jeffdsmith

I don't know what I'm talking about. Ignore me.

trigun

Hold the top left shoulder button. And it's strafe. And the game tells you how to do it within minutes of starting

KingSmoth

I never have been into Metroid, but I played the demo again over at Best Buy, and I did find it quite fun. A friend of mine picked it up yesterday, so I'm sure we'll all get together to play it this weekend. I totally agree about the FPS comment - it didn't feel like one at all.
First Person View != First Person Shooter

Kainan

Hmm.. odd since I could have sworn that I tried that. Maybe it is because I switched the controls around from default a little. I'll check it when I get home this evening. This pretty much clears up my main complaint about Metroid! This game is too cool. Games like these show how much more powerful the GC is than the PS2. The texture detail is better than the PS2 could handle I'm sure, not to mention the brilliant lighting effects.

Cornfed

I just tore off the shrinkwrap and found a nasty surprise. I purchased this at Target and the cover art is branded with the Target logo and stupid decal that says "$50 in coupons, only at Target." I got the $5 off plus an addition 10% but this annoys me. A simple sticker on the shrinkwrap would have done the job. Don't defile my Metroid cover.

Kellehair

Ouch. Are all Target games like that?

Cornfed

I don't know... probably. The coupons are actually something I'd consider using but they're not much. Example: $5 off Zelda, which expires on 3/31/03. So if any delays arise, that won't even work.

spainlinx0

Well I'm about an hour and half or so into it, and am really enjoying myself. The auto-targeting feature works great and allows the focus to be on exploration which so far I find really interesting. I like killing the guys then scanning the room for info. So far I have the morph ball, rockets, and I found 2 energy tanks. I could have done so much more, but I have yet to find the morph bombs, so I can't wait to see where they hid those.

Josh H

I played a couple more hours last night (paying for it now as I had to work this morning and I'll probably sleep through class tonight).

I got my Charge Beam and Bombs back, and got a couple energy tanks and missle expansions.

I got to a boss, got my ass kicked, and quit for the night.

I won't get a chance to play again until Thursday evening, so I'll post some more impressions sometime over the weekend.

Oh, BTW, you can go to the options screen and turn the visor opacity all the way down and make the on-screen visor display go away.

I personally like it, but someone had complained a while back that they thought it might be distracting, so I wanted to point out that it's not an issue. You can turn it on, off, or anywhere between.

jeffdsmith

I sure hope it doesn't take Nintendo over 4 months to translate the game. I don't think it will see a delay in otherwords.

slop101

BEST.


GAME.


EVER.

Ralph Wiggum

Okay. Just finished the Chozo Ruins and the game is incredible.

This is why I play video games.

KnightLerxst

I have a feeling that all my spare time in the next month will be used to play this game. I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I am.

Kudos to the developers...wonderful, wonderful game.

darkside

I think I'm about as far along as you. Gotten quite a few butt kickings so far, but I'm really enjoying this game.

I love some of the little touches like the heat waves rising off of the gun after shooting it a lot. The way things splatter or fog up the visor. The effect of the charge beam looks very cool as well.

Oh well back to it.

Kellehair

Yeah. One of the sweetest things I've seen is how the light bends around a charge beam shot. The visor is every bit as amazing as advertised too.

spainlinx0

Yeah I also got my ass handed to me by the first boss because I was pretty much did when I realized I was wasting shots hitting him instead of the targets I was supposed to. My eyes were hurting so I will simply kick his sorry ass tomorrow. That should complete my time in the Chozo Ruins.
So far I have the Charge Beam, Morph ball and bombs, and missiles. Dying for the spider ball. I loved that thing from Metroid 2, although it looks like it is very different here.

MrKen

Picked it up tonight, played it for a little over an hour. I llike it, I know I'll love it, but right now I'm thinking it is too dark. I can barely see any detail- I didn't even really notice any of the space pirates in the orbiting ship except that I was able to lock on to something. I will fool with the opacity of the visor tomorrow first thing.

blakwngbrd

See if your TV has pre-formatted brightness settings. Our Wega has settings such as "vivid" and "sports" - we use vivid for regular TV, and (believe it or not) sports for playing video games. It makes a huge difference in my ability to see detail in Metroid.

darkside

Anyone beat that big plant yet? I'm pretty sure I have the strategy to beat it, but I keep screwing up and dying.

dgmayor

My major complaint so far as well. I'm enjoying playing it, but I seem to be the only person disappointed with it. I'm just really not into this as an FPS. It just doesn't feel like Metroid to me.

Ralph Wiggum

For the plant I:

Kellehair

darkside: That's pretty much what I did except I didn't think to

One tip is that

jdpatri

...I'm sooo loving this game. A friend of mine was over last night to check it out. The first time I morphed into the ball and started rolling around we both just turned to each other and said "This is by far the coolest video game I have ever seen."

It's very much a Metroid game. You can just picture the 2D version in your head.... definitely not a FPS.

Vice City and NBA2K3 just got shelved for a little while. Animal Crossing lives on though.

xmiyux

Also in the options menu you can up the brightness on the game itself.

Josh H

Did you adjust the vivid and sports settings? The brightness and contrast is way to high on both of them to use them for anything IMO.

I have standard adjusted to my tastes for games and TV, and the Movie setting calibrated with Avia for Movies.

Also, as mentioed above, the best bet is to adjust the brightness in the options menu, that way you adjust the picture just for this game, without uncalibrating your TV for other games, shows, etc. (especially if you don't have a TV with multiple picture settings.