[2024-03-15] Map: Metroid: Engage Ridley (ZM Hack)

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It's the third month of the year, which means it's finally time for the third map of the year! (That's not how it works, I know.)

The hack in question is called Metroid: Engage Ridley. The title sounds makes it sound like a pleasant little excursion that would end in holy matrimony with the universe's most eligible space-dragon-bachelor, but in reality it ends up being a cautionary tale about how Roko's Basilisk will torment simulations of innocent people with debilitating back pain (my lawyer has advised me to say that this is a joke, but I will not be explaining the punchline).

Jokes aside, it's a pleasant little hack. Its design goals are fairly by-the-numbers as far as search-action games are concerned, but in all material respects it's perfectly compotent and well-crafted (with the exception one ending image).

As always, check out the map on the map page. (Editor's Note: I stuck it with the Metroid Fusion hack maps because Zero Mission is a hack of Fusion if you think about it for too long.)