Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 3

[davidn]

Er, Part 2 is here and I sort of forgot to link it.

Thanks to everyone who volunteered information after watching my first night of Super Metroid, in which I think I made a surprising amount of progress for someone who didn't know all the controls (rather like Marble Madness before it, as much as marbles can "run"). Here's the second session of the journey, confusingly titled Part 3, which I hadn't realized would be so short - I aim for about twenty-minute episodes, but exploration-based games compress down amazingly when you edit them down to just the interesting or relevant bits (particularly with me at the controls).

This part involves... getting lost, mostly, and also a fair amount of screaming.

http://youtu.be/rShe2u67mPU

Comments

[davidn]

It's definitely not a universal solution - I remember photos from when I went to Mexico of a very large green building, confidently labelled "mazatlan-orange.jpg" (or maybe it's orange and I called it green and then changed the filename? I don't know - that colour is in the rare perfect blind spot that I'd describe as "unidentifiable").

Perhaps it only works for things that are just on the edge of identifiability and flooding with more of the colour helps... it definitely doesn't become easy, it requires some concentration but it's possible to identify the DS LED and the doors. In fact I think I can see the door colours just normally now, I've got used to how they're... shaded or something, some subtle difference that I had to look for. Sometimes it's... still being able to see in colour, but having to make an effort to do it, like reading a foreign language? It's so hard to describe it, it's different with subtly different shades (which might be wildly different shades to other people)...

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

It's.... definitely a weird sort of lemony half-yellow-half-green. It's the color of an orange that isn't quite ready yet. It's the color of those disgusting artificial cheese puffs (not the good kind with the cute cheetah, the horrible pale kind that old ladies give you on halloween.) I would probably call it yellow if pressed, maybe lime green, absolutely not orange :)

Wow... I absolutely can't picture the experience of being able to identify a color better by applying.... effort! (Although maybe I just did in the previous paragraph?) Minds are fascinating things :)