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If you can read this, your fine: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Version History~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- .4-Finished Mission 5, AKA getting the Dark Beam .3-Finished first 3 Missions, first attempt at getting this on GameFAQ's. .1-Began Metroid Prime 2 Echoes Walkthrough. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Introduction~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello there! I'm Deathborn 668 on the message boards, and this is my FAQ for Metroid Prime 2:Echoes. I'm writing this because I wrote a Spider Guardian FAq that got rejected, and now to avenge my wasted time on that huge FAQ I am writing this. You better read and like this because I will seriously.... Don'ts of my FAQ: DO: -Use this for refrence -Print it out -Give this to other people FOR NO CHARGE DON'T: -Plagirize with no credit -Call this your won work -Sell this for profit ONLY the following sites are allowed to use my FAQ. Other sites need my permission first: -www.gamefaqs.com -www.gamespot.com -www.cheatcc.com Also, if you want to ask me something, or have a question, my E-Mail is [email protected] Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Table of Contents~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================ I.Story ================================ II.Controls ================================ III.Important Things About the Game ================================ IV.Locations of All Keys ================================ V.Walkthrough Mission 1:Losing All Your Weapons.....Again Mission 2:Explosion Commotion!-Getting Missiles Mission 3:Samus is teh Bomb-Getting Morph Ball Bombs Mission 4:To the Space Jump Boots! Mission 5:The Dark Hunter Hides the Dark Beam Mission 6:Venture to Dark Aether for the Important Light Beam Mission 7:Amorbis Secretes the Dark Suit Mission 8:Firepower Required! Grabbing the Super Missiles Mission 9:A Nasty Boss Hides the Boost Ball Mission 10:New Areas to Open-Grabbing the Seeker Missiles Mission 11:Beating the Grand Daddy of Blogg's...-Getting Gravity Boost Mission 12:Lower Dark Torvus, and a Mean Grenchler-For the Grapple Beam Mission 13:Black Holes, Anyone?-To the Darkburst! Mission 14:The Dark Visor Lies in a Dark World.... Mission 15:Spider-Woman:Grabbing teh Spider Ball Mission 16:Nuclear Explosives=PWNage-Obtaining the Power Bombs Mission 17:Its a Bright Flash....-Getting the Sunburst Mission 18:Sounds and More!-Getting the Echo Visor Mission 19:Let's Screw Around!-To the Screw Attack! Mission 20:Giant Robots=Bad-Getting the Annihilator Beam Mission 21:Getting all Remaining Sky Temple Keys Mission 22:Wrapping Up all Remaining Missile Expansion, and Energy Tanks Mission 23:Deja Vu in "Prime Time" ================================ VI.Expansion Guide A.Missile Expansions B.Energy Tanks C.Power Bomb Expansions D.Beam Ammo Expansions ================================ VII.Complete Logbook A.Creatures Scans B.Lore Scans C.Research Scans D.Inventory Scans ================================ VIII.One Time Scans ================================ IX.Checklists A.Items Checklist B.Expansions Checklist ================================ X.Credits ================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~I.Story~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Metroid Prime 2:Echoes has a pretty complex story and an intresting one at that. This is taken COMPLETELY from the Instruction Manual, none of the following information was typed orginally by me. A WAR OF TWO WORLDS Once, long ago, a race of creatures called the Luminoth settled on planet Aether afer many nomadic generations of roaming the universe. They carved out a peaceful existence there, coming to know the land and animals and bathing in the power of what they called "The Light of Aether". To prolong the lifetime of the planet, they decided the harness this light by building Energy Controllers that would be housed in holy temples. They built three of these temples, one in each of their settlements, and linked them to their most sacred place, the Great Temple. A golden age of peace and prosperity blessed them, and they were content. The peace would not last, though. They tracked a meteor with a crash course with their planet, and could do nothing but watched as it approached. The meteor's strike scorched the earth, cast the seas into convulsions, and spread a veil of darkness over all that the Luminoth knew...but that was not all. The explosion and the energy from the meteor opened a dimensional rift in Planet Aether, spawning a second planet that existed in a different dimension. Dimensional rips soon bloomed on Light Aether, and an evil race of dark creatures ventured forth, spreading violence. The Luminoth named these creatures the Ing, and soon created portals to follow them into a world they would come to know as Dark Aether. This twin planet, which had given birth to the Ing Horde, was a poisonous mirror of their own, and the Luminoth retreated from its damaging effects. Over time, however, as the Ing continued to make war on Light Aether and began to possess both creatures and friends alike, the Luminoth had to return and fight. They set up beacons of light that acted like protective oases against the dark creatures, and fought tooth and nail against the Ing. The war raged, and a stalemate soon became apparent; the Luminoth could not defeat the Ing on Dark Aether, and the powerful light of Aether was too much for the Ing to overcome. The stalemate could not last forever. The planet's energy has been divided between the dark and light world's, and both sides wanted to control it. The Luminoth created an Energy Transfer Module desgined to absorb the energy from Dark Aether, only to have it stolen and used against them. Their temples fell one by one, until only their last, the Great Temple, remained. With only enough planetary energy to support one world, this temple was all that stood between Dark Aether completly eclipsing Light Aether, eradicating the last of the Luminoth. Into this conflict came a new factor. A Federation ship chased a Space Pirate vessel onto the surface and engaged them, only to be attacked and decimated by the Ing. After losing contact with the troops, the Federation suspected the worst. Unwilling to abandon all hope, they sent an urgent message to Samus Aran... Mission recived from Galactic Federation... Locate troops lost in Dash region of Planet Aether... Priority 1... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~II.Controls~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The controls to Samus are very easy to understand and execute yourself. I will also cover in this section everything about Samus's visor, exactly what your looking out the entire game. A Button-Push this to fire your selected Beam weapon. Push is rapidly for rapid fire. B Button-Push this to Jump. While in mid-air, push again to perform a Space Jump (only when you have obtained). While Locked On, hold left or right and push B to do a Strafe manuver, where you quickly move left or right and cover lots of ground quickly. Finally, when you have the Gravity Boost, push and hold B after performing a Space Jump underwater to slowly rise up for a few seconds. X Button-Push this to go into Morph Ball Mode. While there, push again to be in Regular Mode again. Y Button-Fire Missiles while in Standard Mode. In Morph Ball Mode, lay Power Bombs with this button. Z Button-Bring up the Map to the screen for useage. Push Z again to close the Map. C Stick-Use the C Stick to switch between your availble beams, shown on the bottom right side of the screen. Push the direction on screen for the Beam wanted. Control Pad-Use this to switch between the availble visors. The visors are shown on the bottom left side of the screen. Push the direction for the visor wanted. Control Stick-Use this to move Samus around, and use it to Strafe around with the B Button. L Button-One of the most important buttons. Use it when an enemy is in view to Lock On to it by holding L down. Also, for use of the Grapple Beam near Grapple points. R Button-While standing still, hold it to look up and down, and in all angles too. Also, for use with the Spider Ball when you have obtained that item in the game. ===================================== Seeing through the Visor ===================================== When you are playing the game, you will be viewing everything from Samus's point of view (except when in Morph Ball form). There are several key things to know on the HUD (Heads Up Display) screen, so first-timers, pay attention here. Energy-At the top-middle of the screen is a meter and a number next to it. This is your energy reserves. Its basically how much health your Power Suit has remaining before you die. Whenever you collect an Energy Tank, you will gain 100 extra units of Energy, represented by a blue dot above the meter. It will dissappear and be in effect if the previous 100 units has been lost. Radar-Crucial to survival, the top left corner of the screen has a small circle on it. There is a small pie piece section in it that is colored a bit differently than the rest of it. This is Samus's view. Enemies that come within radar will appear as orange dots. Use the Radar to find any enemies that your getting attacked by, but can't see. Also note enemies may be above or below you! Threat Assessment-On the left side of your screen you will se a kinda tall meter, with an exclamation mark (!) at the top of it. This is the Threat Assessment guage. When you approach dangerous enviroments, such as fire, poisonous gas, Dark Aether's atmosphere, etc., the meter will slowly rise until you are standing in the poison, where the Threat Assessment guage will be at the top, and you will be recieving damage for your stupidity (Except in Dark Aether as there's NO avoiding damage there...). Keep an eye on it at all times. Map-In the top right corner of the screen, there is a small place for the Map to be located. It shows you what room your in, and the blinking green arrow is Samus's current position. Push the Z Button to bring up the entire world Map for a better view of where you next destination is going to be and how to get there. Missile Reserves-Near the middle-right side of the screen is a fraction number, with the classic Missile symbol next to it. This is your Missile Reserves. The bottom number is your maximum capicity of Missiles, the top number representing how many Missiles you currently have left to spend. Carefully use your Missiles! They can be refilled by gaining Missile ammunition. Dark/Light Beam Ammo-Near the bottom right side of your screen, once you get the Light and Dark Beams, will be a meter representing the amount of Ammo for each respective beam you have left. That's basically all this meter does, so keep an eye on it to make sure you don't run out at a very inconvienent time! Beam Weapons:In the bottom right corner are a few squares, each with a symbol on them. These represent your Beam Weapons. Empty squares obviously represent you don't have that beam yet. there are 4 Beams, including the Power Beam. Use the C-Stick to choose your beam from that small menu by pushing the correct direction. Targeting Reticule-This can be anywhere on the screen, depending on where the enemy you are locking onto is. This small circle will focus on the enemy, and your attacks will be directed right at it (Not homing in...just fired at it). Its easy to see, and you will surely be seeing it all the time with Lock On's. Visors-the bottom left corner is home to the same type of squares the Beam Weapons area uses. However, this is your Visors menu. Using the Control Pad, choose whichever Visor you want to see through. All Visors have different effects. