Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance) - Let's Play 1001 Games - Episode 869
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Metroid: Zero Mission
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid:_Zero_Mission
Metroid: Zero Mission[a] is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance on February 9, 2004. It is a remake of the original Metroid (1986), and retells the story with updated visuals and gameplay.
Like other Metroid games, the player controls bounty hunter Samus Aran, who travels to planet Zebes after learning that the Space Pirates are experimenting with Metroids, hostile parasitic creatures. The gameplay focuses on exploration, with the player searching for power-ups to reach previously inaccessible areas. The remake adds items, additional areas, mini-bosses, difficulty levels and a rewritten story that explores Samus's past.
Zero Mission received acclaim for its new content, graphics, gameplay and improvements over the original, though it received minor criticism for its short length. The game received several honors, including a 46th-place ranking in a list of the Top 200 Games compiled by Nintendo Power. It was also named the ninth-best Game Boy Advance game by IGN. It had sold over 439,000 units in the United States and 69,000 in Japan as of February 2005. The game was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan on June 19, 2014, in PAL regions on March 12, 2015, and in North America on January 14, 2016.
Metroid: Zero Mission was directed by Yoshio Sakamoto, a Nintendo veteran who has been involved with the Metroid series since its debut with the Nintendo Entertainment System game,[8][9] and has played a role in every game in the series except for Metroid II: Return of Samus.[10] Sakamoto was the only member of the original Metroid development team to work on Zero Mission.[8]
While working on the concept for the next Metroid game after Metroid Fusion was released in 2002,[8] one of the developers for Fusion suggested that Super Metroid be ported to the Game Boy Advance, but Sakamoto decided to port the original Metroid instead.[11] The development team decided to return to the roots of Metroid gameplay by creating a game based on the NES original. Sakamoto, noting that Fusion's gameplay and structure were drastically different from previous games, wanted to "show people who had never played a Metroid game prior to Fusion, the roots of the Metroid franchise, that this is what Metroid is, this is the style of gameplay that Metroid sprang from [...] at the same time, retell the story of Samus's original mission".[8]