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Mode 7 posted:To have the culmination of the game be Mecha Ridley who goes down like a chump was a little less so, but not enough to dampen the triumphant mood I finished the game in. Mecha Ridley is a weird boss, as it gets double damage and triple HP if you have 100% items. I think it might be the only thing in the series that scales off items?
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Mode 7 posted:So despite having played a bunch of them I've never actually finished a Metroid game. With Metroid Dread only like, 2 weeks out I figured I should correct that so I'm going to try and go through Zero Mission > Samus Returns > Super Metroid > Metroid Fusion before Dread releases.
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New Nintendo Direct Trailer. We see a dead central unit/mother brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozmCnvYmuGc Is this the worst kept secret of Dread? This is from the official footage Nintendo released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlF6uca2jPM Assepoester fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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Sep 24, 2021 11:20
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After enjoying way too many Metroidvanias, it occurred to me that maybe I should try Metroid. Been having a fantastic time playing Zero Mission, Samus Returns and Super Metroid. All great. Now I just cannot loving beat SA-X in Metroid Fusion. I don't know why, I'm sick of reading "it's so easy haha!" and I want to grind my 3DS into a fine paste. rear end in a top hat game. Bad
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Sep 24, 2021 13:16
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Metroid Fusion has some incredibly annoying boss fights if I recall correctly. I don't remember SA-X off the top of my head but I remember the jumping spider boss being loving irritating as poo poo.
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Sep 24, 2021 13:29
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Hahahaha this music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unP3NMcwVcg A Big... Dog posted:After enjoying way too many Metroidvanias, it occurred to me that maybe I should try Metroid. Been having a fantastic time playing Zero Mission, Samus Returns and Super Metroid. All great. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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Sep 24, 2021 13:30
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I just beat it. Thank you for the moral support, thread!! I didn't use Ice Missiles, just loving jumping around like an idiot the entire fight. PHEW
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Sep 24, 2021 13:31
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A Big... Dog posted:Now I just cannot loving beat SA-X in Metroid Fusion. You mean at the end of the game, right? 'Cause in the other sequences where SA-X appears, they're invincible. Edit: Nevermind, congratulations!
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SA-X is an incredibly easy boss when you realize how linear its Screw Attack trajectory on being hit is, of which it only has two trajectories. The monster form also is basically zero threat with its leap. Honestly, the Core-X is a more dangerous foe than either form of SA-X due to its quick counter shot and big touch damage.
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thebardyspoon posted:I don't remember SA-X off the top of my head but I remember the jumping spider boss being loving irritating as poo poo. I just dealt with this rear end in a top hat for the first time yesterday. No save point beforehand is the worst part. Apparently you just chill in the left corner when it has legs, then you chill in the right corner while it's bouncing. That's it. Almost impossible unless you do that simple trick. Awful boss.
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bladeworksmaster posted:SA-X is an incredibly easy boss when you realize how linear its Screw Attack trajectory on being hit is, of which it only has two trajectories. The monster form also is basically zero threat with its leap. Honestly, the Core-X is a more dangerous foe than either form of SA-X due to its quick counter shot and big touch damage. Yeah, I think I turned my brain off a bit to actually get SA-X down. The Core-X was a little tricky, but nothing major - I had a bunch of health left, which was luxurious. Mmmm. Guess I should play the Prime games now until Dread? I feel a little lost. No purpose left in life. I miss you, Samus. See you next mission 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ghh6TPxtA
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The spider boss being named Yakuza always gives me a little laugh.
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A Big... Dog posted:Yeah, I think I turned my brain off a bit to actually get SA-X down. The Core-X was a little tricky, but nothing major - I had a bunch of health left, which was luxurious. Yeah truth be told I only discovered the trick to SA-X’s patterns this go around, when it suddenly clicked into place and I just spaced it without suffering a single shot in return. I’m also a bit fan of the charged Screw Attack damage trade you can do with it.
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A Big... Dog posted:Yeah, I think I turned my brain off a bit to actually get SA-X down. The Core-X was a little tricky, but nothing major - I had a bunch of health left, which was luxurious. Mmmm. The Prime games are amazing and way longer. Do it asap
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The United States posted:Hahahaha this music lmao
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New Japanese Ad, focuses on the cat and mouse EMMI chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8pPITpbU38 New Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMWA0ipQ94w New Art from Megaman Zero artist Toru Nakayama https://twitter.com/meka_moru_4se/status/1442073012178591749 Assepoester fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Sep 27, 2021 02:32
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Infinite Bomb Jump/Diagonal Bomb Jumps confirmed https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1442572312935428099?s=20
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Ohtsam posted:Infinite Bomb Jump/Diagonal Bomb Jumps confirmed gently caress. YES.
