Posts made by Miles07

I'm planning on reviewing some of these to create multiple versions of each sector based on the current mission. I wonder if that'll be more legible and helpful.

Here's a condensed version of the above charts, showing what the whole of the Alimbic Cluster looks like in terms of item dependencies:

Also includes the sequence needed for the good ending. Spoiler alert?

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Being inspired by Gamemaker's Toolkit's first season of its mini-series Boss Keys, which is a series that looks into the design philosophies of Zelda dungeons in terms of layout, I decided to do something similarly for the Metroid series. This idea was fueled by things like item randomizer algorithms and 100%-speedruns, because I wanted to find a way to chart out the areas of Metroid in an attempt to facilitate pathing and maybe even help Metroid fangame makers to think about design and gating in their games.

Hunters was a pretty neat challenge, despite the teleportation shenanigans and limited sets of keys and locks - I think it's still a neat design aspect to investigate.

@amwolfmusic For me it wasn't so much unease because Retro wasn't developing it, so much as nobody knew definitively who was developing it. Now knowing who is the development team, helps me form an idea as to the kind of quality to expect.

Multiplied by the fact that it's Retro again, and it's a bonus.

Here's a condensed version of the above charts, showing what the whole of Tallon IV looks like in terms of item dependencies:

Will revise

Similarly to Magmoor, the Pirate Labs are set up like a series of rooms to traverse, but the obstacles to overcome in order to travel from room to room are more combat scenarios than actual locks-and-keys, until reaching the Thermal Visor.

While Magmoor itself is set up like a long hallway, there are very few obstacles set up from room to room that prevent traversal, until reaching the Spider Ball track in Twin Fires Tunnel. This explains the long horizontal lines in the vertical middle of this graph.

Important to note is that puzzles involving the Scan Visor are not included or depicted, as you're supposed to start with it. This includes "puzzles" like "scan these 4 symbols around the room" and "scan this console to unlock the door".

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There isn't a real need to have this one, but I just wanted to add it for thoroughness. The locks on here correspond to ability tutorials: the Charge Beam for clearing a blocked passageway, the Morph Ball for squeezing through tunnels and into the Map Room, and Missiles for taking out Sentry Turrets. Then there's the one room with the Grapple Beam tutorial, and also the point where you lose your items.

Being inspired by Gamemaker's Toolkit's first season of its mini-series Boss Keys, which is a series that looks into the design philosophies of Zelda dungeons in terms of layout, I decided to do something similarly for the Metroid series. This idea was fueled by things like item randomizer algorithms and 100%-speedruns, because I wanted to find a way to chart out the areas of Metroid in an attempt to facilitate pathing and maybe even help Metroid fangame makers to think about design and gating in their games.

Metroid Prime was pretty easy to do, but I ran into the question of whether or not to include each room by name. It definitely helps with preliminary organization, but I eventually decided against keeping it like that for the final publication versions of the charts.

@young-kondo Which is why both Prime 4 and a future Metroid 5 need to be done right. If these aspects are not taken into account and the games turn out to be big... well, flops... then that's all she wrote for the series.