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Metroid Prime 2, it will be with you forever...even to your grave...

Here is what happened when I first got this game. I bought this for christmas for my little cousin, but as soon as I started playing it, I smashed his face in and pushed him away from the screen and started playing for hours, and this game is Amazing!!!! I didn't even care that my cousin's face was broken and his noise was all crushed up, because I was playing Metroid Prime 2!!!! Here, let me tell you why...

Story 7/10
Here, the story is kind of good. You start on a planet called Aether and you play as Samus, a girl who keeps killing aliens because her parents died, but hopefully, they will be resurrected in a future game...HA, yeah right!! You get a distress call from some crazy troopers of the future because some creatures formed called Ing, and they look like spider creatures of Hell. They came from Dark Aether, which formed when a meteor with Phazon hit the planet, much like the first game, except this one is much older. Well very early in this game, you meet a hellish alien called U-Mos, who looks very close to a Chozo ghost from Metroid Prime for some reason, but he is from a race called Luminoth. He tells you that the Ing are ruining the balance of energy from the light world to the dar world, so you must travel between the two worlds in order to save the planet Aether from total destruction. Also, there is a crazy creature called Dark Samus who looks like you following you around and absorbing all the phazon to become stronger. You will face Dark Samus many times, and each time she gets stronger and stronger and also has more powers. You have to play the first game to know where it came from, or you will be slightly lost in the story line.

Gameplay 8/10
Here, it gets more fun. You get a normal weapon called the power beam that shoots super fast and it has infinite ammo. You also get some new beams called the Dark Beam and the Light Beam very early on in the game. They are fun but they are pretty boring to shoot out , since they look and feel like beams from the first Metroid Prime. They come with new powers and for some reason take ammo to use, but ammo is easy to find, so it doesn't matter. The dark beam is slow and freezes enemies when you charge a shot and the light beam helps kill the Demons faster. Yes, there are a bunch of crazy creatures that you have to scan in the planet. I don't know all their names, but they are Wild Demons which get harder and harder to fight as you walk through the planet of nasty swamps. You feel like crying because of the boringness of the two swamp areas. Sure, one of them is actually a desert, but they fell too boring and ARE too boring to walk around in repeatedly to get all the upgrades. At least the last area looks perfect and is so fun, that you'll piss out blood from out of nowhere, so it brought the overall score up 1 point. Also, the graphics are good enough that they actually won't seem the same at all, so what I just said might not pertain to you.

Sound 6/10
Well all I have to say is, disgraceful...there is only some good beats, but most of them are VERY boring that you can barely even notice them!!!! The sound effects are good though, as you can hear a creature scream from miles away, and shooting some of the missile combos also make some very cool noises, especially when you here the animals crying from the pain and suffrage Samus has given them for centuries!!!! Let the dying squeals begin!!!!

Graphics 10/10
The graphics of this game are perfect, they are so good, that your eyes will bleed with joy!!!! Even though two of the areas can get quite boring, the graphics make you not care. Even when you are fighting some crappy boss, at least the graphics are so good and the animations of everything are really good. Even watching the sky in the light world tremble with dark energy is enjoyable. As for the graphics on the few cutscenes of the game, they should be an instant 11/10.

Replay Value/Fun Factor 8/10
When you first play through this game, you will get around 10-15 hours of play time. If you try to get all the damn items, it will be 15-20 hours easily. You'll play at least two times through, once to play for fun, and the second time on hard mode to get all the scans and art galleries and to see the 100% ending by getting all the items. Let me tell you about one thing that happens in one of the first cutscenes. When you see the troopers getting attacked by the Ing, one of them is standing on top of their spaceship, and then he screams this out in a crazy and disturbing voice...

"HEY, WE NEED BACKUP!!!!"

HAHA!!!! The way he said that made me laugh insanely for hours and hours, and now I know that every once in a while I will start a new file just to see that scene. The first time I saw that, I almost soiled myself from laughter, it's crazy as hell!!!!

Multiplayer 3/10
You have probably heard that the multiplayer for this game is garbage, and they were right. You get six levels. You start out with four, and you unlock the other two. It's an okay addition, and I didn't subtract anything from the overall score, but trust me, you won't me calling up your friends just to play this EVER IN LIFE!!!!

Overall 9/10
From the multiplayer, to those disturbingly fast sandbats which made me cry from fear, this game will keep you playing until your bladder explodes from sitting in the same spot for 22 hours with no sleep. "But how will I get sleep?" you ask?

Well you won't, as your bed will start to look like nasty, Ing spider-crabs. Just imagine, spiders crawling all over your bed with their beady eyes. To heal this phobia, just dress up in a trooper suit and run around your house screaming this to your girlfriend...

"HEY, WE NEED BACKUP!!!!"

I'm sure she won't leave you...if your lucky. But even if she does, you won't care because you have spiders in your bed, they are everywhere, the Ing, We must stop them!!!! NOW!!!!!!!

Rent......or Buy?
One day there was a little boy named Timmy. He walks up up to a merchant selling crazy items in the middle of the desert. He has quite a collection of things, from used-up tissues, to genie lamps. He starts to grab the genie lamp, and he grants him one wish. What does he wish for? Metroid Prime 2. "HAHA, you fool, you waisted a wish!!" The merchant laughs at your nonsense, and the genie says, "I bet you're wishing you bought this game at the store when you had the chance...silly child."

Do you want to become like little Timmy here?! Hell NO!!!!
Don't miss the chance to buy this game, or you'll regret it for the rest of your life, so even if you are on the toilet now reading this from a laptop, don't even wipe, just pull your pants up at the speed of light and go buy this game, NOW!!!!!!! Even when you get back home, still don't wipe, just stare straight at your Gamecube and run.......RUN LIKE THE WIND!!!!

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 01/23/05