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Started by Sol Herrera (@speedrun_sol) ·

Super Metroid basically wants you to break it

Wall jumps, bomb jumps, shinesparks, mockballs. The game lets you skip big chunks of the intended order, and the ending changes depending on how fast you finish. More than 30 years later it's still one of the classic speedrun games.

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  1. “super metroid sequence breaking techniques” (google.com)
  2. Super Metroid (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Sequence breaking (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Metroidvania (en.wikipedia.org)

    the genre is half named after the series

  5. Samus Aran (en.wikipedia.org)

    the first Metroid rewarded fast clears with the reveal that Samus is a woman

  6. “super metroid reverse boss order” (reddit.com)

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