Part 2
Samus advances into a room with the Federation soldiers and a dead scientist, with a bug crawling out from under it that a soldier named Lyle flips out on and shoots. Samus makes the obvious remark that they should work together of course. Suddenly, the first boss appears, a mass of bugs with a giant eyeball (with a nice comment that "they're coming out of the walls!". Thank you Alien series).
Gee, I wonder what its weak point is. Oh, too bad I can't shoot it with missiles or anything! The whole authorization nonsense almost gets me killed as I enter into first person view to look at the eyeball and press A only to recall that no, I can't use any missiles. Instead you have to dodge the creature's tentacle attack.
After Samus performs a dodge, Adam authorizes the use of missiles. Wow, thanks for that Adam! The boss goes from "completely impossible" to "easy as crap" all thanks to a man telling her what to do. WHY is she listening to this guy? This thing could have KILLED her because she didn't want to use missiles! The soldiers freeze the creature piece by piece while you go and blow it up with missiles.
Afterwards, Adam tells Samus "not to move unless he says so, and not to fire unless he says so". Why Samus even bothers listening to this is beyond me. Samus recalls some more information about Adam and how other soldiers treated her like a child. She finds Adam's remarks of "any objections, Lady?" to be meant well. She basically comments on him like a father figure for this cutscene, seeing as her parents were killed by Ridley. She seems to blame herself for leaving Adam's command.
Adam mentions the equipment on the bottle ship is operational again. We're to find any survivors and bring them to safety. Adam assigns the soldiers for various sectors and authorizes them to use freeze guns. He wants Samus to go to the System Management room to get the electricity up and running again. Adam authorizes the use of bombs (why did he take this long to authorize this? What is the purpose of denying Samus her abilities like this? Why is she listening to this guy!?). He does mention not to use power bombs because it might damage the structure of the facility or kill survivors.
This is the first perfectly logical explanation for a lack of abilities. If only missiles or bombs were that destructive, but no, Adam pretty much denied Samus the use of her abilities for...what? To show he's "the man"? Because he wants to see if Samus is good at following orders again? I don't get it.
"I felt confused and strangely exhilarated at the unexpected turn of events."
You feel exhilarated to be taking orders from someone and put in life-threatening situations without the use of your weapons?
That's...
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Moving on. Part 3 coming soon. Any objections, GameFAQs?
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