I started playing this on the Wii U because I COULDN'T WAIT ANY LONGER FOR NINTENDO TO DROP THE REMASTER! I haven't played this game since like...very early. Sometime after it launched, maybe like 2006 or so lol. Definitely before the Wii was a thing? This game is important to me because it was like... halfway or most of the way through playing this game (with a guide) that I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THE METROID FORMULA! THIS is the game where it actually clicked for me. I love that for me but I feel like a lot of the online discourse kind of shits all over MP2.. and MP3 too tbh. We shall see. And I really want to replay all the Prime games before [[Metroid Prime 4 - Beyond]] drops. I'm currently like an hour or so in so I'll try to fill in what I've done so far. # Powerup Order Missiles Morph Ball Bomb Space Jump Boots Dark Beam Light Beam Dark Suit Super Missile Boost Ball - (Dark Torvus Arena) Seeker Launcher - (Temple Grounds) DarkBurst - (Mining Station B) Gravity Boost - (Hydrochamber Storage) Grapple Beam - (Sacrificial Chamber) Dark Visor - (Dark Torvus Temple) # Temple Grounds This was the opening, tutorial level basically. I skipped reading all the scan lore and shit. U-mos let me read amber translation things. And told me to return to the temple after I get some power conduit thing from Dark Aether. So it seems like the temple is a hub that branches off to all the different parts of the world. # Agon Wastes I Went to the dark world for the first time ## Dark Agon Wastes Damn, the dark world REALLY fucks up your health at first! It's crazy! I wonder when I get the dark suit. Oh shit! Just ran into the Jump Guardian. Okay so I started this save from when I did a run earlier, I think I missed the part where Samus was attacked by the Ing and got all her shit stolen. Because these niggas are USING MY SHIET! Alright, got my jump boots back. That fight was annoying af. There's lots of places on the Temple Grounds I couldn't reach without my jump boots so when I return there I'll be hella exploring. ONTO THE NEXT POWERUP! Okay, I found the (Dark Agon Temple), I need to find the three keys here in order to open it up. Lol, okay one of the keys was literally INSIDE the temple, like directly to the right lol. The dark world is really fucking with my health, I have to slow down to recharge health in between runs. Kinda annoying. ## Agon Wastes Back to the light world. There's a HALF PIPE in the (Transport Center) next to the (Portal Terminal), I'll need to return here when I get the boost ball / whenever I find the item that opens Purple doors. I came across a space pirate installation, (Command Center), and saw Dark Samus for the first time, (Security Station B). I couldn't chase after her because I need the Dark Beam. to go forward. Making my way through. Just found another Energy Tank. Oh shit! I found Dark Samus. IS IT ABOUT TO BE THE FIRST FIGHT!! LET'S GOOO. Gimme my Dark Beam, bitch. I bet I get it from you. Killed Dark Samus, Got the Dark Beam. Moseyed around to a couple places and got a Missle Expansion and Energy Tank. Now I'm back at Dark Agon. ## Dark Agon Wastes 2 Return Entered through the space pirate base and into (Doomed Entry) lololollol. Pirates is MAD DEAD up here lol. OH! And I can see the second dark key. Leh Go! I think it's wild they just leave them out in the open like that. The Chozo Artifacts in Prime 1 were not easy to stumble upon. Honestly if I wasn't using a guide the first time and remembered idk how I would have found them in [[Metroid Prime Remaster]]. I'm not sure if I'm going the right way but after I got the dark key I just started making my way through exploring the dark side of this map. I reached a save station so I'm gonna stop here for now. Looking at the comparison between the maps it looks like I need the light beam to get much further from this point. But we'll see. LOL okay I just found the light beam. It was just chillin in (Ing Cache 1) after following the path from the dark space pirate base... hmm, was it in the same spot as the dark beam? Lots of doors I can open now! Got the third key!! LETS GOO! I have reached the temple, about to step in. I had to go through light Agon to get