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"So I bought Metroid Prime the other day..."

Hmm...

As a first-time Nintendo owner, maybe someone can explain the history of this title to me; why is it seen as such a major title, and why are people dashing out to buy Gamecube's to play it?

Don't get me wrong! It *is* a very good game, and I am enjoying playing it, but while it's fun, for me there's certainly nothing particularly outstanding about it.

By that I mean it is definitely a game worth owning, but - and remember, this is just my opinion - it's not a game worth specifically buying a 'cube to play.

For me, there are already better games on Gamecube that people *didn't* rush out and buy the machine to play.

heck yea

Even better than Ocarina of Time?

cookie monster wrote:
> If its the sheegoth, then you need to go into morph ball mode and then
> bomb its stomach area. Just lay bombs around about it and eventually
> enough will hit to kill it.

That's what I did. Scanning it, you get some info about it having a 'soft underbelly' which is prone to damage by 'concussive blasts' - or something like that.

Of course, once you get the Plasma Beam, it's a whole different matter! :-)

that's the easiest way though

Bah. I can't remember when you get Super Missiles... I've had em so long I forget these things. And ah yes, what Cookie Monster said. I got annoyed at the Sheegoths refusal to die so turned into a ball and bombed his belly and that seemed to work too (although I did get stamped by his feet a fair bit).

If its the sheegoth, then you need to go into morph ball mode and then bomb its stomach area. Just lay bombs around about it and eventually enough will hit to kill it.

Except of course, you won't have super missiles when you fight the Sheegoth.


In which case, feel free to stand there pressing the Y button doing absolutely nothing while it stamps you into the ground.

Or charge up your normal power beam and when he's panting press the missile button to fire 5 missiles in one. That'll learn 'im...

psht

amatuer

Let him advance towards you and he should breath blue flames at you. Press left/right and double tab B to dash to the side out of the way, then dash back in front of him when he's finished exhaling (he should be panting) and quickly fire two missiles (that's all you'll have time for).


Repeat until death.

If he charges instead of using the flames then just dash to the side and get behind him, and wait for him to turn round.


Don't ever shoot your normal shots. And if you're really lucky, sometimes he might just stop and start panting anyway, in which case fire two missiles as normal.

Ice monster in phen*cough* drifts.

The one where you have to beat 4 regular ice monsters, then you get a big one that soaks up energy to spit it back at you.

A scan pointed out that you have to shoot him in the face after he spits stuff at you, but this only seems to hurt him (make him flash red) a fraction of the time, and only when done with missiles. The rest of the time the missile or beam just seems to power up his spikes.

So how do I dispose of this ugly excuse for a thing?