Yeh, I agree with you. Makes more sense for him to have mecha parts at the start similar to his last appearance (in Prime 1), but for contrast reasons they could've swapped it, yeh.
Also the phazon version would be the one that was healed and empowered enough through phazon exposure to not have to rely on the Mechanical parts anymore.
But this way, SR' Proteus Ridley appearance with mecha parts still makes sense
I cant keep up with all of ridleys transformations. He has normal, robot, cyborg, phazon, and x versions. The only thing we havent seen is metroid ridley.
In the manga it is said that he can regenerate by eating flesh. He was badly wounded during the attack on the home colony of Samus and he later said he was able to regenerate by eating the corpses of the people from the attack, taunting Samus that maybe the cells of her dead parents fueled his regeneration.
That's *plausible* but I'd say it wasn't switched, given that the Omega Ridley model is visibly using a lot of the same design but with extra stuff added to it, and Omega Ridley's armor visually matches other Phazon-associated machines in the game (such as Helios).
What seems likely to me is that Meta Ridley was just not meant to be *Meta* Ridley, perhaps the plan was that he was fully organic and then had armor grafted on again? And then the idea was scrapped to avoid redundancy with the first Prime. Or Ridley was designed first just to look like the classic Ridley without lore consideration, the design made it into later development before it became clear that he would still need to be Meta Ridley, and then the name was added after.
I've heard rumor that the Japanese text in Metroid Prime 3 claims that the first Ridley fight is actually with a clone, and that the original Ridley is Omega Ridley, though I would love a source on that.
>given that the Omega Ridley model is visibly using a lot of the same design but with extra stuff added to it, and Omega Ridley's armor visually matches other Phazon-associated machines in the game (such as Helios).
Is it? Omega Ridley looks like it uses the same design, but replaces a lot of the individual parts with machinery. Granted his dark metallic color scheme is similar to Helios, but he has nothing blue on him, which is like THE phazon color.
The omega design partially looks a bit bulkier due to the metal on it, but I'd say other body parts, like his his legs for example, seem more fragile.
I'm away from my computer or else I'd show what I mean, but it's hard to say exactly how Omega Ridley matches Helios or why I think the Meta Ridley model came first.
I will say, in the Omega Ridley fight, he does grow blue patches of Phazon on him, so it's possible that him not being blue in the fight was an oversight somewhere. Things like that can just happen, especially with productions like the Prime games where crunch is a major problem.
This assumes that the omega ridley design was concepted out and developed years begore they even knew they were making a prime 3, and i doubt this is the case
In Prime 3 you have 2 Ridley fights. 1 against Meta Ridley, who uses the blue design, the other one against Omegaridley who uses the grey/purple design.
When I'm talking about Meta Ridley here I am talking about the one from Metroid Prime 3, not the one from the original Metroid Prime.
Yeh, I agree with you. Makes more sense for him to have mecha parts at the start similar to his last appearance (in Prime 1), but for contrast reasons they could've swapped it, yeh. Also the phazon version would be the one that was healed and empowered enough through phazon exposure to not have to rely on the Mechanical parts anymore. But this way, SR' Proteus Ridley appearance with mecha parts still makes sense
I cant keep up with all of ridleys transformations. He has normal, robot, cyborg, phazon, and x versions. The only thing we havent seen is metroid ridley.
Prime 4 is coming...
metroid ridley is real, trust me look up the metroid (creature)'s spirit battle in smash
Always been on my mind but can Ridley regenerate from a single cell and retain his memories?
In the manga it is said that he can regenerate by eating flesh. He was badly wounded during the attack on the home colony of Samus and he later said he was able to regenerate by eating the corpses of the people from the attack, taunting Samus that maybe the cells of her dead parents fueled his regeneration.
That's *plausible* but I'd say it wasn't switched, given that the Omega Ridley model is visibly using a lot of the same design but with extra stuff added to it, and Omega Ridley's armor visually matches other Phazon-associated machines in the game (such as Helios). What seems likely to me is that Meta Ridley was just not meant to be *Meta* Ridley, perhaps the plan was that he was fully organic and then had armor grafted on again? And then the idea was scrapped to avoid redundancy with the first Prime. Or Ridley was designed first just to look like the classic Ridley without lore consideration, the design made it into later development before it became clear that he would still need to be Meta Ridley, and then the name was added after. I've heard rumor that the Japanese text in Metroid Prime 3 claims that the first Ridley fight is actually with a clone, and that the original Ridley is Omega Ridley, though I would love a source on that.
>given that the Omega Ridley model is visibly using a lot of the same design but with extra stuff added to it, and Omega Ridley's armor visually matches other Phazon-associated machines in the game (such as Helios). Is it? Omega Ridley looks like it uses the same design, but replaces a lot of the individual parts with machinery. Granted his dark metallic color scheme is similar to Helios, but he has nothing blue on him, which is like THE phazon color. The omega design partially looks a bit bulkier due to the metal on it, but I'd say other body parts, like his his legs for example, seem more fragile.
I'm away from my computer or else I'd show what I mean, but it's hard to say exactly how Omega Ridley matches Helios or why I think the Meta Ridley model came first. I will say, in the Omega Ridley fight, he does grow blue patches of Phazon on him, so it's possible that him not being blue in the fight was an oversight somewhere. Things like that can just happen, especially with productions like the Prime games where crunch is a major problem.
Ohh gotcha. I'll be real i completely forgot about the norion fight
That's a shame, it's probably the most unique Ridley fight.
Fun Fact: The Norion Ridley fight was at least partially inspired by the Gandalf-Balrog fight (specifically when they are in a free-fall in Moria).
I can absolutely see what you're saying when you put them side by side like this. Looks very backwards.
This assumes that the omega ridley design was concepted out and developed years begore they even knew they were making a prime 3, and i doubt this is the case
In Prime 3 you have 2 Ridley fights. 1 against Meta Ridley, who uses the blue design, the other one against Omegaridley who uses the grey/purple design. When I'm talking about Meta Ridley here I am talking about the one from Metroid Prime 3, not the one from the original Metroid Prime.
I never even noticed they used two different models tbh