It made me a bit nervous, but again, I thought it was just foreshadowing the last boss. Still, this encounter set you up to know the sound she’ll make when she’s near, and hinted at the power you’ll deal with. You get to take her in for only a few more seconds before she blasts a door to pieces, striding through that and away.
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Very classic horror movie zoom of the grotesque monster. Nothing much breaks walls in Metroid Fusion except for SA-X, which gives you an idea of how bad it’ll hurt when she shoots you. You can feel it in that deliberate walk and that demonstration of raw power. If this thing notices the elevator in use, it’ll come for you. You know that your character is just down the elevator shaft. She takes a few steps forward, her footfalls pounding in the silence. Something about her slow, deliberate walk reminded me of all of the slasher movies I’d watched when I was way too young. Heavy, clanking footsteps pound from your system speakers as SA-X steps from the torn hole in the steel. A massive explosion rips through the wall, smoke filling the room. Normally, you get a quick transition while taking elevators to a new area, but the camera lingers in the elevator room for some reason. After crossing to a new area through an elevator, something odd happens. The game starts to lay the groundwork for the terrifying power of the SA-X parasite early on. Wouldn’t be a big deal by then, right? Fighting your doppelganger as the last boss would be a neat idea, but nothing to be afraid of until the end of Metroid Fusion. I knew that I was in a weak at the start of the game, but when I first played this, I figured I wouldn’t be dealing with SA-X until the end of the game. Routinely causes screen-sized explosions. I mean, she turns into a buzz saw by jumping.
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Samus at full power is a terrifying thing. Shame you’re not feeling well after almost dying, Samus, but could you handle that? Blew up some important things and started causing trouble, all while the X parasite began to spread there. Then it started roaming around the Biological Space Laboratories research station. Her suit was sent to be quarantined, but then it…kind of came to life. It worked, but left her in a weakened state.
Poor Samus had some rotten luck running into that X parasite, didn’t she? This creature bonded with her and her suit, having to be surgically removed to save her life. With its raw power and speed, I have rarely been left so shaken as I was playing this game. And if I’m being honest, there’s few things in any game that have scared me as bad as my encounters with SA-X.
Metroid Fusion, with its deadly copy of Samus, the SA-X, would have my heart rate spiking a few years after my first foray into Zebes.
SKUL THE HERO SLAYER DOORS SERIES
This is far from the only time the series really drew from horror, though. The original Metroid took me by surprise with the fear and tension it created. Metroid Fusion’s SA-X is the Height of Horror in the Series
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