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D R E A D
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Samus catches us up to speed on what's been going on
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ZDR appears to be a gas giant
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Got in a fight
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lost
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no upgrades left
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I start with
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Missiles
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that seems to be about it
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But I have a melee attack and can slide and free aim
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Fucking Adam
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Counter attacking isn't hard
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and grants you extra pickups
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You can place colored markers on the map to remind yourself of places to investigate later
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Wall jumping is default
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hi EMMI
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oh fuck me
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EMMI is not anywhere in the vicinity of fucking around
Espilan
Fortunately, instead of going back to your last save room, choosing to continue after being caught will put you in front of the door you had gone through to enter the EMMI's zone, so it's not as painful as it could have been.
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Yeah
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nnnnn want my morph ball
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taking a break to deal with some IRL shit
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wtf
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I'm SUPER stuck
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I just got the spider magnet
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And I've been going in circles for like half an hour
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Samus would rather DIE than crawl
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She needs to have a morph ball or do a cool action slide
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no crawling
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I tried exploring the cold area and just died
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BOss
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Hard
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Cool new power
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immediately stuck again
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Everything feels like it's channeling me towards Cataris now
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but Cataris has two rooms I can access and they're both superheated so I immediately start taking damage
Espilan
Check around for breakable walls/ceilings, there should be a way forward from the elevator to Cataris without setting your whole face on fire.
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Okay I'm just gonna have to build up an instinct for like
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What kinds of situations hint at breakable walls
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because that's twice now I've gotten SUPER stuck because the concept of breakable walls didn't even occur to me
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Okay I activated a thing and it trapped me
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There are no breakable walls
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oh wait there it is
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GOD this is a bad mechanics
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ANY WALL could just be LYING
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You need to just check EVERYTHING brick by brick
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Anyway like
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You know what I really liked?
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The like
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wrestling match sort-of cutscenes
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With the boss
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Where you could keep on shooting it sometimes
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While Samus was climbing on it and shit
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And like
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Not only could you just keep on shooting but you could choose what weapon to use!
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And that was relevant!
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The bossfights feel like they're gonna be WILD in this game
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I have yet to get off an EMMI counter
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except for the freebie you get right at the beginning
Espilan
The window is for a successful escape is very, very tiny. If you haven't seen it yet, there's one loading screen tip that will tell you when you want to hit it.
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I'll get it eventually
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In the mean time I'm just assuming that EMMI=death and not relying on being able to escape
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One thing that bugs me
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is how missiles work
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where you hold down R to activate missile mode, which makes you fire missiles
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Instead of just
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...pressing R to fire a missile?
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That seems like it'd be less awkward
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Okay here's a more stupid gripe
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When I got the cloaking device
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the game showed me a tutorial on how to use it in which, as a SPECIFIC EXAMPLE
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They had Samus cling to the ceiling and cloak while EMMI went underneat her
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I have tried this twice
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in BOTH instances
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EMMI stopped
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Then jumped up to the ceiling
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and hit me
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and I died
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There is
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SO many places
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I need the Morphball to get at
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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MORPH BALL
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OH LOOK PROGRESS WAS HIDDEN BEHIND AN UNMARKED BREAKABLE WALL ONCE AGAIN
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This is getting really irritating honestly
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Oh nevermind this isn't progress it's just nothing
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just another deadend until I get another powerup
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What the fuck
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Everything is dead ends
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Quinneapolis
you said you had the morph ball
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Where is it
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There are 10,000,000 more places I could reach if I had the morph ball
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But as far as I can tell right now everything is locked behind impassible barriers because Samus refuses to like
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crawl
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need more information
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I'm in Dairon
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what's your most recent powerup
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Triple shot
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there's a door that wide beam opens back in the previous area that should lead to progress
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In the EMMI zone?
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lemme pull the game up
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yes that one
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that's a dead end
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I already did that
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can you screencap me your map
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of that area
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investigate here
investigate here
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oh for FUCKS sake
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Not that there's any answer that WOULDN'T have infuriated me at this point
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ahhhhhhh
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morph ball
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Oh the Varia Suit looks CLEAN
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I love it
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LOOK AND APPRECIATE
LOOK AND APPRECIATE
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Varia Suit Samus
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The splash of white really makes it, I think
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varia suit is always the best-looking suit
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and this is an especially sexy one
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Sup Kraid
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God the DISRESPECT
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just watching him melt
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from above
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I haven't beaten him yet
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I was just talking about standing there in front of him JUST out of range of his chains
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oh sorry