This topic is for the purpose of discussing #5930: Hoandjzj's SNES Super Metroid Y-Faster "100%" in 24:34.09

Loving all the Super Metroid we've been getting. Yes vote.

I actually watched this before submission as it was available for a while now. >Game is more made for the sake of the speedrunning scene. Hm, okay. From observations on more notable hacks, we already have; Metroid Super ZeroMission and MockingBird Station TASed. So it'll have to go against actual more notable Metroid Hacks. In preference, I'd rather wished you went to MockingBird and create a 100% route, or actually grab a more notable Super Metroid hack that's been circulating. As for the Hack itself, it's designed for speedrunning in mind. Which is notable by the IGT up top. It's not interesting of a hack and for a 100% that contains apparently nothing in exploration compared to Super ZeroMission, Jesus. Love the blue ball escape sequence of nothing. >What Is Love? going off in the background. And I'm done. Thanks for the copyright that we're going to get off of it I guess when this gets accepted. I'm leaning towards No in terms of Entertainment, and I might as well stick with that way I'm leaning towards.

For the most part the hack wasn't really interesting. Just felt like a really condensed version of the original game with a bunch of things shortened. Some of those are nice like transitions and item pickups but the bosses had their health drastically lowered for what felt like an attempt to arbitrarily appeal to speedrunners. Additionally, while changing the music can be cool, it was just slightly different pitches of existing Super Metroid songs and the ending result was questionable. Normally this would just be a meh. But then there was the "What is Love" at the end of it. Voting "No". EDIT: Would greatly prefer a TAS of any of the stronger Super Metroid hacks which I know are out there.

About SM hacks, here's a brilliant piece of research by ED that helps to see basic qualities of SM hacks (List_of_all_existing_rated_SM_hacks.txt document): Post #449604

>What Is Love? going off in the background. And I'm done. Thanks for the copyright that we're going to get off of it I guess when this gets accepted.

Haddaway is gonna get his!

No vote for what this hack does to Red Brinstar's theme. In all seriousness, I really feel like this hack has nothing to offer outside of shallow appeal for speedrunners. Problem is, you should never attempt to design a good speed game; design a good game, and people will speed run it. The items being placed so close together with little actual exploration (the bloody point of a Metroid game) does very little to get me exactly enthralled with this hack. The TASing itself looked just fine, but the hack is, frankly, mediocre at best. That ending can also die in a fire.

FWIW, this hack is rather well-regarded, being the community's 5th highest rated Super Metroid hack (source). Structurally, it's better to think of this hack as an open-world Mega Man game than a traditional, nominally linear Metroidvania. By that I mean that the four main areas of the game can be done in any order (stuff is slightly rebalanced to accommodate this), and the rewards they provide are useful in the other areas. This is the main appeal of the hack, both when playing casually and when speedrunning it. As for the TAS, I found it quite enjoyable. Thanks for making this.

I find the hack really cool visually. The new color palettes really add a whole new flair to the areas. The gameplay was entertaining enough. I found the spring ball movement underwater in the beginning curious: Is that in the vanilla game too, or does the hack change the game physics? As far as entertainment goes, yes vote.

When hack is taken by professional composer. 10/10 or even 100/100 for remixes. Very cool music. Not all, but most. But for entetainment's searchers... hmm... better way is looking at original game. No vote.

From a standpoint of the run itself, namely, the technical aspects, it's a great run. Lots of tricks, some sequence breaking, what's not to love there? The hack itself looks pretty nice from a graphical standpoint. Even a few of its sound remixes are nice. Some. That ending... what. No. Why? That said, I voted Meh. It feels cheapened when something built to be speedrun is indeed speedrun. A lot of the entertainment value is lost. It feels like shooting fish in a barrel. In VATS.

om, nom, nom... crunchy!