there, and take a one-way portal to the place I fought Dark Samus in. Will I get the Dark Suit here? That'd be peak. Ayye, DARK SUIT ON DECK!! The Dark Suit morph ball is ugly as FUCK lololollo. So, I will say that so far this has felt like a very on rails metroid experience.. So I think I kinda understand where folks are coming from, it's definitely semi on rails, or at least the world gets opened up kinda slowly? I'm like 2-3 hours into this playthrough at this moment, and I've scanned 40% of the logbook which means I'm probably not that far from being done. I still need to get the echo beam, light suit, super missles, power bomb, screw attack.... and maybe a couple other powerups. There's at least two more temples I need go get to, and the cool ass sky place. # Temple Grounds Not sure where to go next exactly but I'm re-exploring Temple Grounds with all my new power ups after the Agon run. I found (Storage Cavern A) and it was FUCKING EMPTY! There was a dead luminoth saying it stored something in this cavern but it was literally empty. Probably stored in the dark world version of it? But also the dark world temple grounds seem to be a lot more limited based on the trip I made to that one missile expansion. U-Mos says to go to Torvus Next. Torvus Bog!! The environments in MP2 are definitely not as vibrant or colorful as MP1. A wasteland, A dark world, a swamp... lolo. # Torvus Bog Holy shit! This soundtrack thoooooo!! Bro I don't remember shit about Torvus bog but I'm already very excited to explore. Does the light suit also grant gravity suit properties? Because I'm seeing an early underwater section and... booo / interesting. I need a save station so I can poop lol. KEY HINTS! Okay so if I actually read the scan logs I'd probably get more ideas on where the keys actually are. A dead luminoth in the opening of Torvus said his key will be in a (Lagoon), so I gotta look out for Lagoon rooms as I'm exploring. OR, if it's like Agon I'll just happen upon them naturally. Okay JK the room that I was in was just called Torvus Lagoon. It was the same thing as that empty Chamber in the Luminoth Log. Boo. ## Dark Torvus Bog At the (Dark Forgotten Bridge), I'm supposed to be looking for some transdimensional flux thing to maybe change the direction of the bridge to reach the missile expansion spot? ## Torvus Bog Yeah, that was a quick trip, not much else I could do there. But ## Torvus Temple A-Vog is the guardian of the Torvus Temple. He says the keys will be in the flooded areas of the Torvus Temple / Bog. The waters of Dark Aether are foul and venomous. Avoid them if I can lol. I can now read Emerald translators. Another key! I'm kinda dicking around and I think I shouldn't come back to the (Hydrodynamo Station) until I get the gravity / light suit. Can't get very far in the water. Headed to the dark World. I think I'm about to get the Dark Visor?? ## Dark Torvus via (Polluted Mire) Ayye, found the Dark Torvus Arena for the Boost Ball! BOOST GUARDIAN! OH SHIT! And I see one of the keys too. Got the Boost Ball in the (Dark Torvus Arena)! And the first Torvus Key. Let's go. There was a lot of half pipe shit I've been seeing, (but not super recording) ## Dark Torvus via (Dark Forgotten Bridge) I came back this way after opening the gate with the Spinner in Light Torvus after getting the Boost Ball. This is on the back side of the bridge that was first accessible only through the Dark world. I've now found the Second Torvus Key in (Venomous Pond). Feels like it's set up for me to not get it until I get the screw attack though?? Maybe the Grapple Beam first lol. Anyway gonna explore around. I found an Ammo recharge station under the Torvus Temple. Honestly kinda surprised I haven't found any Dark / Light beam ammo extensions yet. Pretty wild! ## Torvus Bog I'm back at Torvus and legitimately am kinda lost? lol. I just found the map station and the only place really that's unexplored is the underwater section. So I'm assuming I'll find the Grapple beam there, I'll just have to figure something out because I wasn't able to do anything much last time. Let's check it out. ## Temple Grounds I went back up the Torvus Elevator and followed the super missile door path to (Hall of