Super Metroid

SNES/Super Famicom

OceanManow 12 Sep 2023 03:45

Being honest when i say that this cheevo was not even close the dreadfull experience i was expecting reading the comments, i'm not a veteran Super Metroid player and managed to get this and the 3h with relative ease, my tip for Ridley is to use the VAR and Mother Brain you have to know how to use the Crystal Flash trick, overall a honest challenge.

TheYum3 2 Apr 2024 20:06

O truque para Mother Brain é pegar misseis o suficiente para ficar com um mínimo de 10 misseis e super misseis quando Mother Brain sair do vidro.

- Assim que Mother Brain sair do vidro pule no acido para perder um pouco de vida
- Durante a batalha desvie dos ataques mais fortes e seja atingido pelos mais fracos (você quer chegar com menos de 50 pontos de vida no fim dessa parte)
- Atire 20 ataques carregados em Mother Brain, após os 20 tiros ela irá disparar aquele feixe de luz multicor. Você tem que garantir que nesse ponto esteja com menos de 50 pontos de energia restantes.
- Quando Mother Brain começar a carregar seu ataque execute um Crystal Flash e recupere sua vida.

dai basta seguir a cutscene, finalizar Mother Brain e fugir do planeta

sulpemago 1 Jun 2024 14:57

challenge finished without dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lzIAg2ycYI

Chickenzes27 25 Aug 2024 06:26

I've lost multiple Mother Brain attempts to either getting hit immediately out of the crystal flash or to the crystal flash just deciding it doesn't feel like popping. Really annoying.

Chickenzes27 25 Aug 2024 06:57

That having been said this was very rewarding to do.

UltraSvenne 20 Sep 2024 19:17

I thought this one was going to suck, but it was actually much easier than i anticipated with proper planning:

The only real challenge were the boss fights, and I have one major tip in your routing -- Skip a normal energy tank you would normally get, because you only really need HP for the latter half of the bosses. The reason you wanna skip is to get the E-tank and Super missile pack in lower left Brinstar, because getting it while trying to get over the E tank is just easier (this game is doable with 35 supers, but 40 makes it less tedious)

Kraid: learning the quick kill is hilarious and sort of easy, you can smoke him with supers before he can even get out of bed. (I am trash and messed it up in the run, and i still one shot him)

Crocomire: Just use the charge beam. It much easier, especially if you have several beam upgrades:

Draygon: literally 3 steps and she's lunch -- blow up turrets, run into goop, kill her by grappling the wall. Doesn't take as much HP as you would think, i blocked attacks with my face and still one shot her. Having the varia and gravity gives you a good amount of damage negation.

UltraSvenne 20 Sep 2024 19:25

Ridley: I went to the speedrun wiki and they have two the best tip ever -- "Do full jumps so you can see where he is better." Literally all i did, blowing him up with my 35 supers and a couple charge shots in the beginning and also...

DO NOT SPIN JUMP AFTER HE TURNS RED. He's trying grab you to do his death animation, and spin jumping makes him run away from you and attack more. You gotta jump into his hands to die, but when I did it in my run, I shot him so much he just exploded. So either is viable.

Before entering the elevator into Tourian: DO NOT USE SUPER MISSILES ON THE WAY THERE, OR ON THE METROIDS. There is a recharge station after the metroid baby cutscene, but it DOES NOT REFILL SUPERS, AND YOU ARE LOCKED IN TOURIAN UNTIL YOU KILL MOTHER BRAIN.

Mother Brain: Do the god strat of blowing up all the walls before you get to the glass, run out, go to the refill station, and then save the game. Makes redoing the fight much much easier.

The first phase you gotta freeze the donuts. Just dump all your regular missiles into the glass and brain, and if you're protecting yourself well, the little pellets will only do 5 hp so you should have 3 tanks going into the fight.

Brother, sit in the corner, and hold Charge. Jump to dodge the attacks, and JUMP LATE when she drops a bomb. Keep your eye's focus on the hand, and use your peripheral to watch the mouth. If you do all that and remember to jump late, getting no-hit isn't awful. Ridley is harder than mother brain. if she's charging her goof juice beam and you don't have 3 tanks, you're toast.

Look, I really suck, and didn't want to attempt this, but I did. and it went pretty swell. you can do it too.

