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I still think these controls should be indicated in-game somehow. Seeing all these UI thingies with no explanation leads you to easily miss out on things which are super helpful to know about, and feels out of character with the game tbh.

That last one wouldn't have worked cause the charged Gravity Well would've gone into the wall and shot nothing. Charged Ice on the other hand would've worked. The bomb is the best solution though.

For the record, the "How am I supposed to hit this thing without Holy Water?" question is answered by the fact that Samus can shoot downwards. That's how I ended up doing it, I didn't think of using Holy Water like that for some reason ^_^'. I blame using Charged Missiles (something everyo...

Man, I swear those breaks in reality did like 27 damage to me when I went through this are. Did you nerf them to allow for one more "mistake" Zephyr?

Is the Rail Gun really that good? I read the description and all I could see was negatives from it... which is probably weird since I like the Energy Gem, but I think it's because of the recovery rate on the Missiles being so bad in comparison. I mean if you're gonna try to use it for DPS you get 8...

Is the Rail Gun really that good? I read the description and all I could see was negatives from it... which is probably weird since I like the Energy Gem, but I think it's because of the recovery rate on the Missiles being so bad in comparison. I mean if you're gonna try to use it for DPS you get 8 ...

I legit did not know that you could grapple those Vine Eaters. I didn't pay enough attention to Chao's text! #TeamChao

I actually really liked the next boss. It was kinda what the hell at first, but I genuinely grew to appreciate it as I played more. The inputs needed to not get hit are pretty insane though, and I probably liked it more because unlike everyone else by this stage I was not strictly on the Metroid Hyp...

I never spotted that fake wall either, hot damn. Good job finding that! @Lostsoldier20: My second playthrough took me 43h 20m to get everything. Well, I had to have my friend spend some time with the Tower Defence optional rooms cause I wasn't able to do two of them, but that was around 2 hours I th...

Gotta say, I'm not quite as hyped for this gate as most of you here seem to be. It's goofy and dumb and that side of it is amazing. But I have a hard time seeing that because the gameplay is very much just "there" to me. Maybe I played too much in one go, I dunno, but the majority of this ...

Edit: ninja'd by about ten other ninjas. Of course, next time rao finds a shop he's gonna complain "why is everything do expensive??" again. Although, he'd have to use the teleport stone to go back to town if he actually wanted to go shopping right now... Nah, once he's done with the Nigh...

Yeah, the fact that Hex showed himself in the gate immediately means that the team is probably entirely focused on the task at hand, as opposed to joking around like the other gates. Hex's inclusion has made things way more serious than they were before, what with him threatening program-wide destru...

To be fair Robin I don't think you've gone back through to get all the items in Metroid Town yet. That's the biggest issue with having no map imo, cause exploring everywhere whilst trying to remember where you've already gone can be a big pain! Though really the most annoying part of not having a ma...

Y'all are crazy, the Metroid Skills are amazing. Not the best set ever, but that's an unfair contest because obviously Gate 6 takes that by a landslide. You have damage reduction from Explosions, which becomes important later on. You have Heat Gauge down which makes that a non-issue even when you bu...

Just replayed the Nightmare Gate again with the sound effects (I know, I really hate myself it seems... but I wanted to see how they altered the experience). MAN it does make a huge difference! Of course I'm coloured (oh ho) by my past experiences with the gate, having beaten it less than a week ag...

Just want to say that the Golden Bow is the absolute king in the Hexor fight. I didn't really think about it in my first playthrough since I, like rao, used Claire until the last phase (this was before the bounce upgrade too!) since I didn't trust Jerry's range to hit all of the chains without rammi...

As someone who fulfils your criteria almost entirely (only played the third game, but watched the previous two), I can't say I was too happy to see these things come back. But that's because I knew exactly what was going to happen at one point with them based on having watched the first two games......

I kept the Energy Gem on because in all honesty I preferred the way that the Buster played with it on. Sure, it made weapon energy an issue to conserve, but it also greatly simplified a lot of situations for me. Then again I'm really weird about charge mechanics, so I'll often try to avoid them if I...

Yo Zephyr, would it be possible to set a page up for this game on GiantBomb? Every time I stream it on Twitch I don't really have anything that I can list it under, since none of the DT games are on there. I think I could set one up (though I don't have an image for the game), but I don't want to lo...

... wait, you can get there early? Dang, if I had known that I probably would've made an effort to do so in my streams xD

I actually had one MORE heart than was recommended when I got to this gate in my now-defunct LP file (since I'm streaming the game instead at the behest of my viewers), so having 2 fewer by the time you get here is really something. Also, I don't remember this guy giving me quite this much trouble p...

I'm willing to say that 90% of the issues today were caused by rao's control scheme, rather than the rooms themselves. Sure, those blocks are kinda dumb, but the pretty much constant mis-inputs regarding dashing made this look 100x harder than it actually is. Which is still pretty dang hard mind you...

Well there is the game outright spelling things out in terms of main villain I guess? Kinda feel bad that I accidentally spoiled myself on him being a thing, but then again I can't control my subscription box giving me a video from gamercal that kinda spoiled he would be a thing (in the title or so...

I just thought of something really random regarding one of the late-game sections that I am genuinely curious about how it would work... but I don't have a save file to test it with. Welp! So, I forget exactly what the place was called, but there's this one area near the end of the game that's kinda...

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