13th April 2006, 6:09 PM
I actually found those ball flinging bots to be not the most inspired monsters in the game. Don't get me wrong, they looked nice, but as a general rule I feared anything that looked like it could cut my entire body off. With it being the whole body I'm not sure what they would cut it off OF, but they could so do it. The most fearsome enviroments in the Metroid series, to sort of take it in another direction, were rarely the techy places, but rather places of "biology totally dominating the very land itself" where it is a totally alien jungle and you will DIE to death the second one of them realizes you are made of certain materials it could use to continue to live. Brinstar comes to mind as a place that would probably infest my nervous system with some sort of mold that kept me alive but constantly regenerated my organs to feed some bug things that crawled all over me, and a side effect of that mold's particular adaptation is the creature infected with it is in constant agonizing pain and kept awake at the same time. Ah evolution, "survival of the just good enough".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)