Update: playing it again, it honestly just feels way too empty. If I go through bombing walls looking for secrets, I realize it’s 90% just empty rooms with very little in the way of level design or uniqueness. Compared to spooky mission 1, this is less creative and fun and silly… it’s just kinda meh.

Dropping it a star

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Spooky Mission 2 is the rom hack follow up to the original, and it’s about 3x as large. It’s very well designed and geared towards more advanced Metroid fans (compared to the last one). I had a great time, but it felt a little more hollow and tedious to the lean Spooky Mission 1.

It still has great original assets, a huge sprawling Halloween themed map, very original ideas and level design, and it feels very polished. It’s probably my 3rd or 4th favorite Metroid hack behind Subversion, Spooky Mission 1, and about tied with Hyper.

Totally worth playing. I highly recommend learning how to do rom hacks - there’s some amazing fan projects.