Metroid: Terror (Working Title)

[Got_Metroid]

Ok, so I’ve been working on an engine for about a week now and so far I have Samus’s basic abilities done.

Features:
8 directional aiming
Bomb jumping
Power Beam
Spin jump
Morphball

The story is still a WIP but I have a basic plot outline:

Metroid: Terror

Samus has just completed her adventure in the Alimbic Cluster and is weary after the long battle with Gorea. Samus flies off to the Federation ship Hercules to tell her Commanding Officer the good news. The CO explains to Samus that on the ship is a new experimental time travelling device, and that it must not fall in to the wrong hands. Just then a giant explosion goes off in the ship’s main deck… Space Pirates are attacking!

After a short level on the Hercules, you find out the time travelling tech has been stolen and Samus must now go to planet Laceema and retrieve the stolen tech.

Download Link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ppg08g
(Hope you enjoy the maze!)

Updates:
1.1 Fixed various glitches

[SNIPER]

If you ever read the plot of any Metroid game, you would notice that they never continue right after a game (i.e. Samus destroys Motherbrain and happily tells her Commanding officer, then gets shipped to SR388). Your beginning sounds a little to… happy and cliche’d. It would be better of to omit the part where she happily reports to her commanding officer and just get to the part about the time machine.

[Redhalberd]

@SNIPER @ Sep 9 2007

If you ever read the plot of any Metroid game, you would notice that they never continue right after a game (i.e. Samus destroys Motherbrain and happily tells her Commanding officer, then gets shipped to SR388). Your beginning sounds a little to… happy and cliche’d. It would be better of to omit the part where she happily reports to her commanding officer and just get to the part about the time machine.

I second this entire post.

The plot is just a little cheezy and unmetroid. A time machine?

“Samus returns to federation federation flagship to give the Omega cannon to secure hands, and receive her reward.”~Something like that.

But the part about the time machine sounds bad. Samus just goes there, and it happens to be a time machine? I doubt they’d ask her to go to a time machine just like that, even if they wanted her to protect it.

The engine is fine, but you might want to rethink the plot a little.

[Got_Metroid]

Yeah you guys are right. Thanks for the suggestions.

What would you suggest I do with the storyline then?

[Troid92]

The part about continuing right after Hunters is perfectly fine, as Super Metroid takes place right away after Metroid II.

A “time machine” sounds like it could be interesting as long as it’s pretty limited technology. As in, it can only speed up or reverse time for someone, or (since that’s kind of cliche) something similar. You could work that into the game by having pirate experiments using that technology and giving Samus a “time suit” of some sorts or something. Just try to avoid making it too complicated and open for plot holes… because time machines can easily rip apart a plot. They might make for cool puzzles, though.

You also have to come up with a reason for the GF telling Samus of the time machine technology, other than “help us protect it in case there’s an attack or something lol oh noez here it comes”. Also be sure to come up with something better than the only solution I can come up with at the moment. (“warnings from the future” )

[Got_Metroid]

I don’t really need to stick with the time machine thing, I just thought that up today. I’m mainly concentrating on a good engine before the game.

Could you guys just throw ideas around a little? I’ll take anything that’s good and I’ll build on it.