Super Metroid: Blackout

Super Metroid: Blackout
Release date: Mar 31, 2012	Author: JAM	Download: Version 1.04 [UH] (1055 downloads)
Genre: Vanilla+ [?] Game:	Difficulty: Unknown [?]	Average runtime: 1:57 Average collection: 76%
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Description

In this hack you will have to move in complete darkness without able to see a thing. I'm not the complete sadist, so you still can hear sounds and see Samus, HUD and use map and mini-map to understand where you are and how much ammo/energy is left.

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Ratings and Reviews

By Dynastyx on Jun 05, 2015 (

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No completion stats.

No. Just no. It's a great spoof hack at best.

By Aran;Jaeger on Dec 08, 2016 (

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100% in 2:33

Animals 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 Sapphron on Jul 15, 2019 (

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65% in 1:29

This hack was kind of fun, but it'd be hellish if you've only played through vanilla a couple of times. Norfair's heated sections kind of ruined the darkness as you can see where you are using the lights (including LN)and bosses were easily visible.

By dagit on Aug 07, 2022 (

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62% in 1:51

Is it weird that I actually kind of like this hack? I think it should be in the spoof or challenge category. You get exactly what it sounds like it will be. A challenging playthrough where you need to use your abilities to find where you are in the room or you need to rely on memorizing the rooms. So I would only recommend this to people who have expert knowledge of the vanilla map.

I found ceres to be the most challenging part. During the ceres escape it took me multiple tries to get past the 3rd to last and last rooms. One horrible thing happened mid playthrough that made me upset. I went into the save room before botwoon and the game crashed. I would avoid that room if you play this.

Overall, I had a lot of fun playing this. The idea is a bit lazy (just make everything black), but at the same time it's a great challenge. I would rate this a 4, except for the crash bug.

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