Current Obstacles to Skipping Items
Last Updated 12/13/2004
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.
update: PB after dark suit is now possible using a Secret World in Feeding pit. It is still too early to tell, but Grav Boost can be likely skipped this way. But not for lower % due to the nature of needing the main PB expansion(see below) and extra e-tanks.
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.
- Accursed Lake and Reliquary Sky Temple Keys
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.
- Also needed for seekers to lock on to dark world viewable seeker targets.
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(that counts as %) is the Dark Suit but requires additional energy tank pickups to complete the game. Thus, higher percent completion when skipped.
- 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 can be skipped by getting over the Ing Hive key gate blocking you from Quadraxis. See Skipping the Ing Hive Keys.
- 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 therefore a early PB expansion, but it must be beaten eventually to have the Sky Temple key in Dark Oasis spawn. update: same rule should apply to Feeding Pit expansion obtained after Dark Suit via secret worlds.
