satvara | Metroid: Samus Returns - Skip Plasma Beam, Phase Drift, and Screw Attack (Ice Beam) @satvara | Uploaded January 2018 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Skipping Phase Drift, Plasma Beam, and Screw Attack using Ice Beam and Spider Ball to go out of bounds.
I recently found a new out of bounds technique that utilizes the Ice Beam. It highly increases the number of OoB locations in the game. It's still early but here are some preliminary results from an ad lib playthrough.
As a note, Spazer Beam (or a beam lower than Plasma?) does an incredibly high amount of damage to Ridley, basically nullifying the entire fight. It is ironic that the final boss is actually easier on a low% now. Perhaps this feature was used for debug at some point in development. I haven't had a chance to try this on the Queen Metroid yet.
Despite being shown in the video, I also want to note that so far I've been unable to complete the game without Aeion abilities while having the Gravity Suit, and because of a soft lock glitch during the Ridley fight probably releated to not having an Aeion gauge. I completed a no Aeion 0% where I skipped Gravity Suit and I didn't get the soft lock. Since I can't skip Screw Attack without Gravity Suit as of yet, I ultimately decided to collect Beam Burst to obtain an Aeion gauge so I could complete the fight and end the game. I later found that acquiring an Aeion Tank makes the game calculate that Samus has an Aeion gauge, even though no gauge is visible on the touch screen.
Quick list of the item skip clips:
-A5: Skip the crumble block bridge (Phase Drift)
-A5: Simple bypass of Wallfires with Space Jump (Phase Drift)
-A5: Skip Gryncore (Plasma Beam) and Screw Attack blocks to reach a Zeta
-A5: Exiting the Zeta section with OoB (Plasma Beam and Screw Attack)
-A5: Skip a Gryncore (Plasma Beam) and Screw Attacks blocks to reach a Zeta
-A5: Exiting the Zeta section with OoB (Screw Attack and Plasma)
-A6: Skip Screw Attack blocks to reach a Zeta
-A6: Skip the first pass of the crumble block bridge to reach an Omega (Phase Drift)
-A6: Skip the second pass of the crumble block bridge to reach the Chozo Seal (Phase Drift)
-A6: Going OoB to skip Diggernaut and collect its Power Bomb
-A7: Using Power Bombs to blow a Gryncore (Plasma Beam)
-A8: Skipping Screw Attack blocks by going straight to the Infant Metroid
-A8: Skipping Screw Attack blocks by using a Spider Ball clip
Video edited for brevity.
Skipping Phase Drift, Plasma Beam, and Screw Attack using Ice Beam and Spider Ball to go out of bounds.
I recently found a new out of bounds technique that utilizes the Ice Beam. It highly increases the number of OoB locations in the game. It's still early but here are some preliminary results from an ad lib playthrough.
As a note, Spazer Beam (or a beam lower than Plasma?) does an incredibly high amount of damage to Ridley, basically nullifying the entire fight. It is ironic that the final boss is actually easier on a low% now. Perhaps this feature was used for debug at some point in development. I haven't had a chance to try this on the Queen Metroid yet.
Despite being shown in the video, I also want to note that so far I've been unable to complete the game without Aeion abilities while having the Gravity Suit, and because of a soft lock glitch during the Ridley fight probably releated to not having an Aeion gauge. I completed a no Aeion 0% where I skipped Gravity Suit and I didn't get the soft lock. Since I can't skip Screw Attack without Gravity Suit as of yet, I ultimately decided to collect Beam Burst to obtain an Aeion gauge so I could complete the fight and end the game. I later found that acquiring an Aeion Tank makes the game calculate that Samus has an Aeion gauge, even though no gauge is visible on the touch screen.
Quick list of the item skip clips:
-A5: Skip the crumble block bridge (Phase Drift)
-A5: Simple bypass of Wallfires with Space Jump (Phase Drift)
-A5: Skip Gryncore (Plasma Beam) and Screw Attack blocks to reach a Zeta
-A5: Exiting the Zeta section with OoB (Plasma Beam and Screw Attack)
-A5: Skip a Gryncore (Plasma Beam) and Screw Attacks blocks to reach a Zeta
-A5: Exiting the Zeta section with OoB (Screw Attack and Plasma)
-A6: Skip Screw Attack blocks to reach a Zeta
-A6: Skip the first pass of the crumble block bridge to reach an Omega (Phase Drift)
-A6: Skip the second pass of the crumble block bridge to reach the Chozo Seal (Phase Drift)
-A6: Going OoB to skip Diggernaut and collect its Power Bomb
-A7: Using Power Bombs to blow a Gryncore (Plasma Beam)
-A8: Skipping Screw Attack blocks by going straight to the Infant Metroid
-A8: Skipping Screw Attack blocks by using a Spider Ball clip
Video edited for brevity.
