Metroid Fusion

The sound is phenomenal.

Easily THE Game of 2002 in my book.

Fusion is so good that if it weren't for the small, unlit screen, you wouldn't even be able to tell that it is a "portable" game.

A little too short, but the secrets are bountiful, and the addition of power-ups that potentially fight back is sublimely ingenious.

While the gameplay is faster, and more responsive than ever before, MF manages to feel even more claustophobic than in the past. That's a good thing. [Feb 2003, p.75]

A throwback to "Super Metroid," offering most of that game's best qualities in an all-new adventure. It's disappointing that Fusion ends so soon, since it's such a great game while it lasts.

It may be nearly devoid of the exploration aspects that older fans appreciate, but it is still a game that all GBA owners can cherish.

This might be a more linear title than previous entries, but the game uses this entirely to its advantage. What it lacks in pure unhindered exploration it makes up for with great story telling and a sense of.. dread. An excellent line up of bosses to fight, a tense narrative that feels like a horror movie at times, and what I consider to be the coolest setting of any Metroid game culminate in a truly incredible entry in the series that no fan can afford to miss.

Has the same grade as Metroid zero mission, but this one is more various. Also the exploration and finding secret passages are harder in this game compared to zero mission, idk maybe I'm just too dumb for this game.

Problematic game, my vote is more like 6.5 I know it was a different time, but wtf were they thinking making some roadblocks were you can only progress from one boss/encounter, the boss is not only very hard, band they made the save point very far from it, making it very frustrating. Also the game is terrible to 100% since the map is big and gives 0% info of where in the areas you have found everything and were not, so you would need to search everywhere constantly. That being said the game has good level design and while the exploration is artificialy limited, it's still satisfying to find power ups.

4- OK. This game has 9.5 review score…?! I’m open to the idea that im just wrong but I don’t like much about this game… Samus’ design, the X design, the SA-X being just a visual copy of Samus, the Adam computer telling you where to go between each chapter, Samus’ internal monologues, the sector layout of the map… etc. Individual levels are about on par with other 2D Metroids, and the bosses are right there with Supers boss lineup, which for me, means not great. Game controls better than super but worse than Zero mission. The visual style isn’t for me either, with more bright coloring & outlandish designs. Fusion was the beginning of the end, as it were, since everything that is wrong with modern Metroid started here. The Federation, the de-allurification of Samus’ character, linearity. It’s all here. It’s amazing I dislike so much about this game since while I played I could see so much of Dread in it, a game I adore. Goes to show Fusion did have some brilliant ideas like the minor horror elements with SA-X which would later be revisited with the EMMI. It’s just a mixed bag ****. The Metroid core wasn’t completely obscured by all the changes but they are distracting from what’s good about Fusion.

An incredible, creepy, and excellent game destroyed by an absolutely brutal final boss fight sequence.