For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to zerofighter & rocktyt's Metroid Fusion (GBA) maps.
When revisiting SR388, the home planet of the now-extinct Metroids, a parasitic organism dubbed "X" attacks Samus. Later, the X infection causes Samus to lose control of her ship while approaching an asteroid belt. Though rescued by the Galactic Federation, she is given a minimal chance of survival with the X now embedded in her central nervous system. But a vaccine made from a Metroid cell saves her life, though Samus's body is quite different, now fused with Metroid DNA. And now she finds herself on a mission at the Biologic Space Labs research station, where the X parasite from SR388 breaks loose. Without her Power Suit, does she have a chance? Maybe, thanks to a computerized commanding officer that guides her way, though the CO seems familiar somehow...
Another way that you might have a chance at helping Samus is from these complete maps by zerofighter and rocktyt. rocktyt (with some help from zerofighter) also mapped out Planet Zebes as seen in Metroid: Zero Mission, Samus's first mission in the Metroid saga. The whole Biologic Space Labs research station is here: the Main Deck, the six sectors, and even the Restricted Zone. Sure, the game has an auto-mapping function and a CO that walks you through the adventure. But nothing beats good old screenshot maps (especially when you need the nitty-gritty details like where all those Energy and Missile Tanks are hiding)!
So to recognize the effort put into mapping the final chapter in the Metroid saga, zerofighter & rocktyt's Metroid Fusion maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for September 2010.
