Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 5

[davidn]

Insomniacs' special!

Thanks to everyone for providing the clues that I needed to get out of my situation in the last part (or rather, shouldn't have needed because all it took was going down an incredibly obvious passage) - in this episode, we have a lecture on observation, a lot of progress without a lot of big events (but some big explosions), and a strange obsession with toasters (I missed a dose of thyroid medication today). It's incredible even to me that I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to say in these before I do them.

The episode ends with me stuck in completely the opposite way from how I started it, free and wandering all over the cave system trying to remember where I've seen yellow doors or things that look like they might need to be cooled down a bit. I've made a couple of laps of the game, but haven't yet found the one that'll actually allow me to progress.

http://youtu.be/sHNcPwi3RTw

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Also, HUGE congrats on figuring out how to wall jump on your own!

[dr-dos.livejournal.com]

Yeah I beat the game the first time without knowing it even existed. Well done.

Also colorblindness strikes again in Norfair when you said "I know there's a million yellow doors around here" right as you fell past one.

In all but a very few cases special colored doors turn blue when you go through them.

[davidn]

Ah, I forgot about that rule...! I must have thought the door was the green one that led me to the metallic tunnel again. That's one of three different potential routes that I noticed just by editing the video - it's unintentionally a nice replacement for a perfect memory.

[davidn]

Thank you :) It must be said that I knew about the existence of wall-jumping, just not how to do it - the slow movement in the water showing me the clinging-on and a happy accident when battering the jump button to get up on to that platform combined to show me what I needed!