Taking inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Samus can travel between two parallel worlds, with one affecting the other. Its core gameplay was so strong the team felt confident enough to introduce a twist in the way players navigate the world. METROID PRIME 2: ECHOES, released in 2004 for the Nintendo GameCube, directly built on the foundations laid by the first game. But what about the doppelganger, Dark Samus? Another dangerous mission awaits… Samus agrees to fight the Ing and restore balance to Aether to save the planet from destruction. The Ing, vile creatures from Dark Aether, have crossed over to the Light Aether and stolen the Light Crystals that are the planet’s energy source, creating an imbalance that threatens to destroy the planet.

He tells her about the meteor that struck Aether and split it into two dimensions. While trying to find her way back, she witnesses a bizarre doppelganger version of herself: Dark Samus – feeding on Phazon!Īfter finding her way back to Light Aether, Samus encounters U-Mos, a Luminoth native to planet Aether. Samus discovers a portal which transports her into a darker, more hostile version of her previous location: Dark Aether. When exploring her immediate surroundings, she quickly finds the missing soldiers – they’re all dead, killed by strange creatures shrouded in dark energy. A severe lightning storm caused Samus to crash her Gunship into a crater. After the events on Tallon IV, the Galactic Federation hired Samus Aran to locate a missing squad of Federation soldiers on planet Aether.

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