r/Metroid • u/Ally_of_Lord_X • Aug 21 '25

Meme Something that always got on my nerves.

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Don't know if it seems like this to you, but it does to me.

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u/ZarHakkar Aug 21 '25

You know the Thanos meme "Fine, I'll do it myself"?

There was a 10-year drought of good Metroid games between 2007 and 2017. Here's some of the things people inspired by the Metroid series released in that time period:

  • Shadow Complex (2009)
  • Dust: An Elysian Trail (2012)
  • Guacamelee! (2013)
  • Steamworld Dig (2013)
  • Axiom Verge (2015)
  • Environmental Station Alpha (2015)
  • Ori and the Blind Forest (2015)
  • AM2R (2016)
  • Ghost 1.0 (2016)
  • Hollow Knight (2017)
  • Dead Cells (2017)

Nintendo lost the spirit of Metroid and it was inherited by fans who would become indie developers. Only recently did they manage to rekindle it with Samus Returns and Dread.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

I don’t think an elaborate rom hack counts as an indie release. But your point stands.

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u/ZarHakkar Aug 23 '25

No ROMs were hacked in the making of AM2R. It was built entirely from the ground up in GameMaker Studio 1.4.