<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>First and foremost, very good game, no major complaints. Found it to be ridiculously similar to Prime in control and layout - probably the first time I've ever started playing a sequel and wondered if I'd put the original in by mistake (not that that's a bad thing in this case).
I liked the level and artistic design, and thought it played very well. As far as the new weapons are concerned - the Light Beam ruled, the Seeker Missile system was kind of hard to use but still nifty, the Annihilator was cool, and the Dark Beam was pretty much useless (especially when trying to hit Light-aligned Quad CMs or freaking Emperor Ing). I have mixed feelings about the ammo system - it really didn't change the way I used the other beams all that much, it just meant that I spent more time blowing up Ingcaches and boxes with the Dark Beam to refill my Light Beam ammo. It just served to complicate things, if you ask me - I hope they go back to the normal beam system in 3.
It also still annoys me how small the time and space windows are to try to actually do damage to a boss in these games - there are fewer things more annoying than spending 20 seconds holding down the charge button waiting for a boss to be invulnerable, firing when you finally get your chance but *missing* because of either time or something blocking your shot, and then you have to wait/dodge/charge for <i>another</i> 20 seconds before you can do anything else.
And there is NOTHING more annoying than a Rezbit. Dear god I hated those fucking things. A lot of the normal enemies were pretty hard aside from the Rezbits, too - Dark Pirate Commandos, Hunter Ing, Grenchlers, Dark Bloggs, Quad MBs, stuff like that - the overall difficulty seemed to be harder than Prime 1.
Also, I thought it was weaker in the story department. Where was the big reveal at the end of the game where it's finally confirmed (it never is, if you think about it) that Dark Samus is really Metroid Prime wearing the Phazon Suit? How was somebody who never played Prime 1 supposed to know that? Actually, where were <i>any</i> interesting plot developments near the end of the game? I mean, when you can predict exactly how a game is going to end a quarter of the way through it, that's not an interesting story in my book.
Anyway, I did like it - as I said, these are all minor quibbles. Just wanted to throw my two cents in the hat in the ring.
<i>-57</i></div>
I liked the level and artistic design, and thought it played very well. As far as the new weapons are concerned - the Light Beam ruled, the Seeker Missile system was kind of hard to use but still nifty, the Annihilator was cool, and the Dark Beam was pretty much useless (especially when trying to hit Light-aligned Quad CMs or freaking Emperor Ing). I have mixed feelings about the ammo system - it really didn't change the way I used the other beams all that much, it just meant that I spent more time blowing up Ingcaches and boxes with the Dark Beam to refill my Light Beam ammo. It just served to complicate things, if you ask me - I hope they go back to the normal beam system in 3.
It also still annoys me how small the time and space windows are to try to actually do damage to a boss in these games - there are fewer things more annoying than spending 20 seconds holding down the charge button waiting for a boss to be invulnerable, firing when you finally get your chance but *missing* because of either time or something blocking your shot, and then you have to wait/dodge/charge for <i>another</i> 20 seconds before you can do anything else.
And there is NOTHING more annoying than a Rezbit. Dear god I hated those fucking things. A lot of the normal enemies were pretty hard aside from the Rezbits, too - Dark Pirate Commandos, Hunter Ing, Grenchlers, Dark Bloggs, Quad MBs, stuff like that - the overall difficulty seemed to be harder than Prime 1.
Also, I thought it was weaker in the story department. Where was the big reveal at the end of the game where it's finally confirmed (it never is, if you think about it) that Dark Samus is really Metroid Prime wearing the Phazon Suit? How was somebody who never played Prime 1 supposed to know that? Actually, where were <i>any</i> interesting plot developments near the end of the game? I mean, when you can predict exactly how a game is going to end a quarter of the way through it, that's not an interesting story in my book.
Anyway, I did like it - as I said, these are all minor quibbles. Just wanted to throw my two cents in the hat in the ring.
<i>-57</i></div>
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