The following are spoilers for the first few minutes of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Not just the first few minutes, but they're all about the fate of a character you shouldn't feel any real sense of attachment to, as far as I can tell. In fact, despite the spicy (yet completely accurate) title of the article, this may be the weakest spoiler warning I've ever given you.
There's a soldier whose fate seemed inextricably linked to death in the opening moments of Nintendo's latest epic. Everyone thought he was gone no matter what you did. One smooth player proved him wrong by letting this guy live to probably die another day because he doesn't seem fit for space military life.
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“He ran into me five times in the space of ten minutes.
I can fix it
This is a quickie, but a treat. This siege sequence has an IGF soldier desperately trying to take cover, and with enemies hot on his tail, it looks like this is the end for the helpless guy no matter how quickly Samus moves to his defense. That didn't stop Gamemon_RD from breaking the illusion of guaranteed failure.
“I felt so terrible witnessing his death in front of me,” recalls the previously emotionally compromised Gamemon_RD. “I felt helpless. Pain can be a weapon. “But it turns out you're not. :)” Smiley sells it – this is the comeback story of the year.
“This is what we trained for. Keep it together.” – An individual IGF soldier whose words fit the moment perfectly when Samus's sharpshooting wrested victory from the jaws of defeat of a terrified character.
“I do stuff like this all the time in Halo or Half Life,” chief commenter webslinger05 says proudly. “It's really fun rescuing NPCs from scripted events.” In fact, the thread started the journey with some players' recollections of a similar ride, with Sea-Lecture-4619 happily reminiscing about rescuing a scientist at the start of We've Got Hostiles, while LinuxLover3113 laments that no matter what you do for an escaped potential execution victim in Skyrim, it will fall on Skyrim regardless.
“I didn't save him because I was too busy scanning the pirate that killed him,” Captain_Dammit notes of the Metroid Prime 4 soldier who is bound for death. Hey, we all have priorities, dammit. “You can also save him by capturing the space pirate with a Boost Ball,” quuxl adds more positively, whose clever nature may actually precede Gamemon_RD's heroics.
Metroid Prime 4 received a somewhat mixed reception overall, though TheGamer's Jade King gave it a 4/5, which neatly confirms the overall Metacritic score of 80/100. So, there it is.
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