Comment on Planet Phaaze by kritken
Hypermode difficulty was AWFUL. When I actually defeated Dark Samus, I was utterly screwed on the Aurora Unit. I ended up having to start the game over so I could get more practice in mastering the controls, which was quite the wise decision, considering that I was able to do it well the second time I made it.
haha yeah hypermode dificulty is challenging but satisfying.
Good job beating the game on hypermode
Good job beating the game on hypermode
Hypermode on Prime 3 is easily Metroid's most difficult moment. But as you said, it was extremely satisfying to beat it. Other M's hard mode was missing a little something to give it the feel that Hypermode has. You didn't really feel as badass in Hard Mode, possibly because Hypermode was actually the game throwing everything it had at you, trying actively to make you fail, and making it really feel like this was Dark Samus showing her hand, making her final assault on the galaxy in an attempt to conquer it. This is how the hardest difficulty in a game should be, it should be the developers designing the game so that it's actively working to make you fail, rather than many games these days handing you a victory on a silver platter.
Haven't attempted it since. I expected Other M's Hard Mode (which I call Suicide Mode) to be a lot harder than Hypermode, but it really wasn't. I died a lot, but it still wasn't harder.