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~III.Important Thing To Know About the Game~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==================== Backtracking ==================== Some love it...others hate it. The Metroid games are all about Backtracking. That's what makes them fun. You just KNOW there's an Expansion or items of some kind in a specified room, yet to all your useless efforts can't possibly reach it and give up. Well, you come back later with newer abilities and find how easy it is then to get the aforementioned item. Crazy isn't it? Anyways, in this FAQ I will cover how to get 100% everything. Scans and Expansions. Of course, you CAN skip those two things. Their optional. Retro isn't forcing you to grab Missile Expansions and Energy Tanks much far out of your way just so you can beat the game. Don't get Expansions and other stuff if the 100% Ending means nothing to you. I'm not, and can't, force you to do so. But anyways, I just want to clear up the beginning statement of the previous paragraph. EVERY, and I mean _every_ Metroid game has had lots and lots of backtracking to previous areas. Fortunately, Metroid Prime 2:Echoes has a minimal amount of required backtracking. Some of course is needed, but there are easily found shortcuts to those areas, which I will most certainly cover. So, if your forced to go back to previous areas, its not a big deal, especially considering the fact that you can also pick up previous Expansions with new abilities possible along the way. Speaking about Expansions.... ======================================== Expansions and Tanks ======================================== There are a ton of Missile Expansions, Power Bomb Expansions, Beam Ammo Expansions, and Energy Tanks within the game. I will cover the locations of all of them during the segments within this FAQ. However, none of them are required. During this FAQ I will, before explaining in detail what to do in the room, put a "ENERGY TANK", "MISSILE EXPANSION", "BEAM AMMO EXPANSION", or "POWER BOMB EXPANSION" tag and state where in the room the respective Expansion is. I will ONLY put these tags if the Expansion is possible to retrieve at the point of the game I'm describing at. If it isn't, then it won't be there and you will obviously be going back to that location later. ======================================== Temple Keys ======================================== In order to enter the three Temples, and the Sky Temple, of Dark Aether, you first need to find their respective keys. They AREN'T optional, and must be found to complete and progress through the game. I'll lable a Key as a DARK AGON KEY, DARK TORVUS KEY, ING HIVE KEY, or SKY TEMPLE KEY before giving the description of the room the Key is in. As with Expansions, I won't tell you about the Key until it is possible to obtain that Key when you are in that room. If you want to know the exact locations of every single Temple Key, look ahead to the next section. That is perfect just for your needs. ======================================== Scan Scan Scanning! ======================================== Scanning is one of the most fun parts of the Metroid Prime games. They enable you to learn about the various objects and things in every room. Its pretty cool. To Scan something, push the Control Pad left, and you will be in the Scan Visor. Find a colored object, aim at it, and hold L until Scanning is complete. You will be given a detailed description on whatever you just Scanned. Red objects are Mission-Critical objects. They include key descriptions for the lost Federation Troopers, or descriptions for the Temple Keys in general. Things in Blue aren't really important things to Scan. Most things are put into your Logbook, and count for your Scan percentage. Things in Green are objects that have already been Scanned. Pushing L on them instantly brings up their scan, as you have already Scanned the object. ======================================== Getting a Perfect File ======================================== People like to have a fully complete file. Its just one thing that many people enjoy doing-having a file with literally everything completed. If you want 100% Scans and 100% Items, I highly suggest you pay attention to the Walktrhough section with the "Tabbed" areas. These are indented, or, AKA, the optional portion of the game. Grab the items and Scans with them if you want, or skip them and go right to you assigned destination. If you want a perfect file, your gonna be doing the indented section, unless you wanna come back later... ======================================== Unlockables in the Game ======================================== There are several unlockable things you can grab your hands on during and after the game: When you get... 40% of all Logbook Scans, you unlock the Promotional Art Gallery 60% of all Logbook Scans, you unlock the wicked Character Gallery 80% of all Logbook Scans, you get the Creature Gallery, full of enemies... 100% of all Logbook Scans, you unlock the PWNage Boss Galery Once you complete Normal Mode once, you will unlock Hard Mode, as well as the Rough Sketch Gallery. If you complete Hard Mode, you will unlock the Storyboard Gallery, home to the orginal designs of the game. Once you complete the game, you will unlock the Dark Echoes Soundtrack and the Darkness Soundtrack for use in Multiplayer mode. The Luminoth Soundtrack is obtained by talking to U-Mos for the very first time. The Pirate Fear Soundtrack is unlocked by restoring the Energy to the Agon Energy Controller, then heading back to the Great Temple and talking to U-Mos. The Sanctuary Soundtrack is unlocked by restoring the Energy to Sanctuary Energy Controller, then heading back to the Great Temple and talking to U-Mos. The Torvus Bog Soundtrack is unlocked by restoring the Energy to the Torvus Energy Controller, then heading back to the Great Temple and talking to U-Mos. The Pipeline Multiplayer Arena is unlocked when you unlock the Torvus Bog Soundtrack. The Spires Multiplayer Arena is unlocked when you unlock the Sanctuary Soundtrack. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~IV.Locations of all Keys~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is quite possible the number one asked question on the message boards. Where in the hell are the Temple/Sky Temple Keys? Some are obvious and impossible to miss. Others you may and probably will easily pass. However, your reading this guide so I don't think your gonna be missing any of the Temple Keys. I will describe the locations of the Agon, Torvus, Ing Hive and Sky Temple Keys. I also give and will be getting them manually during the course of the Walkthrough, but if you accidentally missed one, or are just looking for a specific section I don't blame you. Anyways, here are the Keys' locations. ======================================== Dark Agon Temple Key 1 ======================================== Found:Doomed Entry in Dark Agon Wastes How to Obtain:After taking the portal from the Command Center in Agon Wastes, you will be able to clearly see this Key sitting atop a higher ledge. In order to reach that ledge, you need to head over to the other side of the room and shoot a Missile at a Luminoth statue head, breaking it away and exposing a Light Lift Crystal. Shoot the Crystal with the Dark Beam to lower the platform. Jump on it, then make an easy Space Jump over to the Dark Agon Key. ======================================== Dark Agon Temple Key 2 ======================================== Found:Battleground in Dark Agon Wastes How to Obtain:When you first enter the Battleground room, you will see the Dark Agon temple Key just sitting there in plain sight. Unfortunately, once you approach it the Ing will steal it. About 6-7 Warrior Ing will start attacking you. Its a rough battle. Use your aquired Charged Light Beam shots on the Warrior Ing to quickly dispatch them. Break open the Bearerpods on the sides of the walls for Health and Ammo. Once all of the Warrior Ing have been killed, you will be able to grab the Key which will have reappeared. ======================================== Dark Agon Temple Key 3 ======================================== Found:Trial Tunnel How to Obtain:The easiest to obtain of all Keys in the entire game. Once you first enter the Dark Agon Temple, head left until you reach a door. Enter inside the door and in a very very tiny room you will find the final Dark Agon Temple Key. ======================================== Dark Torvus Temple Key 1 ======================================== Found:Dark Torvus Arena in Dark Torvus Bog How to Obtain:This is only obtainable after you have defeated the Boost Guardian (who is literally a few feet from the Key). Once you have the Boost Ball, start Boosting up the half pipe, and you will eventually get the Key in an upper ledge. You may hit the Dark Preeds, but either way just keep trying. ======================================== Dark Torvus Temple Key 2 ======================================== Found:Undertemple Access in Dark Torvus Bog How to Obtain:This is one of the easiest Dark Temple Key's to miss because you wouldn't think it is even here, let alone where it is even exists. Once you have defeated the Alpha Blogg and recovered the Gravity Boost, go back to Hydrochamber Access. Right near a big spinning turbine is a ledge on top of it, which you need to use your newly aquired Gravity Boost to get up to. Up here there is a portal. Use it, and you will appear...right infront of the Dark Temple Key. ======================================== Dark Torvus Temple Key 3 ======================================== Found:Venemous Pond in Dark Torvus Bog How to Obtain:You will appear at the top of this room when you access it from somewhere else. The Key is right in the open, but is nearly impossible to obtain unless you roll through the nearby conviently located Morph Ball tunnel. You will appear at the other side of Venemous Pond, and from there it is possible to access a Grappple point, where you can swing over to the final Dark Torvus Key. ======================================== Ing Hive Temple Key 1 ======================================== Found:Culling Chamber in Ing Hive How to Obtain:There is a Spider Ball track upon the right walls of the room. Spider Ball upon them when you have that powerup and follow the straightforward track around inside a glass tank. Break some blocks with your Bombs, then grab the Ing Hive Temple Key that you uncovered the pathway for. ======================================== Ing Hive Temple Key 2 ======================================== Found:Hive Gyro Chamber in Ing Hive How to Obtain:This will be the last Ing Hive Key you obtain, but the game labels is as number 2. Anyways, use the Spider Ball technique to cling to the big brown ball in the middle of the room. Climb to the top of the Spider Ball surface, then sit on the red dot. Boost upwards and cling to a large magnetic ring. Boost to the other side, where you'll go through the final Ing Hive Key. ======================================== Ing Hive Temple Key 3 ======================================== Found:Aerial Training Site How to Obtain:You can't get this key directly from the Aerial Training Site as a force field blocks it. You have to go the other way around. The only way there is via Central Hive West Transport, which is just a big shaft with Wall Jump surfaces. Wall Jump to the top, then deactivate the force field for your Key. