Overview
Version Overview
Explore planet Zebes, upgrade your arsenal and combat creatures as Space Bounty Hunter Samus in this classic Nintendo side-scrolling adventure remake for Game Boy Advance.
Explore planet Zebes, upgrade your arsenal and combat creatures as Space Bounty Hunter Samus in this classic Nintendo side-scrolling adventure remake for Game Boy Advance.
What Makes It Work
Metroid - Zero Mission (E) stands out through combat, discovery, and learning how each area connects.
- Safe start: Remember locked paths and revisit them once new tools or clues appear.
- Replay value: Try new items in suspicious places before assuming you are stuck.
- First run: Move deliberately in unknown areas, especially when health or saves are limited.
- Safe start: Remember locked paths and revisit them once new tools or clues appear.
- Replay value: Try new items in suspicious places before assuming you are stuck.
Player Notes
Remember locked paths and revisit them once new tools or clues appear.
- Safe start: Remember locked paths and revisit them once new tools or clues appear.
- Replay value: Try new items in suspicious places before assuming you are stuck.
- First run: Move deliberately in unknown areas, especially when health or saves are limited.
Technical Context
Metroid - Zero Mission (E) is cataloged as a GBA entry. Title markers such as E, Rising Sun help separate this GBA entry from nearby regional or build variants. The current tags are Metroid, Action-Adventure, Metroidvania, Game Boy Advance, Europe Release, which help group the page with similar games without relying on a single generic label.
Version FAQ
Is the final boss sequence included?
Yes. The standard final Mother Brain battle from NES exists, but what follows the self-destruct countdown is entirely new: Samus evades Chozo artifacts while unarmored, concluding with a true-to-lore Space Pirate home-world raid.
What power-ups are new to this remake?
Zero Mission adds the Speed Booster and Shinespark techniques and the upgraded Chozo Battle Armor (post-credits reward for best endings). Also newly featured are optional Chozo Artifact markers guiding players to item expansions.
Are there boss differences from the NES edition?
True to Nintendo's style, original bosses Kraid and Ridley are revamped with multiple attack phases, but not eliminated. Extra bosses new to Zero Mission include a final form Mecha-Torizo guarding Mother Brain's heart-casing.