Effeminate Shriek! Metroid Prime’s Frigate Orpheon a stage in Smash Bros Brawl.
The latest update at the Smash Bros Dojo revealed that the opening stage of Metroid Prime, which is the one that covers the exploration of the partially-destroyed pirate frigate Orpheon, will serve as a stage in Super Smash Bros Brawl. I’m pretty excited. It’s hard for me to express what that particular segment of that particular game means to me. It’s probably the most familiar part of the entire game, simply because it’s the one you play first. I can’t say I spent the most time there though, that title goes to a certain boss battle against a certain extremely challenging leader of the pirates who happens to have some very impressive flying abilities to go with his very impressive firepower.
Oh, this is candy, plain and simple. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they did a great job rendering the Parasite Queen boss. She looks more like her kids than herself.
Source: Smash Bros Dojo.
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I’d say, in my not-too-knowledgable Nintendo opinion, that this game has probably the best hype build-up of anything Nintendo has ever done. They’ve got everyone eating out of their hand for this game.
And that’s a good thing, because it’s a 2d brawler. They can’t really screw it up, especially given how last year’s hands-on time from the press was so good already.
I had this evil grin on my face during the entire battle with said boss in MP3 – his theme music has been right up there on my all-time favourite game music list ever since I heard the first Metroid Prime rendition.
hm, it probably isn’t obvious from my comment… I meant ridley (who as far as I know isn’t actually the leader of the space pirates), not the parasite queen.
I figured you meant Ridley. And I’m confident he is the leader, at least until the phazon suit is dominated by Metroid Prime and becomes Dark Samus. So Venom, that. I think Ridley’s indicated as their leader in the original Metroid manual, and also is the one who killed Samus’ parents, which would go on to be a very bad decision. Of course, that doesn’t mean that was Gunpei Yokoi’s intent, only that whoever wrote the English version of the manual felt it was a good idea.