Part 4
Proceeding on, I fall down a slope with sharp spiky objects (ow) and fight some armadillo miniboss things. The lethal strikes are the only way to kill them without taking ages. I end up in the Breeding Room after some travel, where Samus sees another dead scientist. Samus concludes that it was attacked by some sort of creature ("some sort of dark intelligence"). I head back and have to do a first-person search for some object. I really, really hate doing these by the way. A cute critter comes out and Adam mentions he unlocked a door for me. Yay!
Samus turns around and sees the critter again before she goes in. Is this like the rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail or something? Was a researcher killed by the dark intelligence of a hilarious bunny creature?
After some uneventful corridors I find an accel charge in the women's restroom. I wish there was a Deus Ex style comment for trying to enter the men's room, but alas. Eventually I arrive at an elevator shaft. As I climb up I notice some junk obstructing the way, so I fire a missile at it. The elevator lowers a bit but gets stuck by more junk. Below me, a creature starts crawling up after me.
Knowing my Order of Ecclesia moment when I see one, I decide it's probably best not to have the elevator fall on me and so duck into a safe spot, first-person view, and shoot the rest of the junk, making the elevator fall past me and crush the creature. At the top is a morph ball shaft with a missile and as I exit I actually forget how to unmorph for a second which almost results on me falling into the flaming wreckage of the elevator (that would have felt pretty silly).
I do find a grapple beam point along the way through the next area, which makes me wonder how exactly being able to grapple things could possibly damage the ship or kill survivors at all, but I digress. As I proceed, there's a section where a giant worm tries to eat me. Thankfully, since I'm holding the Dpad anyway I end up dodging because SenseMove is completely broken. After finally getting to save I take out two more invisible chameleon things (lethal strikes are also pretty nice btw) and find some robots guarding the Diffusion Beam, which is pretty sweet.
After heading back and killing some sand worms (why does this game love minibosses so much?) a morph ball slot magically activates that allows me to propel myself out of this area and go to a new door that opened. After some more traveling I fight an armadillo miniboss again. Combat, combat, combat, keep it up game.
After climbing up a large plant I have to do another first-person view segment. WHY DOES THIS GAME MAKE YOU DO THIS. I can't for the life of me find whatever it wants me to look for most of the time. After a few minutes I spot some larva which begins a boss fight.
Well at least I'm authorized to kick ass this time. Kill a bunch of insects and then some plants on the roof open up. Missile them after they stop shooting and after all of them are down, the center bulbous object collapses and you can missile spam it to death. Nothing very difficult, diffusion beam da best. Afterwards Samus sees the critter from before feasting on the boss's remains and she remarks just how nasty it is for some creatures to rely on others' power to capture prey.
"Watching this disgusting beast, I felt as though it was feeding off my power as well."
That is a pretty good description of Adam, yes. Oh, wait, wrong creature here!
Along the way to the save room I find another heart piece. That'll be all for now, battery is dying.
Missiles: 25 - Energy Tanks: 1 - Heart Pieces: 2
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