Title says it all. One of the common complaints I’ve heard about Super Metroid (especially in comparison to Zero Mission and/or Fusion) is that the game is too slow. The word clunky also gets thrown around, but I never take that as a valid complaint against anything because it’s vague as fuck. This complaint always bothered me, as I always considered the later games to be slower.

Well, I eventually took the time to actually check that shit. I recorded how long it takes Samus to get from one end of a one map square wide room to the other in all 3 games at varying speeds (Walk, Run, Speedboost, Shinespark, and lastly Ballspark for shits). This is what I found out:
Super’s walking speed is marginally slower than Zero Mission’s, which is in-turn, slower than Fusion’s by a fair amount.
Every speed from Running and up, Super is faster. By a sizable margin.
Zero Mission & Fusion have a Walk speed. The problem is that they basically have Autorun turned on. Also, the speed increase is small instead of how large it is in Super.
Zero Mission’s Ballspark is humourously enough, the fasted speed you can go in said game.
At every speed, Fusion is faster than Zero Mission. This makes Zero Mission the slowest of the 3 games.

If you’re curious, I recorded some of my testing footage, and then also made some videos where I spliced clips together. Though this was more to test my video editing software than anything else. It can be downloaded here.

That’s all. Just wanted to get that out there. Super’s the fastest Metroid. Peace.

I’m juggling too many games again.
Damn it.

I haven’t touched a recording in awhile, despite the fact that I’m still getting them.
As such, I’m way behind on ESM work.
I’ll get to it eventually though.

Oh, I just noticed that my last post was my 100th post.
Awesome. I hit that landmark with a nod to OoT.

Ocarina of Time!
Although I’m late by an hour and a half or so, oh well!

Here’s to thee.

At least, that’s what I want my plans for D&D; to do.
They will prevail.

I wanted to do D&D; sometime last week.
It’s now a week later.
Damn it.

I still want to do D&D.;
I must work out a plan of attack.
We must join our brethren in battle, so rally the troops!
There isn’t much time left. WE MARCH AT DAWN.

…Um.

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DISCLAIMER: The time period known as “DAWN” has yet to be decided upon by the owner/author/creator of this blog. Misunderstandings are at your own peril, by risk of being cast into a fiery pit of something not entirely unlike doom.

EDIT: ESM Status is still unknown. I’m a lazy fuck. My apologies.