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 1 ======================================== Found:Battleground in Dark Agon Wastes How to Obtain:You need to enter this room via the top door. Its accessed in Doomed Entry. Once you've entered and are at the top of the room, if you have the Annihilator Beam I suggest using it on one of the Beacons around the room to dispose of all the Warrior Ing quickly. Those Warrior Ing will make this Sky Temple Key a pain in the ass to obtain. Now, switch on the Dark Visor once they are killed. You will see invisible platforms moving about. Time your Space Jumps onto one another of the platforms, because if you happen to fall you will have to start this allllll over again. Once you reach the last platform, Screw Attack all the way to the other side. Flip on the Dark Visor again, and shoot the Flying Ing Cache. Once it has been exposed, kill it with a Charged Shot to have it release the Sky Temple Key. Go grab it. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 2 ======================================== Found:Dark Oasis in Dark Agon Wastes How to Obtain:Near the middle door of this room is a huge pile of Denzium just waiting to be destroyed. Go over to it and lay a Power Bomb to break it all away. This will expose a small pool of dark water. Jump into it and turn on the Dark Visor and search around for another Flying Ing Cache. Once you have found it, shoot it to expose it then Charge Beam it to death and grab the Sky Temple Key. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 3 ======================================== Found:Poisoned Bog in Dark Torvus Bog How to Obtain:Drop into the dark waters in this room and as usual flip on the Dark Visor and search for the flying red spot. Once you find it, shoot it to fully expose the Flying Ing Cache. Shoot it down to expose the Sky Temple Key. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 4 ======================================== Found:Dungeon in Dark Torvus Bog How to Obtain:This Temple Key is a little tedious to get. Anyway's, when you first appear in the room, dive right into the dark waters, that's where the key is located. Now, you'll see a small hole you could fit through but some monster is blocking your way. Aim up and shoot the Light Beacon to make him move. Head under the small tunnel and up to the next sitting monster. Repeat this process with Lighting the Beacon again, and then you will reach a dead end. Bring up the Dark Visor and shoot the Flying Ing Cache for the Sky Temple Key. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 5 ======================================== Found:Hive Entrance in Ing Hive How to Obtain:The Hive Entrance looks exactly like the Sanctuary Entrance, destroyed bridge and all. Use the Screw Attack to cross the long gap and reach the other side. Once there, ride up the beam of light to the upper areas of the Hive Entrance. Once here, use the Screw Attack to go back to the other side. Once atop this very high ledge, swap on the Dark Visor and find the Flying Ing Cache. Shoot it down with your weapons to claim the Sky Temple Key. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 6 ======================================== Found:Hive Dynamo Works in Ing Hive How to Obtain:Goto the very end of the Spider Guardian's maze, and you will find a Power Bomb door. Break it open and go through the portal. Now, go into Morph Ball mode and Spider Ball up the nearby track. Stay at the red dot, and wait for the rising and lowering globe-like Spider Ball surface to be the same level as you. Boost onto it. Find a red dot on this surface, and wait for the next Spider Ball globe surface to be aligned with you, then Boost onto it. Now, go onto the final red dot here and wait until your lined up with the Spider Ball track on the side of the wall, then Boost over. With the Dark Visor, find the Flying Ing Cache and shoot it down like we have several times before. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 7 ======================================== Found:Ing Reliquary in Sky Temple Grounds How to Obtain:You need the Light Suit to reach the Ing Reliquary. Its found from Reliquary Access room, which is the Dark Aether version of the Communications Area. Anyways, its pretty simple in this room. Jump to the bottom, turn on the Dark Visor, and shoot down the seventh Flying Ing Cache. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 8 ======================================== Found:Defiled Shrine in Sky Temple Grounds How to Obtain:Its best if you use the Annihilator Beam on the nearby Light Beacon, which will effectively kill the nearby Warrior Ings. Um....that is pretty much all there is to this room besides flipping on the Dark Visor and..once again...shooting down another Flying Ing Cache and grabbing its Key. ======================================== Sky Temple Key 9 ======================================== Found:Accursed Lake in Sky Temple Grounds How to Obtain:This room isn't hard to find, no worries. The room is pretty tiny, so just flip on the Dark Visor and shoot down another Flying Ing Cache and jump for its Key. You want to avoid the Hunter Ing because they are a super annoyence. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ~V.Walkthrough of Echoes~ | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome, finally, to the bulk of this FAQ, the actual Walkthrough of Metroid Prime 2:Echoes. I format the game in the Walkthrough pretty much like everyone else does.... ---- Room Name ---- New Logbook Creature/Lore/Research Scan:XXXX Expansion:XXXX ~Room information here~ That's pretty much how this works. Its simple, isn't it? Obviously, for the most part the Walkthrough appears like everyone else's. There isn't really many ways to compete the game. I will eventually sidetrack you for more Expansions, but those areas are Indented like so: ---- Room Name ----- ...just so you know "This part is optional". I will also post the shortest path back to where the "optional" route will meet back up with you if you opt to not take it. So, here we go! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Mission 1:Losing All You Weapons....Again!~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission Difficulty:*/***** Mission Objective:Its not really an objective...but I made this Mission like a half mission instead of a full mission. Anyways, this mission will take you through the first few rooms of the game, up to the point where the story gets deeper...and you lose your abilites for the umpteenth time... sheesh Samus... ================================ Landing Site ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Samus's Gunship-Behind you from where you start. Hard to miss her ship isn't it? Save Station:Use Samus's Gunship, behind you from where you start, to Save your game. Ammo Station:Use Samus's Gunship, behind you from where you start, to refill all of your Ammo. You have offically started Metroid Prime 2! Much like the first game, the beginning areas are just to show you Samus's moves and abilities, then lose them. Begin off by turning around from where you start and Scanning Samus's Gunship. Space Jump ontop of the ship and save your game and refill your health. Then, proceed forward through the room until you reach a large webbing. Look up and Lock On to the green sac on it, and shoot the sac with your Power Beam to make the webbing dissappear. Then, Jump up and go through the door. ================================ Hive Access Tunnel ================================ Woo...creepy passage. There are a ton of wiggling plants lined over the walls, but don't worry about themas they can't hurt you. Head forward and to the left, and you'll find a big door with Violet text blocking your way. Scanning the door won't do anything to help you, and unfortunately, the other side is where we need to go. Head back to the door, but take a right and you will soon come to a big hole in the ground. Get near the hole to Jump down it. ================================ Hive Chamber A ================================ Logbook Research Scan:GF Gate MK VI Map Station:Near back exit, its the floating hologram, impossible to miss... Its all smoky...and desolate....and quiet. Gives you a creepy feeling doesn't this room? There are a ton of things for you to Scan within this room, so if you like Scanning things feel free to Scan away. Head forwards until a big iron gate blocks your way. There is a Scan console nearby, so Scan it. That will release two locks above the door. Lock On to both of them and shoot them away, which will open the gate. Keep going forwards through the thin passage until a really big block, which is actually a giant door, is blocking your way. A Scan will indicate that a Scan console must be activated to open the door. Look on the right wall until you see an indent in it, and that will have the Scan console. Scan it to open the door. Continue on to this next area. There are some intresting scans about the Federation Troopers that were in this area, so Scan if you want to. There is a floating hologram nearby, so step in it. It is the Map Station for this region of the Temple Grounds. You'll download the map. Once that is all done with, continue out of this room via the door which was near the Map Station. ================================ Hive Tunnel ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Worker Splinter This room is very tiny, but you will recive a shocking surprise once entering it. Several Federation Troops are dangling upside down in the room. Creepy. The translucent enemies on the sides of the room are Worker Splinters, and they are a new Scan. Continue on through this room once your finished Scanning. ================================ Command Chamber ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:SPC