Current Events > The Super Missile is the most boring Metroid ability to unlock

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It's an additional missile that I need to switch between that feels the exact same to shoot except it blows up green blocks instead of red and does more damage! Zzzzz
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But it's super, so it's like 10x cooler and more awesome.
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Morph Ball for me, in most games you get two seconds after starting and should have had it to begin with.

Normal missiles, too.
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Still better than the morph ball jump which feels 100% superfluous since it doesn't let you get anywhere a single bomb-jump would
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Unloading your full super missile supply into a metroids mouth is pretty satisfying in Samus Returns.
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s0nicfan posted...

Still better than the morph ball jump which feels 100% superfluous since it doesn't let you get anywhere a single bomb-jump would

Spring Ball is meant to make you more mobile while in morph ball. Having to wait around for a bomb to explode is tedious and isn't conducive to cool chase sequences like in Samus Returns and Fusion.
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s0nicfan posted...

Still better than the morph ball jump which feels 100% superfluous since it doesn't let you get anywhere a single bomb-jump would

but it is faster than waiting for a single bomb jump

edit: beaten to it
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High jump and spring ball are pretty useless with bomb jumping.
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HylianFox posted...

Morph Ball for me, in most games you get two seconds after starting and should have had it to begin with.

Normal missiles, too.

I get why they do that. It teaches players to return to that narrow passage they passed 2 minutes earlier. Which is a fundamental design for Metroid.

s0nicfan posted...

Still better than the morph ball jump which feels 100% superfluous since it doesn't let you get anywhere a single bomb-jump would

That's an argument but at least that's more convenient to move around.
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Darmik posted...

I get why they do that. It teaches players to return to that narrow passage they passed 2 minutes earlier. Which is a fundamental design for Metroid.

IIRC wasn't Metroid one of the first scrolling games to allow the player to move left which is why the morph ball was to the left of the very start, to train players to think in both directions?
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Iirc, go left was one of the tips in Nintendo Power.
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mustachedmystic posted...

Iirc, go left was one of the tips in Nintendo Power.

gaming was so much simpler back then, when "go left" was groundbreaking advice
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I'd be surprised if it was one of the first games to actually let you go left. I guess you mean with sidescrollers?
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thats why you gotta get 'em early in super metroid so its at least exciting to get it
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P4wn4g3 posted...

I'd be surprised if it was one of the first games to actually let you go left. I guess you mean with sidescrollers?

Yeah. Hell in SMB you can't even go back left. You just run to the end of the screen and stop.
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it was also one the first games to feature vertical scrolling areas
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It's interesting in Metroid Prime at least. Beam combos.
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Prime 4 guys!
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