UltraSvenne 20 Sep 2024 19:32

I should add that another tip for the ridley fight is to utilize the safe spot on the left side of the platform. if ridley is facing left, he can't hit you with the pogo if you only got one foot on the platform. Sit down and dump supers into his hands (He takes massive damage from supers compared to everything else, and charge with full beam upgrades being a viable alternative)

hotarubi 7 Jan 2025 15:25

I suggest using the VAR beam on both Ridley and MB. Saves a lot of hassle.

spidey 11 Jan 2025 15:14

I got stuck in Tourian without enough supers to Crystal Flash and thought I had to take no damage. That's not the case. You have 98 hp to use.

It's not that hard.

hotarubi 11 Jan 2025 15:17

"It's not that hard" may be the single most frustrating sequence of words I've ever seen on this website, followed by the more roundabout "Easy. Done it first try. I don't get what the problem is.".

JurandirDamasceno 14 Feb 2025 01:43

Crystal Flash makes this achievement much easier. It's like having 6 Energy Tanks after all.

hin0t0ra 3 Mar 2025 20:24

Almost failed at the Escape Sequence! My hands were shaking more than I‘d like to admit…

Damn this was tough towards the end! Kraid and Phantoon were no different than a regular Playtrough and Ridley can be cheated with the VAR Beam Glitch.
But Mother Brain…
To be fair, it didn‘t take me that long, but still! Massive difficulty curve at the very end.
What I recommend when going trough her Chamber is obviously destroying the Gates and then going back to save. The Gates will be destroyed forever on that Savefile. After that, always wait until two or three of these rings have spawned in. After that, more won‘t spawn and you can get trough the Gates easier (mostly the one tile ones are the ones giving you trouble). When facing Mother Brain, just shoot Missiles at her and use your Screw Attack when the rings appear. For the next Phase, I switched to the Charge Beam until she started using those red fire attacks, that‘s when I switched back to normal Missiles (because it was easier to focus on dodging when using Missiles, at least for me). As for her attacks in that Phase, the only ones you should be concerned about are the red fire attack due to its Damage (but it can be dodged with your Screw Attack) and the blue projectiles as you cannot dodge them with a Screw Attack and will deal a good amount of damage.
Also, it‘s important to note you can damage. You just cannot lose any of your Tanks (I actually only survived the Hyper Beam with 2 Energy remaining)

Xirix 18 Mar 2025 23:56

This was very satisfying, I've played a fair amount of Super Metroid, but never went for any speedruns or low percentage runs. Most of the run is actually fine, and like others have said, Ridley can be Murder Beamed if you need to.

Ended with a time of 1:50 and 50% items collected. Mother Brain was the only boss that gave me trouble, but it was more just learning her attacks and dodging them, in the end I crystal flashed just before she did her final beam. Even managed to get the second-best escape time achievement at the same time.

So for anyone doubting their ability to do it, just try it, take your time, it's all very doable. Though naturally you should be very familiar with the game first.

dbtwy 23 Mar 2025 23:13

pretty fun run, Ripley can be easily cheesed, every other bosses had a pretty fun fight

stumpbeefgnaw 10 Apr 2025 23:43

You don't have to use crystal flash on mother brain if you just be patient. By the time I fought through the zebetite I had 349 energy, about 15~ missiles, and 25 super missiles. I blew through the ammo before mother brain started her attacks.

I just held a charge shot and used screw attack to jump through her blue ring beam attack (you might have to time this jump with her mine detonating) and let the charge shot go after I jumped through the attack.

When she started to do the fire attack it was better, for me at least, to just stand on the ground holding a charge shot waiting her for hand to move back, once it does jump up to dodge the attack and shoot the charge shot.

You need 300 energy to survive her rainbow beam attack, you only need to tank one of those to get the hyper beam.

letcreate 18 Apr 2025 22:20

Missile, Super Missile, and Power Bomb quantities, and other powerups aren't restricted for this, right?

Xirix 19 Apr 2025 02:49

Yup, it's exactly how it's described.

TrainDubs 9 May 2025 02:48

Toughest part is probably the Mother Brain fight as you need to still have 3 tanks or the Hyper Beam kills you. Really fun achievement!