Line #4 Awesome/MetroidPrime


1	!!The Game Itself
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3	* The earliest instance of [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]] happens at the main menu, the theme played there is so dynamic and atmospheric it alone fills many expectations of the game, and once when people come out of the Awesome induced shock and realize that "This is just the Menu Theme!" all other expectations are pointless, and they get ready for a awesome game.
4	* Samus Aran's grand entrance in full 3D motion for the first time. Her gun ship comes in to dock, the hatch pops open and out rises the Hunter in her full glory. The [[RocketBoots jets on her back]] blast her clean off the roof of her vessel, she spins a hundred feet through the void and lands on the Frigate ''Orpheon'' as effortless as you please, before surveying her surroundings with the calculating awareness of an alpha predator. Then there's that camera spin and zoom-in to the back of the helm... And we got a whole new Goldeneye experience for a new generation of players.
5	* A [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic musical]] Moment of Awesome comes when you get to the Magmoor Caverns. When those ominous male vocals first kick in and you're probably thinking "[[VideoGame/SuperMetroid Shades of Norfair]], eh?" Then the door opens into the cavern complex proper, and that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCZIb0fbt8 familiar drumbeat kicks in...]] Goosebumps.
6	* ''Another'' musical moment of awesome is when you finally reach the Artifact Temple. You get ready to enter the Impact Crater and finish the Metroid Prime...but then the camera angle changes, zooming out as a fully remixed version of '''''[[https://youtu.be/ABQv__t_GCA Ridley's theme]]''''' suddenly kicks in. You don't even need to guess what happens in the cutscene, because of that iconic theme - and as any veteran of the series up to this point knows, a fight with Ridley means ''[[ThatOneBoss a hell of a time.]]''
7	* The Wavebuster. Especially when used to lock onto and kill ''invisible bosses which can't normally be locked onto''. (The Cloaked Drone, of course.)
8	** Getting the basic Wave Beam is a minor awesome moment. Shortly after obtaining it, you blast up a bunch of formerly invincible enemies (the Bombus). And its charge shot is very useful in your first real fight with the Space Pirates themselves.
9	* On a specific tablet in the Artifact Temple is written a Chozo log about their devotion to their sacred sites and works. Strangers who respect those works are welcomed as friends, but the tablet warns that those that deface or destroy them will suffer. This is proven twice over in the game:
10	** First, a Pirate log in the Phazon Mines notes that operations in the local ruins have been met with massive losses, describing nightmarish attacks that the player will by now be familiar with. It's quite cathartic to note that the Pirates, monsters with no respect for the dead that they are, have incurred the wrath of the local DemonicSpiders and proven quite susceptible.
11	** Second is ''Ridley'', at the climax of his fight with Samus at the Artifact Temple. When Ridley is recoiling, but not beaten, you watch as the eyes of the statues on the Temple start to burn red, then fire lasers straight at his chest, sending him hurtling off the edge to a nasty not-death. ''Take that'', you murdering bastard!
12	* The fight with the Omega Pirate is amazing, when you think about it - after facing dangerous wildlife, as cunning as they may be, Samus still hadn't faced anything with true sapient intelligence on Tallon IV yet. The Omega Pirate is no mindless beast, making use of lethal strategy and calling for backup from Beam Troopers to wear Samus down. He even seems to yell at one point "Finish her!" in English, and laughs at Samus while he's invisible. As cool as it is to see Samus take on violent predators, nothing beats a brawl with a proud and intelligent warrior.
13	* The other bosses in the game are incredible as well - check the [[AwesomeBosses/{{Metroid}} Awesome Bosses]] page for more details. It's '''impossible''' not to feel like a bad-ass when taking down:
14	** A massive, mutated, acid-spitting, parasitic monster.
15	** The hive of steel-shredding War Wasps that attack you in perfect synchronization, followed by the whirling, fire-spitting Totem.
16	** A giant mutated plant monstrosity with scythes for arms.
17	** A vicious, demonic-looking ice-breathing hellbeast which can suck your shots away from their targets.
18	** An eighty-ton rock and ice monster about sixty feet tall bent on reducing you to a broken mess.
19	** Twenty-foot tall, mutated pirates that could snap the Hulk like a twig and are packing some serious heat.
20	** An attack drone you can't see, can't scan, and can't lock onto.
21	** A ''fifty''-foot tall, mutated pirate that can turn ''invisible''.
22	** Ridley, back from the dead with a cybernetic makeover and a bigger threat than ever.

Context Awesome / MetroidPrime