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bodes well for sequence breaking 
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Sep 27, 2021 23:06
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there was a preview event today where reviewers got to play the first couple hours of the game and seemingly all the early impressions are absolutely glowing. Next Friday can’t come soon enough 
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Yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Vefqr1d0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E75aTuWaOu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVR9EVslMk
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https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1442662840486309892 When you've been excommunicated from the canon so hard the remakes AND originals both count at the same time side-by-side more than you do.
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Well it's not like Other M had any hand drawn art that would fit the theme, I think it was all CG wasn't it? Pixel Art Time      
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Sep 28, 2021 07:38
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It's also only the 2D games. None of the Prime games are on there.
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The United States posted:Well it's not like Other M had any hand drawn art that would fit the theme, I think it was all CG wasn't it? I'm glad Samus has a cape, it's very cold in space.
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This isn’t right. The baby is dead by this point.
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48 Hour Boner posted:I'm glad Samus has a cape, it's very cold in space. The Chozo did not account for human body temperature
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Several hours in and still not sure if I like Samus Returns very much or not. It seems very moment to moment depending on how frustrated I am at any given time. Samus feels pretty mobile and I love the 8 way aiming, but the games love of throwing so many drat enemies at you constantly charging so you can knock them back and shoot them is feeling very, very tedious and I know I'm likely not even halfway through. The background art is frequently really cool but the foreground all feels drab and same-y. The patches of slime and completely arbitrary suction fans to prevent you from using your abilities to go through certain pathways really loving suck. The game is at its best when I'm soaking in the atmosphere but feels like it keeps getting in its own way. Still glad that I gave it a shot as I wanted to see what MercurySteam were building on for Dread. From seeing trailers/gameplay footage, I think having a second stick to aim with and the melee counter being more easily done in motion will address a lot of my concerns in terms of gameplay flow, so here's hoping that enemy density/aggression is dialed back a little bit.
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I couldn't enjoy Samus Returns either, just way too much focus on constant ACTION COMBAT without a chance to take-in the atmosphere and explore. It also feels like they made all the enemies hyper aggressive just to give purpose to the counter.
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I found the constant parrying and lack of enemy variety to be a big turnoff for that game. Many of the faults I think are just what happens when you adapt a 30 year old Gameboy game. Thankfully the reviews are saying that parrying is much more optional in Dread.
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"I'm rushing through all these metroid games in anticipation of dread and getting bullied in chat for not being good enough" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNicUdXGPU Well yeah that's what happens when you play games as a job instead of for fun
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I just did a stream of a run of Metroid Zero Mission and had a blast talking about it while I played it. It's a great game that holds up very well and I'm sorry that this guy chose to have a career in a thing he sucks at or whatever
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MokBa posted:I found the constant parrying and lack of enemy variety to be a big turnoff for that game. Many of the faults I think are just what happens when you adapt a 30 year old Gameboy game. Thankfully the reviews are saying that parrying is much more optional in Dread. The main thing that annoyed me were the bats. Here, have basic flying enemies that ram you to counter all game long, then you hit the end and they throw counter-immune versions in just to gently caress with you.
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I will never stop complaining about how Returns messed up the atmosphere of the game, especially late in the game. The quiet moments where Metroid II chose not to give the players any enemies to deal with were so memorable and Samus Returns just fills these sections with noisy filler. Luckily Dread seems to be much better in that department
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I found a trick to leveling out the early game parry trap Returns has and it was honestly quite simple. The Ice Beam as it turns out is hilariously overpowered until about when you get Wave Spazer, cause you can just punch frozen enemies or pop them with a single missile and not get slowed down hardly at all. Variety is definitely not the game’s strong suit but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the more aggressive feeling of enemies once I got in a flow of evasion during movement and punch shattering the enemies I couldn’t evade.
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Augus posted:I will never stop complaining about how Returns messed up the atmosphere of the game, especially late in the game. The quiet moments where Metroid II chose not to give the players any enemies to deal with were so memorable and Samus Returns just fills these sections with noisy filler. I could have at least partially forgiven the misplaced Ridley boss fight at the end if they had just stripped Samus of all her upgrades throughout the battle's cutscenes. It was a huge missed opportunity to give a canonical reason why she doesn't have anything at the start of Super.
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I still feel like that Ridley boss fight has the side effect of making Samus a complete idiot for allowing Super Metroid to even happen. Before that boss fight, Samus had no real reason to believe that the space pirates still existed as a threat, so leaving the metroid in a civilian research station made sense. With the Ridley boss fight, suddenly she decides to do so not five minutes after learning that not only are the space pirates still around, they're actively targeting the metroid.
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TaurusOxford posted:I could have at least partially forgiven the misplaced Ridley boss fight at the end if they had just stripped Samus of all her upgrades throughout the battle's cutscenes. It was a huge missed opportunity to give a canonical reason why she doesn't have anything at the start of Super. gently caress, you're right!
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might have to be careful about spoilers soon, there's been at least one copy spotted on an auction site 
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