Lower area 2 started deviating a lot from the original.It's not wavey, but it's pretty powerful. Getting tired of the trailer cutscene by now. Pretty cool attacks, but the air electro beam doesn't telegraph properly, got me killed a lot. Gamma Metroids are electric flying spiders now. Even with the insanely huge shoulder pads. The varia suit looks amazing in this game.I like the jumpball-requiring fan puzzles. Stumbled upon Arachnus! He does quite a lot of damage, but other than that it's a pretty straightforward fight.The area 2 building looks like a hydro station.It's great to face all those tiny temporary varia suit obstacle courses. Got the electric barrier aeon thingie.And having to use the counter so often starts to feel a bit tedious. A couple of cool uses for the spiderball here. I'm kinda jealous I couldn't think of something like that. These chozo gates are a wonderful idea to justify the liquid draining.

I hope the rest of the alphas don't give me this much trouble. The parry timing took a couple tries to learn. This second Metroid killed me a couple times.And muddy walls and ceilings that immediately limit your spiderball use.A spiderball that doesn't lose its grip in random ceiling slopes! Yay!.Backgrounds look amazing, and I'm finding the overall layout of the place very similar to the original.Onto Area 1, the temple looks awesome from the outside.Looks a bit gamey, but showing is better than telling. Here, it's right in front of Samus in a single cutscene. I always imagined that the mutation process towards an alpha would take quite some time.

The first Metroid was pretty straightforward.

Very smooth introduction to everything, pretty much what I've seen before in trailers.

Maybe I shouldn't play in bed, my whole left arm is starting to hurt.

Having to press L so often made me realize how heavy this little console is.

Even the most basic enemies are giving me trouble cause of this.

I really can't get used to this weird analog circle thingie.

Well, I guess all this post-processing must be expensive.

The effect looks fuzzy when the camera scrolls too fast, I'm having Avatar flashbacks. Specially the one with the pirates stealing the Metroid. Ah, seeing the intro artwork in 3D makes a lot more sense than what I saw on trailers.Maybe using the 3D slider on 50% will work better. Holy shit, the cockpit of Samus's ship looks amazing in 3D.Ok, this is my first 3DS game, let's see what all the fuzz is about.

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