3rd January 2003, 8:30 PM
Well, I'm posting again because I have beaten the game. Now on to hard mode, though the last boss is something I don't want to think about on hard mode (finding a working strat was hard enough the first time, but I think it'll work the second time).
I gotta say I love this game, BUT (oh please let the spoiler tags work since this board's first crash :D).
There we go.
<BR><b><font face="Arial">Spoilers Below!</font></b><table border="1" bgcolor="#6396C9" bordercolor="#000000"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#6396C9">Near the end, when I got the Phazon Suit, I "knew" that the corruption would mean that Samus would have to ditch every single power up save for missles and morphing ball to eliminate the infestation. I figured that since Retro used one of the most half-arsed plot devices in Metroid history to explain why she lost her powers at the start, that stupid short circuit due to one stray electric blast thing :D, they would easily see a plot device for why she lost all those powers before Metroid 2. However, they DIDN'T see that. Instead, the Phazon was siphoned away, BUT Samus kept the rest of her abilities. Okay fine, the abilities were lost or sold some other way before Metroid 2, but sheesh Retro, you guys are geniuses, surely you could have seen how you could put a plot device like that in when the Metroid Prime was siphoning away the Phazon, just siphon a lot of other abilities too. Oh well, they missed out on that opportunity, but big deal.</font></td> </tr></table>
This game has a very addictive quality, just like Metroid Fusion. I can't say which I love more, but I can say which one was longer, and which one gives a new mode when you beat it :D. Well, time to go through it again. First though, I've got other games to beat.
I gotta say I love this game, BUT (oh please let the spoiler tags work since this board's first crash :D).
There we go.
<BR><b><font face="Arial">Spoilers Below!</font></b><table border="1" bgcolor="#6396C9" bordercolor="#000000"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#6396C9">Near the end, when I got the Phazon Suit, I "knew" that the corruption would mean that Samus would have to ditch every single power up save for missles and morphing ball to eliminate the infestation. I figured that since Retro used one of the most half-arsed plot devices in Metroid history to explain why she lost her powers at the start, that stupid short circuit due to one stray electric blast thing :D, they would easily see a plot device for why she lost all those powers before Metroid 2. However, they DIDN'T see that. Instead, the Phazon was siphoned away, BUT Samus kept the rest of her abilities. Okay fine, the abilities were lost or sold some other way before Metroid 2, but sheesh Retro, you guys are geniuses, surely you could have seen how you could put a plot device like that in when the Metroid Prime was siphoning away the Phazon, just siphon a lot of other abilities too. Oh well, they missed out on that opportunity, but big deal.</font></td> </tr></table>
This game has a very addictive quality, just like Metroid Fusion. I can't say which I love more, but I can say which one was longer, and which one gives a new mode when you beat it :D. Well, time to go through it again. First though, I've got other games to beat.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)