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Anime: Oh My Goddess!
Track: My Heart, Your Heart
Time: 4:14
Size: 50.6 KB
I probably would've put this up sooner if I hadn't been lazy about finding a decent midi version of this song, but whatever. My Heart, Your Heart is the opening theme for the short, five episode Oh My Goddess! series, which happens to be my current favorite anime. And whenever I listen to this song, I think of the intro movie that goes with it -- the clip where Urd is flying on a vaccum cleaner. That bit never fails to make me laugh.
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230? WTF?
I beat Super Metroid yesterday ... twice. Once, getting an item collection rate of 99%, making me wonder what the heck I missed. So I looked around on my map for any areas that were missing, but everything looked in order. And then it hit me: That one, stupid missile tank in Kraid's little area of Brinstar that you need power bombs to get to. I always forget to come back for that one after I get power bombs down in Norfair, before heading up to the Wrecked Ship.
So after going through Tourian, kicking Mother Brain's ass, and beating the game, I had to go back for that missile tank. And then, since I'm anal like that, I had to go beat the game again to get the 100% rating. For going all that way (from Tourian to the end of Brinstar and back), though, I only added four minutes to my game clear time. First time, it was 3:33, second time it was 3:37; I was hauling ass to and from that missile tank and all through Tourian, heh.
Not that I'm complaining, though; fighting Mother Brain is fun. You get to unload nearly everything you've got on the thing before it goes down. ... Well, I suppose it doesn't go down, but anyone that's won that fight will know what I mean. I think I only missed with two super missiles and maybe three or four normal missiles (my usual accuracy for that fight), and I was down to only about 25 missiles left when it drained all my weapons. And after that, just because I'm a biatch, I shot it some more with charged up Plasma Beam shots.
Really, the fight follows a pretty simply pattern, so it's not that hard if you have enough missiles and you don't miss a lot. But what makes it so fun for me is trying to keep a constant stream of fire hitting the thing while still dodging its attacks. I think I only lost about 100 or 150 energy, either time I fought it (during the first part of the fight, that is), heh. Not to brag, but I think I've become quite the badass in that game.
Basically, how the fight would go, is I'd stand towards the right side of the room and aim diagonally up at Mother Brain's head. And any time it wasn't attacking, I'd be keeping up a constant stream of super missiles (and then normal missiles once my super missiles were depleted) going from my gun to its head, firing as fast as I could. When it would drop a bomb onto the floor, I'd dodge it and resume my firing, waiting for the right moment to jump over the explosion it would shortly be sending along the ground. Mother Brain would then usually shoot one of its two normal beam attacks at me, and I'd time my jump so that I'd jump over the beam attack, shoot Mother Brain with another super missile while in the air, and land just after the bomb had gone off along the floor. And then continue firing, of course.
When Mother Brain starts speeding up its attacks, and especially during the second half of the fight, trying to keep up a steady stream of fire (that actually hits it) while avoiding its attacks gets to be really hectic and lots of fun; it's definitely my favorite fight in the game. Also, Ridley is fun to fight, but he just doesn't last long enough. With him, by the time I unload my super missiles, he's already dead and I'm left thinking "But I was just getting started!" Funny as it is, I think I may actually prefer the fight with him at the very start of the game to the "real" battle with him; making him drop the Metroid hatching and watching as he scrambles to pick it up again before running away is always funny.
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