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Fap, fap, fap... Metroid 2 Remake... Fap, fap, fap
Haxan | 11:43 AM on 02.22.2008 15 comments


Okay, this is just really friggin' awesome! Like Unbelievably awesome. Like amazingly unbelievably awesome. Like, the sort of awesome that you only get the slightest glimpse of, but then that glimpse moves you to the point of obsession. An obsession that would lead you to mutilate all the contenders of the Puppy Bowl if it were asked of you, so long as you could see more.

Milton (the Magnificent [I call him that. He doesn't refer to himself as this {though he should, because he deserves it <at least he does should he be able to pull this off>}]) from Argentina has undertaken the task of recreating the GameBoy Mono classic Metroid 2 into the image of Metroid: Zero Mission!

Here's some comparison shots from his blog of the work in progress:













The country of Argentina should publicly declare this 27 year-old wunderkind a national treasure and give him his own holiday. Imagine, Milton the Magnificent Day, every January the 3rd (celebrating the day that he first went public with his work). Then the US should follow suit, and co-opt this very important day of celebration and make it its very own. A day of drinking. And video game playing. You know, what Christmas was meant to be!

Then the stone cold reality hits me. More often then not these projects amount to little in the end. Either because the IP-owners interfere with their cease-and-decist orders (like the 3D Chrono Trigger remake), or because the creators just didn't have it in them to see the project through to completion (to many examples to list) or because of death (the tragic loss of the creator of the 2D Ocarina of Time remake). So, could we actually see this become a reality? Well, it couldn't hurt to got to Mr. Magnificent's blog and cheer him on. Give him your support. Tell him what an amazing source of inspiration he is. Promise to name a child after him should he finish it (Milton's not a bad name after all, and not so very common [why, in High School I had a class with three other kids with my name- He'd never have that problem]). Hell, you could promise to give him your first born. I mean, if he can do this with ancient GameBoy Mono game, think of what he could do with the spawn of your loins... and, and um... some duct tape!



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BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
I am a ghey (or does that mean just straight, just call it a whore) for Metroid but I will believe it when I see it. And if he messes up the gameplay...the Omega Metroid would be the last thing he has to worry about.
Snaileb 's Destructoid Blog
Pretty cool.
The GHost's Destructoid Blog
It certainly looks the part. Here's hoping he nails the controls.
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
This is nice... I hope it plays like Super Metroid Zero Mission
Haxan's Destructoid Blog
In his blog he goes over a bit about how he worked in the wall grab. It certainly looks promising.
nademagnet's Destructoid Blog
God speed mister man, release it soon.
twister1988's Destructoid Blog
:O orgazim
Jetsetlemming's Destructoid Blog
Metroid 2 was the first one I really got into, and loved, and seeing it done good in a remake would be just the best fucking thing ever.

BTW the 2D Ocarina of Time guy never actually died, I'm pretty sure. It was fake.
Projectexodus's Destructoid Blog
Something tells me it wont see the light of day. Those projects never has...
BUT YES! MAKE IT COME!
Haxan's Destructoid Blog
@Jetsetlemming,
Fer Realzies?! I heard there was an entire thing with a car and an impact and a dead developer. Did he fake his death just to get out of the bad press that quitting would have given him? And here I thought that Zeus (or whomever [Shiva,, maybe?]) hated me destroying the person who was adding the one thing that OoT needed to make it an awesome game: a negative amount of the third dimension.

(I apologize for adding the above Professor Layton puzzle. The answer is, of course: they're both 6 years old.)
Haxan's Destructoid Blog
@Reaprar,
Oooooooh... If this is a repost then I humbly apologize. I even did a search to try and alleviate such a circumstance in advance and came up with nothing. If I am pissing all over a previous post, let me know and we'll get a link to the original going, or I'll even take this sucker off the air if I failed to add anything new to the discussion at all.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
Wow, now I want to post a blog with the sole purpose of seeing if Reaprar will piss all over it.

(PROTIP: I <3 my Reaprar)
Y0j1mb0's Destructoid Blog
Nice "Beat" Kitano Avatar.
Haxan's Destructoid Blog
@Y0j1mb0,
Nice Pei Mei avatar.
My happiest day around that time was hearing that Master Killer's Gordon Liu was going to be in Kill Bill Volume 1 as a random Kato clone. But seeing him as Pei Mei in Volume 2, holy shit! was that ever awesome!


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Legitimately beat Mike Tyson and went through Another World Circuit undefeated.

Beat the original Contra without dying. Twice.

Can land the damn plane in Top Gun and can also refuel in midair.

Can't beat Ghost & Goblins without the level select code and has never lied about it.

Thinks Friday the 13th is a great game even if the physics, controls and weapons are garbage.

Mario Paint caused him to buy a Super Nintendo and largely leave his Sega Genesis behind. He has played it more than most video games and wore down the mouse pad so that the grid only shows around the corners.

Has beaten Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers on the SNES on the hardest difficulty without losing a single round. Multiple times.

Is still friends with the girl who worked at a local game store and sold him Street Fighter II nearly 17 years ago.

Beat Final Fantasy 2 in a weekend when he was a kid, yet can't get through a role-playing game these days if his life depended on it.

Has never beaten Final Fantasy VII.

Prefers pads to sticks.

Likes the N64 controller.

Prefers the Duke to the S-controller.

Doesn't think that Super Mario 64 is all that great.

Got an Xbox mostly for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. And thinks it's a damn good game. Really.

Swore he would never buy a Game Boy Advanced SP, but immediately broke down once the NES edition came out. (And regarding the NES Classics series, true in-store dialogue: "Dude, are you serious?! They seriously expect people to pay 20 dollars a piece for games they can just downlo...Ooh! Zelda!")

Really liked the first Halo. (Well, there goes my dtoid cred.)

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Played the hell out of Animal Crossing: Wild World and hid that fact from nobody.

Stomped Brad Nicholson at Street Fighter IV, but had to resort to the cheapest of tactics in order to do so. ;)

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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cativo, 1966)
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
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4. The City of Lost Children (La Citι des enfants perdus, 1995)
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6. Strings (2004)
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8. The Big Lebowski (1998)
9. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
10. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Music-wise, my top 3 bands are The Pixies, The Velvet Underground and Radiohead. I listen to damn near every genre of music (except modern country. I yearn for the days of Hank Williams, Sr. and Tammy Wynette). Hit random on my mp3 player and you'll get everything from darkwave to hip hop to 80's synthpop. I karaoke pretty regularly. I can't sing, but I surround myself with people who can. Still, you've not experienced all there is in life until you've seen me proper butcher True by Spandau Ballet.

Then, as for the literary interests, my love lies with pulp detective novels of the thirties and forties. Raymond Chandler is simply the greatest ever. And Dashiell Hammett is just fantastic. Lately, I've been reading through Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles at Carollelogram's recommendation. Two books in and I have to say they're astonishing.

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•Does the Wii have RROD-type issues of its own?
•Okay, Nintendo. I guess that we can be friends again.
•Niero, do you have any idea what in the lobster milkshake you have done?! (dtoid 3rd anniversary post)
•10 things you might not have known about Haxan (but really only 8)
•Why Destructoid is awesome: Nilcam is the greatest edition (I honestly can't give Nilcam enough props for this.)
•Christmas shopping: Non-gaming, priest dad-style
•Bad Dye Job: A Darius Pickman Story
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