http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/07/31/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-16-old-friends/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/07/31/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-16-old-friends/#comment-3230 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:14:16 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=12570#comment-3230 The music in Ridley’s area really amps it up to 11.

]]> http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/07/31/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-16-old-friends/#comment-3229 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 03:44:53 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=12570#comment-3229 The gold pirates on the way to Ridley can’t be avoided, IIRC. If you don’t kill the creatures below the floor, then the X won’t turn into gold pirates, and the door on the other end will never unlock. Also, those metroid-like creature blobs that you talk about are seen before this sequence. They’re seen in the very first mission that takes place below the main deck: in Sector 1, they’re in one of the first rooms. They remind me of moctroids: they can latch onto you and leach your energy, but they don’t have to be frozen and are easy to destroy.

]]> http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2015/07/31/the-anatomy-of-metroid-fusion-16-old-friends/#comment-3228 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0000 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/?p=12570#comment-3228 I haven’t played this since my pirated Russian cartridge gave up the ghost after exactly one playthrough, but I’m itching to go at it again. And while we’re at it, Jeremy: I think this is the best AoG you’ve done up until now, and that says a darn lot!

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