Metroid: Zero Mission – Переосмысление Zebes

2004 video game

Metroid: Zero Mission (メトロイド ゼロミッション, Metoroido Zero Misshon) is a 2004 action adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is a remake of the original Metroid (1986), and retells the story with updated visuals and gameplay. Like other Metroid games, the player controls bounty hunter Samus Aran, who travels to planet Zebes after learning that the Space Pirates are experimenting with Metroids, hostile parasitic creatures. The gameplay focuses on exploration, with the player searching for power ups to reach previously inaccessible areas. The remake adds items, additional areas, mini bosses, difficulty levels and a rewritten story that explores Samus's past. Zero Mission released on February 9, 2004 to critical acclaim, with praise for its new content, graphics, gameplay and improvements over the original, though it received minor criticism for its short length. The game received several honors, including a 46th place ranking in a list of the Top 200 Games compiled by Nintendo Power. It was also named the ninth best Game Boy Advance game by IGN. It had sold over 487,000 units in the United States and 93,000 in Japan as of February 2005. The game was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan on June 19, 2014, in PAL regions on March 12, 2015, and in North America on January 14, 2016.

Metroid: Zero Mission takes place on Planet Zebes, a large, open ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators. The player controls Samus Aran as she travels through the planet's caverns and environments, hunting Space Pirates. Along the way, the player collects power ups that enhance Samus's armor and weaponry, as well as grant her special abilities. These abilities allow Samus to access areas that were previously inaccessible, so that the game can be played linearly or non linearly. For example, the player may come across caverns that bypass certain sections, a method termed sequence breaking. To save their progress, players can enter either Save Rooms or Samus's ship on Crateria. As a remake of Metroid, Metroid: Zero Missions layout bears a resemblance to the original, and various powerups and items make reappearances from previous games in the series, with similar uses, effects, and appearances. Completion of the game unlocks an emulated version of the original Metroid game. Zero Mission allows players to unlock the Metroid Fusion picture gallery by linking between Zero Mission and Fusion cartridges via the Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable. a robot built in the likeness of Ridley. After defeating it, Samus escapes the planet using one of the Space Pirate's shuttles, while the Mothership self destructs.

Metroid: Zero Mission was directed by Yoshio Sakamoto, a Nintendo veteran who has been involved with the Metroid series since its debut with the Nintendo Entertainment System game, Sakamoto was the only member of the original Metroid development team to work on Zero Mission. The development team decided to return to the roots of Metroid gameplay by creating a game based on the NES original. Sakamoto, noting that Fusions gameplay and structure were drastically different from previous games, wanted to "show people who had never played a Metroid game prior to Fusion, the roots of the Metroid franchise, that this is what Metroid is, this is the style of gameplay that Metroid sprang from [ ] at the same time, retell the story of Samus's original mission". and its North American release date of February 9, 2004 was announced later that year. In other territories, Zero Mission was released in Australia on March 19, in Europe on April 8, and in Japan on May 27. The game was later re released on the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan on June 19, 2014. This was followed by the release in Europe on March 12, 2015, and in North America on January 14, 2016. Zero Mission was ranked the best selling Game Boy Advance game in the United States in its debut month of February 2004, selling 151,807 units, and was the 3rd best selling game across all video game systems in that month. By May, the game's sales dropped to 7th among Game Boy Advance games, with 31,619 copies sold and $938,681 in revenue. By February 2005, the game had sold over 439,000 units in the United States and 69,000 in Japan.

Metroid: Zero Mission was given "generally favorable reviews", according to Metacritic. In their March 2010 issue, the magazine also ranked Metroid: Zero Mission as the eighth best game to be released on a Nintendo console in the 2000 decade, in their "Best of the Decade" feature. Metroid: Zero Mission was voted IGN'''s Game Boy Advance Game of the Month for February 2004, and IGN staff named it the best Game Boy adventure Game of 2004 and the ninth best Game Boy Advance Game. GameSpot also named it the best Game Boy Advance game of February 2004, and nominated it for the year end "Best Game Boy Advance Game" award. Electronic Gaming Monthly also named it the best handheld game of 2004. During the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awarded Metroid: Zero Mission with "Handheld Game of the Year". Official Nintendo Magazine ranked the game 94th in a list of the best Nintendo games. Nintendo Power also ranked it the best Game Boy Advance game of all time in its August 2011 issue. In 2020, IGN named Zero Mission'' the fifth greatest video game remake.