Honored Dead) to find the Seeker Missile upgrade.. when I scanned it I SWORE I read Grapple Beam but apparently I was very wrong or just imagining things lol. So now I can open Purple Doors. New powerup, new key! This was the place I thought was being led to by the temple elevators. There's a portal in the bottom that can't be accessed currently. I'll keep exploring Temple Grounds for now and return to Torvus when I don't have any more purple doors to open. Oh, actually there are none so I'm just going back to Torvus lol. ## Dark Temple Grounds I found MP2's Impact Crater. Apparently there's like 6 sky keys I'll need that are scattered throughout the world, I've collected all the clues to track them down but that's gonna be annoying lollol. Idk how many of them I can start collecting early but I think I'll wait until i get the light suit and fast travel to start hunting them down. Glad I made these detours. ## Return to Torvus - Seeking A Path Forward With Seeker Missiles!! I took the seeker missile door under the Torvus Temple and it brought me to an Elevator for Agon Wastes. There's a super missile door on the other side of the map I'm assuming I need to get to for my next power up. Hmm, actually there's a few places I can go. On both the dark and light side. Knock em down! Well, actually doesn't look like I'll be able to access the things I thought. I need to come back here with more. I went down the last available route and did a light world / Dark world loop-de-loop to get the DarkBurst, a powerup I imagine I will not be using very often until I start getting some fucking AMMO EXPANSIONS! LIKE WTF!! I'm like 5-6 hours in at this point, this is egregious. Well, I'm totally lost rn so I'm gonna take a break. Found some expansions tho but no path forward. --- 6:30 Hours into this playthrough, still lost lol. I need the Grapple Beam, Echo Visor, and Echo beam... Dark visor?? Power bomb, those are the main roadblocks I've been seeing now. Currently looking for where I can go with the Seeker missile. ALSO THE SPIDER BALL! Damn, I still need so many things this is crazy. I found the (Accursed Lake), connected to the (Plain Of Dark Worship) I had to use the seeker missile to get to it but literally there's nothing here. I'm so confused. I think I need a new visor or suit. There's poison water everywhere but it doesn't seem that deep. Still lost! I literally can't get to the (GFMC compound). There are gates locked from both ends from Elevator Transport A and B... In the Dark World there's the (Phazon Pit) where I need the Grapple Beam to get to the other side.. Still lost! I feel like there was something in Agon Wastes I was supposed to get besides the dumb ass Dark Burst. Hmm. in (Mining Station B), where I got the DarkBurst there's a room locked behind a Light Door that I'm not sure why I didn't access. I think that was the door locked behind the Denzium. Ugh, I've cleared out every SuperMissile and SeekerMissile door I can find and nothing! I'm gonna be so mad when I find the next place I'm supposed to go. Should I go back to the (Hydrodynamo Station)? I haven't gotten any new mobility so I'm not sure what would be different. I've gone there twice already. I've scoured the entire map and Literally the ONLY place that's unexplored is the underwater area again. So.. I'ma try one more time and see whats up because I've never been this lost before lol. WOW! I WAS RIGHT! I just wasted an hour for nothing lol. THE SEEKER MISSILE WAS THE WAY! ## Torvus Underwater Temple Fuck me. Finally lollolol. Oh shit... we finna fight some Chozo Ghosts or something. As I was walking out of the water there was some blue... phazon like spark that popped up and now I'm chasing. Actually, probably Dark Samus II. Let's go. Hmm. Okay so it just reformed, laughed in my face, and then split up again. Just proving I haven't defeated it AND it gained a new ability. Fuckin Dr. Manhattan shit. LET'S GO! GOT THE GRAVITY BOOST! Alright, now I can actually navigate through the water well, AND it gives like a triple jump ability. You can basically fly in the water a bit. Hover. Let's see if I can fight the Giant Water Worm now. Yup, actually immediately. He was pretty tough too but I got the hang