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| the last sheikah | Aug 3 2005, 01:06 PM Post #1 |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Price: FREE! (with Nintendo DS in USA and Europe regions) Players: 4 (multi pak) Genre: Shoot 'em up Y'see that first image up there? That's one of the first things you'll ever see on your Nintendo DS, and it look amazing. There is superb metroid music filling your ears, and the background reminds you of that first bit of Metroid: Prime. I personally was like :o -OMG! this is AMAZING! After Samus jumps around, you are sent to the title screen. A few games have title screens with little fun things on it, and this is one of them. When you touch the background, that part changes colour. :o I know you're thinking "this guy's really over-reacting", but when you've never played a Nintendo DS before, this stuff is amazing, and it still entertains me. Now, you press the big red button in the middle of the screen (everyone likes big red buttons right) with your Pac-Pix stylus ( ) and you are given 4 options: Training, Multiplayer, Options, and something called back. you pick Training, and are given four more options: Regulator, Survivor, Morph ball, and the mysterious back again. You choose Regulator, and are shown a 2-second hi-res movie while it loads, showing Samus appearing.Now you're in a room with a sloping corridor in front of you. You remember wht you read in a magazine, and get out the wrist strap from the Nintendo DS box. You (after a bit of confusion, and for me, asking of parent) Tie it to the hole on the bottom of the DS. you put your thumb through it, and start moving around the room. After a few minutes practice, you head though the first door, and are surrounded by Metroids! You shoot one a few times, and you realise it's too easy to be a real Metroid... it only takes two hits. After killing about 20 fake Metroids in the first room, you have really got to grips with the controls: You'll have found that double tapping the touch screen makes you jump, pressing that little symbol turns you into a ball, and you've gotten used to the accurate controls of Metroid Prime: Hunters. It's lucky you're improving your aim, because you have limited rapid-fire ammo, and misisng loses combos. In the next room are crwling enemies, that are surprisingly harder to hit than their airborne chums. In the nexty room is two surprises... at first fans of the series will notice the orange symbol in the middle of the room: Missiles yay! But when you go to collect them, a mysterous object appears: A real Metroid! It soon sucks onto you, and if you don't know the No.1 survival tip for Samus aran, you'll die within seconds. As you use the missiles to defeat this foe, you notice they take up lots of ammo, so you should only use them if you're in trouble...The next room combines the fake metroids and the crawly things, and after that you go through a few small rooms, and through a room with moving platforms that focuses on jumping. Then a room with jumping and combat, And penultimately a morph-ball maze with bugs in. The last room is circular, with walls and platforms. When you approach the centre, a green figure appears. It's a hard boss, and you may die while trying, but you'll reappear elsewhere in the level. If you win, your time and score will be added to the high score table, and... hey! I just beat my high score just now. Regulator is the main mode, but i also like survivor, where you must score as many points before you die, and in porph ball mode, you must race around in morph ball form the collect balls and reach the exit. However, single player really is just training. Hopefully you'll know someone else with a Nintendo DS, because multiplayer just ROX! there are 3 maps: Trooper module, which is a central room with corridors and secret passages around it, Assault cradle, which is by far the biggest, which features a huge central room, lots of corridors, a higher room with hiding places, and balconies, and lots of other stuff. Ancient vestige is the most boring, with just a small coutyard with a few passageways down the side. Also in this mode is the Electro lob, which is a weapon that is not in single player. It's very cool, as it distorts the enemy's screen, and i actually like doing it to myself, 'cos it's so cool. So... that pretty much sums the game up. now for the final score. drum roll please..... Graphics: 8/10 gameplay:9/10 control: 8/10 sound:9/10 multiplayer:8/10 coolness:10/10 overall score: [size=7]90%[/size] |
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) and you are given 4 options: Training, Multiplayer, Options, and something called back. you pick Training, and are given four more options: Regulator, Survivor, Morph ball, and the mysterious back again. You choose Regulator, and are shown a 2-second hi-res movie while it loads, showing Samus appearing.
But when you go to collect them, a mysterous object appears: A real Metroid! It soon sucks onto you, and if you don't know the No.1 survival tip for Samus aran, you'll die within seconds. As you use the missiles to defeat this foe, you notice they take up lots of ammo, so you should only use them if you're in trouble...


