BrayPlays (Formerly CyDra)

I beat Metroid Prime 3 Corruption just minutes before posting this. I haven't done a proper "I beat this game I never played before" in a while. So, my initial thoughts on the game. I will avoid all plot important spoilers as best as I can. So, on with the pseudo review!   For a game on the Wii, the motion controls to move the arm cannon were rather responsive and were rather easy to get accustomed to. However I do have one problem with the motion controls, I found it very easy to overshoot your aim, and that led me to missing my beam shots quite a few times, but isn't really that much of an issue as I did miss shots on the Gamecube titles.   The story picks up and slows down and up and down and up and down... The story goes by really consistently and very smoothly until the only real problem I have with Prime 3... The story comes to a hault when you're forced to backtrack to get items that are mandatory for plot progression. For an example "I have to get this item in area A so I can progress in area C. However the game wants me to do 3 other things in area B before I can go back to area C with the item from are A". The only thing I have a problem with is the story pacing. But, that's just a nitpick.   The design of the planets was really interesting. My favorite being Elysia, Skytown if you will. The design of tge planets may have been interesting but the actual level design did have me callkng foul in a couple places, but nothing that had me legitimately mad or upset. The level design is easily the most confusing and the most Metroid-y (That's not a word but I just made it a word) in the entire Prime series in my opinion (Aside from Prime 2 but that was confusing for the wrong reasons). So the level design gets a pass.   The boss fights were a laugh and a half because of how simple they were in terms of the actual patterns. Point and shoot at the big glowing "Hit me here!" lights, stun, blast with the Phazon Beam. The Phazon Beam was introduced in Prime 1, but made a bonified gameplay mechanic which you have available almost  right out of the gate at the cost of an Energy Tank. But you get health back so fast that it doesn't really matter. The only boss that I had a good time fighting was (Spoiler if you haven't gotten all collecables in Prime 2 or watched a video of it) was Dark Samus, who's boss battle is basically right from Prime 2. The boss fights are lackluster at worst and okay at best.   The soundtrack? It's Metroid. The soundtrack is going to be absolutely amazing, and it is. The soundtrack is absolutely fantastic! Not my favorite Metroid soundtrack though. That honor still belongs to Super Metroid. Phaaze was actually my favorite track from the game. I do appreciate the remix of Theme of Samus though. The soundtrack for Prime 3 scores Metroid out of 10.   Thanks to Hyper Mode, the game is actually really easy because of Hyper Mode. Then again, a person could always just NOT use Hyper Mode. But... The enemies also have access to Hyper Mode, and the best way to deal with that is by using Hyper Mode yourself. Sooo...   Prime 3 is super beginner friendly, and is a great place to start with the Prime series. Prime 3 is excellent for teaching newcomers to the mechanics of the Metroid Prime series and is a perfecr starting point. If you want to get into the 3D Metroid games, start with Prime 3. When you feel comfortable with Prime 3, move on to Prime 1. Prime 1 in my opinion, is still the definitive 3D Metroid experience.   All in all, I had a great time getting 100% in Prime 3, and I can easily say thag right now, it is my second favorite Metroid Prime game. My favorite being the original Metroid Prime. I can easily recommend Prime 3 to anyone looking for a great game to play. Retro Studios has proved yet again, that they know what they're doing in terms of Metroid. I give the game an 8.5/10. Here's to Metroid Prime 4 and Metroid: Samus Returns.   That was long. Anyway, long story short: I enjoyed Prime 3.

I'm playing through Metroid Prime 3 Corruption for the Nintendo Wii. That's where all my time has been spent right now, because I love the game right now even though I have called foul on a couple things. Nothing major, just some little stuff. I am aiming towards that 100% completion, because the Metroid Prime console titles have always counted only pickups towards final percentage.

Me being a big Metroid fan, decided to pick up a copy of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Wii in celebration of 2 new Metroid titles being announced. I also bought a physical copy of the N64 version of Majora's Mask. That's coming in the mail on the express train! So, I think those will look very nice in my collection.

I got a new game... Again. This time I picked up a copy of Luigi's Mansion 2 Dark Moon. I loved the first game and didn't get the sequel until I memorized the first game. I'm enjoying the heck out of Dark Moon. I'm not too far in, I've only beaten the first mansion. I'm not tackling the second mansion until I find all the boos in the first mansion.

So... I have a new favorite song. Not quite better than Old Man. But my new second favorite song is Springsteen by Eric Church. I saw him live and I can't get enough of his music.

I finally beat Paper Mario for the N64, after my last playthough seven years ago. However, I'm not quite done with the game yet. I am aiming for 100% (Curse my cleptomania!)    I used a neat little grinding area to get a crazy amount of coins so I could buy all the badges from Rowf's badge shop. I also used a guide to find all the star piece locations (I couldn't remember where they all were), so I could get the badges from Merlow. So I have all 80 badges.   With getting all the badges, it requires getting all 160 star pieces as well, so that's something that was a bit of a pain even with a guide...   The Chuck Quizmo stuff was just recalling all the subtle things about the game, which I answered all 64 questions.   I also got every party member to level 2, but there is still a bit I have left to upgrade for Mario himself.   All I have left to do really is do the Tayce. T sidequest, which is just recipes. I still have another 45 left to discover though. Sigh.   Other than that, it's my favorite Mario RPG. The star spirits are fun to play around with, and some of the badge combos can absolutely break the game by making super bosses such as the Anti-Guy in chapter 4 an absolute joke, including regular bosses! If you're really good qith the power bounce, you can deal tons of damage obscenely fast. I love the game, it's also really beginner friendly. I have no problem recommending it to anyone who's looking for a fun game.

I recently picked up a copy of L.A Noir for the PS3.

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