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Roy
2004-04-17 10:38:26 am
screenshot below,i just was as quick as possible...,weird thing:i completely skipped power bombs  Shocked ,so they are optional after all...

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Alec
2004-04-17 10:53:37 am
Yeah PBs are skippable. So are Long Beam, Charge Beam, Varia Suit (practically), Super Missiles, Hi-Jump & Screw Attack :) might be more.
skynes
2004-04-17 03:04:20 pm
PBs skippable!? Could someone explain.... I thought you NEEDED them to get access to Mecha-Ridley?
DominicanZero
2004-04-17 03:18:19 pm
直死の魔眼使い
Nope. Not at all. :P
Mr. Chess
2004-04-17 03:28:52 pm
There's a secret passageway above the block in the room you think you need power bombs to get through.
Roy
2004-04-17 03:44:15 pm
Quote from Mr. Chess:
There's a secret passageway above the block in the room you think you need power bombs to get through.


the room 2 rooms before mecha?i always use that way,even after the fight  Wink
Mr. Chess
2004-04-17 03:45:41 pm
Quote from Roy:
Quote from Mr. Chess:
There's a secret passageway above the block in the room you think you need power bombs to get through.


the room 2 rooms before mecha?i always use that way,even after the fight  Wink


Isn't it 3 rooms away?
JaggerG
2004-04-18 02:37:27 am
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
Yes it is. I found it doing a 15% run, after I got the power bombs and saved (DOH!).
rainbows
2004-04-19 09:15:41 am
I just got down to 1:14:29 yesterday! 44%. I was happy...
MetalRidley
2004-04-19 06:47:29 pm
under two hours is easy on normal and hard, you don't even have to try to speed run, and can get any item that's even fairly near to you. But 100% as well is too tough for me. Anybody have any tips or guideline times?
savage-monkey
2004-04-19 08:30:30 pm
this game is so like open. I mean what other game can you choose to skip all those upgrades. It's just kinda weird.
MetalRidley
2004-04-19 10:28:45 pm
Um, Super metroid? But seriously, there are other topics about low percent runs in other games.

Metroid is pretty unique in how much choice it gives the player. No other action/adventure games will let you play to your skill so much.
chinchillax13514
2004-04-20 12:02:41 am
Quote from MetalRidley:
Metroid is pretty unique in how much choice it gives the player. No other action/adventure games will let you play to your skill so much.

Well, except Fusion. That was the most linear game I've ever played. Which is odd because its sucessor (I know I spelled that wrong), Zero Mission, has got to be the least linear game ever.
MetalRidley
2004-04-20 12:16:11 am
Ah, but for true nonlinearity, you have to scope super out. Can you believe it, you can get three quarters of the items without fighting a boss or miniboss? Even not counting the Brinstar worm or cocooned wasp, your NBMB options are very limited in ZM.
Yoshi348
2004-04-20 12:19:16 am
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Ready and willing.
Thing is tho, there's Metroid II. It's fairly linear, but it's just fine. Of course, it may not really be linearity, but exploration that is the key. And in MII, with that stupid/amazing spider ball, they can hide things any-freaking-where.

Metroid I is almost too open for it's own good... there are large portions of the game that are basically filler rooms. Of course, that's why we have MZM. ^_^
MetalRidley
2004-04-20 12:22:57 am
Yeah, the Spider ball was an incredible idea that just made the game too cool. Why couldn't they bring it back?  :(
Red Scarlet
2004-04-20 12:44:18 am
I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)
Metroid 1's world really isn't THAT big like people think.
Smops
2004-04-20 03:48:45 am
But the rooms are huge.. and a pain in the ass when you're playing it for the first time :P
And that evil screw attack sometimes doesn't work  Evil or Very Mad
I hate that.
Aznwhore
2004-04-20 06:39:08 am
they messed up the line-up of "space jump" first and "screw attack" second....totally kills you sometimes when u try getting upgrades...

not meaning to brag but i got 1:39 and 66%
<i skipped powerbombs too>
Roy
2004-04-20 10:38:44 am
no1 is gonna say congrats to me?  Crying or Very sad
Red Scarlet
2004-04-20 02:38:51 pm
I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)
The longest rooms are only a couple of screens long horizontally, and maybe 7 vertically, and such.  Not that big. >.>

Way to go Roy.

Now get < 1 hour.

gogogo
Roy
2004-04-20 02:52:26 pm
<1 hour?that wil take a while to do,i'm a kinda slow player in games,not too speedy,but i'll try  Wink
rainbows
2004-04-20 04:18:10 pm
Well ive worked down from 6.30 to 1.14...
ryu
2004-04-20 04:47:06 pm
Quote from Roy:
no1 is gonna say congrats to me?  Crying or Very sad


Getting sub 2 hours in ZM isn't that hard. We'll say congratz to you when you got sub 1 hour. ;)

Hmm I think I should start another any% run soon.. I have to get sub 1 hour too :D (current record is 1:00:22).


But first, I should get the 100% sub 2 hours endings, and the 15% endings...
JaggerG
2004-04-20 11:14:15 pm
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
I just need 3 minutes off on the last couple parts (going back to gather items and beating MR and escaping) and I got <2hour 100% hard. Then all that's left is 15% hard and Fusion link and I'm done. I'm probably gonna have to do it all over. I took a lot of wrong turns, and got Wave beam after I beat Ridley  Rolling Eyes . That sucked.Yeah, I'll do that. I'll just play it straight through. BTW, is it alright to get High jump before Kraid in a speed 100% run? It probably doesn't save much time at all, does it?