Ice - Metroid Construction

Ice
Release date: Jun 11, 2009	Author: Lunaria	Download: Fixed Version [UH] (402 downloads) (841 downloads of previous versions)
Genre: Unknown [?] Game:	Difficulty: Unknown [?]	Average runtime: 3:13 Average collection: 69%
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Description

Ice was my first project.

And it's still my project you could say. After working on this half hack for a year I wanted to move on and do more. The hack was restarted at a later date as Ice metal and progress on that is still going on. In any case, this is not the latest version Ice as I did do two more upgrades on it. This is how ever the last version I have and it's perfectly beat able and such. How ever... it's horrible to play and I only put this up here so people can see that I started out as a noob just like most people.

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Ratings and Reviews

By TheBabyMetroid on Oct 18, 2016 (

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47% in 3:16

nice

By Aran;Jaeger on Aug 25, 2017 (

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93% in 3:52

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 Sapphron on Jun 13, 2023 (

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72% in 2:41

Solid halfhack, pretty interesting. Palette changes and a lot of changed item locations, overall run of the mill but worth checking out as a predecessor to IMU.

Finished.

By ClaireDiviner on May 12, 2025 (

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62% in 3:06

This hack was kinda trash. Too much obtuse hidden paths in rooms that didn't need it. It necessitates the use of X-Ray Scope, which is always tedious. Placing the first intended Power Bombs in the first intended Super Missile room also sucks, because it relies on the player to remember to visit that room later to get it, or wander around aimlessly, wondering where to go. The Plasma Beam Room in Maridia is bad in particular, because one of the wall pirates on the right side of the room will vanish if it jumps from its position, so if you don't kill it before that happens, you never will be able to, softlocking Samus in the room, forcing a reset. You cannot save the animals during the escape, and the door from where you exit in Landing Site remains blue, allowing the player to re-enter, and presumably get into Parlor; doing so crashes the game mid-door transition.

I get it, this hack is made by someone when they were a noob, as the description reads, but did Crys really need to upload this to the main site? Whatever, the hack is pretty bad, but not the absolute worst I've played.

P.S. There are a couple of rooms where X-Ray Scope will crash the game. Big Pink in particular have an E-Tank that infinitely respawns. Same thing with Green Bubbles Missile Room, where entering the room will always produce a Missile pickup. Those can obviously be abused to the player's advantage.

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