in general, and that in particular some of the best SM hacks may not be the outright best first SM hack choices to play otherwise because of this, and for beginner SM hack players this typically steers the best first SM hack choices towards some of the SM hacks that I rated with 4 orbs instead of 5.

Rating for some hacks may be off by 1 Star, but arguably not more, and ratings are not attempted to be provided within the precision of ''half orbs''.

By Syphon on Nov 19, 2019 (

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19% in 0:38

Small hack with some broken scrolling in the first few rooms and gibberish when picking up items. I liked the colorful look of the hack, custom music and the custom HUD though. Dark Visor was a cool feature. Worth a playthrough.

By kkzero on Mar 04, 2020 (

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No completion stats.

Didn't beat it because of what seemed to be an absence of saves, plus I got softlocked in a Chozo statue, but I'll drop a review anyway because I liked where this was going.
The ammo switching method was a bit awkward for me, but that's more subjective. Additionally, the colors of the structures tended to throw me off before I got the Dark Visor. Despite these, it was an interesting experiment that felt very fresh, and I enjoyed what I did play.
Recommended.

By Sapphron on May 19, 2021 (

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19% in 0:35

An incredibly jank but interesting hack.
Never found out how to switch to Plasma, Dark Visor was cool but useless, plenty of secrets. Really pretty rooms, but it's hard to distinguish foreground from background. Pausing is a really bad idea, it takes forever to fade back in.
2 -> 3 stars for the effort put into it.
Finished.
Do not recommend.

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