Spoilers follow for the first few minutes of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Not only just the first few minutes, but these all concern the fate of a character you’re not intended to feel any real sense of attachment to, as best I can tell. In fact, despite the zesty (yet entirely accurate) article title, this may be the weakest spoiler warning I’ve ever given you.
There’s a soldier whose fate seemed inextricably linked to death in the opening moments of Nintendo’s latest epic. Everybody figured he was a goner, no matter what you do. One smooth player proved ‘em wrong, letting this fellow live to presumably die another day, because he doesn’t seem well-suited to space military life.
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“Crashed on me five times in the span of ten minutes.”
I Can Fix Him
This is a quickie but a goodie. There’s an I.G.F. trooper desperate for cover in this siege sequence, and with foes hot on his tail, it seems this is the end for the helpless fellow no matter how swiftly Samus acts in his defense. That didn’t stop Gamemon_RD from breaking the illusion of guaranteed failure.
“I felt so awful when I witnessed him die in front of me,” a formerly emotionally compromised Gamemon_RD recalls. “I felt powerless.” Pain can be a weapon. “But it turns out you aren’t. :)” The smiley face sells it – this is the comeback story of the year.
“This is what we trained for. Keep it together.” -A separate I.G.F. trooper, whose words perfectly match the moment as Samus’ sharp shooting snatches victory from the jaws of a terrified character’s defeat
“I do this kind of thing all the time in Halo or Half Life,” top commenter webslinger05 says with pride. “It’s really fun to save NPCs from scripted events.” In fact, the thread kicked off a journey through some gamers’ memories of similar fare, with Sea-Lecture-4619 happily reminiscing over saving the scientist at the beginning of We’ve Got Hostiles, whilst LinuxLover3113 laments that no matter what you do for the runaway would-be execution victim in Skyrim, he’ll fall over dead regardless.
“I didn’t save him because I was too busy scanning the pirate that killed him,” Captain_Dammit remarks regarding Metroid Prime 4’s death-bound soldier. Hey, we’ve all got priorities, Dammit. “You can also save him by yeeting the Space Pirate via Boost Ball,” quuxl adds on a more positive note, whose yeet-savvy nature may actually predate Gamemon_RD’s heroic antics.
Metroid Prime 4’s received a bit of a mixed reception overall, although TheGamer’s Jade King gave it a 4/5, which neatly corroborates Metacritic’s overarching 80/100 score. So, there’s that.
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