#Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

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Skytown.

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Some Gandrayda :3

wish we got to see more of her and the other hunters..

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More than 16 years later, this design still absolutely fucks.

Aside from the pretty colors, it’s also really effective body horror: The glowing, electric blue Phazon seeping through every seam in Samus’ PED Suit clearly conveys that her body is being corrupted and mutated from the inside out… and what’s under the armor may no longer be human at this point.

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Thoughts about Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (pt. 3/3)

Um. The Neutral?

the gunship was really exciting but did surprisingly little

When I first played MP3 I was CONVINCED we were going to fight a boss from inside the ship only to be kind of disappointed when it didn't happen. i feel like i've heard they were going to include a gunship battle and just ran out of time BUT idk where i heard this. dunno if it's true. anyway Gunship is my baby i love Gunship

the part where she just stares into the camera after throwing up blue goop is really funny to me

phazon barf cutscene is my favorite in the game. phazon barf cutscene changed my life. it's also really really funny how she gets up afterward and looks dead into the camera like "ok 👍 back to business"

it's also really funny how everyone just goes with the nickname "Dark Samus". like god how embarrassing. do you think samus just cringes every time

it almost brings me out of the story i will not lie*. it just feels so unprofessional like why not continue calling her Metroid Prime. but whatever i think it's funny

*ok upon further thought it is probably to help drive home the idea that samus is being corrupted/slowly turning into DS. like oh....it's only a matter of time.....

i kind of feel like the order of the final bosses should have been reversed?

the AU followed by DS would have felt more impactful i think. idk

beam stacking

aauuuhhmmmmm. my preference would have been the choice to toggle between beams like in MP1 + 2 but i do respect that the stacking makes the game more accessible. not a bad choice but i know many were disappointed

ok i didn't know where else to put this. um. listen. i love the grapple transfer

i REALLY REALLY wish it was a bigger deal in-game. the idea of having to use your life energy to bypass certain obstacles a) has a lot of puzzle potential, i.e. having to manage your resources while figuring out how to progress, and b) ties into one of the major character themes for samus in this game. WILLINGLY giving up your literal life energy in order to progress is kindof awesome and idkkkkkk it's a fun game mechanic that acts as symbolism for what samus is voluntarily doing to herself throughout this game. wish we got to use it more/in more drastic ways but i guess balancing the difficulty with the hypermode mechanic was an issue

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See, what I've been wondering is if they're going to use Time Travel to explain the continuity of how Metroid Prime can even exist.

The Metroid manga indicates that the Metroids were created within Samus's lifetime, but the Impact Crater on Tallon IV was sealed by the Chozo 50 years ago. So, how did a Metroid get in there and eat the core, when Metroids didn't exist yet?

The solution is, a Metroid came from the future.

People have speculated that time travel will be used to bring back Phazon, to justify the Metroid Prime title.

What’s interesting is that in Corruption’s climax, Dark Samus planned to force Phaaze into launching several leviathan seeds at once, knowing this would kill Phaaze; And later we see the death of Phaaze means the death of all Phazon. But between Dark Samus’ plan, and the scene of the Leviathan battleship being destroyed by Phaaze’s explosion (unlike the Space Pirate ships who fall due to their Phazon dying)…

It seems Phazon can live on via Leviathans, which are meant to become their own independent Phaazes; And presumably, their Phazon would live on as well. The problem is that by the time of Phaaze’s destruction, Samus had destroyed all leviathan seeds, and the last one was obliterated by the force of a planetary explosion.

Why is this relevant? Because I’ve thought to myself, even if Sylux used their Metroid to become a Metroid Prime, wouldn’t it die once it returned to a present without Phaaze? But maybe not…

What if Cylosis suffered a Leviathan impact in its ancient past, well before contact with the Federation. Despite Phazon’s power, they made it last the leviathan’s guardian and destroyed the core, curing the planet. The leviathan would fade into ancient Cylosis legend…

But Sylux is a native of the planet, they see the Phazon Crisis unfold and realize: What impacted Cylosis in the past was a Leviathan seed. And based on research and hacking into Federation databases, Leviathans can support their own batch of Phazon even in the death of Phaaze, that scenario was simply prevented.

Sylux plans to go back in time to when the Leviathan landed, and feed its Phazon Core to their Metroid so it becomes a Prime. This won’t change the past much because the Leviathan is still destroyed when Sylux’s Metroid Prime, its new Phazon Core, leaves to future; This prevents a paradox.

With the power of a core, the new Metroid Prime can sustain itself and a new generation of Phazon without having to worry about Phaaze’s absence in the present-day. It’s possible it doesn’t have to worry about Phaaze’s death period, as the Aurora Unit’s death throes sending a chain reaction might’ve been what killed all Phazon connected to Phaaze, and not just Phaaze’s destruction!