B. Reevs Logbook Lore Scan:GSGT C. Benet Logbook Research Scan:Bomb Slot Logbook Creatures Scan:Dark Trooper This is a pretty large room. Right as you enter the room, Scan the nearby fallen Federation Trooper for a new Logbook Scan. There are several Worker Splinters around this area, and it is best if you kill them so they will not get in your way and cause damage. Once everything is dead, roll into Morph Ball mode (The X Button), and head towards the back of the room. You'll need to do so to get under a big door lock, which is going to be opened soon. Roll under, get out of Morph Ball mode, and shoot down whatever Worker Splinters are still in the room. Get back into the Morph Ball and find a tunnel in the room. The tunnel is near the back of the room, and your Morph Ball is just tiny enough to squeak through. Roll through the tunnel until you reach a steel gating. Lay a Bomb with the A button to break open the bars. Continue through the tunnel until your in a rounded room. Roll to the back of it, and unmorph. Scan anything else here, as another thing here is one more Logbook Scan, and a Bomb Slot it the other. The Bomb Slot is what we are looking for. Get into Morph Ball mode and roll near the cylindrical device. Do a Bomb Jump by laying a Bomb, then being on the explosion to be popped in the air, which will put you inside the Bomb Slot. Lay a Bomb here to activate the Slot. The Bomb Slot's power now will activate a Scan console back in the previous area. Roll back through the previous tunnel, and under the door gates until you reach the Scan console. Along the way, Dark Troopers will rise up and start attacking you. 1 Charge Beam shot will kill them, but their damage is really insignificant so don't waste your time. They are also a new Logbook Scan too! Scan the console to activate the big door gate, which will unlock and reveal several more Dark Troopers. Shoot them all out with Missiles, and continue on through the passage until you reach a door leading to the next room. ================================ Hive Storage ================================ There isn't much in this simple room. Just go around the corners and through the next door. If your low on Energy, break some of the crates for more Energy. ================================ Hive Chamber B ================================ Enter through the door, and you'll witness a cutscene. The doors will lock and something will enter a dark vortex right infront of you. Wait....that mysterious figure looks just like Samus! It will head into the dark vortex. Once you regain control of Samus again, head straight and into the Dark Portal. You'll be transported to a weird, mysterious dark place. The shadowy Samus is gathering Phazon for her suit...and Samus just gawks like the woman she is at this copycat. The shadowy figure will then point her gun at Samus, and take a shot. A nearby Crystal is destroyed, and the safe Bubble sheild is slowly closing in on Samus. Just then, a ton of dark creatures jump down to Samus's position and tackle her, just as the bubble is gone and she is exposed to the atmosphere. Apparently, its quite lethal. The dark figures all tackle Samus, and she escapes through the Light Portal. You will regain control of Samus once more, and this time you will recieve critical news. Your Missile Launcher, Morph Ball Bombs, Power Bomb Generator, Grapple Beam, Boost Ability, Space Jump Boots, and Spider Ball Abilities have been stolen from your Varia Suit. Lovely. We've lost all of our abilities...again. Continue through the rest of the short room and through the next door. ***MISSION 1:COMPLETE!*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Mission 2:Explosion Commotion!-Getting Missiles~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission Difficulty:*/***** Mission Objective:You've recently lost nearly all of your abilities and items. Great. Its time to start recovering them and then some one by one. We will start off by collecting the Missile Launcher. Its not a very hard mission, and a relatively safe one too. There are few enemies, and they all take several shots to kill. You won't be seeing any Save Stations along the way, but that's not a problem. Its time to get back what rightfully belongs to us! ================================ Hive Chamber C ================================ There will be several Dark Troopers attacking you the instant you enter the room. Kill them all so you will clear the path to several crates blocking a door. Destroy the crates with your Charge Beam, which reveals a door. Enter the door now. ================================ Hive Save Station ================================ Phew...about time we found a Save Station! Gladly Save your game inside and restore your Energy to full. ================================ Hive Chamber C ================================ Were near above ground soon....so from here simply head out the last remaining door we haven't gone through yet. It happens to be right of the Save Station. ================================ Hive Transport Area ================================ Our first elevator! It appears to be completely inactive...but not to worry! Right near the elevator is a Scan console, so Scan that. It will make a hologram appear on the elevator. Step in it to make the elevator active. When you get to the top, you have two paths to choose. The right one leads to the exact same Violet translator door we had to bypass earlier. There is still nothing you can do about it. From here, just take a left out the door. ================================ Industrial Site ================================ Logbook Research Scan:GF Bridge Logbook Creature Scan:Splinter Logbook Creature Scan:Green Kralee As soon as you enter the room you will find another of those stupid MK VI Federation gates blocking your way. As with the previous gate, Scan the nearby Scan console to make 2 locks above the gate to disengage. Destroy them with your Power Beam pretty easily to open the gate. Once its done, walk through. Now, go straight and you will see a Scan console on the ground. Scan it, and it will open the next pathway by moving a huge Federation Crate elsewhere. Wonder where.... We've now, offically, entered the Temple Grounds. Seems desolate, windy, alone...doesn't it? That's not really the point right now. Start off by heading to the right, and you will find some ledges that extend out of the wall and wrap around the room, going higher as they go. Get on these platforms and start climbing them. You'll see what looks like a beetle with a green crystal in it. Scan this creature. Once you approach, several Splinters will attack you out of nowhere nearby. Kill them all quickly, then continue up the platforms. Continue walking up the ledges until you reach a dead end. You'll see the big GF Bridge right ahead of you, so Scan that too. Nearby the bridge is yet another Scan console. This will make 2 more locks above the bridge to open, completely exposed. Aim upwards, Lock on, and shoot the 2 locks to bring down the bridge for access. Go across it, and through the door just over the hill. ================================ Collapsed Tunnel ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:PFC M. Veroni As soon as you enter this short tunnel, be sure to Scan the dead Trooper to the right of the Morph Ball hole. Once you do, go into Morph Ball mode and roll through the tunnel. Once you get out on the other side, go through the next door. ================================ Temple Assembly Site ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Splinter Cocoon Whooo! Apparently there's some construction in this area. Lot's of crates, crates, gates, so much. Head straight until you see brown circles on the wall. These are Splinter Cocoon's. Get too close and they will pop out to attack you! So, its best to Scan them from a distance. Keep heading forward until you are blocked by another Violet door. Near it you should find yet another Scan console. This will lower down the Federation crate we moved earlier, but not all the way down as the rope gets snagged. Use a few Power beam shots on the snag and it will break off, lowering the crate. Use it as a bridge to the next door. ================================ Dynamo Chamber ================================ Logbook Research Scan:GF Gate MK VII This isn't a really big room. Just head through the room until your path is blocked by a big gate, like before. This gate is a new Scan so I advise you do so. Nearby is a large Scan console, so Scan it to open the gate and make a path to the next room. ================================ Communication Area ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:PFC L. Brouda Entering this room you will find a large satillite dish. Continue along the very linear pathway until you find a Scan console. Scan it and you will transmit an emergency broadcast to some reciver. Of course, it doesn't work. Seems like your stranded on Aether....oh well. Near the Scan console is a falled Trooper, so pick up his Scan. Continue along the path, and through to the next room. ================================ Trooper Security Station ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Growler Class Turret Logbook Lore Scan:SPC M. Angseth Get inside this new room and you will see a Turret on the ceiling start attacking a swarm of Splinters. Scan the Turret for a new Scan, then get near the gate which bars your way. Get into the Morph Ball tunnel nearby and roll through. You will emerge near a fallen Trooper, which you can get a new Scan for, and a Scan console. Scan the console to activate the gate. The gate has a malfunction, and will only partially open, then close over and over again. Get into Morph Ball mode and roll through the gate when it is open, then proceed to the back end of the room and through the door back there. ================================ GFMC Compound ================================ Map Station:Inside the Federation GFS Try Ship Logbook Lore Scan:PFC I. Crany Logbook Lore Scan:SPC F.Triplette Logbook Lore Scan:PFC G. Haley Logbook Lore Scan:PFC S. Milligan Logbook Lore Scan:LPCL J. Brode Logbook Lore Scan:CAPT A Exeter Logbook Research Scan:GFS Try Logbook Research Scan:Kinetic Orb Cannon Logbook Creatures Scan:Dark Splinter Lotsa Scans in here...you'll get your chance soon. Enter the room and continue straight until a cutscene occurs where Samus watches a video of what happened to the Federation Troopers and how they died. After the long cutscene, you will be standing near a yellow crate. Use the Charge Beam to break it open, and you finally have revealed the Missile Launcher! Go grab it! ***Missile Launcher Aquired!