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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

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From:

xaq.livejournal.com

And in honor of you figuring out the most practical use of the Ice Beam on your own, I present to you this relevant and humorous image (http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=969484).

Which, if you'd seen it earlier, would have been a dead giveaway. XP

From:

crassadon.livejournal.com

I'm pretty sure I thought similiarly to you on the route to get the ice beam: it's just a shaft that enemies come out of.. no reason to look any more into that. It's really quite generous that the game keeps you locked in that room until you solve the puzzle.

I think it's interesting how, after you get the ice beam, the game really opens up into a lot of different paths, so the route you take is quite different from where I might go when I play. Although there's rationally a correct sort of a way to go, as your kind of noticing. Even though you've run all around the area available to you, and seem to be confident that you've tried to go everywhere, it's interesting that there's still quite interesting places in that area, which you haven't been to yet.

Yeah, it's also interesting that you've managed to wall jump. And then used it to go up an incredibly narrow shaft to a room that. . .looks. . . pretty familiar, I guess. Did all the comments that have been posted help you figure out how to do it?

It is really interesting watching you play. Strange, though. Maybe because I always rented the game, it feels like I spent a day in each one of the rooms in it; I have so many memories, I even remember when I went to the top of that elevator shaft and thought "a yellow door.. uhmm. . hmm. . ." I really have memories from every room. It's just sort of weird to think on them.

From:

ravenworks.livejournal.com

"An ice beam! That should help cool things down." Booooooo XD

"Should have this lava dealt with in no time and then we'll have a skating rink..." I love these videos. XD

omg, I will forever be imagining that in-universe, Samus is just stepping into ancient zebesian blowdryers just to freshen up a bit

AAAA DAVID STOP FINDING THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT
This is why I wanted to see someone else play it -- I've got such a muscle memory for the things I know, that I've stopped exploring for other things :)

Okay yeah -- you found the "freeze the turtles to climb back up" method, AND you found the wall jump ON YOUR OWN -- you are beyond needing our help :) Also, you can forget the warning I gave you about avoiding a save point -- that section just teaches you the wall jump, which is notoriously difficult to do, but if you've ALREADY got the hang of it then you don't have anything to worry about. USE SAVE POINTS WITH IMPUNITY!

omg, flippers.... I want to see Samus trying to equip Zelda equipment XD

well now the ship will forever be a toaster to me XD I'm getting all these new memes overlayed onto this game!

"that would explain why my toast's always so soggy", aaaaaa XD

Oh, David, the dark rooms.....! Daviiiiiid, I don't want to say too much, but you are making those rooms harder on yourself XD I didn't say anything the first time, but it's been twice now and you haven't caught on.... X3

99 factor suntan lotion XD

You've always been able to do the wall jump, for the record :) At least as far as I know. I generally avoid doing it XD

Also "with a pineapple" usually means because a pineapple would be a very abrasive object to be.... *ahem* never mind. :)

GEEZ YOU'RE GOOD AT THAT WALL JUMP!! I never realised how many places you can get with it!!

"I don't know how I would have worked that out except I did" XD Yes, Metroid is like that sometimes :) (But no, for the record, you're kind of sequence-breaking here ;) )

I love how thrilled you are every time a power bomb goes off XD

Anyway, I'll say this much -- the way forward isn't something terribly obscure or anything; you just have to keep wandering until you stumble back onto it. (I'll give you one slightly bigger hint, it isn't actually on the MAIN highways, it's off a room somewhere -- but it IS something you've previously noticed, you just have to remember it was there.) I'm willing to bet there's a map hint to it also, because I remember being stumped here too just recently, and then I remember seeking out the correct path somehow but I forget why, so, it's probably the map...... but anyway! Explore! You're SUPPOSED to be wandering lost in these games, that doesn't mean you're getting it wrong, that means you're playing Metroid :)

From:

dr-dos.livejournal.com

This series is doing a good job of making me want to play through the game again.

Would you be interested in maybe doing a group video where I'd speedrun through the game? (As best as I can, I'm no professional!)

I highly recommend you watch a TAS at some point after you've completed the game though. A 100% run is 1 hour 10 minutes. Or a 46 minute rever boss order run. Or a 21 minute glitched run...

From: (Anonymous)

*JD from GFaqs, all the comments on these vids seem to be here so...*

I can't be the only one thinking this (well, maybe) but to keep things vague I think it is safe to say that you are getting close to being within range of having to do... something in particular in order to ultimately advance. It sticks out to me as it was one of those "collective knowledge" deals where I'd wager most who played the game when it was new don't have a particular recollection as to how we all figured it out, it just became known at some point.

Now while it is probably common knowledge at this point I... am unsure how you will figure it out. As mentioned I haven't the foggiest idea how even I figured it out. Of course based on this you will probably figure it out with ease while getting stuck on something rather benign.

At the very least I am looking forward to seeing how things unfold when you eventually have to come upon it.