Metroid Depression
Release date: Oct 17, 2022
Author: Silver Wing
Download: Version 1.0, Unheadered (225 downloads)
(20 downloads of previous versions)
Genre: Exploration [?]
Game: SM
Difficulty: Beginner [?]
Average runtime: 0:05
Average collection: 3%
Read Me: [None]
Forum Thread: [None]
Rating: Star Star Star Star Star
Description
Geesh, Super Metroid is difficult to hack for, errors happening over everywhere, expect a few graphical glitches, because those are impossible to fix.

Samus has to combat with her depression, by navigating in over 20+ rooms of pure Metroidvania exploring, credits to Metroid Construction's Discord server for helping me out, this hack wouldnt be possible without them.

Also the hack ends on an intentional softlock at the end of the hack, and Samus map is non existent on purpose.
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Ratings and Reviews
By MetroidNerd#9001 on Oct 18, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
6% in 0:00
This hack is extremely glitchy, uninteresting, and poorly tiled. It's not particularly difficult to screw up the camera, which makes it easy to fall out of bounds, which is what happened to me about 15 rooms in. The glitchiness alone makes this a hack I cannot recommend.
By Croakomire on Oct 18, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
Solid tiles don't exist
By Tomtroid on Oct 18, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
Not worth downloading/playing.
By Miranda Gemini on Oct 18, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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Do you enjoy:
- Palettes that assault your retinas?
- Extremely poor tiling?
- Walking into a room, immediately getting hit by an enemy, and dying?
- Random camera snaps?
- Falling out of bounds?
- Getting softlocked in a 2 tile high gap because you don't have morphball yet?

Well, we might just have the hack for you! Otherwise I'd avoid this one.

It's clear that this was someone's first attempt at learning to hack, and while that's cool and all, and the author is correct that Super Metroid is hard to hack... I mean, I probably wouldn't have published it.
By vsf3000 on Oct 19, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
sucks.
By Zincoshine on Oct 21, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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The name is accurate. This will make you very depressed.
By Silver Wing on Oct 23, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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This should have been good if it wasnt for the glitches.
By ptoil on Nov 09, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
https://i.imgur.com/1CkntyC.png
By Forever on Nov 09, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
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the amount of sadness this hack brought me is unrivaled. 10/10 https://i.imgur.com/3Qmnxyp.png
By KPF on Nov 15, 2022 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
Why did you even make this hack?
By cheesyboatride on Jan 19, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
Extremely broken, visually poor, and boring. I thought for sure this was a spoof hack. Do not recommend.
By Metaquarius on Feb 11, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
"hack ends on an intentional softlock"
I fell out of bounds just by jumping over the VERY FIRST door, is this where this hack is supposed to end? What about the promised 20+ rooms of pure Metroidvania exploring?
Petition to get this scam removed from MetConst.
By H A M on Feb 11, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
EDIT 5/6/2024: no flexglow
Original Review: Bad, but has Flexglow.
By Kirarin on May 04, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
I'd rather drink my own piss than playing this again.
By RX-78-2 on Aug 25, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
No completion stats.
You know, I see now why this hack is called Metroid Depression, because that's exactly what you will get during and after playing this hack so I mean at least this hack lives up to its name, it's a very accurate and fitting name for this hack because this hack most certainly will make you feel depressed after you finish playing it. and just going by the description alone, even without playing the hack, I know for a fact that Samus Aran won't be the only person who has Depression, because everyone who plays this hack will have it too afterwards lol


All jokes aside though, I can't fathom why the author would even publish and upload this monstrosity of a hack. I know that this is the author's first time and that Super Metroid is indeed hard to hack but I don't think he should've published and uploaded this hack unless he was 100% certain that it was playable from start to finish. I mean the poor choices for tile palettes are the least of your concern, I mean apart from the fact that this hack has literally NO title sequence or menu screen. oh and this hack also is not finishable either because like the description says "the game ends on an intentional softlock".


I couldn't in good conscience recommend this hack to anyone because I don't wanna bear the burden of having them be subjected to having their retinas assaulted by the worst color palettes imaginable, poor tiling and enemy placement, and all the other issues this hack has. I don't think anyone should suffer or torture themselves with this hack. don't waste your time playing it, it's not finishable, and it's just all around bad. there's plenty of other bad hacks that are actually FUN bad but this hack is just BAD bad. I wish I could say this is the worst hack but that would be a lie since I've played much worse hacks than this. the amount of disappointment and sadness that this hack has given me is immeasurable
By RT-55J on Aug 25, 2024 (Star Star Star Star Star )
% in 0:10
The only thing about this hack that makes me "depressed" is the community dogpiling a novice hacker like this. It's just a shorter and less polished take on SM Bluestar, not a crime against the concept of art itself.

In a slightly better, more supportive world this would be a perfectly serviceable 3 star minihack and a perfectly cromulent waste of 10 minutes.

As it stands, the community's collective reaction to this hack (both in these reviews and while it was in development) is a sure witness of Metroid Construction's meaner, nastier, and more elitist side.

Folks, please don't ever disappoint me like this ever again.

2.5/5

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