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okay, my thoughts on the end sections:

the 'tourian' section felt really sudden, like here I am and hey metroids. it's hilarious how hard they try to make the metroid concept feel fresh. these guys unfreeze in less than a second so you just jam on the button and occasionally press r to missile them. it's dumb.

I wasn't a big fan of the metroid queen, but I found it better as I went on and learned the patterns. the fight didn't feel particularly satisfying, it just felt like holding on. I much preferred the am2r queen fight. that one is more of a grind as you really get in some good shots and it takes a ton. this one, it felt like she didn't take that many shots but she was harder to avoid. I thought the use of different powers like spider ball was cool though. they found a response to the complaint that foolmo had and that was cool.

metroid larva get! I always loved this in Metroid 2, or at least AM2R. but wait, you can just.. explore the world? yeah, I'm with notyou saying how that felt completely serene to slowly walk out of the planet and wandering back through the world with it as a sort of powerup is a bad choice.

ridley, huh? that feels retcon-y in a way that I shouldn't care about but totally do. this fight gave me hell. I died a few times. now this fight is a grind. I found a good flow where I would use super missiles on the head and, for the first time, I used the magic powers in a boss fight. that little shield ability gives you free life and I never really thought about using it until I saw that ridley was giving me some meter after each form.

I get why they went this route, adding ridley and putting a lot of focus on the metroid larva because that's really the money shot of metroid 2, but I dunno. I have a real deep and weird attachment to the metroid larva thanks to super metroid and seeing it as anything but samus's baby is really bizarre. anyway, not going to dwell on this too much.

fun game. am2r's better.
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xyzzy