Metroid Reborn (Fan-Game)

[Recker]

I thought I'd make a topic about my Fan-Game: Metroid Reborn.

Well I suppose I'll start off with a little description, MR is a Top-down perspective Metroid game, based after basically right after the events of Fusion and Samus is heading back to the Federation HQ, when she picks up a Space Pirate signal, and she tracks it to a small two planet solar system, Upon entry of the second planets atmosphere she gets attacked by Ridley who forces her to crash land on the planet, which is where the gameplay begins.

One major difference between this and other Metroid games is the fact that there is no jumping, involved, which in my opinion is a very large part of the Metroid games, but I am replacing that with larger maps more morphball puzzles and tunnels and secrets and stuff. Alot of the features will be based off Metroid Prime like for example the Beam system. There will also be a few challenging boss fights, There is gonna be at least 2 Fights with Ridley, and I'm planning one with Kraid aswell.

Well here is a link to the old version, I say old because I lost the editable file when i downgraded from windows 7 RC to Vista but I have remade most of what I lost.

BETA VIDEO

Sorry for the crappy quality video, I'll try to remember to make a better quality one sometime, (I don't have internet at home )

UPDATE!

Check out the new video, Metroids isn't it exciting...
YouTube


umm yeah if you have any questions or maybe some suggestions just post something, or whatever.

EDIT: I haven't updated in a while so I thought I'd say one.

Development is going slow at the moment, unfortunately, I should get some good work on it next weekend if I don't get any more damned assignments.

Any way here is some screen shots for y'all

Item Collect Screen

Droppin' Bombs

Charging Ma Lazor, in the Rapidsuit

Whaaa?!?! is that the Phazonsuit?


Yeah, I'm going to try and work the basic enemies in this week, and maybe a Space Pirate and hopefully a Metroid, then I might release the demo, I'm thinking of like a survival mode, where you get given an item then you have to survive a wave of enemies then you go again with a new item, or something along those lines.

Also if you want to help just throw me a PM, I could use some help with graphics and music and SFX.

[Lazarius]

Neat idea!

I like how the morphball is like, super fast travel.

[Satch]

I love this. I cannot wait.

Question though (and this is just my curiosity - not me trying to criticize you in any way); what made you decide to make the game top-down?

[Recker]

Well when I first thought of it I was starting my first year of High School, and I had a tiny look aroud and found that there was no other Metroid games of this type, so I thought I might give it a go, after the first couple of engines I made, I sorta stopped for a couple of years, then I started for a bit and then stopped again, now I've restarted back up, and yeah, there are a couple of top-down Metroids now, but I still think and know that mine was the first.

[-ChozoChild-]

I love this concept, I'm interested in knowing how everything else will work out.
I know you need some help. I wouldn't helping you, however I am going to China about a week.

Good luck with this project it looks really solid, nice job I hope you finish it.

[Recker]

UPDATE!

Check out the new video, Metroids isn't it exciting...

Also I updated the main page with this.

YouTube

Pretty sweet, man! Only negative is that the music in the first vid is a bit obnoxious, but whatever, it looks awesome!

[Satch]

Getting more and more slick by the update!

The action looks pretty fast, too.

[LesserChozo]

When are we getting a playable demo?

[Recker]

That's a good question, it all depends on my TAFE assignments, if I can get them out of the way and get some time to work on it, I think I could get it out about a week after that, but to give an estimate time I would say about 2-3 weeks, which is long I know but it's hard doing all this by myself.

[sharonlover]

just watched the video's you got up and this looks like an interesting project. can't wait to see where it goes.

[1upD]

I love Metroid fangames and this looks very good, I can't wait to see the finished version. I'm just curious about one thing though...If it's supposed to be after Metroid Fusion, why are Samus' ship and armor normal?

[Recker]

I love Metroid fangames and this looks very good, I can't wait to see the finished version. I'm just curious about one thing though...If it's supposed to be after Metroid Fusion, why are Samus' ship and armor normal?

Very good question, That will actually be explained in the game, fairly close to the start where Samus will have a fairly major fight with someone.

I'm still working on this but pretty slowly at the moment, it's hard to do everything by myself, I'm thinking about getting a small team together to help me with various things, and I'm also putting together a site for the game, partly as an assignment for TAFE and partly cause it needs one.

If anyone wants to contribute something to the game, you're very welcome to, just send a PM to let me know, Thanks.

[Chipou]

im a lil curious....because its top down...will there be any point to using morphball? also will there be hidden destructable walls?

[Recker]

im a lil curious....because its top down...will there be any point to using morphball? also will there be hidden destructable walls?

Yes there will be morphball only areas along with hidden destructable walls, also the morphball will be usefull for perfoming quick dodges out of harms way, sorta like the sense move from Other M but it requires a manual push of the morph button.