Play Super Metroid - Melancholia IV Online

Creeping through those new caverns feels like rediscovering Super Metroid all over again—same tight controls, but now every shadow hides some fresh twist that makes your old tricks feel new. That moment when you stumble into an unfamiliar room and the music shifts just slightly... chills.

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Game Overview

Super Metroid - Melancholia IV is one of those rare fan hacks that actually makes you forget you're not playing an official release. It takes everything you love about the original—the way your beam weapon echoes in empty corridors, that slow drip of upgrades making backtracking feel rewarding—and wraps it in this eerie, almost melancholic atmosphere. The new areas blend so well with the classic map that I kept forgetting which parts were original and which were added.

It’s not just a reskin, either. The tweaks to movement and weapon balance make familiar enemies feel dangerous again, and some of the new power-ups had me grinning like an idiot when I figured out how to use them. That first time you drop into one of the expanded lower caverns, with the music humming just a half-step darker than you remember… yeah, it’s *that* good.

Fair warning though—this isn’t for casual play. The puzzles get devious, and some of the sequence breaks require pixel-perfect timing. But if you’ve ever mapped out Crateria on graph paper as a kid, you’ll feel right at home.