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finished it, really really good game. I think I'd have liked it to be a bit bigger with more to explore but you could ask that forever I guess, it's nice to have a compact game but sometimes between bosses and powerups it feels like there's not much room for the rest of the game to breathe lol But at the same time those bosses are really good, final boss seemed impossible first couple of attempts, then I felt like I stood a chance, then on the fourth or fifth attempt I beat him easily and felt like a god. The perfect boss cycle imo also lol I joked that Samus was Cell from DBZ now and then I saw the Metroid suit/hyper beam
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if you follow Dread speedrunning, it's gotten completely out of hand in a lot (I mean a dozen+ by now) of really unexpected ways, the latest of which is a technique called skewing, where Samus will face towards the screen and be able to charge a shinespark by running in place, which is used to skip the Gravity Suit by bypassing the Wave EMMIs water exit. I've never seen more divine speedrunning motion, and peak year+ play will be unthinkable. The most intense part of this is how fast the breaks have been found and perfected by all the streaming runners and community adjacents. More and more every day; I've never seen anything like it. It has me praying for DLC of just huge shinespark and slide motion parks and boss challenges, it's begging for it and I want Metroid renaissance. All the years of speedrunning Super Metroid et all was the speed boost for the shinespark that is Metroid Dread.
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Oh. I just realized the guiding blue light-butterflies are probably meant to be a call to luminoths.
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Finally played through the rest of Dread over the last few days. I wasn't hot on the first half of the game but it really started pressing my buttons around the time the X come into play. I'm a sucker for revisiting areas that have changes and Metroid hasn't really done that much before outside of the Primes. Definitely nothing on the level of Dread loving with the enemies on every single screen, the Artaria revisit etc. I'd be straight up lying if I said that Dread had anything less than the best combat and movement in the series. Tons of cool shinespark puzzles, the new and extremely improved speed booster was a blast to use. My favorite one was the one near the top of Hanubia that you have to shoot blocks out of the way, then cross bomb across a gap and finally drop a bomb right before you activate the upward ballspark. I think do think some of the really extended shinespark puzzles in Zero Mission are a little harder but these were great. Not a huge fan of EMMI, but now that I've played once they're basically just there, I don't think I'll die once to them on replays. Bosses are awesome across the board, and the final boss is phenomenal. Loved him. Wish there was more to part 2 of his encounter but it ending in one second was kind of the point. I still hate the animation of Samus charging her gun while it's pointed downward but that's really the only one I can't get over, most of the boss counters are really cool. I still like Super more but it's a game I've played through over 100 times. This easily takes 2nd place for the 2D games.
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tuo posted:Bring out/lock on the storm missiles as soon as the thing attaches it’s arms to the walls….it’s healing during this moment, and pretty quickly. If not attacked as soon as possible, the fight can take forever ty for this advice. been playing OoT while dreading retrying the Z-57 fight another 20 times but lmfao I tried to do the shinespark quickie twice and missed both times but still managed to kill it earlier this evening after only like 10 more attempts. felt incredible lol
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Nov 12, 2021 06:31
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Beating it gave me that wonderfull, very loud "YEAH gently caress YOU" moment as soon as the death sequence started to play which I normally only get from chipping away that last pixel of the healthbar in Soulsborne games. Dread owns.
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Lol I was freaking out cause I had like no energy left due to loving up the shinespark twice and figured there was gonna be a final counter sequence for me to gently caress up screw attack whips rear end just space jumping around everywhere lol
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:For all the great Metroid inspired games out there I don't think anyone's ever managed to create a powerup as satisfying and game-changing as the screw attack yeah it's an excellent transition into the "ok solve every puzzle you haven't yet or go beat the game" stage of things. i don't ahve time to shoot enemies any more just jump through them!
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Nov 12, 2021 17:30
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Metroid has the courage to make you insanely powerful for the last 25% of the game, and it's a good rapid-pace feeling of going from a flippy mobile tank at start to a person-sized spaceship equipped with 20 death systems by the end
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Black August posted:Metroid has the courage to make you insanely powerful for the last 25% of the game, and it's a good rapid-pace feeling of going from a flippy mobile tank at start to a person-sized spaceship equipped with 20 death systems by the end This is exactly it, for all I love Hollow Knight for example, I've never got round to my replay of it because it never (iirc) has that kind of game-changing power-up. Sure you can go back through early areas much easier but it never has that catharsis wheels-off factor
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:For all the great Metroid inspired games out there I don't think anyone's ever managed to create a powerup as satisfying and game-changing as the screw attack it's like a goomba stomp that's always on.
