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>The high jump alone unlocks most of NES's map
The morph ball, 5 missiles, and bombs allows you to get into like 95% of all the rooms in the game outside of Tourian. I love how open the game is, it's what makes it stand out in the series and Zero Mission shits all over that. Metroid 1 is a truly open experience where you have so much freedom to explore and tackle things in almost any order the whole time, but Zero Mission is a completely linear experience that just goes, "Shoot this unmarked beam block to skip the Long Beam," "Break this unmarked missile block to fight Ridley first," "Break these unmarked speed booster blocks to do this other thing out of order," and whatever else. It never feels open or free, it feels even more constrained than Super Metroid in a lot of ways because every single alternate path is carefully planned out by the developers. That just makes it feel like all you're doing when sequence breaking is switching from one predetermined track to another rather than feeling like you outsmarted the game and got somewhere you're not supposed to be.

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>play NES Metroid for the first time>fight through a long hallway with whatever those swooping enemies are called>missile door at the…

>play NES Metroid for the first time
>fight through a long hallway with whatever those swooping enemies are called
>missile door at the…