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Episode 202 : Metroid Prime (GameCube)

Retrovaniacs · July 31, 2024

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... I was very excited with just how the rest of the game rolls out, and again, in standard Metroidvania and even Dark Souls fashion. Once you get to these new areas, and you can open some of those doors, you can get to some of those ledges, there are now new elevators that are there, you can get to before, that will get you to these other areas. ...

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... "Oh yes, that's right." Maybe I blacked these out because it gets very difficult through parts of that. But it was still, again, 20 years later or whatever, it was still really cool to come through and find all these things that I knew were there. I just kind of forgotten about, and it still felt like I was exploring something new. I was very excited with just how the rest of the game rolls out, and again, in standard Metroidvania and even Dark Souls fashion. Once you get to these new areas, and you can open some of those doors, you can get to some of those ledges, there are now new elevators that are there, you can get to before, that will get you to these other areas. So it makes it so backtracking is not, I have to go through three different environments to get back to my ship. Instead, it's like, "Oh, I found a new elevator "that takes me back to this other cliff I couldn't get to." And now, everything is much tighter and much easier to get to. So there's no need for warps. Instead, you get the ability to backtrack much faster, ...

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