Topic: Metroid: Samus Returns

@BLP_Software Or bomb jump, that's how I got it. It was either that or come back later. I wanted it now.

As someone who has never played a metroid game before, would this game be worth it?

The Chozo archives are very interesting. Unrevealed parts of the lore can be interpreted. I'll put it in a spoiler tag since you only unlock the entire gallery after 100% completing the game.

@NintendoPete
You're not following.

There were no further upgrades. There was nowhere else to go.

It was end of the line. Either bomb hop or shut the system off and stop playing

So far, I'm loving this game. First night, I got stuck, but I think I was tired after a long day of work and wasn't thinking clearly lol. Haven't had any problems since and just made it to area 3. Whenever I do get stuck, or lost, I usually just take a break and when I come back I can usually figure it out right away.

Well made game.

@JaxonH Na, there's no where you NEED to bomb hop to in order to progress in the game. Maybe for missiles or something, but as far as forward progress to complete game, or go further, no you don't need to bomb hop. You just haven't found what is required for that area. Anyways, no biggie. I've been playing Metroid since the original, so I bomb hop a lot too.

@Sir_Anthony It honestly seems like the deadliest quality of Metroids isn't their life-sucking, but rather their ability to corrupt anybody that comes near them. Pretty much every faction that has come into contact with them becomes obsessed to the point of being unable to do anything without them. Pirates, post-Super Federation... and now seemingly corrupt Chozo. Suddenly the "Phazon connection" raised by Dark Tallon Metroid scans doesn't sound so far-fetched... and after Fusion, the only Metroid left is... Samus, both literally (I don't buy her DNA being restored to normal at the end of the game) and figuratively (the word Metroid being a Chozo term for "ultimate warrior").

On another note, I'm really digging the soundtrack CD selection. It has most of my favourite tracks across the whole series.

To leave you out of the dark here.

Yea its worth it. I'd say its one of the more difficult metroids in the franchise, but overall you can expect similar gameplay and quality in other metroids (in other words, you may get motivated to try to others and enjoy them as just much if not more if you like this game).

Welllookatthat.

My Amazon finally decided to ship my copy.

Fashionably late.

But that's ok. Never too late to play Metroid

amazon sucks ass.

I wish I could be playing this game instead of doing stupid things like working, to be honest...

Same! I don't have time to play games anymore 😫 @maruse

@Aaron09 I hear you on that! One of the disadvantages of adult life. But there's not helping it.

Soooo, my dumb a$$ made it to area 3 finally, do some exploring, and it's definitely a harder area (bad guys hit harder and are harder to kill) and I stumble upon a save point. Woo hoo! I save, with only 64 health lol. Everything in either direction is 1 hit killing me... hmmm.... When I get time to play again, I'll have to make a run for a safer area to get health lol.

@Old_Goat_Ninja You can find a couple of energy tanks if you are in no rush to finish the area early in the game. Start to use the melee, it'll help.

@NineJujuBeats Nope no rush. At least not on first play through. I want to learn the maps well before trying to get a good time on a play through, which if anything like old Metroids, is what's important.

EDIT: I have extra tanks, they are just currently depleted where I happened to save it at lol.

I got stuck a bit on the fourth metroid in area one. Lost about half an hour wondering around like and idiot, until I went back to the metroid beacon on the map and sussed a bit of tricky platforming to the little bugger. Love it.

@Bolt_Strike Find a wall that lines up with the gap between them. Use your SpiderBall and plant a Power Bomb. Get results.