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Metroid: Other M (2010)

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Samus’s Log: “Of all of the hazards I have faced across countless planets, few things turn my stomach more than the sight of water. It’s not that I can’t swim, but you try lugging a Power Suit around in water. It is a miracle of Chozo technology that I can even move around submerged at all, let alone fight. Of course, my Gravity Suit negates the issue entirely. If only Adam would listen to reason…”

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Here we are again, last video from that first recording session. I gotta get on recording some more! I’ll give the Biosphere one thing, it’s not JUST plants. Now it has WATER! Any Metroid fan worth their salt will probably hate water, at least up until a certain upgrade. Of course, there’s next to no reason why Adam won’t let Samus equip her Gravity Suit function to be able to move normally underwater, but hey. Dead horse.

After dispatching some Zeroes, we come across another “new” upgrade, Energy Parts! Collect four to form a new Energy Tank…so yes, it’s a Piece of Heart. As far as the submerged sections we travel through, I don’t have too much to say, really. All pretty straightforward. I mean, that firs section is annoying where you have to backtrack through the water to get up to use the lift, I’ll say that. You have to trudge through the water once, defeating any enemy you come across, and THEN power up the lift…and have to “run” back with nothing new going on. A better designed area would have put the power supply closer to the beginning, and if you got attacked by the lift you’d be “punished” by falling into the water below and then having to make your way back to the surface, but whatever…

As for the room where you manually raise or lower the water levels…I apologize for not quite getting where I was supposed to go at first. If I recall, I had some issues with that room on my first playthrough too. Surprised I got that wall jumping section done first try though! Wall jumping in general is far more forgiving here, which I appreciate.

We come to our final area for today, a WIDE open room with trees and little paths only a Morph Ball can fit through. How did NORMAL people navigate this place?! Or is this the alien equivalent of a hamster’s cage with all those tubes to run around in? I find it…kinda annoying that they place enemies in these little corridors. It seems like you can’t help BUT run into them if you didn’t know they were there first. It’s a little mean-spirited, and honestly Other M has a LOT of those little “gotcha” moments, where enemies appear from nowhere and rock you. Granted, it’s not usually, say, an instant death (though some exist) but it IS a little cruel to the players.

Turning off the holograms seems to REALLY agitate the creatures here, and so we face our next boss, of sorts: Grogranch! Well, more of a mini-boss, really. The boss fight seems to go well until I hit about 11:38 there. I’m not sure quite what hit me, but it puts me into critical, so we’ll have to try to use Concentration in the midst of a boss fight AGAIN. Grogranch hits HARD, those purple orbs doing a whopping thirty damage. They also seem to block my missiles quite a bit, which didn’t help. We also see that the game has SOME mercy, giving you a last-chance hit-point of sorts when you take a hit that SHOULD be fatal.

The fight isn’t really so bad itself, but I find that those purple projectiles spawn a bit too fast at times, and considering how slow and clunky it can be to get into first person, lock-on and then use missiles, the boss has a major speed advantage over you, and the terrain isn’t always great. You have to get up high to hit it’s glowing weakspot…but that also makes it easier for you to get hit. Coupled with my cursor sometimes not locking on (like right near the end), it made it a bit more frustrating than I would have liked. I was in need of a break after that fight, partially because I know what’s coming up…That’ll be fun to record…What am I dreading, you ask? Oh, you’ll see….

YOU’LL SEE.

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