Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 1
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davidnHaving now just about reached a point where I'm no longer utterly sick of the sight of Powerdirector, I've decided to open a new semi-grand project in the form of an extended Stumbling Through of Super Metroid.
This was inspired by the game suddenly landing in the hands of a large number of stupid people via its release on the Virtual Console, which led to a load of posts on Twitter by idiots who can't get past the first obstacles. Or so it seemed - to prove or disprove this, I decided to play through the game myself to see if I could do any better. Wish me luck.
In this first episode, I learn the backstory, bumble around finding my feet, and then get eaten by a fishbeast.
http://youtu.be/bYskLMl1jS8
To disclose fully: I have played this game before, but it was in fifteen-minute bursts on a train on the way in and back from work, and consequently I could never remember what I was supposed to be doing or where I had been or where to go next at any time. Just about everything that I see this time around honestly seems new to me.
This was inspired by the game suddenly landing in the hands of a large number of stupid people via its release on the Virtual Console, which led to a load of posts on Twitter by idiots who can't get past the first obstacles. Or so it seemed - to prove or disprove this, I decided to play through the game myself to see if I could do any better. Wish me luck.
In this first episode, I learn the backstory, bumble around finding my feet, and then get eaten by a fishbeast.
http://youtu.be/bYskLMl1jS8
To disclose fully: I have played this game before, but it was in fifteen-minute bursts on a train on the way in and back from work, and consequently I could never remember what I was supposed to be doing or where I had been or where to go next at any time. Just about everything that I see this time around honestly seems new to me.
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Date: 2013-05-21 11:09 am (UTC)As an aside, Ceres is an actual (dwarf) planet and everything, floating around in the asteroid belt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29 - which means that this is happening in our own solar system! ("I see, I was wrong, it was Earth all along, yes you've finally made a monkey out of meeeeee!" etc.)
D.F.