Sunday, December 30, 2007

Entire Metroid summary VI (Metroid Prime 2)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes- GCube, 2004

After the first Metroid Prime Samus is sent to investigate the disappearance of a G.F. platoon missing in near the planet Aether. Upon landing on the planet, her ship is damaged by the violent storm. Shortly after walking a bit, you find a mysterious portal. Entering the portal, you see a dark figure of yourself, in a an ECHO of Aether. There are also black creatures watching it absorb... Phazon! dun dun dun! The "Dark Samus" destroys a crystal behind you, and the force field that has been around you this whole time (really) starts shrinking. The dark creatures start closing in on you and when it finally disappears they attack, you fly back into the portal; all they manage to do is steal some of your upgrades, but you are mostly unharmed. After exploring a bit you find the entire squadron has died; after finding the ship they came in, you see a video showing that they followed a Pirate cargo ship here and shot it down. When they pursued it, they were also damaged by the storm. They established an underground base, but were exterminated by creatures that appear like other creatures you see before in the game, but darker and more powerful. After you get some missiles back you must fight these creatures, then you move on. Inside a large temple you fight a larger dark creature and gain an unknown item. At the top of the temple an insect like person tells you the following story: The planet Aether is home to the Luminoth. U-mos, the one talking to you now, is the current leader. A meteor crashed on the planet and made a dark duplicate of Aether. The dark creatures that stole your powers are called the "Ing" they are peace hating creatures of Dark Aether. The strange item you found is a device the Luminoth made to harness the planetary energy of Aether, which was split in half and had half of it given to Dark Aether while one stayed in Light Aether, they made it to take back the energy and destroy the dark copy. Thing Ing captured it and now the only energy left in Aether is the one in the room you are in when you get to this part of the game. The game's goal is to go to the three areas of Aether, transport back and forth between the light and dark Aethers, and take the energy from the dark world, and put it back into the light world. While doing this you find Metroid Prime again, but this time he has injected his essence into your Phazon suit and now absorbs as much Phazon as he can get. The Pirates detected large amounts of Phazon in dark Aether, and despite being attacked by the Ing, and Metroid Prime/Dark Samus, they are conducting further Phazon experiments. After transferring the energy to light Aether, you must go to the dark version of U-mos's temple and defeat the Emporer Ing, who guards the last of the dark energy. After doing this, you take the energy, then you must escape before Dark Aether is obliterated along with you and the last of the energy. When you are about to escape Dark Samus appears again and blocks your path. After you escape Dark Samus appears to be destroyed. Samus returns the power to light Aether and saves the Luminoth. Getting 100% in the game gives you a short video showing Dark Samus reforming in space!

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