Minecraft has sparked the innate creativity of many players over the years, leading to a plethora of mansions, cathedrals, and replica locations from books and games. Now a Minecraft player has added to the list of impressive creations by building a playable slice of Metroid Fusion.
A video posted on Reddit by Minecraft player Nyubug initially shows Samus Aran jumping through what looks to be a few levels of the 2002 Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion. Then the camera pans out and it becomes clear that everything in the video was actually built inside of Minecraft.
According to Nyubug’s post, he has been working on the project for the past few months and, although he has worked on 2D creations before, he has never attempted anything this complex. The Metroid Fusion recreation has been built completely in Minecraft and the goal is to match the original game as closely as possible.
The Metroid Fusion replica features a working camera, player physics, sprite and background animations, as well as scrolling parallax backgrounds. The game is fully playable using WASD to control Samus’ movements and even sports camera locks and door transitions. When a fellow Metroid Fusion player noticed that the physics look perhaps more “floaty” than in the original game, Nyubug conceded that there is a slight delay in movement in his version, which is one of the things that he is still working to fix.
The project runs in vanilla Minecraft and no mods were used to recreate the classic pixelated look and bright colors of the GBA game. Instead, Nyubug turned to a custom shader system using spectate mode shaders and resource packs, as well as assets taken directly from a Metroid Fusion ROM. This of course puts the entire creation at risk of being pulled down by Nintendo, a company that is notoriously protective of its games and assets. But Nyubug is okay with that. “If it happens, it happens,” he said in the Reddit post. “It is their property after all.”
In addition to building intricate houses in Minecraft, some other mind-boggling feats pulled off by players include a recreation of Rapture from Bioshock built entirely underwater, the entirety of King’s Landing from Game of Thrones, and Lord of the Rings’ Minas Tirith and Mines of Moria.
Minecraft is available for mobile devices, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.