myfriendtim
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I'm sure many people wonder why Super Metroid is the GOAT just like I wonder why Babe Ruth is the GOAT. So here's the moment the game turned from great into legendary for me. In return, I'd like to hear about the moment when any game did the same for you.
For me, it was when I was trying to bomb jump, which requires allowing vertically placed bombs to launch you in the air successively while in morph-ball form. An item was located in the wall, and it was clear I had to bomb jump because the hole in the wall was only one block high, too small to enter without being a ball.
It was rough. I tried forever, thinking logically that I should place each bomb at the height of each jump. For you experts, I was attempting the 2BJ without knowing that the IBJ, 3BJ, and HBJ even existed.
Then I thought, "This game is thematically all about clues. There is a clue for everything. So the clue for where to place each bomb must be on the wall I'm trying to scale." I knew I had it then, so I smiled to myself.
I placed bombs along each tile of the wall. No dice. Undeterred, I placed bombs along the lines between the tiles of the wall, thinking that was the clue to the spacing of the bombs. Nothing doing. I tried a spacing of every other tile, I tried every other line, I tried everything until I was sick of trying.
Then I thought, "What if the clue actually wasn't shown?"
As soon as I thought that, I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I couldn't tell you why, and I still can't account for it. Rationally, I should have smiled to myself again, but wider, for figuring out the true answer. But I didn't. All I could think was that this would be legendary if it worked.
I tapped the bomb button to the beat of the music, and I was soaring.
For me, it was when I was trying to bomb jump, which requires allowing vertically placed bombs to launch you in the air successively while in morph-ball form. An item was located in the wall, and it was clear I had to bomb jump because the hole in the wall was only one block high, too small to enter without being a ball.
It was rough. I tried forever, thinking logically that I should place each bomb at the height of each jump. For you experts, I was attempting the 2BJ without knowing that the IBJ, 3BJ, and HBJ even existed.
Then I thought, "This game is thematically all about clues. There is a clue for everything. So the clue for where to place each bomb must be on the wall I'm trying to scale." I knew I had it then, so I smiled to myself.
I placed bombs along each tile of the wall. No dice. Undeterred, I placed bombs along the lines between the tiles of the wall, thinking that was the clue to the spacing of the bombs. Nothing doing. I tried a spacing of every other tile, I tried every other line, I tried everything until I was sick of trying.
Then I thought, "What if the clue actually wasn't shown?"
As soon as I thought that, I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I couldn't tell you why, and I still can't account for it. Rationally, I should have smiled to myself again, but wider, for figuring out the true answer. But I didn't. All I could think was that this would be legendary if it worked.
I tapped the bomb button to the beat of the music, and I was soaring.