

Graphics and sound were top-notch and it played like an official Metroid 2D title! The demo is big enough to get some upgrades and there’s at least one boss, however due to the controls, I probably stopped about halfway through the demo. I think aiming with a mouse was interesting, but so far, I think using a modern controller with a D-Pad to run and an analog stick to aim would be a far better option. This was insanely frustrating!!! Now, I need to once again reiterate that this is a beta and I’m sure the team will eventually add more control options, but I often found myself letting go of the mouse to use two hands to jump and run. You aim and shoot with the mouse and control Samus with the keyboard: A is left, D is right and Space is jump.

The game opens with a very cool cutscene, then drops you on the planet in the same way you’d expect from a 2D Metroid title: You “park” your ship on the planet’s surface and can come back to it for saving and health replenishment. I didn’t have time to test on a CRT, but I imagine it would look amazing on an RGB monitor.

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This seemed to scale well on my laptop’s 1080p screen, as well as when I connected it to a 4K TV. It can run fullscreen, or in a windowed resolution that’s about what you’d expect from “widescreen 240p” (the screenshot said 448×253). People have had mixed results running it on other OS’. The game was tested to run on Windows 10, 64-bit, which is how I ran it. Here’s a pretty much spoiler-free description of what to expect: I spent some time with it this morning and for the most part, think it’s absolutely amazing. A beta version is available that lets you get a few items, as well as get a sense of what the game is like. A team of people have been working on a 2D version of the GameCube game Metroid Prime.
