Top Hacks
Introduction -- Best Aesthetics -- Most Creative Gameplay -- Best Quick Play -- Best Challenge -- Best Exploration -- Best Overall -- Closure
Best Aesthetics 2015
Award
Winner: Hyper Metroid by RealRed
Hyper Metroid brilliantly combines the original game's graphics and tilesets with rich palettes and subtle tweaks to construct a world that seems familiar yet foreign, even to those of us who have played myriad hacks. It encapsulates what makes Super Metroid hacks great, and even to this day holds up as one of the most gorgeous Metroid hacks ever made. RealRed's eye for colour and design shines through in the aesthetics of Hyper Metroid.
- Miranda Gemini

Like vanilla but different. It's on the same level!
- Oi27

All of these are quite good though Hyper Metroid impressed me the best visually. SLG almost got my vote but I felt that its backgrounds were hard to separate from foreground, as they are too bright.
- Cosmic

It was a tie between Hyper and Lost World but Hyper won because the execution was done a lot better.
- Webber1900

purple brinstar and ridley's lair look absolutely surreal
- shaktool7

Hyper does one thing well. That's this category.
- MetroidMst

They all have good visuals, Lost World having the more unique being lost exploration aesthetics and SLG is also unique and lush. But Hyper, while not being really unique, edges everyone in term of simply "Does the overall screen looks good", in Hyper every colors pop, the black n white contrast is respected and everything is easily readable.
- benox50

colors
- RT-55J


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