Screwed And Chopped
Release date: Jan 01, 2006
Author: InsomniaDX
Download: Version 1.0 [UH] (1324 downloads)
Genre: Unknown [?]
Game: SM
Difficulty: Unknown [?]
Average runtime: 2:00
Average collection: 60%
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Forum Thread: [None]
Rating: Star Star Star Star Star
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Ratings and Reviews
By RealRed on May 02, 2015 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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Unfinished but strangely fun. The environments are empty and eerie, beams fire like miniguns, and exploring is super open-ended. One of the more inspiring hacks, I think.
By Aran;Jaeger on Dec 08, 2016 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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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 Mar 24, 2020 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
Very unfinished. Got into Lower Norfair and then got warped to Maridia and got stuck. Reloading a save dumped me into Maridia.

Other than that it's mostly empty environments which considering it's a hack from 2006 isn't too surprising.
By Sapphron on May 17, 2021 (Star Star Star Star Star )
% in 4:00
Definitely one of the weirder ones I've played, up there with Tallon IV.
I spent about 4 hours on this hack continuously rewinding from the door transitions that either led to other rooms that I didn't want to go to, or just going out of bounds from some of them. Also, some saves take you to other saves that aren't in the game!!! Use savestates if you want to play this.
Really unusual rooms and good use of reflectors, but a lot of easy crashes from doors etc. broken rooms, broken graphics, but I give it two stars because of the sheer size and the fact that this was made in 2005. Quite impressive.
Could not finish.
Do not recommend.
By ClaireDiviner on Mar 04, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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It's a shame this game is unfinished, though I understand there's a version of this that actually was made to be finished, and not as jank. As the name implies, it is screwed up, and chopped up, and put together by Scotch tape. Some neat ideas and layouts, sure, but if you save in Maridia, you'll end up in a state where you won't be able to progress further upon reloading your save. Oh well.

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