Current Obstacles to Skipping Items

Last Updated 12/12/2004

Grapple Beam

- Only needed for the room prior to the Vault(room you get Screw Attack in). Methods have been found to bypass all other grapple points.

- Alternatively, skip screw attack(as described below) and solve reaching the energy controller room in sanctuary temple.

Screw Attack

- Needed in Ing Hive Temple, to obtain an Ing Hive Key, to obtain the Sky Temple Key in Ing Hive Entrance, and to reach Emperor Ing.

Gravity Boost

- Dark Tovus Key 2 prevents this skip. Either reaching Sanctuary early, defeating the PB Guardian without spider ball, reaching the dark world portal without gravity boost then leaving light torvus without gravity boost, or secret worlding to the key are the only known possible and plausible solutions to reaching the key without gravity boost.

Seeker Missiles

- Gates blocking the path from Torvus to Sanctuary. These include Sacred Bridge, and the second room past Sanctuary Entrance. You can not see the seeker targets for these gates without dark visor; however, you can damage seeker targets without dark visor on.

Echo Visor

- Needed only to disable the sonic locks enroute to Quadraxis. Quadraxis, Dark Samus 3/4, and the Ing Hive key in watch station can all be reached/beaten without using echo visor.

Boost Ball

- Needed to enter sanctuary(1st room in Sanc.) and break the window to reach the Echo Visor/Dark Samus 2 fight.

Annihilator Beam

- Only the doors in Ing Hive temple prevent this item from being skipped. However, bypassing them will likely only be done via secret worlds.

Spiderball

- Needed for various rooms still, PB Guardian, and potentially Emperor Ing form 2. Not needed for Quadraxis.

Dark Visor

- Needed to see and damage Ing Hive Caches holding sky temple keys. Summised they only exist when the dark visor is on in a manner akin to how Omega Pirate is only damagable when X-ray is on in Metroid Prime 1.

Light/Dark Beams, PBs, Super Missiles, Missiles, Bombs, Space Jump, Light Suit

- All needed in multiple locations. Chance of skipping these is likely 0.

Translator Doors

- Great Temple, Agon, and torvus translators required to reach later areas. Sanctuary translator currently needed to reach spiderball region.

Notes:

- The only known "skippable" required item(for %) is the Dark Suit but requires additional energy tank pickups to complete the game.

- Amorbis, and therefore the dark agon keys can be skipped when skipping the dark suit.

- Returning the energy to Agon and Torvus can be skipped(but not Sanctuary for that triggers light suit).

- The keys for the Ing Hive also have the potential to be skipped if you can get over the ing hive key gate blocking you from quadraxis.

- The caretaker drone can be skipped by getting screw attack early.

- The PB guardian can be put off till later if you get screw attack and therefor a pb expansion early, but it must be beaten eventually to have the Sky Temple key in Dark Oasis spawn