The conditions during Hard Mode are as follows: This is not affected by how many items are collected or how much time is taken. Hard Mode - Beat the game on Normal mode. Once fully charged it can stun an enemy for a short while, turning them pink in color. This pistol, called the Paralyzer, is auto charging. In the final sequence where Samus has entered the Space Pirate Mothership and the areas around it, she travels without her Power Suit, relying on an emergency pistol. Unlike the original, Zero Mission features a map, making navigating through the tunnels of Zebes much easier. Absent from the original Metroid is diagonal aiming, crouching, wall jumping, the Shinespark, and more. Most notable changes in gameplay include new items like the Plasma Beam and Gravity Suit as well as new explorable areas like the Space Pirate Mothership and Crateria, which was also featured in Super Metroid. The story is also expanded beyond the original 1986 adventure. Samus, after a difficult, yet quick journey, was able to escape in a Space Pirate Escape pod, just seconds before a blast destroys the Mothership and puts an end to the Space Pirates' tyranny.īeing a remake of the original Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the game has seen drastic revisions in gameplay, sound and graphics. After Samus defeats the robot, as its last resort, it sets off a self-destruct sequence. Eventually, she confronts a mechanized form of Ridley, possibly an early attempt at creating Meta Ridley. With her new suit, she becomes able to overpower the Space Pirates and futher explore the Space Pirate Mothership. After succeeding in a test handed down by the Chozo, Samus acquires the legendary Power Suit, which is compatible with the unknown equipment, revealing them to be the Plasma Beam, the Space Jump and the Gravity Suit. Samus still in her Zero Suit explores the Mothership, and discovers Chozodia, an abandoned settlement of the Chozo. She decides to pursue without the suit and explore the Mothership. The crash has left Samus's Power Suit in need of repair. However, as she is leaving the planet, Space Pirate fighters ambush her gunship, causing Samus to crashland back on the planet's surface, near the Space Pirate Mothership. She single-handedly defeated the Space Pirate commander Kraid and eventually Ridley as well as other monstrosities before confronting Mother Brain, the organic supercomputer that controls everything on Zebes.
By exploring the planet, she was able to find new abilities in the forms of missiles, beams, suits, bombs and other miscellaneous abilities. Samus discovers the Space Pirate Mothership.Īlone, Samus Aran successfully landed on the surface of Zebes, which was, in fact, the planet where Samus had been raised as a child by the Chozo.
Meanwhile, in a room hidden deep within the center of the Pirate Fortress, the preparations for multiplying the Metroids were steadily progressing.
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They launched a full assault on the planet, though Pirate resistance was strong, causing the Federation Police to retreat. After a desperate search, the Federation officials discovered the Space Pirates' base of operations on the planet Zebes. If the Space Pirates were able to breed the Metroids and use the creatures as biological weapons, the destruction of all galactic civilization would be inevitable. The hypotheses that the Metroids were responsible for one of the greatest mysteries in the entire galaxy - the extinction of all life on planet SR388 - was generally accepted as fact. Furthermore, it was possible to replicate Metroids in vast numbers by exposing them to beta rays. The Space Pirates' objective was to acquire these life-forms: known simply as Metroids, these floating organisms were incredibly dangerous, as they could latch onto any other organism and drain its life-energy. In the year 20X5 of the Cosmic Calendar, the Space Pirates attacked a deep-space research vessel and seized capsules containing samples of an unknown species that had been discovered on planet SR388.