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Got a switch last Friday and have been playing the poo poo out of this, what a fun game. Got to the last save point and spend the few playing sessions getting 100% items, time now to go fight the big bad having avoided any and all spoilers and get fuckin' wrecked left and right. Going to make an afternoon of it!
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Update: drat, finally got it. I started celebrating too soon thinking I reached the cutscene and raven beak was beat, but it was another parry prompt and I missed it and got bitchslapped onto the ground and had to do another round of battle lol I guess they’re setting up for a sequel with ADAM’s last message being a bit of a heel turn? I loved how they took care of samus’s evolution into Cell by just having the old-sage-but-really-X show up and make her normal in 2 seconds. Internal character conflict resolved! Thanks!! Bye. 12:12:15 to get 100%, took my tIme and got really lost just once or twice. What a fun game, glad I read this thread and heeded the hype
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Fortaleza posted:I guess they’re setting up for a sequel with ADAM’s last message being a bit of a heel turn? the twist was you never spoke to adam in any of the uplink rooms it was raven beak the whole time
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absolutely anything posted:the twist was you never spoke to adam in any of the uplink rooms it was raven beak the whole time oooooh that makes way more sense. Man that sailed right over my head for some reason.
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Nov 17, 2021 05:08
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Raven Beak is no gentleman, he never called Samus "Lady" when imitating Adam.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Genuinely lold at this. It doesn't really matter at all but... what was the point
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Nov 17, 2021 13:56
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She didn't lose it. Quiet Robe's tribe has the ability to control metroids. She's in full control of her metroid powers now.
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Evil Eagle posted:She didn't lose it. Quiet Robe's tribe has the ability to control metroids. She's in full control of her metroid powers now. drat, I forgot about that. That's badass if true and makes me more excited for a sequel.
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Evil Eagle posted:She didn't lose it. Quiet Robe's tribe has the ability to control metroids. She's in full control of her metroid powers now.
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Evil Eagle posted:She didn't lose it. Quiet Robe's tribe has the ability to control metroids. She's in full control of her metroid powers now. yeah exactly, she also probably has some x parasite stuff assuming she didn't just gobble that up. she's more the universe's apex predator than ever
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Nov 17, 2021 15:29
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$10 down that next game Samus has the Metroid Suit for a super mode
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Black August posted:$10 down that next game Samus has the Metroid Suit for a super mode Amiibo required.
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Nov 17, 2021 19:08
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MrQueasy posted:Amiibo required. lol!!!!
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honestly the only issue i have with the game is you can’t skip the opening cutscene, goty
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MrQueasy posted:Amiibo required. 
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what has nintendo actually gatelocked behind an amiibo anyway? it's like that one dungeon in twilight princess hd and a bunch of costumes or loot drops.
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The Metroid Amiibo has this jelly structure which is quite cool. It's nearly like that one He-Man toy but doesn't stink. And it gives you missiles.
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Nov 17, 2021 20:04
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Loadouts in Splatoon 2 were locked to amiibos which is stupid
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Bicyclops posted:what has nintendo actually gatelocked behind an amiibo anyway? it's like that one dungeon in twilight princess hd and a bunch of costumes or loot drops. wolf in botw and fast travel in skyward sword i think. the wolf sucks rear end though
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Fungah! posted:wolf in botw and fast travel in skyward sword i think. the wolf sucks rear end though I’ve got skyward sword and the amiibo and I’ve never once used it because it feels like you’re never more than 30 seconds’ walk from a fast travel point anyway, feels like it would take just as long to get up, find the amiibo, and scan it in as it would to just head to the bird statue anyway
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tuo posted:The Metroid Amiibo has this jelly structure which is quite cool. It's nearly like that one He-Man toy but doesn't stink. And it gives you missiles. its a really cool amiibo. i have it and its required to unlock hardmode in metroid samus returns lol.
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if I get one amiibo it'll be the metroid one, I still love their design after all this time
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got wave beam. i cannot be stopped
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this final boss guy is pissing me off
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mycophobia posted:this final boss guy is pissing me off he’ll probably take some tries but when you get it down you’ll beat him and barely get hit. really satisfying to learn the moves and how to dodge
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The only part of the fight I really hated was the giant ball of energy that pulses waves in the last phase. I'm just glad I got all the energy tanks lol.
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Kongming posted:The only part of the fight I really hated was the giant ball of energy that pulses waves in the last phase. I'm just glad I got all the energy tanks lol. figuring out that you could use a power bomb to blow the suns up was one of the most powerful gamer moments of the year for me
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