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CuddleCryptid posted:Ending: The scene of Samus going absolutely apeshit on the boss while cutting away to the city falling was comedic gold anyone else notice that Samus's mission in Dread is to kill a Mawkin bird?  The more I think about it, the more I liked the story in this game as a tie up to the story. Was very fun and Mercury Steam did a great job with the cutscenes and communicating small stuff without dialogue.
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Lol I forgot Phaaze explodes also
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Oct 13, 2021 16:24
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RBA Starblade posted:Lol I forgot Phaaze explodes also You just know Dark Samus will come back for Prime 4, even though she, her energy source and the planet, as mentioned, blew up.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:26
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RBA Starblade posted:I know it's blown up forever and ever for real we mean it but kind of surprised not to see phazon or anything at all, considering everything else is in here If it comes back, it's probably gonna be in Prime 4, as it's will likely be another prequel set between numbered titles. Didn't Prime 3 tease something from Hunters at the end? If they follow up on that, they can't waste that much time in-universe. Judge Tesla posted:You just know Dark Samus will come back for Prime 4, even though she, her energy source and the planet, as mentioned, blew up.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:36
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It was the power bomb upgrades hidden in plain site on my map that kept me from 100%. Really wish the map was more readable.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:49
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 after finishing Dread I thought I should finally finish Samus Returns and playing it feels like playing Dark Souls 2 after Bloodborne. I think I‘ll pass for a while…
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Oct 13, 2021 16:55
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Oct 13, 2021 17:08
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Kinda wish there was another use for the speed booster/shinespark other than item pickup puzzles wanna have a speed booster boss fight love that they just sorta carried over all the shinespark mechanics from other games including the ballspark something about the ballspark amuses me
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Oct 13, 2021 17:12
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This final boss is no joke goddamn. I do wish they had difficulty settings (all games should) or at least a pity "we noticed you've been dieing a lot, would you like to lower the difficulty?" pop up like God of War. I'm sure I'll get it, the attacks are well telegraphed but all the same... yeesh.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:14
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I restarted the game in hard mode thinking it would be a breeze now that I knew were to go, got the first power up, and instantly was lost again. Prime had the best navigation idea imo, it didn't tell you exactly how to get to a spot but it would say "something weird is happening over here, maybe take a look". Adam going "hey you got a missile that's good for missle doors" is practically useless most of the time
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Oct 13, 2021 17:14
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Monkey Fracas posted:Kinda wish there was another use for the speed booster/shinespark other than item pickup puzzles Three bosses (that I know of) have booster-related quickkills lol
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Oct 13, 2021 17:15
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The United States posted:Play AM2R Already did two times. I like it a lot.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:17
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Humerus posted:This final boss is no joke goddamn. I do wish they had difficulty settings (all games should) or at least a pity "we noticed you've been dieing a lot, would you like to lower the difficulty?" pop up like God of War. The final boss is weird in that it seems insurmountable at first, but once you learn the patterns of each phase, it's actually not very difficult. It's like learning a piece of music section by section and just performing it. I beat it at 62% item completion then went back for a rematch a couple days later after 100%ing everything, and I was impressed at how easily he went down the second time. It's just a really fun, engaging encounter. I found the game overly difficult for a long time but it comes with a satisfaction rarely seen in first party Nintendo titles.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I restarted the game in hard mode thinking it would be a breeze now that I knew were to go, got the first power up, and instantly was lost again. Yeah, I liked how it'd point to a room just floating in the middle of nowhere. While Fusion was kinda hand-holdy, I do like that it did a similar thing of "your goal is here" but the path there often would require detours.
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MokBa posted:The final boss is weird in that it seems insurmountable at first, but once you learn the patterns of each phase, it's actually not very difficult. It's like learning a piece of music section by section and just performing it. I beat it at 62% item completion then went back for a rematch a couple days later after 100%ing everything, and I was impressed at how easily he went down the second time. Oh don't get me wrong, I'm sure you're right. I've only tried twice so I'm sure I'll get it. I just wish I could throw on easy mode and blast through. (Mid game boss spoilers) I legit almost quit at the Experiment boss. I couldn't reliably get to his second phase and the one time I did I just immediately died to his big swipe. I took a break, watched a video of someone beating it, and then killed him after getting hit maybe 4 times. I bet this boss will be a similar experience. I just need to slow down and learn the tells.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:32
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Monkey Fracas posted:Kinda wish there was another use for the speed booster/shinespark other than item pickup puzzles the use outside of puzzles is to zip around the map doing whooshing noises
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Oct 13, 2021 17:32
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MokBa posted:The final boss is weird in that it seems insurmountable at first, but once you learn the patterns of each phase, it's actually not very difficult. It's like learning a piece of music section by section and just performing it. I beat it at 62% item completion then went back for a rematch a couple days later after 100%ing everything, and I was impressed at how easily he went down the second time. The only bit that kept getting me was the 1-3 swipe attack, it's hard to get out of after the first hit. Everything else is telegraphed enough to react in time with a slide, a dash or a space jump. You can all do it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE
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Oct 13, 2021 17:34
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Monkey Fracas posted:Kinda wish there was another use for the speed booster/shinespark other than item pickup puzzles The main use of Speed Booster is “finding new and exciting ways to break this game wide open” Like how it’s possible to get the Spin Jump immediately after getting Speed Booster, apparently.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:45
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Speaking of most speed puzzles having multiple solutions: Is there another way to do the one in the top-left of Dairon, *other* than sparking into the small ramp to recharge your boost and pinballing up the shaft like a maniac? Every other way I tried (various ways of storing the spark and space jumping up) seemed to be just a little too tight on the timing.... I love this.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:47
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jackhunter64 posted:The only bit that kept getting me was the 1-3 swipe attack, it's hard to get out of after the first hit. Everything else is telegraphed enough to react in time with a slide, a dash or a space jump. You can all do it! That one is difficult to get out of and doesn't have much wind-up, but in general, you can just assume he will do it if you are standing close to him when he finishes another attack, so GTFO pre-emptively.
