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i'm almost done with the outlining of samus in my version of the fusion suit. mind you, fancy pants space suits are really hard for me to draw, so it's coming along slowly. once i get the outlines all done i'll post it...then i'll shade it and post that...but that could take a very, very long time.

I'm looking forward to it.

well I take back what I said.

I got to the Ridley Machine and saw that it did considerable damage. Then I got 100% and fought him again. Wow... pain. 3 energy tanks with one hit and I think about 10 super missles to the chest. He should have been that hard to begin with, but the game redeemed itself with that.

Also, when Samus loses her suit you still have some abilities like the high jump and grip. Or it could be that Samus can grab ledges and jump higher simply because she doesn't weigh 6000 pounds without her suit (or while wearing the much lighter Fusion suit). I'm not sure yet.

DJ/ In Metroid Prime there are some scan files on Ridley. Apparently Ridley, being formerly the general of the Space Pirates, has lots of insurance in the form of clones and hybrids. The hybrid you fight in Metroid Prime is the result of the Prototype you fight in Zero Mission, they felt Ridley needed some lnhancements to take on Ms. Aran. Kraid has many children, we killed one right before we fought Kraid in Super Metroid, plus the Kraid creature is a Zebesian creation. so that's explained away. But the 'organic' Ridley in Metroid 3 isn't, All Ridlies are formed from the Space Pirates, so I would say that this was a clone, quickly formed to grab the Metroid hatchling.

As for Mother Brain, well she used to be the code name for a central computer that was given an organic base. That 'Living computer' was then destroyed by Samus. When the Space Pirates created another Mother Brain, it remembered that Samus killed it, and created an entire body for itself. In one of the comics there's apparently a 3rd Mother Brain program in use at an automated construction site on a distant planet. maybe we'll meet mommy again. :D

Perhaps whenever Samus gets powerups they actually power up herself and not just the suit... but then the beginning of Prime would make no sense. It's best not to think about it. The Varia suit is probably heavier than the Fusion suit but it still controls the exact same and with the exact same abilities.

I found this avatar at the GA forums and I thought it was a pretty cool sleek Samus design.



Something along those lines would have been much better than the Fusion suit.

In my opinion, that's way too sleek for Samus Aran.

Samus Aran is a cold blooded, automatonic, sadomasochistic killer... when she's in her suit. Out of her suit, she's a feminine fun-loving gal who has a celphone and wears experimental clothing that doesn't leave much to the imagination.

The beauty and innocence of woman, the destruction and power of woman scorned.

In her suit, she should be a robot, she shouldn't move or react like a human female at all. (This pissed me off a little in Metroid Prime when you see her eyes behind her cycloptic visor, but seeing her face in the reflection was just too damn cool.)

Did you guys know there are apparently two main Samus designs at Nintendo? One of them is the one we see in the games all the time. Blonde, tall... typical Japanese heroine. The other design looks like Ayla from Chrono Trigger. :D Blonde, tall... and covered in muscles and messy hair :D You can get one of the pics of her in the gallery and it looks weird, but good weird.

I still think the Fusion Samus looks like a cross between Samus and a Metroid, and the only things you could do to improve on that is to do small cosmetic things. Like maybe taking her cyclops visor and turning it in to the 3 nuclei of the Metroid innards. Samus would appear to have 3 eyes. But she has that design on her back. Maybe expand on the idea of the batman fins to make her entire body spiky or maybe even make her suit transparent in some areas so that you can see 'veins' or 'nerves' of the suit's inner workings, or Samus's organic structure as well.

That suit is a lot less sleek and thin than the Fusion suit.

In that picture, Samus is moving her back and torso in ways she could never do before. She appears sexy in that picture, and Samus Aran shouldn't appear as sexy while wearing her protective armor.

She's thinner and has a wet look in Fusion, but she still moves mechanically as a machine.

Um, I gotta disagree with that sort of artistic goal as a concept. Sounds kinda silly...

You disagree that Samus should appear machine like in her suit and feminine out of it?

Well, the way you describe her as becoming a complete robot of a killer with no real emotions or anything is never how I saw her. Fusion's attempt to put some sort of mind in her is something I accepted gladly.

Lazy, the Fusion suit moves the same way because it's a game and they didn't care if the more organic suit moved the same way as the old one.