*** Let's just wrap up this room. Right after grabbing the Missile Launcher, you will be attacked by several Dark Splinters. They take some firepower to take out, so Scan them then Charge Beam them to death. You don't need to fight them but you may as well. Ready for excessive Scanning? Scan the large, impossible to miss Federation Ship GFS Try. There are six Federarion Trooper bodies strewn across the room, so search along the ground and on ledges for those six Scans. When you have Scanned everything in the above list into your Logbook, go into the GFS Try ship via the open hatch on the ground. Head towards the back of the ship, and then Scan the door. It will open, and you will be able to enter the Map Station. Do so. After downloading the Map, head back into the ship, and out the large ledge to the right, and jump to a nearby ledge. Continue along the path until you reach a small indent in the ground. There is a Scan console nearby. Scan the indent as its the Kinetic Orb Cannon, the Scan the console to activate the cannon. Get into Morph Ball mode and get into the hologram the be launched over to the other side of the room. From here, were almost done. Simple get out of Morph Ball mode and head over another ledge and shoot a Missile at the red door. Enter through it. ***MISSION 2:COMPLETE!*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Mission 3:Samus is teh Bomb-Getting Morph Ball Bombs~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission Difficulty:**/***** Mission Objective:Its time we really got back the critcal items, all back from those stupid shadowy creatures. Its a long mission, with 2 Boss Battles along the way. The story will also unfold and you'll find out just what has happened to this cracked up planet. Its up to Samus Aran to once again restore peace. Now, who's ready to reclaim our Morph Ball Bombs? Let's do this thing! ================================ Sacred Bridge ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:PFC E. Denys Logbook Creatures Scan:War Wasp Once you enter this room using the previous strategy from the GMFC Compound, simply enter the room until you reach a dead end. Look to the left and right and you will see holes in the wall. The left one is blocked by a fallen Federation Trooper, and is good for another Scan. Morph Ball through the other hole to fall to the bottom. Several War Wasps will come out of nowhere and will start attacking you. Scan them, then kill them all. High up on the other ledge is a Scan console. Scan it to activate the Kinetic Orb Cannon nearby. Morph Ball into it to get shot up onto the ledge near the door, then proceed through. ================================ Sacred Path ================================ Logbook Research Scan:War Wasp Hive Pretty spacious room huh? On the outlines of the room you will find several hives, which are good for a Scan. If you get too close, several War Wasps will appear and starting attacking you, so keep your distance. There doesn't seem like a lot because the far ledges are too high up to Jump to, but there is a Scan panel hidden in a small alcove in the wall. Its hard to describe its location, so just keep searching until you find it. Scan it, and a Kinetic Orb Cannon nearby will activate. Get inside it and you will be shot to a wall...then fall down. You made no progress. Yay. The wall you just bumped into can be broken off. Shoot a Missile into it to crack it further, then get back in the Kinetic Orb Cannon. You'll blast through it with ease. When you get down again, you'll land near a tunnel. Roll through it and you will eventually roll out near a door. Go through this next door without falling off the ledge. ================================ Temple Transport A ================================ Scan the nearby Scan console to activate the hologram for the elevator. Step inside it. ================================ Temple Transport A ================================ After exiting the elevator, simply jump over some platforms and out the far door of the room. ================================ Transport A Access ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Sandbat As soon as you enter the room a huge swarm of Sandbats will fly out of a hole and for the exit. You can try to Scan them, but I find it near impossible. Just avoid them, you'll get the Scan not too far from now anyways. Head along the left wall until you see a hole in it. Use the Morph Ball to squeeze through and to find a Save Station. Save your game, then exit out of the small alcove. Go through the other door in the room you haven't used yet. ================================ Temple Sanctuary ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Alpha Splinter Logbook Creatures Scan:Dark Alpha Splinter ===BOSS BATTLE!=== -6 Dark Splinter Pack -Alpha Splinter -Dark Alpha Splinter Enter into the center of this room, and force fields will apear around you, preventing your depearture. 6 Dark Splinter will hatch out and drop to the floor, and you will begin this Boss Battle. Kill each Dark Splinter. They aren't very hard. One Charge Beam and a few Power Beam shots disposes of one Dark Splinter. Keep Strafing around to avoid being rammed by them. Also, keep an eye on the radar so you don't Strafe into one, as that's bad unless you wanna lose Energy. Quickly kill all six Dark Splinters without taking much damage. After defeating all six Splinters, a huge Splinter will hatch out of a large cocoon and drop down. This is an Alpha Splinter, the only one in the game. be sure to Scan him! This is where you will take a ton of damage. Feed all of your Missiles into him, then keep using Charge Beams. Every five or so seconds he will Jump at you, then leap back to the center of the arena. This attack deals a lot of damage! Its hard to keep Strafing and avoid him. He is quite unpredictible. Once you've dealt enough damage, a large vortex will appear. Dark energy will flow from the vortex, right into the Alpha Splinter. It will then be transformed into a Dark Alpha Splinter, also a 1-Time-Scan. It will attack just like a normal Dark Splinter, except with a new attack. It will gather some green energy, then spit it at you. It will then jump at you, then turn around and repeat this process. Keep your distance, and keep Strafing. You shouldn't take any damage, or at least little damage in this part. Simply depleat his health bar and he will finally die. A weird blue ball of energy will come out of him. Pick it up. ***Unknown Technology Aquired!*** Unknown eh? Oh well. We'll find out what is is shortly. Apparently this item isn't a bad thing, nor useful as of now. It didn't do anything to your Varia Suit, so let's not worry. All the exits have been sealed up except one. Go through that door. ================================ Controller Transport ================================ Yet another elevator. Scan the hard to miss Scan console to activate the hologram. Step inside to ride the transport to the top, then proceed out the door there. ================================ Main Energy Controller ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Origins Logbook Research Scan:Energy Controller Logbook Research Scan:U-Mos Step inside the room to have a conversation with the last remaining Luminoth, U-Mos. He'll tell you the story about what the **** has happened to this planet in detail. Apparently, the Ing were born when a Phazon Meteor crashed into the planet. And they have killed off most of the Luminoth, with a few remaining under the watch of U-Mos. After the conversation, your Energy will be fully healed, and you will recieve the Violet translator. You can now Scan any Violet colored holograms to open doors and get Logbook Scans. Let's test that out right now hmm? Nearby the door back to the elevator is a Violet hologram. Scan it and it'll dissappear. Also, Scan U-Mos and the Energy Controller behind him, then go back to the elevator. ================================ Controller Transport ================================ Rush into the elevator hologram and ride it down, then head out the door once there. ================================ Temple Sanctuary ================================ All the doors are locked by colored holograms...except one of those is Violet, and were able to open those doors. Scan it to lower it, then exit out the door behind it. ================================ Transport B Access ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Lightflyer This is a pretty short room. The flying pieces of light are enemies, and will hurt you. Scan them, then proceed through the room and outside the other door. ================================ Temple Transport B ================================ We've done this many times over. Scan the nearby console then ride the elevator down. ================================ Temple Transport B ================================ Walk out the door. ================================ Temple Assembly Site ================================ War Wasps have now appeared in this room. Ignore them as they won't cause much damage. Head straight for the door on the other side of the room. Before you get there you should see a Red Missile Door on the right side. Break it open. ================================ Storage Cavern B ================================ Energy Tank:Sitting in the middle of the room This is a very tiny room. The only purpose is to hold that ENERGY TANK. Grab it. ================================ Temple Assembly Site ================================ With an extra 100 Energy under our belts, we'll be able to survive longer. Go right from the Storage Cavern B door, avoiding the Dark Splinters along the way. ================================ Collapsed Tunnel ================================ Get into Morph Ball mode and roll through to the other door. ================================ Industrial Site ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:J-Fme's Testament Near the middle of the room is a large Violet translator door. Scan it to make it lower, then Scan the dead Luminoth near where it was, then head out the door. ================================ Agon Transport Access ================================ Its a pretty cool room...being a long glass cylinder...but there's nothing of intrest in here, so ignore it and move on to the end of it avoiding the lone Kralee. ================================ Transport to Agon Wastes ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Our Heritage Missile Expansion:Behind some webling near the elevator A pretty small room. First off, Scan the nearby Scan console to make the hologram for the elevator active. Don't go in it just yet. Head to the left of the elevator until you see some webbing in the wall, much like you saw near the beginning of the game. Destroy the green sac to get rid of the webbing, revealing the path to a MISSILE EXPANSION. Head to the left a little more, near the ledge to nowhere, and you should see a spinnning Luminoth Lore projector. Scan the Lore, then head for the elevator. If you are the suicidal type, Jump off the ledge to lose 10 Energy as much as you want. I don't care :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ~Agon Wastes~ | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================ Transport to Temple Grounds ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Agon Bearerpod Nothing here. Near the back walls are