”But the themes are very, very dark, not like sunny old Super Mario.”

Dark, you accuse me of having a “dark” theme? Excuse me, the entire HUMAN RACE IS BEING DESTROYED BY ENERGY SUCKING ALIENS!!!! That’ll make a great cheerful story. Yeah, “sunny old Super Mario,” unlike Mr. Mario, I’m not in the habit of spending my weekend golfing with beast who keeps steeling the princess. I don’t have a trust complex. I know who my enemies are and I kill them.

But what really irks me is this whole “dark” theme. What’s so dark about Super Metroid? You think “A Link to the Past” wasn’t dark? I thought the whole “Dark World” thing was really obvious. Fortunately for Mr. Linky, energy stealing aliens didn’t come and KILL EVERYONE OFF BEFORE HE GOT THERE!!! It’s not like I wanted to be stranded on a lone planet with millions of creatures trying to kill me.

Sure, I can see how the new Metroid Prime 2: Echos and maybe Prime 3: Corruption have a “darker” theme, but why not pick on Twilight Princess then? If that isn’t dark, I don’t know what is. I mean, it’s TWILIGHT for goodness sake.

“It didn’t have any dialog, and the puzzles had no real clues for you to figure them out.”

Super Metroid is totally a run around and shoot things game, there was nothing to figure out, unless you kept changing the controls and couldn’t remember what button did what. What more of a plot do you need? I mean, MegaMan just rand around shooting things for seemingly no good reason. Kirby goes around shoving everything he sets eyes on into his mouth (without washing it off first) what kind of plot is that? And I suppose you think that two monkeys can really take out an overweight crocodile by jumping on it’s head? I could have taken him out with 3 super misles. (I actually did once… that was… kinda fun.

Anyway, I think maybe you should actually play some of these games before you give your crappy opinion on them. Thanks for nothing.

I like my job, I really do! I got around to sitting and listening the other day and I have come to the conclusion that the best part of my life, is the music. The music I get to listen to on a day to day basis, is absolutely amazing. It’s incredible. Even the pause music is so great that I could listen to it for hours. (Okay, so maybe I have no choice but to listen to the pause music for hours, but that doesn’t make it any less good!)

Music is a big part of my life and I bet it’s a big part of your life too! Music is one thing that really keeps me going. The theme to Talon Overworld, I was paused in Talon Overworld for 3 and a half hours yesterday. I got so lost in that music that I felt like I was only paused for 15 minutes. I’m totally serious, it’s amazing.

Now, granted, when I’m sitting here in the original Metroid and I have been paused for 45 minutes, well it’s getting a bit long. Not a whole lot to listen too, and even the music that might be accessible, repeats ever 21 seconds.

Oooh! Looks like Jr. is coming back, time to go fight some baddies! Catch you laters!

It’s really rather sad. Here I am, risking my butt to save this stupid planet, when in all reality, there isn’t a creature on this planet that doesn’t want me dead! Why should I even get involved? What harm would come of just nuking the place?

See, this I don’t understand. When Link saves Hyrule, he’s saving the people there. Mario goes out to save Peach. Me? I go out and kill things that want me dead. Sure, I’m a bounty-hunter, but why can’t I just blow up the planet? If the planet goes, so will the creatures on it, no harm done to me. Job done, it’s party time! I don’t have to fight these bosses if I just blow them to high heaven.

I wouldn’t mind if there were people here to save. That might even be kinda fun. Playing hero to a receptive audience would be a great change of pace. I like the lone bounty-hunter work, but sometimes I am just looking to enjoy some company. It gets pretty lonely in these far reaches of space.

Maybe I’ve just been paused for too long.