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

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah... Nightmare was really hard the first time, but by the time you finally beat him you should be good enough to make it not that hard... well still hard, but not impossible anymore. Managable. Either you have some strange standard or you really stink at 2d games... :D

... what?

Bombs break laser-shootable floors. :)

Welcome to the world of old-school gaming, bubba. They're called secrets and hidden items for a reason.[quote]

There IS a reason that games added more hints... sure too much isn't good, and hiding the secret areas and powerups and stuff is fine... but the stuff you've got to find to progress, hidden as well as powerups? That just isn't nice. And if you think that Fusion never requires you to find hidden, invisible passages to continue I have to be the one to doubt that you ever played the game... :D

[QUOTE]What are these "hidden special bricks" that you're talking about? If you shoot a wall that be destroyed by a bomb or a missile then you'll see the stupid icons for it! The other types of walls that need a special ability to pass through are the screw attack walls, and those are the easiest to pass since once you get the screw attack you pretty much spend the whole time spinning all over the place. Unless you're stupid, that is.

The tiles. Like the icons with bombs on them, or pinwheels that you break wiht the spin-jump attack, or arrows you have to break while in the running mode after running straight for several screens... those blocks, revealed by bombs or megabombs. :) Lasers definitely do not reveal them, or make any indication that they are there, and there are often no hints in the graphics too. Oh... sometimes there are, for sure. But just as often there aren't, or they are really well hidden... shooting a wall will NOT show those icons! I have no idea what you are talking about there, but it definitely does not do that.

Missiles don't reveal them either, BTW. They, like lasers, will destroy walls that they can break (and spin-jumps), but only bombs actually show you the tiles.

Holy crap, that's insane. You really do suck at these kinds of games! Heh, but I envy you in some ways. You're a Metroid virgin so this is all pretty much new to you.

I'm probably not at 15 hours yet in Prime, but I could be... haven't played it in a few weeks, so I'm not sure. :)

I am taking it slowly, dying a lot, getting stuck quite regularly (generallly not for a really long time, but the game's puzzles are fairly tough in places...), and scanning pretty much everything I see...

And as I said, I have all of 30 missiles. Or so... and several health tanks, not sure how many... again, haven't played in a while. I just know that last time I played I died for the second or third time trying to get back through Magmoor Caverns...

Once you figure out their patterns it's pretty easy to beat them. The difficult part is just finding out the easiest way to finish them off.

Oh, definitely. Figuring out the pattern and how/when to shoot is they key... it makes all the bosses possible to easy once you do that. Yes, including Nightmare...