Maybe Sylux will even transport the entire Cylosis leviathan to the present, to allow Metroid Prime to produce Phazon without as much of a hitch. And with this power, Sylux will destroy the Federation by bringing about a second Phazon Crisis, etc.

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creation/destruction

echoes | corruption

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Something I love about Hunters and Corruption is like

Up to this point, across five 2D games and two 3D ones, we knew that Samus was a bounty hunter. And if you actually read the NES manual, it specifically called bounty hunters out as being A Big Deal, the best way the Federation had to fight back against the space pirates before their own military was established, and still important enough to call on for the most serious cases now. But Samus still kinda existed in a vaccuum.

(Technically the Super Metroid comic had one, but he was just a big guy who had a blue chozo powersuit of his own for some reason, to my understanding.)

So it's really cool to see what kind of people are the closest things Samus has to peers now, and I like how varied they are. I've already gone on my big ramble about how the Hunters cast feel like toonami show action figures, and how much I sincerely love that about them. But I also wanna give some love to the Corruption trio too, who really embody that variety, and that idea of these like, Big Name powerhouses who operate outside of typical factional structures and don't fit any existing molds. They aren't Samus, but they are still people who you'd wince at seeing hired by the other side and be relieved to see on yours, people who take their briefings directly from fleet admirals.

Also something I appreciate about all of them? All aliens. I wish we'd see more of the Federation as the multi-species coalition the NES manual painted it as, but at least that spirit is still kept in an indirect sense with all nine of the other Hunters introduced so far. (I guess technically Sylux is an unknown, but still.) Wish I could sneak back in time and get @kosmonauttihai hired at Retro Studios circa 2005ish to implement that great Gandrayda redesign, though. But still!

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Bryyo Ice

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.Gentle.

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The Metroid Xenoresearch laboratory on SkyTown, Elysia

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Working on a Metroid OC. He's a reptilicus from an isolated tribe that survived Phazon corruption but lost all magic and technology in the final ages. He accidentally snuck aboard a Federation mining vessel and was transported offworld, where he saw the advanced technology of the Federation and became convinced that it was because the Lords of Science won despite what the legends say. He now wanders the stars using technology he doesn't really get, hoping to find the last Science Lords' hidden sanctuary. He acts tough and has the face of a thug but deep down he's really a dork who misses home. He keeps getting in trouble for trying to smuggle antique Mogenars off of Bryyo. No name yet.

The history of the reptilicus is probably my favorite bit of Metroid worldbuilding, hands down. The reptilicus are hard to draw because of the posture and the multiple limbs that each seem to come from a different animal, but they're satisfying to sketch out. They're so shapeular. Shoutouts Sammy Hall

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Thoughts about Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (pt. 2/3)

The Good!

THEY DID SAMUS SO GOOD. SCREAMS AND CRIES AND THROWS UP

I love you games that exclusively use body language to convey character. I love you cutscenes where we see how much she contrasts the other hunters. I love you story arc that pushes her to her limit and shows us just how far she's willing to go. I love you constant implication that although she's far less isolated than usual, she's completely alone in how personal the phazon crisis is to her. collapses to the ground and calcifies into solid rock

body horror makes me lose my mind

I've said before that a lot of metroids do have Some element of body horror but Corruption REALLY brings that home...there's something about being in the helmet as opposed to it being first-person that makes it soooo cool to me. i only wish they'd done even more with it yaknow. i want to Feel the effects of phazon sickness that we witnessed so gruesomely in MP1*

*was going to mention those sections of Phaaze where you briefly lose visual and suddenly wake up tangled in phazon tendrils bc those sections always made me feel like Samus was losing time/slipping out of consciousness...but tbh i don't know if that's what they were going for. i think it's just an effect of the phazon tendrils unforch

the quiet moments are absolutely stunning

I was originally going to say that the lack of isolation (i.e. the Federation is watching you/can talk to you at any time, there are just way more interactions than usual, etc) was a flaw, but tbh I think this makes the moments where you're truly alone feel even more so. Bryyo Ice and Phaaze come to mind as examples, as well as the GFS Valhalla to an extent. You're almost taken aback by how lonely these sections feel and they're a nice taste of the isolation of the previous 2 games

I love the PED suit. haters shut up about the PED suit

sure it's not as iconic as others but UGHHHHH I love that masc silhouette I love the moody way she walks in it I love how effectively it communicates the idea that her suit and her body are one and the same. I love how fucked up it looks at the end with the deep colors and the veins of phazon seeping to the surface, so that it looks more like it's containing the radiation now rather than keeping it out. side note it's also stupid hard to draw I'm never drawing that thing again (<lying)

this metroid game is about the magic of friendship :]

yeag. i kind of wish the other hunters had interacted with samus/each other more directly buttttttttt the beginning would've been even longer then i suppose...

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