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Your Computer posted:i love metroidvanias to death and honestly and genuinely i can only think of hollow knight which has good/fun boss fights (in addition to dread, i mean) The DS Castlevanias had pretty good bosses, OoE especially. Momodora: Reverier Unde the Moonlight is a much smaller title but that had cool Souls-esque fights too
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Super Metroid bosses ftw
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Oct 13, 2021 19:22
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OK so the final boss isn't too bad, I managed to get to the phase after he loses his wings and didn't do well at avoiding the big blasts and those "sun" rays.
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Oct 13, 2021 19:23
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ZeeBoi posted:OK so the final boss isn't too bad, I managed to get to the phases after he loses his wings and didn't do well at avoiding the big blasts and those "sun" rays. powerbomb when he deploys the sun, it kills it and gives you supplies
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Oct 13, 2021 19:24
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Feels Villeneuve posted:powerbomb when he deploys the sun, it kills it and gives you supplies Excellent, thanks for the tip!
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Oct 13, 2021 19:25
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e) double post
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Super Metroid bosses ftw
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Oct 13, 2021 19:28
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Maybe I'm just getting old or super dumb, but the EMMI in Ghavoran... I tried 10+ times to get past as specific room. Any ideas how to handle this one? Theres a normal door directly above a grapple beam one, and a grapple beam pit on the right room after with water at the bottom. I cant for the life of me get past this one
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Oct 13, 2021 19:48
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Your Computer posted:personally I can't imagine they'd drop it. also now they have a very convenient way to keep calling the game metroid even after all the metroids were extinct by the third game Hopefully Samus is less racist and homophobic than the last person to carry the title of Ultimate Warrior.
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Oct 13, 2021 19:57
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FrickenMoron posted:Maybe I'm just getting old or super dumb, but the EMMI in Ghavoran... I tried 10+ times to get past as specific room. Any ideas how to handle this one? Theres a normal door directly above a grapple beam one, and a grapple beam pit on the right room after with water at the bottom. I cant for the life of me get past this one Flash shift should let you clear the water so you can just zip through that room. Also, don't forget grapple pulls you to the blue walls. I don't know how applicable it is for that section.
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Oct 13, 2021 19:59
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What all counts for the in game timer? I assume anytime you are in control, but not cutscenes, pausing, or staring at the map? And EMMI/boss attempts you fail on and restart from outside the door are wiped away I assume?
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Oct 13, 2021 20:01
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Twelve by Pies posted:Hopefully Samus is less racist and homophobic than the last person to carry the title of Ultimate Warrior. Pirates and X out of Zebes
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Oct 13, 2021 20:01
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ROJO posted:What all counts for the in game timer? I assume anytime you are in control, but not cutscenes, pausing, or staring at the map? And EMMI/boss attempts you fail on and restart from outside the door are wiped away I assume? The clock stops for pausing/map checking, but cutscenes are added to it even when skipped.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:02
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Finished a replay of Samus Returns. Still has the faults (small enemy pool, levels that blur together, adherence to original's grindy progression) but much easier this time. There was only one attack of the Queen I couldn't pin down, where she lights up the floors, spews globs everywhere, and shoots a laser from the bottom up. The final boss is very managable as his every move is fairly telegraphed. Diggernaut should deal less damage given how long and instense his fights is. Its fine if you colour inside the margins but the game could afford to be less punishing when you miss a beat. 100 percent is incredibly forgiving since you have a mapping tool and a slow-motion buff. Having zero obnoxious shine-spark puzzles puts it above Zero Mission in my book. Past the Kraid fight in Super Metroid replay and it feels pretty miserable. As the oldest game this is officially due for some kind of remaster. No ledge-grabbing, no item-tally, dated controls, and the airborne velocity of a pregnant cow. Wall jumping is also horrible.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:03
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Inspector Gesicht posted:There was only one attack of the Queen I couldn't pin down, where she lights up the floors, spews globs everywhere, and shoots a laser from the bottom up. The final boss is very managable as his every move is fairly telegraphed. The answer to that one is to spiderball on the wall and powerbomb cannon yourself into the Queen's head.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:04
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TaurusOxford posted:The answer to that one is to spiderball on the wall and powerbomb cannon yourself into the Queen's head. gently caress.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:05
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TaurusOxford posted:The clock stops for pausing/map checking, but cutscenes are added to it even when skipped. That makes me feel a bit better about 40mins after beating the first boss on my "quick" attempt. I'm tempted to look up some benchmarks so I know if I'm at least on track for a 4-hour clear.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:08
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Augus posted:there’s another one if you bring the screw attack into the Escue fight you can do that? i'm gonna have to look up a skip compilation or something
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Oct 13, 2021 20:26
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Ciaphas posted:you can do that? i'm gonna have to look up a skip compilation or something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk3yCa43FDQ
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Oct 13, 2021 20:32
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Ciaphas posted:you can do that? i'm gonna have to look up a skip compilation or something On my second run I had the Flash Shift before I fought Kraid. I kind just stumbled onto it as well lol.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:33
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Super Metroid bosses ftw I’m up to phantoon right now and he keeps killing me. I hate this creepy gently caress.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:37
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Crocomire rules though. Kraid is a cool design but annoying fight.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:38
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Oxyclean posted:Flash shift should let you clear the water so you can just zip through that room. Also, don't forget grapple pulls you to the blue walls. I don't know how applicable it is for that section. Going fast did indeed help. It's been dealt with!
