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So, it’s official: Metroid rocks. I loved Twilight Princess, but I definitely am more of a Sci-Fi nerd. Orcs on pigback rock. Walking through a giant expanse of spores and spikes? My dream. One of the funny things about Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is that I didn’t expect it to be such a puzzle-based game. And the puzzles aren’t just for puzzles’ sake, for the most part.

The game starts out with Samus having to engage the engines of her ship, open up a comm, and move the thrusters to approach the Galactic Federation ships. I feel like a total bounty hunter.

But how can the suit make you turn into a ball? Still working on the physics of that.

Something that’s funny is that on Bryyo, the second planet, I had to shoot/ignite some fuel gel to free a golem to open a door. Crazy Bryyoans, with their robot door openers. No wonder there was The Great Schism between the Primals and the Scientists. I mean, duh! (I open up new levels of nerdness here.) The game is from Samus’ helmet visor. Move the Wiimote in a certain way and you bring up a scanning overlay. Scan pictures/statues/macrame owls and you gain Lore about the culture. The more Lore, the more stuff you can purchase in the extras section of the game.

I could kill Space Pirates, but I’d rather scan the various flora and fauna before it shoots its phazon corrupted stomach acid at me. The really cool thing is that the creatures look like aliens. We’re talking classic, funky sci-fi aliens and not your Star Trek fare:



Let’s mourn for those run over by snow tires.

You also get to swing from your grapple glove across lava and grinding gears. I think that’s of note.

There’s also a new warning.

Please don’t play this game around your friends or your flower vases/bowling pins. They will be owned.
That guy’s flailing. This is like when I “button mash” on SSX or Dragonball. I like the second picture simply because the two dots by his head look like the classic ‘HIC’ sign next to Sunday funnies drunks.
I sent a lot of messages yesterday to Mike about his soul and how my Mii with an upside-down head would steal it. Then Nintendo sent me three separate messages about menu 3.1. Now Everybody Votes has…I don’t know, USB keyboard support or something. Then I became, as purveyors of NBA Jam know, “on fire” with Wii Play. I hadn’t played the game since I got the console. I now killed 27 tanks, got to level 7 on the body-bending, and returned 100 straight volleys in Ping Pong. I was Forrest Gump and all of the Miis gathered around my table each time I upped the score by 10.
As a result, since the console sends me a message with each record broken, I received three pages of messages today:

I’ve been babysitting for the week on Fall Break. I am excited to finally get some time on my own tomorrow morning to get past Bryyo.

Favorite part of the game so far? Being held in Meta-Ridley’s nasty claw and shooting down his throat until I was released. All while falling many meters down a power shaft at a time. A close second is racing the asteroid to get to the planetary defense cannon, only to be confronted by my arch-nemesis.

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