Couple o' fanarts

I used to be obsessed with video games, or the thought of playing them, since my first foray into the world of games was a bit late to the party. My very first game system of any kind was a gameboy advance when I was ten. Soon after came a used playstation 1 from a friend. Not long after that, a dreamcast(pretty much for one game). Finally, I got my first up to date system , the Xbox 360 which, while I love, has gotten the red ring of death twice now, because...well, microsoft sucks.

Nowadays, I can't be bothered to be too excited for any kind of game, since I find their designs to be way too derivative, the gameplay to be too easy, or a combination of the two. I couldn't care less about the next installment of Assassin's Duty of Modern Skyrim, or whatever it's called.

Retro games are where it's at. Check out these two fanarts I did for Nintendo's best series, by far: Metroid, before it went all FPS and crap, and before that Other Monstrosity. Super Metroid, while I came way too late for the party again, is my favorite game of all time. I've played through it about 9-10 times, most recently being the other day. The level design is purely fantastic, with a perfect flow from room to room. The atmosphere is superb, the graphics brilliant, the music moody, character/creature design is awesome, and just a damn-near flawless game all in all.

Don't get too used to seeing fanarts on here, I want to start shying away from it. But here are a couple I did recently of this once-great, now-ruined franchise.

First off, an artwork based off Metroid 2 for the Gameboy, in all of its yellowy off-white and greenish black glory.

Next up is one of my favorite boss battle from the aforementioned Super Metroid. Guardian Draygon is about to get its green scaly carapace handed to it.

So yeah, in conclusion, video games mostly suck now, and I don't care who knows it. There are a few good ones, but they're too few and far between.

Artwork © Neal Anderson
Metroid and all related characters © Nintendo