Stumbling through Super Metroid - Part 10

[davidn]

Celebrating ten parts! But this is, without a shadow of a doubt, the dullest video to produce that I've done in this entire project. After making what I thought was great progress for the last few videos, here I was reduced to running around the entire game in a very big circle for just shy of two hours, after which I asked Kjorteo to give me a pointer and through him I remembered about the giant scary face in the rock that had scared me off several videos ago.

This video is mostly me hoovering up secrets, messing about and getting frustrated. Once again, over two hours of gameplay have been compressed down into exactly fifteen minutes.

http://youtu.be/Fh2_50_qgFw

Comments

[davidn]

Oh, wow, yes - I used to do that all the time, reading about games that I had never seen and had no idea about... it was also really special when they were shown on television in the very rare games/technology programmes of the time. Now game videos are available everywhere and it's extremely difficult to play any game without knowing a fair amount about it beforehand.

I was particularly interested in the guides for adventure games, which described such obscure things that I couldn't even imagine the context - such as "when the frogs come down, jump on the thing that looks like a whistle". (Not a made-up example - a direct quote from a walkthrough that I can't remember the game for...!)

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

That sounds very much like a "hypnotise quarrelsome rhinoceros" moment - except actually a real solution and not just a mocking cutscene!

[kjorteo]

wear dog

[davidn]

I WORKED THAT ONE OUT ON MY OWN after trying literally every other combination of items in the entire game

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, are we talking about a bizarre commercial game here, or the trainwreck that was our attempt to navigate Bastard Quest?

[davidn]

This is a real puzzle from near the end (actually the second-last thing you ever have to do in the game, if I recall) of Simon the Sorcerer 2 - the scenario is that you have to get past a monstrous guardian of a room by defeating his senses of sight, smell and hearing - to defeat his hearing, you have to not walk across the room as you normally would but instead stand by the entrance and "wear dog". Simon magics the dog into a pair of slippers and walks across unheard!

The only clue you have to this is that the dog's description in your inventory is "it's very quiet".

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

SON OF A BICHON FRISE, I remember that puzzle. So, SO much rage over that one. Almost as frustrating as missing out on getting away scot-free at the end because "I'm not going down there, it smells of radishes".

D.F.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

there dog (http://1.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/62/46/e32b6b7299ebc9111e544501907d1f84-dog-wants-to-know-if-were-there-yet.jpg)

(Sorry, couldn't resist a bad "wear/were/where" pun.)