Link is for the final of four parts and the actual gameplay equates to more like seven hours or so.
A challenging hack that trusts you to know what you are doing, and squeezes a lot of ideas in at once. Somehow in my stream run of this I missed the plasma beam, boost ball AND spazer - which meant I went into the final area with a weak beam and a dream.
The challenge amps up from area to area and the hack has some very creative ideas with boss fights (He Comes II is probably my favourite boss in a romhack so far). The hack looks great, sounds great, plays great and has a variable challenge if you decide to skip items (or are an idiot like me and miss them entirely).
Hyper Metroid SUPER by RealRed [ Total Conversion],
rated by S_K on Apr 20, 2025 ()
Hyper was my romhacking cherry, the first, the daddy, the one that got me into playing them and made me integrate them into my streaming routine. It was gonna be hard to top it... but this remaster managed to do so.
It doesn't exactly -repalce- Hyper (because the OG version is still really good) but it does cut out a significant amount of meandering and removes a lot of the more obtuse elements the OG version has. The combat rebalance has been done really well, the changes to the map mean that you can never quite rely on prior experience to guide you, and whilst the guiding hand is firm and can feel insistent, I have already seen places that I think 'I could sequence break here'.
On balance I prefer this version and I'd argue that this is now the jumping-in point for romhacking newcomers to play.
Exploration],
rated by S_K on Apr 20, 2025 (
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