3rd March 2004, 8:23 AM
well I take back what I said.
I got to the Ridley Machine and saw that it did considerable damage. Then I got 100% and fought him again. Wow... pain. 3 energy tanks with one hit and I think about 10 super missles to the chest. He should have been that hard to begin with, but the game redeemed itself with that.
Also, when Samus loses her suit you still have some abilities like the high jump and grip. Or it could be that Samus can grab ledges and jump higher simply because she doesn't weigh 6000 pounds without her suit (or while wearing the much lighter Fusion suit). I'm not sure yet.
DJ/ In Metroid Prime there are some scan files on Ridley. Apparently Ridley, being formerly the general of the Space Pirates, has lots of insurance in the form of clones and hybrids. The hybrid you fight in Metroid Prime is the result of the Prototype you fight in Zero Mission, they felt Ridley needed some lnhancements to take on Ms. Aran. Kraid has many children, we killed one right before we fought Kraid in Super Metroid, plus the Kraid creature is a Zebesian creation. so that's explained away. But the 'organic' Ridley in Metroid 3 isn't, All Ridlies are formed from the Space Pirates, so I would say that this was a clone, quickly formed to grab the Metroid hatchling.
As for Mother Brain, well she used to be the code name for a central computer that was given an organic base. That 'Living computer' was then destroyed by Samus. When the Space Pirates created another Mother Brain, it remembered that Samus killed it, and created an entire body for itself. In one of the comics there's apparently a 3rd Mother Brain program in use at an automated construction site on a distant planet. maybe we'll meet mommy again. :D
I got to the Ridley Machine and saw that it did considerable damage. Then I got 100% and fought him again. Wow... pain. 3 energy tanks with one hit and I think about 10 super missles to the chest. He should have been that hard to begin with, but the game redeemed itself with that.
Also, when Samus loses her suit you still have some abilities like the high jump and grip. Or it could be that Samus can grab ledges and jump higher simply because she doesn't weigh 6000 pounds without her suit (or while wearing the much lighter Fusion suit). I'm not sure yet.
DJ/ In Metroid Prime there are some scan files on Ridley. Apparently Ridley, being formerly the general of the Space Pirates, has lots of insurance in the form of clones and hybrids. The hybrid you fight in Metroid Prime is the result of the Prototype you fight in Zero Mission, they felt Ridley needed some lnhancements to take on Ms. Aran. Kraid has many children, we killed one right before we fought Kraid in Super Metroid, plus the Kraid creature is a Zebesian creation. so that's explained away. But the 'organic' Ridley in Metroid 3 isn't, All Ridlies are formed from the Space Pirates, so I would say that this was a clone, quickly formed to grab the Metroid hatchling.
As for Mother Brain, well she used to be the code name for a central computer that was given an organic base. That 'Living computer' was then destroyed by Samus. When the Space Pirates created another Mother Brain, it remembered that Samus killed it, and created an entire body for itself. In one of the comics there's apparently a 3rd Mother Brain program in use at an automated construction site on a distant planet. maybe we'll meet mommy again. :D