spiky plants. They won't hurt, but its a Scan. Go out the door. ================================ Plaza Access ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Sandgrass Logbook Creatures Scan:Lumite This is another tiny room. There are some new enemies on the walls for more Scans. Also, the grass in this room is another Scan. Exit out by the far door. ================================ Mining Plaza ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Sandigger Walk into the newer Agon Wastes. What a desolate, empty desert. You'll be spending some time here, so get used to it. Walk forwards and a Sandigger will emerge from the ground. Avoid him, and run for the ledge straight ahead. Get up on it, and shoot off the Missile Gate, then enter the door that's revealed. ================================ Save Station A ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Blueroot Tree Head forwards into the room to find a Save Station to save your game and restore your energy. Once that is done, get on the ledges behind the Save Station and find a small hole in the wall. Get into Morph Ball mode and roll through. You'll be on the sandstream running in this room, so hold the direction opposite the stream is going. Eventually you will get out onto the other side. Get out of the Morph Ball and search around with the Scan Visor for a blue tree which is a new Scan. Once your done, roll out to the other end again and out the door. ================================ Mining Plaza ================================ From the Save Station's A door, head right now. Look up in the sky for Sandbats. If you missed their Scan earlier (And I'm sure you did), Scan them now. A Sandigger will appear out of the ground. Ignore him if you can, or shoot Charge Beams in his face. Go over to the far edge and start heading up the series of platforms on the wall, continually going higher. Keep going until you come to a gap you can't jump across. There should be a tall pillar nearby. Break its base with a Missile to form a bridge. Head across it and keep going. Eventually you will shortly come to another gap, with another pillar. Do what you did before and break it with a Missile for another bridge. Continue to follow the linear path until you reach a short gap with the next platform a bit lower than you. You can jump to it. Do so and head out the nearby door. ================================ Mining Station Access ================================ There is some stuff in here..but we can't reach it yet. Continue on through to the next door. ================================ Mining Station A ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Brizgee Logbook Creatures Scan:Pirate Trooper Once you enter this room you will see several Space Pirates walking around. They will notice you and you will get attacked. Hit the Space Pirates with some Charge Beams, but remember to Scan one of them first. Head over to the far ledges of the room and start climbing up them. Eventually you will see a small creature moving in circles. Scan him. If you wanna kill him, shoot the Brizgee with a Missile then 3 Power Beam shots. Anyways, jump up the platforms and you will have to cross the middle of the room. Use the platforms given to you to cross. Keep going to the left until you reach a Missile door. Break the door open with...a Missile! Once its open, proceed through it. ================================ Temple Access ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Shriekbat This room is pretty tiny. Go through and Scan one of the Shriekbats on the ceilings before they attack you and suicide themselves. Either way, exit through the other door. ================================ Agon Temple ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Alpha Sandigger Logbook Creatures Scan:Bomb Guardian ===BOSS BATTLE!=== -Bomb Guardian Hmm...the Agon Temple. More like a colosseum, without the tall walls. Well, start off by going into the center of the Temple. The doors will all lock and you'll be stuck here. A Sandigger will pop out of the ground. He's an Alpha Sandigger, the only one. He looks like a normal one though...but don't be decieved. After about 10 seconds, the Ing will possess the Alpha Sandigger and turn it into the Bomb Guardian. Scan him too. The Bomb Guardian will continually spew Morph Ball Bombs from its shiny pink tail. It will occasionally just decide to ram you because it can. It can also send a bazzilion Bomb around the field too. Bombs deal 10 damage to you, and touching the Bomb Guardian does about 25 damage to you. In order to actually hurt the Bomb Guardian, you must stun it first. Do so by Locking On to its pink tail, then Strafing behind it. Use a Charge Beam shot on its tail. If one hits him, follow up with a few Power Beam shots to it and he will be stunned. If Charge Beams don't work, use some Missiles. When he's stunned, Strafe around to his head, and Lock On to it. Pop a Charge Beam for the most effectiveness to his health bar. The Bomb Guardian will get pissed, then the battle will resume like normal. It never gets any harder. Simply repeat the above steps 3-4 more times until the Bomb Guardian finally dies. He will leave behind the Morph Ball Bombs, so grab them. ***MORPH BALL BOMBS AQUIRED!*** Now, use your Bombs to break the large Blue gates blocking your exit. Go through the only Blue Door in this room you haven't been through yet. Ready for the next Mission? ***MISSION 3:COMPLETE!*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Mission 4:To the Space Jump Boots!~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission Difficulty:**/***** Mission Objective:Its not a very long mission to be honest. You will now first venture into Dark Aether, and your life will officially be a living hell. Another upgrade, with another boss. Hopefully your ready for this bad guardian! ================================ Controller Access ================================ Boring room. Put the Bomb in the slot and turn it all around! You'll find out when it happens... ================================ Agon Energy Controller ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Saving Aether Near the back left corner of the Agon Energy Controller you will find an orange hologram. Scan it to begin a cutscene. The Sentinal of this Temple died in war, blah blah blah we get the deal. He died. Woo hoo. He will give you the Amber translation files once done with his stupid speech. Before leaving the room, check behind the walls for an Amber hologram for a new Logbook Scan. ================================ Controller Access ================================ Just do what you did several seconds ago and Bomb to lone Slot in here and proceed back to.... ================================ Agon Temple ================================ Nothing new has appeared here. Head all the way to the other side and through the door there. ================================ Temple Access ================================ Once again, there isn't anything of intrest. Proceed through back to Mining Station A. ================================ Mining Station A ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Cataclysm When you re-enter this room again, turn slightly to the left until you see a metal wiring overpass above you. There is a spinning Lore in there, and you can Scan it safely from your point, so do so. Head to the left from here until you reach an Amber door between sand waterfalls (Sandfalls?). Go inside the door. ================================ Sand Cache ================================ Missile Expansion:Sitting in the middle of the room Enter the tiny room and grab the MISSILE EXPANSION sitting there in the middle of the room. The next few rooms are a side-track mission to get an Energy Tank and the Map of Agon Wastes. Both will definately come in handy later. If you don't feel like getting these items, skip the indented section and goto the Mining Station A description. ================================ Mining Station A ================================ Not taking Side-Mission:By entering this room from Sand Cache, check your Map. There should be a door right below yours. Drop down off the ledge and go inside the nearby door. This will lead to Portal Access A. This room is covered after the indented section, so just skip down a few paagraphs to continue. Taking Side-Mission:From Sand Cache, enter this room and fall to the bottom. We've been through this room before, and that being Mining Station Access. Look for the opening at the bottom of the room,then walk through to the next room. ================================ Mining Station Access ================================ Energy Tank:Upper area of room accessed by Kinetic Orb Cannon Start off by naturally entering Morph Ball mode and rolling to the middle of the tunnel. Break the Sandstone block with a Bomb to drop down to a Kinectic Orb Cannon. It will launch you up to a higher area where an ENERGY TANK is just sitting there for you to obtain. Grab it then fall back down to the bottom. Roll out of the room via the left side path. ================================ Mining Plaza ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Paradise Walk straight ahead, and across the nearby rock bridge to pretty much the center of this room. You will find a Luminoth Lore Projector on a wall, so Scan that for a new Logbook Scan. Next, drop down to the bottom of the room and find a large Amber translator door. Scan it open to reveal a hole behind it. Roll into the hole and follow it through to... ================================ Agon Map Station ================================ Walk into the Map Station and step into the hologram to download the Map for the Agon Wastes region. Nicely done. Seems like there's a huge section just waiting to be explored, right? Exit out of this room. ================================ Mining Plaza ================================ Now we get to re-climb to the top of this room again! What fun! Do it like before by Jumping around the walls of the room, then across the several bridges you made a little while ago. Once you have crosses the few bridges and gaps, you will finally reach the door. Go through it, duh! ================================ Mining Station Access ================================ Nothing of intrest. Just roll through. ================================ Mining Station A ================================ You've reached back where you started-Mining Station A. Go forwards and jump onto the only ledge you can reach. The first door you come to leads to Portal Access A, the room we want. It is surrounded by some blue plants. Hard to miss. ================================ Portal Access A ================================ Missile Expansion:Behind the dead Luminoth on the other side of the room past the cannons. A short, simple room. Start off by going into Morph Ball mode and rolling into the Kinetic Orb Cannon. You will get flung up to the higher area of the structure, where you just need to roll through a tunnel to fall down to the other side of the