of it near the end. I need to come back to (Main Hydrochamber) when I have the Spider Ball. Welll.... Now what? lol. I've already literally been all over the damn map and I didn't have a need for the gravity boost. I guess there's some spots in torvus bog full of water I can explore? Still need the Grapple Beam. ## Dark Torvus Under Temple I KNEW SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT, I got that Missile expansion in (Torvus Lagoon) then made my way back to the Water Temple because only getting the Gravity Boost didn't make sense. I checked out some of the portals in the area and found the boss. Was a pretty annoying fight I wish I had more light ammo. But anyway I HAVE THE GRAPPLE BEAM NOW BITCHES! LET'S GO! So many things I've noted I can get now I think lol. STARTING WITH THAT FUCKING KEY IN (Venomous Pond), lets go. Next thing SHOULD be the power bomb, or at least I hope it is. I'm seeing hella yellow doors and they're pissing me off. SHIT! There's so many upgrades I still don't have, damn. This game is crazy. ## Final Torvus Key? Okay, I just got the second key in the (Venomous Pond), so now the hunt is on for the final key. It's somewhere in the dark world, so I should focus my efforts on what is now accessible for me there. It's possible it's in the underwater temple where the power bomb door is, but who's to say. That'd be my best guess but first I'd have to find the Power Bombs... I guess I should just run around to different rooms until I find something? Not sure how to go about this tbh. I see nothing in (Poisoned Bog), there's a Power Bomb door but otherwise I don't hear any powerups or see what could be here. (Poisoned Bog) has nothing (Dark Torvus Temple) gives me no clues. (Polluted Mire) has nothing. (Dark Torvus Arena) is where I got the first key. (Venomous Pond) had the "third" key I think the only place that makes sense is the underwater temple again. There's lots of portals there that I still haven't accessed. WOOOOW ONCE AGAIN I WAS RIGHT! It was literally right there. I can't wait for [[Metroid Prime 2 Remaster]] to drop because I'm basically gonna try to speedrun it. What the fuck. Found the "Second" key in (Undertemple Access). As soon as I jumped through the portal it was literally right there. I'll need to come back here after I get the Power Bomb, that's all that's blocking me here. Anyway, no more time to waste I'm going STRAIGHT there. ## Torvus Temple GOD DAMN THAT BOSS FIGHT WAS FUCKING INSANE!! Mfucking Chykka! My nigga! Idk how much I enjoyed it but damn, it was pretty wild and not super difficult. I didn't die anyway lol but I feel like that lasted 10 minutes or something. And, got the Dark Visor! I hope I can fight those phasing ass Space Pirates now, they've been pissing me the FUCK OFF! Now gotta do the whole rigamarole of taking the power, going to the light world, delivering the power, then heading back to the great temple. Give me access to the (GFMC compound) for fuck's sake! Currently 9:10 hours into this playthrough. 46% items. I have 6 Energy Tanks. Let's go to the third temple! ## Temple Grounds Did a quick Dark Temple grounds detour via (Profane Path) / (Sacred Path) to see if I needed to do something in the dark world to get access to the places I was blocked before. I couldn't move forward but found I need the Light Suit for (Reliquary Access). Alright! It was the Dark Visor / Seeker Missile combo that let me move back to the sky area. Let's go. # Sanctuary Fortress Leh go. Looks like we'll need TEN Keys to actually unlock the temple on this side?? That's crazy. Those are the clues I found before but I thought that would happen after I restored this third power thing. Everything is about to go down in the fortress, that's for sure. This fortress is kinda insane NGL. A robot shut down my power suit and I had to reboot it!!! So wild! I think I'm about to get power bombs soon. Or the spider ball. There's a gyro controller thing: AMBER COBALT CRIMSON EMERALD AKA ORANGE, BLUE, RED, GREEN Taking the portal to the dark fortress! I need power bombs to get to the next blue door, here we go. ## Ing Hive That's what they call the Dark Fortress. Scary. The glass is already broken on the dark side, or just