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

[A Black Falcon]

Yes they will. I do that all of the time!

Yeah, you're right about that.

You don't need to bomb everywhere. Certain areas will look suspicious enough to warrant a big bomb blast. You may not be able to notice it just yet, but eventually you will. You just need to pay better attention. I definitely do not bomb every single room that I enter. If something looks off (like a hallway that looks like it's been cut off somewhere) then I start looking. Use that noggin of yours, ABF.

Okay... not everywhere. But fairly often.

Oh... the status screen says how many of the items I have. I've actually got 10 E tanks... there are 20? Really? Those others must be hidden quite well... I also have like 35 of the 46 or so missile tanks but not too many of the bomb tanks, like just 15 or 20 or something.

There are very few hidden pathways like that, and none of them are required to enter in order to beat the game.

There are more than enough of them to be irritating... and some are required to beat the game.

That actually makes things easier since they only go through normal walls! If you hit a bomb, beam, or missile block then you'll see it just like you do with a regular beam.

Damn, ABF. You're worse at this than I thought!

What in the world are you talking about? The lasers react the same to hidden special bricks as they do to standard walls... you can only tell if something is there if you either bomb or use the special ability that breaks those bricks.

You didn't have to! Secrets aren't supposed to be easy to find!

I know, I know... :)

So... you've only played Prime for maybe an hour or two because it's too long...

And I beat it (without getting 100%) in just 15 hours.

An hour or two? Are you insane? I've spent quite a bit more than that! And 15 hours total for you... wow. It'll be far, far higher than that for me. I bet I'm over 10 hours already... don't know for sure, though. It feels like it at any rate... :)

Not hard in a good way, though.

Yeah, that was pretty frusterating. I admit, I looked up in a FAQ for help... I hadn't thought of trying to get away from the third stage by spinning around the screen. :S That helped, but it still took a while... as I said I got pretty good at the first two phases before I managed to beat the third one. :)

Prime's bosses are pretty tough but in a good way, unlike Fusion's. The bosses made Fusion a much more difficult game for me.

I'd say that the hardest of Fusion's bosses are harder, but the Prime bosses I've fought so far have mostly been pretty tough...

But do you use them throughout the entire game??

When I get stuck or lost in a game and think it can help... and am frusterated. :)