room. Once there, roll behind the dead Luminoth warrior to pick up a MISSILE EXPANSION. Once your all done, exit through the door near the Luminoth. ================================ Portal Terminal ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Light of Aether Logbook Research Scan:Dark Portal Logbook Creatures Scan:Dark Pirate Trooper Logbook Creatures Scan:Pillbug Once you enter the room, the music will change to the Pirate ambush music. Two Space Pirates will be walking around the center of the Portal Terminal. Kill them both off with a few Charge Power Beam shots. A few more Pirate Troopers will drop down, then the Ing will appear out of nowhere and possess them, turning into Dark Pirate Troopers. They are a new Scan, so Scan them for sure. They are much stronger than usual Pirate Troopers, so try to keep your distance. Once they are all dead, a Bomb Slot will activate near the rear of the room. First before doing so, go to the left side of the ramp to find a Luminoth Lore projector. Scan the Amber hologram for a new Logbook Scan. Next off, go back to the front of the ramp and proceed up it. You will find a strange looking device, and right near it the Bomb Slot. Activate the Bomb Slot, and that will trigger the activation of a nearby elevator machine. Put your Morph Ball into the machine and ride upwards. You will appear on a small path. Roll through until your path is blocked, then place a Bomb. Some sand will turn a mirror around, and will create a platform to the other side of the room where you will need to repeat this process for another mirror to get locked into place, then the final mirror won't be too far away. Once you have activated all three mirrors, a powerful beam of light will shine through and hit the machine. The machine, which is a Portal Device, is now active. Before going to it, look at the right side of the room for some moving enemies, which are Pillbugs. Scan them, then head for the Portal Device and Scan the red button on its lower left side. A Dark Portal, worth another Logbook Scan will appear. Walk inside of it to really be transported to Dark Aether for the first time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ~Dark Agon Wastes~ | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================ Portal Site ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Light Crystal Logbook Research Scan:Light Beacon Logbook Research Scan:Bladepod Logbook Research Scan:Light Portal Welcome to your first offical expedition upon Dark Aether! For some more Logbook Scans, Scan the little red button on the Portal Device to create a Portal to Light Aether. Don't go in it, but Scan it. ALl over this room you can find several kinda tall black storage containers strewn around the room. Also, its time to bring on the bad news. Dark Aether's atmosphere is basically a rain of hell upon your Suit. When your not in the protective Light Sheilds, you will take a ton of damage. Not good. Scan the Crystals and Beacons that are creating those fields. Walk quickly and fall from your ledge down to a Light Crystal zone. You will see a small ball of light slightly ahead. That is a Light Beacon. It has the same effects as a Light Crystal, but must be hit by any weapon to function for about 20 seconds. Hit the Beacon then run for it. When your there, turn to the left and run for the Bomb Slot nearby in another protective Light Shield. Activate the Bomb Slot, which will raise a piece of the wall here, and in the same place on Aether. Nice. Proceed through the door. ================================ Crossroads ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Inglet Run through this room quickly, activating all Light Beacons to sheild you when you see them. Small black blobs sometimes form into Inglets, and annoying enemy who likes to constantly hurt you. That bastard! Run through without too much damage. ================================ Save Station 2 ================================ Its a long way to the actual Save Station. Since your gonna get your Energy back anyways, just quickly run through the enemies and atmosphere until you reach the Save Station. Save your game of course and then proceed out the nearby door. ================================ Duelling Range ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Lightbringer Logbook Creatures Scan:Warrior Ing Head into the room and shoot the Light Beacon quickly to avoid a lot of damage. Turn left, and you will see an open range with a Light Crystal field on it. Quickly run over there, and you will be confronted with a Warrior Ing. Get the new Scan, then I suggest running away. He is very strong and your weapons won't cause much damage. Keep running straight and up around the platforms around the room. This room is very similar to Mining Plaza. There are several small creatures making Light fields all on their own. They are a new Scan, Lightbringers, and are impossible to obtain after leaving this room. So Scan now! Exit out the very top door of the room. ================================ Junction Site ================================ Nothing here. Go out the other side of the room. ================================ Judgement Pit ================================ Logbook Creatures Scan:Jump Guardian ***BOSS BATTLE!*** Jump Guardian Now for the finale of the fourth mission, the Jump Guardian. Get into the Light Crystal field in the middle of the room, and the battle will begin. The Jump Guardian isn't very nice, but plays like an ordinary Warrior Ing with the power to jump high. Whenever it jumps form a high height, a large shockwave will get produced and deals some damage to you, so jump over it. Right before jumping, the Jump Guardian is invulnerable. Once the Jump Guardian is down to about 1/4th of his life, he will be jumping around a ton, but won't produce shockwaves. This will get very annoying, but be patient. Other then that just keep blasting him with Charge Beam shots until he 'splodes. Grab the Space Jump Boots that appear after the defeat of the Jump Guardian. ***SPACE JUMP BOOTS AQUIRED!*** Our job for now is done here on Dark Aether. Space Jump onto the high platform near the Light Crystal and you'll find a door on the left. Go through it. However, before doing so let's make our life easier for a little while. Go around the platforms quickly to reach the top of the room. You may think you have reached dead ends, but your Space Jump can reach high ledges. Go through the top door now. ***MISSION 4:COMPLETE!*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Mission 5:The Dark Hunter Hides the Dark Beam~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mission Difficulty:***/***** Mission Objective:Time to get a new Beam! Its a long winding journey, as you would expect. You will only see one whopping Save Station on this trek. Lucky you. Conserve your Energy, because it is finally time to raid the Space Pirate base! ================================ Dark Agon Temple Access ================================ A simple room. Make your way to the other side of the room. You may get stuck by some invisible barrier. Its just a plant. Simply jump over it incase that happens to you. ================================ Dark Agon Temple ================================ Wow. Spacious room resembling....! Agon Temple? The big bad boss of Dark Agon Wastes is in this room, but in order to access him you need to collect 3 Dark Temple Keys. Aww....well, Scanning the podium infront of you tells you that front off. Head left quickly, avoiding too much damage and through the next door you will find. ================================ Trial Tunnel ================================ Dark Agon Temple Key 3:Sitting there in this very tiny room Trial Tunnel is the smallest room in the Metroid Prime series. Seriously, as soon as you enter the room your looking at what your supposed to obtain. Grab DARK AGON TEMPLE KEY 3. Now, we only need 2 Keys to open the Temple. Go back to Dark Agon Temple. ================================ Dark Agon Temple ================================ There is still nothing of intrest here. Ignore the Temple and proceed back to Dark Agon Temple Access. ================================ Dark Agon Temple Access ================================ Head through to Judgement Pit. ================================ Judgement Pit ================================ Jump down to the bottom of the room, then back up the nearby ledge. Go through the first blue door you come by. ================================ Portal Access ================================ There's no Light Crystals here. Your taking tons of damage quickly, so we need to run through. Charge up your Power Beam, then fire it at the Lightflyer. He will die and produce a temperory Light shield for about 10 seconds. Run through, then out the door across on the other side of the platforms. ================================ Portal Site ================================ As soon as you enter this room several Dark Pirate Troopers will attack you. You will take too much damage, and too fast. Quickly Space Jump up the platform that leads to the Portal Device, and activate via Scanning the red button. Jump through the portal! ================================ Portal Terminal ================================ As soon as you re-appear on Light Aether, three more normal Pirate Troopers will appear and start trying to hurt you. Morph Ball through them towards the back left of the room. There was a gate here, but we moved it when we were on Dark Aether. Let's not think how on earth that happened, and just go through the door. ================================ Transport Center ================================ Missile Expansion:Activate the Bomb Slot to lower the gate, which will reveal the Expansion. Enter this room and you'll see a half-pipe type structure. You can't do anything with it so forget about it. Activate the Bomb Slot with a Bomb to lower the nearby gate, which will reveal a path to a MISSILE EXPANSION. It also reveals a door. This door leads to Save Station A. I highly reccomend you use it. If you do, roll through the tunnel near the actual Save Station and through the door back to this room. After that head bnack through to Portal Terminal. ================================ Portal Terminal ================================ There's only one Space Pirate patrolling this room, but will call down several more if he spots you. As long as you stay close to the wall he will never see you. Go to the only other door in this room, which leads to Portal Access A. ================================ Portal Access A ================================ Nothing new will ever appear here...so hop in the Kinetic Orb Cannon and go through the other door in the room. ================================ Mining Station A ================================ Head to the left from the door, and follow the platforms and jumps around the room with ease until you reach the top of the room, well...at least close to it. You'll see a huge "sandfall" to the right eventually, and a small statue