I have always been left in confusion as to how one could function with their eye being in their mouth XD

I always just figured it was a creepy eyelid. this boss was so annoying with that being it's only vulnerable spot

Well, as with Beatlejuice, I'm sure being a ghost helps out a lot.

Phantoon is a goast. That's my explanation.

Either that or it sees to eat.

yeh.. what happens when they eat something?

Then they have to spend 20 mins in the bathroom like me getting shit out of their eye!

XD thats it XD

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YAY Pepto Bismol!

I don't think that would help if you poured it in your eye.

Have you looked into utensils, perhaps? Or at least some safety goggles?

THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!

I always figured that that lower 'skirt' hid a larger mouth, one for eating, kinda like a squid, and that the 'tooth filled mouth' around the eye was just a wickedly heavily armoured eyelid or something.

I sorta wish they'd go back and give descriptions of the old bosses and monsters from the early games, so we'd get a better picture of how they function. That's what I love about the MP games; they actually give a little history or evolution theory for almost everything. Like the bug that uses a warp crystal to hop between dimensions when threatened. Or those suicidal Shriekbats, how they like exploding into noxious goo when you violate their territory.

I mean, seriously, a scanner-analysis of Crocomire, Kraid, Phantoon and Draygon? That'd be awesome. *always figured Draygon was just the really big older version of the little ones of his kind, and that it preyed on them which is why they fled from it before the boss fight, and that they're all scavengers, so when he died, that's why they pushed/pulled his corpse into the silt under the battlefield.*

That would be so cool. I always thought those little guys were like, Draygon's cultists or something and they were burying him. He had those faces in his head, maybe he was corrupted somehow.

Something like that, I think. I always had the eerie sensation that the little guys should be whispering as they fled, that you should be hearing them whisper in little kid voices. "He's coming. He's coming. Draygon's coming. He's coming...." all creepy like. And when you beat him, they whisper something else like 'thank you. thank you. thank you.' as they lower him into the ooze.

I think he was corrupted, or at least ungodly old. Probably why the others fled from his prescence.

Then again, I also wonder about the Wrecked ship, and if it's the same ship from Zero Mission, only trashed, or if there's ANOTHER ship that wrecked there that just wasn't worth the attention in Zero Mission, that you had to go through in Super Metroid. Cuz that ship had those 'archaic' trashcan robots on it, and all that, and seemed really really old.


....damnit now I really DO wish they had the scan-thing in Super Metroid. XD

Me too. I would think it's a different ship, like you said. It looks old. I don't think enough time passed between Zero Mission and Super Metroid for that to be Samus's old ship, plus it's really big. Damn, this is making me wanna play through Zero Mission and Super Metroid instead of working on these commissions like I should be.

Well, I mean like, that it was the Colossus or whatever that she blew up after it landed on the surface, only not ALL of it blew up. But yeah, I suspect it's another ship, maybe even one uncovered by the detonation of the pirate ship. XD

There's always time for videogames later... unless you're going for the 3 hour record run. Then ya gotta do it all in one shot. (Booyah! 2:54:36 for me! Didn't even have to refer to a map for it! XD)

in retrospect, Kraid isn't really what you'd call a viable military unit. Sure the Pirates made him to be some kinda assault unit...but... come on. He's too freakin' big to load on any ship, and couldn't even leave the test facility! What kinda unit would that be?

I'm pretty sure he'd have his own ship, how else would he get around? I think he's just a giant alien, although don't you see some kind of head that looks like his in MP3?

Well, from what I remember about ZM and SM, Kraid was supposed to be one of the Pirate's experiments in a 'commander' class unit or something like that. And Ridley was like, the 'ultimate warrior' kind. I forgot where I read that.. mighta been a manual or something. It explains why they kept resurrecting Ridley so much; they just kept rebuilding and improving the bugger. Wonder what that did to his mind, if they tried keeping that intact each time. (might explain why he was so insane in later games)

I dunno if there's a Kraid in MP3... I'll have to look around. No doubt it'd be on the Pirate Homeworld or something. Good thing ya DON'T gotta face a Kraid in one of those games. Can you imagine jumping up like, three complete screens of room, to try and shoot it in the face?

It would be awesome. He was actually going to be in one of them but they didn't have time to put him in.

*shudder* I remember how hard the robot boss was in MP2; one of the hardest fights EVER. So complicated. a Kraid fight would be that hard. You'd like, have to wait for him to launch those thorns out, then climb them up to his head, dodge his claws and bodycheck attacks, and any thrown things (I can see him pulling up parts of the landscape to throw at ya, like the thing in Dead Space does), and stuff like that. LOL... and you wouldn't be able to use the old 'three super missile' move. XD

There isn't a Kraid in MP3.
There's beta shots of him in MP1 though.

There IS a wannabe Motherbrain in MP3 though. It's only the head...and no mouth. And Dark Samus controls it.

I was dissapoint when I saw those screenshots, that he was cut due to time restraints.

Me too. I really wanna know how a Kraid fight would've happened in 3D.

Maybe they should put in one of those new Wii control games?

that's pretty cool.

Awesome. 8D

Oh hell yes :D I was wondering how you would pull this one off. Defintiely a tricky one, but you pulled it off ^..^

Yeah I had to think about it for a good long time.

It's hard to turn phantoon in a sexy babe... But nice work ! :p

That's amazing. You ability to make just about *anything* effeminate and sexy is truly wonderous to behold. :D

sexy

That word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

I think it does and I think you do. :P

Great, now I want to see it move and talk and stuff. o.o

It looks to talk.

That would be unsettling.

Scary, but also cute in an odd sort of way. o.o;

does that bulbous head open up to reveal something?

oh and this deninaly classifies as wtf creature design. genius, particularly the mouth-eye but still wtf.

Nope, it just flies around and makes fireballs and goes invisible and is really goddamn annoying,

so a psychic/mage/energy manipulator archetype.

Ghost Type Pokémon.

Actually problaby Ghost/Electric type, seeing as how he drains the power from the ship.

I think they've already got that one... and for the record you made the pokemon reference not me, I just want to distance myself from that right there.

Fuck yes. Phantoon is my favorite boss. IIRC...isn't it that worm thing in myridia next? >.> That ones going to be interesting

Botwoon, yes.

That is definitely metroid

wrecked ship imho <3

Yessss... I like this one a lot actually.

Never played a metroid game. The closest thing that came to it where the Metroidvania games... and since those where superior to the originals I might just pick this series up once and for all.

I found Zero Mission to be really fun, and of course, Super Metroid.

He scared me as a child! Actually, most of them did! Amazing job though. <3<3!