Punished Dayni

Cyborg Ridley shows up to rob the baby, fails with the baby even getting a couple sucks in. Helps you can just shoot him with the beam unlike seemingly every other boss. The tail attacks and not realising I could jump over him with he space jump kinda out of habit with all the tight spaces of the rest of the game were probably the hardest parts of it.

Diggernaut's still the hardest thing in the game (that autoscroll sequence got me more than I'd like to admit), but the Metroid Queen took surprisingly few tries considering I thought it'd take pretty much everything I had to win. The sequences with the laser breath and large projectiles is probably the roughest part in practice. Ended it with a power bomb inside it as well, which is all kinds of gross. Other aspects, other aspects....

Musically it's alright, but you can tell they took a lot of tracks from other titles to bulk up the soundtrack and I still think Super's kinda the best imo. I think the backgrounds are pretty good here, especially for being 3DS. Not sure how the speedruns are for this game but at a bit over 13 hours I'm betting there's a lot of time to cut down.

Story's handled about as usual for this series, it's got lore but you can pick the game up and just get sucked into the game without knowing it. This game also got to hinting at a Fusion remake (X-Parasites show up in the lore pics and after the credits) and Raven Beak's in the lore in this game. Imagine the timeline where Fusion got a remake before Dread, would we have gotten more explicit build up to Raven Beak?

Stella Glow: The game where protag-kun and friends break into a place, sneak about and then the friends tie him up and leave him to be found by the person they were just snooping on for him to have the chance of making moves on her.... a thing he has expressly said he wasn't interested in doing multiple times. Course, this was after they'd heard said person behave out of character to what they saw earlier, decided it'd broken their image of her and then they decide "let's see if Protag-kun can make any moves on her". During their conversation the game offers the option for him to say he's a masochist.

Anime: not even once.

Oh and this continent is stupid small to traverse nations in a few hours at most. It keeps happening too, I can't ignore it. Not being helped by this chapter being all master-servant drama and having to work with said master and servant as green units. And yes, this goes exactly like you'd expect. Especially when they get hit by status effects and thus lose HP even faster.