Super Metroid Frostbite

Super Metroid Frostbite
Release date: Feb 24, 2017	Author: Jefe962	Download: v01 (2145 downloads)
Genre: Exploration [?] Game:	Difficulty: Vanilla [?]	Average runtime: 0:21 Average collection: 81%
Read Me: [None]	Forum Thread: Contest thread	Rating:

Description

Samus receives a distress call from planet SB-018, a tundra covered planet code-named "Finland". Samus finds herself within frozen caves and attempting to investigate the research facility on the planet. There has been danger - the facility has been infected with an undiscovered planetary virus, and and the facility has been cryogenically frozen to avoid the virus from spreading. Samus must break the ice by exploring the facility and detonating the planet, so the virus can no longer spread!
For the Winter Hacking 2017 contest.

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Ratings and Reviews

By Cpt.Glitch on Mar 03, 2017 (

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70% in 0:20

A decent hack for the winter contest. Throws a boss and high health/damage enemies at you early, but starting items and room state things make up for it. Not too interesting visually but it fits the freezing and thawing theme really well. Also ends kind of abruptly but that's not bad. A good quick play hack.

By BFrobber on Mar 05, 2017 (

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76% in 0:24

A short, relatively hard have with nice graphics. Is gud

By thedopefish on Mar 15, 2017 (

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70% in 0:23

This is a pretty solid hack. It features both freezing and thawing, and makes great use of thawed roomstates to open up previously-inaccessible areas; however the trigger that causes the thawing is not obvious. It would have been much better if the random dead-end room included something conspicuous to be destroyed, or a map station, or something else to interact with that could give the player some feedback of "something important just happened".

Jiffy loves to make physics changes for seemingly no reason, and this time around we get awkward walljump arcs and a complete lack of running. There's no particular lore explanation for it, and more importantly the changes were not utilized for any puzzles or creative ways to maneuver through rooms. So it just makes the game feel slower and a bit "off".

I beat Ridley on my first attempt, although it was pretty close and I'm fairly comfortable fighting him without great equipment. Players who are not skilled at that fight are sure to struggle.

By Aran;Jaeger on Aug 25, 2017 (

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94% in 0:22

Proper Item Collection display: 94.0%.
No animals to be saved.

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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 Kandier on Mar 09, 2021 (

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82% in 0:27

Ridiculous and ugly hack, nothing interesting, it's too short, with map screen glitch & poor area desing, I just wasted my time, same the other hacks from this author, I didn't like any hack

By Fercho on Jun 06, 2021 (

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76% in 0:22

Creo que no esta mal, en general es una pequeña e interesante experiencia, solo el final es impredecible y sin ningún motivo el autor eliminó la opción de correr.

By Sapphron on Dec 04, 2021 (

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88% in 0:17

It's a bunch of samey rooms. The physics make it more annoying to move through and the lack of dashing really sucks. Enemies (rios) hit for quite a lot and the Ridley fight might catch some players off guard. The ending was also super sudden, too.
Finished.
Do not recommend.

By RX-78-2 on Aug 28, 2024 (

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94% in 0:12

very nice, I like the freezing and thawing theme of the hack and the way the author made it to where the enemies can thaw after being frozen. the enemies weren't too much of a challenge but the movement/physics change was at times. the lack of running and even dash meant that for me, I had to bunny hop everywhere because that was much faster than running. and speaking of jumping, the jump arc you get when jumping felt a bit off but I managed to adapt. this is a decent quick play hack that I think is worth playing, if you can get used to the physics changes and the high hp/high damage enemies

By Kremit44 on Nov 20, 2024 (

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76% in 0:27

Didn't like the physics and found most of the hack to be boring. It has decent aesthetics and theming but it just doesn't have a lot of fun moments. Also the nerfing of running was a really bizarre decision.

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