Just finished my first play through _Metroid: Rogue Dawn_ – a romhack of the original _Metroid_ on the NES which completely reworks it into a prequel with a vastly different story, different protagonist, new items, wholly new layouts and graphics, new soundtrack, built-in saving (no more passwords!), a map system....
It's really good. If you can stomach some of the original game's quirks (janky physics, lag, hitting Select for missiles) it's definitely worth your time.
@ElectricKeet this looks like a super-fancy hack
i might have to give this a shot!
@ElectricKeet metroid had a lot of secrets too! so many strange places you could morph ball bomb your way into
that game was also extremely hard without grinding for health though
hm, i wonder how this compares...
@thingywott It's totally worth your time. I ended up spending over seven hours in it, but a lot of that was in getting lost and trying to find secrets (which there are a zillion of!)