Critics and fans alike have also noted that Alis is one of the first female heroines in video games, alongside Samus Aran of Metroid and Chun Li of Street Fighter, who didn't journey for love or treasure but for personal vengeance.

Metroid Prime is the first of the three part Prime storyline, which takes place between the original Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus.

Prime is one of the first Metroid games to address the reason Samus does not start with power-ups attained in previous games ; she begins the game with certain upgrades, but during an explosion on the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, they are all lost.

While Samus is escaping from the doomed frigate, an electrical surge destroys all of her Power Suit upgrades, and she encounters Ridley, now a cybernetic version of himself called Meta Ridley.

After investigating more Samus is able to determine that the chozo civilization on this planet fell after an extremely violent meteor impact.

Samus locates a Chozo temple in the Tallon Overworld area, and discovers that the temple is actually an enormous containment field emitter designed as a seal to the meteor's energies and influence within the crater where it landed, which the Space Pirates disable in order to gain better access in order to extract the phazon.

After obtaining the Gravity Suit in Phendrana, Samus explores the interior of the crashed Orpheon, and then infiltrates the Phazon Mines, the mining and research complex which is the center of the Space Pirates ' Tallon IV operations.

As she puts the last of the keys in place, Meta Ridley appears and attacks her, but is defeated by Samus with some aid from the temple's defensive artillery.

In Corruptions story, Samus is corrupted by Phazon after being attacked by Dark Samus, who has become the leader of a Space Pirate group and is sending Phazon Seeds ( called " Leviathans ") to corrupt planets.

The story of Metroid II follows the protagonist and playable character Samus Aran, who is sent on a mission to exterminate the Metroid creatures from their home planet SR388 before the antagonistic Space Pirates obtain and use them.

Metroid II is an action-adventure video game in which the player controls the protagonist Samus Aran on the fictional planet SR388.

After the game's end credits are displayed, the total time taken to complete the game is shown, which determines whether Samus poses with or without her suit.

A Metroid hatchling floats out of the broken shell and imprints onto Samus, thinking that she is its mother.

However, without color on the Game Boy, the two suits appeared similar, forcing the developers to develop a visual indicator for players to determine which suit Samus is wearing.

It attacks Samus and nearly drains all of her energy before it realizes who she is, and then departs.

Mother Brain nearly kills Samus, but is then attacked by the Metroid larva, which drains it of its energy and transfers it back to Samus.

Mother Brain recovers and destroys the Metroid in retaliation, but is in turn destroyed by Samus with an extremely powerful weapon created from the energy given to her by the Metroid.

The game is the first in the series to let Samus fire in all directions while moving, and it is among the first open world games to offer the player a mapping facility.

" Using Samus as an example, he explained that her purpose is to maintain peace in the galaxy, claiming, " It's not violence for the sake of violence.

The story centers around bounty hunter Samus Aran, who is sent by the Galactic Federation to the Biologic Space Laboratories space station to investigate an explosion.

A group of X Parasites manage to recover and use components of Samus's infected Power Suit to transform into the SA-X, a form of the parasite that partially mimics Samus at full power and possesses the Ice Beam that can exploit Samus's weakness to cold temperatures.

His siblings were Enoudus, Samus, Alitherses and Parthenope ( mother of Lycomedes by Apollo ).

The first named appearance of the character occurred in the 1992 game Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins where he was designed by game artist Hiroji Kiyotake, who was also responsible for designing Samus Aran of Metroid.

Samus facing a Flying Pirate, surrounded by a crosshair ; also shown are: immediate area danger level ( left ), radar ( top left ), health ( game mechanism ) | health status ( top middle ), mini-map ( top right ), missile ammo ( right ), current / available Directed-energy weapon | beams ( lower right ), and current / available visors ( lower left ).

Among these are the Morph Ball, which allows Samus to roll into narrow passages and drop energy bombs, and the Grapple Beam, which works similarly to a grappling hook by latching onto special hooks, called grapple points, and allowing Samus to swing from them across gaps.

Players of the game can gain two features by connecting Prime with Metroid Fusion using a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Cable: use of the Fusion Suit that Samus wears in Fusion and the ability to play the original Metroid.

The game begins as Samus receives a distress signal from the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, whose crew has been slaughtered by the Pirates ' own genetically modified experimental subjects.

During her exploration of Tallon IV, Samus finds the twelve keys to the Artifact Temple, and lores recorded by both the Chozo and the Space Pirates, providing some more insight about the history of the planet and the two races ' colonization of it and other activities.

Samus can only equip one beam at a time ; however, she can switch between them by returning to where they are first found.

Disappointed by its graphics, he complained that aside from Samus, the visuals for the environment are " bland and repetitive, full of monotonous rocks and sand with few details to differentiate the various areas, and the enemies are mostly simple and boxy ".

The player controls Samus Aran as she searches the planet for a Metroid that was stolen by Ridley, the leader of the Space Pirates.

Chronologically, Super Metroid takes place seventh in the Metroid universe and immediately after the events of Metroid II: Return of Samus, and begins with a narrative by bounty hunter Samus Aran.

Samus opens most doors by shooting at them, while some only open after she reaches a certain point.

Killing it, Samus proceeds to return to her gunship through the planet's tunnels.

Samus goes to three regions — the Agon Wastes, a parched, rocky, desert wasteland region ; Torvus Bog, a drenched swamp area that houses a partially submerged hydrosubstation ; and the Sanctuary Fortress, a highly advanced cliffside fortress built by the Luminoth filled with haywire robots that serves as the Ing hive in Dark Aether — to retrieve the Light of Aether and return it to the Luminoth temples.

Bounty hunter Samus Aran, the protagonist, explores the surface of the planet SR388 with a survey crew from Biologic Space Laboratories ( BSL ).

The Federation sends Samus to investigate an explosion aboard the BSL station.

Samus is certain that the Federation underestimates the destructive power of the X Parasites, and takes it upon herself to destroy the BSL station by setting it on a collision course with SR388.

Learning that the Galactic Federation plans to capture the X Parasites for further study, Samus must destroy the space station to protect the Federation from the underestimated destructive power of the X Parasites.

Samus escapes from the SA-X before it attacks her on several occasions, and continues exploring the space station.

Samus absorbs the nucleus of the SA-X and uses her newly restored Ice Beam to destroy the Omega Metroid, before escaping to her ship that is piloted back to the station by sentient organisms she had saved earlier, which extracts her from the space station before it collides with SR388.