Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 7

[davidn]

RavenWorks: OH MY GOD DAVID
NewtonXDavid: YES
RavenWorks: the firebug ice thing!
RavenWorks: ARE YOU SOME KIND OF IDIOT SAVANT
NewtonXDavid: YOU'RE HALF RIGHT
This is one of my favourite episodes in a while! Perhaps mostly because I don't start or end it completely stuck, in contrast to many of the other recent ones. This time, there's a lot of forward progress in an hour of gameplay mostly around the wrecked ship, and I also discover a lot of other things - mostly by accident. Namely, I defeat the third boss, acquire a new outfit and learn a new ability from a punk flamingo - it's interesting that as part of the game's completely silent narration, some skills are passed on through teaching by example like this rather than actually unlocking them.

And as a side note, look how buttery-silky-smooth the video is now! I've switched over to FRAPS as a screen recorder because I'm planning to do a couple of more demanding games soon and the performance difference is so large it's insane - most of that is due to the way that it doesn't attempt to compress on the fly, therefore producing 10GB-per-hour videos that you have to compress manually later, but I have the hard drive space to work with it. I also had some desynchronization issues at first and went back to making a simultaneous audio recording on the Pod X3, but in this video I'm using the audio that FRAPS recorded with the screen and it seems happy enough after all.

http://youtu.be/Mq1SJ4UESCc