A strange adition to the series but it's no match for Super Metroid.
In this game, Samus returns to explore SR388 with a crew from the Biologic Space Laboratories(BSL).She encounters a virus known as the X Parasite that infects her.When en route to the BSL she loses consciousness & is ejected from the ship before it crashes into an asteroid belt.Then her body is recovered by the Galactic Federation that injects her with a vaccine with metroid characteristics to fight back the parasites.The parasites have fusioned & created the fusion suit but Samus has lost her abilities & she must recover them from the parasites the she will fight on the BSL.Then she is sent to the BSL to investigate an explosion, there she finds out that the X parasites caused the trouble.Throughout the game, she encounters a very powerful parasite known as the SA-X, that mimics Samus's abilities.Some sort of an alter ego, her dark side.The ending is similar with the one from Super Metroid, basicaly this game is just "an echo from the past" but quite a diferent one.Metroid Prime 3-Corruption has a similar plot like Metroid Fusion.
The whole game takes place on the BSL, so a space station which is divided into 6 or 8 zones, i can't remember exactly.Throughout the game you will encounter 4 types of hatches that must be unlocked:green, blue, red & yelow, in order to progress.
The gameplay is button mashing & it's not so fluent, so great like in Super Metroid, it also has comic graphics & a computer tells you all the time what to do & where to go on that station.It's some sort of a no-brainer, that's why i've said it's for kids.The game is quite easy, the challenge has disapeared, proof that the wall jump is easy to perform in this game.The graphics like i said, are very colourful something not familiar for this series.There are lots of boss battles like in the previous instalment but each & every one represents a button-mashing fest, you have to press desperately the attack button to defeat your foes, it's kind of exhausting.After you defeat each boss, you regain some abilities from the parasites.You get clear objectives from the Computer found in each of the Navigation Rooms, it tells you what to do & you must execute, you feel like a robot, the exploration is almost nonexistent.Moreover, the game is short, even shorter than Super Metroid which ultimately makes Metroid Fusion a dissapointment in my view.They've sacrificed this game in the favour of Metroid Prime.
The music is great, however it's reminiscent from Super Metroid, it creates the same type of atmosphere, the game is immersive so it's a good thing that they didn't killed this aspect.Another strong aspect of the game is the very impressive intro, with "in-your-face" cutscenes, stuff that you can also see during the game but the comic graphics kinda spoil the greatness.
Metroid Fusion is not your typical Metroid game, they've tried something else this time, anyway the name sells.