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https://am2r-another-metroid-2-remake.en.uptodown.com/windows

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Track #02: Danger in Old Tourian

Artist: DoctorM64

Origin: Planet Zebes - Arrival on Crateria, Crateria - The Space Pirates Appear by Kenji Yamamoto

Length: 4:28

The second track of the first album is a remix of the music that plays when Samus lands on planet Zebes in Super Metroid and the music that plays when the Space Pirates ambush her after that. These are both sinister, dark themes, with the first being a nerve-wracking rainy ambience over low chords and the second using pounding drum beats and chorus chants to unnerve the player. This remix is fairly faithful, preserving the rain and upping the instrumentation to higher quality while emphasizing the drumbeat and bass notes, and at the end it fades out into dissonant high pitched synths. The result is very chill and a little spooky.

If the final result sounds like something out of the fangame Another Metroid II Remake (AM2R), it's not a coincidence: the artist for "Danger in Old Tourian" is none other than the brains behind AM2R, DoctorM64 AKA mister Milton Guasti himself. While Guasti would only contribute this one song to the Harmony of a Hunter project over the years, he was involved with the creation of the album itself (per comments in the chat at the Returns album's live debut), and years later, one of his co-conspirators on AM2R, Torby Brand, would contribute a track to Harmony of a Hunter Returns.

As for my personal thoughts -- this is a track that grew on me. The real draw in this track is the funky drumbeat and the eerie environmental noises that accompany it, as the main melody and instrumentation don't stray that far from the original. The segue into the next track is delightful, but the song has the problem the original had where it is very repetitive, without the reprieve of gameplay to complement it like the original did. That said, I still like this track quite a bit, and its placement between "In the Beginning..." and "Earthroot" transitions the tone excellently from low to high energy.

Rating: ⭐⭐

Track #01: In the Beginning... Track #03: Earthroot

[miloscat]

[Review] AM2R (PC)

It’s high time I caught up with this fangame, it seems most people love it (except for Nintendo’s lawyers).

The big story around this fan-created remake of the Game Boy title Metroid 2 was its takedown mere hours after release. It’s not worth going into; suffice to say that I resent the stifling of community creativity in the name of corporate interests. Thankfully the game was finished and released, is still available, and has since had a number of further patches by the wider community to fix issues and add some planned and new features; plus its chief creator Milton “DoctorM64″ Guasti was hired to work on the Ori sequel (itself a Metroid-like), so it seems like a more or less happy ending. Oh and by the way, Mercury Steam’s Samus Returns is a pretty good game, although the two projects have quite different goals.

MSR goes further to reimagine and reinvent M2, breaking new ground with its mechanics. AM2R meanwhile is a model fan game, remixing the source in a familiar style and loading it with fan service along the way. What we have is very akin to Zero Mission, both in style and substance. In other words, perfectly in my sweet spot. It plays as smooth and looks even better with a larger screen size to show off the detailed pixel art (even larger with the post-launch 1.5 patch that added widescreen support!), adds a bunch of abilities missing from the original, a fantastic map, new bosses drawn from Fusion, and all-original areas and events.

And... well, I really liked it! What else can I say? It’s a Zero Mission for M2 but a bit more modern and advanced with a ton of conveniences and lots of toggles in the options menu. I loved the attempts to shake up the Metroid encounters, the surprises like exploring the GF ship filled with Alien references, the written logbook entries. Above all I just love the passion on display here, it’s faithful but with fun twists and just so well done. The state of the game is a testament to the fan community in general and Guasti in particular. Please keep creating!

[blaghlife]

Way to go, Nintendo.

[into-the-blur]

Happy 30th anniversary Metroid!!!

  The remake of the Game Boy game "Metroid II - return of Samus", has now been released for this special day, the 6th august 2016.

  This fan game is called AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) and this is an ambitious project which resulted today, after many years of development by DoctorM64.

  Congratulations and thank to the author for the enormous amount of work done to enable us to rediscover Metroid 2

  You can download the game AM2R V1.0 here:

http://metroid2remake.blogspot.fr/p/am2r-downloads.html

  Note: August 8th, Nintendo has forced the author to make the game unavailable for reasons of copyright violation. The dedicated work of so many years of effort was therefore deemed illegal. This remake game is no longer available legally...

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AM2R - Return of Samus

Developer: DoctorM64

Homepage: metroid2remake.blogspot.com

Trailer: youtube.com