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I wouldn't call it a "perfect" transition from 2 to 3D. Good but not perfect. Most things are there, but the 3D games lack speed. Maybe the 3rd will be different, but I doubt it. What I mean with speed is just how acrobatic Samus is in the 2D games (especially near the end of a game), Samus is just very slow in 3D..

 

Anyway, I'm also still missing just 2 missile tanks I think. I have everything else (even the scans up 'till then I believe). Maybe people can give me some hints to where the best hidden missiles are located? I forgot which I already have, so I don't think GameFaqs will be much help :D (I'll have to check each location again).

Oh well, I'll go hunt down those last 2 expansions some time.. I turn off the music (allthough that's obviously not the preferred way to play Metroid ;)).

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I felt just like you! In the exact same part! But don't worry, what I didn't know was that a room or 2 after there was a save point. So, keep trying.

 

What part are you talking about? I don't recognize the description he made, of an enemy that no visor shows.... It's been a while since I played the game, but I'll say I had no major problems in finishing it. It's a challenging game (the way it should be), but not as hard as some paint it.

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What part are you talking about? I don't recognize the description he made, of an enemy that no visor shows.... It's been a while since I played the game, but I'll say I had no major problems in finishing it. It's a challenging game (the way it should be), but not as hard as some paint it.

 

Shino was talking about the room that has a dynamo or some electric generator in critial stage. In that same room there's a door that leads to a save point, but i'm not sure if it's unlocked or if you need to beat the invisible drone 1st.

Use the wave beam + missile combo. It will auto-aim to the mini-boss and grant you a win.

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I wouldn't call it a "perfect" transition from 2 to 3D. Good but not perfect. Most things are there, but the 3D games lack speed.

 

That's true but I think a fast paced Metroid wouldn't work in 3D, you need a lot of precision in 3D for jumping and such. Now if she was moving fast in first person the levels had to be very big.

But I think the slower pace fits very well for an ego shooter and it gives the feeling of a much more powerful armor because you're pretty slow.

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Shino was talking about the room that has a dynamo or some electric generator in critial stage. In that same room there's a door that leads to a save point, but i'm not sure if it's unlocked or if you need to beat the invisible drone 1st.

Use the wave beam + missile combo. It will auto-aim to the mini-boss and grant you a win.

 

I finally got around to try again, at first i died before i even got to the elite pirate, but then I backtracked to find two energy tanks i missed and the wavebuster. (thank you gamefaqs). By then I had gotten reaquinted with the controls, worked my way through the Phazon mines, whipped the elite pirates ass, and in the dreaded central dynamo the wavebuster made it laughably easy to destroy that cloaked drone.

 

I had several tanks left when I went down to get the superbombs. And now I am finally enjoying the game again, I just have to find time to play it in my busy schedule

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Is Echoes really that good? I've heard people say it's not as good as the first one.

 

Because the novelty factor isn't there anymore. And the level design is actually a bit more linear than in Prime.

But it's an amazing game nonetheless, everyone should see Sanctuary Fortress, it's beautiful.

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By all means play echoes it's brilliant. but you may find it very difficult if you haven't played the first. my other problem with echoes was that the envoirments looked all similiar enough to each other. About the same problem i had with sunshine. i like my fire areas,snow,techno etc

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Curiously enough, I killed all of the 4 main bosses in Echoes in my first go at them. They were all much easier than anything in Prime. Thardus and Omega Pirate from Prime, those killed me a few times. Incredibly, the Boost guardian killed me nearly 10 times, but the main bosses were a breeze.

 

Also Alpha Blogg (sub-boss) took me 3 attemps and that was a chore because he's the only guy in both games that makes you repeat a rather long portion of the game in order to get to him from the last save station. And to make it all the more sadistic just before you go and fight him you actually end up in the room that has the Save Station... except at this point you can't get to it (you need the gravity boost to reach it from this point of the room). Aaaargh.

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My friend in Brighton has my copy of Prime (and Wind Waker and XIII for that matter) and I've his copy of the Zelda bonus disk.

 

I need to swap back ASAP because I'm REALLY feeling the need to play through Prime once again!

 

Like I quoted Dabookerman on the previous page: This game was the Ocarina Of Time of the Gamecube!

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Ah yes, the boost ball guardian on hard mode. Even when i did defeat him i still dont really have a proper strategy and not sure how i kill him! I hate the big room you have to go through to get to him, its creepy.

 

Echoes was not as good bard due to level design, music wasnt as good, ammunition and no ice-beam combo!

and youve made me want to play them through again. dunno if i really want to but oh well

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Best game of the last generation. I remember how it blew me away at the time, graphically mind blowing, deep gameplay and a great feeling of being stranded on an alien planet.

 

What's the best game of this Gen then. Can't think of one better than Prime at the moment.

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