Underplayed Gems

Super Metroid: Rotation (2016)

Super Metroid: Rotation cover
Developer
SMILEuser96
Publisher
Metroid Construction
Platforms
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Genres
Shooter, Platform, Adventure
Main story
about 10 hours
Completionist
about 12 hours

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The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Super Metroid rotated 90 degrees — walls become floors in this mind-bending perspective-flipped hack.

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About

It's Super Metroid, but on its side. Play the game with the ground tilted vertically. Samus and the enemies remain upright and the controls are the same, but the game world itself is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. In short, everything that used to be ground is now a wall.

Screenshots

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