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I've 100% item collection in all areas now I'm ready for the final boss. I look forward to retrying this multiple times.
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More games should give you cool wallpapers as a reward for beating them, IMO.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:50
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JordanKai posted:More games should give you cool wallpapers as a reward for beating them, IMO. Relatedly the Switch should really let us make themes or something
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ROJO posted:Speaking of most speed puzzles having multiple solutions: I tried doing the ramp method but I found it way too awkward. I actually pulled it off by just storing a charge at the bottom and getting up there by space jumping. it was tight timing but proper jumping got it done.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:54
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Vookatos posted:I guess it's my problem more than the game's, but I absolutely hate pressing in the stick while running. A couple of the spaces to build a charge are VERY tight, and this hampers that.
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Oct 13, 2021 18:01
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Barreft posted:I need to learn this skill, I cant use the joycons because I have to navigate the right stick with the base of my thumb so I can hit the buttons with my thumb itself. It's so hard to do anything precise with it besides like picross, I've always just used the hori split pad since the thumbstick is off to the left What games require using the right stick and buttons at the same time? I would think that'd be a hassle on any controller.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I got an amusing glitch during the last boss. That just fits Bird Brain (uncool jerks don't get proper names) so well.
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Oct 13, 2021 18:10
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Woop, the Amiibo arrived. Time to give myself a bonus energy and missile+ tank.
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Humerus posted:Thanks! I just did it one try with that. Guess I didn't think that short ramp would "recharge" the spark. I just felt like an idiot after managing the one where you have to chain like 3 times and then failed this one repeatedly. That's one of those shinespark tricks which they never explain and people just pick up over the games. Good to remember, it's mandatory for some other puzzles.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Three bosses (that I know of) have booster-related quickkills lol drat only knew about the one where you can use it on the boss that you fight in the thermal generator core thingy- game is chock-full of secrets and sequence-breaking goodness I meant it would be cool if there was a boss or sequence really built around charging up and using the speed booster/shinespark
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Bruceski posted:That's one of those shinespark tricks which they never explain and people just pick up over the games. Good to remember, it's mandatory for some other puzzles. I think they used every hidden “trick” to boosting/shine sparking you could do in Super, Fusion and ZM all at the same time. And then added a few new ones (wall jumping and sliding)
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Monkey Fracas posted:drat only knew about the one where you can use it on the boss that you fight in the thermal generator core thingy- game is chock-full of secrets and sequence-breaking goodness I think since shinesparks and speed booster gauntlets are pretty technical they wanted to minimize the mandatory usage of it. I think the only time you’re actually required to use a shinespark on the critical path is the tutorial for it? there are plenty of rooms in the game that are definitely designed to give you space to play around with the speed booster, though, and it’s involved in a lot of developer-intended shortcuts and sequence breaks Augus fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Oct 13, 2021 18:25
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Monkey Fracas posted:Kinda wish there was another use for the speed booster/shinespark other than item pickup puzzles i figure this isn't quite what you meant but i just did it and feel quite pleased about it so i'd like to post it anyway (later boss, are we even spoiler-baring these, idk what the mood on spoilers in a metroid game is)https://i.imgur.com/dTwAMed.mp4
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i'm trying to think of another metroid game - hell, maybe even another metroidvania (save hollow knight) - with bosses as good as in Dread and coming up mostly empty which probably means i'm forgetting something but even so these have been standout fun to master, even on Hard (excuse me 600 damage for the chozo soldier red melee attack??  )
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Oct 13, 2021 18:38
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Ciaphas posted:i figure this isn't quite what you meant but i just did it and feel quite pleased about it so i'd like to post it anyway Goddamn you nailed it
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Ciaphas posted:i figure this isn't quite what you meant but i just did it and feel quite pleased about it so i'd like to post it anyway ah yeah this is the only quick kill I know about- figured something was up when it gave you the wind to run against and build up a speed boost owns
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Monkey Fracas posted:ah yeah this is the only quick kill I know about- figured something was up when it gave you the wind to run against and build up a speed boost the other one i'm aware of is breaking sequence to bring morph ball bombs to Kraid, which I'm astonished the devs so-completely accounted for Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Ciaphas posted:i'm trying to think of another metroid game - hell, maybe even another metroidvania (save hollow knight) - with bosses as good as in Dread and coming up mostly empty it's the perennial weakness of the genre e: fwiw i think there's (several) good reasons for that - in all the traditional metroid and castlevania games the player character has taken up a fairly large portion of the screen with even larger bosses, making the arenas very cramped. they've also had little to no movement abilities (like dashes) or counter-defensive like parries or the hollow knight pogo. both dread and hollow knight have the strength of having much more screen real estate and defensive abilities and movement abilities. you're just able to design much better fights around that Your Computer fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Ciaphas posted:the other one i'm aware of is breaking sequence to bring morph ball bombs to Kraid, which I'm astonished the devs so-completely accounted for there’s another one if you bring the screw attack into the Escue fight
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