The Metroid ZM impressions/reviews thread

[OB1]

Oddly enough, when you get all of the suits in Fusion, you look exactly like the first Samus in the original Metroid.

Do you mean in-game or just the art/cut scenes?

It would also make sense that Samus looks the way she does in Fusion since she is only half of what she once was. She had become apart of a monster, then unified with her other half (maybe even some of her lost humanity) from the SA-X. She litteraly looks like Samus mixed with a Metroid. Vanity aside, the Fusion Samus is the lightest Samus Aran we've ever seen (her power suit weighs a few thousand pounds) and those batman fins are actually what allowed you to grab ledges in Fusion. The skin-tight Fusion Suit is definately not as glamorous as the Power Suit, but it fits her character and the Fusion story-line perfectly. If I had a choice of what is the coolest looking Samus costume, I would have to say it's her one piece string bikini.

If the fins allowed her to grab onto ledges then how come you can grab onto ledges in Zero Mission?

And Samus sure doesn't look half-monster. Her suit was all that was affected, right? I just hope she returns to normal in Metroid 5.

So far in Zero mission, I was able to break the chain of events multiple times and with practice I think you could be able to completely break the chain. I have two gripes with this game though, namely Kraid and Ridley. Way too easy. This is the first Ridley, a monster with the mind of genius and the general of the space pirates, he shouldn't be able to be defeated with a barrage of missles. Though I can safely assume that the next boss fights will be more challenging, Ridley atleast should have been near impossible.

I wanted to see a Ridley that will grab your missles and throw them back at you. Pinning you down and engulfing you in fire, able to rip you right out of your suit if given half the chance. In the story, this is the one and only Ridley, not a clone or a cyborg, but the real deal, so i'm dissapointed about that.

I agree, the boss fights were far too easy. Especially the last boss.

There seems to be quite a lot of sequence breaking in this game, at least as much as Super Metroid. Adds a lot to the replay value. :D

OB1/ Since you hate the Fusion Suit so much why dont you draw a version of what 'half a Samus' should have looked like in Metroid Fusion.

That's a good idea. I'll get to that after I'm done with all of the artwork for my game.