Ah it is finally done... the sequel to my Boost Guardian With No Dark Suit, No Energy Tanks video.
For people like me, who know nothing about Wallcrawling mechanics, the only way to do a No Dark Suit No Energy Tanks challenge run is to take on Quadraxis like a real man.
Many of you are now used to Out of Bounds stuff, beware, this may contain too much actual... action for you. We actually fight this guy instead of walking around his room.
I achieved this first in February 2014, but could not record 60 HZ videos back then. Unfortunately, for some reason, they made the PAL version of this game only playable on 60 HZ.
I thought i would never get it on video again, but here it finally is. Obviously, i use more than just 50 Light Ammo. Even with Light Beam only, this is ridiculous, so fucking hard
you can't imagine it.
The first form is tough when you are unlucky and when Quadraxis times his charged Annihilator Beam attack badly. The second form is by far the easiest and i almost always
clear that form if i reach it. Notice here, that i actually play really sloppily on the second form in the video, yet i survive. I dodged the Dark Quad well on the second antenna,
like i usually do, but while trying to destroy the third antenna i got hit all over the place, yet made it easily, it usually goes right if you get enough energy refills.
By far the hardest and most frustrating part is the last form. Since sometimes i die really often at the first form and don't even make it to the final form, you can imagine
how frustrating this is.
Obviously the hard thing about the final form is that all my Light Beam ammo doesn't help. I have no energy tanks, and that is a huge problem. After stunning Quadraxis,
you watch where he moves. Then you prepare and roll onto the spider ball track the he is moving towards. Then you wait until he is at the right spot and boost onto him.
Problem: The waiting part. While you are on top of the spider ball track and wait for Quadraxis to come, you can't do SHIT. Energy is being drained too fast. This required a cool strategy.
I watch where Quadraxis is moving, and position myself next to a Golden Energy Refill. I want to time it so that i roll onto the spider ball track, and once i am on top, i want
to IMMEDIATELY be able to boost onto him, without waiting, or at least, without waiting much, like it happened in this video.
This is by far the luckiest final form that i ever got. So lucky that the video makes this look way easier than it actually is. It is usually way more complex, because
usually Quadraxis is much further away, requiring VERY precise timing when to collect the Energy Refill. Go to soon and you will wait too long, losing more, possibly too much energy.
Go to late and you will not be able to boost onto Quadraxis: You will reach the top of the spider ball track, but cannot boost onto Quadraxis anymore. This means instant death.
So better go too soon than too late.
Here, insane luck and precise timing is needed. Sometimes i was lucky enough, but timed it wrong. Other times i was just unlucky with the Energy Refills.
The absolute worst thing however, is surviving after actually killing Quadraxis. Many times i defeated Quadraxis, but the energy spawned way too far from where Samus stands
after the cutscene, which means death.
When i first successfully did it in February 2014, i had about 40 energy left when defeating Quadraxis and the energy spawned directly next to Annihilator Beam.
On failed attempts, i usually had 20 energy units left after killing Quadraxis, and energy was nowhere close to the Annihilator Beam.
In this attempt, i again had about 40 energy units left, but the energy still dropped a bit far away. From experience, i immediately just boosted to the Energy, i knew it was
too far away to just walk there with Charge Beam. And well, that's how it went. My breathing was very heavy after finally getting this on video, i haven't been so excited
after a gaming achievement for like 5 years or something.
I dare say this is more entertaining to watch than Out of Bounds movement, skipping this guy. I haven't mentioned it yet, but it should be obvious: No
Morph Ball Invulnerability was used either. Again, i don't know much about Out of Bounds stuff like this, and walking blindly into the map station
looks frustrating and it wouldn't be cool anyways.
Sorry for the long post. But i think this is very worth it, i think this is really entertaining to watch.
FINAL NOTE: Even with Elgato Game Capture HD, i still have a minor problem with Metroid Prime 2: The audio is out of sync in my original recording.
I tried my best to fix this. It should be fine i think. Let me know if you guys think that the audio sucks in my video.
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