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Published: 2005-04-20 22:26:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 20415; Favourites: 198; Downloads: 1191
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This is another one of my old favorites. It didn't take me much to get into this one, I was excited all the way through. The composition doesn't completely work for a real comic page, but I was just getting back into the idea of doing comics again when I did this. Memories of Super Metroid always brought a smile to my face.Just to clarify, this is Samus escaping Kraid's attack by using the grapple beam. It's always exciting to think how Samus would manage to defeat such a cunning and gigantic monster without gimmicks like the platform projectiles and the benefit of solid ground to land on if she falls. We all know she's got this one taken care of though.
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I hate 8-bit boss fight with Kraid. He was hard as hell! DAMN, every single other metroid boss fight is easy compared to 8-bit fight with Kraid. That son of a metroid!
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Could also beat Kraid with a Super Missile right down it's throat. That's how I did it my first time
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You just made me wanna play Super Metroid all over again. Although it would be weird for her to ALREADY have the grapple beam by the time she gets to Kraid. Now, assuming she has all of her weaponry, I think at some point she would either get eaten and blowing Kraid up from the inside with a power bomb or busting a hole on it's head with a fully charged plasma beam shot. Leave the fused versions for bada**es like Ridley. HIS would be a ice/wave/plasma beam combo right through the chest
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On the note about gameplay, I am hecka excited about that SR388 fangame. You checked the previews for that thing out yet? I'm talking about the one with the fresh SNES style graphics, though the MZM Mod one looks pretty cool too.
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Actually no, I haven't heard about it. Gonna google that stuff in about 2 mikes though
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Pure EPIC! Kraid is bizarre and powerful, I hope gators don't evolve into that...
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Without Steve Irwin around anymore, they just might. Stay on your guard.
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Awesome and dynamic artwork, but the Grappling Beam is available way after you kill Kraid.
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HA! Wow! Thanks man, I appreciate that! There's a lot of good work on there, so I'm very honored, especially with how old this bad boy is!
Hopefully there will be much more Samus to come, she Speed Boosts through my sketchbook a lot these days, though admittedly she and I have spent far more time deadlocked to the movement of a Gamecube controller. That just...can't be helped. *shrug*
Thanks J!
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Awesome! Really like it.
btw, its said that Kraid will be revived for Metroid Prime 3, just like Ridley (that undead bastard <<
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Sweet, Kraid, the forgotten boss... Good going on remembering him, many players dont.
(I love this)
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Being the vore fan I am, I say next time don't save her...
Kraid is currently:
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This is awsome work! Metroid 3 is my favorite out of the whole series.
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Same 'ere. The game had such a terrific atmosphere on the Super NES and compared to its predecessors it made so many wonderful improvements on the franchise. I can't deny though that Zero Mission has the smoothest controls. If Super Metroid handled that well back then I probably would have beaten it a lot quicker. I remember I was so anxious to fight Kraid my first time that I spent hours figuring out how to bomb jump to that second area of Brinstar. I didn't even know where to get the High Jump boots then, but I actually managed to beat Kraid anyway. Bomb jumping was so much easier in Zero Mission that I almost did the first half of the game backwards.
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Oooh, awesome work. I love the comic-style setup, and the art looks so much like the original Super Metroid artwork. Makes me wanna go play the game again... *sigh*
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this is great piece of art. Samus is so detailed and water too. i love those light flashes. and speed things.. I started playing metroid 1 in gba.THANKS FOR THE NES CLASSICS NINTENDO.. that game is so hard that it makes me cry... but maybe I beat it someday..
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Thanks for the comments!
Oh no doubt about it, oldschool Metroid is the hardest out of the series, especially if you're actually playin' the original NES version, with no save! However, since some people have played it so hardcore since back in the day (I do NOT fall into this category) they know the game like the back of their hand.
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I got almost 80 nes games but no metroid. So I deciced to buy that gba version. Maybe I buy the original game too. if I can get it cheap. I respect the guys who have beaten the nes version. That is a very big challenge... too hard for me.
you are a great artist! keep up a good work
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Man that has to be one the best Metroid fan pieces I have seen 
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Oh man, I wouldn't put a Kraid return past the guys at Retro. The size of some of those bosses in Echoes were ridiculously awesome! Thanks for enjoying the pic, I ain't been givin' Samus enough color attention lately, so at least I left her on a fairly good note a few years back.
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Talking of Echoes that Chykka Adult and the 3 big worm things took the biscuit with size. Unfortuantely I havent completed Echoes yet cos I keep getting frustrated at that boss where you can only attack it by morph ball bombing it > __< thanks to that I aint played Echoes for weeks 
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Which boss are you referring to exactly? Is it the Boost Ball Guardian? Cuz yeah, that guy was extremely tough!
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Yeah thats the one >:\ I hate that thing to hell.
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Well, all I can say based on my memory is, stay close to the edges of the arena while he's bouncing around, so you don't get caught in the middle, and don't let too many of those towers blow up or else they'll release those annoying little Inglets while you're trying to fight him. When the game auto changes you to first person mode immediately start dodging somewhere cuz the guy will start charging you right away. Other than that, all I can say is keep your health high going in and good luck to you! It still gets rough after that but if you make it through that hump you're pretty well off for a while.
And just to warn you, there are more bosses you're gonna need exclusive morph ball bombs to take out. They really upped it from the first Prime, but I'd say this guy is the hardest they put you up against for that.
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