Yeah, I agree. So many questions left unanswered. So many mysteries.
Phaaze was pretty short. But it was beautiful.
That’s a good thing. I like fighting the last boss, and I’d hate to have to either have a no-turn-back savepoint or to traverse a huge planet first to fight it every time.
Phaaze the level wasn’t too short, I was glad it wasn’t long, but Phaaze ITSELF wasn’t complete at all. We TECHNICALLY wouldn’t have to have seen more of the planet to learn more about it, but if there had been another area on the planet, that wouldn’t have hurt. With some lore to scan and learn something about the whole “sentient planet”, the origins of phazon, and how the planet took to dark samus herself.
Instead, we get NOTHING. T_T
Lore? On a living planet with no mechanical attributes whatsoever until the very end, and no pirate presence to write said lore?
Now, the Chozo Observatory should have shed some light on it. THAT was a damn shame. But Phaaze itself was fine as a level.
But either way… I think it’s cool that they left some stuff unanswered. It always pissed me off how in a game or movie, if something is mysterious, no matter how many advanced civilizations or scientists or whatever study it for no matter how long, they never figure it out–but then suddenly your lead character does it in a few hours or days. For the tenth time in his/her career.
Unsolved mysteries really exist. Life doesn’t always feed you the answers. If you blow up what you’re exploring before you figure out the mysteries, chances are, no magical deus ex machina is gonna explain the whole thing later on.
It may leave the story partially untold, but it’s more realistic, and leaves more to the fans’ imagination.
Meh, true, not that it makes me any less pissed off.
Honestly, because samus became corrupted on Phaaze, she’d be able to absorb memories from the sentient tentacles on Phaaze or something. There was almost NO point of Phaaze even being a sentient planet. I always thought that was an awsome idea, but it felt wasted.
But honestly, some thing that SHOULDN’T be mysteries are still mysteries. Some things they just got lazy on.
I dunno. I agree with Dazzy. I think it’s better to leave it to the gamer to imagine what Phaaze is. Besides, I think that somewhere in the log of 313 that 313 was now directly connected to Phaaze and it’s sentience. So when you took out 313, you took out Phaaze…I think…Let me check…
>_>
EDIT: Yeah, it says that 313 is symbiotically connected to Phaaze. So that’s what I think.
EDIT 2:(to daz) Oh…huh…
No, it’s moreso a reference to Mother Brain and Zebes. You take out the brain controlling the planet, you take out the planet.
Meh, didnt think of it that way. Why no escape sequence then.
Anyway, I think phaaze should have had another area to go through the trouble of explainig phaaze before DS took control. I mean, the origins of phazon werent really even bothered with.
Phazon comes from Phaaze.
Phaaze…is a planet that produces phazon.
Phazon is…? Phaaze came from?
They just acted lijke it wasnt even a question.
Again, I think they started running out of ime at the end. That’s why the last 2 bosses were nothing really great, and there was no escape sequence.
No, I think it’s so they could have a stupidass “twist ending” where you expect Samus to die… :\
Phazon is planet sperm, planets are eggs.
Just assume Phaaze used to be an ordinary planet, and life on Phaaze evolved into Phazon, which took over the planet and became one large super organism. Leviathans are used to reproduce. It’s simple when you think of it that way. Well sort of.
But apparently Phaaze is a little more malicious than that. It doens’t kill on contact, mutate creatures, and completely corrupt landscapes because it just evolved to do that.
It would make more sense if it was created by yet another extinct race.
“An ancient race creates phazon to solve some problem (similar to metroids to the X), but it kills them and it takes over their entire planet, and starts trying to take over the universe.”
Sounds more like Metroid to me.
I wonder which ancient race created AIDS…
Yeah. That’s definitely more Metroid. I still think it could’ve just happened like that, but your idea sounds more flavorful. =D
I’m really not sure whether to laugh at that or not.
But I guess there are some similarities…though not really.
That’s exactly why I’m glad they DIDN’T go into detail on its creation. Metroid has too many “destroyed by their own creations/‘pets’” already, and I just know they’d do it again.
Either invent a new race purely to destroy it, or make it another Chozo creation gone wrong… again…
Its not Metroid without unexplained events, creatures, and mutagenic radioactive elements; along side of planets being destroyed for no obvious reason (I mean, why the HELL did Phaaze blow up? Because DS and the Aurora were blown up? Riiigggghhht. That makes no effing sense), and copies of Samus running around.
…Yes. That is why, and yes, it makes plenty of sense. Every time a planet has been interfaced with a brain-like supercomputer, the computer’s destruction led to the planet (or at least part of it) blowing up shortly after. Same deal, different brain.
As for why that’s logical, the brain is obviously VERY deeply connected with the planet, considering it allows it to CONTROL IT. Mother Brain was able to remotely control every defensive emplacement across the entirety of Zebes, and 343 was even more impressively capable of forcing the planet to fire meteors to locations of DS’s choice. They’re obviously inextricably linked at that point, and the destruction of the brain leaves the planet highly unstable.
perfect explanation. And this follows because 313 (I think it’s 313. Tired of looking it up to figure out) was captured by the pirates before the start of the story. I’ll go with Daz’s explanation for why Phaaze exploded (or did it implode?).