Crap, why do they all have to come out on the same friggin' day??!!

[OB1]

Bombs reveal those tiles, sure, but not bullets. And bombs won't destroy a tile you have to shoot with bullets, or even say that it is a shootable tile... there is no 'bullets' tile.

There is no "bullets" tile (there are no bullets in the game, ABF) because one hit on a certain "tile" will make it blow up. You don't need to shoot bomb tiles in order to destroy them, you just need to shoot them or do the smarter thing and use a super bomb to destroy everything in a room and reveal which tiles are which. And you don't need to do that most of the time unless you're looking for secrets. If you play the game straight through without looking for secrets or extra tanks, very little "blind shooting" is involved. Again, that is what us gamers like to call "exploration" and "secrets-finding". Metroid Prime's "tiles" are the exact same way. As you have shown very clearly, you hate it when you have to find things on your own. You would rather have someone guide your way through a game and not have to do any actual exploring for more than one second.

Yeah, I know.

That's sad.

Yeah, Fusion did have some tough bosses...Nightmare was probably hardest, though. That boss was really hard. Though that robot thing where you hang on the celing the whole battle (the first time you fight it, not the second one) was also quite hard until I figured out the trick... and the SA-X. Thankfully its second form was easy... but then that final X blob thing was tough. And then the final boss was easy. Kind of strange... but appreciated, given that you must fight all four bosses without saving.

Nightmare was crazy hard. It was impossible to beat that boss without losing a huge chunk of your life.

I wouldn't say Prime is too hard... its probably a good difficulty. Its just challenging. Definitely harder than Fusion, though... many, many hours longer for certain. And while the bosses might not be quite as challenging, they're tough enough...

Come on, all of that hiding away from SA-X and all of those annoying bosses in Fusion didn't make it tougher for you? I lost lives several times more often in Fusion than I did in Prime. Prime was a good tough, while some of Fusion was just too difficult.

Fusion is certainly more linear, but Prime so far has been reasonable... and I like the hint system. Sure, often I would have gone in that direction anyway, but it is nice to be sure that you aren't just wandering around in some area which won't get you anywhere for a lot longer in the game...

That's the whole point of these types of games! Using the stupid hint system is almost as bad as using a strategy guide.