/vr/ - Retro Games

Literally impossible.

What the hell are THESE little dudes? I was playing at 3 AM and found this secret corner and it freaked me out. They appear friendly as shit and sing a little song. I want one of my own. Can someone explain to me the lore around them as they are literally the only friendly beings on that whole planet.

Fuck this game and his walljump broken mechanics!
It's probably the one and only one flaw in the game. You only need it for one part I think, but it is a broken mechanic. It's got nothing to do with requiring "skill", Super Metroid is not a very skill-intensive game and having one move that you only need in one specific part that is just insanely difficult to pull off is poor design.
Bullshit. It's a broken mechanic, it's insanely difficult to pull off consistently, and there's no feedback in the game to tell you what you're doing wrong. Aside from those little animal dudes, there's literally no way you could ever figure out that that's a possible move except through blind luck, and figuring out how to reproduce it is incredibly difficult in a game that is otherwise pretty easy. Watching that video just highlights how broken it is, you have to be flipping and press two buttons simultaneously at the exact right split second, it's a skill once you know how to do it but figuring out how to do it (or even that you can do it at all) is blind luck.

It's more of an exploit like bomb jumping than an actual mechanic, except unlike bomb jumping there is actually a part of the game that requires you to use it without any real explanation. If that one part of the game weren't there then it wouldn't be a broken mechanic, but it is there and it is. Pretty much the only flaw in the whole game.