![]() ![]() If you thought Farming Simulator 2020 was intense, wait until you try this. We don’t have many etanks just yet, so farming is the way to go. Here we need Speed Booster, Wave Beam, and Grapple Beam to make the run possible. The game would expect you to beat Kraid before coming here, so there’s a good amount of heated rooms even before we get to Ridley’s Lair. The first heated rooms come quite quickly. There’s some kind of lesson here, intentionally damaging yourself upwards to gain more overall health? Making yourself vulnerable can feel scary, but might be necessary for growth. It requires a good amount of control to shoot the block, and jump with the right timing so you are there just as the hopper is coming back to the roof. You can actually get this by jumping up to this enemy, then damage boosting left so you get flung slightly upwards into the etank. Weeee! Getting this Energy Tank (we’ll call them etanks from now on) usually requires high jump, but we’re not that far yet so we have to get more creative. I’m here to explain what the experience is like and share mine with you. ![]() This is not going to be a tutorial on how to speedrun, but if you want to learn specifics I recommend this tutorial by foosda, and lots of prior knowledge of the game. It just might take some, uh, creative use of movement. ![]() Thankfully we can get a lot of energy, and just enough Super Missiles and Power Bombs to make these fights possible. The first thing we do is get every possible item we can get without the locked upgrades. This means you have to play through the heated area taking constant heat damage, and the water area with extremely slow and limited movement options. You aren’t getting that until the wrecked ship is powered up. The gravity suit that allows you to move freely through water? Nope, Phantoon has that under lockdown. Kraid has that locked away in his lair, stroking it with his giant claw while roaring with laughter. This means the Varia suit that allows you to withstand heat damage, is off-limits. Super Metroid is so well-crafted and open that with the right strategy and item collection, you can actually fight Ridley before any of the other main bosses. This is a category where death is just a minor setback. Welcome to one of the many wonderful ways to play Super Metroid, Reverse Boss Order. Whelp, good thing this is a videogame and I saved. It’s all or nothing, and I’m all out of nothing. Any mistakes I make will cost time and energy to get to the next health refill. The only way I can get through this is with consistent movement and execution. Here I am facing my greatest challenge with no suit, no credentials, just a handful of missiles and my wits. I’m losing health every second but I’ve never felt so alive and focused. ![]()
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