not there. # Expansions ## Temple Grounds - [x] (Communication Area) - Morph Ball Bomb - [ ] (Temple Assembly Site) - Need Space Jump Boots - [ ] (Dynamo Chamber) - Need Super Missile - [x] (Transport B Access) - Need Morph Ball Bomb / Spring Ball - [x] (Transport A Access) - Bomb ## Dark Temple Grounds - [ ] (War Ritual Grounds) - Close to the Torvus elevator, there's some control module on the light side that will unlock. - [ ] (Phazon Grounds) - Screw Attack - There's something on the other side of the pit with the metroids!! - [ ] (Reliquary Access) - Light Suit - I don't think this is a pickup per se but I can't move forward in this area. There's like EXTRA dark shit around that's preventing me from going without dying lol. ## Agon Wastes - [ ] (Mining Station A) - Need Spider Ball - [x] (Sand Processing) - Need Boost Ball - [ ] (Main Reactor) - Need Spider Ball?? - [ ] (Sand Canyon) - Need Screw Attack - Light door access from the Agon Temple - [ ] (Bioenergy Production) - Spider Ball - There's a super missile access at the top of the stacking blocks. The one in the middle needs 3 stacks, and it looks like I'll only be able to access it that way via the Magnetic Rail. - [ ] (Mining Station B) - Power Bomb - Area next to Mining Station B. Has Denzium Block. ## Dark Agon Wastes - [ ] (Feeding Pit) - Need Light Suit - [ ] (Junction Site) - Need Spider Ball - [x] (Warrior's Walk) - Need Phazon Immunity / Resistance - JK, just needed balls lol. - [ ] (Phazon Site) - Echo Beam - This is the sister location to (Bioenergy Production), there's a lot of spilled Phazon and Dark Metroids. I can't remember exactly what I needed to get up to that door.. Nope, it was the Echo Beam. It's a Gray door. ## Torvus Bog - [x] (Torvus Lagoon) - Gravity Boost - Under the water above the venom weed - [x] (Forgotten Bridge) - Dark world bridge shifter - [x] (Abandoned Worksite) - Grapple Beam - [ ] (Great Bridge) - Power Bomb - Something behind the Denzium orb blocks by the kinetic orb cannon controller - [x] (Temple Access) - It's in a morph ball hall, an Energy Tank. Bomb the top part of it to drop in. - [x] (Underground Tunnel) - Easy access with Morph Ball - [ ] (Torvus Grove) - Power Bomb - [x] (Plaza Access) - Boost Ball - After getting the boost ball return to light world and take back entrance to (Forgotten Bridge) - [ ] (Torvus Plaza) - Spider Ball - Not sure exactly what's here but I need to return here when I have the Spider Ball - [x] (Portal Chamber) - This was a one-way portal to get the missile expansion - [ ] (Gathering Hall) - Power Bomb / Spider Ball - This is in the water chamber. Not sure what I'll get, but there's a giant semi broken glass under the water. - Oh, actually it looks like under is the switch that'll drop the force field on the missile expansion in the dark world. - There's also a bomb switch on the ceiling that's accessible with the Spider ball. - [x] (Path of Roots) - Grapple Beam ## Dark Torvus - [x] (Cache B) - Super Missile - Under the (Dark Torvus Temple) - [x] (Cache A) - Seeker Missile - Beam ammo expansion. The first one! ## Sanctuary Fortress - [ ] (Sanctuary Entrance) - Power Bomb - There's some weak Denzium Glass that leads to an elevator on the side of the bridge. - [ ] (Hall of Combat Mastery) - Spider Ball / Power Bomb - There's some crazy morph ball puzzles in the walls here. - There's also a glass Denzium tunnel that can be destroyed ## Ing Hive - [ ] (Hazing Cliff) - It was at the end of a hall, had to defeat a dark metroid and two tunnel dark burster things. ### Temple Keys - [ ] (Culling Chamber) - Spider Ball - The first key is in the walls of this room, need spider ball to access. # Notes and Thoughts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywpU1QBRHlk Fuck, I just started watching this video [Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is definitely a Zelda game. Let's discuss.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywpU1QBRHlk), and OH MY FGUUUUCKING GOD I was supposed to use the Seeker Missiles on the Chykka!! Literally didn't even cross my mind nigga that boss fight could have been 20 minutes shorter. FUCK. I'm dumb. Yeah Nintendo DROP THAT REMASTER! I'm ready to speedrun this game fr fr.