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Metroid Prime 2: Echos A Year Later
- Thread starter Lemurnator
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Jonnyboy117
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LakeEarth said:
That's what Screw Attack is for.
One hit kills everything, AND it's faster than running. Maybe I should learn that cheat that lets you get Screw Attack way early for when I replay the game.Echos is a great game. The only game I started playing again right after I finished it.
That and RE4....
And probably a few more games...
Anyway, if you liked the first prime but are'nt sure about getting Echos because some say it sucks, well fuck those people go buy Echos you idiot.
That and RE4....
And probably a few more games...
Anyway, if you liked the first prime but are'nt sure about getting Echos because some say it sucks, well fuck those people go buy Echos you idiot.
Echoes is worth getting if for no other reason than using the Screw Attack in 3D. (And it really kind of acts like the Space Jump as well.) That and all the extra morph ball stuff, including multiple boss fights done in ball form.
It's just that, overall, MP2 is the B- to Metroid Prime's A+ because the world-switching is tedious (especially with that annyoing animation) and even navigation within one world is pretty boring; the different areas aren't as intricately and carefully interwoven as they were in the original. You end up having to walk through areas over and over again more than you should just because there aren't multiple points of entrance and exist.
Not to mention that the enemies were more compelling in the original. The color-coded space pirates who could only be hurt by one type of beam were better than anything at all that MP2 has to offer, and didn't even have to resort to having absurd amounts of health to chip away at in order to feel "difficult." If I could compare the enemies in MP2 to the enemies in MP1 in any way, I'd say most of them are like the Chozo Ghosts: they're annoying because they're easy, but have high health and often have to be killed before you can leave the room.
...And by the way, I thought Majora's Mask was better than Ocarina of Time by an even larger margin than Metroid Prime was better than Echoes.
It's just that, overall, MP2 is the B- to Metroid Prime's A+ because the world-switching is tedious (especially with that annyoing animation) and even navigation within one world is pretty boring; the different areas aren't as intricately and carefully interwoven as they were in the original. You end up having to walk through areas over and over again more than you should just because there aren't multiple points of entrance and exist.
Not to mention that the enemies were more compelling in the original. The color-coded space pirates who could only be hurt by one type of beam were better than anything at all that MP2 has to offer, and didn't even have to resort to having absurd amounts of health to chip away at in order to feel "difficult." If I could compare the enemies in MP2 to the enemies in MP1 in any way, I'd say most of them are like the Chozo Ghosts: they're annoying because they're easy, but have high health and often have to be killed before you can leave the room.
...And by the way, I thought Majora's Mask was better than Ocarina of Time by an even larger margin than Metroid Prime was better than Echoes.
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Jiggy37 said:
Even when you got to the end and realized it had only 4 dungeons?
Banjo Tango
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Everything else you've said, I agree with 100%.Jiggy37 said:
See, the thing is that i would like to play it but i havent even finished MP1 yet.. I keep dying in that part against those invisible bastards and the save point is too far away.
Then one time i got past them and had to do this colour coordinated puzzle with the ball and then i realised that it pissed me off more than it should so turned it off.
Then one time i got past them and had to do this colour coordinated puzzle with the ball and then i realised that it pissed me off more than it should so turned it off.