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2017-09-20 12:07:11 am

Quote from arkarian:

you might be surprised how often ibj is useful ;)

lol yeah. I still used it all the time after I got spiderball. I was totoally off track there...

So after I got said item I went all the back to the beginning of the game, only to run into a dead end. Waste of time. :/

Serris

2017-09-20 03:36:38 pm

Started a low% run and then noticed abilities don't count towards %. It's like they're TRYING to reduce replay value.

Serris

2017-09-21 08:11:17 am

Finished 0% Hard in 5:18

Kinda feel done with the game until some chunky skips come along

TheGreenManalishi

2017-09-21 10:16:17 am

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed it, I'm not itching to jump back in for another run just to see samus' ponytail after the credits.

zeldacia3

Edit history:

zeldacia3: 2017-09-21 10:40:37 am

2017-09-21 10:40:28 am

Amateur Speedrunner, Roleplayer

How is 0% possible O.O!? How do you have enough missiles?

zeldacia3

2017-09-21 10:44:19 am

Amateur Speedrunner, Roleplayer

Oh wait the ice beam is a thing XD

Serris

2017-09-21 11:06:56 am

It's by far the easiest low% Metroid run I've done

Other than % apparently you can skip High Jump and Spring Ball. Space Jump too, but you either need to tank the diggerbot's lasers or do some TAS-level bomb jumps through them

zeldacia3

2017-09-21 11:10:11 am

Amateur Speedrunner, Roleplayer

hardest low % if've done so far (and the only one) is hard low% on zero mission

Serris

2017-09-21 11:10:48 am

Well if you finished that you'll walk right through this

zeldacia3

2017-09-21 11:11:50 am

Amateur Speedrunner, Roleplayer

well it was 15% hard mode. I'm not man enough to do 10% ^^;

Serris

2017-09-21 11:13:14 am

15% is still way harder than this, there's so little RNG to enemies. If you figure out the strat for everything you're done

zeldacia3

2017-09-21 11:14:29 am

Amateur Speedrunner, Roleplayer

I only did it to get the last ending screen I need to finish the gallery. I don't like doing low% much because it just makes things way too difficult for me and just takes the fun out of the game

Serris

2017-09-21 11:15:23 am

Yeah but you're not missing any abilities here, it's more like low% Fusion except way easier

zeldacia3

2017-09-21 11:15:53 am

Amateur Speedrunner, Roleplayer

I never got past the mega X in 1% XD

z1mb0bw4y

2017-09-21 11:16:57 am

Spider Ball is also likely skippable (at least possible up to area 4, with theories on how to fight late game bosses), so low% will probably be 0% no spider ball, spring ball, high jump boots, or space jump.