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Oct 13, 2021 20:39
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tuo posted:Rest assured, the next EMMI won't have that. I somehow get the feeling that the word "next" is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence...
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Oct 13, 2021 20:49
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Regarding plot and future game speculation, I wonder if the energy you get for the Omega Cannon is actually phazon, possibly some kind of refined or artificial version that doesn't corrupt everything (yet). Of course I have zero evidence for this other than "it blue." Mostly it just amuses me to imagine the Chozo developing New Phazon and immediately injecting it into their brain-computers to get more clock cycles.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:52
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I've just gotten to The Mid-Game Exposition Cutscene and the fight immediately following that is insane. It's like playing 2D Devil May Cry.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:53
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I thought Sakamoto was very cool on the Prime series and didn't consider them in his canon? I'd be surprised they were meant to be explicit plot references to Phazon, although the aesthetic design does seem to be a nod and a wink towards it
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Oct 13, 2021 20:55
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multijoe posted:I thought Sakamoto was very cool on the Prime series and didn't consider them in his canon? I'd be surprised they were meant to be explicit plot references to Phazon, although the aesthetic design does seem to be a nod and a wink towards it that was a mistranslation iirc, what he said was that the Prime games were their own self-contained story with a different tone and style from the rest of the franchise. in fact he explicitly said he does consider them canon. Augus fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Oct 13, 2021 21:07
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nintendo rerelease the prime games already so i can play them I have a Wii and could buy them used, but that's like two whole hassles.
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multijoe posted:I thought Sakamoto was very cool on the Prime series and didn't consider them in his canon? I'd be surprised they were meant to be explicit plot references to Phazon, although the aesthetic design does seem to be a nod and a wink towards it So this interview gets brought up out of context a lot as a gotcha to Sakamoto, but this Reddit thread goes into a lot of his interviews on the topic where he has nothing but glowing praise for Retro Studios and the Prime games, and he was more than encouraging to let them do their own thing. One of the more relevant quotes, however: Yoshio Sakamoto interview with Hobby Consolas, 2018 posted:The Metroids (2D) in which I have worked and the Metroid Prime are two different sagas; there is no direct link between their stories. When the Prime saga started, I agreed with its producers that we should try to preserve the timelines and a minimum level of consistency, but also be free to create the games that we considered appropriate and avoid doing anything that would coerce the other. In addition, Proteus Ridley in Samus Returns is pretty much a smoking gun linking the Prime games directly into series continuity.
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I hear fans arent too hot on Prime 2 because it has few checkpoints and a muddled dual-world system?
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Oct 13, 2021 21:12
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Prime 2 rules
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I hear fans arent too hot on Prime 2 because it has few checkpoints and a muddled dual-world system? I mean I don't know how it holds up but Dark Aether scared the piss out of me when I was a kid. It was basically a horror game for that. It was great.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I hear fans arent too hot on Prime 2 because it has few checkpoints and a muddled dual-world system? Echoes has gotten more love as time has gone on. It'll probably forever be stuck in Prime's shadow, but hey, that's almost thematically appropriate. 
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Oct 13, 2021 21:17
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Prime 2's gotten a lot more respect from people as time goes on, with more than a fair few liking it better than even the first one. The two are very close on my personal list, and before Dread I'd have put it as my second favorite game in the series.
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Oct 13, 2021 21:18
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gently caress the spider ball fight
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Oct 13, 2021 21:19
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RBA Starblade posted:gently caress the spider ball fight That fight got considerably better in the Trilogy version with jumpball, but yeah. Echoes' biggest problems is that while it has higher highs than Prime, it also has lower lows.
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Oct 13, 2021 21:24
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Prime 2 had a 3d Screw Attack that somehow didn't completely suck so I have to honor it for that if nothing else
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Oct 13, 2021 21:25
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I'm currently stuck at Dairon and can't find my way through the EMMI zone, both ways to Control unit seem to be closed for me. Am I supposed to take the shuttle to the next area and find progress there?
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Prime 2 is great. Absolutely my favorite of the Primes. It's actually pretty hard in a satisfying way. I enjoyed the hell out of it.
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