Art_de_Cat Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Just now, Dancing Mog said: Go to morph ball mode, use lightning armor, and plant power bomb inside. Spoiler The problem is Im not getting the geapple point to appear to pull her down to go inside. Quote Link to comment
Dancing Mog Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Grapple points can be picky, just move it until it goes blue cause I don't know what to say beyond that. Quote Link to comment
Art_de_Cat Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Spoiler the red thing doesnt appear for me to grapple to. Quote Link to comment
Ithrak Utopia Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 @Art_de_Cat Spoiler I'm pretty sure you have to keep blasting away at the Queen until she does her counter move. If you counter her, she should show that grapple point in her mouth. That's how I was able to get the point to appear and proceed. Quote Link to comment
Laclipsey Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 4 hours ago, Art_de_Cat said: Ok having issues with a certain metroid to kill and not seeing the disconnect to engage something. Hide contents How do you get the grapple point to appear in the queens mouth? I hit with missles, gets to where she lowers head and shoot more missles in ........ but video gets her red thing and im getting nothing? Spoiler It only happens in the final phase of the fight. You have to be ready with the counter when she rears back and lunges at you. She'll spend a little while just leering at you with her mouth open, which should be your cue to be ready. When you see the shine, mash X. Quote Link to comment
Art_de_Cat Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Grabbing final items before clearing whole thing. Quote Link to comment
Art_de_Cat Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Question: Spoiler What is the timing for the counter attack during final stage of Ripley fight? I know its right after metroid absorbs energy, but not connecting. Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 15 minutes ago, Art_de_Cat said: Question: Hide contents What is the timing for the counter attack during final stage of Ripley fight? I know its right after metroid absorbs energy, but not connecting. Spoiler He'll raise his claw up, and you'll see a little sparkle for a split second. That's your cue to hit X. Quote Link to comment
Art_de_Cat Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Game Beaten: Really liked the spider spark move and most of the aeion abilities. The slow down could have been used more in the game cause I kept forgetting it was there. I dont feel they needed that particular final boss, but having more shown of Samus bonding with her bounty helps expand things. I expected more of the parasite x to be in the game. Chozo memories were cool to see, especially the final reveal and how it was revealed left an impression to be sure. Oh well time to use amiibos . Quote Link to comment
Irondog666 Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 I been playing the shit out of it. Of course I suck at Metroid titles when I first get them, they take awhile to learn the ins and outs. I think it is a very solid game overall. I don't think it is as good as Super Metroid but it is a solid remake of Metroid II. Still blown that Mercury Steam developed this game and they made all those shitty ass Castlevania games (if you can even call them that). Really fun title. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 As one who liked their Castlevania's, I resent that. D: I mean yeah, they were a departure from the norm for the series, but were perfectly playable I felt once you got accustomed, and really enjoyed the story they had despite being of a different timeline. That said, having been a fan of MercurySteam since Lords of Shadow, I felt Metroid was in good hands when they took interest in it, despite the skepticism others still had of them, and lo and behold, I was right. They delivered and passed the test in flying colors with MSR. Kezay 1 Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) Nearly finished my first speedrun which I'll do the rest of in a few; am shortly over 3 hours, so I won't get the best Samus ending. Learned earlier on though that when you first get to the area or sector that Arachnus is in, you can get to his room early the first thing by bomb jumping from outside to reach it, allowing you to get even past the red spikes that you normally wouldn't be able to get through with the Spider Ball. And for the Metroid Queen, apparently if you use the Spider Spark to bump into her head while she's covering one of the walls in flames, it'll interrupt her attack, saving some time against her. For the best (or most fanservicey) endings that require under 3 hours, it looks like there's ones for all the difficulties. For Normal mode, it's Zero Suit Samus, for Hard mode it's Justin Bailey Samus in her green haired glory, and for Fusion mode it looks like the suitless Fusion Samus with the blue top and shorts. All and all, the game's definitely more speedrunable than I first gave it credit for, tho not as enjoyable to speedrun for me as other games but it's doable. I love it as a game to 100% or play normally, but speedruns, eh... Still seems worth a try here and there until I can get my needed amiibos at least. edit: Wow I'm a dolt. The best endings for MRS only require under 4 hours, not 3. Edited October 2, 2017 by Ridley Prime Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Calling it now: The Super Metroid remake will be titled "Metroid: Samus Forever". Then the Other M remake will be titled "Metroid: Samus and Robin". Art_de_Cat and Laclipsey 2 Quote Link to comment
Kezay Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 On 9/29/2017 at 1:47 AM, Art_de_Cat said: Question: Hide contents What is the timing for the counter attack during final stage of Ripley fight? I know its right after metroid absorbs energy, but not connecting. OMG, WTF!? I didn't even know you could do that! Quote Link to comment
Art_de_Cat Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 26 minutes ago, Kezay said: OMG, WTF!? I didn't even know you could do that! I could never get timing down for that counter, so just blasted him with aeion juice and plasma beam. Which begs question, what is the most powerful weapon? Plasma, aeion blast, or super missles? The play throughs I watched just used aeion blasting till plasma beam and never bothered with any missles at all. Which could cut my play time a ton to not look for those expansions. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 It's good to have both Aeion expansions (at least one or so) and extra super missiles, but regular missiles don't affect the final boss at all. Even when I melee countered him during my speedrun and started using normal missiles when it was all I had left they just bounced right off him. :u Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Finished my speedruns, at least until I can find an amiibo for Fusion mode... ZSS and Justin Bailey get! Everything with this game, even the Samus fanservice, is spot-on. Doc Brown and Ithrak Utopia 2 Quote Link to comment
Dancing Mog Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Had been taking a break from hard mode cause the battle w/ the Queen was ticking me off but thanks to the spider spark I could negate and shorten some attacks though I am trying for a better time than my first play which was the worst ending and I am almost at 6 hours right now. Need to think how much I can go grab now before final boss so I can still make under 8 hours. Might try for under 4 on normal for next try. Quote Link to comment
Tyranogre Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Yahtzee's review just came out. Consensus: He didn't hate it. Quote Link to comment
Ithrak Utopia Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Going back to Super Metroid after beating this, that game did feel dated earlier on...probably up until the Wrecked Ship, Lower Norfair and Maridia, Super's more detailed areas. The level of detail put into the background for Samus Returns isn't given much credit compared to how the older Metroid games look. Having said that, I do still appreciate the freedom present in Super Metroid, especially in terms of item acquisition. I usually go for 5 items early when I'm playing through the game: Super Missiles, Ice Beam, Speed Booster, Wave Beam and Power Bombs. I didn't rethink my ranking of the two games while playing Super Metroid. I think Samus Returns is the better of the two, mainly for what it brings in terms of atmosphere with its detail. I have yet to go back to Metroid Prime Hunters since getting MSR. I did not feel MSR was that good, but going back to that game will definitely make things concrete. Usually when I go back to Hunters after a new Metroid game, I know early on that I still hold the game higher. May do a run through the campaign within the coming days and do a few bot matches to see where I stand now with the new game completed. Quote Link to comment
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