The game begins like almost every other metroid game: you arrive at an isolated location (a space research laboratory) with the intention of helping save any survivors and eliminate any alien threats. Upon arrival, Samus is threatened by the dangerous and polymorphic X parasite, and any contact with it will result in serious harm.
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You start the game in an escape pod of a burning spaceship. Warning sirens are blaring, and as your pod is jettisoned from the ship, an explosion rocks your pod, jostling a panel loose and knocking you out. You wake up and climb out of your pod to find yourself floating in the middle of an alien ocean