infront of it. Jump ontop of the statue, then to the left of the sandfall is an opening in the wall. Space Jump over there and you will appear in a small wireing room. There is a Scan Console in here. Scanning it will open the sand gates infront of the statue revealing...a door! Scan the Lore nearby if you haven't already, then head back to the statue and Space Jump to the door. ================================ Central Station Access ================================ In this thin room you will see two Space Pirates below a short ledge. Nearby them are a few blue containers. Shoot the containers with 3 shots, and they will explode. Badly. The Space Pirates will slaughtered mecilessly. Proceed through. ================================ Central Mining Station ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Viligence Class Turret Logbook Research Scan:Pirate Skiff As soon as you enter the room, several Pirate Troopers will begin attacking you. Kill them all with your Charge Beam shots, and keep avoiding their attacks too! After they die, three more Pirate Troopers will appear. Kill them off the way you did before. After that, two last Pirate Troopers will take command of 2 Viligence Class Turrets. This is your ONLY chance to Scan them, so do so if you want. Kill them off quickly, because the Turret's blasts can quickly deplete 75 Energy a pop. Once they have finally exploded, the energy bars blocking the far door of the room will be released. Head through the door, but look far to the right of it to find some carrier type things. These are Pirate Skiff's, good for another Logbook Scan. Do so and move through the door. ================================ Command Center Access ================================ The only door in this room (Besides the door you came from) is a Dark door, requiring the Dark Beam to open. You don't have that yet. However, there are some cracks in the flooring. Use a Morph Ball Bomb on one of them to fall through. Break some crates with Bombs to reveal a tunnel, which spits you out in the..... ================================ Command Center ================================ Missile Expansion:A right-hand path in the Morph Ball maze. Logbook Lore Scan:Log 44681 Logbook Lore Scan:Log 48853 Logbook Lore Scan:Log 50086 Logbook Lore Scan:Log 54421 Logbook Lore Scan:Log 62217 Logbook Research Scan:Aether Logbook Research Scan:Dark Aether ...Command Center. You will be under the flooring, in a rather big, but straightforward Morph Ball Maze. The really stupid Space Pirates can't see you, but you can see them. A group of Pirate Commandoes are standing around, but soon enter a Dark Portal. Let's not worry about them. Roll through the tunnel, avoiding the electrical shocks until you see a path going to the right. Follow it until you reach a dead end that contains a MISSILE EXPANSION just sitting there. Go back to the split junction and continue forwards. Avoid more electrical cuurents until you make your way out of the maze, then go back to normal form. Once your out, several Space Pirates will attack you. Kill them all with several Charge Beam shots. Flip on your Scan Visor and begin Scanning everything in this room. There is a ton of things you can Scan. The two holographic planets of Aether and Dark Aether can be Scanned, and a lot of the tablets surrounding them can be added to your Logbook too. Once all the above listings have been added to your Logbook, head to the right corner of the room and Scan a Scan Console to activate a nearby elevator. Ride it to the top, then follow the obvious path around until you reach a blue door. A Pirate Trooper nearby will begin attacking you, but just ignore him and proceed through the door. ================================ Security Station B ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Log 70136 As soon as you enter this room a few gates appear and something drops to the ground. Its Dark Samus! She'll stare at you for a few seconds then phase through the gates. You can't go through them yet....however, head to the right and through the nearby Missile Door. You will be in a little overhang in the Control Center. Kill the Pirate Trooper here, then Scan a nearby Scan Console. It will open a huge gate, which reveals a door behind it. Head back out to Control Center. ================================ Command Center ================================ Jump down from the high platform and work your way over to the door that was just revealed. Kill any extra Pirate Troopers that you may have missed from a little while ago. ================================ Biostorage Access ================================ Logbook Research Scan:Humility Class Turret Two Turrets will appear from the ceiling and begin shooting at you. Pop some Missiles into both of them to destroy them. Proceed through three laser fields, and be sure not to hit them. If one passes through you, 50 Space Pirates will fight you to the death. Narf, just kidding! You just take a little damage. No pressure. Proceed quickly through the door that isn't far away. ================================ Biostorage Station ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Log 63622 Logbook Creatures Scan:Tallon Metroid A Pirate Skiff will quickly enter the scene in this room and will drop off a few Pirate Troopers. Blast aay all of their asses with a few Charge Beam shots. Once that has been done, head over to the left corner of the room and Scan a nearby Scan Console to activate an elevator. Ride it up to the upper reaches of the room. Here you will see many tanks with Tallon Metroids in them. They can't hurt you, so stare at them and laugh. The only Scannable Tallon Metroids are ones who are in a larger tank, sucking energy out of a Space Pirate. You can't miss it. Scan to your desire, and the Log near the door, then proceed through that door. ================================ Security Station A ================================ Go inside the Bomb Slot and activate to switch the path of the room. Why the hell Retro puts these incredibly useless rooms in the game that wastes our time (and patience) is far beyond me. Whatever. Stay calm, and proceed out the new door. ================================ Bioenergy Production ================================ Energy Tank:On a high ledge on accessible via the storage units. See the explanation below. Logbook Lore Scan:Pirate Aerotrooper As soon as you enter the room the doors will lock and two Pirate Aerotroopers will start attacking you. Shoot them down with Charge Beam shots until they both die. Killing them both not only opens the doors, but also turns on a Scan Console so you can Scan it. Head to the left towards the Command Area, and you'll see a glowing panel. Scan it and three storage unit stacks will rise from the ground. Head over to the other side of the room with the other Control Area. There are three "Stations" you could call it, each with two panels. The left one makes the storage units go up, and the other makes them go down. The Stations are aligned with the storage units they operate. So, let's begin. Go all the way to the right station and Scan the right panel three times to make three storage units lower. Then head to the middle Station and Scan the right panel once to lower two storage units. Go to the leftern Station and Scan the right panel once to lower one Storage unit. A stairway is now formed with the storage units. Climb them to the top with Space Jumps and you will find an ENERGY TANK. Go back to the bottom and reverse the platforms. Keep the middle platforms the same, but reverse the orders of the left and right Station platforms. This will form a stairway to the door at the top of the room. Go through it. ================================ Ventilation Area B ================================ You will enter this room, and all there is is a large Morph Ball tunnel. Enter and you will find two laser beams blocking your way. Its impossible to go through them. Sucks right? Well, we must go the long way around. It is only one way and there isn't much skill involved. Just keep Bomb-Jumping and hiding away from the laser beams that appear every few seconds. Bomb any objects that get in your way. Eventually you will reach the other side and the lasers that were once blocking your way are offline forever. Exit out the door nearby. ================================ Save Station C ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Log 67135 Enter through the broken glass and [finally] Save your game. Near the Save Station is a new Logbook Scan. Are you ready for a boss battle? Good. Exit out the other door in the room. ================================ Sand Processing ================================ Drop to the bottom of the room and destroy the two turrets. Blast a Missile at the cracked wall, to destroy it, then follow the thin path to the next doorway. ================================ Main Reactor ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:B-Stl's Testament Logbook Research Scan:Phazon Logbook Creatures Scan:Dark Samus 1 ***BOSS BATTLE!*** Dark Samus Turn left once you enter the room, then drop off the ledge to the right once you see it. You will drop to the bottom of the reactor, and Dark Samus will stop gathering Phazon and engage you in battle. Yay. Let's kick her ass! She will continually move around on the ground, sometimes very quickly and mess up your Lock-On. When she begins to charge her beam, hide behind a pillar to avoid damage. Keep using Charge Beam shots against her-Shooting a Missile makes her put up a shield simply deflecting it. Once you have depleated half of her life, she will begin to glow. Whenever she leaps high into the air, hide behind the center pillar. Every other pillar can be destroyed by her ram. While in the air, she is invincible. When she lands she will be crouched down. When she starts moving again you are able to keep attacking her. Its a pretty easy battle, just avoid all of her attacks and you will win with ease. Once she dies, Dark Samus will explode. Don't think that's the last of her though. Several tanks will explode down here. Scan them for the Phazon Logbook entry, then head to the left side of the room where an elevator will be active. Once you reach the top, turn around and Scan the dead Luminoth for another Scan. Once your all done here, head through the blue door near the elevator. ================================ Storage D ================================ Logbook Lore Scan:Log 69898 Once you enter the room, Scan the tablet near you for a new Logbook entry. Grab the Dark Beam in the center of the room. It starts with a whopping 50 Ammo. Use one shot to open the Dark door and to get out this really smoking and small room. *DARK BEAM AQUIRED!* ***MISSION 5:COMPLETED!*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~X.-Credits~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Me-Wrote the FAQ CJayC-He made GameFAQ's, best Video Game Site in the entire universe You-Read the FAQ! Retro Studios & Nintendo-For creating this masterpiece of a game