And then she gets up.Ĭlearly, it makes no sense how a pinkish lump of brainstuffs is able to grow out an entire dinosaur-like body like that, but it took me by surprise the first time nonetheless. You find Mother Brain, all encased and hooked up to too many tubes, just like in Metroid, and you blow her to bits, watching with glee as the machinery around her explodes and drops her to the floor, defeated, nothing more than a brain without a body. As you make your way closer to the end, you’ll pass former victims of the life-sucking Metroids they crumble and turn to dust as Samus hurries past, a haunting image. This is Mother Brain’s base of operations, and it’s been relocated and rebuilt. Ridley is the second-to-last boss, and despite his involvement in this whole mess, he’s not the show-stealer. Narrowly missing the chance to become space particles, Samus then tracks Ridley to the planet Zebes. And she’ll be soon too if she doesn’t escape before the planet explodes. As she hurries back, she finds all the scientists dead. Super Metroid begins by tilting this utopian idea on its side, with the Metroid larvae Samus brought to the Ceres Space Colony for researching being stolen by her nemesis Ridley.

To start, the last Metroid is in captivity, the galaxy is at peace. The first was for the topic of “a game I’ve played more than five times,” which you can read about by clicking this clickity part. This is Super Metroid‘s second time appearing in the 30 Days of Gaming meme. Hopefully I can do them justice, but truthfully–I’m a little worried about my choices. To be honest, these last few topics are a bit of a struggle, all of them seemingly heavy-hitters in terms of constant forum topics and debates. Grinding Down has truly earned its namesake. I can’t wait to count up how long it’s taken me to blog about 30 days’ worth of topics. Actually, I did forget about it for a bit, seeing as the last update to it was way back in early August 2011.

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