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PsychoSoldier said:

Zero Mission is a great game. Been a loooong time since I played. Maybe I pick it up again this year?

I have been tempted to play the demo, but since nothing carries over, I'm just gonna hold out until the full game plays so I can get the experience raw

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the nibelheim incident part is the very beginning of the game, and obvs a flashback, so while progression and stuff like that won't carry over, they have said if you play the demo that you'll be able to skip that part on the full release. so that's kinda nice. you also get two bonus items if you have demo save data: a charm that nets you extra resources and a kit of survival items like potions and junk. so there's at least some incentive to play it now.

and i definitely recommend running through zero mission again. it's such a quick game but so satisfying when it comes to scratching the metroid itch.

1. prince of persia: the lost crown (PC)
2. metroid: zero mission (GBA/emulation)

watched the super metroid VOD of one of my favorite streamers and that got me in the mood to play a metroid. i played zero mission years ago, got absolutely tilted by the mother brain spaghettio orgy and ended up quitting. decided to start the game again last night, and just finished it. 4.5 hours, 63% discovery rate. it's such an amazing game, the bullshit mother brain room notwithstanding. with the additional polish and quality of life improvements taken from super metroid and fusion, and the expansion of the original games story, this honestly might be the most perfect metroid game. tight in story, in gameplay and in time spent.

i did also start the rebirth demo, but stopped maybe halfway through. gonna pick it back up when they release the second part, the junon open world area. hopefully that'll take me right into the full release with little down time inbetween.

gonna copy this over from the other thread:

1. prince of persia: the lost crown (PC)

just finished the prince of persia: the lost crown. final clock time was 27.5 hours and 90% completion. really, really great metroidvania. absolutely loved the story, which i wasn't expecting. the map is huge, the movement very fluid, responsive and fun and the combat is pretty great, though there's a few complaints i have about it. the controls for combat definitely didn't feel as responsive as for movement, and group fights are kind of a pain in the ass. they want you to parry a lot, but in a 2d pov, it's hard to tell what some enemies are doing when assets start to overlap on each other. but outside of the standard difficulty presets, they let you mess with sliders for a bunch of stuff like damage, parry window, etc. i chose the second highest difficulty and didn't mess with the sliders, so some of my issues i probably could have mitigated, but whatevs. highly recommend it if you're into metroidvanias.