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[Catloaf]

I beat it in one sitting.  I have no idea how long I took, but I had to take virtually all day yesterday to recover mentally. I think it took me maybe 12 hours?  I don't know.  64% the first time because I didn't know that you can't go back after getting to [spoiler]Phantoon[/spoiler].  Beat it 100% before I probably should've; I was still largely unconscious of everything but any single given item at a time.

Hard mode:  Take more damage, no missile packs, no energy tanks (I think), and not sure about the chargers.  More/stronger enemies in certain places.  Despite the fact that you can still recharge, if you get down to 30-50 health, there is a strong possibility that you will not even be given the chance.  So it's basically 1-3 hit mode.  I haven't played very much, but I've died a whole lot and have I think I'm now actually playing a ninja gaiden game in disguise, as it's "dodge, dodge, dodge, counter, dodge, dodge, counter, attack normally, dead, repeat until you get it right" just ninja gaiden's hardest mode.  Thanks team ninja, I can't wait until the final boss! /

Ridley's[spoiler] larval stage[/spoiler] is weird.  It's far too seemingly [spoiler]cute and fuzzy to turn into a retardo lizard that then turns into Ridley.[/spoiler]  I guess this game explains why he [spoiler]crumbles into dust upon thawing in fusion[/spoiler].  Disappointing that [spoiler]you don't get to actually kill him[/spoiler].  Nor do you get to [spoiler]fight the MB in any way shape or form.  She's the master antagonist who set the whole thing up, but she's not really all that evil (initially self-defense, then didn't go against her violence-momentum and allowed it to snowball* because she'd gotten over emotional over being betrayed) and get's deus ex machina'd!?![/spoiler]  What the hell!?

[spoiler]*Okay that's evil, but she's still portrayed as the victim of the heartless bastards of the megacorporation from aliens the galactic federation.[/spoiler]

The story's kinda 'meh' at times, but it set's up fusion quite nicely... although I still don't get how they [spoiler]got Adam's brain to make into an AI[/spoiler], which at this point they should've realized was a bad idea on their end.  Though it did help Samus.  Also, I still have no idea [spoiler]who the deleter was and why he was apparently working with or possibly being controlled by MB.[/spoiler]

[Thad]

I didn't know [spoiler]it was going to come after the credits[/spoiler], which would have been a neat twist.

Now it's not.

Seconded.  Spoilertagged the offending bit of BongoBill's post.  Which required glancing across his other spoilers while I was editing it.  Hey Bongo, fuck you.

[Mothra]

From an interview with Sakamoto on IGN:

“When we were almost done with the development of Metroid, one of our staffers casually suggested, ‘Why don’t we make Samus Aran a female character to surprise the player?’ Back then I thought it was a nice idea, but I couldn’t foresee what a huge impact this would have on the future of the franchise.”

[Mothra]

ALSO

New Minitroid footage:

Minitroid Engine 3

And some sweet tunes!

[Friday]

So I haven't actually played this, but I did finish watching a complete LP of it yesterday.

Anyway, it looks like a wonderful game with an incredibly shitty plot with bad writing and voice acting.

The voice work is probably the worst I've heard that doesn't veer into "so bad it's good" territory, like Barry Burton and the like. Instead of amusingly bad, it's just bad, and the cutscenes will probably grind on your senses. But if you can manage to ignore them, and the boring, predictable plot, there's a great game to be played here.

Again, haven't actually played it, so take what I say with a grain of salt. But it seems to be the popular opinion, anyway. The guy playing it certainly thought so.

Is it worth 50 bucks? It took the guy playing it 11 hours to complete with a 68% item collection rate. If getting 100% is your thing, then I'd say yes, it's worth the 50 bucks. If not, I'd say wait until the price drops a bit, or else you might feel a bit ripped off.

[Büge]

Apparently nobody told Nintendo what a Bounty Hunter does

Samus really isn't about the money, a truth that confused the developer -- and me, upon hearing this story -- when it presented Nintendo a gameplay design that appealed to Aran's chosen occupation. "We were looking for something more along the lines of a mission-based game where Samus collected bounties. And for the life of us we couldn't understand why [Nintendo was] being so resistive to that concept. And then over the period of days we came to understand that their definition of a bounty hunter is not a bounty hunter. It is not someone who brings in bad guys for money. That concept was completely outside of their definition," says Walker. Nintendo told Retro that Samus does not actually take bounties for those she hunts. (Someone should tell Nintendo that Aran has officially been labeled a bounty hunter for two decades now, a slight inconsistency.)

[Brentai]

As most fans of the series are quick to point out, she is officially a "space hunter", not a "bounty hunter".

And before you make a YOU'LL BE GOOD AT FIGHTING DUNGEONS joke, nobody rustles space cows either.

I think the hunter bit is really more a description of her job function than an actual title.  Like, if she just built bridges for the Federation (in space), she'd be a space engineer.  But her job is to hunt (in space), so she is a space hunter.

[Detonator]

As most fans of the series are quick to point out, she is officially a "space hunter", not a "bounty hunter".

Wait, what?  Where is this said?

The most official indication I can think of is the opening monologue of Super Metroid where she says she was going to go bounty hunting before Ridley attacks the space station.

I'll admit I may not be completely on top of series canon.

[Brentai]

Ugh.  Well, upon further research, it seems to bounce back and forth.

METROID 1: Space Hunter
METROID 2: Space Hunter
SUPER METROID: Bounty Hunter
METROID FUSION: Bounty Hunter
ZERO MISSION: Space Hunter

Oddly enough Metroid 1 is most specific about what a space hunter is: a bounty hunter under the charter of the GFP.  So yeah it turns out I'm only half-right and taking missions from the police for rewards is exactly what space hunters do, and nobody at Nintendo really knows what's going on without Gunpei Yokoi at the helm. 

[Frocto]

I had no idea Friday watched so many lps!

Who are your favourites?

[Friday]

you

[Frocto]

 

[Büge]

REMEMBER ME, SAMUS?

WHEN I KILLED YOUR MOTHER

I TALKED

JUST

LIKE

THIS

[Thad]

So you know what I've always thought Metroid could use more of?  Well, I mean besides talking and crying; those are just a given.

I've always thought Metroid needed more places where you're completely fucking immobilized until you focus on some tiny goddamn thing off in the distance that's the same color as the background and pretty much completely goddamned invisible, and then once you find it a boss shows up, because it's some kind of goddamn Heisenberg's Uncertainty Boss that won't attack you until you observe some tiny fucking thing in the same room it's in.

[Bongo Bill]

Not that I'm defending them.

[Thad]

Also: much has been said about how incredibly fucking stupid the premise of not being able to use weapons until Adam says so is.  Little, however, has been said about how incredibly fucking stupid the EXECUTION is.

"Oh, yeah, I guess maybe now that you've been in a volcano for 10 minutes I can see maybe the ice beam may come in handy.  Even though I authorized everybody ELSE to use ice beams 5 minutes after you showed up here."

EDIT: I was going to add, "Oh, and also she loses health when she's near lava, despite the fact that she's clearly wearing the Varia Suit.  What, did Adam make her turn the suit's defenses off?"

As a joke.

Then it turned out it's not really a joke, that's what actually happened.

[Büge]

The Game Overthinker criticizes people who build and attack strawmen by building and attacking a strawman.

[Frocto]

This game is funz

I also got to play it on my friend's copy, which means no cutscenes for me :3

[Thad]

I wrote a thing.

Contains major spoilers.

[Spram]

This game is good enuf.