Metroid Planets is a Fan Remake of the 1986 Nintendo Entertainment System game Metroid created by vacantshade.
It updates Samus' movement and adds a saving system, among other features. The game is called Metroid Planets because of its multiple maps. Planet Zebeth is a remake of the original Metroid. Planet Novus is a whole new map with new bosses and new areas. Selecting Planet Enigma will bring you to a room creator and a map generator that uses those rooms to create a world. (If you go to the Discord linked in the game menu, you can download a room pack and upload your own rooms.) The game also has online multiplayer.
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Tropes:
- Always Accurate Attack: Super Mother Brain's Laser Brain Attack will always hit Samus, draining away about 120 energy (60 with Varia). She uses this four times in the fight.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Novus has Super Kraid at his size from Super Metroid onwards. Super Mother Brain is her typical screen-filling size as well.
- Ascended Glitch: The original game contains a bug where Samus can jump in mid-air after unmorphing from her Morph Ball form. It was recoded into Planets as an intentional feature, though it doesn't work if Samus unmorphs after jumping in Morph Ball form via the Spring Ball.
- Berserk Button: Rapidly shooting missiles into Super Ridley will cause him to ram Samus into the wall of his arena, draining a lot of health.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Alongside the existing bug enemies from the original game, version 1.27f added an original spider enemy called Yakchi.
- The Bus Came Back: Spore Spawn appears as a boss in Enigma, with their only official appearance being in Super Metroid, released all the way back in 1994.
- Call-Forward: The Novus map features Ridley, Kraid, and Mother Brain battles straight out of Super Metroid.
- The remade Kraid's Lair theme and Brinstar's theme in Zebeth are demakes of their versions from Metroid: Zero Mission, and Norfair's theme in Zebeth is based on it's remix from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
- Denial of Diagonal Attack: Samus is stuck to aiming either forwards or upwards in Zebeth and Novus ala the original game. Downplayed in Enigma, where she can aim down as well.
- Fan Remake: Of Metroid
- Guide Dang It!: The Zebeth map is a direct recreation of the original Metroid's map, with no indications of the secret passages existing being added.
- Giant Spider: The Enigma-exclusive Yakchi is half as tall as Samus is, and appears even taller when hanging from the ceiling.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Super Mother Brain blasts through the barriers containing some of her Metroids with her last Laser Brain Attack, causing them to swarm her and drain away her Life Energy.
- Jungle Japes: Brinstar in the Novus and Engima maps is based on it's incarnation from Super Metroid.
- King Mook: Giant variants of Sidehoppers appear as enemies in Enigma. They deal increased damage and require five missiles in order to kill.
- Lethal Lava Land: Ridley (and, to a lesser degree, Norfair) in all three of the maps.
- Level Editor: One exists for creating rooms in the Enigma mode, which are randomly chosen when the game generates a new map.
- Man-Eating Plant: Samus Eaters appear as obstacles in Novus and are one of the many objects that can be used in Enigma.
- Randomly Generated Levels: The Enigma mode consists of multiple worlds that are user-generated rooms connected together into one big map.
- Mini-Boss: Spore Spawn reappears as a miniboss in Enigma.
- Mutually Exclusive Power-Ups: Like the original game, Zebeth only allows for equipping the Wave or Ice Beams without the ability to combine the two, though it's downplayed here since they can be switched on or off via the pause menu. Adverted completely in Novus and Enigma, where both beams are able to be combined together.
- Original Character: Yakchi is the only enemy in the game to not come from a preexisting Metroid game.
- Optional Boss:
- The original versions of Kraid and Ridley in Novus are only guarding the Varia Suit and Screw Attack respectively, neither of which are items required to beat the game.
- Depending on the Engima world, this trope has a chance to apply to every boss except for Mother Brain.
- Sequence Break:
- The trick from the original game to skip Ridley and Kraid and thus enter Tourian early is still present on Zebeth, and it's made even easier via infinite bomb jumps.
- In Novus, it's possible to skip chunks of Ridley and Kraid's lairs by bomb jumping through passages that are intended to be used as shortcuts to exit them.
- Techno Wreckage: The Wrecked Ship appears as an area in Enigma maps.
- Wipe the Floor with You: Super Ridley in Novus is able to grab Samus and drag her down the walls in his boss room.
- Video Game Randomizer: Zebeth and Novus have options to randomize what items are found at what locations.
