Metroid Other ZM

Metroid Other ZM
Release date: Jan 02, 2017	Author: Luce Seyfarth	Download: Version 3.8 (537 downloads)
Genre: Exploration [?] Game:	Difficulty: Veteran [?]	Average runtime: 8:32 Average collection: 39%
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Description

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Ratings and Reviews

By Cpt.Glitch on Nov 10, 2019 (

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No completion stats.

Half-hacks are bad kids.

By Sapphron on Jan 06, 2020 (

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No completion stats.

Starts off really impressive! You're on the Landing Site! Isn't that neat?
Yeah it is, but the rest of it isn't.
This hack has sooooooo many issues that just made me stop playing after two hours or so. It has neat ideas but almost no redeeming qualities.
It's frustrating (which the creator expected)and tedious (same case here), but why would you make a hack that has these things, even intentionally?? It makes no sense to me.
Refilling sucks, as you can't really get HP anywhere before Kraid except for going back to Bombs room. Refill bugs literally have too much health and they don't always drop items when you try to farm them with Missiles.
Progression is confusing, and relies on single Bomb blocks or Missile blocks that you find in the ceiling. Enemies are buffed an unbelievable amount, and you have to sit there and shoot for like 10 seconds per enemy just to get them out of the way. My least favorite room from my 2 hours of gameplay was the Hive Room in Brinstar. Absolute bullshit that I died many times to with a save veeery far away from it. I eventually gave up after spending about 15 minutes looking for a missile block in an area that should have been hinted at, and I'm going to go watch a speedrun of it right now because I can't be bothered to finish it.
EDIT: Got back from watching most of the 3 hour speedrun. Glad I quit while I was ahead. There's a lot more interesting stuff here than I gave it credit for, so I am sorry Luce.
Did not finish.
Do not recommend.

By kkzero on Mar 27, 2020 (

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No completion stats.

The start from the landing site was interesting, but from there on it's just a halfhack with buffed-up bullet sponge enemies and weird pickup locations.

By Frydi on Dec 21, 2024 (

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39% in 8:32

I finished this so I can say it... This is the worst GBAtroid hack on Metconst and it's not close at all!

Hard for me to really dislike any hack as I've played every GBAtroid hack around, but any Chinese Fusion hack has more redeeming qualities than this thing... Even jiffy's broken mess of a ZM hack.

It's fine to make enemies stronger, have more HP or reduce drops but all 3 is a brain-dead decision just to give any player the most tedious experience possible, not a "harder" experience. If you know how to play ZM, you probably won't die from damage but sheer boredom performing repetitive tasks or running in circles across the map.

Knowledge of vanilla ZM only gets you so far, you WILL NOT be able to finish this without checking a video or the ROM in MAGE. The hack has A LOT of hidden blocks, most are reasonably well indicated but you will have to look for a bit. This is fine, BUT for some insane reason the hack later decides to hide hidden blocks with an opaque BG0 layer so you have no more way to know if/what block might be hidden... WHY? Combine that with fun combinations of reforming/non-reforming blocks and blocks that you bonk into speedboosting while hiding everything in random ceiling spots and you have the perfect example of how to not design a game.

I've deleted a block in MAGE to get to ice beam cause the zipline event didn't want to activate at all but was active in its room(?). Might be a result of killing Kraid first, but I couldn't be bothered trying to make sense of this pile of garbage. Everything stops making sense after Brinstar anyway...

Obligatory "Would give 0 orbs if possible" statement. Time is RTA.

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