But then again, the music from the Magnamoor Caverns in the first prime is also a rip from Super Metroid (Lower Norfair, which itself seemed to me to be a dirge that was heavily inspiried by the music in the first parts of the original Metroid (Brinstar) which was more upbeat, but still had the same pulse and and several similar melodic hooks and an almost exact percussion/bass line as Super Metroid's lower norfair) Yes, I realise that the music in Lower Torvus is ripped from Super Metroid's Lower Brinstar (and parts of Maridia).

The music in sanctuary fortress was -alright-, but I'd still say that were it not for Torvus Bog, the music in Prime 2 would have been a -total- letdown. Like they didn't really belong, but were squeezed in just so that people wouldn't scream rape at not having them. To be the first metroid game without some sort of ice attack was a burn (no pun intended), the role metroids had in Prime 2 had an (oh yeah, and there were metroids too) feel to it. The idea of having to have ammo for your special beams drove me nuts. The level layouts seemed to be less complicated (less inspired) as well. That all being said, Prime 2 seemed much shorter and smaller than Prime (even with Dark Aether). And how unsettling your first excursion into Dark Aether was (considering how vulnerable to the elements you were in just the Varia suit) Having to jump back and forth a bunch to access things in one world that you couldn't access in the other, having things be just that creepy mix of very much the same and wildly different like it was in Zelda III. And probably the greatest virtue of Prime 2 was the almost Zelda III-ish light world/dark world approach. I suppose the light and dark suits were cooler than the phazon suit, or the gravity suit. From that angle, I can't decide which is better.

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